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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 2/1/2010 2:54:07 PM   
castor troy


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From: Austria
Status: offline 		AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 15, 42
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Sub attack near Marcus Island at 122,88

Japanese Ships
xAK Shinfuku Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
PB Santo Maru

Allied Ships
SS Porpoise, hits 2

Japanese ground losses:
15 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)



SS Porpoise launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Shinfuku Maru
PB Santo Maru attacking submerged sub ....
PB Santo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Santo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Santo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Santo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

can´t complain about the fleet subs the last couple of turns... "lots" of exploding hits and this one was especially nice as two torps exploded and we´ve hit a troop loaded freighter... guess this TF was heading towards Truk...

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Submarine attack near Sapporo at 119,49

Japanese Ships
xAK Sansei Maru

Allied Ships
SS Pickerel



xAK Sansei Maru is sighted by SS Pickerel
SS Pickerel launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Sansei Maru

hit no bang...

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Submarine attack near Ominato at 117,51

Japanese Ships
xAKL Daiten Maru, Shell hits 1

Allied Ships
SS Seadragon



xAKL Daiten Maru is sighted by SS Seadragon
SS Seadragon attacking on the surface
SS Seadragon low on gun ammo, Ferrall, W.E. breaks off surface engagement and submerges

while being ordered to retire to homeport, Seadragon was still set to react "1" and so it kept hunting enemy shipping today... out of gun shells she scored only one hit and submerged without firing torps... why subs never attack with torps after breaking off surface engagement is beyond me...

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Morning Air attack on Chittagong , at 55,41

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 41 NM, estimated altitude 34,810 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 21



No Japanese losses



Aircraft Attacking:
21 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 32810 feet *

Zeroes at MAX ceiling... we´re back at it... the higher the better... mmm it will be a funny airwar in the Pacific, average alt of enounters somewhere between 30.000 and 35.000ft... hasn´t this come up during the beta testing or where the devs resistant to this info? The Japanese fighters are best when coming in at max altitude, this can´t be the goal of the devs as they are sane enough to know that this isn´t reflecting reality of 1942... in AE it´s a fact though...

got only some Fulmar II at Chittagong, they´re doing recon over Mandalay and the surrounding bases... I´m not dumb enough to put any of my fighters up to meet the Sputnik sweeps of the IJAAF and IJNAF... none of the bases in Japanese fighter range have any Allied fighters... the Fulmar II is a fighter bomber but also has a camera. Does the camera work or is this just chrome and the fighter bomber works as (bad) as other non recon aircraft or is this fighter bomber seen as a recon when doing recon flights due to the camera?



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Morning Air attack on Buitenzorg , at 48,99

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 25



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 13 damaged


Allied ground losses:
18 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 33

Aircraft Attacking:
25 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb

guess other than taking down a Sally now and then, the Dutch won´t achieve much in mountain fortress Buitenzorg...

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Pre-Invasion action off Bengkalis

Japanese Ships
APD Fuji



APD Fuji firing at enemy troops


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Amphibious Assault at Bengkalis

TF 72 troops unloading over beach at Bengkalis, 48,82


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Ground combat at Langsa (46,74)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3366 troops, 20 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 254

Defending force 253 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 29

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 29 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Langsa !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), leaders(-), preparation(-)
morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker:


Allied ground losses:
94 casualties reported
Squads: 14 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 11 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units retreated 1


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
113th Infantry Regiment
41st Infantry Regiment

Defending units:
Medan Garrison Battalion

nothing on Sumatra that could do anything against the Japanese...

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Ground combat at Milne Bay (101,133)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 1305 troops, 15 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 74

Defending force 415 troops, 2 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6

Japanese adjusted assault: 31

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 31 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), disruption(-), fatigue(-)
experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
10 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
96 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Assaulting units:
82nd Naval Guard Unit
I/84th Naval Guard Unit
5th Naval Construction Battalion
144th JAAF AF Bn

Defending units:
Lark Battalion


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Allied Unit(s) surrounded at Milne Bay



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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 2/1/2010 2:58:02 PM   
castor troy


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Invasion Support action off Bengkalis

Japanese Ships
APD Fuji

APD Fuji firing at enemy troops


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ASW attack near Hengchun at 84,68

Japanese Ships
E Kiku
SC Ch 3

Allied Ships
SS Perch, hits 3



SS Perch is located by E Kiku
E Kiku attacking submerged sub ....
SC Ch 3 fails to find sub and abandons search
E Kiku fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Kiku fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Kiku fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Kiku fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

E Kiku must be on steroids... this vessel has already sunk a sub near Southern Borneo and now achieves 3 HITS on Perch, crippling the sub... Perch is limping back to Pearl Harbour but at the 1 hex speed it will take nearly two MONTHS to get there and I doubt the sub will make it... Kiku really is a killer, dropping dozens of DCs one by one...

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Sub attack near Taihoku at 87,62

Japanese Ships
SC Ch 14
SC Ch 13
SC Ch 17
SC Ch 15

Allied Ships
SS Finback



SS Finback launches 6 torpedoes at SC Ch 14
SC Ch 17 fails to find sub and abandons search
SC Ch 15 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 15 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 15 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 15 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 15 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

we scare a subchaser with a big salvo of non exploding torps... would be cool to know what kind of damage a non exploding torp would do to such a vessel... weren´t they mostly made of wood?

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ASW attack near Yokohama/Yokosuka at 114,62

Japanese Ships
DMS Taboko
xAK Nagisan Maru
DMS Tatsuko

Allied Ships
SS Permit



SS Permit launches 4 torpedoes at DMS Taboko
DMS Tatsuko fails to find sub, continues to search...
DMS Tatsuko fails to find sub, continues to search...
DMS Tatsuko fails to find sub, continues to search...
DMS Tatsuko fails to find sub, continues to search...
DMS Tatsuko fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

and more of the usual...

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Sub attack near Saishu To at 99,56

Japanese Ships
PB Nishho Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
xAKL Tokuwa Maru

Allied Ships
SS Skipjack



SS Skipjack launches 4 torpedoes at PB Nishho Maru
Skipjack diving deep ....
Escort abandons search for sub

but then a patrol boat is obliberated after two detonations...

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ASW attack near Wakkanai at 123,48

Japanese Ships
SC CHa-18
SC CHa-30

Allied Ships
SS Seadragon



SS Seadragon is sighted by escort
Seadragon bottoming out ....
SC CHa-30 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-30 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-30 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-30 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-30 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Ground combat at Buitenzorg (48,99)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 27355 troops, 247 guns, 212 vehicles, Assault Value = 992

Defending force 19070 troops, 220 guns, 176 vehicles, Assault Value = 513

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 656

Allied adjusted defense: 649

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

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker: leaders(+)

Japanese ground losses:
747 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 57 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 32 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 9 (0 destroyed, 9 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
1113 casualties reported
Squads: 10 destroyed, 96 disabled
Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 65 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Vehicles lost 45 (1 destroyed, 44 disabled)


Assaulting units:
5th Division
18th Division
6th Tank Regiment

Defending units:
1st Regt Cavalerie
1st KNIL Landstorm Battalion
4th KNIL Landstorm Battalion
2nd KNIL Regiment
Batavia Coastal Gun Battalion
Roodenburg Battalion
1st KNIL Regiment
Mobiele Eenheid Battalion
Van Altena Battalion
3rd KNIL AA Battalion
KNIL Army Command
1 ML-KNIL Aviation
ML-KNIL
Batavia Base Force
Kalidjati Base Force
Merak Base Force
Bandoeng Base Force

the enemy suffers ONE non combat squad destroyed and we´ll soon surrender...

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Ground combat at Bengkalis (48,82)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 504 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 22

Defending force 176 troops, 2 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 6

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 6 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Bengkalis !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), fatigue(-), morale(-)
experience(-)
Attacker: leaders(-)


Allied ground losses:
79 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units retreated 1


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
III/81st Naval Guard Unit

Defending units:
Bengkalis Base Force




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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 2/2/2010 10:40:52 AM   
castor troy


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Sub attack near Toyohara at 124,48

Japanese Ships
SC CHa-14
DD Sanae
SC CHa-26

Allied Ships
SS Pickerel



SS Pickerel launches 2 torpedoes at SC CHa-14
Pickerel diving deep ....
DD Sanae fails to find sub and abandons search
SC CHa-26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

guess Rainer has formed an ASW TF and sent it North to intervene with my subs hunting up there... duds...

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Submarine attack near Chefoo at 99,47

Japanese Ships
xAK Yuri Maru

Allied Ships
SS Skipjack



xAK Yuri Maru is sighted by SS Skipjack
SS Skipjack launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Yuri Maru

more duds...

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ASW attack near Wakkanai at 122,47

Japanese Ships
SC CHa-2
DD Sanae
SC CHa-26

Allied Ships
SS Grenadier



SS Grenadier is located by SC CHa-2
DD Sanae fails to find sub and abandons search
SC CHa-26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Submarine attack near Chefoo at 99,47

Japanese Ships
xAKL Mayachi Maru

Allied Ships
SS Skipjack



xAKL Mayachi Maru is sighted by SS Skipjack
SS Skipjack launches 4 torpedoes

even more duds...

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Morning Air attack on Port Moresby , at 98,130

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1



Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 18
B-17E Fortress x 23


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
11 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 44

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 8000
Raid is overhead

uncombined strike stupidity...

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Morning Air attack on Port Moresby , at 98,130

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1



Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 6


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged



Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 4

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 8000
Raid is overhead



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Morning Air attack on Port Moresby , at 98,130

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1



Allied aircraft
LB-30 Liberator x 3


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed




Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 3

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x LB-30 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 8000
Raid is overhead



I´ve just reread the forum rules and while I got flak from all the brown nosers for saying this or that is wrong it was obvious that while expressing my oppinion of what is wrong or what is right I didn´t violate any forum rule. This was reflected by the fact that my thread (that was not just responsible for The Elf to leave (sure) but also to harm the game (quote)) was not closed until I´ve asked for it after the name calling started. Now I´m not going to "harm the game" or better say "harm Matrix´s revenue" by opening up "complain threads" on the main forum but as long as I´m not banned by some kind of censoring I will keep saying it here in this AAR. This campaign started 7 Dec 1941 and we are now 16 Mar 1942 and NOT ONE SINGLE STUPID airstrike from Australia with my heavy bombers launched as a combined strike. And I say it in all clearness: this is total stupidity and totally insane (and yes, I´ve run my post through a sanity filter as I was told to do... ).

If it is working as designed (and I seriously doubt that it is WAD because if it is WAD then I really feel sorry for the one in response) then the designer thinks that inWWII every 4E strike completely broke up on the way to it´s target. I´ve looked through the manual searching for the sentence that says: all airstrikes you will launch from a level 7 airfield with 80.000 supplies and 250+ airsupport (for 60 bombers) with an air HQ on hand, all bombers going at the same alt to the same target with all crews unfatigued will ALWAYS (always means 100%, not 99% 100%) result in the strike coming in in bits and pieces and not in the so famous Allied formations. And hey, imagine, I couldn´t find this in the manual. Now I know what we´re told all the time, what we should have at a base and all the hot blah, blah... This AAR and every single combat report is the prove (of course you could say it´s not true and I´ve edited the cr) that I (castor troy the one that knows nothing) am not able to launch 50 bombers on a combined strike from the same base to the same target with all bombers on the same alt with av support en masse, air HQ, supplies, etc. I AM NOT ABLE TO DO IT. NOT EVEN ONCE!! I know that weather, navigation errors, technical problems and all sort of stuff lead to strikes in real life being split up or lost, but this just wasn´t true 100% of the time.



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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 2/2/2010 10:48:26 AM   
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If it is working as designed (and I seriously doubt that it is WAD because if it is WAD then I really feel sorry for the one in response)


Sometimes some people are just a lost cause, it seems...

Go get a life. Or go play the Guad scenario, where 30+ B-17 strikes are common as soon as august 1942. In a way or another, go try out stuff before you come up with some new sorry words. Looks like you're so sad you only made TheElf quit that you're looking for new victims, even if you can't even name them yet (well you got their boss at least, kuddos)...

< Message edited by Fishbed -- 2/2/2010 10:54:36 AM >

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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 2/2/2010 11:06:55 AM   
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Submarine attack near Saishu To at 98,55

Japanese Ships
xAK Canberra Maru, Shell hits 2, heavy fires

Allied Ships
SS Pollack, hits 3



xAK Canberra Maru is sighted by SS Pollack
SS Pollack attacking on the surface
Rice C. decides to submerge SS Pollack due to damage

Pollack fired 18 torps! Eightteen! Everyone that hit the ship was a dud and Pollack didn´t score a single exploding hit with all the torps she carried. Two gun shell hits cause the oil load on the freighter to ignite but the freighter was firing back, hitting the sub three times with 8cm shells. Must have been more or less FOW as Pollack ends up with only 7 minor flt damage, now retiring to Hawaii again...

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Morning Air attack on Calcutta , at 52,37

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 38,810 feet.
Estimated time to target is 26 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 3



No Japanese losses



Aircraft Attacking:
3 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 32810 feet

they can not go any higher... the Zeroes came from Magwe (sp?), the base South West of Mandalay... 11 hexes away, so they´re using drop tanks. Lol, Zeroes with drop tanks at 32.810 feet on a sweep... LOL = the best comment...

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Morning Air attack on Calcutta , at 52,37

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 17 NM, estimated altitude 37,810 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 27



No Japanese losses



Aircraft Attacking:
27 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 32810 feet

not just the reflection of reality when there are 100% split up bomber strikes (in my game), also the reflection of maximum ceiling sweeps of IJNAF and IJAAF fighters is something the game comes up with. Different views of reality in Europe (stupid casotr) and the USA (the godlike dev) it seems, even though the USA was fighting the Japanese in WWII. Shouldn´t people from the United States of America know it better than people from Europe at what alts aircombat happened in the Pacific? AFAIK it was at lower alts than over Germany... But now the question arises, what books have been read by this stupid European? Well, mostly the same as the rest here has been reading, mostly by US American authors. Well, perhaps they KNOW it (thes sure know it), the game just DOES NOT REFLECT it. I´m in endless repeat mode, either the aircraft stats are completely wrong or the aircombat routines (or perhaps both), but when the Oscar and the Zero work BEST at their MAXIMUM ceiling then there is nothing else to say that there IS something wrong. If you like the game or not, if you think the devs are gods or not, you must be completely ignorant of history (and reality) when you say that Zeros and Oscars worked best at 30.000+ feet. That´s just not true. And again, I´m NOT blaming my opponent at all, he´s doing what he´s expected to do and what the oh so great people of response told us even before the WITP enhancement was released: "you have to look at the stats of your aircraft and have to figure out how they work best!" And Rainer (as many other PBEM players too) has done this, he figured out that the Japanese low to mid altitude fighters of reality do BEST at extreme altitudes in AE. Hehehe, there IS something wrong.

Now the problem is not me complaining and bitching or all the name calling, the problem is quite simple. The god like just don´t admit that there´s something wrong and that´s it, even that they surely know that it´s not realistic. At this stage of the "development" (that has stopped other than mainly bug squashing it seems) aircombat got more chrome in AE but is nowhere anymore realistic than in WITP. When WITP completely ignores altitudes during fighter vs. fighter engagements then this is even better than the complete ridicoulos outcome in AE when you see Zeroes at 33.000ft and Oscars at 38.000ft fighting like F-22 Raptors when they could barely fly a straight line in reality at this altitude. If the routines or the stats would work then those fighters involved at this timescale (from both sides) should not being able to really do aerial combat at all at this altitudes and the game should FORCE realistic outcomes at realistic altitudes.

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ASW attack near Balikpapan at 64,97

Japanese Ships
AO Toho Maru
AO Kyokuto Maru
AO Kokuyo Maru
AO Ken'yo Maru
DD Shigure

Allied Ships
SS KXIII



SS KXIII is sighted by escort
DD Shigure fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Shigure fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Shigure fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

high value targets at Balikpapan... could this be the replenishment TF for KB that picks up some fuel? KB is probably still somewhere in the Pacific East of Kwajalein...

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Ground combat at 45,73

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3366 troops, 20 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 254

Defending force 133 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 114

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 114 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), fatigue(-), morale(-), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
9 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
134 casualties reported
Squads: 11 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 3 (2 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Units retreated 1


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
113th Infantry Regiment
41st Infantry Regiment

Defending units:
Medan Garrison Battalion




< Message edited by castor troy -- 2/2/2010 11:07:57 AM >

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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 2/2/2010 11:13:18 AM   
castor troy


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quote:

ORIGINAL: Fishbed

quote:

If it is working as designed (and I seriously doubt that it is WAD because if it is WAD then I really feel sorry for the one in response)


Sometimes some people are just a lost cause, it seems...

Go get a life. Or go play the Guad scenario, where 30+ B-17 strikes are common as soon as august 1942. In a way or another, go try out stuff before you come up with some new sorry words. Looks like you're so sad you only made TheElf quit that you're looking for new victims, even if you can't even name them yet (well you got their boss at least, kuddos)...



wow, must be an interesting AAR that YOU come here... but keep on posting, I won´t answer anyway over a longer period as the result wouldn´t be anything else than the thread being locked and I can´t see much of another goal of yours anyway.

Get a life? LOL, joker boy, count up how often the 4E bombers in this AAR took off from Townsville and how often it was a combined strike! If you would turn on your head´s inside instead of defending everything that is not working or the oh so great The Elf then you could see (just from the combat reports of EVERY FRIDGING day from 12/7/42 to mid march) that there was NOT A SINGLE combined 4E bomber strike! NOT ONE. But hey, this doesn´t sound wrong to you I know. Same as Oscars and Zeroes working best above 30.000ft. Say this is ok, as this would clearly disqualify you anyway. But back to namecalling.


One more funny thing: "go try out stuff before you come up with something?" LOL, what is wrong with you? You don´t like me, I don´t care about you. But don´t deny the pages with combat reports FROM THE GAME and say, try out stuff, when the stuff is in front of you. This is just ignorant. And please don´t tell me now that I would do something wrong when all required (ingame) factors are more than met.

And what´s not working with your green button? Always funny when people are told they are green buttoned just to find out in 98% of the cases this isn´t true because there´s just too much curiosity to really use the green button. I´m a troll, use the green button on me. And why should a troll harm the game anyway? Or why is a troll taken so serious that people leave? Oh come on.

I´m open to be convinced (by you or anyone else) that it was the norm that bomber strikes went in in bits and pieces and never (over 3 months) go in together in this campaign and that the Zero, as well as the Oscar, had their best performance (or better say work best) at altitudes ABOVE 30.000ft. In the case of the Oscar we´re talking about above 35.000ft. This is the difference between you and me, I would believe it if I would read it in one of our "gospel books" about the Pacific war, you wouldn´t because for you, AE must be gospel.

And no, I´m not looking for new victims, just like I didn´t look for The Elf as a victim. And be asured, The Elf knows enough about WWII airwar that he surely wouldn´t insist on the fact that a Dec 41 Oscar performs best at 36.000ft compared to Warhawks for example, because he surely knows at what alts the combat really happened. You remember ever having heard about "zoom and boom"? Now when the Oscar had it´s standard attack alt at 36.000ft+, I wonder how the Warhawks of reality did "zoom and boom" when they can´t reach above the Sputnik Oscars. Of course it could be the case that the Japanese pilots in real life just weren´t able to figure out the alt their aircraft worked best. Let me think, yes this could be the case. AE is right, the pilots of real life were wrong. Or was it their orders? "Fly at 15.000ft, even if it would be better to you to fly your Oscar at 36.280ft." Banzai, banzai, banzai

The difference in the years after release of WITP and the months after release of AE is simple. After the release of WITP there was a lot of flak from a lot of people but noone seemed to feel like kicked in the balls and lots of things were changed. Now while the people involved in AE are all unpaid (and kudos for doing this kind of work for not getting anything paid) they had enoguh problem during the development and they obviously have quit during this time a couple of times already, that people like me are just the iginiting factor to now drop out again. Different people, different egos.

Not wanting to get in a fight again (of which we´re probably in again anyway). Perhaps everything is fine and I´m dead wrong. A fact (in my game) though is that both players are struggling in the fight to get to the highest altitude possible. Now Rainer is no newb, nor am I. And we both think that you get the best results when using our fighters at the complete contrary of how they were used in real life. Same goes for other AARs too, when I see fighters at alts they could hardly kept flying. The way I´m bitching around may sure be over the top, I´m not taking it out into the mainforum creating new threads so probably noone can again accuse me for "harming the game or Matrix´s sales", but it may be allowed to complain. And I admit it should be done in a polite way without any sarcastic or ironic comments, go figure how often this happens. Not quite a lot of times if you look at at the couple of thousand WITP and AE threads. But I´m happy to be the number one arse that probably has been responsible for 98% of the "this or that sucks threads". Seems like.

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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 2/2/2010 2:28:47 PM   
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Get a life? LOL, joker boy, count up how often the 4E bombers in this AAR took off from Townsville and how often it was a combined strike! If you would turn on your head´s inside instead of defending everything that is not working or the oh so great The Elf then you could see (just from the combat reports of EVERY FRIDGING day from 12/7/42 to mid march) that there was NOT A SINGLE combined 4E bomber strike! NOT ONE.


Oh my, your life sounds indeed so screwed up by random programming glitches... Hope that uncoordinated 4Es don't prevent you from having good digestion and fair sex at home, because it sounds really like you may not sleep at night.
Too bad we don't have youtube right now in China, but I definitely need to make a "downfall" video out of your holy crusade someday

I don't mind the complaints. AE is far from being perfect. But there was so much scorn sweating through your message I can hardly trust that you have any belief in what you're saying everytime you pretend you want to calm things down. Wouldn't be so hard to think about how you're gonna hurt people before writing I guess, unless you do it on purpose.

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And what´s not working with your green button? Always funny when people are told they are green buttoned just to find out in 98% of the cases this isn´t true because there´s just too much curiosity to really use the green button.

Don't you expect me to use the green button. Your fountain of fairness and generosity is always some kind of a forbidden pleasure I read after work, so I can have a big laugh at how internet can make egos so pathetic sometimes.


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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 2/2/2010 2:51:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		whatever you say fellow forum member, like I´ve said before I don´t really care. Believe the combat reports or don´t believe them. Perhaps I´m only doing it for people like you to deliberetely lie at them. funny. If you want to get in a fight, I´m the last one to stand back from it, that´s just not how I am. The only thing that is preventing me from it is the fact that the name calling will lock this thread.

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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 2/2/2010 4:27:39 PM   
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seriously; what do you expect. A game of this magnitude tends to have some database errors, some minor (or major) bugs. Also, There is a chance to exploit every routine. That is what House Rules are for. I still enjoy it and can live with minor glitches.
Otherwise, if your opponents Zeros sweep at 32000 feet, and also does cap on this altitude, go in low. Your bombers will probably just slip through. And later on, his Zeros will be in big trouble against the P-38 or P-47 at that altitude. Just have Patience. I hope you do not have Hypertension, because if you do you will get a seizure or a stroke before you reach 1943 in this game.
It is ok if you make your point, but please do not do it over and over again.

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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 2/2/2010 6:11:46 PM   
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If you guys go on like this you do not need to start calling names to get this thread locked!

seriously; what do you expect. A game of this magnitude tends to have some database errors, some minor (or major) bugs. Also, There is a chance to exploit every routine. That is what House Rules are for. I still enjoy it and can live with minor glitches.
Otherwise, if your opponents Zeros sweep at 32000 feet, and also does cap on this altitude, go in low. Your bombers will probably just slip through. And later on, his Zeros will be in big trouble against the P-38 or P-47 at that altitude. Just have Patience. I hope you do not have Hypertension, because if you do you will get a seizure or a stroke before you reach 1943 in this game.
It is ok if you make your point, but please do not do it over and over again.



you`re certainly correct I should just let it go.

I´ve tried it in a test head to head what happens when I´ve set fighters on max alt Cap and send in bombers together with escorts on 6000ft. It was a... massacre. I´ve got a hint from a betatester and this was the time I started to try different things to see how it works out. In most cases it did not work out as you would expect it (like having fighters very high and bombers slipping through very low). Also tried it the other way around for example, bombers and escorts high, Cap low. Also not something when the bombers would slip through due to the fighters not being able to climb fast enough (this way in real life would be easier to get the bombers through IMO) but the escorts bounced the CAP and had a field day. So far, I (and obviously a lot of other PBEM players) have figured out that the most important thing to have is an alt advantage and this leads to all fighters operating at max ceiling it seems. House rules in this case is something hard to implement IMO. How do you want to restrict different ac at different alts? Using Oscars not higher than x? Using Warhawks not higher than y?

I´ve played WITP with all the issues (there are people that don´t have issues at all), so I will also keep playing AE as it has more features as WITP and you won´t find many people to play WITP anymore anyway. There are still some crack WITP players that refuse to change to AE due to some obvious issues.

We´ll see if I can keep it in a civilized way... hopefully, as the ongoing fights don´t help anyone

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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 2/2/2010 6:56:46 PM   
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Otherwise, if your opponents Zeros sweep at 32000 feet, and also does cap on this altitude, go in low. Your bombers will probably just slip through.


Tried it, doesn't work. You get bounced and slaughtered.

I've tried all sorts of experimentation with altitude, with different aircraft, and the end result is - always fly at your ceiling. Even a P40 does better at its ceiling than it does at low level, the altitude bonus apparently overrides everything. Apparently only for the first round of combat, but that first round, the 'bounce', is so devastating that after that theres almost nothing left.

In fact... as far as combat is concerned I almost think that 'ceiling' is the stat. P38s win - because their ceiling is 39,000' and the Japs cannot fly higher. Zeroes are actually fairly lacklustre, they can be bounced by Hurricanes at 33k feet - unlike Oscars.

Edited to add : I think in larger fights this is less important. If you have 40 fighters, say, then enough can survive the bounce to still put up a fight. But usually it seems to me that the norm is 20 aircraft or less - in such situations, altitude is vital.


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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 2/2/2010 7:13:31 PM   
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ORIGINAL: sven6345789
Otherwise, if your opponents Zeros sweep at 32000 feet, and also does cap on this altitude, go in low. Your bombers will probably just slip through.


Tried it, doesn't work. You get bounced and slaughtered.

I've tried all sorts of experimentation with altitude, with different aircraft, and the end result is - always fly at your ceiling. Even a P40 does better at its ceiling than it does at low level, the altitude bonus apparently overrides everything. Apparently only for the first round of combat, but that first round, the 'bounce', is so devastating that after that theres almost nothing left.

In fact... as far as combat is concerned I almost think that 'ceiling' is the stat. P38s win - because their ceiling is 39,000' and the Japs cannot fly higher. Zeroes are actually fairly lacklustre, they can be bounced by Hurricanes at 33k feet - unlike Oscars.

Edited to add : I think in larger fights this is less important. If you have 40 fighters, say, then enough can survive the bounce to still put up a fight. But usually it seems to me that the norm is 20 aircraft or less - in such situations, altitude is vital.




this is pretty much summing up my experience too.

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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 2/2/2010 8:18:29 PM   
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en masse, air HQ, supplies, etc. I AM NOT ABLE TO DO IT. NOT EVEN ONCE!! I know that weather, navigation errors, technical problems and all sort of stuff lead to strikes in real life being split up or lost, but this just wasn´t true 100% of the time.


I rarely saw coordinated strikes until later in 43 when the exp level of the pilots started to rise. So, about all I can add is that it does get better. I am starting to see the reverse of my opponent. We both tend to contest areas in the air and as my exp is rising, his is falling and now I am seeing Japanese strikes come in with bombers first, followed by sweeps. I am also training better than I was at start. Now all units not fighting are either at 100% training or at rest if fatigue/morale needs improvement.

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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 2/2/2010 8:44:55 PM   
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Otherwise, if your opponents Zeros sweep at 32000 feet, and also does cap on this altitude, go in low. Your bombers will probably just slip through.


Tried it, doesn't work. You get bounced and slaughtered.

I've tried all sorts of experimentation with altitude, with different aircraft, and the end result is - always fly at your ceiling. Even a P40 does better at its ceiling than it does at low level, the altitude bonus apparently overrides everything. Apparently only for the first round of combat, but that first round, the 'bounce', is so devastating that after that theres almost nothing left.

In fact... as far as combat is concerned I almost think that 'ceiling' is the stat. P38s win - because their ceiling is 39,000' and the Japs cannot fly higher. Zeroes are actually fairly lacklustre, they can be bounced by Hurricanes at 33k feet - unlike Oscars.

Edited to add : I think in larger fights this is less important. If you have 40 fighters, say, then enough can survive the bounce to still put up a fight. But usually it seems to me that the norm is 20 aircraft or less - in such situations, altitude is vital.




I´ve just had the perfect example of what happens in such a case, biggest air engagement of the war in this PBEM, I wasn´t surprised about the outcome because it nevertheless seems that I have quite a good feel of how the game works. You will be amazed what Japanese fighters with DROP TANKS can do when they are doing stratosphere sweeps when countered by Allied fighters on max ceiling too. And then there are the bombers coming in at low alt. You will be surprised sven...

will post the combat reports tomorrow during the day.

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Submarine attack near Gunzan at 100,51

Japanese Ships
xAK Nitiran Maru

Allied Ships
SS Skipjack



xAK Nitiran Maru is sighted by SS Skipjack
SS Skipjack launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Nitiran Maru

the usual duds...

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Sub attack near Toyohara at 125,47

Japanese Ships
xAKL Gyoku Maru, Shell hits 5, on fire

Allied Ships
SS Pickerel



SS Pickerel attacking on the surface
SS Pickerel low on gun ammo, Bacon, B.E. breaks off surface engagement and submerges

and the usual sub running out of deck gun ammo... the subs rarely carry enough 3 and 4 inch shells enabling them to sink a single freighter... the torps fired had no effect either...

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ASW attack near Iwo-jima at 111,81

Japanese Ships
DMS Tatsuko
xAK Nagisan Maru

Allied Ships
SS Sculpin



SS Sculpin launches 4 torpedoes at DMS Tatsuko
DMS Tatsuko fails to find sub, continues to search...
DMS Tatsuko fails to find sub, continues to search...
DMS Tatsuko fails to find sub, continues to search...
DMS Tatsuko fails to find sub, continues to search...
DMS Tatsuko fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

another escort hit, hit rate of the MK14 up to now is insanely good, you can more or less rely on a hit if the fleet subs decide fire torps... if the hit rate stays like this then it will become quite a problem for the IJN as soon as the torps do boom...

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Sub attack near Tandjoengselor at 69,92

Japanese Ships
PB Musashi Maru
PB Rokko Maru

Allied Ships
SS O21



SS O21 launches 2 torpedoes at PB Musashi Maru
PB Rokko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Musashi Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Rokko Maru fails to find sub and abandons search
PB Musashi Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Musashi Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Musashi Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Musashi Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Musashi Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

while we´ve got a miss rate of over 50% for Dutch and British torps so far... more info when we reach the end of the 2nd month of our torp survey on 25th March...

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ASW attack near Moppo at 99,53

Japanese Ships
PB Ichiyo Maru

Allied Ships
SS Skipjack



SS Skipjack is sighted by escort
PB Ichiyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Ichiyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Ichiyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Ichiyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Ichiyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Singkawang at 53,87

Japanese Ships
APD Fuji

Allied Ships
SS KVIII



SS KVIII is sighted by escort
KVIII bottoming out ....
APD Fuji fails to find sub, continues to search...
APD Fuji fails to find sub, continues to search...
APD Fuji fails to find sub, continues to search...
APD Fuji fails to find sub, continues to search...
APD Fuji fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

lots of sub action this turn again, means we´re having our subs in the right positions at the moment, the outcome is not that great though...

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Sub attack near Tandjoengselor at 68,94

Japanese Ships
PB Musashi Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
PB Rokko Maru

Allied Ships
SS Trusty, hits 3



SS Trusty launches 2 torpedoes at PB Musashi Maru
PB Rokko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Rokko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Rokko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Rokko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Rokko Maru attacking submerged sub ....
PB Rokko Maru is out of ASW ammo
PB Rokko Maru is out of ASW ammo
Escort abandons search for sub

Trusty then blows up a PB though, in return she takes a real hit and two near misses from Rokko Maru that only dropped a couple of DCs... Trusty is limping back crippled with 43 flt damage...

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Morning Air attack on 90th Chinese Corps, at 85,43

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 17
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 19



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
17 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
17 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 61st Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 90th Chinese Corps ...


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Morning Air attack on Port Moresby , at 98,130

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 3



Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 17
B-17E Fortress x 28


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
3 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 73

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 8000
Raid is overhead

the so far best attack on Port Moresby, not only do we achieve a lot of hits on the level 3 airfield, we also take down a Zero A2A and two more are reported being lost to ops... I guess this is leaking Cap from Lae all the time (3 hexes) but am not sure about it. Could also be LRCAP while my tendency goes to leaking Cap.

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Morning Air attack on Port Moresby , at 98,130

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 37 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes


Allied aircraft
LB-30 Liberator x 5


No Allied losses



Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
5 x LB-30 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

today our attack was split up in only two strikes. The Liberators so far have always been separated from the main strike. We had around 60 undamaged bombers ordered to attack, 48 took off today. Kereguelen was so kind to offer me to have a look at my safe as I could of course been doing something wrong all the time as my strikes terribly split up most times. I´ve sent him this turn straigth away to have a look at it. I´ve got 70k+ supplies, a level 7 airfield, enough air support, an air HQ (range 5) at Townsville and the airfield isn´t overstacked (not by engines and not by groups - there´s no * at the base and from counting things up I don´t overstretch the rule). If there´s anything else I´m missing then I´m glad to get the info on what I´m missing. Thanks Kereguelen!

khyberbill could be up to something also and it could be exp or skill related. Exp isn´t really high at this stage of the war, skill is better but when looking at the naval attacks some time ago, the bombers all had 60+ naval bombing skill and still split up terribly... It would be cool if I could figure out how to launch combined strikes because as soon as Rainer puts up "real" Cap over a target my piece meal strikes could get beat up easily and this would be quite serious for our war efforts, considering the fact that we only get 15 heavy bombers a month...





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Afternoon Air attack on Batavia Coastal Gun Battalion, at 48,99 (Buitenzorg)

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 20



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 3 damaged


Allied ground losses:
11 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
20 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Ground combat at 44,89

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3554 troops, 32 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 121

Defending force 74 troops, 14 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3

Japanese adjusted assault: 27

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 27 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker: leaders(-)

Japanese ground losses:
24 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
25 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 3


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
4th Ind.Mixed Regiment

Defending units:
Zuid KNIL Battalion
So.Sumatra Garrison Battalion
Teloekbetoeng Base Force


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Ground combat at Buitenzorg (48,99)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 27434 troops, 286 guns, 212 vehicles, Assault Value = 979

Defending force 18094 troops, 220 guns, 174 vehicles, Assault Value = 444

Japanese adjusted assault: 295

Allied adjusted defense: 607

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

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
415 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 21 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 35 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Vehicles lost 7 (0 destroyed, 7 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
1301 casualties reported
Squads: 22 destroyed, 82 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 76 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 7 (1 destroyed, 6 disabled)


Assaulting units:
18th Division
5th Division
6th Tank Regiment
3rd Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
1st KNIL Regiment
Roodenburg Battalion
2nd KNIL Regiment
1st Regt Cavalerie
Batavia Coastal Gun Battalion
1st KNIL Landstorm Battalion
4th KNIL Landstorm Battalion
Mobiele Eenheid Battalion
Van Altena Battalion
Batavia Base Force
ML-KNIL
3rd KNIL AA Battalion
1 ML-KNIL Aviation
Merak Base Force
Kalidjati Base Force
KNIL Army Command
Bandoeng Base Force

ouch! The adjusted av looked great at first sight but when I saw our casualties and the losses of the enemy I lost hope immedietely again... it´s only a matter of time that we lose all combat ability here and we won´t have inflicted much damage on the enemy in the end...

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Ground combat at Buitenzorg (48,99)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 873 troops, 14 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 365

Defending force 27077 troops, 286 guns, 212 vehicles, Assault Value = 956



Assaulting units:
1st KNIL Landstorm Battalion
Batavia Coastal Gun Battalion
4th KNIL Landstorm Battalion
1st KNIL Regiment
2nd KNIL Regiment
1st Regt Cavalerie
Roodenburg Battalion
Mobiele Eenheid Battalion
Van Altena Battalion
ML-KNIL
KNIL Army Command
Merak Base Force
3rd KNIL AA Battalion
Kalidjati Base Force
Batavia Base Force
1 ML-KNIL Aviation
Bandoeng Base Force

Defending units:
5th Division
18th Division
6th Tank Regiment
3rd Mortar Battalion






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ASW attack near Sapporo at 120,49

Japanese Ships
SC CHa-13
SC CHa-25

Allied Ships
SS Pickerel



SS Pickerel is sighted by escort
Pickerel diving deep ....
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

hunter killer group?

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Akyab at 54,45, Range 9,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DD Harusame

Allied Ships
xAKL Illinoian, Shell hits 19, and is sunk



Japanese Ships Reported to be Approaching!
Allied TF begins to get underway
Reduced sighting due to 10% moonlight
Maximum visibility in Clear Conditions and 10% moonlight: 10,000 yards
CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 9,000 yards
Japanese launch Long Lance torpedoes at 9,000 yards before allies detect Japanese presence
Range closes to 7,000 yards
DD Harusame engages xAKL Illinoian at 7,000 yards
Range closes to 4,000 yards
DD Harusame engages xAKL Illinoian at 4,000 yards
Range closes to 2,000 yards
DD Harusame engages xAKL Illinoian at 2,000 yards
DD Harusame engages xAKL Illinoian at 2,000 yards
DD Harusame engages xAKL Illinoian at 2,000 yards
Range increases to 3,000 yards
xAKL Illinoian sunk by DD Harusame at 3,000 yards
xAKL Illinoian sunk by DD Harusame at 3,000 yards
Combat ends with last Allied ship sunk...

nice move of Rainer, he sends DDs to both Akyab and Cox Bazar to mess up my small supply deliveries. The xAKL at Cox Bazar was able to retreat before getting shot to pieces but this small freighter had no chance against the IJN DD... didn´t spot the DDs incoming as we´re concentrating our naval search on Ceylon as I would like to spot any carrier raid on my most important base in the Indian Ocean... losing a xAKL is certainly something we can afford and we´ve brought in some 20k supplies to Akyab and Cox Bazar doing it with single xAKLs... seem not to be able to draw much (if any?) supplies overland... perhaps it´s just not enough that I would really notice and it´s used up by my base building efforts and my troops as fast as it can flow in...

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Amphibious Assault at Saumlaki

TF 40 troops unloading over beach at Saumlaki, 78,117

Japanese ground losses:
24 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



17 troops of a SNLF Squad lost in surf during unload of 1st Indpt SNLF Coy
17 troops of a SNLF Squad lost in surf during unload of 1st Indpt SNLF Coy


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ASW attack near Ominato at 118,52

Japanese Ships
DD Kuretake

Allied Ships
SS Pickerel



SS Pickerel is sighted by escort
DD Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Torishima at 114,70

Japanese Ships
xAK Unkai Maru #3
PB Kinsyo Maru #4

Allied Ships
SS Permit



SS Permit is sighted by escort
Permit diving deep ....
PB Kinsyo Maru #4 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kinsyo Maru #4 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kinsyo Maru #4 attacking submerged sub ....
PB Kinsyo Maru #4 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kinsyo Maru #4 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Wakkanai at 121,47

Japanese Ships
SC CHa-25

Allied Ships
SS Grenadier



SS Grenadier is sighted by escort
Grenadier diving deep ....
SC CHa-25 attacking submerged sub ....
SC CHa-25 cannot establish contact with SS Grenadier
SC CHa-25 loses contact with SS Grenadier
SS Grenadier eludes ASW attack from SC CHa-25
SC CHa-25 cannot reach attack position over SS Grenadier
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

so far it was a day that went to the escorts... those subchasers seem to be quite potent ASW platforms, CHa-25 dropped depth charges in twos and threes, which seems to mean that this vessel has an ASW vessel of 5... only near misses though but I guess those subchasers could become more dangerous as the war progresses and their experience increases...

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and now the highlight(s) of the day...
Morning Air attack on Calcutta , at 52,37

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 21 NM, estimated altitude 37,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 37



Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIa Trop x 16
Hurricane IIb Trop x 28
P-39D Airacobra x 27


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 9 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-39D Airacobra: 3 destroyed



CAP engaged:
AVG/2nd Sqn with P-39D Airacobra (0 airborne, 13 on standby, 8 scrambling)
13 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 29000 and 32100.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 16 minutes
No.17 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIa Trop (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 5 scrambling)
8 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 35000 , scrambling fighters between 34000 and 35100.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes
No.27 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIb Trop (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 4 scrambling)
6 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 36000 , scrambling fighters to 36000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes
No.136 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIb Trop (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 5 scrambling)
11 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 36000 , scrambling fighters between 34000 and 36000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 23 minutes

forget about the losses that are shown in the combat report, they are completely off and not really what you want to have to do an AAR. And I wouldn´t want to miss a single combat replay because the replay shows you pretty good what really happened. The Oscars were coming in at DROP TANK range at 36.000ft. No joke, 36.000ft and with drop tanks. Range was 11 hexes. We had all our available aircraft set to 70% Cap max ceiling (which is BELOW the Oscar´s ceiling for every of our employed fighters - especially true for the US fighters that are just sitting ducks to Sputnik Oscars in AE). It was the endless Oscar dives on Airacobra, Oscar fires from behind at Airacobra thing I´m used to and the P-39s lost 0:8 vs the Oscars in this engagement. Same then was true for the Oscars vs the Hurricanes but at some point this "Oscar dives on x" phase was over and we started to fight back, leading to a clear victory for us in this engagement.

The Zero sweep a couple of days ago has put me on alert at Calcutta as I first only had my fighters on training and none on Cap as I relied on the (wrong) assumption that fighters with drop tanks would be sitting ducks and Rainer wouldn´t dare to attack with drop tanks anyway. Not that I thought he would attack with unescorted bombers either. Nevertheless I´ve put up fighters on Cap from the following day on of his Zero sweep (at 32.000ft). During the replay I´ve thought that we´re coming out quite good, even though that our Airacobras (piloted by the BEST land based pilots on the map - the AVG) were shot to pieces for not even a single kill. You will surely tell me I´m wrong in setting my fighters to max alt but IMO it´s the only thing I can do. And even if I would set my fighters at the alt they would theoretically perform best, they would still climb up to where the enemy is coming in, just to get bounced. So I´m setting my fighters at max alt in the hope that perhaps the enemy would come in 10 ft lower to enable us to bounce him. What saved us in this engagement is the fact that there weren´t enough Oscars in this raid, otherwise not just the P-39s would have been bounced forever and shot to pieces but also the Hurricanes. At the end of this engagement we were ahead 2+:1 in kills... but it ain´t over yet...

note: Oscars at 11 hexes, using drop tanks, coming in at 36.000ft... any comments welcome...

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while I didn´t really expect more fighters coming in I was first surprised to see another battle popping up, just to be even more surprised about what is really coming in...

Morning Air attack on Calcutta , at 52,37

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 31 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G3M2 Nell x 50
G4M1 Betty x 51



Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIa Trop x 16
Hurricane IIb Trop x 12
P-39D Airacobra x 16


Japanese aircraft losses
G3M2 Nell: 13 destroyed, 13 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 8 destroyed, 16 damaged


Allied Ships
xAK Baroda, Bomb hits 1, on fire
xAK Havildar, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Texan, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Hoihow, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAP Gogra, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAP Nordhval, Bomb hits 1
xAK Nord, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAP Pundit, Bomb hits 1
xAK Edgar Luckenbach, Bomb hits 1, on fire
xAK Coquina, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
PG Soerabaja, Bomb hits 1
xAK Marion Moller, Bomb hits 1, on fire
xAK Montgomery City, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires
xAK Santa Elisa, Bomb hits 2, on fire
xAK Indianan, Bomb hits 1, on fire
xAK Kalani, Bomb hits 1



Repair Shipyard hits 1
Port hits 6
Port fuel hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x G3M2 Nell bombing from 6000 feet *
City Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
23 x G3M2 Nell bombing from 6000 feet *
Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
19 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet
Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb
26 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet
Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb
9 x G3M2 Nell bombing from 6000 feet *
Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
AVG/2nd Sqn with P-39D Airacobra (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 15 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes
No.17 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIa Trop (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 13 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 35000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes
No.27 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIb Trop (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 36000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 11 minutes
No.136 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIb Trop (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 1 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 36000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 36000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 26 minutes




WOW! The last thing I´ve expected would have been to see 101 bombers coming in without escorts (pretty sure that´s due to range as they´re obviously coming from Rangoon and that´s even for the bombers extended range). The 44 Allied fighters you see is not what has been in the air when the bombers came in (unfortunetely) but is the number of total fighters that engaged the bombers before and post the bombings. Most of our fighters attacked afterwards. It´s been a fault to have so many ships (over 60) in Calcutta, mostly are low value freighters and some small APs but still, it´s been a bad decision to have this number of ships at Calcutta and thinking they would be safe was wrong anyway. I guess the harbour will be safe in future though as Rainer wasn´t happy about his losses, stating that he should have known better that it´s not possible to see his sweep going in before his bombers. Well, most of his sweep went in before the bombers, so he was kind of "lucky". Imagine what would have happened if my intial 70+ fighters would have met the 101 bombers. Anyway, when the bombers came in and I saw only a dozen of my fighters being in the air I´ve thought it would be a cake walk for the IJNAF bombers and watching bomb hit after bomb hit on my ships in port really has hurt. Flak was completely useless, there are over halve a dozen base forces and dedicated AA units. Flak had NO effect in terms of taking out bombers, three times a bomber was damaged by a balloon! Nice new feature. Not wanting to critisize but shouldn´t a bomber be destroyed if hitting the steel cable of a balloon? Or the balloon itselve? At the end of the turn, 4 ships were sunk in port, several more heavily damaged. I expect another two to sink, bringing the totals to 6 ships sunk, with nearly a dozen more damaged. Looking at the result at this stage of the fight, I would say it would have been a victory for us. Over 20 Oscars shot down and some 40 bombers lost for the loss of a dozen fighters on our side, halve a dozen ships sunk and another halve dozen damaged. Not over yet...

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Morning Air attack on Calcutta , at 52,37

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 240 NM, estimated altitude 42,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 83 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 3
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 4



Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIa Trop x 9
Hurricane IIb Trop x 8
P-39D Airacobra x 13


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIa Trop: 1 destroyed
P-39D Airacobra: 1 destroyed



CAP engaged:
No.17 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIa Trop (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
4 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 35000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 88 minutes
AVG/2nd Sqn with P-39D Airacobra (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 8 being recalled, 5 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 96 minutes
No.27 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIb Trop (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 36000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 94 minutes
No.136 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIb Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 1 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 36000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 36000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 95 minutes

Even when you outnumber the enemy 4:1 and he´s coming in at extended range, using drop tanks, the fact that the Sputniks are coming in at 36.000ft, where no Allied fighter can reach, enables the Oscars to dive, fire from behind for the whole duration of the fight, taking down 4 or our aircraft for no loss...

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Morning Air attack on Wenchow , at 89,58

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 33 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 17



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 32

Aircraft Attacking:
17 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on 80th Chinese Corps, at 85,43

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 11
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 10



No Japanese losses



Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 98th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 80th Chinese Corps ...


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Morning Air attack on Calcutta , at 52,37

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 14 NM, estimated altitude 37,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 32



Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIa Trop x 6
Hurricane IIb Trop x 7
P-39D Airacobra x 10


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIa Trop: 1 destroyed
Hurricane IIb Trop: 1 destroyed
P-39D Airacobra: 2 destroyed



Aircraft Attacking:
19 x Ki-43-Ib Oscar sweeping at 36000 feet

CAP engaged:
AVG/2nd Sqn with P-39D Airacobra (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 7 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes
No.17 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIa Trop (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 35000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes
No.27 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIb Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 36000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes
No.136 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIb Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 1 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 36000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 36000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 22 minutes

and then the other major part of the Japanese sweep shows up over Calcutta and the drop tank equipped Sputniks take a toll on our Cap again, that is helplessly waiting at altitudes between 30k and 36k ft to be bounced by the Japanese asteroids. Another five or six are shot down for no loss within the Sputniks. So during the allmighty bounce that happened at the long beginning of the first encounter and during the whole durations of the other two encounters, the Sputniks shot down 18 or 19 of my fighters for the loss of 1 or 2 of their own. So, I´m trying not to use any hotblooded, cynic, or overyly sarcastic comments, but what do people really think about something like this. And what are the devs thinking about this? This is not a one time instance, that´s how the game works as can be seen in other AARs too and has been commented on by other forum members than me too. Now I don´t want to imagine how a formation of Oscars is performing on a 36.000ft sweep at 11 hexes range to target when they´ve mounted drop tanks (did they even have DROP tanks? I doubt it anyway they could reach this altitude with any kind of addional tank).

The stats given to the aircraft, the given routines (new ones and existing ones from WITP) see Oscars with drop tanks at 11 hexes range taking down Allied fighters on Cap (the most skilled ones on the map) at a kill rate of 8 or 9:1 during their bounce phase. Same goes for Zeroes too of course if they get the bounce, which is harder though as they can´t reach as high as the Sputniks. Same will be true for Allied fighters later on also (I´m sure about that) but what has AE created then? It has created what I´ve mentioned earlier, a "who can go higher wins" airwar, as the bounce is such a major factor (it was awfully important in WITP and it seems like it has grown an even bigger advantage in AE) that the most important thing you want to see is your fighters being higher than those of your enemy. Now the altitude advantage in WWII real life was surely one of the major factors if you want to win over the enemy but as it turns out now, it is surely not right as it leads to all fighters being set to fly on their max altitude. And I seriously doubt if it would be such a big advantage if a sweep would be at 36.000ft when the Cap would fly at 10.000ft, in the game it´s the guarantee for a massacre of the fighters at 10.000ft given the factor that the sweepers aren´t 20 skilled newbs.

IMO the air routines of AE are better than WITP, as long as you force yourselve to keep your aircraft at altitudes they were used in real life. But how would you do that? Making a poll for the "average" altitude a Warhawk was flown. A Corsair? An Oscar? A Mustang? Or a Zero? And then use hrs to only use your ac at this altitude? No, this doesn´t work. Both Rainer and me are trying to do what we players were even told to do: look at the stats of the aircraft and learn by trial and error. Now it didn´t take long to find out that your fighter always works better when you´re higher than your enemy, therefore people (not only Rainer and me) are using them at max altitude.

And as you can see, the proposal that perhaps would be working in real life (not really sure about it) that bombers could slip through Cap when the Cap is at 30k+ ft and the bombers are at 6k ft isn´t working either. The enemy sweep(s) came in at 36.000ft, my fighters were all at 30-36k ft while the bombers were down at 6k ft. My fighters had no problem to dive down and take out 40 of the 101 bombers.

I can´t see PBEM players limiting themselve to use an Oscar at 10-15.000ft (I don´t even exactly know what the average alt would be) or a Warhawk on 15.000ft, this just doesn´t work, because the Japanese player says "I´m using the Oscar at 15k", the Allied player then says "I´m using the Warhawk on 16k" (which is enough to see the bounce on the Allied side), then the Japanese player says "I´ve decided that 16k is still ok for an Oscar" (and he certainly will be correct), but then the Allied player says "Ok, I´m using the Warhawk at 17k"... etc, etc, etc... and then you will end up with the Oscar being at 36.000 feet (where no Allied fighter can reach until the Lightning) and the very end result is everything flying at max alt anyway. I don´t know what stat has which influence in the aircombat routine but more or less everyone here on the forum knows which fighters had which rudimentary characteristics at which altitude(bands) and based on this knowledge (that the dev(s) undoubtable have) there should be a huge drop in performance as soon as the fighter is above it´s "preferred" altitude, no matter if it´s a Japanese or an Allied fighter. The fact that we see "Stratosphere airwar in the Pacific" is IMO something that shows that either parts of the airroutine or stats of the aircraft have to be rethought as what is going on in the game couldn´t be done in real life, not because they wouldn´t have like to do it perhaps, the aircraft just weren´t able to do aerial engagements at 36.000ft in March 42 when Hurricanes, Warhawks, Airacobras met Oscars and Zeros.



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Sub attack near Saipan at 107,90

Japanese Ships
xAK Sangetsu Maru
xAK Taigen Maru
xAK Nagisan Maru
DMS Tatsuko

Allied Ships
SS Sculpin



SS Sculpin launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Sangetsu Maru
Sculpin diving deep ....
DMS Tatsuko fails to find sub, continues to search...
DMS Tatsuko fails to find sub, continues to search...
DMS Tatsuko fails to find sub, continues to search...
DMS Tatsuko fails to find sub, continues to search...
DMS Tatsuko fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

the usual hit no bang... time to see an exploding torp again...

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Ground combat at 85,43

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 880 troops, 108 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3688

Defending force 122081 troops, 750 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3734

Japanese ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
150 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 15 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 18 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)


Assaulting units:
35th Division
41st Division
36th Division
6th Ind.Mixed Brigade
7th Ind.Mixed Brigade
69th Division
110th Division
9th Ind.Mixed Brigade
4th Ind.Mixed Brigade
32nd Division
59th Division
6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
12th Army
11th Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
43rd Chinese Corps
9th Chinese Corps
2nd Chinese Cavalry Corps
15th Chinese Corps
61st Chinese Corps
90th Chinese Corps
19th Chinese Corps
33rd Chinese Corps
48th Chinese Corps
84th Chinese Corps
93rd Chinese Corps
89th Chinese Corps
27th Chinese Corps
34th Chinese Corps
13th Chinese Corps
7th Chinese Corps
40th Chinese Corps
38th Chinese Corps
5th New Chinese Corps
80th Chinese Corps
98th Chinese Corps
8th New Chinese Corps
15th Group Army
4th Chinese Base Force
36th Group Army
8th Group Army
Jingcha War Area
39th Group Army
4th Group Army
24th Group Army
1st War Area
7th Group Army
21st Group Army
6th Group Army
14th Group Army
10th Chinese Base Force


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Ground combat at Buitenzorg (48,99)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 520 troops, 65 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 965

Defending force 17043 troops, 220 guns, 173 vehicles, Assault Value = 366


Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Assaulting units:
5th Division
18th Division
6th Tank Regiment
56th Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
1st KNIL Regiment
Batavia Coastal Gun Battalion
Roodenburg Battalion
1st Regt Cavalerie
Mobiele Eenheid Battalion
4th KNIL Landstorm Battalion
1st KNIL Landstorm Battalion
2nd KNIL Regiment
Van Altena Battalion
Batavia Base Force
Merak Base Force
KNIL Army Command
ML-KNIL
3rd KNIL AA Battalion
1 ML-KNIL Aviation
Kalidjati Base Force
Bandoeng Base Force


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Ground combat at Tjilatjap (51,102)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 4380 troops, 48 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 148

Defending force 1275 troops, 6 guns, 32 vehicles, Assault Value = 63

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 135

Allied adjusted defense: 33

Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Tjilatjap !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker: leaders(+)

Japanese ground losses:
131 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled


Allied ground losses:
2866 casualties reported
Squads: 148 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 118 destroyed, 13 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 8 (8 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 23 (23 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 1
Units destroyed 1


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
17th Indpt Guards Regiment

Defending units:
5th Coastal Gun Battalion
Afdeling Ritman






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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 2/3/2010 3:47:21 PM   
castor troy


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Status: offline 		And here are the airlosses. Note that if you count them up on the left side, this does not match the total losses on the right side. Nearly a 3:1 in total ac destroyed for us seems like a complete victory, the loss of 40 high experienced bomber crews surely has hurt. As has it hurt to see the Sputniks taking out our fighters at 8:1 during the bounce when they were firing from behind. When the bounce ran out they were only able to damage our fighters and we were shooting them down, better say, the Hurricanes were the ones taking out the Oscars at a highly favourable kill rate too. In the end the fighter losses were 1:1 and it´s surely ok if you say the overall picture is ok. It sure is for this day, 1:1 in fighter losses, 40 bombers being shot down by 40 Allied fighters (perhaps this is on the high end of bombers shot down but this surely isn´t something to argue about) but what strikes me is how it came to this result, as it means that if I would only have had 25 fighters on Cap there would have been enough Oscars to never see the bounce ending and the drop tank equipped Oscars would have bounced from 36k taking out something like 20 fighters for the loss of 2 or 3 of their own.

It´s a pity I didn´t have one more day as I was in the process of transferring the rest of the AVG back to Calcutta also but the ended up at Imphal today. 40 additional AVG fighters would have made a huge difference today, especially in enemy bombers shot down. I´m in the process of upgrading my AVG fighters to P-40B as this seems to be the "best" Warhawk at the moment.

The best tip I can give is to use your fighters in a way that YOU get the bounce, this is the most important thing. If you get the bounce, you can forget about everything else it seems. Being told that man rating can be cut down if you fight a far faster enemy but even though the Airacobra is something like 50 mph faster than the Oscar (I would call that quite an edge in speed) it is just a complete sitting duck when it´s bounced by the Oscar and this will happen in 95% of the times in this PBEM.




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Status: offline 		The AE air model is a vast improvement over WITP - I think the 'bounce' is given too much bonus, thats all. A very minor tweak would bring it into line.

It doesn't really bother me per se, but I think it does mean you lose some of the texture of the game. All that detail about aircraft performance at different altitude is cool. It's sad that its' all suborned to the god stat, OPERATIONAL CEILING.

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Sub attack near Guam at 105,93

Japanese Ships
xAK Nagisan Maru
xAK Taigen Maru
DMS Tatsuko

Allied Ships
SS Sculpin



SS Sculpin launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Nagisan Maru
Sculpin diving deep ....
DMS Tatsuko fails to find sub, continues to search...
DMS Tatsuko attacking submerged sub ....
DMS Tatsuko fails to find sub, continues to search...
DMS Tatsuko fails to find sub, continues to search...
DMS Tatsuko fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

the ongoing duds... Sculpin is on her way to her patrol zone South of Tokyo but when she arrives there there won´t be any torps left I guess... and she won´t have sunk a ship if she keeps attacking this convoy scoring dud after dud...

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Morning Air attack on 93rd Chinese Corps, at 85,43

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 31,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 9



No Japanese losses



Aircraft Attacking:
9 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 26000 feet

AVG is back in India again after the short raid in China... unfortunetely I had to destroy two Warhawks in Sian as they never repaired again and there is no rail connection to another base... looks like aircraft don´t get repaired if the base is in red supply... didn´t know that but I like it (not in this case of course )... luckily only two fighters were damaged...

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Morning Air attack on 93rd Chinese Corps, at 85,43

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 11
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 10



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-Ic Sally: 3 damaged


Allied ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 80th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 93rd Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 80th Chinese Corps ...

if Sian would have supplies I would build up the airfield to level two and would intervene with those strikes... I´m sure we would have an advantage over the enemy escorts and could cause real trouble here but when I can´t get damaged fighters out again it´s senseless to send any to Sian... the biggest problem for me is the fact that I can´t supply the Northern part of China. Everything South is supplied just fine but as there´s no road leading from Chungking to Sian, the North is completely starved already... the supplies that are produced at Sian and Lanchow are by far not enough to feed the 8-9.000 av in the North, let alone allowing fighting...

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Afternoon Air attack on Wenchow , at 89,58

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 14



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 22

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Buna at 99,129

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6



Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 10
B-17E Fortress x 11


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 3 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
xAKL Nichiryo Maru, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAKL Heiwa Maru, Bomb hits 4, and is sunk
xAK Shinwa Maru
xAK Nittai Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire



Aircraft Attacking:
10 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Naval Attack: 8 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Naval Attack: 8 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Naval Attack: 8 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

CAP engaged:
3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (6 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
6 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 8000
Raid is overhead

Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAKL Nichiryo Maru

this convoy has been unloading here for at least one more day as we´ve spotted it already yesterday... today we strike and I´m absolutely satisfied with the performance... seems like it was worth it to train everyone up to 60+ nav bomb skill... all my frontline bomber squadrons are trained in naval attacks and are now either doing grd bomb training or are "learning by doing"... the heavy bombers in this area will stay my anti shipping weapon of choice until the beginning of 43 when our hr kicks in that prevents any non Navy 4Es on nav attack below 10.000ft... by that time I had hoped to have enough medium bombers to take over this task but when I look at the medium bomber replacements then I seriously doubt it (at least when I look at the USAAF medium bombers). Seems like I´m getting more heavy bombers as USAAF replacements in 42 than what I get mediums (Mitchells and Marauders). Will get "a lot" of USN Liberators but not enough squadrons to put them in it seems, what a "luxury"... won´t have trained USN bomber pilots either so I guess there won´t be a lot of effective USN heavy bomber anti shipping strikes until mid 43 as the bomber crews first have to learn doing nav strikes...

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Buna at 99,129

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 3



Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 6


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged

Japanese Ships
xAKL Nichiryo Maru, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Shinwa Maru



Aircraft Attacking:
5 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Naval Attack: 8 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

CAP engaged:
3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 8000
Raid is overhead

it´s not surprising that we launch piecemeal strikes...

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Buna at 99,129

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 4


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
xAK Nittai Maru, heavy fires



Aircraft Attacking:
4 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Naval Attack: 8 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Nittai Maru

and another one...

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Buna at 99,129

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 6


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
xAKL Nichiryo Maru, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
xAK Shinwa Maru



Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Naval Attack: 8 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

another one...

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Buna at 99,129

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes


Allied aircraft
LB-30 Liberator x 5


Allied aircraft losses
LB-30 Liberator: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
xAK Nittai Maru, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Shinwa Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire



Aircraft Attacking:
5 x LB-30 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet
Naval Attack: 8 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Nittai Maru

and the last one... would there have been heavy Cap then the losses within our bombers would have been anything but nice when the bombers don´t come in as a whole and only a couple of them would meet a lot of fighters... overall a good performance by our heavy bombers for sure...

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Ground combat at 85,43

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 102451 troops, 885 guns, 174 vehicles, Assault Value = 3703

Defending force 122052 troops, 750 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3732

Japanese adjusted assault: 917

Allied adjusted defense: 3985

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 4

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker: disruption(-)

Japanese ground losses:
5056 casualties reported
Squads: 9 destroyed, 354 disabled
Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 315 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 25 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 6 (0 destroyed, 6 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
5266 casualties reported
Squads: 20 destroyed, 309 disabled
Non Combat: 17 destroyed, 437 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 17 disabled
Guns lost 7 (2 destroyed, 5 disabled)


Assaulting units:
35th Division
7th Ind.Mixed Brigade
9th Ind.Mixed Brigade
69th Division
41st Division
4th Ind.Mixed Brigade
6th Ind.Mixed Brigade
36th Division
32nd Division
110th Division
59th Division
2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
12th Army
6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
11th Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
13th Chinese Corps
80th Chinese Corps
27th Chinese Corps
43rd Chinese Corps
7th Chinese Corps
34th Chinese Corps
33rd Chinese Corps
19th Chinese Corps
15th Chinese Corps
48th Chinese Corps
9th Chinese Corps
5th New Chinese Corps
38th Chinese Corps
93rd Chinese Corps
2nd Chinese Cavalry Corps
98th Chinese Corps
90th Chinese Corps
40th Chinese Corps
61st Chinese Corps
89th Chinese Corps
84th Chinese Corps
8th New Chinese Corps
4th Group Army
24th Group Army
39th Group Army
21st Group Army
36th Group Army
4th Chinese Base Force
Jingcha War Area
7th Group Army
14th Group Army
1st War Area
15th Group Army
8th Group Army
6th Group Army
10th Chinese Base Force

as expected, the Japanese attacked today. This is West of Loyang in a wooden/rough hex and this gives us quite an advantage to defend here. Main problem is the fact that we´re completely undersupplied (near starvation) as there´s just no supply in Northern China. Don´t know how I´m expected to have 8-9000 av in Northern China (that´s what starts there) but I´ve got only supply for about 2-3000 av. Supply went constantly down without having much of a fight so far so it can only get worse. What´s the solution then? Abandoning the North? Sending all troops South on a line Chungking - Changsha? Without the North, the South wouldn´t produce enough supplies either as all the oil is in the North. Dilemma... we´re trying to move in combat mode out of this hex, doing this at 1 mile a day, now at 13 miles... with the casualties inflicted on the enemy, I´m not sure if Rainer dares to attack again, I doubt he will be able to kick us out of this WR hex with the force he´s got there... this is the only good news, it more or less proved today that we can hold South of Sian if we defend in the WR hexes, this should keep the Japanese away from Sian. Now if I could just get some supply from the South to the North... not possible it seems...

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Ground combat at Semarang (53,102)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3366 troops, 20 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 160

Defending force 393 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 122

Allied adjusted defense: 3

Japanese assault odds: 40 to 1 (fort level 2)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Semarang !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: leaders(+), leaders(-), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
14 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
114 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 6 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units retreated 1


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
148th Infantry Regiment
56th Engineer Regiment

Defending units:
Semarang Base Force


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Ground combat at Buitenzorg (48,99)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 520 troops, 65 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 983

Defending force 17117 troops, 220 guns, 173 vehicles, Assault Value = 376

Japanese ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Assaulting units:
5th Division
18th Division
6th Tank Regiment
56th Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
1st Regt Cavalerie
1st KNIL Landstorm Battalion
Mobiele Eenheid Battalion
2nd KNIL Regiment
4th KNIL Landstorm Battalion
Roodenburg Battalion
1st KNIL Regiment
Batavia Coastal Gun Battalion
Van Altena Battalion
Merak Base Force
3rd KNIL AA Battalion
KNIL Army Command
ML-KNIL
1 ML-KNIL Aviation
Batavia Base Force
Kalidjati Base Force
Bandoeng Base Force


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Ground combat at Saumlaki (78,117)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 322 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 14

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

Japanese adjusted assault: 12

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 12 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Saumlaki !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker:



Assaulting units:
1st Indpt SNLF Coy







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ASW attack near Mussau Island at 105,118

Japanese Ships
DD Yakaze

Allied Ships
SS Narwhal, hits 1



SS Narwhal is sighted by escort
DD Yakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Yakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Yakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Yakaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Yakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

a near miss, nothing spectacular...

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Sub attack near Hengchun at 85,68

Japanese Ships
xAK Bingo Maru
PB Kozan Maru
xAK Chitose Maru #2
PB Shinko Maru #3

Allied Ships
SS Sailfish



SS Sailfish launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Bingo Maru
Sailfish diving deep ....
PB Shinko Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Shinko Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Shinko Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Shinko Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Shinko Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

dud

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Sub attack near Iwo-jima at 105,83

Japanese Ships
xAK Manila Maru
SC CHa-24
xAP Ukishima Maru
xAP Ural Maru
xAP Taizan Maru
xAP Mizuho Maru
xAK Konsan Maru
PB Tamaura Maru
PB Rikusen Maru

Allied Ships
SS Sculpin



SS Sculpin launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Manila Maru
Sculpin diving deep ....
PB Tamaura Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Rikusen Maru fails to find sub and abandons search
PB Tamaura Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Tamaura Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Tamaura Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Tamaura Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Tamaura Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

and dud


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Sub attack near Koggala at 28,50

Japanese Ships
SS I-158

Allied Ships
KV Fritillary, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage
KV Hollyhock



SS I-158 launches 8 torpedoes at KV Fritillary
KV Hollyhock fails to find sub, continues to search...
KV Hollyhock fails to find sub, continues to search...
KV Hollyhock fails to find sub, continues to search...
KV Hollyhock fails to find sub, continues to search...
KV Hollyhock fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

and kill... hate those IJN subs with their wrong number of fwd torp tubes... this is an ASW TF off Ceylon...

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Morning Air attack on Wenchow , at 89,58

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 17



No Japanese losses



Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 17

Aircraft Attacking:
17 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on 9th Chinese Corps, at 85,43

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 13
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 10



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-Ic Sally: 1 damaged



Aircraft Attacking:
13 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 90th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 9th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 90th Chinese Corps ...


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Afternoon Air attack on Batavia Coastal Gun Battalion, at 48,99 (Buitenzorg)

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 20



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 4 damaged


Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
20 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Ground combat at 85,43

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 875 troops, 108 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3354

Defending force 117639 troops, 748 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3395


Allied ground losses:
278 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 15 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Assaulting units:
41st Division
32nd Division
35th Division
6th Ind.Mixed Brigade
36th Division
4th Ind.Mixed Brigade
69th Division
7th Ind.Mixed Brigade
9th Ind.Mixed Brigade
110th Division
59th Division
12th Army
2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
11th Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
34th Chinese Corps
80th Chinese Corps
38th Chinese Corps
84th Chinese Corps
19th Chinese Corps
27th Chinese Corps
15th Chinese Corps
98th Chinese Corps
89th Chinese Corps
40th Chinese Corps
93rd Chinese Corps
5th New Chinese Corps
48th Chinese Corps
7th Chinese Corps
90th Chinese Corps
9th Chinese Corps
33rd Chinese Corps
13th Chinese Corps
2nd Chinese Cavalry Corps
61st Chinese Corps
43rd Chinese Corps
8th New Chinese Corps
36th Group Army
1st War Area
4th Chinese Base Force
21st Group Army
7th Group Army
14th Group Army
4th Group Army
Jingcha War Area
8th Group Army
39th Group Army
24th Group Army
15th Group Army
6th Group Army
10th Chinese Base Force


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Ground combat at Buitenzorg (48,99)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 27734 troops, 312 guns, 212 vehicles, Assault Value = 987

Defending force 17162 troops, 220 guns, 173 vehicles, Assault Value = 382

Japanese adjusted assault: 534

Allied adjusted defense: 877

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

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker: disruption(-)

Japanese ground losses:
711 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 32 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 33 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 17 (0 destroyed, 17 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
1039 casualties reported
Squads: 39 destroyed, 33 disabled
Non Combat: 17 destroyed, 46 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Vehicles lost 5 (0 destroyed, 5 disabled)


Assaulting units:
5th Division
18th Division
6th Tank Regiment
56th Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
Roodenburg Battalion
1st Regt Cavalerie
1st KNIL Landstorm Battalion
1st KNIL Regiment
2nd KNIL Regiment
Batavia Coastal Gun Battalion
Mobiele Eenheid Battalion
4th KNIL Landstorm Battalion
Van Altena Battalion
Batavia Base Force
Kalidjati Base Force
ML-KNIL
KNIL Army Command
Merak Base Force
1 ML-KNIL Aviation
3rd KNIL AA Battalion
Bandoeng Base Force


expect the Dutch to hold out another two weeks or so...

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Amphibious Assault at Bima

TF 233 troops unloading over beach at Bima, 63,110


10 Support troops lost from landing craft during unload of 1st Sasebo SNLF Coy


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Sub attack near Batavia at 50,97

Japanese Ships
xAK Hukuyo Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
APD Fuji

Allied Ships
SS KXVIII, hits 4



SS KXVIII launches 2 torpedoes at xAK Hukuyo Maru
APD Fuji fails to find sub, continues to search...
APD Fuji fails to find sub, continues to search...
APD Fuji attacking submerged sub ....
APD Fuji fails to find sub, continues to search...
APD Fuji fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

finally, a Dutch sub gets a kill but in return is crippled and limps back to Ceylon... my Dutch and British subs really suck...

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Morning Air attack on 93rd Chinese Corps, at 85,43

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 24 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 14
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 10



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-Ic Sally: 1 damaged


Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 90th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 93rd Chinese Corps ...


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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 23



Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 16
B-17E Fortress x 17


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 7 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)



Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 34

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (3 airborne, 6 on standby, 14 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 8000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 8000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes

interestingly enough, only 8 or 9 Zeroes actually attacked our bombers...


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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 17
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 6



Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 9


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 7 damaged



Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 6

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
264th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIa Nick (6 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(6 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
6 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead
3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 14 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 8000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 8000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes

of course there´s the usual split up attack that already happened 100% of the war... funny to see 101 combined Betties/Nells attacking Calcutta though... Kereguelen gave me a hint but it´s not been confirmed yet... if it´s true, then the game has become a real different thing... as it stands now, it just pisses me off as those 100% completely split up strikes all the time can lead to huge trouble and big losses... note that we are now also facing Nicks...

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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 18 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 14
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 1



Allied aircraft
LB-30 Liberator x 5


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
LB-30 Liberator: 2 destroyed



Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 5

Aircraft Attacking:
5 x LB-30 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 14 scrambling)
Group patrol altitude is 8000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 8000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes
264th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIa Nick (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead

and the last part of the split up strike... the Liberators NEVER manage to join the main strike... how funny... the result is obvious... really nice if the enemy gets a three time higher chance to damage your strike all the time due to the fact that it always gets split up... 4 heavy bombers are lost today and it will get far worse as soon as the fighters on Cap gets higher...




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Amphibious Assault at Aitape

TF 291 troops unloading over beach at Aitape, 95,118

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Ground combat at 85,43

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 875 troops, 108 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3395

Defending force 117557 troops, 748 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3393

Japanese ground losses:
19 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
96 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Assaulting units:
32nd Division
69th Division
4th Ind.Mixed Brigade
110th Division
35th Division
7th Ind.Mixed Brigade
36th Division
41st Division
9th Ind.Mixed Brigade
6th Ind.Mixed Brigade
59th Division
6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
12th Army
51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
11th Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
33rd Chinese Corps
84th Chinese Corps
27th Chinese Corps
15th Chinese Corps
5th New Chinese Corps
80th Chinese Corps
2nd Chinese Cavalry Corps
34th Chinese Corps
19th Chinese Corps
48th Chinese Corps
93rd Chinese Corps
40th Chinese Corps
89th Chinese Corps
9th Chinese Corps
7th Chinese Corps
98th Chinese Corps
43rd Chinese Corps
90th Chinese Corps
61st Chinese Corps
13th Chinese Corps
38th Chinese Corps
8th New Chinese Corps
7th Group Army
39th Group Army
4th Chinese Base Force
36th Group Army
4th Group Army
Jingcha War Area
8th Group Army
6th Group Army
1st War Area
24th Group Army
21st Group Army
14th Group Army
15th Group Army
10th Chinese Base Force


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Ground combat at Buitenzorg (48,99)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 500 troops, 65 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 950

Defending force 16434 troops, 220 guns, 173 vehicles, Assault Value = 350

Japanese ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Assaulting units:
18th Division
5th Division
6th Tank Regiment
56th Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
2nd KNIL Regiment
Roodenburg Battalion
4th KNIL Landstorm Battalion
1st KNIL Regiment
1st KNIL Landstorm Battalion
Batavia Coastal Gun Battalion
Mobiele Eenheid Battalion
1st Regt Cavalerie
Van Altena Battalion
3rd KNIL AA Battalion
KNIL Army Command
Merak Base Force
1 ML-KNIL Aviation
Kalidjati Base Force
Batavia Base Force
ML-KNIL
Bandoeng Base Force






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ASW attack near Wakkanai at 122,47

Japanese Ships
SC CHa-25
SC CHa-13

Allied Ships
SS Pickerel



SS Pickerel is located by SC CHa-25
Pickerel diving deep ....
SC CHa-25 attacking submerged sub ....
SC CHa-25 is out of ASW ammo
SC CHa-25 is out of ASW ammo
SC CHa-25 is out of ASW ammo
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

ASW TF hunting Pickerel...

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Sub attack near Torishima at 107,66

Japanese Ships
PB Tokati Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
xAK Heian Maru
PB Taian Maru

Allied Ships
SS Pompano



SS Pompano launches 2 torpedoes at PB Tokati Maru
Pompano diving deep ....
PB Taian Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Taian Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Taian Maru attacking submerged sub ....
SS Pompano eludes PB Taian Maru by diving deep
SS Pompano eludes ASW attack from PB Taian Maru
SS Pompano eludes ASW attack from PB Taian Maru
PB Taian Maru cannot establish contact with SS Pompano
PB Taian Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Taian Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

Pompano kills an escort...

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Sub attack near Hilo at 206,117

Japanese Ships
SS I-168

Allied Ships
DD Dale
BB Mississippi
BB New Mexico
BB Idaho
CA Vincennes
CL Nashville
DD Worden
DD Clark
DD Aylwin
DD Monaghan



SS I-168 launches 2 torpedoes at DD Dale
I-168 diving deep ....
DD Aylwin fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Monaghan fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Dale fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Dale fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Dale fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Dale fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Dale fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Dale attacking submerged sub ....
DD Dale fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

would be cool if the DDs could spot and attack a sub before it attacks when there are 8 escorts in a TF... Rainer now knows that we´re relocating some heavy forces... guess KB is somewhere around or at Truk, so it should be far away...

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Morning Air attack on 93rd Chinese Corps, at 85,43

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 16
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 10



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-Ic Sally: 1 damaged


Allied ground losses:
9 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
16 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 9th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 93rd Chinese Corps ...

wooden/rough is giving my troops quite a defensive advantage...


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Afternoon Air attack on ML-KNIL , at 48,99 (Buitenzorg)

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 15



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 5 damaged


Allied ground losses:
12 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Ground combat at 85,43

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 875 troops, 108 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3422

Defending force 117594 troops, 748 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3401


Allied ground losses:
199 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 16 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Assaulting units:
69th Division
36th Division
110th Division
41st Division
7th Ind.Mixed Brigade
6th Ind.Mixed Brigade
4th Ind.Mixed Brigade
9th Ind.Mixed Brigade
35th Division
32nd Division
59th Division
12th Army
51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
11th Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
15th Chinese Corps
89th Chinese Corps
13th Chinese Corps
40th Chinese Corps
84th Chinese Corps
7th Chinese Corps
61st Chinese Corps
38th Chinese Corps
98th Chinese Corps
33rd Chinese Corps
34th Chinese Corps
9th Chinese Corps
80th Chinese Corps
48th Chinese Corps
5th New Chinese Corps
27th Chinese Corps
19th Chinese Corps
2nd Chinese Cavalry Corps
90th Chinese Corps
43rd Chinese Corps
93rd Chinese Corps
8th New Chinese Corps
39th Group Army
15th Group Army
8th Group Army
6th Group Army
7th Group Army
4th Chinese Base Force
14th Group Army
21st Group Army
4th Group Army
Jingcha War Area
36th Group Army
1st War Area
24th Group Army
10th Chinese Base Force


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Ground combat at 45,88

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3554 troops, 32 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 121

Defending force 36 troops, 11 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3

Japanese adjusted assault: 54

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 54 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), fatigue(-), morale(-)
experience(-)
Attacker: fatigue(-)


Allied ground losses:
12 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 3


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
4th Ind.Mixed Regiment

Defending units:
Zuid KNIL Battalion
So.Sumatra Garrison Battalion
Teloekbetoeng Base Force


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Ground combat at Buitenzorg (48,99)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 505 troops, 65 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1026

Defending force 16512 troops, 220 guns, 173 vehicles, Assault Value = 355



Assaulting units:
18th Division
1st Tank Regiment
5th Division
6th Tank Regiment
56th Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
Roodenburg Battalion
1st KNIL Regiment
Mobiele Eenheid Battalion
4th KNIL Landstorm Battalion
1st Regt Cavalerie
Batavia Coastal Gun Battalion
2nd KNIL Regiment
1st KNIL Landstorm Battalion
Van Altena Battalion
Batavia Base Force
Kalidjati Base Force
3rd KNIL AA Battalion
1 ML-KNIL Aviation
Merak Base Force
ML-KNIL
KNIL Army Command
Bandoeng Base Force


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Ground combat at Djokjakarta (52,103)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 908 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 33

Defending force 262 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 15

Allied adjusted defense: 3

Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Djokjakarta !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), preparation(-), fatigue(-)
morale(-)
Attacker: leaders(-)


Allied ground losses:
124 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 9 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units retreated 1


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
56th Engineer Regiment

Defending units:
Semarang Base Force


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Ground combat at Aitape (95,118)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 324 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 14

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

Japanese adjusted assault: 5

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Aitape !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(-), disruption(-)



Assaulting units:
8th Indpt SNLF Coy


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Ground combat at Bima (63,110)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 494 troops, 2 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 22

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

Japanese adjusted assault: 23

Allied adjusted defense: 1

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

Japanese forces CAPTURE Bima !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(+)



Assaulting units:
1st Sasebo SNLF Coy




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Submarine attack near Chefoo at 99,47

Japanese Ships
xAKL Mayachi Maru, Shell hits 3

Allied Ships
SS Spearfish, hits 1



xAKL Mayachi Maru is sighted by SS Spearfish
SS Spearfish attacking on the surface
Pryce, R.F. decides to submerge SS Spearfish due to damage

one of the hated surface attacks, they have been even more useless than submerged attacks... not one torp fired and a 8cm hit on the sub causes enough damage again that the sub has to retire 4000 miles to it´s homeport... subs attacking on the surface are more of a threat for themselve than to their enemies in AE...

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Morning Air attack on Wenchow , at 89,58

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 17



No Japanese losses



Airbase hits 3
Runway hits 9

Aircraft Attacking:
17 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on ML-KNIL , at 48,99 (Buitenzorg)

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 21



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 13 damaged



Aircraft Attacking:
21 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking KNIL Army Command ...
Also attacking ML-KNIL ...


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Morning Air attack on 90th Chinese Corps, at 85,43

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 16
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 10



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-Ic Sally: 1 damaged


Allied ground losses:
8 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
16 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 93rd Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 90th Chinese Corps ...


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Morning Air attack on Port Moresby , at 98,130

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 2



Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 9
B-17E Fortress x 21


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged



Airbase hits 9
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 24

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
264th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIa Nick (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead

now that´s funny... have a look at the screenshot! While I´m not able to launch a single combined strike from either Cairns or Townsville, we launch a more or less combined strike from both bases together... really working well, especially as the distance to target is different from the two bases... how this is working is beyond me...




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Morning Air attack on Port Moresby , at 98,130

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 16



Allied aircraft
LB-30 Liberator x 3


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
LB-30 Liberator: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged



Aircraft Attacking:
2 x LB-30 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
264th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIa Nick (8 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(16 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
8 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 8 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 minutes

the stupid Liberators of course come in alone again... this is REALLY all working very well, Allied commanders must have been quite stupid... and the result is of course that the Liberators get chewed up instead of suffering nearly no damage if they would have come in with the main strike... have I missed the paragraph in the manual that says don´t use the LB-30s?

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Afternoon Air attack on Akyab , at 54,45

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 44 NM, estimated altitude 39,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 21



No Japanese losses



Aircraft Attacking:
21 x Ki-43-Ib Oscar sweeping at 38000 feet

38.000 feet now... what a pity there will only be bug busting...

Rainer manages again to get his sweep in first...

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Afternoon Air attack on Akyab , at 54,45

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 31 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 20
G3M2 Nell x 27
G4M1 Betty x 15



Japanese aircraft losses
G3M2 Nell: 2 destroyed, 11 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed, 12 damaged



Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 6
Runway hits 54

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb
14 x G3M2 Nell bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb
10 x G3M2 Nell bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb

and then the main bomber strike comes in with Zero escort... the airbase is nearly empty (only a damaged Blenheim at the base) and while Betties and Nells really chew up the airfield it doesn´t harm us at all... flak proved to be really deadly over the base though and lots of IJNAF bombers are claimed shot down... damage will be repaired in two turns... I had moved in 100+ ac last turn as I wanted to bomb enemy positions but weather prevented us from doing it, while Japanese recons spotted our crammed airfield... moved our ac out immedietely again as we will have to rely on hit and run, especially against the Sputniks that surely not just doing sweeps at 38.000ft, but also Cap at this height... and I don´t want to face the never ending Sputnik bounce to be honest... whenever possible I will try to evade dealing with Oscars as they will always be flying higher than our fighters... this will change in 43 when I will send in my fighters at 40.000+ ft sweeps...

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Afternoon Air attack on Akyab , at 54,45

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 4
G4M1 Betty x 20



Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed, 12 damaged


Allied ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 45

Aircraft Attacking:
18 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb

62 bombers socred over 100 hits, not a bad performance... but they pay a high price and achieve nothing than burning some of our supplies... tomorrow, damage will be gone and base build up will commence...

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Ground combat at Buitenzorg (48,99)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 28282 troops, 312 guns, 315 vehicles, Assault Value = 1037

Defending force 16592 troops, 220 guns, 173 vehicles, Assault Value = 362

Japanese adjusted assault: 456

Allied adjusted defense: 931

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

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
297 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 22 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 36 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 9 (1 destroyed, 8 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
575 casualties reported
Squads: 48 destroyed, 27 disabled
Non Combat: 28 destroyed, 60 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 35 (2 destroyed, 33 disabled)


Assaulting units:
18th Division
1st Tank Regiment
5th Division
6th Tank Regiment
56th Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
1st KNIL Landstorm Battalion
1st Regt Cavalerie
Mobiele Eenheid Battalion
2nd KNIL Regiment
1st KNIL Regiment
Batavia Coastal Gun Battalion
Roodenburg Battalion
4th KNIL Landstorm Battalion
Van Altena Battalion
ML-KNIL
1 ML-KNIL Aviation
Kalidjati Base Force
3rd KNIL AA Battalion
Merak Base Force
Batavia Base Force
KNIL Army Command
Bandoeng Base Force

Buitenzorg´s defender can´t really harm the attackers and there´s not much hope to hold out much longer...

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Ground combat at 85,43

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 870 troops, 108 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3449

Defending force 117504 troops, 748 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3396


Allied ground losses:
129 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Assaulting units:
36th Division
7th Ind.Mixed Brigade
41st Division
6th Ind.Mixed Brigade
4th Ind.Mixed Brigade
69th Division
9th Ind.Mixed Brigade
35th Division
32nd Division
110th Division
59th Division
2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
12th Army
11th Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
84th Chinese Corps
61st Chinese Corps
48th Chinese Corps
93rd Chinese Corps
90th Chinese Corps
80th Chinese Corps
33rd Chinese Corps
2nd Chinese Cavalry Corps
27th Chinese Corps
98th Chinese Corps
15th Chinese Corps
34th Chinese Corps
38th Chinese Corps
89th Chinese Corps
9th Chinese Corps
40th Chinese Corps
13th Chinese Corps
5th New Chinese Corps
19th Chinese Corps
7th Chinese Corps
43rd Chinese Corps
8th New Chinese Corps
7th Group Army
6th Group Army
36th Group Army
14th Group Army
21st Group Army
24th Group Army
1st War Area
39th Group Army
4th Chinese Base Force
8th Group Army
4th Group Army
15th Group Army
Jingcha War Area
10th Chinese Base Force


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Ground combat at Warazup (63,41)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 12805 troops, 120 guns, 32 vehicles, Assault Value = 443

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

Japanese adjusted assault: 203

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 203 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Warazup !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(-)



Assaulting units:
33rd Division


Another month has passed and here´s the sub statistic:

Allied sub statistic started 1-25-42

MK14

attacks 97
exploding hits 17 (19.32% of total hits)
miss 9 (9.28% of total attacks)
duds 71 (80.68% of total hits)

my fleet subs stay very active and I´m quite satisfied with the number of attacks. The number of exploding hits is a shame though, we´re even below 20% while we should be slightly above it with a torp dud rate of 20%. With a 90% hit rate the subs prove to be real snipers though. If this hit rate can be kept up during the years then the enemy will be in big trouble as soon as the torps start working.


MK10

attacks 14
exploding hits 8 (88.89% of total hits)
miss 5 (35.71% of total attacks)
duds 1 (11.11% of total hits)

would call the performance of the S-class subs as "neutral" at best... not many attacks in two months, we´re suffering from the short range of the S-class subs and can´t use them elsewhere than the Solomons and around the Eastern tip of New Guinea where we don´t encounter a lot of ships... I´m not happy at all with the hit rate, 35.71% missed shots are too many...



53.3cm/45cm/21MK VIII

attacks 26
exploding hits 8 (66.67% of total hits)
miss 14 (53.85% of total attacks)
duds 4 (33.33% of total hits)

and now the most disappointing sub service, the Dutch and the British! More or less all those subs have been operating in the SRA (and most of them still are) but we only see 26 attacks in the last two months with a totally nuts hit rate. 53.85% of the fires salvoes MISSED!!! Must be the worst hit rate I´ve ever seen so far. Can´t figure out why it´s that bad... Luck is definetely not on our side when we then even suffer 33.33% dud torps of the ones that actually hit the target. All in all, absolutely depressing performance of Dutch and British subs.

IJN statistic started in 2-25-42

IJN

attacks 3
exploding hits 2 (100% of total hits)
miss 1 (33.33% of total attacks)
duds

the IJN performance won´t be amusing for Rainer either I guess. The reason for this is easily explained, the IJN subs hardly ever meet any of my ships. Rainer hasn´t come across my used shipping lanes (which vary more or less all the time). When IJN subs meet my convoys then my ships are in high danger though, as could be seen in the first 1.5 months. Rainer stated that he already fears 43 when my MK14 torps start to work and I can only agree. I still expect the subs to be the war winning weapon of the Allied forces, we´ll see how much will change when my subs upgrade on 4/42 and get radar. Should result in more attacks at least.



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Status: offline 		The results so far of my Dutch and British boats have been equally disappointing. My Dutch coastal boats have ONE kill so far in the entire war! Commander aggressiveness is a problem I think, the Dutch don't get alot of decent sub captains.

My S-Boats though have been doing pretty well.........even sank a cruiser

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Status: offline 		The Dutch attack often enough but the hit rate has been awful, could be the commander ratings, have to compare that to the USN fleet subs... or it´s a series of very bad die rolls...


AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 26, 42
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ASW attack near Amami Oshima at 98,65

Japanese Ships
PB Toko Maru #4
PB Seki Maru #3

Allied Ships
SS Pompano



SS Pompano is located by PB Toko Maru #4
Pompano diving deep ....
PB Seki Maru #3 fails to find sub and abandons search
PB Toko Maru #4 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toko Maru #4 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toko Maru #4 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toko Maru #4 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toko Maru #4 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toko Maru #4 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Hengchun at 85,68

Japanese Ships
SC Ch 3
E Kiku

Allied Ships
SS Saury



SS Saury is located by SC Ch 3
Saury diving deep ....
E Kiku fails to find sub and abandons search
SC Ch 3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

E Kiku is around again...

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Submarine attack near Shikuka at 126,44

Japanese Ships
xAK Celebes Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Silversides



xAK Celebes Maru is sighted by SS Silversides
SS Silversides launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Celebes Maru

IJN freighter blows up...

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Sub attack near Toyohara at 125,47

Japanese Ships
PB Kaikei Maru
PB Okiyu Maru
PB Kaiun Maru

Allied Ships
SS Grayling



SS Grayling launches 6 torpedoes at PB Kaikei Maru
Grayling diving deep ....
PB Okiyu Maru fails to find sub and abandons search
PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

followed by duds...

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Morning Air attack on Batavia Coastal Gun Battalion, at 48,99 (Buitenzorg)

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 21



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 14 damaged


Allied ground losses:
10 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
21 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking KNIL Army Command ...
Also attacking Batavia Coastal Gun Battalion ...


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Afternoon Air attack on Wenchow , at 89,58

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 14



No Japanese losses



Runway hits 3

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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ASW attack near Toyohara at 125,47

Japanese Ships
PB Okiyu Maru
PB Kaiun Maru

Allied Ships
SS Grayling



SS Grayling is located by PB Okiyu Maru
Grayling diving deep ....
PB Okiyu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Okiyu Maru fails to find sub and abandons search
PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

subs are the only real offensive weapon we´ve got at the moment...

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Ground combat at 85,43

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 870 troops, 108 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3464

Defending force 117495 troops, 748 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3397

Japanese ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
263 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 18 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 20 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled


Assaulting units:
41st Division
4th Ind.Mixed Brigade
7th Ind.Mixed Brigade
36th Division
110th Division
35th Division
69th Division
32nd Division
6th Ind.Mixed Brigade
9th Ind.Mixed Brigade
59th Division
12th Army
6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
11th Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
84th Chinese Corps
9th Chinese Corps
7th Chinese Corps
38th Chinese Corps
48th Chinese Corps
33rd Chinese Corps
13th Chinese Corps
5th New Chinese Corps
61st Chinese Corps
2nd Chinese Cavalry Corps
43rd Chinese Corps
90th Chinese Corps
93rd Chinese Corps
15th Chinese Corps
19th Chinese Corps
80th Chinese Corps
34th Chinese Corps
89th Chinese Corps
27th Chinese Corps
98th Chinese Corps
40th Chinese Corps
8th New Chinese Corps
8th Group Army
Jingcha War Area
1st War Area
4th Chinese Base Force
24th Group Army
6th Group Army
36th Group Army
7th Group Army
39th Group Army
21st Group Army
15th Group Army
14th Group Army
4th Group Army
10th Chinese Base Force


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Ground combat at Sabang (44,70)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 6998 troops, 46 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 254

Defending force 2938 troops, 8 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 117

Japanese adjusted assault: 156

Allied adjusted defense: 28

Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 2)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Sabang !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker: fatigue(-)

Japanese ground losses:
338 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 25 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 14 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
1665 casualties reported
Squads: 35 destroyed, 55 disabled
Non Combat: 26 destroyed, 29 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 5


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
113th Infantry Regiment
41st Infantry Regiment

Defending units:
Korps Marechausee Battalion
Sabang Garrison Battalion
2nd Garrison Battalion
Sabang Base Force
Langsa Base Force

the ground troops on Sumatra and Java are the only things left where Rainer can score real easy victory points... all other targets will be tougher, will be interesting where Rainer will turn to or if he will stay on the defense after the fall of Java...

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Ground combat at Soerakarta (53,103)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3357 troops, 20 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 126

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

Japanese adjusted assault: 123

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 123 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Soerakarta !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(+)



Assaulting units:
148th Infantry Regiment


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Ground combat at Buitenzorg (48,99)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 515 troops, 65 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1008

Defending force 15618 troops, 220 guns, 171 vehicles, Assault Value = 327


Allied ground losses:
12 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Assaulting units:
5th Division
1st Tank Regiment
18th Division
6th Tank Regiment
56th Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
4th KNIL Landstorm Battalion
Mobiele Eenheid Battalion
Roodenburg Battalion
1st Regt Cavalerie
1st KNIL Regiment
2nd KNIL Regiment
Batavia Coastal Gun Battalion
Van Altena Battalion
Merak Base Force
ML-KNIL
3rd KNIL AA Battalion
Kalidjati Base Force
KNIL Army Command
1 ML-KNIL Aviation
Batavia Base Force
Bandoeng Base Force




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Post #: 176
RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 2/6/2010 1:23:19 PM   
castor troy


Posts: 14330
Joined: 8/23/2004
From: Austria
Status: offline 		AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 27, 42
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ASW attack near Colombo at 27,49

Japanese Ships
SS I-156, hits 12

Allied Ships
DD Encounter
DD Isis
DD Griffin



SS I-156 is located by DD Encounter
DD Isis fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Griffin attacking submerged sub ....
DD Griffin fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Griffin fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Griffin fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Griffin attacking submerged sub ....
SS I-156 eludes DD Griffin by hugging bottom
SS I-156 eludes ASW attack from DD Griffin
DD Griffin is out of ASW ammo
DD Griffin attacking submerged sub ....
DD Griffin is out of ASW ammo
DD Griffin is out of ASW ammo
DD Griffin is out of ASW ammo
DD Griffin is out of ASW ammo
Escort abandons search for sub

one hit and eleven near misses, all achieved gy DD Griffin... the British DDs really seem to be sub killers sub isn´t heavily damaged though and I doubt it will sink, but the sub has to return to homeport for sure... seems like there are a couple of subs operating in the Indian ocean...

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ASW attack near Toyohara at 125,47

Japanese Ships
PB Ikunta Maru
PB Okiyu Maru
PB Kaiun Maru

Allied Ships
SS Silversides



SS Silversides is located by PB Ikunta Maru
PB Okiyu Maru fails to find sub and abandons search
PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Sub attack near Billiton at 53,92

Japanese Ships
xAKL Meiko Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
PB Tatebu Maru

Allied Ships
SS KVIII

Japanese ground losses:
20 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



SS KVIII launches 2 torpedoes at xAKL Meiko Maru
PB Tatebu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Tatebu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Tatebu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Tatebu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Tatebu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

nice, one of the rare kills of a Dutch sub... troop loaden freighter sinks immedietely...

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Sub attack near Fukue-jima at 100,59

Japanese Ships
xAKL Kikuryu Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
PB Toshi Maru #2

Allied Ships
SS Spearfish



SS Spearfish launches 4 torpedoes at xAKL Kikuryu Maru
Spearfish diving deep ....
PB Toshi Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toshi Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toshi Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toshi Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toshi Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

another small freighter blows up today... good turn...

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Morning Air attack on KNIL Army Command , at 48,99 (Buitenzorg)

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 19



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 15 damaged


Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
19 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking ML-KNIL ...
Also attacking KNIL Army Command ...
Also attacking ML-KNIL ...
Also attacking KNIL Army Command ...


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Morning Air attack on 93rd Chinese Corps, at 85,43

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 14
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 10



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
16 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 84th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 93rd Chinese Corps ...


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Afternoon Air attack on Wenchow , at 89,58

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 14



No Japanese losses



Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 24

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Ground combat at 85,43

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 870 troops, 108 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3489

Defending force 118886 troops, 750 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3446

Japanese ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
218 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 9 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Assaulting units:
4th Ind.Mixed Brigade
36th Division
9th Ind.Mixed Brigade
69th Division
41st Division
32nd Division
110th Division
6th Ind.Mixed Brigade
7th Ind.Mixed Brigade
35th Division
59th Division
12th Army
2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
11th Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
34th Chinese Corps
84th Chinese Corps
5th New Chinese Corps
15th Chinese Corps
90th Chinese Corps
7th Chinese Corps
33rd Chinese Corps
48th Chinese Corps
9th Chinese Corps
43rd Chinese Corps
93rd Chinese Corps
27th Chinese Corps
80th Chinese Corps
98th Chinese Corps
61st Chinese Corps
40th Chinese Corps
38th Chinese Corps
19th Chinese Corps
13th Chinese Corps
89th Chinese Corps
2nd Chinese Cavalry Corps
8th New Chinese Corps
24th Group Army
1st War Area
36th Group Army
15th Group Army
14th Group Army
8th Group Army
4th Group Army
6th Group Army
21st Group Army
7th Group Army
39th Group Army
Jingcha War Area
4th Chinese Base Force
10th Chinese Base Force


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Ground combat at Buitenzorg (48,99)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 520 troops, 65 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1023

Defending force 15736 troops, 220 guns, 171 vehicles, Assault Value = 334



Assaulting units:
5th Division
18th Division
1st Tank Regiment
6th Tank Regiment
56th Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
2nd KNIL Regiment
1st KNIL Regiment
Batavia Coastal Gun Battalion
4th KNIL Landstorm Battalion
Mobiele Eenheid Battalion
1st Regt Cavalerie
Roodenburg Battalion
Van Altena Battalion
Batavia Base Force
KNIL Army Command
Merak Base Force
3rd KNIL AA Battalion
ML-KNIL
1 ML-KNIL Aviation
Kalidjati Base Force
Bandoeng Base Force

the Dutch at Buitenzorg will hold out some longer, the same will happen in the South when the ex-Soerabaja defenders will defend in the mountain hex West of it...

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Ground combat at 51,103

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 4345 troops, 48 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 148

Defending force 107 troops, 0 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 7

Japanese adjusted assault: 67

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 67 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), leaders(-), morale(-)
experience(-)
Attacker: leaders(+), leaders(-)


Allied ground losses:
70 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 18 (16 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Units destroyed 1


Assaulting units:
17th Indpt Guards Regiment

Defending units:
Afdeling Ritman




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Post #: 177
RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 2/6/2010 5:18:15 PM   
castor troy


Posts: 14330
Joined: 8/23/2004
From: Austria
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Submarine attack near Wakkanai at 122,47

Japanese Ships
xAK Kamitu Maru

Allied Ships
SS Silversides



xAK Kamitu Maru is sighted by SS Silversides
SS Silversides launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Kamitu Maru

DUD

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ASW attack near Sapporo at 120,49

Japanese Ships
SC CHa-25

Allied Ships
SS Grayling



SS Grayling is located by SC CHa-25
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Wakkanai at 121,48

Japanese Ships
SC CHa-26
SC CHa-14
DD Sanae

Allied Ships
SS Grayling



SS Grayling is located by SC CHa-26
Grayling diving deep ....
DD Sanae attacking submerged sub ....
SC CHa-26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Sanae fails to find sub and abandons search
SC CHa-26 attacking submerged sub ....
SS Grayling eludes ASW attack from SC CHa-26
SS Grayling eludes SC CHa-26 by diving deep
SC CHa-26 cannot reach attack position over SS Grayling
SC CHa-26 loses contact with SS Grayling
SC CHa-26 cannot reach attack position over SS Grayling
SC CHa-26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

hunter killer groups around Northern Japan...

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Sub attack near Wakkanai at 121,48

Japanese Ships
SC CHa-2
DD Sanae
SC CHa-26

Allied Ships
SS Silversides



SS Silversides launches 4 torpedoes at SC CHa-2
Silversides diving deep ....
DD Sanae fails to find sub and abandons search
SC CHa-26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

the subchaser´s crew will have a party I guess after having heard the ploink when the dud torp hit their vessel...

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Morning Air attack on Wenchow , at 89,58

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 17



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 27

Aircraft Attacking:
17 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Batavia Coastal Gun Battalion, at 48,99 (Buitenzorg)

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 16



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 11 damaged


Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
16 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 1st KNIL Regiment ...
Also attacking Batavia Coastal Gun Battalion ...
Also attacking 1st KNIL Regiment ...
Also attacking Batavia Coastal Gun Battalion ...


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Morning Air attack on 90th Chinese Corps, at 85,43

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 15
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 10



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 93rd Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 90th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 93rd Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 90th Chinese Corps ...


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Morning Air attack on 82nd Naval Guard Unit, at 101,133 (Milne Bay)

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 12
B-17E Fortress x 17


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
19 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

Also attacking 144th JAAF AF Bn ...
Also attacking I/84th Naval Guard Unit ...
Also attacking 144th JAAF AF Bn ...
Also attacking 82nd Naval Guard Unit ...
Also attacking I/84th Naval Guard Unit ...
Also attacking 82nd Naval Guard Unit ...

not really a lot of damage done...

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Morning Air attack on 144th JAAF AF Bn , at 101,133 (Milne Bay)

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 6


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

and we launch several strikes against the same target of course...

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Afternoon Air attack on 144th JAAF AF Bn , at 101,133 (Milne Bay)

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 6
B-17E Fortress x 6
LB-30 Liberator x 3


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
12 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x LB-30 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

Also attacking 82nd Naval Guard Unit ...
Also attacking 144th JAAF AF Bn ...

more bombs dropped than enemies wounded...

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Ground combat at Buitenzorg (48,99)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 28219 troops, 312 guns, 314 vehicles, Assault Value = 1033

Defending force 15773 troops, 220 guns, 171 vehicles, Assault Value = 338

Japanese adjusted assault: 280

Allied adjusted defense: 706

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

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
428 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 23 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 39 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 28 (0 destroyed, 28 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
961 casualties reported
Squads: 9 destroyed, 30 disabled
Non Combat: 21 destroyed, 88 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Vehicles lost 22 (3 destroyed, 19 disabled)


Assaulting units:
1st Tank Regiment
18th Division
5th Division
6th Tank Regiment
56th Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
Roodenburg Battalion
Mobiele Eenheid Battalion
4th KNIL Landstorm Battalion
1st KNIL Regiment
1st Regt Cavalerie
2nd KNIL Regiment
Batavia Coastal Gun Battalion
Van Altena Battalion
ML-KNIL
KNIL Army Command
Merak Base Force
Batavia Base Force
3rd KNIL AA Battalion
Kalidjati Base Force
1 ML-KNIL Aviation
Bandoeng Base Force

while we still hold, we can´t do damage...

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Ground combat at 85,43

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 865 troops, 108 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3503

Defending force 118928 troops, 750 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3450

Japanese ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
141 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Assaulting units:
35th Division
4th Ind.Mixed Brigade
9th Ind.Mixed Brigade
32nd Division
6th Ind.Mixed Brigade
41st Division
7th Ind.Mixed Brigade
36th Division
110th Division
69th Division
59th Division
2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
12th Army
51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
11th Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
48th Chinese Corps
2nd Chinese Cavalry Corps
7th Chinese Corps
43rd Chinese Corps
15th Chinese Corps
61st Chinese Corps
89th Chinese Corps
84th Chinese Corps
93rd Chinese Corps
38th Chinese Corps
90th Chinese Corps
80th Chinese Corps
34th Chinese Corps
27th Chinese Corps
13th Chinese Corps
9th Chinese Corps
40th Chinese Corps
98th Chinese Corps
33rd Chinese Corps
19th Chinese Corps
5th New Chinese Corps
8th New Chinese Corps
4th Chinese Base Force
15th Group Army
14th Group Army
Jingcha War Area
6th Group Army
7th Group Army
4th Group Army
36th Group Army
21st Group Army
39th Group Army
1st War Area
8th Group Army
24th Group Army
10th Chinese Base Force




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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 2/6/2010 5:20:41 PM   
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Sub attack near Hirosaki/Aomori at 117,53

Japanese Ships
DD Kuretake

Allied Ships
SS Silversides



SS Silversides launches 6 torpedoes at DD Kuretake
Silversides diving deep ....
DD Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

missed, a rare event...

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Sub attack near Iriomote at 92,62

Japanese Ships
xAKL Suez Maru
xAKL Gyokurei Maru
xAKL Keizan Maru

Allied Ships
SS Saury



SS Saury launches 4 torpedoes at xAKL Suez Maru
Saury diving deep ....
Sub escapes detection

hit but dud, not so rare... I´m amazed about the high number of convoys that are cruising around without any escorts, seems like there aren´t as many escort around for the Japanese than needed...

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Christmas Island IO at 45,104, Range 10,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CL Natori
DD Murasame
DD Harusame
DD Yudachi
DD Yamakaze
DD Kawakaze
DD Umikaze
DD Suzukaze

Allied Ships
PT TM-10
PT TM-11
PT TM-12, Shell hits 1, and is sunk



Improved night sighting under 92% moonlight
Maximum visibility in Clear Conditions and 92% moonlight: 12,000 yards
CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 10,000 yards
Japanese open fire on surprised Allied ships at 10,000 yards
Range closes to 7,000 yards
DD Umikaze engages PT TM-12 at 7,000 yards
DD Suzukaze engages PT TM-12 at 7,000 yards
DD Kawakaze engages PT TM-12 at 7,000 yards
DD Yamakaze engages PT TM-12 at 7,000 yards
DD Yudachi engages PT TM-12 at 7,000 yards
DD Harusame engages PT TM-12 at 7,000 yards
Range closes to 4,000 yards
PT TM-12 sunk by DD Suzukaze at 4,000 yards
DD Suzukaze engages PT TM-10 at 4,000 yards
Range closes to 3,000 yards
PT TM-10 engages DD Suzukaze at 3,000 yards
PT TM-10 engages DD Umikaze at 3,000 yards
DD Kawakaze engages PT TM-10 at 3,000 yards
DD Harusame engages PT TM-10 at 3,000 yards
Range increases to 5,000 yards
DD Yamakaze engages PT TM-11 at 5,000 yards
PT TM-10 engages DD Umikaze at 5,000 yards
DD Yudachi engages PT TM-10 at 5,000 yards
Range increases to 7,000 yards
DD Yamakaze engages PT TM-11 at 7,000 yards
DD Harusame engages PT TM-10 at 7,000 yards
DD Murasame engages PT TM-10 at 7,000 yards
Range increases to 10,000 yards
DD Suzukaze engages PT TM-11 at 10,000 yards
DD Umikaze engages PT TM-11 at 10,000 yards
DD Kawakaze engages PT TM-11 at 10,000 yards
DD Murasame engages PT TM-11 at 10,000 yards
Task forces break off...

Rainer wants to kill my PTs at all cost... those three damaged ones were sitting West of Java...

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Sub attack near Hirosaki/Aomori at 117,53

Japanese Ships
xAK Jinsai Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Silversides


SS Silversides launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Jinsai Maru

a good day begins with the sinking of an enemy merchant...

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Amphibious Assault at Sampit

TF 342 troops unloading over beach at Sampit, 58,97



10 Support troops lost overboard during unload of II./124th Infantry Bn /3


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Sub attack near Fukue-jima at 100,59

Japanese Ships
PB Hakata Maru #7

Allied Ships
SS Finback



SS Finback launches 4 torpedoes at PB Hakata Maru #7
PB Hakata Maru #7 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Hakata Maru #7 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Hakata Maru #7 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Hakata Maru #7 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Hakata Maru #7 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Morning Air attack on Wenchow , at 89,58

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 17



No Japanese losses



Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 17

Aircraft Attacking:
17 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on 84th Chinese Corps, at 85,43

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 16
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 10



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
8 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
16 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 90th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 84th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 90th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 84th Chinese Corps ...


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ASW attack near Wakkanai at 121,48

Japanese Ships
xAK Tatuha Maru
PB Yachiyo Maru

Allied Ships
SS Silversides



SS Silversides is sighted by escort
Silversides diving deep ....
PB Yachiyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Yachiyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Yachiyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Yachiyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Yachiyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Ground combat at 85,43

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 875 troops, 108 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3522

Defending force 118973 troops, 749 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3465

Japanese ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
142 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 15 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Assaulting units:
9th Ind.Mixed Brigade
6th Ind.Mixed Brigade
7th Ind.Mixed Brigade
41st Division
69th Division
32nd Division
110th Division
35th Division
36th Division
4th Ind.Mixed Brigade
59th Division
2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
12th Army
51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
11th Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
33rd Chinese Corps
93rd Chinese Corps
38th Chinese Corps
48th Chinese Corps
9th Chinese Corps
7th Chinese Corps
89th Chinese Corps
15th Chinese Corps
40th Chinese Corps
34th Chinese Corps
19th Chinese Corps
98th Chinese Corps
61st Chinese Corps
43rd Chinese Corps
5th New Chinese Corps
84th Chinese Corps
2nd Chinese Cavalry Corps
80th Chinese Corps
13th Chinese Corps
27th Chinese Corps
90th Chinese Corps
8th New Chinese Corps
6th Group Army
39th Group Army
21st Group Army
4th Chinese Base Force
1st War Area
7th Group Army
Jingcha War Area
14th Group Army
15th Group Army
8th Group Army
4th Group Army
24th Group Army
36th Group Army
10th Chinese Base Force


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Ground combat at 44,87

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3554 troops, 32 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 121

Defending force 24 troops, 10 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3

Japanese adjusted assault: 110

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 110 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: morale(-), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:


Allied ground losses:
8 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Units retreated 3


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
4th Ind.Mixed Regiment

Defending units:
Zuid KNIL Battalion
So.Sumatra Garrison Battalion
Teloekbetoeng Base Force


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Ground combat at Buitenzorg (48,99)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 490 troops, 65 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1012

Defending force 14920 troops, 220 guns, 168 vehicles, Assault Value = 298


Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Assaulting units:
5th Division
18th Division
1st Tank Regiment
6th Tank Regiment
56th Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
1st Regt Cavalerie
Batavia Coastal Gun Battalion
2nd KNIL Regiment
Mobiele Eenheid Battalion
1st KNIL Regiment
Van Altena Battalion
Batavia Base Force
ML-KNIL
Merak Base Force
KNIL Army Command
1 ML-KNIL Aviation
3rd KNIL AA Battalion
Kalidjati Base Force
Bandoeng Base Force




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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 2/6/2010 5:31:34 PM   
castor troy


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Submarine attack near Ominato at 118,52

Japanese Ships
xAK Tyoyo Maru

Allied Ships
SS Grayling



xAK Tyoyo Maru is sighted by SS Grayling
SS Grayling launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Tyoyo Maru

DUD

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ASW attack near Batavia at 50,96

Japanese Ships
CL Natori
DD Yamakaze
DD Yudachi
DD Harusame
DD Murasame
DD Suzukaze
DD Umikaze
DD Kawakaze

Allied Ships
SS Truant, hits 2



SS Truant is sighted by escort
DD Suzukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Umikaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Kawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Suzukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Suzukaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Kawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kawakaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Kawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

Truant takes two near misses but ALL forward torp tubes are damaged... that´s new to me, is there a problem when ALL tubes get damaged at once? Have never seen this before and it´s the first time tube(s) got damaged in one of my AE games...

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ASW attack near Toboali at 51,94

Japanese Ships
CL Natori
DD Yamakaze
DD Yudachi
DD Harusame
DD Murasame
DD Suzukaze
DD Umikaze
DD Kawakaze

Allied Ships
SS Truant, hits 2



SS Truant is sighted by escort
Truant bottoming out ....
DD Suzukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Umikaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Kawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Suzukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Suzukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Suzukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Suzukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Suzukaze attacking submerged sub ....
Escort abandons search for sub

a hit and a near miss and Truant is crippled...

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Sub attack near Truk at 111,109

Japanese Ships
DD Ushio
DD Oboro
xAK Shofuku Maru
xAKL Ujigawa Maru
DD Sazanami

Allied Ships
SS KXVII



SS KXVII launches 2 torpedoes at DD Ushio
KXVII diving deep ....
DD Ushio fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Sazanami attacking submerged sub ....
DD Sazanami fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Sazanami fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Sazanami fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Sazanami fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

what else than a miss from a Dutch sub?

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Amphibious Assault at Wewak

TF 291 troops unloading over beach at Wewak, 96,119





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ASW attack near Wakkanai at 121,48

Japanese Ships
SC CHa-25

Allied Ships
SS Grayling



SS Grayling is located by SC CHa-25
Grayling diving deep ....
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

CHa-25 is one of the most active ASW vessels...

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Submarine attack near Palmyra at 171,126

Japanese Ships
SS I-20

Allied Ships
xAK Charles H Cramp, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage



xAK Charles H Cramp is sighted by SS I-20
SS I-20 launches 6 torpedoes

when enemy subs end up in the same hex as one of our ships it means most of the times that we lose a ship... the big freighter sunk with all hands down...

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ASW attack near Singkep at 49,87

Japanese Ships
E Yomogi

Allied Ships
SS KXI, hits 4



SS KXI is sighted by escort
E Yomogi fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Yomogi fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Yomogi fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Yomogi attacking submerged sub ....
E Yomogi fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

4 near misses...

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Sub attack near Channel Islands at 221,79

Japanese Ships
SS I-25

Allied Ships
xAP Mount Vernon, Torpedo hits 1



SS I-25 launches 6 torpedoes

this turn clearly went to the Japanese even that this big AP will live on as the torp caused only minor damage and the ship will arrive at SF tomorrow... don´t like having subs that close to LA and SF...

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Sub attack near Singkep at 49,87

Japanese Ships
xAK Kusuyama Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
E Yomogi

Allied Ships
SS KXI, hits 4, heavy damage



SS KXI launches 2 torpedoes at xAK Kusuyama Maru
KXI bottoming out ....
E Yomogi fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Yomogi attacking submerged sub ....
E Yomogi fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Yomogi fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Yomogi fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

and another crippled sub... KXI was driven off by an escort earlier but then gets a shot to damage a big freighter... in return the sub takes real hits and near misses, limping back to Colombo...

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Morning Air attack on Wenchow , at 89,58

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 19



No Japanese losses



Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 20

Aircraft Attacking:
19 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on 90th Chinese Corps, at 85,43

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 11
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 10



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
22 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 80th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 90th Chinese Corps ...


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Morning Air attack on 82nd Naval Guard Unit, at 101,133 (Milne Bay)

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 6



Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 5
B-17E Fortress x 6
LB-30 Liberator x 3


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 3 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged



Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
5 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x LB-30 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
264th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIa Nick (6 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
6 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead

Also attacking 144th JAAF AF Bn ...
Also attacking 82nd Naval Guard Unit ...

leaking or LRCAP from Buna... our bombers do NO damage... The Nick isn´t as good in taking down my heavies as the Zero but it´s far better in stustaining the counterfire from our bombers... the new feature that aircraft flying recon over a base don´t give you any intel about Cap has been a real problem so far as I never know what a strike will face... am I the only one that is getting no info on Cap or is this how it works in AE?

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Afternoon Air attack on 82nd Naval Guard Unit, at 101,133 (Milne Bay)

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 5



Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 9
B-17E Fortress x 10


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 4 damaged



Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
264th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIa Nick (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
5 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead

Also attacking 144th JAAF AF Bn ...
Also attacking 82nd Naval Guard Unit ...
Also attacking 144th JAAF AF Bn ...
Also attacking 82nd Naval Guard Unit ...

next strike, not a single casualty on the ground...

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Afternoon Air attack on 82nd Naval Guard Unit, at 101,133 (Milne Bay)

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 26 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 1



Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 8


No Japanese losses

No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
3 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Aircraft Attacking:
8 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
264th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIa Nick (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead

finally... our air strikes caused a squad disabled today... 2 bombers are lost...

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Ground combat at Buitenzorg (48,99)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 28083 troops, 312 guns, 314 vehicles, Assault Value = 1034

Defending force 15086 troops, 220 guns, 168 vehicles, Assault Value = 312

Japanese adjusted assault: 357

Allied adjusted defense: 589

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

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
358 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 19 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 49 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Vehicles lost 27 (2 destroyed, 25 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
1408 casualties reported
Squads: 48 destroyed, 35 disabled
Non Combat: 39 destroyed, 42 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 24 (19 destroyed, 5 disabled)


Assaulting units:
5th Division
18th Division
1st Tank Regiment
6th Tank Regiment
56th Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
Batavia Coastal Gun Battalion
1st Regt Cavalerie
1st KNIL Regiment
2nd KNIL Regiment
Mobiele Eenheid Battalion
Van Altena Battalion
Merak Base Force
3rd KNIL AA Battalion
Batavia Base Force
ML-KNIL
1 ML-KNIL Aviation
Kalidjati Base Force
KNIL Army Command
Bandoeng Base Force

Buitenzorg will soon surrender...

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Ground combat at 85,43

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 1235 troops, 137 guns, 24 vehicles, Assault Value = 3539

Defending force 119120 troops, 749 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3476


Allied ground losses:
142 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 8 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)


Assaulting units:
9th Ind.Mixed Brigade
32nd Division
4th Ind.Mixed Brigade
35th Division
110th Division
7th Ind.Mixed Brigade
41st Division
69th Division
6th Ind.Mixed Brigade
36th Division
59th Division
2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
2nd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
12th Army
11th Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
7th Chinese Corps
93rd Chinese Corps
48th Chinese Corps
38th Chinese Corps
98th Chinese Corps
61st Chinese Corps
80th Chinese Corps
9th Chinese Corps
5th New Chinese Corps
13th Chinese Corps
40th Chinese Corps
2nd Chinese Cavalry Corps
89th Chinese Corps
33rd Chinese Corps
19th Chinese Corps
84th Chinese Corps
15th Chinese Corps
34th Chinese Corps
43rd Chinese Corps
90th Chinese Corps
27th Chinese Corps
8th New Chinese Corps
6th Group Army
36th Group Army
1st War Area
14th Group Army
8th Group Army
4th Group Army
21st Group Army
15th Group Army
24th Group Army
39th Group Army
7th Group Army
4th Chinese Base Force
Jingcha War Area
10th Chinese Base Force


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Ground combat at Madioen (54,104)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3357 troops, 20 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 172

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

Japanese adjusted assault: 59

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 59 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Madioen !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker:



Assaulting units:
148th Infantry Regiment
14th Tank Regiment


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Ground combat at Sampit (58,97)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 1406 troops, 7 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 56

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

Japanese adjusted assault: 53

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 53 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Sampit !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(+)



Assaulting units:
II./124th Infantry Battalion




we have spotted "mini" KB in the Indian Ocean... I was shocked to do so as I moved in a small CL/DD force to be in position to raid Port Blair as I get sigint about a troop loaden convoy moving there... our ships spotted a IJN torp bomber but we were not attacked... the cruiser squadron will head back to Colombo at flank speed... no idea what Rainer is up to with his carriers up there... I don´t have anything at sea that could be in trouble...




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