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RE: Turn 54 29 January, 1942 - 7/4/2010 5:19:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		Next turn, I will take the KB in closer to the coast and do a fighter sweep of San Francisco Bay.






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Turn 55 30 January, 1942 - 7/4/2010 8:02:43 PM   
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Off hawaii, I-171 torpedoes and sinks the freighter Alcoa Pennant with two well placed fish.






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RE: Turn 55 30 January, 1942 - 7/4/2010 8:06:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		Off Balikpapan, I-153 shelled the coastal freighter Lee Sang, putting 9 shells into her and exhausting her gun ammo. She was left burning from stem to stern in a sinking condition, but the Captain did not deem her worthy of a torpedo.
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Off San Francisco, my four carriers conducted fighter sweeps and found the skies full of American fighters of various types. We lost 5 zeroes during the fight but shot down 16 yanks.






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RE: Turn 55 30 January, 1942 - 7/4/2010 8:11:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		Elsewhere, Traskott's B-17s hit Kuching again, which was defended by 40 Nates. I lost zero nates and damaged 15 forts.

I also performed a fighter sweep over Rangoon using a unit of Oscar 1b fighters. I chose the Oscars because they had more maneuverability than the zero and the hurricane IIB trop. Even with the pitiful firepower installed on the 1b we were able to shoot down several hurricanes and AVG tomahawks.






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Turn 56 31 January, 1942 - 7/5/2010 2:13:03 AM   
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WARNING! The following recap may be disturbing to some readers....especially allied fan boys!

This turn it was all about California.....

The mighty bombers of the Kido Butai conducted a series of strikes in the waters off the California coast. This included sinking 7 yachts (YP) that were hunting for subs. I normally don't like wasting torpedoes on yachts, but we did spot John Wayne's personal yacht and put three torpedoes into it from our kates.

Our bombers also hit the docks at San Francisco, and found a troop transport convoy hiding up the river at Stockton, California. We sank two of the five transports and left the other three in a sinking condition.






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RE: Turn 56 31 January, 1942 - 7/5/2010 2:15:51 AM   
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Status: offline 		We also found a transport loading at Eureka and we dispatched it with great loss of life (596 casualties).

Through all of the attacks not a single American fighter was in the air. Obviously he knows that he faces certain death if he dares to face the zeroes with his obsolete fighters.






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RE: Turn 56 31 January, 1942 - 7/5/2010 2:17:08 AM   
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RE: Turn 56 31 January, 1942 - 7/5/2010 2:20:04 AM   
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Status: offline 		As you can see, the losses were negligible.

His forts also did not fly this turn after my Nates damaged so many of them last turn.

For next turn, I will direct all of my KB airstrikes at the 141 point repair shipyard in San Francisco. If he is going to allow me to make free attacks on his coastal cities I might as well damage something that will hurt him for a while.






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RE: Turn 56 31 January, 1942 - 7/5/2010 2:21:51 AM   
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Status: offline 		In the waters near Tsushima, the patrol boat Ginyo Maru successfully attacked one of the American sea pirates.






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RE: Turn 56 31 January, 1942 - 7/5/2010 5:22:35 AM   
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Status: offline 		He must have moved all of his AA assets out. Let this be a lesson to all of us AFBs. You need to keep AA on the West Coast and not ship it all out to the war.

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RE: Turn 56 31 January, 1942 - 7/5/2010 2:39:16 PM   
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He must have moved all of his AA assets out. Let this be a lesson to all of us AFBs. You need to keep AA on the West Coast and not ship it all out to the war.



Quite possible. You are right, it is easy to assume that the enemy wouldn't dare attack your homeland. JFBs can easily fall into the same trap. By making him realize that he must also look to the defense of the west coast, I will reduce the number of forces that he can send abroad.

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RE: Turn 49 24 January, 1942 - 7/5/2010 3:56:26 PM   
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You know, I should shut up. We don't need certain people to find out how both of us think. lol  eh, I'll risk it.  ;)




Who me ?



ummm no not you at all or LoBaron either!



I am NOT reading this AAR!




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Turn 57 01 February, 1942 - 7/5/2010 5:10:06 PM   
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Off Victoria, BC (Canada) the I-9 wasted a full salvo of 6 fish on the coastal mine tender Pintail. One of the torpedoes hit and the 215 ton vessel was quickly dispatched to the bottom. The six torpeodes probably cost more to build than the mine tender.






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RE: Turn 57 01 February, 1942 - 7/5/2010 5:13:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		Meanwhile, farther south, the planes of the Kido Butai bombed the shipyard at San Francisco, heavily damaging it. Flak was heavier this time and 7 vals failed to return out of the 86 kates and 61 vals launched against the target.






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RE: Turn 57 01 February, 1942 - 7/5/2010 5:19:58 PM   
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Status: offline 		I am satisfied with the damage caused to the repair shipyard. I also spotted 30 ships in the harbor.
I plan to hit the shipyard again next turn to finish it off but I will be increasing my escort in case his fighters decide to fly.

I really want to go after the ships in port and the Mare Island shipyard but already I have those little alarm bells going off that say I have stayed too long in the vicinity. I do have enough cap up over the carriers to defend them, and if he does show up I will hunt him down on the next turn. I have been using bombs only on the port attacks to save torpedoes for any potential carriver conflict that arises.

If his carriers are hiding in Australia, then good for him and I will have free reign to rape and pillage the American west coast at my leisure.
I have a gut feeling that they were at Pearl given that I torpedoed the Yorktown there earlier plus the turn after my carriers showed up off San Diego there was a heavy volume of radio traffic detected at Pearl.






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RE: Turn 57 01 February, 1942 - 7/5/2010 5:30:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		In other news, for the second consecutive turn his forts did not fly.
At Rangoon, my force of Sallies escorted by Oscars absolutely pounded his airfield, destroying several allied aircraft on the ground. For the several previous turns I had been night bombing the airfield with the Sallies. I decided to take a chance that he would switch his day fighters over to night given the high moonlight level and the fact that he had done this here once before. Evidently the gamble paid off as none of the AVG or British Hurricanes were airborne when my bombers appeared over the airfield.

At Port Moresby, I suspect that he is planning to try and sink my two AMCs and three destroyers using a cruiser task force. Now I know where the ABDA cruisers went when I lost them. I had a seagull float plane fly over PM this turn, and those only come off of American cruisers. My search planes have spotted two SCTF one hex out of Moresby. I have ordered the AMCs to unload the few troops that they have loaded. That way if they become engaged I will not lose experienced infantry. I have also brought a daitai of nells into Rabaul and these will make naval attacks (hopefully) next turn on the allied cruisers. Finally, the Kaga and Akagi along with a strong SCTF that includes battleships is steaming rapidly westward and is about to enter the eastern end of the coral sea.






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RE: Turn 49 24 January, 1942 - 7/5/2010 5:38:49 PM   
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I am NOT reading this AAR!





Sure you are.
Ah, the President Clinton. The one who rammed and torpedoed the SS Lewinski during oval office hours.
I guess you know who will be commanding the subs in our upcoming game. I just enjoy that too much.

I hope that Traskott is feeling the pressure of my campaigning. I put a lot of planning into my sub campaign and into what I wanted to do with my carriers.

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Turn 58 02 February, 1942 - 7/6/2010 1:15:27 AM   
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The full moon brought out more than just demons off the California coast. They also brought with them the twin torpedo wielding Yankee Catalina flying boats.

6 of them attacked the carrier Zuikaku and the battleship Kirishima. There was barely enough warning to get the crews to battle stations on the carriers. Luckily the high level of moonlight made the torpedo wakes stand out with a brilliant luminescence which the lookouts were able to quickly spot and relay to the bridge. The ready gun crews on the anti-aircraft mounts were able to get off several rounds at the slow, large seaplanes causing most of them to drop farther away than they would have liked. This provided enough time for the ships to maneuver and comb the incoming torpedo tracks. No hits were scored on either ship, and while some of the Catalinas were damaged, none were shot down.

Beginning next turn, we will begin flying Petes on night time cap to prevent these sneaky attacks.






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RE: Turn 58 02 February, 1942 - 7/6/2010 1:24:24 AM   
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Status: offline 		During the morning, the Kido Butai launched another wave of strikes at the San Francisco shipyards and repair docks. The docks were already heavily damaged during the prior day, and at the conclusion of this day's raids we showed them very heavily damaged 61(80). Hopefully they will take months to repair. Our recon also showed 57 ships anchored in the harbor.

The American fighter force was up and fought fiercely to defend their city. Out of the force of 55 kates, 46 vals, and 51 zeroes on the strike, 7 kates, 9 vals, and 18 zeroes were lost. This includes write offs due to damage where the plane did bring the crew home. The allies intercepted with 4 P-36, 15 P-39D, 20 P-400, 15 P-40E, and 26 P-43. They lost 14 fighters during the engagement with the P-40E and P-400 units suffering the worst casualties. The P-43 lancers seemed to be the most dangerous of the enemy fighters.

It had to be disheartening for the fighter pilots to realize that they could not prevent the bombing of their city. One damaged kate was seen to crash onto the roadway across the Golden Gate Bridge. This should close the bridge for a few days while the damage is repaired.




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RE: Turn 58 02 February, 1942 - 7/6/2010 1:25:14 AM   
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RE: Turn 58 02 February, 1942 - 7/6/2010 1:44:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		Off Toboali, I-154 encountered the freighter Soerbaja during the night. Initially she engaged using her deck gun, scoring several hits. However, when the crew of the freighter unlimbered an old 5 inch gun, the submarine quickly dispatched the ship with three well placed torpedoes, sinking her in fifteen minutes.






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Turn 59 03 February, 1942 - 7/10/2010 5:22:01 PM   
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Nothing significant happened during this turn.

Sorry about the delay in posting. I was out of town on vacation and spent a full day driving followed by two full days catching on on work after my return. My worthy opponent is out of town this weekend, so turn progress will probably not move ahead at the usual rate until a couple of days from now.


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Turn 60 04 February, 1942 - 7/10/2010 5:31:14 PM   
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During the daylight phase of the turn, Traskott launched a large strike consisting of 17 B-17s to hit the airfield at Kuching. I had 17 Nates out of 42 based there on combat air patrol. These tore into the fortresses, disrupting their bomb run. When it was over, one Nate had been destroyed on the ground, 2 were damaged in the combat, and only 3 or 4 bomb craters were present in the runway. These were quickly filled in in time for the fighters to land. Although no bombers were destroyed outright, 11 of the 17 were significantly damaged.






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RE: Turn 60 04 February, 1942 - 7/10/2010 5:35:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		On the other side of the world, The Kido Butai struck the repair shipyard at Portland, Oregon with 78 Kates. 5 Kates were damaged during the attack and major damage was done to the shipyard.

Alarmingly, when I asked Traskott how the citizens of Portland were holding up to all the bombing, he rather callously replied that he couldn't care less about their well being.

Hopefully he will feel the same about the residents of Seattle as that is the next place that I will be bombing.





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RE: Turn 60 04 February, 1942 - 7/10/2010 6:19:30 PM   
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Turn 61 05 February, 1942 - 7/10/2010 9:29:47 PM   
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The bombing raid on Seattle met stiff opposition from enemy fighters. However, we pushed through and dropped on the target doing heavy damage to the drydocks and surrounding area.






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RE: Turn 61 05 February, 1942 - 7/10/2010 9:32:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		Meanwhile, over Rangoon, I sent a fighter sweep of Oscars to clear the skies of enemy fighters before my bombers arrived. The fight was fierce and lengthy as my Oscars tangled with the enemy's hurricanes and tomahawks.






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RE: Turn 61 05 February, 1942 - 7/10/2010 9:36:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		The bombers arrived at the tail end of the fight and the escorting Oscar Ibs were unable to fend off all of the marauding allied fighters. As a result, several bombers were lost and the bombing of the airfield was ineffective.






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RE: Turn 61 05 February, 1942 - 7/10/2010 9:44:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		The total losses for the turn added up a bit mostly due to the raids over Rangoon.

My carriers are now heading due west. I would like to keep pounding the west coast but my ammo bunkers are getting low. Hopefully my repair yard attacks will slow down his repair capabilities in the coming months. If nothing else, he know nows that I am willing to come to the west coast and make such attacks. This will force him to hold forces back to guard against this.






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RE: Turn 61 05 February, 1942 - 7/12/2010 2:44:58 AM   
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Status: offline 		HA! great work, too bad the allied commander has an Omnipotent view, if the entire west coast was bombed by jap carriers in real life im sure the whole US would be in a complete panic and would probably withdraw all forces from the pacific to defend it

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