Lokasenna
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From: Iowan in MD/DC
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ORIGINAL: Lowpe
Nice raid! So 15 hexes out is the ideal search arc to spot carriers attempting this maneuver in mid 43? Did you run your ships in with no naval search active or restricted?
Those worthless 20mm AA guns that Japan has would have come in quite nicely here against your divebombers I think? At what altitude did they release their bombs at? Seems to me that there was very little AA present.
Disappointing to see a full sized sentai not defending better-preventing more hits. I guess it was the cream of your pilots against mediocre Japanese pilots.
Anyhow, well done.
I think the big thing was that I had 72 Hellcats on escort vs. only 40-some Oscars. His CAP reaction time to the raid was poor, here's the full CR:
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Morning Air attack on Medan , at 46,76
Weather in hex: Heavy cloud
Raid detected at 76 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 36 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 41
Allied aircraft
F6F-3 Hellcat x 72
SB2C-1C Helldiver x 32
SBD-3 Dauntless x 70
TBF-1 Avenger x 112
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 3 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
F6F-3 Hellcat: 2 destroyed
SB2C-1C Helldiver: 1 damaged
SBD-3 Dauntless: 2 damaged
TBF-1 Avenger: 6 damaged
Oil hits 77
Aircraft Attacking:
13 x TBF-1 Avenger bombing from 5000 feet
City Attack: 2 x 500 lb GP Bomb
16 x SB2C-1C Helldiver releasing from 4000'
City Attack: 1 x 1000 lb GP Bomb, 2 x 250 lb GP Bomb
14 x TBF-1 Avenger bombing from 5000 feet
City Attack: 2 x 500 lb GP Bomb
28 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 3000'
City Attack: 1 x 1000 lb GP Bomb
13 x TBF-1 Avenger bombing from 5000 feet
City Attack: 2 x 500 lb GP Bomb
23 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 4000'
City Attack: 1 x 1000 lb GP Bomb
18 x TBF-1 Avenger bombing from 5000 feet
City Attack: 2 x 500 lb GP Bomb
54 x TBF-1 Avenger bombing from 5000 feet
City Attack: 2 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x SB2C-1C Helldiver releasing from 3000'
City Attack: 1 x 1000 lb GP Bomb, 2 x 250 lb GP Bomb
12 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 2000'
City Attack: 1 x 1000 lb GP Bomb
5 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 2000'
City Attack: 1 x 1000 lb GP Bomb
2 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 4000'
City Attack: 1 x 1000 lb GP Bomb
4 x SB2C-1C Helldiver releasing from 2000'
City Attack: 1 x 1000 lb GP Bomb, 2 x 250 lb GP Bomb
CAP engaged:
70th Sentai with Ki-43-IIb Oscar (0 airborne, 14 on standby, 21 scrambling)
6 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 36750.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 28 minutes
Note no radar, and how only 6 of his planes were airborne to begin with. I think he was on a low % CAP setting - maybe 50%, judging from 14 on standby, and the 21 scrambling. Given that he shot down 11 and I shot down less than that, I'd say our pilot quality was probably around the same. If he hasn't fiddled with the 70th Sentai yet... IIRC, it's a decent unit to start the war. They were using his most modern Oscar model, and he doesn't seem to be invested in the Tojo, so this is at least a first rate unit even if it's not his best pilots. He likes the Oscar.
Time to target was 36 minutes, time for full intercept was 28.
I would have preferred to have set my target from ~22 hexes out, which is 2x full speed movements of 8 + 6 hexes for the strike. I completely expected to be detected at my 15 hex distance on Day 1.
I was running no naval search - all strike units were set to range 0. Given that the full KB was very recently in SOPAC, and our rumble around Merauke a few months ago, I expected him to have very little active in the area. His subs are mostly deployed in the Pacific - I've seen a few off Perth, and once or twice off Ceylon, but that's it. Oh, and one near Karachi.
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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 
I think I shredded lots and lots of his air units and he is demoralized...and playing Japan in mid 45 is demoralizing. You really need to take victories in very little things. 
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