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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 3/9/2017 9:40:58 AM

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Yup. I've already located what was a size 220 Frank-r factory. I've knocked a handful of points off of it. It's at Shimonoseki, so will be within range from China. I will need to night bomb to get it, I think... daylight raids would be flying into too many airfields networked together. Good sweep bait, though.

Thanks for the vote in favor of Tokyo. If A-bomb raids can be launched at extended range, I can hit it already from China. If only from normal, then soon... before I have a bomb, I'm sure.

Night bombing of Tokyo/Osaka is surprisingly effective against manpower. I'd do this ASAP if you can. He probably has a ton of night fighters on CAP there, so watch out. Even at night accumulated flak and NF can get to a lot of your beasties.

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/10/2017 3:18:14 PM

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Spoilers ahead...

Autovictory achieved on July 2, 1945. We're playing on and are currently at July 11, 1945.

I would still like to go back and post updates for the intervening time period.

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/10/2017 3:18:36 PM

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The score screen. Funny - I just noticed that it has 1 more VP than the AV screen. Wonder how that happened.

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/12/2017 1:41:34 AM

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one rounded up the other rounded down?

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/14/2017 10:13:00 PM

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April 21 - 30, 1945

Looking through my notes, doesn't look like much happened through the end of April, so here are the updates.

The Big Blue Fleet is enjoying some R&R at Cam Ranh Bay while some ships get their spring upgrades and others just need to wipe off accumulated Sys damage.

Philippines

On the 30th, the Manila bombardment shows 7023 AV for the Allies to 2339 for the IJA. I'm anticipating very high forts levels here, and am not going to attack until everything is in the Manila hex to participate. I'm going to need everything if I don't want my units to get too beat up. Capturing Manila is not going to win the war.

To that end, loading everything up from Mindanao and bringing more over from Indochina - the latter of which lands at Iba and begins capturing the north half of the big island.

Short on Fuel, which is back at Sorong, Rabaul, and Davao (to an extent).

Kuriles
Ki-83's sweep Onnekotan periodically. Sometimes we lose badly (when Corsairs/Hellcats have CAP duty they just get eaten alive), and sometimes we win or win big (P-47s/P-51s up above the Ki-83's max altitude). It's not an ideal situation, but it's working for now. The Ki-83 is the only thing that's really killing me in the air, so I'm going to try to locate and bomb its factories when I can. Having to set the P-47 and P-51 CAP so high leaves me vulnerable to really low level bombing raids against my shipping at Onnekotan, which is constantly coming and going.

On the 30th, perhaps the final Frank-r sweep of the Kuriles campaign. From Shimushiri to Onnekotan, and they lose pretty badly.

There are some roaming E-class vessels. I'm going to transfer some SB2C's to Onnekotan if I can find the space for them and try to sink the little guys. It would be nice not to have to worry about random interdictions from E's as I'm running stuff hither and thither.

China
On the 30th, we spot movement - the IJA is trying to leave Hong Kong, or at least maintain hex control. Trying to nip this in the bud and keep Canton and Hong Kong completely bottled up for later capture.

Kunming is liberated on April 27, as is Kienko (north of Chungking).

The suburbs of Changsha are captured leading up to the end of the month.

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/14/2017 10:32:57 PM

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May 1 - 5, 1945

Philippines

I'm experimenting with which units can bombard without being subjected to counter-battery fire. There is an enormous stack of artillery tubes for Japan at Manila and they are putting some big time hurt on my smaller ART units. It seems that the answer is anything that is 150mm or larger. 105mm and smaller get lit up.

IJA that were at Cabanatuan (the clear hex NE of Manila, and a level 9 AF) move over to Clark, which will delay our taking it (another ID or 2, or equivalent). But that means we can take Cabanatuan and bottle up Manila... as on May 5, Mauban is taken (that base just SE of Manila). Multiple thousands of IJA casualties, with nowhere to retreat. We'll keep attacking until they're dead or manage to trek back to Manila, which is a long walk (over 2 weeks).

Kuriles

IJN E-class vessels keep harassing. No luck yet in sinking m/any of them. I have a fleet of DE's based out of Onnekotan making shuttle-bombardment runs on Shimushiri just to keep the airfield in danger - the last thing I want is a bunch of Judy-4's flying some low level kami missions out of there.

Due to heavy use of midget subs, I've now sunk at least 79 of the things. Japan has 10 or fewer remaining. I think I've sunk over 2 dozen at Shimushiri alone.

There's also a KB-USN battle outside of Shimushiri on May 5th, which I'll detail in the next post.

Other stuff

Palembang attacks begin. A 3:1 on May 3rd drops forts to 3 with lots of IJA dead.

China

The IJA returns to Amoy, after we'd invested it, with all 4 of its Tank Divisions. Unfortunately, I didn't anticipate this, and 1/3 of a Chinese Corps is going to be killed. Oh well - this should allow me to bomb them quite a bit as I expect they'll run back to the NE, towards Shanghai, after killing the Chinese.

Changteh and Chengtu are captured during this time period. Changsha was also abandoned and we took it - the IJA ran back to Wuchang and Hankow. They have willingly ceded more ground than I would have, but it could perhaps be a sign that there's nothing behind them to provide any resistance either. It looks like I'm going to be able to advance all the way across the Yangtze towards the NE cities before I encounter any real resistance again, although I expect forts and troops at Nanking and Shanghai, which have high garrison requirements.

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/15/2017 3:06:31 AM

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May 5, 1945 - the end of the Kido Butai

Functionally speaking, anyway. This wasn't the full KB (several were damaged from subs before, or perhaps in refit).

I wasn't really sure, over the previous day or so, if KB was up here. I don't have anything in my notes, anyway, and my recollection is just that I happened to be escorting some more ships to Shimushiri and/or Onnekotan with the CVs to make sure they made it OK.

Also, previously he had used KB and SCTFs to combat my bombardment TFs based out of Onnekotan. Over the past few days, I've started using some cruisers (CA Tuscaloosa and a few Clevelands) in addition to the DEs, which is exactly the kind of thing he's taken swings at a few times. I'm not sure why he was sending KB up here, but I have to assume it was to sting my SCTF at Onnekotan (plus maybe some transports) as there were multiple sweeps on the island using Ki-83's from Shikuka and Kushiro. In addition, 25 A6M5c either from KB or from Shimushiri sweep Onnekotan first out of all of that.

At this point in the war, just a single Allied CVTF is the equal of all of the decks he had remaining, but not all of his decks were up here. At least 2 full CVs remained in port, if not maybe more like 4 or 5 (and of those, Taiho at the least is repairing from submarine attack, as mentioned).

The gruesome details. Our ships come out with nary a scratch. 8 TBs and 1 DB make it through to drop against the USN CV/CVL's and all miss.

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/15/2017 3:18:43 AM

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May 6 - 10, 1945

It appears that not a whole lot happened over these 5 days and it's the next save I have archived, so we'll do a strat map shot to sum it up.

Luzon

Cabanatuan captured. Allied AV on the island is now around 18K with some more coming. Engineers are building bases like mad for the *2 multiplier. It's hard to get the places south of Manila up to level 9 AF, but I'm patient. Also sending engineers through Manila to the northern bases soon, once I have the NE hex side of Manila open to traffic.

Sumatra

Palembang captured. Fuel if I need it, which I don't - Singapore has over 1M that flowed down from India, and eventually it will flow on to Cam Ranh Bay which is also a level 9 port and where I'm beginning to base just all of the ships.

China

Some P-51 sweeps of coastal bases, which are still defended by lots of IJA fighters either along the coast or on Formosa with leaky setting, go well and go poorly. Overall, I'm not impressed with the results. For some reason the P-51 just can't compete with high levels of CAP like the P-47 can. My conclusion is that the P-51D is more for defense, but can be used as a second-string sweeper when necessary - much like the Corsair. At least I get a lot of them.

We will begin to absolutely pound the IJA with 4E bombers out of south-central China. Eventually they'll move up to Changsha, and then onwards as supply, airfields, and support allows. For now, we bomb the retiring IJA tank divisions, and then Canton for good measure.

B-29s based out of China are beginning to snipe at Japanese industry, netting a handful of hits on the Ki-84r factory at Fukuoka on May 10th.

Other stuff

With KB out of the picture, we send CVs to "gobble up" any enemy strike planes left on naval strike. Not very successful, but we do bag a bunch of search planes with our CAP. I guess that will do - the CVs are waiting on Luzon to fall for the next op anyway.

B-29s from the Kuriles bomb Sendai, where there is a Ki-102a Randy factory. We appear to have taken it out; it was size 15.

Strategic bombing VPs are up to 1210 at the end of May 10th.

The Japanese perimeter has collapsed over the past 9 months. And if I'd known that going after the Kuriles might have brought his entire fleet out to play, maybe I'd have invaded there sooner just as bait - but with all of my fleet present instead of just 1/3 of it. I would have been able to move about the southern areas much more quickly after that - not really needing to invade Luzon from the south, for example, and instead gunning straight for coastal China or Taiwan since I could have leaned on 4EB's from Indochina.

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/15/2017 6:26:22 AM

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Congrats on the carrier victory! From your comments it sounds like he did not have his CAP configured for a carrier battle?

That list of damage looks like all of them should sink. A lot of his planes must have flown to nearby bases so they do not show up in the ground loss column. He would have withdrawn them to the HI rather than send them off in a hopeless attempt to smack you back the next day.

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/15/2017 1:46:04 PM

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Congrats on the carrier victory! From your comments it sounds like he did not have his CAP configured for a carrier battle?

That list of damage looks like all of them should sink. A lot of his planes must have flown to nearby bases so they do not show up in the ground loss column. He would have withdrawn them to the HI rather than send them off in a hopeless attempt to smack you back the next day.

He had about 65 planes on CAP. Really, it was simply numbers. I had more decks present, and mine are bigger by 20% than the biggest 2 in his (Kaga, Zuikaku) and bigger by 40% than the rest.

Mo' planes, no problems.

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