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RE: Pacific War 3.0 (No Encircled please!) - 10/14/2021 10:26:20 PM   
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RE: Pacific War 3.0 (No Encircled please!) - 10/15/2021 12:36:17 AM   
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RE: Pacific War 3.0 (No Encircled please!) - 10/15/2021 1:16:11 AM   
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Sink the ships before they unload.


Haha, right

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RE: Pacific War 3.0 (No Encircled please!) - 10/16/2021 5:11:56 PM   
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Naval battle of Satawal: a small Japanese force interdicts a larger Allies cruiser force attempting to bombard Satawal. I suspect this battle came as a surprise for both sides. The Allies had been sending light cruisers and destroyers to bombard the island so I decided to greet them. But, turned out that this time he used a much larger force and the Japanese ended up with the short end of the stick. A heavy cruiser lost on each side - could have been worse, but the attrition definitely favors the Allies.
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 28, 44

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Satawal at 105,105, Range 5,000 Yards

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
E13A1 Jake: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
SOC-1 Seagull: 2 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Takao, Shell hits 11, and is sunk
CL Nagara, Shell hits 4, on fire
DD Kagero
DD Oyashio
DD Hatsukaze
DD Shirakumo, Shell hits 1

Allied Ships
CA Portland, Shell hits 2, on fire
CA Chester, Shell hits 3, on fire
CA Vincennes, Shell hits 15, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DD Barton
DD Satterlee, Shell hits 2, heavy fires
DD Harding
DD Baldwin, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Endicott, Shell hits 2, on fire

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RE: Pacific War 3.0 (No Encircled please!) - 10/28/2021 9:23:02 PM   
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We've breezed through the first half of February without much action. No major ships sunk, no major land battles, just a few minor air skirmishes. Clearly the Allies are biding their time, building up for a new push.

I decided to send some Emily flying boats to Shortlands which is now way behind Allies lines to see what they could find. The Emily group did great, flying in both the morning and afternoon, and sending 4x minor allied ships to the bottom with torpedoes. As a bonus, they seemed to be loaded with land units.






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RE: Pacific War 3.0 (No Encircled please!) - 10/30/2021 4:09:47 AM   
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(Still didn't destroy the bomber though...)




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RE: Pacific War 3.0 (No Encircled please!) - 10/31/2021 10:52:08 PM   
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A major Allied fleet is approaching Ponape. Unclear if this is an invasion or merely a diversion. Most of the Japanese fleet is still in the DEI and too far to intervene. Probably wouldn't spare the fuel to send it out beyond Truk anyway, but my subs did miss a great ambush opportunity.




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RE: Pacific War 3.0 (No Encircled please!) - 11/10/2021 3:40:31 AM   
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The Allied fleet is still lurking around the Marshalls/Carolines and I still don't have much of a sense of what it's doing. Maybe some kind of invasion, or maybe some kind of lure? Unclear for now.

In Burma, the Allies have invaded Ramree island along the coast, but defenders are holding for now.

In the Arafura Sea, I decided on a plan to bombard airfields at Darwin itself. This resulted in large numbers of Allied aircraft destroyed on the ground:




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RE: Pacific War 3.0 (No Encircled please!) - 11/10/2021 3:43:48 AM   
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Status: offline 		...but actually probably wasn't worth it because in the naval skirmishes around the port, I lost another CA (Myoko) and a whole whack of destroyers after the bombarding TF ran out of ammunition and was assailed by wave after wave of Allied ships. Probably not worth the two Allied cruisers (Indianapolis + Canberra) sunk and plane losses at this point in the war. Those Japanese ships are just too valuable.

For now, it seems like it's back to our usually scheduled attritional grind.




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RE: Pacific War 3.0 (No Encircled please!) - 11/10/2021 3:45:12 AM   
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Status: offline 		Also, Finshavn and Shortlands fell in the Solomons, so there are no longer any Japanese bases behind Allied lines. He's being thorough!

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RE: Pacific War 3.0 (No Encircled please!) - 11/25/2021 6:58:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		We're up to March 11, 1944 now and still an ongoing slog of attritional warfare.

Ramree island fell to an amphibious assault early in March with modest Japanese losses (around a regiment total, spread across 4 units) and he's now building up the airfield in record time. Expecting B-29s to arrive soon and this should extend their reach but it was hard for me to get supply to Ramree and in the end simply not worth defending in force.

Still unclear where the next major Allied offensive will be. He has at least some light carrier units (CVEs mostly) around the Marshalls, with more in the Indian ocean. The Japanese fleet is still facing off against Darwin, where the biggest Allied concentration seems to be outside Burma (where the main Japanese army units are stationed).




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RE: Pacific War 3.0 (No Encircled please!) - 12/7/2021 12:01:08 AM   
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Japanese forces have invaded and retaken Selaroe. It was getting annoying to bomb it every day to keep the airfield suppressed and I noted that he just had 3 construction units and a marine defense unit defending the place (no land combat units). Thus, we sent in the better part of a division on some new Japanese LSTs to take the island back. The invasion went off mostly without a hitch, though resulted in fairly heavy air losses on both sides in a contest for air superiority.




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RE: Pacific War 3.0 (No Encircled please!) - 12/7/2021 12:02:24 AM   
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Status: offline 		The battle for Selaroe resulted in a few completely indecisive PT vs PT boat actions. No hits scored on either side during any of the confrontations, not even with machine guns - which seems a bit strange.




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RE: Pacific War 3.0 (No Encircled please!) - 12/7/2021 12:17:34 AM   
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< Message edited by RangerJoe -- 12/7/2021 12:18:47 AM >

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RE: Pacific War 3.0 (No Encircled please!) - 12/11/2021 7:38:38 PM   
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Battles of Lautem and Sarmi.

A big Japanese fleet has been guarding Lautem in Timor recently under heavy air cover, across the Timor sea from Darwin. Today, the Allies sent in waves of destroyers and torpedo boats to try to put fish into the big Japanese battleships, including Musashi. But Japanese lookouts were primed and detected the attacks far enough out for the fleet guns to break up the attacks, resulting in no significant damage to the Japanese side and 4 DDs and half a dozen PTs sunk on the Allied side.

The Allies also invaded Sarmi along the New Guinea coast, but Japanese air fleets from Biak managed to break through CVE and LR CAP air cover to score several hits on some of the invasion craft. The Allies will likely win the land battle of Sarmi, but at least they have paid a price.





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RE: Pacific War 3.0 (No Encircled please!) - 12/11/2021 9:08:24 PM   
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RE: Pacific War 3.0 (No Encircled please!) - 12/12/2021 1:11:38 AM   
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What was the moonlight for that battle? Or what is it now? He needs to do that with the DDs and PTs in low moonlight and/or bad weather.


I think it was around 50% but many of the Japanese ships also have radar by this point. Not sure how effective Japanese radar is though?

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RE: Pacific War 3.0 (No Encircled please!) - 1/5/2022 5:58:18 AM   
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The KB comes in to try to attack a fleet of Allied CVEs that had been hovering around Northern New Guinea.

April Fools! They weren't there...

KB strikes did go in and sank a half dozen merchant ships, with heavy air losses all around. Around equal losses, but definitely not worth it!






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RE: Pacific War 3.0 (No Encircled please!) - 1/10/2022 11:01:34 PM   
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The Air Battle of Darwin.

Waves of Japanese planes come in from Timor to attack shipping around Darwin, which is extremely heavily defended. Massive plane losses on both sides, but strongly favoring the Allies.

The Japanese fighters did alright, achieving a 1:1 loss ratio or better, but then many bombers arrived in penny packets with weak or no escorts and got slaughtered. I had hoped the CAP would be tired enough to let many bombers through, but the CAP seemed to fight all day with no ill effects or fatigue.

Also, today saw the first B-29 bombing raid, targeting ships repairing at Hong Kong. Six B-29s were met by a swarm of old A6M2s and a few Nicks. Several Japanese fighters were shot down, but not a single B-29. Not a great day in the air overall. Luckily, damage on the ships was fairly light.






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RE: Pacific War 3.0 (No Encircled please!) - 1/12/2022 7:07:04 PM   
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The B-29 raids have begun in earnest. Around 30 of them struck the oil centers of Medan in Sumatra. We had a few fighters there but those beasts are strong, and we only managed to knock a few out before they dealt significant damage to oil production. B-29s seem fairly unstoppable.

Night raids on the main Japanese Burma airfields at Magwe torched a number of planes in the air and on the ground, but we also managed to bring down 11 B-24s. So I'd call that about an even exchange. Those things are also hard to kill.




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RE: Pacific War 3.0 (No Encircled please!) - 1/28/2022 10:54:28 PM   
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Not much change in the overall situation. B-29s raids continue daily with very few losses, mostly wiping out all the industry in China and French Indochina, as well as returning to hit the oil in Medan.

Today we managed to shoot a few down over China.




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