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American carrier rampage - 1/14/2022 2:19:22 AM   
deaniks

 

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Status: offline 		ok, I had to post this here as you rarely see the Americans do this well early game.

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RE: American carrier rampage - 1/14/2022 6:09:32 AM   
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Status: offline 		AI opponent, homo sapien, or other?

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RE: American carrier rampage - 1/14/2022 1:33:06 PM   
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RE: American carrier rampage - 1/14/2022 6:46:56 PM   
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ORIGINAL: deaniks

it's against a human opponent sorry for no clarification

Can you give me his address, I want to play him.

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RE: American carrier rampage - 1/15/2022 8:30:14 AM   
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Status: offline 		Each cruiser hit with a torpedo:

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Day Time Surface Combat, near Penrhyn Island at 164,150, Range 25,000 Yards

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
OS2U-3 Kingfisher: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Tone
CA Aoba

Allied Ships
BB Mississippi, Shell hits 3, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk

Maximum visibility in Partly Cloudy Conditions: 28,000 yards
CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 25,000 yards
CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 25,000 yards
BB Mississippi engages CA Tone at 25,000 yards
Range closes to 24,000 yards
BB Mississippi engages CA Tone at 24,000 yards
Range closes to 21,000 yards
BB Mississippi engages CA Aoba at 21,000 yards
BB Mississippi sunk by CA Tone at 21,000 yards
Combat ends with last Allied ship sunk...


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RE: American carrier rampage - 1/15/2022 8:43:53 AM   
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< Message edited by RangerJoe -- 1/15/2022 8:44:37 AM >

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RE: American carrier rampage - 1/15/2022 11:43:08 AM   
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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

Each cruiser hit with a torpedo:

quote:

Day Time Surface Combat, near Penrhyn Island at 164,150, Range 25,000 Yards

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
OS2U-3 Kingfisher: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Tone
CA Aoba

Allied Ships
BB Mississippi, Shell hits 3, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk

Maximum visibility in Partly Cloudy Conditions: 28,000 yards
CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 25,000 yards
CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 25,000 yards
BB Mississippi engages CA Tone at 25,000 yards
Range closes to 24,000 yards
BB Mississippi engages CA Tone at 24,000 yards
Range closes to 21,000 yards
BB Mississippi engages CA Aoba at 21,000 yards
BB Mississippi sunk by CA Tone at 21,000 yards
Combat ends with last Allied ship sunk...


Now I am puzzled - this seems to have nothing to do with previous entries in this thread?
Did you post in the wrong thread RJ? Orm is going to be jealous!

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RE: American carrier rampage - 1/15/2022 12:00:11 PM   
Cavalry Corp

 

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Status: offline 		OK I am the opponent playing Japanese. SCN 43 Empire, 2 day turns now on 12 Feb 42 I think.

Dean is a very interesting player he will make very aggressive moves followed by a further very aggressive move unexpectedly. Hats off to him. He has also jumped full into the mod.

At this point I'm going to come in only about the movements of the Raiders and what I did about it.

Initially the two groups of aircraft carriers must have passed by each other just a couple of hexes apart but failed to detect each other completely. I have never had this happen in a game ever before. It's truly amazing that we could have passed by each other (maybe 3 hexes!). My task force was there to block such an event happening in fact we detected some such aircraft over the oilers close behind but thought they were from a task force a little bit further away that task force was found to be a heavily laden troop convoy which was completely sunk. We then turned towards raiding Sydney. A couple of fighter sweeps over the base showed it was heavily defended so best avoided. The same turn the allies appeared amongst our troop convoys toward Rabaul most of which had fully unloaded already. There was substantial loss. Luckily not of troops.

Dean did not mention that as far as I'm aware Bettys from Rabaul (flying low evaded CAP) sank Saratoga and we lost a CVE.

The KB raced northward to try and block the allies from returning to any Australian base or head towards Darwin. Instead the allies made the very bold move of moving northward. I did consider moving toward Darwin trying to cut him off from a potential retreat but going also seems to be heavily defended (and my fighter pilots tired) . I decided to let them go at that point as there was not much to worry about - he has limited fuel after all. We did not realise that the plan was to join up with the British forces and head northward towards Singapore and right again from there. The raids from there were very bold and audacious I must say. He raided CB sinking a large number of ( big) transports that were loading with resources. In addition he then raided the port sinking several ships in port and damaging 5BB but none of them but none of them seriously. he also bombarded suspected Nell and Betty coastal bases successfully preventing a big counter attack.

Then the allied CV stood at Singapore taking everything thrown at them.

In the last turn since this post he raided again northward to KB taking out most of the torpedo boats in the Thai Navy before trashing the base again. But the Renown suffered one TT hit. The next morning the Renown was sunk by Bettys from Bangkok.

All in all its all playing down to the wire. this mod is designed to have lower tech at the start and the British, Dutch and Australians are all stronger. Both sides have less tech and the Japanese LBA is hindered by the delays in arrival of better aircraft. Oscar 1a and b really get shredded by a combination of F3F Wildacats, Hurricanes and only just overcome Skuas and Rocs on British CV.

Needless to say all routes out of DEI/ Malaya will be hot...

Mod is available here and on the Moding pages if interested.


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RE: American carrier rampage - 1/15/2022 3:48:20 PM   
RangerJoe


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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy


quote:

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

Each cruiser hit with a torpedo:

quote:

Day Time Surface Combat, near Penrhyn Island at 164,150, Range 25,000 Yards

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
OS2U-3 Kingfisher: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Tone
CA Aoba

Allied Ships
BB Mississippi, Shell hits 3, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk

Maximum visibility in Partly Cloudy Conditions: 28,000 yards
CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 25,000 yards
CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 25,000 yards
BB Mississippi engages CA Tone at 25,000 yards
Range closes to 24,000 yards
BB Mississippi engages CA Tone at 24,000 yards
Range closes to 21,000 yards
BB Mississippi engages CA Aoba at 21,000 yards
BB Mississippi sunk by CA Tone at 21,000 yards
Combat ends with last Allied ship sunk...


Now I am puzzled - this seems to have nothing to do with previous entries in this thread?
Did you post in the wrong thread RJ? Orm is going to be jealous!


Someone posted about how his American carriers are going on a rampage so I thought that I would show two of my IJN CAs having fun and a little success with a long range, Long Lance torpedo strike although each CA had only one Long Lance hit at 21k yards . . .

Let Orm be jealous, he can go to that little town in Norway anytime that he wants to . . .

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