<r> <B><s>[b]</s>11/1/42:<e>[/b]</e></B><br/> P38s make their appearance at Espiritu, and the show the ability to even the odds vs the raid from Santa Cruz ...<br/> Brisbane still making due with P39s/P40s, and the exchange still reflects that (42 IJA lost vs. 74). A B17 raid from New Caledonia on R...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s>10/4/42:<e>[/b]</e></B><br/> Airstrike on Espiritu - 110 A6 / 25 G4 vs. 74 Allied fighters - losses 37 vs 59. Follow-up strikes come in from Rennell Is. and Santa Cruz.<br/> Surprisingly no IJA airstrike on Brisbane, so allied AC can attack Japanese ground forces ...<br/> SIGINT sho...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Capt. Harlock<br/> <br/> The audience wants blood -- the audience is pleased! <SM sm="00000436.gif">[sm=00000436.gif]</SM><br/> <br/> (But once again you're hard on your CA's ... you're going to need those Baltimore-class units.)<br/> <br/> Was there any damage to ...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s>9/6/42:<e>[/b]</e></B><br/> Air raid on Espiritu Santo comprised of 130 A6Ms and 35 G4Ms is received by 76 a mixture of Allied fighters - P40s, P39s and F4Fs. Losses 50 IJN vs. 86 Allied.<br/> Brisbane raid again results in about 2:1 losses allied vs. IJA.<br/> <br/> South Pacific /...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s>8/9/42:<e>[/b]</e></B><br/> Allies bring squadrons back to Brisbane to defend against airstrikes, which the Japanese send (200 IJA vs. 98 Allied) - losses 34 vs 78.<br/> Makin defenders take airstrikes from Tarawa, Maleolop and Kwajelein.<br/> <br/> <B><s>[b]</s>8/16/42:<e>[/b]</e><...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: radic202<br/> <br/> As I can't think of one place where you can actually see an original German U-Boat.<br/> <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> The U-505 was captured by a U.S. Anti-sub patrol in 1944 and is on display at the museum of science and industry in Chicago, I...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Capt. Harlock<br/> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Tarawa has gone to a 3-factor airfield, so with 2 F4F Marine squadrons and 1 SBD squadron, the Engineer unit is evacuated south towards Ellis Island ... <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> Does that mean you evacuated the air units...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Cerran<br/> <br/> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s> Adm Phillips brings his British TF with 3 R-class BBs to New Caledonia and surprises a transport TF - 3 AVs, 6 DEs and 2 APs sunk. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> Dang, Skip. Looking at that screenshot of the Ramilles trashing ...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s>7/19/42:<e>[/b]</e></B><br/> Kweiyang attacked by the IJA and the Chinese manage only a 2-squad defense, the defenders retreat to Chungking ...<br/> KB is observed with oilers off Makin, so they appear to have remained on station for more action ...<br/> Brisbane is bombed by strike...

<r> 7/12/42:<br/> Jap squadrons based in the Marshall Islands strike Tarawa and Makin Island ...<br/> Brisbane hit again from Rockhampton - Losses are getting severe, IJN lose 20 aircraft while the allies lose 64 in the air and 9 on the ground ...<br/> <br/> Off Tarawa, exactly what I did not want c...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Capt. Harlock<br/> <br/> Nice work! It looks like you're slowly tipping the scale back towards parity in surface combat units. (Though I would have assigned the Brooklyn-class CL's to surface combat and used the Achilles and other CL's for CV escort.)<br/> <br/> At...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s>6/14/42:<e>[/b]</e></B><br/> Japanese Army attacks the Chinese at Kwengyang, but the Chinese manage to hold ... with the increased airbase size at Espiritu Santo, the defenders do better dueling with A6Ms from Guadalcanal (losses 30 IJN vs 39 Allied) ... Brisbane air battle remains ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Capt. Harlock<br/> <br/> That's what we like to see! Any idea of the identity of the Japanese battlewagon? <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> It was reported as a Fuso-class. The sunk menu shows I have lost 7 BBs, but I can only account for 5 (California, Oklahoma, Ariz...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s>5/17/42:<e>[/b]</e></B><br/> <B><s>[b]</s>Espiritu Santo:<e>[/b]</e></B> Air raid from Guadalcanal (100 A6M & 25 G4M) shoots down 22 F4Fs for the loss of 11 A6M, then a fighter sweep follows - 6 A6M vs 12 F4F lost. Invading Japanese troops evacuated by IJN TFs - 1 TF lost 6 APs ...

ORIGINAL: Cuthalin

Skipjack,

Thanks for this AAR.
I have just got a colleague interested in Pacwar and this will help him immensely [:)]

Cuthalin

Thanks for following this thread [:)]

<r> End-of-turn Summary: I have often kidded myself that I am tough on CAs in this game, but this turn it turned out true in spades. Only the New Orleans (just arriving at American Samoa escorting troop reinforcements) and the Vincennes (16% damaged) are left operational. The others are scattered ac...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s>5/3/42:<e>[/b]</e></B><br/> The usual airstrike from Guadalcanal hits Espiritu Santo ... Jap CVs have now combined into 1 TF with 4CVs and a CVL, it stands off Espiritu Santo; strikes from B17s, B26s and SBDs get some hits but nothing critical, however 1 CV shows some accrued damage...

<r> Very cool site! I didn't know it existed.<br/> <br/> After some playing around I was able to see an archive of the site:<br/> <br/> <LINK link="http://web.archive.org/web/20090901220518/http://geocities.com/bigblueiii/pacwar.html"><s>[link=http://web.archive.org/web/20090901220518/http://geociti...

This was the site as last I knew: http://www.geocities.com/bigblueiii/pacwar.html

<r> <B><s>[b]</s>4/12/42:<e>[/b]</e></B> <br/> <B><s>[b]</s>South Pacific:<e>[/b]</e></B> Guadalcanal is now the terminus for Combined Fleet plus multiple A6M/G4M squadrons, which attack the airfield at Espiritu Santo - the 2 Marine squadrons of F4Fs are quickly dominated. KB2 again stands off New C...