April 6, 1944

Well, I did something stupid, I let my AEs and AKEs run out of supply at Ponape. So my naval bombardments were not very impressive.
without full ammo loads things just do not get blown up.

It will take two turns to rectify the issue.

April 5, 1944

Not much. SS KXIV found a small xAKL outside of Bangkok and sank it.

A single BB bombardment of Truk scores well

Night Naval bombardment of Truk at 112,108

Allied Ships
BB Pennsylvania

Japanese ground losses:
77 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat ...

April 4, 1944

Not much happened to day. I lost a sub off of the Pescadores, she fired 2 torpedoes at an E boat, missed, and took a pounding and sank.

Thank you, I thought I might not do as well since last turn weather kept all flights grounded and the TFs were spotted.
I thought things went quite well with enough sweeps to eliminate most of his cap before my two main bombing attacks.
All of the DBs were set to hit the airfield and the TB were set ...

April 3, 1944

Three Naval bombardments of Truk

Night Naval bombardment of Truk at 112,108

Allied Ships
BB Tennessee
BB California
BB West Virginia

Japanese ground losses:
196 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 19 destroyed, 14 disabled
Engineers: 0 ...

April 2, 1944

I found a sub at Truk, and sank it.

ASW attack near Truk at 112,108

Japanese Ships
SS I-159, hits 11, heavy damage

Allied Ships
DD Marshall
DD Halligan

SS I-159 launches 6 torpedoes at DD Marshall
DD Marshall fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Halligan attacking ...

April 1, 1944

A triple hit on Truk

Night Naval bombardment of Truk at 112,108

Allied Ships
BB New Jersey
BB Mississippi

Japanese ground losses:
87 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 3 (1 ...

column AM in the location csv is listed as DestinationID

column AO is the LCOopmode

I should have enough supply for one or two more DAs. I will have to see what happens down the road.
The other thing is that if I can continue to eliminate the guns there, I can at some point escort the LSTs with
pre war BBs.

March 31, 1944

During my down time for mental health reasons, this occurred on February 7, 1944

Sub attack near Dadjangas at 77,94

Japanese Ships
CV Junyo, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage
BB Haruna
BB Kongo
CLAA Tatsuta
CLAA Tenryu
DD Hatsuzuki
DD Teruzuki
DD Hamakaze
DD Isokaze
DD ...

March 30, 1944

A single Naval bombardment of Truk. Interesting that I had the TF set for a minimum of 33,000 yards
and it still took fire from the coastal guns.

Night Naval bombardment of Truk at 112,108 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

24 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
BB Alabama ...

March 29, 1944

Another double whack at Truk

Night Naval bombardment of Truk at 112,108

Allied Ships
BB Resolution
BB Ramillies
BB Royal Sovereign
BB Revenge

Japanese ground losses:
231 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 11 destroyed, 9 disabled
Engineers ...

I should point out that I now have 24 size 90 CVs and 8 CVLs, all USN. They all have F4U-1A or F4U-1D fighters.
And I still have 21 more in the pipeline. Late 44 and 45 will be fun.

I also have just got the first 8 squadrons of B-29s at Aden and they are on the way to Karachi. Fun time starts soon

March 28, 1944

Another quiet turn, bombing of Truk and Bangkok

KB has disappeared completely.


Working theory on why he showed KB then ran? It feels exploratory and/or hopeful rather than strategic.


He tends towards risk avoidance. I think when my naval search lit him up, he chickened out ...

March 28, 1944

Another quiet turn, bombing of Truk and Bangkok

KB has disappeared completely.

March 27, 1944

Not a lot happening today.

Two Naval bombardments of Truk, one from 20,000 yards and the other from 25,000 yards. Both took return fire from the shore.
BB Alabama took a shell hit but it was a belt hit, so no damage

Night Naval bombardment of Truk at 112,108 - Coastal Guns Fire ...

I did not change my shortcut, the name of the file is the same, so no problem, no changing needed.

It looks me that Nomad Jerry rigged it. If you take a clean install of the latest beta and then try to use an old graphics mod on top of that it won’t work. You’ll have incompatible data with old art that won’t jive. Unless you Jerry rigged it by only moving certain files to a certain location to ...

March 26, 1944

Not too much happened today.

A PB was found hanging out at Dobo

Morning Air attack on TF, near Dobo at 83,116

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Allied aircraft
B-25D1 Mitchell x 4
P-38H ...

BananaConvention wrote: Tue Mar 07, 2023 12:45 am Thanks guys! 4 enemy CVs destroyed in one turn isn't a bad day.

Well, 1 CV, 2 CVLs and a CVE.