Dark Side of the Moon

[Raverdave]

Yeah I kinda wondered about that as well.  [&:]

[Gen.Hoepner]

ORIGINAL: jumper

Yes, but he must be running out of bombs in India, considering the fact his bombers are throwing torpedoes, during the attacks on Karachi airfields.. [:D]

LOL[:D]

[Raverdave]

Well Honda is making it rain in India at the moment.  The sky is black with his bombers and I am starting to run out of defenses.  [:(]

[Honda]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 12/22/43

This is already a third raid on Karachi!
Day Air attack on Karachi , at 21,3

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 25
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 88
Ki-21 Sally x 98
Ki-49 Helen x 51

Allied aircraft
Hellcat II x 7
Lysander I x 6
Hurricane II x 7
Spitfire Vb x 14
Beaufighter VIF x 1
Beaufighter VIC x 17
Beaufighter Mk 21 x 1

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 21 destroyed, 6 damaged
Ki-21 Sally: 5 destroyed, 29 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 1 destroyed, 20 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Hellcat II: 5 destroyed
Lysander I: 7 destroyed
Hurricane II: 4 destroyed
Spitfire Vb: 10 destroyed
Beaufighter VIF: 2 destroyed
Beaufighter VIC: 16 destroyed
Beaufighter Mk 21: 1 destroyed
Liberator VI: 8 destroyed
B-24J Liberator: 4 destroyed
B-25J Mitchell: 3 destroyed
Barracuda: 2 destroyed
Dakota I: 3 destroyed
Vengeance I: 4 destroyed
F-5C Lightning: 1 destroyed
Beaufort V-IX: 2 destroyed
Catalina I: 4 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
106 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Airbase hits 6
Runway hits 94

For reasons beyon my comprehension, Raver still keeps his modern fighters in Ahmadabad. Without bombers from Karachi they almost useless. My second line fighters are proving very useful due to their range and are performing surprisingly well. Defences in India are strong, and the long avaited British push is still on halt since I'm denying them control of air space over my front lines.

[Raverdave]

Never try to second guess the Raver !   I have a cunning plan and it shall soon become apparent.

[GaryChildress]

88 Oscar IIs? I thought most Japanese players ditched Oscar IIs in favor of Tonys or Tojos? Oscar IIs have squirt pistols for armament. [&:]

EDIT: Never mind it just occured to me PDUs are probably off.

[Raverdave]

Correct.

[jumper]

ORIGINAL: Gary Childress

88 Oscar IIs? I thought most Japanese players ditched Oscar IIs in favor of Tonys or Tojos? Oscar IIs have squirt pistols for armament. [&:]

EDIT: Never mind it just occured to me PDUs are probably off.

IIRC in their game the Oscar II stats were changed little bit so it is not such a crap plane as in standard stock..

[Honda]

Yes. Big crap before - small crap now
Oscars rule the skies!

[Honda]

Since Raver has been silent about this, I'll post the recent developments.

Transition into '44 didn't go well for Raver's navy air force. His CV detachment raided Wake for 2 consecutive days. The defenders, although flying outdated fighters, gave Hellcats a bloody nose, courtesy of amazing pilots

RAID 1:
Day Air attack on Wake Island , at 82,63

Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zeke x 23
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 47
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 32

Allied aircraft
FM-2 Wildcat x 36
F6F Hellcat x 55
SB2C Helldiver x 72
TBF Avenger x 18
TBM Avenger x 50

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M5 Zeke: 3 destroyed
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 33 destroyed
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 10 destroyed, 2 damaged
H6K2-L Mavis: 7 destroyed
G4M1 Betty: 8 destroyed
H8K Emily: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
FM-2 Wildcat: 24 destroyed
F6F Hellcat: 26 destroyed, 3 damaged
SB2C Helldiver: 11 destroyed, 31 damaged
TBF Avenger: 3 destroyed, 7 damaged
TBM Avenger: 13 destroyed, 14 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
122 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

Airbase hits 14
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 42

RAID 2:
Day Air attack on Wake Island , at 82,63

Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zeke x 20
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 51
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 16

Allied aircraft
FM-2 Wildcat x 23
F6F Hellcat x 42
SB2C Helldiver x 38
TBF Avenger x 31
TBM Avenger x 42

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M5 Zeke: 1 destroyed
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 18 destroyed, 2 damaged
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 3 destroyed, 2 damaged
H8K Emily: 1 destroyed
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed
H6K2-L Mavis: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
FM-2 Wildcat: 14 destroyed
F6F Hellcat: 27 destroyed
SB2C Helldiver: 13 destroyed, 9 damaged
TBF Avenger: 4 destroyed, 11 damaged
TBM Avenger: 6 destroyed, 11 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
46 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 7
Runway hits 28

For more than a week I have been tracking Raver's TFs assembling in the ocean off Australia's coast. There were a couple of raids there by his CVs, hitting a few aircfart on the ground and a couple of ships evacuating supplies and resources. By now, some 10 days after first transport TFs have been sightet leaving New Zealand, a HUGE aramada has been formed in front of my eyes.



Present conclusion is that the Wake raid was a probing/diversionary attack aimed at drawing my attention away from the obvious. This is too big to be anything but an operation most vital to Raver. As such, it demands my proper attention.

Honda out[:D]

[Raverdave]

Well the 17th of Jan '44 was a good day for the ol' Raver.   Hero Honda has lost over 230 aircraft in air to air combat.  In one raid he sent a force of bombers to hit Ahmadabad with out fighter escort.   Needless to say he got is head handed to him of a plater !


AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/16/44

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ASW attack at 67,44
 
Japanese Ships
DD Kiji
PC Miyake
PC Mikura
PC Fukue
PC Etoforu
DD Yamakaze
 
Allied Ships
SS Ling, hits 7,  heavy damage
 
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Day Air attack on Chungking , at 43,32
 
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 72
 
No Japanese losses
 
 
Allied ground losses:
34 casualties reported
 
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 14
 
Aircraft Attacking:
36 x Ki-43-IIa Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
36 x Ki-43-IIa Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Port Moresby , at 53,91
 
Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zeke x 70
J2M Jack x 46
J1N1-S Irving x 54
A6M5c Zeke x 47
G4M1 Betty x 27
 
No Japanese losses
 
Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 45
Port hits 4
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 2
 
Aircraft Attacking:
24 x J1N1-S Irving bombing at 2000 feet
27 x J1N1-S Irving bombing at 2000 feet
43 x A6M5c Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
63 x A6M5 Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
15 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 1000 feet
42 x J2M Jack bombing at 2000 feet
 4 x A6M5c Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
 3 x J1N1-S Irving bombing at 2000 feet
 7 x A6M5 Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
 6 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 1000 feet
 4 x J2M Jack bombing at 2000 feet
 3 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 1000 feet
 3 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 1000 feet
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Day Air attack on 39th Chinese Corps, at 39,36
 
Japanese aircraft
Ki-27 Nate x 42
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 64
 
No Japanese losses
 
 
Allied ground losses:
73 casualties reported
 
Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Ki-27 Nate bombing at 2000 feet
32 x Ki-27 Nate bombing at 2000 feet
32 x Ki-43-IIa Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
32 x Ki-43-IIa Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 80th Chinese Corps, at 45,35
 
Japanese aircraft
D3A Val x 92
D4Y Judy x 45
B6N Jill x 134
 
No Japanese losses
 
 
Allied ground losses:
93 casualties reported
 
Aircraft Attacking:
20 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet
24 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet
24 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet
24 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet
24 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet
24 x B6N Jill bombing at 1000 feet
24 x B6N Jill bombing at 1000 feet
16 x B6N Jill bombing at 1000 feet
14 x B6N Jill bombing at 1000 feet
21 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet
14 x B6N Jill bombing at 1000 feet
14 x B6N Jill bombing at 1000 feet
14 x B6N Jill bombing at 1000 feet
14 x B6N Jill bombing at 1000 feet
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Day Air attack on 81st Chinese Corps, at 45,35
 
Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zeke x 219
 
No Japanese losses
 
 
Allied ground losses:
26 casualties reported
 
Aircraft Attacking:
43 x A6M5 Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
43 x A6M5 Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
43 x A6M5 Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
42 x A6M5 Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
24 x A6M5 Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
24 x A6M5 Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Ahmadabad , at 24,8
 
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 107
Ki-49 Helen x 88
 
Allied aircraft
Spitfire VIII x 23
Thunderbolt II x 12
P-40N Warhawk x 3
P-47C Thunderbolt x 16
 
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21 Sally: 80 destroyed
Ki-49 Helen: 65 destroyed
 
Allied aircraft losses
Spitfire VIII: 20 damaged
Thunderbolt II: 8 damaged
P-40N Warhawk: 2 destroyed
P-47C Thunderbolt: 1 destroyed, 10 damaged
Boomerang II: 1 destroyed
Spitfire Vb: 1 destroyed
 
 
Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
 
Airbase hits 4
Runway hits 3
 
Aircraft Attacking:
 2 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet
 8 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet
 2 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet
 4 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet
 2 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet
 2 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet
 2 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet
 1 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on Onnekotan Jima , at 81,34
 
Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zeke x 37
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 10
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 30
Ki-61 KAIc Tony x 29
 
Allied aircraft
P-38J Lightning x 146
 
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M5 Zeke: 19 destroyed
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 10 destroyed
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 30 destroyed
Ki-61 KAIc Tony: 20 destroyed
 
Allied aircraft losses
P-38J Lightning: 38 destroyed, 18 damaged
 
 
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Ground combat at 39,36
 
Japanese Bombardment attack
 
Attacking force 47962 troops, 592 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1470
 
Defending force 63831 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2157
 
 
 
Allied ground losses:
23 casualties reported
 
 
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Ground combat at 45,35
 
Japanese Bombardment attack
 
Attacking force 78261 troops, 911 guns, 6 vehicles, Assault Value = 1485
 
Defending force 10503 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 375
 
 
 
Allied ground losses:
43 casualties reported
 

[Raverdave]

While I am waiting for the next move from our Hero I'd like to post my top pilots.

[Raverdave]

Here is a current map of Australia which shows what is happening. Generally speaking Honda has freely given up all of the East Coast but is looking to pick a fight North of Adelaide to keep the road open to Darwin.....Now that I know that it is the Northern ports that he is intending to flee from, I will now concentrate my subs in that area.

[Raverdave]

This is an interesting post. I thought that I would show you all what the current losses to date are. While his shipping losses are only 1/3rd of mine there are creeping up at a steady rate. My blockade of the Home Islands is at last starting to show some results.

[Raverdave]

One of the interesting things about the above intel screen is the very high number of Operatinal losses that Honda's forces have suffered.  I have no idea why this is as my sortie rate is nearly double his yet his op losses are four times higher than mine.   Anyone got any ideas?

[Raverdave]

Here we have a global view of whats happening in the war.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Raverdave

One of the interesting things about the above intel screen is the very high number of Operatinal losses that Honda's forces have suffered. I have no idea why this is as my sortie rate is nearly double his yet his op losses are four times higher than mine. Anyone got any ideas?

Well, ops losses in the game come from missions/transfers at long range, small airfields (at least undersized for the planes), battle damaged a/c not making it back, maybe weather (don't know), maybe pilot skill (don't know) - think vigorously training new pilots, and just plain chance.

Or, his maintenance guys could be on strike...[X(]

[jumper]

Japanese planes suffer from op losses more then their allied counterparts. Especially if japanese player is training his green pilots on ground attack, then the op losses climbs up significantly. For example in my game I´m in mid 43 and I have lost 650 Nates and 350 Claudes so far. 99% are ops losses and as I use this crap planes only for training in China I can say that it is nearly 1000 obsolete fighter planes I have lost just because of such training. The same works for bombers. It is another 800 planes lost because of training. My total op losses are about 2000-2500 planes higher then my allied counterparts and 80% of this difference are planes lost during the training.
I´m training my AF from the first day of war and I can´t remember a day, when I had less then 5 ops. I would say my average is 8/day when there is NO real combat..
From your CR I can see that Honda is training in China too and so he pays the same price in higher op losses as I do. His op losses are 3000 planes higher then yours and my bet is that 80% of these losses are caused by his training..

[pauk]

ORIGINAL: Raverdave

Here we have a global view of whats happening in the war.

Ahhh, that means we can expect Allied offensive in India![:D]

[Yakface]

ORIGINAL: Raverdave

One of the interesting things about the above intel screen is the very high number of Operatinal losses that Honda's forces have suffered.  I have no idea why this is as my sortie rate is nearly double his yet his op losses are four times higher than mine.   Anyone got any ideas?

I've found the same thing in the early part of my game. However as the war has moved into mid 43, the Allies have started to lose more than the Japanese. The side flying 'offensive' missions is flying further than defensive mission, although they both count as a sortie. Aircraft damaged when flying at a distance have a higher chance of suffering an accident that goes down as operational loss rather than A2A or Flak but aircraft damaged whilst on CAP almost always land OK.