Waiting for 3rd AE patch - bigbaba vs. Castor Troy

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/20/42

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TF 1012 encounters mine field at Palmyra (106,85)

Allied Ships
DD Bagley

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TF 1031 encounters mine field at Palmyra (106,85)

Allied Ships
DD Jupiter
DD Nestor

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TF 1025 encounters mine field at Palmyra (106,85)

Allied Ships
DMS Wasmuth
DMS Southard

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TF 1064 encounters mine field at Palmyra (106,85)

Allied Ships
DMS Elliot
DMS Dorsey
DMS Lamberton
DD Selfridge, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD MacDonough

as you can see, a lot of enemy TFs are returning to Palmyra. All mines were swept away but the last mine hit DD Selfridge...

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 108
B5N Kate x 8
Ki-27 Nate x 117
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70
Ki-49 Helen x 59
Ki-15 Babs x 4

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported

Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 115
Port hits 12
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 3

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Ki-27 Nate bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 1st DAF Base Force, at 33,70

Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 24

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
45 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Aircraft Attacking:
24 x B5N Kate bombing at 20000 feet
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Sub attack at 29,66

Japanese Ships
AK Takamisan Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire

Allied Ships
SS S-46

South of Borneo one of our resource AKs is hit. Medium damage, the ship should make it...

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Ground combat at Medan

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 4532 troops, 26 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 140

Defending force 3263 troops, 9 guns, 3 vehicles, Assault Value = 72

Japanese max assault: 133 - adjusted assault: 79

Allied max defense: 60 - adjusted defense: 34

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Medan base !!!



Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
Catalina I: 2 destroyed

Japanese ground losses:
72 casualties reported

Allied ground losses:
1078 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

with luck, we take Medan...

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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 7981 troops, 278 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2980

Defending force 47512 troops, 379 guns, 251 vehicles, Assault Value = 1068



Allied ground losses:
23 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


no Allied attack at Canton today. We were able to lift in 14 assault points with Emilies and Mavis´ from Baker. A bit more will be flown in from Tarawa starting from tomorrow, so with each day we should be able to lift in some 30-35 assault points. We have also a CL/DD TF in the area now, will be used as fast transport TF, lift capability is 1500. The TF will lift in a mixed bgd from Tarawa. The most important thing would be to repair the airbase on Canton though, not doable with only three dozen intact eng squads remaining.

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/21/42

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Day Air attack on Samarinda , at 31,63

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 54
B5N Kate x 31

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 47

Aircraft Attacking:
24 x A6M2 Zero bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Bali , at 24,68

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 87
Ki-49 Helen x 27

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
54 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 18

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 11000 feet
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Sub attack near Canton Island at 98,99

Japanese Ships
SS I-174, hits 4, on fire

Allied Ships
AK Mormaclark, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Sands
DD Lawrence
DD Hatfield
DD Kane

a transport TF is returning to Canton. We heavily damage a big AK but also the sub suffered 3 near misses and a hit. Don´t know what is going on now, something makes me think that Miller won´t try to capture Canton Island but to withdraw his forces. But he only moved one transport TF back, the others are moving NE towards Palmyra. He stated in his email that he´s not happy about forts level 8 as he only had expected level 2 or 3. I´m uncertain what will happen next.

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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 7941 troops, 278 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2980

Defending force 47640 troops, 379 guns, 254 vehicles, Assault Value = 1070



Allied ground losses:
110 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

[Ambassador]

How unfortunate that KB wasn't nearby...[:(]

[jeffs]

Well if you do manage to hold at Canton (and lets face it, without CVs, his position becomes much harder....)
You could very well mangle 3 divisions.....

[jeffs]

Is there anyway you can move in enough surface ships/KB to stop the nuking? Or at least nuke his troops back?
 
 

[Rainer79]

Ouch. That has got to hurt.

I don't think it is possible to "nuke" troops sitting outside of a base though.

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: Ambassador

How unfortunate that KB wasn't nearby...[:(]

yeah, that would have been fun. But what is great is the fact that I have sunk already two US fleet CVs (and heavily damaged another) with LBA attacks only! I´m not really willing to send KB against enemy carriers as this would also result in Japanese carriers lost as we have the stacking limit of 450 carrier based ac/hex and there is no uber Cap shield in Nikmod anyway. So I´m happy that my LBA can do some damage. Will be much harder when the Hellcats will arrive. My LBA didn´t have much problems at Wake and Canton but you may not forget that at Wake the enemy carrier TFs were separated and at Canton there weren´t 4 US CVs but British CV support. And both times there wasn´t the full 36 fighter contingent with Wildcats but 27/carrier with useless Marine Buffalos as backup.

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: jeffs

Well if you do manage to hold at Canton (and lets face it, without CVs, his position becomes much harder....)
You could very well mangle 3 divisions.....

would be fun to destroy two Army and a USMC division, more news later...

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: jeffs

Is there anyway you can move in enough surface ships/KB to stop the nuking? Or at least nuke his troops back?

at the moment there are no surface combat ships nor KB in the area to stop more nukes, but I´m pretty sure there won´t be any more. And Canton is so far away from a major Japanese port that I´m not really willing to send in BBs to stop the bombardments as I´m sure I would take damage also and Japanese damage control is... well, we all know how Japanese damage control looks like. Canton isn´t worth it to risk major ships. Area around Tarawa would be worth it...

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: Rainer79

Ouch. That has got to hurt.

I don't think it is possible to "nuke" troops sitting outside of a base though.

believe me, it did hurt... [:(]

it´s far harder (if not impossible) to nuke troops outside of a base as you don´t raise the detection level of the whole base including the troops there. And the nukes only work against support troops and not at all against inf or tk units, so any Japanese bombardments on the attackers wouldn´t do much damage, not at all comparable to the nukes my troops had to sustain.

These were the worst bombardments I have seen on an atoll in my career playing WITP. Miller knows the game very well, that´s why he ordered those 50+ Kingfisher recon missions... but this will also mean bad news for future as I´m sure he will do that EVERY time in future. Even if I would knock out a lot of his ships, one bombardment TF is enough, as you can see, the first bombardement TF already did 4000 casualties and damaged the base 500%...

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/22/42

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ASW attack at 99,99

Japanese Ships
SS I-10

Allied Ships
DD Lawrence
DD Sands
DD Hatfield
DD Kane

those four flush deckers are the escort of a transport TF... I-10 evaded all atacks...

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ASW attack at 99,99

Japanese Ships
SS I-10, hits 5

Allied Ships
DD Lawrence
AK Silksworth
DD Sands
DD Hatfield
DD Kane
AK Manukai
AK Manulani

I-10 is out of action for the next months. 4 near misses and a real hit...

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Sub attack at 100,97

Japanese Ships
SS I-17

Allied Ships
AK Manukai, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD Lawrence
DD Sands
DD King
DD Hatfield
DD Kane
AK Prusa
AK Regulus
AK Malama


Allied ground losses:
39 casualties reported

but I-17 scores! Troop loaden AK?? Is Miller evacuating his troops from Canton??? [X(]

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Day Air attack on Bali , at 24,68

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 88
Ki-49 Helen x 25

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 29

Aircraft Attacking:
19 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 11000 feet
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 108
Ki-27 Nate x 117
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70
Ki-21 Sally x 24
Ki-49 Helen x 63
Ki-15 Babs x 6

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 88
Port hits 5
Port supply hits 4

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Ki-27 Nate bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Kendari Garrison Battalion, at 33,70

Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 24

No Japanese losses

Aircraft Attacking:
24 x B5N Kate bombing at 20000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Lautem at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 30
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 12

Allied aircraft
CW-21B Demon x 7
Brewster 339D x 14
T.IVa x 7
Hudson I x 27

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 damaged
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 2 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
CW-21B Demon: 5 destroyed
Brewster 339D: 3 destroyed, 8 damaged
T.IVa: 2 destroyed, 2 damaged
Hudson I: 2 destroyed, 4 damaged

Japanese Ships
MSW Wa 6
AK Hitora Maru, Bomb hits 3, on fire
AK Genmei Maru, Bomb hits 6, on fire, heavy damage
AK Wuhu Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AK Taga Maru
AK Teikin Maru

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x T.IVa bombing at 5000 feet
4 x Hudson I bombing at 5000 feet

ouch! We took down 16 enemy aircraft but we will lose two of the small AKs... not something I like. A very poorly performed supply mission to Lautern. I have a level 3 airfield there already and I knew the TF was going in. I also knew that there are some 50-70 enemy bombers at Darwin and I knew that 40 fighters can´t stop them at all. Well I know that 100 can´t either, but it would have been so costly then, that it wouldn´t be worth for the Allied to attack again. I have enough fighters available so it shouldn´t have been a problem to put up a decent Cap. Problem is also that we never manage to scramble more than 50-55% of our fighters. That´s especially a problem during airfield attacks as the bombers will always torch around 40% of your fighters because they stay grounded.

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Ground combat at Canton Island

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 811 troops, 14 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 380

Defending force 5377 troops, 62 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 24


Japanese ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

[X(][X(][X(][X(] VICTORY!!!! As you can see, Miller has abandoned the beaches at Canton Island!!!! 5.000+ troops are left behind. Looks like my level 8 forts really scared him, my attempts to fly in reinforcements didn´t encourage him either, at least this is what he stated in his email. I´m amazed as I´m sure that a couple of deliberate attacks would have worn down my troops pretty fast.

I really can´t believe it! [:)] So the Allied attempt to take Canton Island was a failure and Miller paid with one CV lost and another one heavily damaged. Great!



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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 7971 troops, 277 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2979

Defending force 47591 troops, 382 guns, 252 vehicles, Assault Value = 1060



Allied ground losses:
19 casualties reported

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/23/42

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ASW attack at 80,81

Japanese Ships
PC Sonan Maru #6
PC Sonan Maru #5
PC Nichi Maru #1
PC Kyo Maru #7
PC Gamitsu Maru #1
PC Fumi Maru #3

Allied Ships
SS S-18

near Kwajalein, two enemy subs are sitting South East of the atoll...

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Sub attack at 34,76

Japanese Ships
AK Wuhu Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Gar

MK14 kills one of the damaged AKs that left Lautern... I will lose three AKs, not good... [:(]

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Sub attack at 103,92

Japanese Ships
SS I-172

Allied Ships
AK Mormacgull, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Lawrence
DD Sands
DD Hatfield
DD Kane

but we strike back in the Pacific. Transport TF that is going from Canton to Palmyra loses another ship...

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Day Air attack on Samarinda , at 31,63

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 54
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 35

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Bali , at 24,68

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 84
Ki-49 Helen x 25

Allied aircraft
no flights

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
F.K.51: 1 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
10 casualties reported

Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 59

Aircraft Attacking:
19 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 11000 feet
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 57
Ki-27 Nate x 129
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 102
Ki-21 Sally x 27
Ki-49 Helen x 36
Ki-15 Babs x 5

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 111
Port hits 4
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Ki-27 Nate bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on 1st DAF Base Force, at 33,70

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 23
B5N Kate x 24

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
24 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
24 x B5N Kate bombing at 20000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF at 34,76


Allied aircraft
T.IVa x 3


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
AK Hitora Maru, on fire

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x T.IVa bombing at 5000 feet

Miller moved a couple of bombers to Koepang again. We will attack this base soon...

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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 7921 troops, 272 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2979

Defending force 47967 troops, 396 guns, 258 vehicles, Assault Value = 1064



Allied ground losses:
34 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Canton Island

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 11938 troops, 106 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 394

Defending force 5445 troops, 64 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 26

Japanese max assault: 302 - adjusted assault: 335

Allied max defense: 21 - adjusted defense: 24

Japanese assault odds: 13 to 1


Japanese ground losses:
389 casualties reported
Guns lost 15

Allied ground losses:
102 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

we are now trying to kill off the stranded Allied troops on Canton. Unfortunately this will cost us more casualties than the Allied in the end. Will be interesting how long it will take until those troops will surrender.

[Ambassador]

ORIGINAL: castor troy

ORIGINAL: Ambassador

How unfortunate that KB wasn't nearby...[:(]

yeah, that would have been fun. But what is great is the fact that I have sunk already two US fleet CVs (and heavily damaged another) with LBA attacks only! I´m not really willing to send KB against enemy carriers as this would also result in Japanese carriers lost as we have the stacking limit of 450 carrier based ac/hex and there is no uber Cap shield in Nikmod anyway. So I´m happy that my LBA can do some damage. Will be much harder when the Hellcats will arrive. My LBA didn´t have much problems at Wake and Canton but you may not forget that at Wake the enemy carrier TFs were separated and at Canton there weren´t 4 US CVs but British CV support. And both times there wasn´t the full 36 fighter contingent with Wildcats but 27/carrier with useless Marine Buffalos as backup.

I was thinking more about ambushing his transports than fighting his remaining CVs. Losing three full divisions is bad already, but it's worse when those are the best of the available divs.
And catching all those big guns while at sea would be a better way to prevent the nuke bombardments.[:D]


I was surprised by the appearance of so many Buffaloes. I would have thought that by April, all those squadrons would have converted to F4F. Does the Nikmod reduce the replacement rate for the Wildcats ?

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: Ambassador

ORIGINAL: castor troy

ORIGINAL: Ambassador

How unfortunate that KB wasn't nearby...[:(]

yeah, that would have been fun. But what is great is the fact that I have sunk already two US fleet CVs (and heavily damaged another) with LBA attacks only! I´m not really willing to send KB against enemy carriers as this would also result in Japanese carriers lost as we have the stacking limit of 450 carrier based ac/hex and there is no uber Cap shield in Nikmod anyway. So I´m happy that my LBA can do some damage. Will be much harder when the Hellcats will arrive. My LBA didn´t have much problems at Wake and Canton but you may not forget that at Wake the enemy carrier TFs were separated and at Canton there weren´t 4 US CVs but British CV support. And both times there wasn´t the full 36 fighter contingent with Wildcats but 27/carrier with useless Marine Buffalos as backup.

I was thinking more about ambushing his transports than fighting his remaining CVs. Losing three full divisions is bad already, but it's worse when those are the best of the available divs.
And catching all those big guns while at sea would be a better way to prevent the nuke bombardments.[:D]


I was surprised by the appearance of so many Buffaloes. I would have thought that by April, all those squadrons would have converted to F4F. Does the Nikmod reduce the replacement rate for the Wildcats ?

The transports have gone already and I doubt that the battlewaggons will be back for a bombardment. And if they come, they will face Betty strikes as by then the island´s airfield will be operational again.

I´m sure that Miller could have upgraded at least one of his Marine squadrons on the carriers to F4F-3, not enough to upgrade all of them to F4F-4 already. If he would have downgraded his land based F4F-3 he surely would have had enough aircraft to have only F4F-3 and F4 on his carriers, but the Marine squadrons would still be only in the mid 50 exp so they are nowhere as good as the 80+ exp Navy squadrons that start out on the carriers.

As it is now, I don´t expect to see any Allied attempts in the Pacific for the next 6-10 months. With Wasp being available in May IIRC he will only have two operational US CVs and the two or three British carriers are not that an impressing threat. Miller´s move on Midway was a great success, his raid on Wake was a mistake and Canton Island tops this off. Midway was excellent, the rest was kind of too early, too far. This means now that he has pretty much crippled his offensive capability and this will give me ample time to build up my strongholds in the Pacific. Would he has succeeded at Canton I would be in trouble as he could keep moving then as I wouldn´t be able to build up bases to support each other. Now I have the time to build up Baker, Tarawa, Apamama, Makin....

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/24/42

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Sub attack at 104,90

Japanese Ships
SS I-153

Allied Ships
AK Donald McKay
AK Regulus
DD Kane
DD Hatfield
DD Lawrence
DD Sands

torps missed the big AK, a pity considering that the ship is full of troops from Canton Island... at least the enemy DDs also failed to locate our sub...

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Sub attack at 104,89

Japanese Ships
SS I-172

Allied Ships
AK Makena, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AK Manulani
DD Kane
DD Hatfield
DD Lawrence
DD Sands


Allied ground losses:
27 casualties reported

we get another chance and this time a torp hits. Would have liked two hits to see the AK go down soon, with only one hit the ship will surely make Palmyra to unload the troops.

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Sub attack at 34,74

Japanese Ships
AK Wuhu Maru, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Gar

torps missed... ship will go down nevertheless...

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Sub attack at 104,90

Japanese Ships
SS I-153

Allied Ships
AK Mormacgull, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

Already damaged Mormacgull took another torp and sinks...

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Day Air attack on Samarinda , at 31,63

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 54
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 55

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 81
G4M1 Betty x 25
Ki-27 Nate x 117
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-15 Babs x 4

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
41 casualties reported

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 118
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Kendari Garrison Battalion, at 33,70

Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 24

No Japanese losses

Aircraft Attacking:
24 x B5N Kate bombing at 20000 feet

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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 7891 troops, 269 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2976

Defending force 47848 troops, 391 guns, 256 vehicles, Assault Value = 1061



Allied ground losses:
54 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Canton Island

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 19919 troops, 166 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 435

Defending force 5417 troops, 60 guns, 1 vehicles, Assault Value = 30

Japanese max assault: 256 - adjusted assault: 199

Allied max defense: 25 - adjusted defense: 26

Japanese assault odds: 7 to 1


Japanese ground losses:
763 casualties reported [:(]
Guns lost 12

Allied ground losses:
84 casualties reported [8|]
Guns lost 8
Vehicles lost 1

looks like it´s suicide for my troops to attack the stranded troops on Canton. They only got 25 assault value but seem to be killers... [8|] I will only keep bombarding them for the next months. Any attempt to bring them out will have to face Betty strikes...

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Ground combat at Chungking

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 163356 troops, 1511 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4742

Defending force 119576 troops, 1309 guns, 23 vehicles, Assault Value = 2494


Japanese ground losses:
264 casualties reported
Guns lost 13

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/25/42

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ASW attack at 106,86

Japanese Ships
SS I-30, hits 2

Allied Ships
AK Prusa
AK Morazan
DD Kane
DD Hatfield
DD Lawrence
DD Sands


if you know the exact path a TF is going and you have a couple of subs on hand to be placed in the path of the convoy then you constantly get attacks. This is again an attack on the convoy that goes from Canton to Palmyra. Unfortunately the 6 torps missed the big AK but the DDs also only achieved 2 near misses. Only a couple of hexes left and the convoy will be at Palmyra so we won´t have a lot more chances to attack.

Still no sign of Lexington being sunk. I guess she´s disbanded at Palmyra (size 4 port) and she will probably make it. With the fuel storage explosion after three torp hits she will at least have a high sys damage (50 perhaps?) so we won´t see her in combat within the next months.

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Sub attack at 106,86

Japanese Ships
SS I-30

Allied Ships
AK West Portal, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage

then I-30 kills the already damaged West Portal...

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Day Air attack on Kungchang , at 46,26

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35
Ki-21 Sally x 65
Ki-49 Helen x 88

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21 Sally: 1 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged


Allied ground losses:
42 casualties reported

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 27

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 11000 feet

recon told us that there are some 40 enemy aircraft at Kungchang but none are destroyed on the ground. And the enemy fighters are no longer flying Cap as this just increases their losses...

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Day Air attack on Samarinda , at 31,63

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 54
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 37

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Davao , at 41,61

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 20
Ki-46-II Dinah x 1

No Japanese losses

Runway hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 16000 feet

Davao has a squadron of Hudsons that are flying naval search helping enemy subs locating our TFs. Have dispatched a daitai of Helens that will fly a couple of attacks. 16.000 ft is too high to achieve something, this was only a careful attack to check the enemy´s AA defenses...

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 84
G4M1 Betty x 27
Ki-27 Nate x 117
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-46-II Dinah x 3

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
26 casualties reported

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 48
Port hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on 1st DAF Base Force, at 33,70

Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 24

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
64 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
24 x B5N Kate bombing at 20000 feet
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TF 38 troops unloading over beach at Kuala, 20,43


Japanese ground losses:
160 casualties reported

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TF 47 troops unloading over beach at Green Island, 63,89


Japanese ground losses:
29 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 7807 troops, 267 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2977

Defending force 47737 troops, 389 guns, 257 vehicles, Assault Value = 1054



Allied ground losses:
37 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

our troops are still in red supply at Myitkina. [8|] They are starving, I can´t believe it... Seems not possible to bring supply forward from Mandalay (5 times more supplies there than needed).


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Ground combat at Canton Island

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 21703 troops, 163 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 438

Defending force 5365 troops, 54 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 28


Japanese ground losses:
21 casualties reported
Guns lost 5

Allied ground losses:
25 casualties reported

even with bombardment attacks alone we take casualties... guess starving those troops is no option as they probably have thousands if not ten thousands supply points. Guess Miller only evacuated most of his troops but no supply at all as he didn´t even have enough transports to evac all of his troops.

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Ground combat at Green Island

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 639 troops, 5 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Japanese max assault: 22 - adjusted assault: 24

Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 24 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Green Island base !!!

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Ground combat at Chungking

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 163429 troops, 1514 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4743

Defending force 119265 troops, 1298 guns, 22 vehicles, Assault Value = 2487


Japanese ground losses:
95 casualties reported
Guns lost 2


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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 38400 troops, 376 guns, 231 vehicles, Assault Value = 1051

Defending force 148389 troops, 1929 guns, 23 vehicles, Assault Value = 2977


Japanese ground losses:
117 casualties reported
Guns lost 8

the enemy now starts bombardments also, doing more damage than we do. Without getting supplies to the front we won´t be able to achieve anything, I must be happy if my divisions won´t become disabled because the troops are starving...

[Ambassador]

In Canton, did your casualties result in destroyed squads, or only disabled ones.  I ask about your ground attacks, not the naval nukes.[:o]
If it's too costly to wipe them out, why not bomb them ?  A range 0 ground attack mission, pilot academy would be nice for training new classes.[:D]

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: Ambassador

In Canton, did your casualties result in destroyed squads, or only disabled ones.  I ask about your ground attacks, not the naval nukes.[:o]
If it's too costly to wipe them out, why not bomb them ?  A range 0 ground attack mission, pilot academy would be nice for training new classes.[:D]

mostly disabled, but when looking at the victory points, I lose 2-3 points every day (compared to 10-12 for the Allied which are starving on a couple of places). The Allied went through 8500 points for ground losses already, I´m at 400 at the moment. I won´t use aircraft to bomb the enemy on Canton as I want to have full offensive capability there if the enemy shows up again - which is highly doubtable. Canton is a level 4 airfield so I can have some 200 ac there, with 27 search aircraft we have max 170 strike aircraft, so not much room for a pilot training school.

I will just keep bombarding, hoping that at some point the 5000 enemy troops will be wiped out due to either my bombardments or supply shortage.

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/26/42

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TF 38 troops unloading over beach at Kuala, 20,43


Japanese ground losses:
39 casualties reported

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ASW attack near Kendari at 33,71

Japanese Ships
MSW Banshu Maru #18
MSW Wa 6
MSW Wa 3

Allied Ships
SS Gar, hits 1

those small MSW are surely no sub killers (which IJN vessel is at this stage? [;)]) but one achieves a near miss...

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Day Air attack on Samarinda , at 31,63

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 33
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 33

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Koepang , at 28,77

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 87
Ki-49 Helen x 27
Ki-46-II Dinah x 3

Allied aircraft
no flights

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Do 24K-2: 1 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
65 casualties reported

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 57

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 11000 feet

guess our invasion TF will set sails for Koepang soon...

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 88
G4M1 Betty x 51
Ki-27 Nate x 116
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-46-II Dinah x 4

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
32 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 88
Port hits 5
Port supply hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on 1st DAF Base Force, at 33,70

Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 24

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
27 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Aircraft Attacking:
24 x B5N Kate bombing at 20000 feet
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Sub attack near Kendari at 33,71

Japanese Ships
AK Wuhu Maru, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Gar

Gar missed with 4 torps, Wuhu Maru will sink nevertheless...

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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 7775 troops, 266 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2969

Defending force 47707 troops, 387 guns, 256 vehicles, Assault Value = 1052



Allied ground losses:
53 casualties reported
Guns lost 3
Vehicles lost 1


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Ground combat at Canton Island

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 19580 troops, 165 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 448

Defending force 5415 troops, 56 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 30


Japanese ground losses:
28 casualties reported
Guns lost 5

Allied ground losses:
28 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

at this rate it will take us 300 days to destroy the enemy...

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Ground combat at Chungking

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 163576 troops, 1503 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4762

Defending force 119248 troops, 1296 guns, 22 vehicles, Assault Value = 2482


Japanese ground losses:
90 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 38327 troops, 371 guns, 231 vehicles, Assault Value = 1051

Defending force 148170 troops, 1921 guns, 23 vehicles, Assault Value = 2969


Japanese ground losses:
60 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/27/42

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Day Air attack on Samarinda , at 31,63

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 35
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 21

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Davao , at 41,61

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 9
Ki-46-II Dinah x 1

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49 Helen: 2 damaged


Allied ground losses:
22 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 1

Runway hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet

Davao´s airfield has to be knocked out, the Hudsons on nav search there are annoying. There are four Allied units so I would need a division sized invasion to clear out this island and at the moment I have other plans...

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 93
G4M1 Betty x 52
Ki-27 Nate x 117
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-46-II Dinah x 4

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
34 casualties reported

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 134
Port hits 1
Port fuel hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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ASW attack near Kendari at 33,71

Japanese Ships
MSW Banshu Maru #18
MSW Wa 6
MSW Wa 3

Allied Ships
SS Gar

Gar is still sitting at Kendari waiting to get another shot...

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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 7690 troops, 261 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2967

Defending force 47649 troops, 388 guns, 254 vehicles, Assault Value = 1051



Allied ground losses:
17 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Canton Island

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16531 troops, 158 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 463

Defending force 5415 troops, 54 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 35


Japanese ground losses:
9 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 38321 troops, 376 guns, 231 vehicles, Assault Value = 1049

Defending force 148106 troops, 1915 guns, 23 vehicles, Assault Value = 2967


Japanese ground losses:
49 casualties reported
Guns lost 3