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

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: bigbaba

radar equiped TFs in a base do increase the CAP effectivity of the base fighter defence? now that would be a good news. and good luck for your "fighter trap".

beside that, when do japanese base forces recive air radar equipment? i know that the IJn was behind the allied and the germans in radar technology, but they got their first big static radar devices before they yould be installed on warships.

I had nearly all my fighters at Kendari in the air due to KB being in the hex and normally I have my Yugumos with KB so it did help. I´m not sure the game differentiates about land based or naval based radar.

There won´t be any land based radar until 1/44 and then I get 30 a month so it will take until mid 44 to see my baseforces being equipped with radar sets. Until then, the usual loss rate of my fighters will be 50% on the ground due to not taking off when the bombers are coming in.

[Ambassador]

Congrats for the new (and soon-to-be) successes in China and India.
 
Mid-44 for the radars, that's late.  I suppose there's nothing you can do to accelerate this or the rate of production (armament industries ?)...[:(]
 
 
Castor, your AAR is becoming quite large, I'm losing the count of the sunk ships (and reading several AARs doesn't help).  Could you make a recap of the major losses, or better yet keep a small list in the first post ?

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 10/14/42

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Sub attack at 47,59

Japanese Ships
AP Tutukami Maru, Shell hits 4

Allied Ships
SS S-47

This is East of Mindanao, in the middle of nowhere. The torps missed but S-47 put 4 shells into Tutukami Maru which ends up with 34 sys and some flt...

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TF 1043 encounters mine field at Darwin (36,84)

Allied Ships
MSW Tamworth
MSW Kalgoorlie

the convoy that has gone past Thursday Island and got decimated by my bombers from Lae reached Darwin...

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Day Air attack on Lanchow , at 45,25


Allied aircraft
I-153c x 24


No Allied losses

Runway hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x I-153c bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Malir , at 22,4


Allied aircraft
Swordfish x 30
Buffalo I x 31
Hurricane IIb x 62
Blenheim IV x 11
P-36A Mohawk x 31
Hurricane IIc x 15


Allied aircraft losses
Swordfish: 4 destroyed, 21 damaged
Buffalo I: 1 destroyed, 14 damaged
Hurricane IIb: 4 destroyed, 26 damaged
Blenheim IV: 1 destroyed, 6 damaged
P-36A Mohawk: 2 destroyed, 15 damaged
Hurricane IIc: 4 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
262 casualties reported
Guns lost 6

Airbase hits 13
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 36

Aircraft Attacking:
29 x P-36A Mohawk bombing at 2000 feet

Miller switched his target again and is now attacking Malir where more flak has arrived in the meantime. This way it´s quite costly to do training runs... I can´t see how he should keep up those raids...

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Day Air attack on Koepang , at 28,77 [:D]

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 59
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 146

Allied aircraft
PBY Catalina x 6
B-25C Mitchell x 293

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 20 damaged
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 76 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
PBY Catalina: 6 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 67 destroyed, 159 damaged

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 16000 feet

Isn´t Paul predictable? [;)] As we knew before, the airfield symbol would immediately attract an Allied bomber attack and here we go. I have to say though that the number of Mitchells pretty much scared me, nearly 300 are coming from Derby, going in at max range to meet 205 angry fighters on Cap. Looks like my DDs helped, out of 286 undamaged fighters at the base we see 205 in the air when the strike goes in which is 71,68% and that is far more than I see usually. I would guess the average in this game (and all my other games) is somewhere around 50-55% in the air.

The Allied bomber crews had a very high morale and that was quite surprising as they were attacking this base every couple of days again and took a dozen losses every time doing this. But the numbers of fighters were sufficient and a laughable number of 4 bombers made it to the base where 1 was shot down by flak immediately, left 3 bombers to drop their load from 16.000ft but the bombs landed 3 miles off the runway! BANZAI!

What was more than amazing to me was the fact that the Tojo proved to be really worth it as the new fighter seems to be able to more or less deal with the Allied 2E bombers while the Oscar was/is pretty much useless against everything than fighters. Most of the IJA fighter sentais will be upgraded to the Tojo for defensive tasks. While the Tojo has the same gun value as the Zero in Nikmod, it still is better than the Zero as the Tojo has a "true" gun value of 8 as it mounts 4x12,7mm MGs which have a penetration value of 2 and a gun value of 2 for each gun. The Zero has 2x7,7mm MGs and 2x20mm cannons but the MGs only have a penetration value of 1 and a gun value of 1 while the cannon have 3 pen and 3 gun value. The problem is that nearly everything the Allied put into the air has an armor value of 2 so the 7,7mm MGs are USELESS! And this brings the Zero to a gun value of 6 (for the cannons only).

When this strike was over I saw a lot of damaged fighters and I thought that Miller would launch his British bombers from Wyndham and the dreaded US 4Es from Darwin against Koepang. Well, he didn´t!!!! [:D]

So I have to say that this was a total Japanese victory today. Of course this won´t have any impact on the war but for now I guess Miller will become more carefully. Even if the Allied 2E bomber replacements are nearly unlimited, he lost more than a monthly replacement of Mitchells and did NO damage.





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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 141
LB-30 Liberator x 32
B-24D Liberator x 80

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 18 damaged
LB-30 Liberator: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 9 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
666 casualties reported
Guns lost 10

Airbase hits 16
Airbase supply hits 17
Runway hits 96

Aircraft Attacking:
20 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 12000 feet

Now this was more than surprising, instead of sending all his bombers against Koepang, he only sent the 300 Mitchells from Derby, probably thinking that those bombers would be sufficient to destroy the base and lots of fighters on the ground. I was amazed to see such a high hit rate from the 4Es though as they´re attacking a level 1 airfield only. The af won´t be built up and is only at 50/50 damage at the end of the turn. Will be repaired in no time and forts can then be further built up (only level 0 - 91% at the moment and the Marines are coming).

I guess I don´t have to comment how it makes me feel to see 250 4Es here. Soon all my bases in this area will lay in waste... [:(]


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Day Air attack on 36th Division, at 43,32


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 28
Hurricane IIc x 27
I-16c x 40


Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb: 1 damaged
Hurricane IIc: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
28 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x Hurricane IIc bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
Blenheim IV x 41
Wellington III x 64
F-5A Lightning x 1

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Blenheim IV: 2 damaged
Wellington III: 1 destroyed, 6 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
20 casualties reported

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 3

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Wellington III bombing at 13000 feet

and then also the Brits from Wyndham attack Dili, doing no damage... [:D]

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Day Air attack on TF at 26,83

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6
G4M1 Betty x 18

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged

Allied Ships
AK Lancaster, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
AK Soerabaja, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet

as a little bonus, a small strike of Betties attacks an empty convoy of damaged ships off Australia´s North Coast. CA Exeter wasn´t spotted unfortunately...[:(]

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Ground combat at Delhi

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22412 troops, 254 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 483

Defending force 27002 troops, 94 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 371



Allied ground losses:
41 casualties reported

I have decided to attack Delhi, all my TK rgts that succesfully took part in the assault on Calcutta were already ordered to move to this base and I´m confident to destroy this stronghold. I can´t remember how the Allied assault value looked like a couple of weeks/months but somehow I´ve got the feeling that Miller might fly troops out of this base. Who knows...

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Ground combat at Sian

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14254 troops, 460 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2878

Defending force 100563 troops, 326 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3306



Allied ground losses:
31 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15895 troops, 184 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1534

Defending force 196001 troops, 1472 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4184



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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8392 troops, 287 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1530

Defending force 33356 troops, 245 guns, 241 vehicles, Assault Value = 621



Allied ground losses:
229 casualties reported
Guns lost 2


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16032 troops, 202 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3441

Defending force 222384 troops, 827 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5673


Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16032 troops, 202 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3441

Defending force 222384 troops, 827 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5673



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Ground combat at Chungking

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 135323 troops, 1408 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4184

Defending force 79098 troops, 814 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1534


Japanese ground losses:
163 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

[bigbaba]

banzai! what a great defensive succes!

amazeing that you was able to replace so many obsolate oscars with tojos so fast. whats the production rate of the tojo, chris?

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: bigbaba

banzai! what a great defensive succes!

amazeing that you was able to replace so many obsolate oscars with tojos so fast. whats the production rate of the tojo, chris?

thx, a small victory but Miller surely wasn´t pleased I guess. I fear that if all the British and the 4E bombers would have targeted Koepang also the overall result would have looked different though.

I ramped up production as fast as possible and we are now producing 304 Tojos a month. Normally I´m not a fan of producing tenthousands of ac but when I look at the ac numbers I´ve produced in 42 then I´m still a couple of thousand aircraft BEHIND of what was built in real life. Of course I´m building only types I really need and many ac of real life have no value in WITP at all. But IMO, no matter what ac I build, as long as I´m building fewer or the same number of ac than in real life I hope noone can blame me then.

I won´t increase Tojo production anymore though and the next step in Japanese fighter production will be the Tony that will come online in 9/43 [:(]. I´m planning to also produce 300-400 a month (until the Frank in mid 44) and I hope to get it at least two months earlier, starting in 7/44. Great would be 6/43 but this would still mean that the Corsair comes into play four months earlier in 2/43. I´ve got high hopes on the Tony in Nikmod as it´s far better than the Tojo in this mod. Only 5 mph slower but far more maneuverable, armor 2 and a gun value of 10!!! 10 is like AA missiles when speaking of Japanese aircraft arms.

[Xxzard]

Are your A/C production numbers counting trainers? There were an awful lot of trainers produced.

Nice results from that air combat. I'm placing all my bets on the Tony, hopefully the slight delay between the two aircrafts introductions is insignificant. I believe in CHS things are slightly different, but the Tony is nevertheless better, and I believe there is a 1 month time difference between it and the tojo.

Plus, you get some interesting aircraft like the ki-83, G5N (if you really want it), and the M6A float-torpedo bomber---Just thinking up ways to launch an I-400 a/c sub strike on US CV group None are really war winning, but do provide some interesting options.

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: Xxzard

Are your A/C production numbers counting trainers? There were an awful lot of trainers produced.

Nice results from that air combat. I'm placing all my bets on the Tony, hopefully the slight delay between the two aircrafts introductions is insignificant. I believe in CHS things are slightly different, but the Tony is nevertheless better, and I believe there is a 1 month time difference between it and the tojo.

Plus, you get some interesting aircraft like the ki-83, G5N (if you really want it), and the M6A float-torpedo bomber---Just thinking up ways to launch an I-400 a/c sub strike on US CV group None are really war winning, but do provide some interesting options.

the numbers I´ve posted a couple of pages back are for total aircraft produced per year duing the war so I guess this mean all of them.

Unfortunately for me, the Tony in Nikmod is still a long way to go and when it will be available I will probably be in trouble already.

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 10/15/42

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Sub attack at 111,119

Japanese Ships
SS I-11

Allied Ships
AP Arthur Middleton
SC SC-519
SC SC-637
SC SC-640
SC SC-641
SC SC-648
SC SC-742

what a pity, 6 torps missed the medium sized AP. I guess the ship is full of troops heading for Australia but I´m not sure as I had no sighting during the day. This is some 900 hexes South East of Pago Pago.

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Day Air attack on Lanchow , at 45,25


Allied aircraft
I-153c x 24


No Allied losses

Runway hits 5

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x I-153c bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Malir , at 22,4


Allied aircraft
Blenheim IV x 6


Allied aircraft losses
Blenheim IV: 2 destroyed, 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Runway hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x Blenheim IV bombing at 6000 feet

looks like Miller is standing down his fighters now and he perhaps only forgot about this bomber squadron. Guess flakfire is too heavy to make his training runs worth it...

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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
Blenheim IV x 48
Wellington III x 60
F-5A Lightning x 4

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Blenheim IV: 5 damaged
Wellington III: 4 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
47 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Airbase hits 4
Runway hits 4

Aircraft Attacking:
5 x Wellington III bombing at 16000 feet

it´s amazing that those British bombers hit nothing at Dili, the US 4Es achieved 100+ hits at this tiny airfield. A Wellington carries more bombs than a B-17... The biggest threat for us in the next years are the B-24s...

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 130
B5N Kate x 4
G4M1 Betty x 9
Ki-27 Nate x 70
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 47

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported

Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 90
Port hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 36th Division, at 43,32


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 26
Hurricane IIc x 23
I-16c x 29


Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
Hurricane IIc: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
74 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet

this is at Chungking, I guess I have to attack this airfield sooner or later... there are four Chinese base forces though and I guess this is enough to see massive flak fire over the base...

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Day Air attack on 54th Chinese Corps, at 47,29

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 27
Ki-21 Sally x 6
Ki-49 Helen x 31

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
31 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on 72nd Chinese Corps, at 47,29

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 6
Ki-49 Helen x 9

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
33 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet
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Sub attack near Lautem at 33,78 [:D]

Japanese Ships
SS RO-63

Allied Ships
ML Krakatau, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

like I´ve mentioned before, I was never a real fan of those RO-class boats but in this game I make good use of them as they can operate near their home port and this way they´re quite useful and have done a good job so far. This was a very important hit, I´m sure the ML was sunk as we didn´t spot it during the day. No confirmed sinking though. Now I know why my last surface combat TF hit a VH2 at Lautern. Must mean that there´s a MLE at Darwin as we sighted this ML coming from Darwin, it was reported as a lone AK though. [:)]

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ASW attack at 7,92

Japanese Ships
SS I-4

Allied Ships
MSW Cootamundra
MSW Colac
MSW Cessnock
MSW Castlemaine
MSW Benalla
MSW Ballarat

Aussie West coast, the MSW all fail to locate my Glen equipped sub...

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Ground combat at Delhi

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22420 troops, 255 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 483

Defending force 26304 troops, 94 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 372



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Ground combat at Sian

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14246 troops, 458 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2876

Defending force 100524 troops, 321 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3305



Allied ground losses:
63 casualties reported

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15877 troops, 184 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1530

Defending force 196033 troops, 1471 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4180



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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8369 troops, 289 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1531

Defending force 33106 troops, 249 guns, 241 vehicles, Assault Value = 601



Allied ground losses:
414 casualties reported
Guns lost 7

Allied assault value dropped by 20 points from yesterday. Don´t know if Miller will retreat all his troops to China, if not, I´m thinking about attacking the base soon.

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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15992 troops, 202 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3441

Defending force 222688 troops, 832 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5690



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Ground combat at Chungking

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 135304 troops, 1407 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4180

Defending force 78759 troops, 810 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1530


Japanese ground losses:
44 casualties reported
Guns lost 2



Paul wasn´t really pleased about the massacre of his 300 Mitchell attack on Koepang yesterday and told me he would stop this unescorted 2E raids now. He said it was a fault not to keep Koepang´s airfield inoperational as his 2E bombers are made out of paper while his 4Es are indestructable. Allied 2Es made out of paper? [X(][:)]

I guess this defensive success over Koepang has bought us a couple of weeks, I expect him to start flying those attacks again when he has Lightnings available, which shouldn´t take that long anymore. I hopefully will be able to kill a good number of P-38s as this would then slow down his offensive operations again. From 2/43 on, nothing will stop his air offensives and all I can do then is perhaps temporarily point defense with mass fighter concentrations to cover a convoy or so but the P-47, P-38 for long range and the F4U for short range will make the defense against Allied bomber raids impossible.

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 10/16/42

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Sub attack near Dili at 31,77

Japanese Ships
AG AG-5048, Shell hits 4, on fire

Allied Ships
SS KXIII

Miller´s sub kills a barge...

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Sub attack at 7,92

Japanese Ships
SS I-1

Allied Ships
AK John C. Fremont, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

And our sub kills an AK 600miles North of Perth. This has as much effect on the Allied as the barge sinking has on my Empire... [;)]

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ASW attack at 7,92

Japanese Ships
SS I-1

Allied Ships
MSW Bendigo
MSW Cromarty
MSW Romney
MSW Cromer
MSW Toowoomba
MSW Warrnambool

my subs still score around the North West tip of Australia and Miller seems to increase his ASW efforts...

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ASW attack at 7,92

Japanese Ships
SS I-1

Allied Ships
DD Banckert
AK Indianan

A lonely DD escort kept our sub from attacking the convoy...

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ASW attack at 7,92

Japanese Ships
SS I-1

Allied Ships
MSW Bendigo
MSW Cromarty
MSW Romney
MSW Cromer
MSW Toowoomba
MSW Warrnambool

how many more attacks on I-1?

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ASW attack at 7,91

Japanese Ships
SS I-4, hits 3

Allied Ships
MSW Burnie
MSW Goulburn
MSW Maryborough
MSW Bundaberg
MSW Poole

Another MSW TF, this time 3 near misses and the sub ends up with a dozen sys damage... will retire home...

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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 34
Spitfire Vb x 26
Kittyhawk I x 23
P-40E Warhawk x 57

Japanese aircraft losses
No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged
Spitfire Vb: 6 damaged
Kittyhawk I: 4 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 5 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
33 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 14

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Kittyhawk I bombing at 2000 feet

really seems like there is still a minimum alt for flak guns. A bomber attack at 12.000ft is hit more than those fighter attacks at 2.000ft. There are some 30-40 flak guns.

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Ground combat at Delhi

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22420 troops, 255 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 483

Defending force 25786 troops, 94 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 372



Allied ground losses:
10 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Sian

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14277 troops, 459 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2877

Defending force 100394 troops, 320 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3300



Allied ground losses:
87 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15870 troops, 183 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1533

Defending force 196022 troops, 1470 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4178



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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8400 troops, 291 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1532

Defending force 32776 troops, 239 guns, 243 vehicles, Assault Value = 582



Allied ground losses:
268 casualties reported
Guns lost 9
Vehicles lost 2


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16032 troops, 202 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3444

Defending force 222458 troops, 832 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5701



Allied ground losses:
10 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Chungking

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 135293 troops, 1406 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4178

Defending force 78676 troops, 810 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1533


Japanese ground losses:
40 casualties reported


Now this statement really concerned me: [&:]

I see you have a radar equiped destroyer at Koepang........it would account for the high CAP, perhaps my 4E should pay a naval attack visit?

hmm... Miller has spotted my DD TF at Koepang but when looking at the previous op reports I haven´t found a message that he did get one of my DDs identified so I wonder how he comes up with this idea. Of course he´s 100% right on the spot with his statement, I just wonder how he figures that one out, even if he gets a message DDxy spotted at Koepang, then he has to realize immediately that this is a Yugumo class DD and he has to know that the Yugumos have radar at this date. And what about the three other DDs in the TF? Why should all four be Yugumos? And why not just an escort TF for my AKs unloading there? Hmm... really strange... [&:]

[Ambassador]

A sighting by a patrol plane maybe ?  He only mentions one DD, not 4, he probably doesn't know for the others.  Maybe you should leave one there and ostensibly move the other elsewhere...[:D]

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: Ambassador

A sighting by a patrol plane maybe ?  He only mentions one DD, not 4, he probably doesn't know for the others.  Maybe you should leave one there and ostensibly move the other elsewhere...[:D]

unfortunately the effects of radar increase with the number of radar sets in a hex. That´s why Allied air supremacy gets higher and higher as soon as you have nearly the whole map covered with multiple radar sets. So keeping only one DD at Koepang won´t help me a lot I guess. I will keep the DDs and the fighters at Koepang as long as it takes to bring in a good amount of supplies and move them out again anyway.

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 10/17/42


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Ground combat at Delhi

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22412 troops, 254 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 483

Defending force 25294 troops, 92 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 340



Allied ground losses:
11 casualties reported

Dehli´s assault value dropped by 32 points in one day! [X(] Troop strenght only reduced by 500 though, so does this mean the Allied are starving here already? I doubt that airlifting out 500 troops would decrease the av by 32 points.

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Ground combat at Sian

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14277 troops, 459 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2878

Defending force 100270 troops, 316 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3297



Allied ground losses:
232 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15847 troops, 183 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1533

Defending force 195912 troops, 1467 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4175



Allied ground losses:
11 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Sining

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 4728 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 398

Defending force 3089 troops, 14 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 24

I´m sure the ordered shock attack tomorrow will take the base. Miller is sure about this too as he moved out all his aircraft! [;)]


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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8423 troops, 290 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1532

Defending force 32351 troops, 227 guns, 241 vehicles, Assault Value = 561



Allied ground losses:
148 casualties reported
Guns lost 4
Vehicles lost 2


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16035 troops, 202 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3441

Defending force 222286 troops, 825 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5712



Allied ground losses:
11 casualties reported


after our recent victory over Koepang it seems to be getting more quiet again...

[Ambassador]

Not a single air strike from any one side ?[&:]

ORIGINAL: castor troy
unfortunately the effects of radar increase with the number of radar sets in a hex. That´s why Allied air supremacy gets higher and higher as soon as you have nearly the whole map covered with multiple radar sets. So keeping only one DD at Koepang won´t help me a lot I guess. I will keep the DDs and the fighters at Koepang as long as it takes to bring in a good amount of supplies and move them out again anyway.

I didn't know that - this game gets better and better the more I learn about it.

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: Ambassador

Not a single air strike from any one side ?[&:]

ORIGINAL: castor troy
unfortunately the effects of radar increase with the number of radar sets in a hex. That´s why Allied air supremacy gets higher and higher as soon as you have nearly the whole map covered with multiple radar sets. So keeping only one DD at Koepang won´t help me a lot I guess. I will keep the DDs and the fighters at Koepang as long as it takes to bring in a good amount of supplies and move them out again anyway.

I didn't know that - this game gets better and better the more I learn about it.

well, I´m only speaking about my "experience" and what I´ve seen in a couple of thousand turns. Enough radar, you most always get the bounce forever and most always have a very high Cap in the air.

[Ambassador]

I only have a few hundred turns under my belt, so I trust you're right.  I'll pay more attention to the radar sets in my BF next time.

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 10/18/42

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TF 1002 encounters mine field at Darwin (36,84)

Allied Ships
MSW Kalgoorlie
MSW Tamworth

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TF 1002 encounters mine field at Darwin (36,84)

Allied Ships
MSW Kalgoorlie
MSW Tamworth

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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 238

Japanese aircraft losses
No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 4 destroyed, 24 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
469 casualties reported
Guns lost 12

Airbase hits 11
Airbase supply hits 10
Runway hits 79

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 10000 feet

how many days have gone by when I destroyed 90 and damaged 150 more Mitchells over Koepang? [8|] 238 are already attacking again... [8|]

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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77


Allied aircraft
Blenheim IV x 60
Wellington III x 94
F-5A Lightning x 6


Allied aircraft losses
Blenheim IV: 4 damaged
Wellington III: 9 damaged
F-5A Lightning: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
75 casualties reported

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 35

Aircraft Attacking:
5 x Wellington III bombing at 10000 feet
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Day Air attack on 1st Ind. Brigade, at 43,32


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIc x 16


Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIc: 5 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
45 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Hurricane IIc bombing at 2000 feet
8 x Hurricane IIc bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 36th Division, at 43,32


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 16
Hurricane IIc x 8
I-153c x 10
I-16c x 12


Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb: 1 damaged
I-16c: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
61 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x I-16c bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 16th Mixed Brigade, at 43,32


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 5
Hurricane IIc x 8
I-16c x 24


Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb: 1 damaged
Hurricane IIc: 1 damaged
I-16c: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
34 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x I-16c bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 128
LB-30 Liberator x 43
B-24D Liberator x 85

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-46-II Dinah: 5 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 21 damaged
LB-30 Liberator: 4 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 23 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
257 casualties reported

Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 63

Aircraft Attacking:
34 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 10000 feet
29 x B-24D Liberator bombing at 10000 feet

650 Allied bomber unloaded their loads over Dili today...

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Ground combat at Delhi

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22332 troops, 254 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 483

Defending force 24796 troops, 90 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 300



Allied ground losses:
20 casualties reported

500 troops less, 40!!!! av less! What´s going on here?

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Ground combat at Sining

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 23397 troops, 197 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 406

Defending force 3110 troops, 15 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 25

Japanese max assault: 676 - adjusted assault: 604

Allied max defense: 25 - adjusted defense: 53

Japanese assault odds: 11 to 1 (fort level 5)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Sining base !!!


Japanese ground losses:
94 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Allied ground losses:
2867 casualties reported
Guns lost 9

the base in the far North is Japanese now, two understrenght Chinese base forces surrendered, only worth around 15 victory points...

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Ground combat at Sian

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14257 troops, 459 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2878

Defending force 99729 troops, 311 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3279



Allied ground losses:
81 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15858 troops, 182 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1530

Defending force 197856 troops, 1473 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4171



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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8418 troops, 289 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1532

Defending force 32092 troops, 224 guns, 238 vehicles, Assault Value = 545



Allied ground losses:
134 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16041 troops, 201 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3445

Defending force 222268 troops, 824 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5720



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Ground combat at Dili

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 3293 troops, 15 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1184

Defending force 13184 troops, 146 guns, 17 vehicles, Assault Value = 421[X(]

now this is interesting! Yesterday the first Allied unit entered Dili and the bombardment today showed it being a USMC division! This could be a chance to dislodge this unit and this would also mean that Miller´s land assault on Dili could get stuck! I´m amazed a single unit alone entered my hex. Unfortunately my supply situation isn´t good (even though I was bringing in thousands of tons of supply already) and the wooden hex will help the USMC division when I will attack. The unit is two hexes away from Lautern, so I also wonder how well it will be supplied...

I´m thinking about ordering a shock attack tomorrow! I guess Miller will be surprised when he sees nearly 1200 assault points defending Dili...

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Ground combat at Dili

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 13184 troops, 146 guns, 17 vehicles, Assault Value = 421

Defending force 51639 troops, 400 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1184


Japanese ground losses:
20 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

[castor troy]

I am unsure if this was a good or bad day for us...

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 10/19/42

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TF 1002 encounters mine field at Darwin (36,84)

Allied Ships
MSW Kalgoorlie
MSW Tamworth

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Naval bombardment of Dili, at 31,77

Japanese Ships
CA Myoko
CA Maya
CA Atago
CA Takao


Allied ground losses:
170 casualties reported
Guns lost 4
Vehicles lost 2

I knew we wouldn´t do a lot of damage because inf units are immune to naval bombardments but I hope we have at least disrupted the unit...

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TF 1002 encounters mine field at Darwin (36,84)

Allied Ships
MSW Kalgoorlie
MSW Tamworth

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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 31

Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 206

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 16 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 3 destroyed, 45 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
209 casualties reported

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 50

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 10000 feet

31 Zeroes were able to take down 2 Mitchells during the replay... [8|]

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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 14

Allied aircraft
Blenheim IV x 62
Wellington III x 79
F-5A Lightning x 5

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 4 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Blenheim IV: 1 destroyed, 6 damaged
Wellington III: 10 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
117 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 4
Runway hits 30

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Wellington III bombing at 10000 feet

sending 108 Zeroes on LRCAP at three hexes distance obviously shows no effect... [8|]

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 130
B5N Kate x 4
G4M1 Betty x 9
Ki-27 Nate x 70
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 82

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 8
Runway hits 136

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 1st Ind. Brigade, at 43,32


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIc x 9


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x Hurricane IIc bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 36th Division, at 43,32


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 22
Hurricane IIc x 18
I-16c x 34


Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb: 1 damaged
Hurricane IIc: 2 damaged
I-16c: 3 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
39 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Aircraft Attacking:
17 x I-16c bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 16th Mixed Brigade, at 43,32


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 19
Hurricane IIc x 10
I-153c x 14
I-16c x 15


Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb: 3 damaged
Hurricane IIc: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
I-16c: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
41 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x I-16c bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 87th Chinese Corps, at 47,29

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 24
Ki-21 Sally x 25
Ki-49 Helen x 78

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
59 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on 1st USMC Division, at 31,77 [:(]

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 50
G3M Nell x 53
G4M1 Betty x 35

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 22
Spitfire Vb x 14
Kittyhawk I x 22
P-40E Warhawk x 52

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 34 destroyed
G3M Nell: 15 destroyed, 21 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 4 destroyed, 4 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 3 destroyed, 16 damaged
Spitfire Vb: 5 destroyed, 4 damaged
Kittyhawk I: 13 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 15 destroyed, 22 damaged


Allied ground losses:
81 casualties reported
Guns lost 5
Vehicles lost 1

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x G3M Nell bombing at 6000 feet

whereas it does show a very good effect to send 250 Allied fighters on LRCAP at 2 hexes distance. My 80+ pilots once again get mauled, the Allied still can´t be much higher than 60 at best. Doesn´t help, our fighters get shredded and this time also the bombers. Ground attacks usually don´t fly, or the weather is bad or whatever. Today, when Miller has 100+ fighters on Cap over his USMC division my ground attack took off... what a lucky bastard I am. I have ordered my troops to SHOCK attack tomorrow but I don´t expect anything to be honest. The single USMC division will probably shred my troops to pieces but we will see. I just have to take the chance of forcing out this unit. The naval bombardment and the a2g attack should at least have caused 50+ disruption... hopefully... this was definetely the bad part of this turn...

once again I have to remind myself that the only thing I should attack are enemy TFs... losses are worth it if you sink ships, they aren´t if you only take down some Allied fighters that get unlimited replacements of both aircraft and pilots...



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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 33

Allied aircraft
F-5A Lightning x 1

No Japanese losses

No Allied losses


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Ground combat at Delhi

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22351 troops, 254 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 483

Defending force 24224 troops, 91 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 260

again the Allied av drops by 40 points in one day... what´s going on? I guess there won´t be much of the Allied garrison left when my tanks will arrive...

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Ground combat at Kungchang

Japanese Deliberate attack [8D]

Attacking force 197006 troops, 1669 guns, 652 vehicles, Assault Value = 3954

Defending force 44129 troops, 205 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1261

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 3

Japanese max assault: 3904 - adjusted assault: 4146

Allied max defense: 1311 - adjusted defense: 528

Japanese assault odds: 7 to 1 (fort level 3)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Kungchang base !!!


Japanese ground losses:
3241 casualties reported
Guns lost 72
Vehicles lost 8

Allied ground losses:
70657 casualties reported
Guns lost 314

and that´s the good part of this turn which also has much more strategic and long term impact than the loss of the 50 ac today. Kungchang fell much more easily than I have thought, I guess the enemy ran out of supplies. All enemy troops here had to surrender and a whole Chinese Army marches in my POW camps. We´ve scored 326 points for Allied ground losses today, now being at 14.599!! [&o] I´m sure we will reach the 15.000 points soon! Half of my total victory points have been scored for Allied units being destroyed. Next target in China is Sian now, I´m sure there´s also not much supply left but 100.000 troops are defending the base behind Maginot line forts. When the Army from Kungchang arrives at Homan then I will start my assault on Sian. I have to kill off also three enemy units on the road North of Sian.

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Ground combat at Sian

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14258 troops, 457 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2875

Defending force 99246 troops, 304 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3270



Allied ground losses:
94 casualties reported

enemy troop strenght and assautl value is declining daily, this is a good sign...

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15864 troops, 183 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1529

Defending force 223452 troops, 1609 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4179

I´m thinking about moving another division into Chungking, just to make sure we´re secure, even though our assault value should be adjusted to something like 8.000+ in the urban hex. But the daily Allied air attacks on 3 of my divisions here is making me some concerns...


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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8368 troops, 287 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1529

Defending force 31881 troops, 224 guns, 236 vehicles, Assault Value = 533



Allied ground losses:
304 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Vehicles lost 2

when I don´t need my tanks in India anymore I will move them back to Burma to clear out Myitkina once and for all. As it seems now, Miller is not moving out all his units to China...

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Ground combat at Dili

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 665 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1232

Defending force 12801 troops, 132 guns, 13 vehicles, Assault Value = 411

hopefully the damned USMC division will be forced to retreat. Supply is a big issue for us, hopefully also for the Marines that have to be supplied over 120 miles of trails. When we and the enemy are only at 50% supply and the enemy is 50% disrupted due to the attacks today then the 2x bonus for the wooden hex should NOT be enough to withstand the attack of 1000 assault points... hopefully, in any case it will be a narrow situation tomorrow...

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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16052 troops, 202 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3443

Defending force 222367 troops, 830 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5727

[Ambassador]

Great news from China ![&o]

[castor troy]

The second day in a row when I´m not sure if I should laugh or cry...

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 10/20/42

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Day Air attack on Chungking , at 43,32

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 77
Ki-21 Sally x 37
Ki-49 Helen x 106

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 19
Hurricane IIc x 17
I-153c x 11
I-16c x 17

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 8 destroyed, 14 damaged
Ki-21 Sally: 12 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 4 destroyed, 34 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb: 6 destroyed, 7 damaged
Hurricane IIc: 4 destroyed, 10 damaged
I-153c: 10 destroyed
I-16c: 15 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
158 casualties reported

Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 40

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 11000 feet

I have ordered strikes from three bases on Chungking but of course two were clouded and exactly the weakest strike from 7 hexes goes in. The sweep from 5 hexes and the first bigger bomber attack from 6 hexes failed to take off. Needless to say that the Allied got the bounce for 100% of the duration of the engagement and because I´m not counting the obsolete Chinese fighters, the British achieved a kill rate 2:1 in their favour...

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Day Air attack on Koepang , at 28,77

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 46
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 87

Allied aircraft
PBY Catalina x 5
B-17E Fortress x 100 [X(]
LB-30 Liberator x 34
B-24D Liberator x 61 [X(]

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 25 damaged
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 5 destroyed, 63 damaged
Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
PBY Catalina: 5 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 9 destroyed, 82 damaged
LB-30 Liberator: 11 destroyed, 12 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 7 destroyed, 47 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
118 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 20

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 12000 feet
8 x LB-30 Liberator bombing at 12000 feet
14 x B-24D Liberator bombing at 12000 feet
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 12000 feet
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 12000 feet

looks like Miller became angry, he has replaced his Mitchells at Derby with 4Es to torch my fighters at Koepang. 200 unescorted flying pillboxes encounter 130 fighters over Koepang and it seems the Allied bomber crew´s morale wasn´t that god as the majority turns back. 31 bomber drop their load over the base which is enough to destroy 9 Tojos on the ground. [8|]

But in return we take down 34 Allied 4Es.

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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 166


Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 17 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
344 casualties reported

Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 8
Runway hits 69

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 10000 feet

The Mitchells are already operational again and huge numbers attack Dili, now coming from Darwin. Half a dozen bomber are lost in this attack...

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 130
B5N Kate x 4
G3M Nell x 35
G4M1 Betty x 9
Ki-27 Nate x 70
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 82

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
21 casualties reported

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 112

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

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Day Air attack on 1st Ind. Brigade, at 43,32


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIc x 8
I-16c x 14


Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIc: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
27 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x I-16c bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 36th Division, at 43,32


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 32
Hurricane IIc x 8
I-153c x 10
I-16c x 15


Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb: 3 damaged
I-16c: 1 destroyed

Japanese ground losses:
30 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x I-153c bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 16th Mixed Brigade, at 43,32


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 8
Hurricane IIc x 18
I-153c x 14
I-16c x 14


Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIc: 2 damaged
I-16c: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
12 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x I-16c bombing at 2000 feet

This is the reason why our bombers didn´t hit much at Chungking, the enemy flew strikes also and the airfield was empty...

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Day Air attack on 1st USMC Division, at 31,77

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 36

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 15
Spitfire Vb x 10
Kittyhawk I x 38
P-40E Warhawk x 37

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 17 destroyed, 2 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 2 destroyed, 7 damaged
Spitfire Vb: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged
Kittyhawk I: 8 destroyed, 22 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 3 destroyed, 17 damaged

After the defeat over Dili yesterday we are flying massive attacks to destroy the enemy fighter force above our base. Unfortunately we start off bad of course, 60% of our strike fails to locate the base and only parts of two Tojo sentais show up to engage a big Cap. The Tojo proves to be a poor offensive weapon and dogfighter and we lose more fighters than the enemy. The Tojo pilots are in the mid 80 as I used my best available. [:(] This strike came from Koepang (5 hexes), with the bombing raid on their base this could have been a big mistake as I missed those fighters for Cap duty...

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Day Air attack on 1st USMC Division, at 31,77

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 126

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 6
Spitfire Vb x 4
Kittyhawk I x 16
P-40E Warhawk x 17

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 16 destroyed, 13 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 8 destroyed
Spitfire Vb: 9 destroyed
Kittyhawk I: 33 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 19 destroyed

Then a big strike of Oscars comes in from Maumere, 6 hexes. The Oscar proves to be the far better dogfighter as it´s an agile aircraft while being far slower than the Tojo. The enemy fighter defenses were already disrupted and the incoming IJA fighters tored through the defending fighter formations. The ground troops defending Dili saw it raining Allied fighter wrecks. One of my sentais was hit hard though but this was a decisive blow for the Allied defenses, when...

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... the third ordered strike showed up over the base...

Day Air attack on 1st USMC Division, at 31,77

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 90

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 5
Spitfire Vb x 1
Kittyhawk I x 3
P-40E Warhawk x 10

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 3 destroyed, 3 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 10 destroyed
Spitfire Vb: 2 destroyed
Kittyhawk I: 9 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 29 destroyed

Now being complete shot up already and totally disrupted, the Allied fighters had no chance and the cannon armed Zeroes took down one fighter after another! In the end it was a massive victory over the Allied fighter defenses at Dili. BANZAI! The enemy lost 134 fighters over Dili today...
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Day Air attack on TF, near Koepang at 28,77

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 46
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 87

Allied aircraft
Wellington III x 3

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Wellington III: 3 damaged

Paul ordered parts of his British bombers at Wyndham to fly naval attacks. 3 Wellingtons soon turned back when they encountered over 100 IJN fighters over Koepang...

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Day Air attack on TF, near Koepang at 28,77

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 46
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 87

Allied aircraft
Blenheim IV x 15

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 damaged
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 2 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Blenheim IV: 5 destroyed, 5 damaged

Japanese Ships
DD Kazegumo

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x Blenheim IV bombing at 10000 feet

Another strike, this time with obsolete Blenheims tried to attack our DDs... 1 made it through the Cap to drop two bombs a mile away from it´s target...

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Day Air attack on Koepang , at 28,77

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 22
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 37

Allied aircraft
Blenheim IV x 31
Wellington III x 48

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 6 damaged
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 11 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Blenheim IV: 5 destroyed, 12 damaged
Wellington III: 4 destroyed, 38 damaged

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Wellington III bombing at 10000 feet

in the afternoon, the British also launched an airfield attack and our Cap was totally shrinked with not even 60 fighters in the air. But the British crews are also low on morale and most bombers turned back. 4 Wellington made it to the base but all missed the target. The Wellington is really tough, it seemed to be impossible to take them down. I don´t consider the obsolete Blenheim a threat! If I were the Allied commander I wouldn´t use them for offensive missions in this theater.

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And here are the total losses for today:[/color]



In the end it was only a 3:1 in total aircraft lost today, the attack on Chungking hurt us more than expected. What of course also hurts is the fact that we lost some 50 pilots today, a couple of daitais were totally shredded and were withdrawn to be rebuilt and retrained. I hope this day, especially the fights over Dili and Koepang are hurting Miller´s morale and hopefully he refrains for ongoing air attacks in this area now. Today was an all out effort again, nearly all the IJAAF fighter forces are based in the triangle of Timor, Kendari and Amboina.


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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77


Allied aircraft
F-5A Lightning x 1


Allied aircraft losses
F-5A Lightning: 1 damaged


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Ground combat at Delhi

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22371 troops, 254 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 483

Defending force 23506 troops, 91 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 244



Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Dili [8|]

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 50840 troops, 359 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1224

Defending force 28383 troops, 273 guns, 31 vehicles, Assault Value = 841

Japanese max assault: 1748 - adjusted assault: 815

Allied max defense: 683 - adjusted defense: 1381 [:@][:@][:@]

Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1


Japanese ground losses:
4476 casualties reported
Guns lost 45

Allied ground losses:
355 casualties reported
Guns lost 18
Vehicles lost 1

GOD DAMN!!! [:@] Why on Earth does my opponent have the luck that exactly today, another USMC division entered Dili? Oh my... I could have lived with the fact to get a 0:1 but at what casualty ratio? What kind of joke... There are two USMC divisions 120 miles away from their supply base and they still seem to get 100% supplied over two hexes of trails... god damn again! I have lost 500!!!!!!!!!!!!! assault points in this attack! Stupid joke! With this attack, I have lost Dili... against an opponent that marches his troops into my base... [:o] Why am I even surprised that our assault value got halved and the Allied av got doubled... I´m sure the Allied will attack at full av when he starts his attacks...

I can´t believe it...


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Ground combat at Sian

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14265 troops, 459 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2873

Defending force 98929 troops, 297 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3261



Allied ground losses:
106 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15872 troops, 184 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1525

Defending force 223263 troops, 1607 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4184



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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8406 troops, 290 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1529

Defending force 31469 troops, 224 guns, 233 vehicles, Assault Value = 508



Allied ground losses:
336 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
Vehicles lost 1


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16064 troops, 201 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3443

Defending force 222304 troops, 830 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5732

[castor troy]

the damn forum software seems to go nuts... I changed the attachement embedding and then I had my post doubled... [:@]