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

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 11/19/42

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TF 25 encounters mine field at Maumere (28,73)

Japanese Ships
AP Kiyozumi Maru, Mine hits 1, on fire

A medium sized AP hits a Type 93 mine at a friendly port. Now that is a rare occassion! While Japanese Type 4 and Type 93 mines are only enough to scratch some paint on an Allied AK, it´s enough to put this Japanese AP into sinking condition... flt is at 54 and there are 17 fires, I expect the ship to sink...

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Dili at 31,77

Japanese Ships
AG AG-103
AG AG-104
AG AG-106
AG AG-110
AG AG-111
AG AG-112
AG AG-114
AG AG-115
AG AG-117
AG AG-120
AG AG-122
AG AG-354
AG AG-355
AG AG-356
AG AG-358
AG AG-359
AG AG-360
AG AG-362
AG AG-363
AG AG-365
AG AG-367
AG AG-375
AG AG-5051
AG AG-5068
AG AG-5089
AG AG-5090
AG AG-5091
AG AG-5114
AG AG-5138
AG AG-5139
AG AG-5140
AG AG-5141
AG AG-5142
AG AG-5143
AG AG-5164
AG AG-5165, Shell hits 38, and is sunk
AG AG-2051
AG AG-2052
AG AG-2053
AG AG-2055
AG AG-2057
AG AG-2059
AG AG-2060
AG AG-2061
AG AG-2066

Allied Ships
PT PT-143
PT PT-144
PT PT-146

Miller uses his PTs like they were used in real life also, but only one barge is sunk...

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TF 1008 encounters mine field at Derby (24,85)

Allied Ships
MSW Latrobe
MSW Shepparton
MSW Katoomba
MSW Launceton
MSW Gympie

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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 105


Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
78 casualties reported

Port hits 4
Port supply hits 13

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet

I don´t know where all my supply has gone in two turns but the base has 0 supply now! [:@][&:] Two days ago the base had 7.000+ supplies and all my units were fully supplied. Now my units are 50% supplied and no supply is at the base left... another nice feature... I would call it a bug as there´s no reason why all the supply should suddenly vanish... [>:]

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 188
B5N Kate x 12
Ki-27 Nate x 35
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 149

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
24 casualties reported

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 172
Port hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Koumac , at 67,111


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 46


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 11

Aircraft Attacking:
19 x F4F-4 Wildcat bombing at 2000 feet


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Ground combat at Sian

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14213 troops, 457 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4059

Defending force 83710 troops, 44 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2764



Allied ground losses:
120 casualties reported

deliberate attack tomorrow...

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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8410 troops, 290 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1029

Defending force 22464 troops, 147 guns, 193 vehicles, Assault Value = 339



Allied ground losses:
111 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16049 troops, 202 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3481

Defending force 220654 troops, 719 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5863



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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 73378 troops, 636 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 1990

Defending force 71646 troops, 883 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 1469


Japanese ground losses:
38 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Allied ground losses:
31 casualties reported
Guns lost 2


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Ground combat at Dili

Allied Deliberate attack [X(]

Attacking force 66492 troops, 797 guns, 136 vehicles, Assault Value = 1560

Defending force 72432 troops, 451 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1513

Allied max assault: 1492 - adjusted assault: 1168

Japanese max defense: 1248 - adjusted defense: 863

Allied assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 0)

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 0


Japanese ground losses:
1595 casualties reported
Guns lost 40

Allied ground losses:
1729 casualties reported
Guns lost 65
Vehicles lost 6

the next deliberate attack, perhaps all my supply was given to the Allied attacker... [8|] the first 1:1 attack, we still get only a sh*tty adjusted av even that we defend in a wooden hex. At least this time the Allied suffered slightly more casualties than we did, but with two bombardments we will have lost 1.500 troops more again... the fact that some 15.000 supplies vanished in one turn (7.000 at the base and 8.000 within my troops) will be the reason why I will lose this base... great! Really... great!


Next Allied target are the Fidjis, half a dozen TFs are moving in. Won´t be much of a problem to take the bases and I won´t do anything, it´s not worth it.

[Ambassador]

He moves fast from one massive invasion to the next.[X(]

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: Ambassador

He moves fast from one massive invasion to the next.[X(]

that´s no problem when you know that there´s not much resistance. At least I guess he should know that all those island far out aren´t really defended. Why should I... But he will reach a point where it will be painful for him. And instead of moving out of Timor, I´m happy that he disperses his troops down there...

[castor troy]

this turn makes me mad again... [:o]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 11/20/42

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Lautem at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CA Mikuma
CA Suzuya
CA Kumano
CA Kinugasa
CA Furutaka
CA Kako
DD Kagero, Shell hits 2
DD Kuroshio
DD Oyashio
DD Hatsukaze, Shell hits 5, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Natsushio
DD Arashi

Allied Ships
PT PT-143
PT PT-144
PT PT-146

I had two surface combat TFs and two bombardment TFs. This time one surface combat TF had the lowest TF number and the other SC TF had the highest TF number. Which TF attacks the PTs? One of the bombardment TFs of course. God damn, how does this work now? Of course we lose another DD again... Hey, those PTs are so useless... ho ho ho, I´m Santa Clause... how many threads I´ve been involved when people told me that it takes 50 PTs to sink one DD when I´ve experienced the complete opposite and all the AARs I´ve read show the same thing that happens to me... [>:]

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Lautem at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CA Mikuma
CA Suzuya
CA Kumano
CA Kinugasa
CA Furutaka
CA Kako
DD Kagero, Shell hits 2
DD Kuroshio, Shell hits 1
DD Oyashio
DD Hatsukaze, on fire, heavy damage
DD Natsushio
DD Arashi

Allied Ships
PT PT-167
PT PT-170, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
PT PT-172

another round... [8|]
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Lautem at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CA Mikuma
CA Suzuya
CA Kumano
CA Kinugasa
CA Furutaka
CA Kako
DD Kagero
DD Kuroshio, Shell hits 3
DD Oyashio
DD Hatsukaze, on fire, heavy damage
DD Natsushio
DD Arashi

Allied Ships
PT PT-149, Shell hits 3, and is sunk
PT PT-157
PT PT-164, Shell hits 9, and is sunk

and another round... [8|]

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Lautem at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CA Mikuma
CA Suzuya
CA Kumano
CA Kinugasa
CA Furutaka
CA Kako
DD Kagero, Shell hits 1
DD Kuroshio
DD Oyashio
DD Hatsukaze, on fire, heavy damage
DD Natsushio
DD Arashi

Allied Ships
PT PT-143
PT PT-144, Shell hits 4, and is sunk
PT PT-146

hey! another round? [8|]

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Lautem at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CA Mikuma
CA Suzuya
CA Kumano
CA Kinugasa
CA Furutaka
CA Kako
DD Kagero
DD Kuroshio
DD Oyashio
DD Hatsukaze, on fire, heavy damage
DD Natsushio
DD Arashi

Allied Ships
PT PT-167, Shell hits 21, and is sunk
PT PT-172

of course there´s ... another round... [>:]
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Lautem at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CA Mikuma
CA Suzuya
CA Kumano
CA Kinugasa
CA Furutaka
CA Kako
DD Kagero
DD Kuroshio
DD Oyashio
DD Hatsukaze, on fire, heavy damage
DD Natsushio
DD Arashi

Allied Ships
PT PT-157, Shell hits 12, and is sunk

Oh? Another round?

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Lautem at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CA Mikuma
CA Suzuya
CA Kumano
CA Kinugasa
CA Furutaka
CA Kako
DD Kagero
DD Kuroshio
DD Oyashio
DD Hatsukaze, Shell hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
DD Natsushio
DD Arashi

Allied Ships
PT PT-143, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
PT PT-146, Shell hits 1, and is sunk

Ahh... another round...

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Lautem at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CA Mikuma
CA Suzuya
CA Kumano
CA Kinugasa
CA Furutaka
CA Kako
DD Kagero
DD Kuroshio
DD Oyashio
DD Hatsukaze, on fire, heavy damage
DD Natsushio
DD Arashi

Allied Ships
PT PT-172, Shell hits 10, and is sunk

and? of course! another round...

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Naval bombardment of Lautem, at 33,78


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
PB2Y Coronado: 1 destroyed
P-38G Lightning: 1 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 2 destroyed
SBD Dauntless: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Kinugasa
CA Kako
CA Kumano
CA Suzuya
CA Mikuma
CA Furutaka

Allied Ships
MSW Maryborough, Shell hits 6, on fire, heavy damage
MSW Poole, Shell hits 5, on fire, heavy damage


Allied ground losses:
1248 casualties reported
Guns lost 18

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 20
Port hits 6
Port supply hits 13

we do hit the fully stacked airfield this time but the ac destroyed is more or less a joke...

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Naval bombardment of Lautem, at 33,78


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
SBD Dauntless: 1 destroyed
Albacore: 1 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Atago
CA Ashigara
CA Nachi
CA Haguro
CA Chokai
CA Chikuma

Allied Ships
MSW Maryborough, Shell hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
MSW Poole, Shell hits 1, on fire, heavy damage


Allied ground losses:
517 casualties reported
Guns lost 6

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

and the cruiser TF that wasn´t involved in the PT fights even achieves a worse result... just not worth my attacks... I must be stupid, I know that it doesn´t work to attack enemy bases at this date of he war... 11/42... but I´m still doing it.... how stupid can I be...

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ASW attack near Lautem at 33,78

Japanese Ships
DD Kisaragi
DD Uranami
DD Isonami
DD Shirakumo
DD Hatsuharu
DD Yamakaze

Allied Ships
SS O21

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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77


Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 41
P-38G Lightning x 4


Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 1 damaged

Port hits 1
Port supply hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x P-40E Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet

fighter training on Timor now also...

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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 168


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
119 casualties reported

Port hits 3
Port supply hits 35

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet

with my actions I must admit that I´m stupid, but how stupid can the game be? There´s 0 (in words: zero) supply at Dili but the Mitchells achieve 35 supply hits? So... how much is 35% of 0?

It´s wonderful when 15.000 supplies just vanish...

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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77


Allied aircraft
Blenheim IV x 96
Wellington III x 62
F-5A Lightning x 6


Allied aircraft losses
Blenheim IV: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
23 casualties reported

Port hits 3
Port supply hits 10

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Wellington III bombing at 6000 feet

another 10 supply hits?

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Day Air attack on Koumac , at 67,111


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 47


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 3

Aircraft Attacking:
21 x F4F-4 Wildcat bombing at 2000 feet


fighter training on New Caledonia...

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Day Air attack on TF at 33,77


Allied aircraft
Beaufort I x 14
P-38G Lightning x 28


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
DD Hatsukaze, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x Beaufort I launching torpedoes at 200 feet

Miller flew in more torpedo bombers. Doesn´t matter, the DD only moved one hex after being hit by the PTs so it was dead already...

so, today we killed half a dozen PTs, a dozen ac (out of 200+) and two MSW for the loss of one DD. Points wise a victory for us but everyone knows how borked the victory points are anyway in the game.

Was there something positive this turn? Yes! We didn´t hit a mine!

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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77


Allied aircraft
Albacore x 27
SBD Dauntless x 25
Beaufort I x 19
P-38G Lightning x 24


Allied aircraft losses
Albacore: 3 damaged
SBD Dauntless: 3 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
18 casualties reported

Port hits 1
Port supply hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Beaufort I bombing at 6000 feet

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Ground combat at Sian

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 219092 troops, 2476 guns, 37 vehicles, Assault Value = 4713

Defending force 83450 troops, 44 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2756

Japanese max assault: 3494 - adjusted assault: 1608

Allied max defense: 2522 - adjusted defense: 1978

Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 9)


Japanese ground losses:
6587 casualties reported
Guns lost 138
Vehicles lost 2

Allied ground losses:
1514 casualties reported
Guns lost 12

I don´t know in which phase I am at the moment, I guess we´ve entered the "nothing works for the Japanse anymore phase". Third attack, third time we have hundreds of combat engineers in the hex and the third time we were not able to reduce a fort level. Stupid game...

mmm, the defender has been cut off for months, bombed for the same time (my bombers stopped flying, must be part of the "nothing works anymore phase") and over a dozen art units don´t do 10% of the damage the 5 Allied art units (that are supplied over 120 miles of trails) do at Dili.


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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8390 troops, 290 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1029

Defending force 22249 troops, 144 guns, 193 vehicles, Assault Value = 340



Allied ground losses:
163 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16069 troops, 202 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3521

Defending force 220547 troops, 709 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5865



Allied ground losses:
12 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 73390 troops, 637 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 1992

Defending force 71612 troops, 886 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 1466


Japanese ground losses:
68 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Allied ground losses:
32 casualties reported
Guns lost 2


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Ground combat at Dili

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 6967 troops, 209 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1391

Defending force 70085 troops, 396 guns, 1 vehicles, Assault Value = 1431


Japanese ground losses:
546 casualties reported
Guns lost 10
Vehicles lost 1

why doing deliberate attacks, better to destroy the divisions with bombardments only...

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 11/21/42

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Coastal Guns at Nandi, 85,114, firing at TF 1023
TF 1023 troops unloading over beach at Nandi, 85,114


42 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Allied Ships
AK Texan
DD Grayson

Japanese ground losses:
96 casualties reported
Guns lost 6

Allied ground losses:
1005 casualties reported

the enemy is going in at Nandi, this was somewhat expected. There´s only one IJN base force with CD guns on the Fidjis and it is base at: Nandi [:)] unfortunately it does no damage even though there was no pre invasion bombardment. This is highly careless IMO but Miller gets away with it. What if I would have put a dedicated CD unit here? Oh well...

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Coastal Guns at Nandi, 85,114, firing at TF 1023
TF 1023 troops unloading over beach at Nandi, 85,114



Allied ground losses:
536 casualties reported

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Coastal Guns at Nandi, 85,114, firing at TF 1030
TF 1030 troops unloading over beach at Nandi, 85,114



Allied ground losses:
465 casualties reported

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Coastal Guns at Nandi, 85,114, firing at TF 1037
TF 1037 troops unloading over beach at Nandi, 85,114


8 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied ground losses:
647 casualties reported

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Coastal Guns at Nandi, 85,114, firing at TF 1043
TF 1043 troops unloading over beach at Nandi, 85,114


13 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Allied Ships
DD Lardner
DD Stewart, Shell hits 1


Allied ground losses:
537 casualties reported

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Coastal Guns at Nandi, 85,114, firing at TF 1046
TF 1046 troops unloading over beach at Nandi, 85,114


16 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Allied Ships
DD Vampire


Allied ground losses:
636 casualties reported

there must be again A LOT of troops coming ashore... I don´t know why...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 5
B5N Kate x 5
G3M Nell x 54
G4M1 Betty x 60
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 108
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 72

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 59

Aircraft Attacking:
24 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 55
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 4

Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 159

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 36 damaged
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 8 destroyed, 90 damaged

Port hits 1
Port supply hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet

we LRCAPed Dili today to annoy our enemy and due to the fact that the bombers at Lautern (those that get escorts) are set to nav attack/airfield attack the bombers from Northern Australia come in first. The Mitchells pay a nice toll for their attack, many turn back due to low morale...

22 are accounted lost at the end of the day...

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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 24
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 2

Allied aircraft
F-5A Lightning x 8
B-17E Fortress x 101
LB-30 Liberator x 22
B-24D Liberator x 105

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 24 damaged
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 41 damaged
LB-30 Liberator: 4 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 39 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
61 casualties reported

Port hits 4
Port supply hits 16

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 6000 feet

I expected the British to show up but instead the flying American tanks show up... with 80+ being damaged and flying over 1000 miles you would think about a couple of them lost... think about it...

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 188
B5N Kate x 12
Ki-27 Nate x 35
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 152

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
5 casualties reported

Airbase hits 8
Runway hits 161

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Koumac , at 67,111


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 27


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 4

Aircraft Attacking:
21 x F4F-4 Wildcat bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Nandi , at 85,114


Allied aircraft
OS2U-3 Kingfisher x 9


Allied aircraft losses
OS2U-3 Kingfisher: 5 damaged

Nandi and Suva were reconned by the usual two dozen Kingfishers... [8|]

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Day Air attack on Kiska Island , at 92,35


Allied aircraft
PBY Catalina x 4
A-20B Boston x 28


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 20

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A-20B Boston bombing at 5000 feet

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Day Air attack on 3rd New Chinese Corps, at 47,29

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 27
Ki-21 Sally x 4
Ki-49 Helen x 117

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
82 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet

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Day Air attack on 51st Chinese Corps, at 47,29

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 6
Ki-49 Helen x 40

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
19 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

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

wow, we fly air attacks in China again...

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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 45
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 6

Allied aircraft
Albacore x 22
SBD Dauntless x 27
Beaufort I x 29
P-40E Warhawk x 45

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 5 destroyed, 8 damaged
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 4 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Albacore: 5 destroyed, 8 damaged
SBD Dauntless: 3 destroyed, 9 damaged
Beaufort I: 9 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 20 destroyed, 5 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
20 casualties reported

Port supply hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Beaufort I bombing at 6000 feet
12 x Albacore bombing at 5000 feet
10 x SBD Dauntless bombing at 2000 feet

this is the afternoon phase when Lautern´s bombers are coming in. Even though that the Warhawks are on escort we don´t achieve more than a 2:1... if you think we would bounce them then all I can say: dream on, the bounce is an Allied feature, if it´s happening for the Japanese side, well then it must be a bug...[8|]

we did get a shot at the bombers but didn´t achieve much...

In the end we achieve a 3:1 in ac lost today but we have also lost 13 pilots, which makes it again a 75% loss rate over my own base. Please NOTE the amazing number of Allied 4Es lost... laughable Nikmod result... I was hoping to see at least half a dozen lost but what should I say about 2... remember, 80+ were damaged...



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Ground combat at Sian

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14204 troops, 459 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4256

Defending force 81236 troops, 26 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2647



Allied ground losses:
125 casualties reported

guess we will attack again in two turns...

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Ground combat at Nandi

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 1640 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 90

Defending force 17820 troops, 103 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 879

believe it or not, Miller landed no less than 5!!!! divisions at Nandi!!! [X(][X(] What is he doing? Any explanation for this? I´m a fan of using brute force but 5 divisions? lol, that´s a good way to wreck his troops, those five divisions are down to only 40% of their combat strenght just from landing at Noumea and now at Nandi. I´m not sure why he uses 5 divisions for something two bgds would easily achieve but it serves me well. Those divs will need probably 2 months of rest now.

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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8372 troops, 290 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1030

Defending force 22013 troops, 143 guns, 191 vehicles, Assault Value = 339



Allied ground losses:
169 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16052 troops, 202 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3523

Defending force 220180 troops, 706 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5861



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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 73423 troops, 632 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 1990

Defending force 71505 troops, 887 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 1464


Japanese ground losses:
20 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Allied ground losses:
43 casualties reported
Guns lost 2


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Ground combat at Dili

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 64453 troops, 716 guns, 121 vehicles, Assault Value = 1411

Defending force 69284 troops, 377 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1402

Allied max assault: 1165 - adjusted assault: 730

Japanese max defense: 1141 - adjusted defense: 1585

Allied assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 0)


Japanese ground losses:
1246 casualties reported
Guns lost 33

Allied ground losses:
1908 casualties reported
Guns lost 72
Vehicles lost 13

another deliberate attack at Dili and the first time our adjusted av gets adjusted up and the Allied one gets adjusted down. Am also happy about the losses this time... Miller asked me again if I´m going to invade Lautern to cut off his troops at Dili because I´ve used a dozen cruisers yesterday and when I look at the units at Lautern then this becomes more and more an option it seems. After weeks of recon (with Dinah IIs), Lautern shows only 38.000 troops and as recon normally multiplies the enemy troops by 1.5-2 I expect not more than 20-25.000 troops at the base. I can´t remember how many divisions landed at Lautern but I guess there were 6, so this means only 1 would defend the place with a couple of base forces. Hmmm.... landing 6 or 7 divisions could do the trick quite fast... I´m thinking about it...

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 11/22/42

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the enemy TFs are still unloading the whole day, looks like there´s one TF for each division. Well, it´s surely not an abuse of a hr but there´s also no need to use 5 TFs to unload 5 TFs when I moved 250.000 troops on three TFs to India...

Coastal Guns at Nandi, 85,114, firing at TF 1023
TF 1023 troops unloading over beach at Nandi, 85,114


16 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Allied Ships
AK Nevadan


Allied ground losses:
265 casualties reported

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Coastal Guns at Nandi, 85,114, firing at TF 1030
TF 1030 troops unloading over beach at Nandi, 85,114


20 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied ground losses:
515 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

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Coastal Guns at Nandi, 85,114, firing at TF 1037
TF 1037 troops unloading over beach at Nandi, 85,114


10 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied ground losses:
529 casualties reported

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Coastal Guns at Nandi, 85,114, firing at TF 1043
TF 1043 troops unloading over beach at Nandi, 85,114


21 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Allied Ships
DD Crosby
AK Makiki


Allied ground losses:
558 casualties reported

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Coastal Guns at Nandi, 85,114, firing at TF 1046
TF 1046 troops unloading over beach at Nandi, 85,114


20 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Allied Ships
CL Detroit


Allied ground losses:
583 casualties reported

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Coastal Guns at Nandi, 85,114, firing at TF 1023
TF 1023 troops unloading over beach at Nandi, 85,114



Allied ground losses:
71 casualties reported

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Coastal Guns at Nandi, 85,114, firing at TF 1030
TF 1030 troops unloading over beach at Nandi, 85,114


7 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Allied Ships
AK Munlock, Shell hits 1, on fire


Allied ground losses:
409 casualties reported

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Coastal Guns at Nandi, 85,114, firing at TF 1037
TF 1037 troops unloading over beach at Nandi, 85,114


5 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Allied Ships
DD John D. Edwards, Shell hits 1


Allied ground losses:
594 casualties reported

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Coastal Guns at Nandi, 85,114, firing at TF 1043
TF 1043 troops unloading over beach at Nandi, 85,114


35 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Allied Ships
AK Mokihana, Shell hits 1
DD Parrott, Shell hits 2
CL Concord


Allied ground losses:
588 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

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Coastal Guns at Nandi, 85,114, firing at TF 1046
TF 1046 troops unloading over beach at Nandi, 85,114


48 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Allied Ships
AK Memphis City, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Litchfield
CL Detroit

Japanese ground losses:
10 casualties reported

Allied ground losses:
268 casualties reported

at the end of the day I´m still not sure if all ships have completed unloading... I can only hope that Miller keeps up his invasions in this style as sooner or later he will get totally trashed for doing invasions this style...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 5
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 71

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 38

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
no flights

Allied aircraft
PBY Catalina x 5
Blenheim IV x 83
Wellington III x 70

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

Allied aircraft losses
PBY Catalina: 4 damaged
Blenheim IV: 3 destroyed, 20 damaged
Wellington III: 1 destroyed, 25 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
94 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 47

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x Wellington III bombing at 12000 feet

the British visit Koepang, 9 bombers shot down by flak (6 Blenheim)... we lose 2 Dinah II on the ground... damage will be repaired within a day...

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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77


Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 22
B-26B Marauder x 179 [X(]


Allied aircraft losses
B-26B Marauder: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
73 casualties reported

Port hits 6
Port supply hits 16

Aircraft Attacking:
35 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 6000 feet

Miller moved nearly 200 Marauders to Lautern, supply can´t be an issue for him...

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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77


Allied aircraft
F-5A Lightning x 6
B-17E Fortress x 65
LB-30 Liberator x 19
B-24D Liberator x 67


Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
79 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Port hits 8
Port supply hits 13

Aircraft Attacking:
5 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 6000 feet

the 4Es are flying again already, none are lost...

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Day Air attack on Kiska Island , at 92,35


Allied aircraft
PBY Catalina x 5
A-20B Boston x 30


No Allied losses

Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 14

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x A-20B Boston bombing at 5000 feet

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Day Air attack on 53rd Chinese Corps, at 47,29

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 3
Ki-49 Helen x 32

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on 87th Chinese Corps, at 47,29

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 27
Ki-21 Sally x 9
Ki-49 Helen x 148

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
35 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77


Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 28


No Allied losses

sweep in the afternoon coming from Darwin... 1 Lightning crashed...

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Ground combat at Sian

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14190 troops, 458 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5304

Defending force 81165 troops, 27 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2649



Allied ground losses:
255 casualties reported

deliberate attack tomorrow... fourth try to knock one fort level down... [8|]

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Ground combat at Nandi

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 1640 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 90

Defending force 36933 troops, 344 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1004



Allied ground losses:
12 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8402 troops, 289 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1029

Defending force 21670 troops, 138 guns, 190 vehicles, Assault Value = 338



Allied ground losses:
117 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16069 troops, 202 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3523

Defending force 220038 troops, 698 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5856



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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 73447 troops, 634 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 1991

Defending force 71554 troops, 884 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 1465


Japanese ground losses:
141 casualties reported
Guns lost 4
Vehicles lost 1

Allied ground losses:
69 casualties reported
Guns lost 7


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Ground combat at Dili

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 6878 troops, 205 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1227

Defending force 67052 troops, 334 guns, 1 vehicles, Assault Value = 1319


Japanese ground losses:
592 casualties reported
Guns lost 6
Vehicles lost 1


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Ground combat at Nandi

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 36523 troops, 328 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1002

Defending force 4753 troops, 22 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 90

Allied max assault: 534 - adjusted assault: 298

Japanese max defense: 73 - adjusted defense: 87

Allied assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0)

Allied forces CAPTURE Nandi base !!!


Japanese ground losses:
361 casualties reported
Guns lost 5

Allied ground losses:
81 casualties reported
Guns lost 2


Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

looks like the 5 enemy divisions are far from being combat ready, they even have problem to dislodge a SNLF unit and an IJN base force...

[Xxzard]

Hmmm, I don't know about you, but I'm starting to think I shouldn't have started my game with a mod that has nikmod style A2A adjustments. I mean seriously, ops losses=ridiculous, flak=insane, Allied bombers=absurd.

I think if this is the way the design team sets up AE I want to start playing as Allied a lot more!

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: Xxzard

Hmmm, I don't know about you, but I'm starting to think I shouldn't have started my game with a mod that has nikmod style A2A adjustments. I mean seriously, ops losses=ridiculous, flak=insane, Allied bombers=absurd.

I think if this is the way the design team sets up AE I want to start playing as Allied a lot more!

the changes that were done were going into the right direction, especially the Uber cap issue. In some cases, like endurance of Allied 4Es and Allied flak it has gone too far. If you don´t have to put Cap over your bases because you can rely on the flak of a couple of base forces than I don´t know... IJN fighters vs US bombers looks good when they meet in the air IMO but overall Allied bombers are just too dominating when they are unescorted. I´m not saying Allied airforce should be dominating by 43, but not unescorted bombers vs bases with 300 Japanese fighters...

I doubt that AE has such radical changes when it goes to undestructable Allied bombers. At least I hope so. Unescorted raids shouldn´t be a cake walk against bases with hundreds of fighters IMO.

[Xxzard]

Agreed on the uber-cap issue, that was always a problem, although I would sometimes wish the cap was maybe a little bit better. I had 17 out of 18 hudsons break through 25 zeros on cap. I would surely think this would be a slaughter, and I certainly think in reality it would be. What seems to stop the allies is the morale hit more than losses.

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: Xxzard

Agreed on the uber-cap issue, that was always a problem, although I would sometimes wish the cap was maybe a little bit better. I had 17 out of 18 hudsons break through 25 zeros on cap. I would surely think this would be a slaughter, and I certainly think in reality it would be. What seems to stop the allies is the morale hit more than losses.

yeah, the ONLY thing is the morale that stops them. But that doesn´t happen if they come in with escorts as then the fight vs. the escorts takes long enough that the bomber get through mostly unharmed anyway. It´s a mess...

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 11/23/42

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TF 89 encounters mine field at Lautem (33,78)

Japanese Ships
DD Shikinami, Mine hits 1, on fire

VH2 hit... nothing unusual aymore...

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Lautem at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CA Chikuma
CA Atago
CA Chokai
CA Haguro
CA Nachi
CA Ashigara
DD Yamakaze
DD Hatsuharu, Shell hits 2
DD Shirakumo, Shell hits 1, on fire this is the joke of the day gentlemen, more about that later...
DD Isonami, Shell hits 1
DD Uranami
DD Kisaragi

Allied Ships
PT PT-142, Shell hits 48, and is sunk
PT PT-180

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Lautem at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CA Chikuma
CA Atago
CA Chokai
CA Haguro
CA Nachi
CA Ashigara
DD Yamakaze
DD Hatsuharu
DD Shirakumo, on fire
DD Isonami
DD Uranami
DD Kisaragi

Allied Ships
PT PT-180, Shell hits 1, and is sunk

amazed to see only two PTs...

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Naval bombardment of Lautem, at 33,78


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed
Beaufort I: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
DD Natsushio
DD Oyashio
DD Kuroshio
DD Arashi
DD Kagero
CA Kinugasa
CA Kako
CA Kumano
CA Suzuya
CA Mikuma
CA Furutaka

Allied Ships
LCVP 532M, Shell hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
LCVP 532F, Shell hits 1, on fire, heavy damage


Allied ground losses:
906 casualties reported
Guns lost 11

Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 23
Port hits 9
Port supply hits 4

two barges are sunk but the airfield is again only lightly hit...

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Naval bombardment of Lautem, at 33,78


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 4 destroyed
Beaufort I: 2 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Atago
CA Ashigara
CA Nachi
CA Haguro
CA Chokai
CA Chikuma

Allied Ships
LCVP 532F, Shell hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
LCVP 532M, Shell hits 4, on fire, heavy damage


Allied ground losses:
435 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 37
Port hits 6
Port supply hits 9

some more hits on the airfield. Miller told me that he was right and I´m going to invade Lautern! [:D] Well there´s no invasion. He also told me he won´t let that happen. Therefor I was prepared to see 200 bombers attacking me during the day but after those bombardments I was sure there aren´t that many bombers at Lautern...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35

No Japanese losses

Runway hits 4

Aircraft Attacking:
35 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78 [:D]

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 48
B5N Kate x 157

Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 1

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 11 destroyed
Albacore: 3 destroyed
P-38G Lightning: 4 destroyed
B-26B Marauder: 3 destroyed
Beaufort I: 4 destroyed
PB2Y Coronado: 1 destroyed
PBY Catalina: 1 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
10 casualties reported

Airbase hits 27
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 128

Aircraft Attacking:
24 x B5N Kate bombing at 26000 feet

this is the only way I can hit Allied bases. With high exp Kates from KB that drop laser guided bombs from 26.000ft which is above flak range in Nikmod... but of course this is a very rare happening as I can´t always move KB somewhere to bomb a base... why Kates have a 5 times higher accuracy in bombing than other IJN bombers is beyond my understanding. The Betty drops the same number of bombs but can´t hit anything, even when equally skilled... oh those miracles of Mr. Grigsby... [8|]

Guess the base is closed...

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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 51
G3M Nell x 52
G4M1 Betty x 116

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M Nell: 1 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 2 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-26B Marauder: 1 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed
Albacore: 2 destroyed
PBY Catalina: 1 destroyed
PB2Y Coronado: 1 destroyed

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 36

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 16000 feet

as you can see, the Betties hit "nothing" even though there were more, they are equally skilled and were bombing from 10.000ft lower... [>:]

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 188
B5N Kate x 12
Ki-27 Nate x 35
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 152

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 99

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Kiska Island , at 92,35


Allied aircraft
PBY Catalina x 4
A-20B Boston x 27


No Allied losses

Runway hits 10

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A-20B Boston bombing at 5000 feet
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Day Air attack on 70th Chinese Corps, at 47,29

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 27
Ki-21 Sally x 6
Ki-49 Helen x 109

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
78 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on 53rd Chinese Corps, at 47,29

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 3
Ki-49 Helen x 40

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
36 casualties reported

losses of today... We killed a nice number of ac at Lautern, but it was more important to close the base. Wonder how I should keep it closed though. [&:] Once again I can only shake my head about the mod though, just look at the losses I took... 17 Japanese ac lost - all to ops! Hey ho - it´s ridicoulos. Attacking a base without a real defense and still my ac crash like they would be flown by green pilots. 80 damaged 4Es return from a 1000 mile trip without a single ac lost... there is something wrong....

Just look at the Tojos! How on earth can I lose 7 Tojos to ops in one day when all they do is fly CAP??? [:@][:@][:@] Stupid!




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Ground combat at Sian

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 291165 troops, 3041 guns, 37 vehicles, Assault Value = 5664

Defending force 80694 troops, 24 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2647

Japanese max assault: 4568 - adjusted assault: 1462

Allied max defense: 2238 - adjusted defense: 1795

Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 9)


Japanese ground losses:
7008 casualties reported
Guns lost 184
Vehicles lost 8

Allied ground losses:
1614 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

lol, I should just get more relaxed I guess... why should I go mad about something like this. Fourth attack, fourth time with hundreds of combat eng, fourth time I don´t knock a fort level down. Sometimes I really ask myself how many bugs there are in the game. Guess this isn´t a bug, but hey, what kind of die rolls are there? I´m attacking a base that has no supply, it´s a clear hex and still my 90+ exp divisions get mauled day after day, not being able to take on the Maginot line at Sian... again: stupid!

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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8398 troops, 287 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1031

Defending force 21474 troops, 138 guns, 188 vehicles, Assault Value = 337



Allied ground losses:
68 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16049 troops, 202 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3522

Defending force 219633 troops, 692 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5839



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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 73505 troops, 631 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 1993

Defending force 71400 troops, 883 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 1458


Japanese ground losses:
110 casualties reported
Guns lost 5

Allied ground losses:
15 casualties reported
Guns lost 4


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Ground combat at Dili

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 6995 troops, 210 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1246

Defending force 63824 troops, 321 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1259


Japanese ground losses:
969 casualties reported
Guns lost 13


I have nearly 300.000 high experienced troops attacking out of supply Chinese at the moment and the deliberate attack causes 1600 casualties within the defender. Miller uses 5 art units at Dili, that have to be supplied over 120 miles of trails and they do nearly 1000 casualties within my INF units! How often do I have to use the word "stupid"?

[castor troy]

As mentioned above, here comes the joke of the day. And again, I have to use the word stupid.

The DD was hit by a 20mm Oerlikon! Any comments on the damage? It´s a funny game and no all the Allied fanboys are right, PTs aren´t overrated... lol, a 20mm Oerlikon hit. Glad the DD wasn´t hit twice, as it would sink then... I like that smiley...

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 11/24/42

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ASW attack at 64,44

Japanese Ships
DD Karukaya
DD Fuyo
DD Asagao
DD Sanae
DD Kuretake
DD Wakatake

Allied Ships
SS Gudgeon

Miller moved two subs into the shipping lane South of Japan´s coast yesterday. Two ASW TFs were sent out, the DDs failed to locate the sub though...

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ASW attack at 62,44

Japanese Ships
DD Karukaya
DD Fuyo
DD Asagao
DD Sanae
DD Kuretake
DD Wakatake

Allied Ships
SS Gudgeon, hits 1

they get another chance two hexes further West though, this time they achieve a near miss...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 5
B5N Kate x 5
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 107

No Japanese losses

Runway hits 10

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77


Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 38
B-25C Mitchell x 168


Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
39 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Port hits 5
Port supply hits 15

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet

the increasing number of P-38 is becoming concerning I have to say. LRCAP of some 50 fighters would have a problem against those three dozen fighters on escort...

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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 5
B5N Kate x 154

Allied aircraft
no flights

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
PB2Y Coronado: 3 destroyed
PBY Catalina: 2 destroyed
P-38G Lightning: 1 destroyed
Albacore: 1 destroyed
B-26B Marauder: 1 destroyed

Airbase hits 8
Runway hits 125

Aircraft Attacking:
22 x B5N Kate bombing at 26000 feet

like yesterday, KB´s Kates were ordered to attack Lautern´s airfield from above the stratosphere... They must be really dropping laser guided bombs, hit rate is amazing again. The airfield is surely 100% damaged and another dozen ac are destroyed on the ground. Unfortunately Miller moved out his 200 Marauders the day we attacked for the first time...

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Day Air attack on Koumac , at 67,111


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 106
PBY Catalina x 3
P-40E Warhawk x 15


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 17

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x P-40E Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Kiska Island , at 92,35


Allied aircraft
PBY Catalina x 5
A-20B Boston x 28


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 3
Runway hits 20

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x A-20B Boston bombing at 5000 feet

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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77


Allied aircraft
F-5A Lightning x 1
B-17E Fortress x 78
LB-30 Liberator x 19
B-24D Liberator x 89


Allied aircraft losses
B-24D Liberator: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
17 casualties reported

Port hits 3
Port supply hits 7

Aircraft Attacking:
17 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 6000 feet

not much damage done, those attacks would be great if the 4Es just would suffer some op losses now and then... well, they don´t ....

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ASW attack at 59,44

Japanese Ships
MSW W.21
MSW W.20
MSW W.19
MSW W.14
MSW W.1
MSW W.2

Allied Ships
SS Plunger, hits 1

also the second ASW TF that was moved out to hunt a sub near Japan encountered it´s target but was also only able to score one near miss...

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Ground combat at Sian

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14214 troops, 458 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5067

Defending force 78577 troops, 19 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2520



Allied ground losses:
47 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8420 troops, 291 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1031

Defending force 21280 troops, 138 guns, 187 vehicles, Assault Value = 335



Allied ground losses:
54 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 1


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16029 troops, 202 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3524

Defending force 219338 troops, 690 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5838



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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 73511 troops, 631 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 1994

Defending force 71216 troops, 878 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 1453


Japanese ground losses:
9 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Allied ground losses:
30 casualties reported
Guns lost 2


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Ground combat at Dili

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 6982 troops, 212 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1260

Defending force 62180 troops, 306 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1195


Japanese ground losses:
425 casualties reported
Guns lost 11

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 11/25/42

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 5
B5N Kate x 5
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 106

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 12

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

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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77


Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 37
B-25C Mitchell x 154


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
13 casualties reported

Port hits 6
Port supply hits 9

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 188
B5N Kate x 12
Ki-27 Nate x 35
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 152

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 82
Port hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Koumac , at 67,111


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 96
P-40E Warhawk x 15


No Allied losses

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 12

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x P-40E Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet

more and more fighters are moved to New Caledonia to do training runs... we´re trading our fighters 1:2 at the moment with our pilots being around 80 exp and the enemy around 60. When those pilots reach 70-80 also and they will fly Corsairs in three months then we will trade 15 Zeroes or 25 Tojos for one Corsair shot down I guess... bright future...

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Day Air attack on Kiska Island , at 92,35


Allied aircraft
PBY Catalina x 5
A-20B Boston x 26


No Allied losses

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 13

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x A-20B Boston bombing at 5000 feet
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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77


Allied aircraft
F-5A Lightning x 1
B-17E Fortress x 75
LB-30 Liberator x 20
B-24D Liberator x 79


Allied aircraft losses
B-24D Liberator: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
39 casualties reported

Port hits 2
Port supply hits 5

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 6000 feet

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Ground combat at Sian

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14215 troops, 458 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5129

Defending force 78671 troops, 20 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2528



Allied ground losses:
129 casualties reported


we suffered some 25.000 casualties here so far, reduced the enemy av by 280 points or so and were not able to knock down a single fort level with 4 deliberate attacks... the enemy must be out of supply and has only 20 guns left... [8|]

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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8392 troops, 289 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1031

Defending force 21049 troops, 138 guns, 183 vehicles, Assault Value = 334



Allied ground losses:
120 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16049 troops, 202 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3522

Defending force 218926 troops, 687 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5837



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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 73558 troops, 631 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 1994

Defending force 71242 troops, 879 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 1455


Japanese ground losses:
161 casualties reported
Guns lost 5

Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported
Guns lost 4


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Ground combat at Dili

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 7002 troops, 212 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1281

Defending force 61325 troops, 300 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1174


Japanese ground losses:
776 casualties reported [8|]
Guns lost 10

unfortunately for us the Allied art units employ tactical nukes already. A deliberate attack of all Allied units here causes 1500 casualties, a bombardment of 5 art units alone causes 800... [:(]

[1275psi]

You know, having served on destroyers -and watched sink ex's where equivelant guns have been used -Im not that surprised at a DD having that sort of damage -if a great long burst went marching along the length of you -but the game does'nt tell us that.
One shell -impossible damage -a burst into say a boiler room -yep!

(then again a single 20mm into the main steam crossover Vv in one engine room would have brought my last ship to a terible halt really, reall quick[X(][8|][;)]

[bigbaba]

i remember an UV AAR in which a japanese barge managed to heavily damage a US sub with a single 20 or 25 mm MK hit. later in the day, the sub went down. that may be a kind of "lucky punch"...like a fighter takeing down a B-17 with a 7.7mm MG burst.

[castor troy]

on the other side you see subs hitting mines and the next day crash diving in front of a 6 DD ASW TF... oh well, as a Japanese player I´m used to losing my whole DD fleet to PTs anyway. Has always been so, will never be different in WITP.

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 11/26/42

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 4
B5N Kate x 4
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 18

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

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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77


Allied aircraft
Wellington III x 59
P-38G Lightning x 33
B-25C Mitchell x 161


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
29 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Port hits 15
Port supply hits 27

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet

those supply hits are really excessive...

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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 54
G3M Nell x 51
G4M1 Betty x 107

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M Nell: 2 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 5 damaged


Allied ground losses:
19 casualties reported

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 60

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 16000 feet

besides closing the base it would also be great to score some supply hits, as supply is the most important thing for the Allied ground offensive on Timor... with the airbase being closed Miller can´t move in huge amounts of supply as I would attack those attempts no matter at what costs. So without having his airbase on Timor he won´t have 300 fighters that he could put on Cap to see 250+ in the air and this means he would have to use his carriers to cover such a big style resupply attempt. And this would again mean I would throw in everything I can. The piece meal attacks near Noumea on the enemy carriers were a disaster but around Timor I have several airbases that could launch strikes against carriers near Lautern and with hundreds of ac in the area I´m sure I could cause trouble as long as the enemy is mostly flying F4Fs. We will see... the enemy carriers are expected to be still near Noumea and it will take some time to move them into position, if Miller even wants to do that. But it seems he´s convinced that my 2nd attack on Timor is only a matter of days, the sigint he gets about my divs planning for Australian targets can´t bluff him I guess. [:D]

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 188
B5N Kate x 12
Ki-27 Nate x 35
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 152

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
12 casualties reported

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 8
Runway hits 156
Port hits 1
Port fuel hits 1

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

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Day Air attack on Koumac , at 67,111


Allied aircraft
Seafire x 8
F4F-4 Wildcat x 10


No Allied losses

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x F4F-4 Wildcat bombing at 2000 feet

don´t know if those Seafires were pulled from a carrier or if the carriers are still at Noumea...

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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77


Allied aircraft
F-5A Lightning x 1
B-17E Fortress x 58
LB-30 Liberator x 20
B-24D Liberator x 71


Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
30 casualties reported

Port hits 2
Port supply hits 10

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 10000 feet
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Ground combat at Sian

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 287665 troops, 2960 guns, 25 vehicles, Assault Value = 5184

Defending force 78528 troops, 18 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2525

Japanese max assault: 4275 - adjusted assault: 1763 [:(]

Allied max defense: 2199 - adjusted defense: 1507

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 9)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 8 [&o]


Japanese ground losses:
7066 casualties reported [8|][8|]
Guns lost 128
Vehicles lost 8

Allied ground losses:
1766 casualties reported
Guns lost 10

the fifth deliberate attack and the fifth time my divisions get shredded but with luck we achieved at least a 1:1 today which knocked down a fort level. But for the fifth time my combat engineers were totally useless. I´m rotating combat eng in and out all the time and I have no clue why they can´t achieve something here at this base. But the Chinese supply level seems to cause trouble for the defender. But the Chinese are still able to inflict a huge casualty rate with their bajonette attacks...

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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8368 troops, 287 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1030

Defending force 20802 troops, 138 guns, 180 vehicles, Assault Value = 334



Allied ground losses:
118 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16064 troops, 201 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3520

Defending force 218632 troops, 684 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5834



Allied ground losses:
12 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 73790 troops, 638 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 2000

Defending force 71164 troops, 873 guns, 14 vehicles, Assault Value = 1449


Japanese ground losses:
80 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Allied ground losses:
59 casualties reported
Guns lost 6


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Ground combat at Dili

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 63045 troops, 658 guns, 109 vehicles, Assault Value = 1302

Defending force 60210 troops, 291 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1140

Allied max assault: 1248 - adjusted assault: 420 [:)]

Japanese max defense: 896 - adjusted defense: 1107

Allied assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 0)


Japanese ground losses:
1507 casualties reported
Guns lost 15

Allied ground losses:
1320 casualties reported
Guns lost 41

nice adjusted av for the Allied but we still suffer more casualties...

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 11/27/42

Miller proved to be extremely lucky this turn again IMO. While he has been flying constant air attacks against Dili day after day after day... he stopped TODAY!!!!! Why? Heck, because I have set 440 fighters to LRCAP the damned base to intercept the enemy. What flew in? Only a couple of Catalinas to do recon over the base and to show Miller that there are 100+ Japanese fighters over Dili! Wonderful, it really seems to me that Miller has psychich abilities...[:(]


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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 5
B5N Kate x 4
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 106

No Japanese losses

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 12

Aircraft Attacking:
36 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Koumac , at 67,111


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 104
P-40E Warhawk x 18


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 18

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x P-40E Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Kiska Island , at 92,35


Allied aircraft
PBY Catalina x 4
A-20B Boston x 25


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 13

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A-20B Boston bombing at 5000 feet
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ASW attack at 50,47

Japanese Ships
PC Ch 22
PC Shonon Maru #15
PC Kyo Maru #11
PC Kyo Maru #6
PC Kyo Maru #2
PC Fumi Maru

Allied Ships
SS Plunger

we continue the attempt to hunt down the two Allied subs that are now near Formosa... without success...

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Ground combat at Sian

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14165 troops, 459 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4721

Defending force 76152 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2400



Allied ground losses:
78 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8324 troops, 284 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1028

Defending force 20633 troops, 137 guns, 179 vehicles, Assault Value = 332



Allied ground losses:
16 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16069 troops, 202 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3523

Defending force 218440 troops, 670 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5840



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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 73944 troops, 637 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 2006

Defending force 71089 troops, 869 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 1450


Japanese ground losses:
9 casualties reported

Allied ground losses:
20 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Dili

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 6902 troops, 208 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1193

Defending force 58164 troops, 268 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1060


Japanese ground losses:
720 casualties reported [8|]
Guns lost 2

the enemy´s bombardments are more a threat than the deliberate attacks. The bombardments have worn down two of my divisions. They are completely shredded! There´s not a single gun combat ready anymore, only inf and support squads, everything else is disabled and both divisions are down to 50-60/95. Which means both divs are wrecked and not combat worthy anymore! Great. What´s even a bigger shock is the fact that both divisions stay at 80% disruption and this is something I´ve never seen before! The 5 art units cause two of my divisions to fight at only 20% of their remaining strenght and that´s more than depressing, as more than a dozen of my art units in China achieve nothing. But the Allied are bogged down here and if Miller isn´t doing the right things, then I will kill those 5 or 6 Allied divisions on Timor together with the art units and the base forces...

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 11/28/42

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TF 69 encounters mine field at Lautem (33,78)

Japanese Ships
DD Yudachi, Mine hits 1, on fire

surprised?? [8|]

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Lautem at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CL Nagara
DD Shiratsuyu, Shell hits 3
DD Murasame
DD Yudachi, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
PT PT-145
PT PT-173
PT PT-183

surprised? [8|][8|]

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Lautem at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CL Nagara
DD Shiratsuyu
DD Murasame, Shell hits 2
DD Yudachi, Shell hits 5, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
PT PT-150
PT PT-163, Shell hits 3, and is sunk
PT PT-174, Shell hits 1, and is sunk

so today we lose a DD for two PTs sunk... I´m nearing the loss rate of 50 PTs for 1 DD the Allied players keep describing all the time... lol

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Naval bombardment of Suva, at 86,114

Allied Ships
CL Concord
CL Raleigh
CL Marblehead
CL Detroit

Japanese ground losses:
23 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 4
Port hits 2
Port supply hits 2

Miller forgot to use his float planes the day before, no damage done....

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 5
B5N Kate x 4
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 23

Aircraft Attacking:
30 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 187
B5N Kate x 12
Ki-27 Nate x 35
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 120

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
12 casualties reported

Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 151
Port hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Koumac , at 67,111


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 109
P-40E Warhawk x 24


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 25

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x P-40E Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet

more and more Allied fighters are now flying training runs on New Caledonia... I will soon need 95 exp pilots when they have to fight 80 exp Allied pilots...

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Day Air attack on 3rd New Chinese Corps, at 47,29

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 36
Ki-21 Sally x 60
Ki-49 Helen x 81

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
126 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet

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Ground combat at Sian

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14225 troops, 459 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4782

Defending force 75935 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2393



Allied ground losses:
103 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8334 troops, 285 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1028

Defending force 20490 troops, 131 guns, 180 vehicles, Assault Value = 331



Allied ground losses:
94 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16053 troops, 200 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3526

Defending force 218208 troops, 668 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5842



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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 74207 troops, 644 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 2010

Defending force 71159 troops, 870 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 1455


Japanese ground losses:
107 casualties reported
Guns lost 8

Allied ground losses:
9 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Dili

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 6917 troops, 209 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1211

Defending force 69244 troops, 523 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1449


Japanese ground losses:
590 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

moved in major parts of another inf divisions, I will have to soon evacuate the two shredded divisions, they need at least 3 months to be combat ready again...