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

[Ambassador]

Well, I too have read your AAR, so if I had taken over from Miller, it'd be the same - and it goes for bigbaba too.  So whoever your opponent would be, it'd be the same result.
I guess that even if he had not read this, by now he would have realized anyway you actually sent the kitchen's sink in this area.[:)]

[veji1]

At least you have destroyed troops and sunk ships... I have a question though, do you think you could now switch all the forces you have massed in northern OZ to attack Timor and take it ? I mean you have troops, he had to fight to save Wyndham so Timor is pretty much starving, if you could manage to organise an attack there, against troops that are feeling the hunger, you might get something done ?

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: veji1

At least you have destroyed troops and sunk ships... I have a question though, do you think you could now switch all the forces you have massed in northern OZ to attack Timor and take it ? I mean you have troops, he had to fight to save Wyndham so Timor is pretty much starving, if you could manage to organise an attack there, against troops that are feeling the hunger, you might get something done ?

I´ve already thought about Timor. There are still reported 21 enemy units at Lautern but at the same time recon tells me of only some 15.000 troops. This smells like a big style evacuation with C-47s. I bet there are only fragments of the original units on Timor left and all of them are fighting at Wyndham in fact. I´ve flown recon for months now, sent thousands of bombers and recon doesn´t show more than 15.000 troops...

[veji1]

Well at least that would secure the SRA for the next 6-9 months since Miller is short in CVs for a little while to effectively mount another amphibious operation... Him being able to reinforce Timor, supply it and then roll on from there with LBA is death for you, whether his has any CV left, doesn't matter, as long as the Allies can get a strong LBA platform under which they can hop on , the japs are toasted...

I guess now the question for you is how to maximize the benefits of the Australian adventure without overstaying your welcome.. I see a few goals :
1/ Finishing off the big ships still reachable, even at a cost for your LBA.
2/ while keeping Wyndham in check, try to punish those 4 southern divs : Tanks from Derby + the troops there, a few successives shock+pursue and you can retreat having wrecked good units for a couple of months..
3/ Retaking Timor so that at least the overall strategic goal of the operation, ie prevent rapid collapse from an allied offensive in the SRA, has been reached.

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: veji1

Well at least that would secure the SRA for the next 6-9 months since Miller is short in CVs for a little while to effectively mount another amphibious operation... Him being able to reinforce Timor, supply it and then roll on from there with LBA is death for you, whether his has any CV left, doesn't matter, as long as the Allies can get a strong LBA platform under which they can hop on , the japs are toasted...

I guess now the question for you is how to maximize the benefits of the Australian adventure without overstaying your welcome.. I see a few goals :
1/ Finishing off the big ships still reachable, even at a cost for your LBA.
2/ while keeping Wyndham in check, try to punish those 4 southern divs : Tanks from Derby + the troops there, a few successives shock+pursue and you can retreat having wrecked good units for a couple of months..
3/ Retaking Timor so that at least the overall strategic goal of the operation, ie prevent rapid collapse from an allied offensive in the SRA, has been reached.

Nearly what I´m thinking, veji.

There is no way though Miller can reinforce Lautern as long as I own Darwin, Derby and (soon) Broome. He could fly in troops en masse with hundreds of C-47 from Wyndham but what to do with those troops when they don´t have supply? And it´s impossible for him to bring supplies by ship, same goes for the C-47 (just not doable to transport 40.000 supplies with transport ac).

I guess in the end I will achieve far more than just the primary goal I had, which was to take back Lautern. We have rendered the Allied carrier force useless for the next 6 months as there is only Wasp left undamaged, perhaps some CVLs and a couple of CVEs (guess not). We suffered no losses in ships, we lost perhaps 10-15% of our land based IJNAF pilots, and probably also 100-150 IJAAF pilots. KB has lost something like 40 pilots. And that´s it! [8D] I guess this was the costliest Allied resupply mission ever. [;)]

For the moment I will keep up the siege at Wyndham and I will try to knock out the six divs South of Darwin but that won´t be that easy.

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 03/27/43

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TF 1018 encounters mine field at Tongatapu Island (94,114)

Allied Ships
MSW Oriole

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ASW attack at 29,83

Japanese Ships
SS I-15, hits 1

Allied Ships
DD Panther
DD Norman
DD Nestor
DD Nepal
DD Griffin
DD Fortune
DD Electra
CL Mauritius
DD Pakenham

wow, I-15 survived... only one near miss...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 67

No Japanese losses

Runway hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
29 x Ki-45 KAIa Nick bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 15
A6M3a Zero x 126
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 101
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 35

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 57

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

as you can see, fighter pilot training is on top of my priority list...
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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 39
Hurricane IIb x 9
P-36A Mohawk x 24
P-40B Tomahawk x 14
P-40E Warhawk x 6


Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed, 8 damaged
Hurricane IIb: 3 damaged
P-36A Mohawk: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged
P-40B Tomahawk: 6 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 28

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x P-40B Tomahawk bombing at 2000 feet

same goes for Miller, at least we take down some of the attackers...

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Day Air attack on Wallis Island , at 93,107


Allied aircraft
TBF Avenger x 26
Kittyhawk I x 33
P-40E Warhawk x 26


Allied aircraft losses
TBF Avenger: 2 damaged
Kittyhawk I: 4 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
9 casualties reported

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 38

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x Kittyhawk I bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on 7th USA Division, at 36,88

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 42

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
33 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on 37th USA Division, at 36,88

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 16

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
16 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

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

two attacks out of Darwin...

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Day Air attack on TF at 27,83 [:D]



Japanese aircraft
D3A Val x 16
A6M3a Zero x 6
B5N Kate x 22

Japanese aircraft losses
D3A Val: 1 destroyed, 14 damaged
B5N Kate: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged

Allied Ships
DD Welles
DD Patterson, Bomb hits 1
DD Helm, Bomb hits 1
DD Ralph Talbot, Bomb hits 2, on fire
DD Lansdowne, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Walke, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Balch, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AO Cache, Bomb hits 1, on fire

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet
2 x B5N Kate bombing at 10000 feet

have ordered the KB to move to Koepang again to replenish and to get a shot at possible retreating Allied convoys from Wyndham. We end up in perfect distance to a lot of DDs that are escorting the still fuel loaden AOs towards Perth... this is the beginning of a massacre...

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Day Air attack on TF at 27,83

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 42
B5N Kate x 12
G3M Nell x 28
G4M1 Betty x 76

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N Kate: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
G3M Nell: 1 destroyed, 14 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 2 destroyed, 30 damaged

Allied Ships
DD Maury, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Warramunga, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
DD O'Brien
DD Balch, on fire
DD Selfridge, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
DD Patterson
DD Mugford, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Napier, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Blue
DD Helm
DD Grayson
AO Platte, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
DD Welles
DD McCall
DD Lansdowne, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AO Cache, on fire
DD Walke, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Ralph Talbot, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x G3M Nell launching torpedoes at 200 feet
3 x B5N Kate bombing at 10000 feet

combined strike from KB and Koepang. How that works is beyond me as you should only get combined strikes if the ac launch from the same distance, in this case Koepang is 6 hexes from the target and KB 5... [8|]

I´m glad that the Kates are bombing, that way I don´t lose as many as if they would go in low to torp the very agile DDs that put up quite a fierce flak fire. I got totally upset with this strike though! The TF you can see in the screenshot two hexes West of this one is a British BB TF. More than 100 IJN torp bombers nevertheless decide to attack the DDs which are the most difficult ships to hit for a torp bomber. Would the target routine have worked better for me this turn, Miller would have lost another one or two British BBs. Cest la vie...

What is totally amazing for me though is that Miller seems to retreat everything now and that could be quite a mistake IMO. As long as there would be British BBs at Wyndham (under a huge Corsair Cap), I would NEVER send in my surface combat TFs. Now it seems there are only PTs left and the supply convoy that started unloading at the level 5 port. This opens up the chance for me to strike a) against the supply convoy (that surely needs four or five days to completely unload) and b) to do a bombardment with my cruisers that are able to move six hexes...

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Day Air attack on TF at 27,83 [:D]

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 73
B5N Kate x 45
Ki-49 Helen x 40

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N Kate: 1 destroyed
Ki-49 Helen: 1 destroyed, 9 damaged

Allied Ships
DD Napier, on fire, heavy damage
DD Balch, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
DD Welles
AO Kankakee
DD Selfridge, on fire, heavy damage
DD Blue, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Mugford, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
DD McCalla
DD Helm, Bomb hits 1
DD Grayson
DD Patterson
DD Ralph Talbot, on fire, heavy damage
DD Warramunga, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Lansdowne, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD O'Brien

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 3000 feet
4 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 3000 feet

now a combined strike from KB and Dili, again not from the same distance... more and more DDs get hit...

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Day Air attack on TF at 27,83 [8D][8D]

Japanese aircraft
D3A Val x 52
A6M3a Zero x 5
B5N Kate x 33

Japanese aircraft losses
D3A Val: 2 damaged
B5N Kate: 1 damaged

Allied Ships
AO Cache, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Ralph Talbot, on fire, heavy damage
DD McCalla
DD Lansdowne, on fire, heavy damage
DD Patterson, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD McCall, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
DD Selfridge, on fire, heavy damage
DD Blue, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Grayson, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Welles, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD O'Brien, Bomb hits 2, on fire
DD Maury, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
AO Tappahanock, Bomb hits 2, on fire
DD Helm, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Warramunga, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD Balch, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet
2 x B5N Kate bombing at 10000 feet

high exp divebombers are DD killers...

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Day Air attack on TF at 27,83 [&o]

Japanese aircraft
D3A Val x 21
B5N Kate x 34

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
DD McCall, on fire, heavy damage
DD Lardner, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
DD Patterson, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
DD Walke, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
AO Cache, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Welles, on fire, heavy damage
DD Lansdowne, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD Blue, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Balch, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AO Tappahanock, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet
2 x B5N Kate bombing at 10000 feet

we are still in the morning phase and launch strike after strike... I wonder why the strikes get totally dispersed though... at the end of the morning, the Allied DDs were mostly floating wrecks...


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Day Air attack on TF at 27,83 [:)]

Japanese aircraft
D3A Val x 64
A6M3a Zero x 14
B5N Kate x 91

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
AO Cache, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD Patterson, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
DD Selfridge, on fire, heavy damage
DD Walke, on fire, heavy damage
DD Welles, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
DD Helm, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
DD Maury, Bomb hits 5, on fire, heavy damage
DD Balch, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Blue, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Lansdowne, on fire, heavy damage
DD Warramunga, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
DD Mugford, Bomb hits 6, on fire, heavy damage
DD McCall, Bomb hits 6, on fire, heavy damage
DD Ralph Talbot, on fire, heavy damage
DD Lardner, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet
4 x B5N Kate bombing at 10000 feet

and KB launches a big strike in the afternoon, knocking out all DDs in the hex... looks like Miller will lose 14 first line destroyers today... but the British BBs are lucky, the 100+ IJNAF bombers at Koepang are clouded in in the afternoon...

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Day Air attack on TF at 27,83

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 35
Ki-49 Helen x 15

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
DD Maury, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
DD McCall, on fire, heavy damage
DD Helm, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 3000 feet

even the Helens can hit floating wrecks... McCall and Helm were already sunk... 14 Allied DDs down, 480 more to go... [;)]

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Sub attack at 25,83

Japanese Ships
SS I-170

Allied Ships
DD Foxhound
DD Panther
DD Norman
DD Nestor
DD Nepal
DD Griffin
DD Fortune
DD Electra
DD Pakenham
DD Jupiter
DD Inconstant

must have been a lucky day for my subs... this is the huge TF with at least one British BB in it...

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15867 troops, 180 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1863

Defending force 275200 troops, 1505 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 6535



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Ground combat at 22,85

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 43665 troops, 114 guns, 2352 vehicles, Assault Value = 1377

Defending force 9256 troops, 69 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 225

Japanese max assault: 2202 - adjusted assault: 2723

Allied max defense: 173 - adjusted defense: 3

Japanese assault odds: 907 to 1


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

Allied ground losses:
1409 casualties reported
Guns lost 8


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

our tanks have now reached Broome. The base will probably fall with our first shock attack, but it will take four or five days until one of my TK rgts has encircled the base. Then there will be nearly two dozen Allied units trapped, including three bgds, a division, a rgt and some HQ units.[:D] Even if we won´t be able to take out Wyndham, we do get some nice consolation prizes eh?

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Ground combat at 36,88

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 53139 troops, 632 guns, 9 vehicles, Assault Value = 2083

Defending force 83083 troops, 947 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2040



Allied ground losses:
18 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

stalemate South of Darwin. If you think about the fact that the enemy has probably built level 2 forts here (same as we have) we would need at least a 3:1 to dislodge them. That´s pretty hard to achieve and don´t forget that due to a "design decision", a glitch or perhaps I should call it a bug, you can´t take down forts outside of base hexes, so this means even if our attack would achieve a 2:1, the forts would still stay at 2...

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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8284 troops, 279 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4582

Defending force 137781 troops, 967 guns, 349 vehicles, Assault Value = 2937



Allied ground losses:
154 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

painful to see those troops getting supplies...

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Ground combat at Thursday Island

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 6644 troops, 30 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 149

Defending force 620 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 15

seems like it´s quite hard to get rid of those USMC paras...

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Ground combat at 36,88

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14391 troops, 187 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2037

Defending force 96249 troops, 1032 guns, 30 vehicles, Assault Value = 2083


Japanese ground losses:
10 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 03/28/43

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Sub attack at 26,83

Japanese Ships
SS I-19, hits 10, on fire, heavy damage [8|]

Allied Ships
AO Kankakee, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
DD O'Brien
DD McCalla

We hit one of the fuel loaden AOs that obviously still has two DDs as escorts left. Like many times now, our subs are either heavily damaged, or like in this case immediately sunk. Is there any sense still using IJN subs in 43? Guess not...

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Sub attack at 34,83

Japanese Ships
DD Takanami
DD Kiyonami
DD Onami

Allied Ships
SS Pogy

while our DDs stay as useless as they ever have been... only three out of six even tried to engage the sub...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 68

No Japanese losses

Runway hits 7

Aircraft Attacking:
30 x Ki-45 KAIa Nick bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 34
Hurricane IIb x 8
P-36A Mohawk x 19
P-40B Tomahawk x 17
P-40E Warhawk x 6


Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed, 11 damaged
Hurricane IIb: 4 damaged
P-36A Mohawk: 3 destroyed, 6 damaged
P-40B Tomahawk: 2 destroyed, 12 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 6 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
13 casualties reported

Runway hits 28

Aircraft Attacking:
13 x P-40B Tomahawk bombing at 2000 feet

flak did a good job today...

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Day Air attack on Wallis Island , at 93,107

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
TBF Avenger x 26
Kittyhawk I x 29
P-40E Warhawk x 25

Japanese aircraft losses
No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
TBF Avenger: 5 damaged
Kittyhawk I: 1 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed

Japanese ground losses:
13 casualties reported

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 38

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Kittyhawk I bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on 37th USA Division, at 36,88

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 33

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
55 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

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

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Day Air attack on 9th Australian Division, at 36,88

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 30

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
70 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet
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ASW attack at 34,83

Japanese Ships
DD Kiyonami
DD Onami
DD Tamanami
DD Takanami
DD Yugumo

Allied Ships
SS Pogy

useless... just useless... they don´t even drop DCs...

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Sub attack at 18,85

Japanese Ships
SS I-170, hits 1

Allied Ships
DD Pakenham
DD Ellet
DD Benham

one near miss...

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15867 troops, 180 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1865

Defending force 276563 troops, 1524 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 6580



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Ground combat at 36,88

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 53220 troops, 639 guns, 9 vehicles, Assault Value = 2420

Defending force 83063 troops, 941 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2037



Allied ground losses:
141 casualties reported
Guns lost 8


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Ground combat at Thursday Island

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 6644 troops, 30 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 149

Defending force 580 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 15

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 03/29/43

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TF 36 encounters mine field at Wyndham (30,86)

Japanese Ships
DD Ariake, Mine hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD Akatsuki, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Nenohi, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

just don´t want to comment this mega bullsh*t anymore...

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TF 39 encounters mine field at Wyndham (30,86)

Japanese Ships
CA Haguro, Mine hits 1



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Night Time Surface Combat, near Wyndham at 30,86

Japanese Ships
CA Chikuma, Shell hits 1
CA Takao, Shell hits 1
CA Atago, Shell hits 1
CA Maya
CA Chokai
CA Kako, Shell hits 1
DD Nenohi, Shell hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Hatsushima
DD Ariake, Shell hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD Akatsuki, on fire, heavy damage
DD Hatsuyuki

Allied Ships
DD Monssen
DD Sims, Shell hits 21, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
DD Hughes, Shell hits 1
DD Gridley, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Witte de With

Miller left a small DD surface combat group behind...

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Wyndham at 30,86

Japanese Ships
CA Chikuma
CA Takao
CA Atago
CA Maya
CA Chokai
CA Kako
DD Nenohi, on fire, heavy damage
DD Hatsushima
DD Ariake, on fire, heavy damage
DD Akatsuki, on fire, heavy damage
DD Hatsuyuki

Allied Ships
PT PT-233
PT PT-234, Shell hits 7, and is sunk
PT PT-235, Shell hits 1, and is sunk

and there are the usual 2x3 PTs...

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Wyndham at 30,86

Japanese Ships
CA Chikuma, Shell hits 2
CA Takao, Shell hits 2
CA Atago, Shell hits 1
CA Maya, Shell hits 1
CA Chokai
CA Kako, Shell hits 1
DD Nenohi, on fire, heavy damage
DD Hatsushima
DD Ariake, on fire, heavy damage
DD Akatsuki, on fire, heavy damage
DD Hatsuyuki

Allied Ships
DD Monssen
DD Hughes, Shell hits 6, on fire
DD Gridley, Shell hits 32, and is sunk
DD Witte de With, Shell hits 2, and is sunk

we get another shot at the DDs... my three DDs that hit mines will all sink...

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Wyndham at 30,86

Japanese Ships
CA Chikuma
CA Takao
CA Atago, Shell hits 5
CA Maya
CA Chokai
CA Kako
DD Nenohi, on fire, heavy damage
DD Hatsushima
DD Ariake, and is sunk
DD Akatsuki, on fire, heavy damage
DD Hatsuyuki

Allied Ships
PT PT-225, Shell hits 3, and is sunk
PT PT-228, Shell hits 52, and is sunk
PT PT-229

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Wyndham at 30,86

Japanese Ships
CA Chikuma, Shell hits 4
CA Takao, Shell hits 2
CA Atago, Shell hits 2
CA Maya, Shell hits 1
CA Chokai, Shell hits 1
CA Kako, Shell hits 1
DD Nenohi, and is sunk
DD Hatsushima
DD Akatsuki, Shell hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
DD Hatsuyuki

Allied Ships
DD Aaron Ward, Shell hits 36, and is sunk
DD Laffey, Shell hits 6, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
DD Bancroft, Shell hits 9, and is sunk
DD Caldwell, Shell hits 1
DD Meade, Shell hits 14, and is sunk
AK San Anselmo
AK San Bernadino
AK San Lucas
AK San Simeon
AK Empire Beaver
AK Empire Oryx
AK Empire Puma
AK Empire Confidence
AK Empire Voice
AK Empire Seal
AK Empire Razorbill
AK Empire Tarpon

this is why we´ve sent in the cruisers... we don´t get a shot at the AKs of course... god damn it...

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Wyndham at 30,86

Japanese Ships
CA Haguro
CA Nachi
CA Mogami
CA Mikuma
CA Kinugasa
CA Furutaka
DD Yukikaze
DD Amatsukaze
DD Arashi
DD Kawakaze

Allied Ships
PT PT-233

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Wyndham at 30,86

Japanese Ships
CA Haguro
CA Nachi, Shell hits 1
CA Mogami
CA Mikuma
CA Kinugasa
CA Furutaka
DD Yukikaze
DD Amatsukaze
DD Arashi
DD Kawakaze

Allied Ships
DD Monssen, Shell hits 19, and is sunk
DD Hughes, Shell hits 16, and is sunk

IJN and RN CAs are the best you can have for night time battles against everything that is smaller than a BB...

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Wyndham at 30,86

Japanese Ships
CA Haguro, on fire
CA Nachi
CA Mogami
CA Mikuma
CA Kinugasa
CA Furutaka
DD Yukikaze, Shell hits 6
DD Amatsukaze, Shell hits 2
DD Arashi
DD Kawakaze

Allied Ships
PT PT-229, Shell hits 12, and is sunk

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Sub attack at 13,85

Japanese Ships
SS I-15, hits 1

Allied Ships
CV Hornet, heavy damage
DD Preston
DD Smith
DD Perkins
DD Case
DD Fanning

why, just why has luck to be on Miller´s side. It´s been a long war already and we had lucky times too, but if I am lucky once, Miller get´s three times luck... that just sucks at some point. I-15 fires six torps at the heavily damaged CV Hornet and all miss...

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Naval bombardment of Wyndham, at 30,86


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
Brewster 339D: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Kako
CA Chokai
CA Maya
CA Atago
CA Takao
CA Chikuma

Allied Ships
DD Tucker, Shell hits 1


Allied ground losses:
656 casualties reported
Guns lost 6
Vehicles lost 2

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

hey ho, that´s what we get from naval bombardments...

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Naval bombardment of Wyndham, at 30,86


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
Brewster 339D: 3 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Furutaka
CA Kinugasa
CA Mikuma
CA Mogami
CA Nachi

Allied Ships
DD Tucker, Shell hits 3


Allied ground losses:
1119 casualties reported
Guns lost 13

Airbase hits 3
Runway hits 5
Port hits 4
Port supply hits 3

and another one... this airfield is fully stacked, we don´t even think to hit it... thinking about the dozens of Allied bombardments so far that usually achieve something between 50 and 150 hits on the airfield... what is wrong in this PBEM? I´m not doing anything different...

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Sub attack at 31,85

Japanese Ships
CA Kako
DD Hatsuyuki
DD Hatsushima
CA Takao

Allied Ships
SS S-45, hits 2

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Sub attack at 33,84

Japanese Ships
CA Haguro, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage SUNK!!!!!!!

Allied Ships
SS KXIV

NO! Miller isn´t lucky once in a turn, he just has to get mega lucky! While six of our torps miss the heavily damaged CV, one of his obsolete subs hits with one out of two torps an undamaged CA and guess what! MAGAZINE EXPLOSION...

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Sub attack at 7,91

Japanese Ships
SS I-35, hits 7

Allied Ships
CLAA Oakland
DD Nicholas
DD LaVallette
DD DeHaven
DD Cony
DD Chevalier
DD Fletcher

while we of course miss with 6 torps again, just to see the sub then taking heavy damage... 67 flt damage, probably sunk as it takes 2 weeks to reach a friendly base... [&o]

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 69

No Japanese losses

Runway hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
31 x Ki-45 KAIa Nick bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 27
A6M3a Zero x 173
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 105

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 128

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

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 29
Hurricane IIb x 6
P-36A Mohawk x 18
P-40B Tomahawk x 12
P-40E Warhawk x 5


Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 2 destroyed, 16 damaged
Hurricane IIb: 2 damaged
P-36A Mohawk: 9 damaged
P-40B Tomahawk: 1 destroyed, 10 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 3 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
6 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x P-40B Tomahawk bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Wallis Island , at 93,107


Allied aircraft
TBF Avenger x 23
Kittyhawk I x 29


Allied aircraft losses
TBF Avenger: 4 damaged
Kittyhawk I: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
8 casualties reported

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 15

Aircraft Attacking:
5 x Kittyhawk I bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on 37th USA Division, at 36,88

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 64

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
140 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

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

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Day Air attack on TF at 30,85


Allied aircraft
Boomerang II x 9
Brewster 339D x 23
Kittyhawk I x 6
Beaufort I x 9
P-40E Warhawk x 24
P-38G Lightning x 8
F4U-1 Corsair x 30


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
DD Akatsuki, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

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

this one hit a mine during the night and only moved 1 hex, the ship was dead anyway... we lose 3 DDs to mines today, a heavy cruiser to a super lucky torp hit while we have sunk a dozen DDs and 5 PTs. We didn´t get a shot at the AKs... what a super duper turn...

without the Allied mega weapon aka mines we wouldn´t have lost more than a dozen DDs in 15 months of war... thank god the enemy didn´t have enough supplies to do the "click - PT pop up" every turn in the past, otherwise the IJN wouldn´t have a single DD left at this stage... but especially running everytime in a long spotted minefield proves how well this game was designed... well done Mr. Grigsby...

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Day Air attack on TF at 23,83

Japanese aircraft
D3A Val x 12
A6M3a Zero x 17
B5N Kate x 15

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
AO Cache, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD Blue, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet

KB is sent out to hunt the retreating ships West of Broome but I doubt we will be fast enough to follow them. The enemy has to run out of fuel NOW or he will reach Perth without problem...
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Day Air attack on TF at 23,83

Japanese aircraft
D3A Val x 20
A6M3a Zero x 2

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
AO Cache, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet
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ASW attack at 14,85

Japanese Ships
SS I-170, hits 7, on fire

Allied Ships
DD Panther
DD Pakenham
DD Norman
DD Nestor
DD Nepal
DD Jupiter
DD Inconstant
DD Hotspur
DD Griffin
DD Foxhound
DD Fortune
DD Express

and another sub in sinking condition... hey ho...

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Ground combat at 36,88

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 111465 troops, 1222 guns, 30 vehicles, Assault Value = 2419

Defending force 68803 troops, 801 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1692



Allied ground losses:
250 casualties reported
Guns lost 9

the enemy is now retreating South of Darwin... how lucky, we just mentioned that we want to attack this stack and voila, the enemy is retreating now... [8|]

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15851 troops, 180 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1863

Defending force 278049 troops, 1532 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 6623



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Ground combat at Broome

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 44135 troops, 114 guns, 2379 vehicles, Assault Value = 1356

Defending force 13492 troops, 101 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 256

Japanese max assault: 2302 - adjusted assault: 1666

Allied max defense: 217 - adjusted defense: 124

Japanese assault odds: 13 to 1 (fort level 9)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Broome base !!!



Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
Kittyhawk I: 4 destroyed
Catalina I: 1 destroyed
SBD Dauntless: 8 destroyed
Beaufort I: 2 destroyed
C-47 Dakota: 2 destroyed
B-25C Mitchell: 5 destroyed
PBY Catalina: 1 destroyed
Brewster 339D: 1 destroyed

Japanese ground losses:
347 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
Vehicles lost 18

Allied ground losses:
16687 casualties reported
Guns lost 64
Vehicles lost 6

figured out that I don´t have to encircle Broome as there is no way to retreat SE anyway... the tanks take the base without much problem. Here´s what surrendered (half of those troops were fragments though):




the enemy has lost nearly 1000 points for ground losses since we´ve kicked out those troops from Derby...

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Ground combat at Thursday Island

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 6634 troops, 31 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 149

Defending force 560 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 15

[castor troy]

and today´s air losses:

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 03/30/43

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ASW attack at 13,85

Japanese Ships
SS I-9, hits 5, on fire

Allied Ships
DD Panther
DD Pakenham
DD Norman
DD Nestor
DD Nepal
DD Jupiter
DD Inconstant

I should move my subs just away from any Allied DD... moderate damage to I-9...

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ASW attack at 11,86

Japanese Ships
SS I-15, hits 9, on fire

Allied Ships
DD Pakenham
DD Norman
DD Nestor
DD Nepal
DD Jupiter
DD Inconstant
DD Hotspur
DD Griffin

another round, now I-15 is the victim... sinking condition...

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Sub attack at 10,86

Japanese Ships
SS I-155

Allied Ships
AK Empire Courage, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

but hey, we sink an empty AK...

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TF 34 encounters mine field at Derby (24,85)

Japanese Ships
AG AG-5067, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AG AG-5088, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AG AG-5117, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AG AG-5113, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

Allied mines...

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Sub attack at 7,93

Japanese Ships
SS I-36, hits 2

Allied Ships
CA Houston, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD Russell
DD Mustin
DD Hammann
DD Edwards
DD Gillespie
DD Gansevoort
DD Frazier
DD Radford
DD O'Bannon
CA Wichita

Houston takes two torps but it´s only 7 hexes to Perth so with Allied damage control I serioulsy doubt the heavy cruiser will sink...

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ASW attack at 8,89

Japanese Ships
SS I-165

Allied Ships
DD Pakenham
DD Norman
DD Nestor
DD Nepal
DD Jupiter

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 67

No Japanese losses

Runway hits 5

Aircraft Attacking:
30 x Ki-45 KAIa Nick bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 71
Ki-49 Helen x 106

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49 Helen: 11 damaged


Allied ground losses:
204 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 100

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on Wallis Island , at 93,107

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
A-20B Boston x 110

Japanese aircraft losses
H8K Emily: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
A-20B Boston: 1 destroyed, 15 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
66 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 73

Aircraft Attacking:
36 x A-20B Boston bombing at 6000 feet

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ASW attack near Darwin at 36,84

Japanese Ships
CA Mogami
DD Yukikaze
DD Kawakaze
DD Arashi
DD Amatsukaze
DD Hatsuyuki
DD Hatsushima
CA Kako

Allied Ships
SS Truant

Truant was reported hit by a Helen before this attack but I guess that was FOW...

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Sub attack at 8,89

Japanese Ships
SS I-165

Allied Ships
CA Australia, heavy damage

[&o][&o][&o] another time another heavily damaged ship, without a single escort... I-165 missed...

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Highlight of the day...

Ground combat at 36,88

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 111739 troops, 1228 guns, 30 vehicles, Assault Value = 2484

Defending force 54472 troops, 666 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1330

Japanese max assault: 4406 - adjusted assault: 3279

Allied max defense: 1035 - adjusted defense: 1378

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1


Japanese ground losses:
3325 casualties reported
Guns lost 102
Vehicles lost 6

Allied ground losses:
373 casualties reported
Guns lost 32


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

this is the troop stack South of Darwin. As mentioned last turn, the enemy seems to be withdrawing now that I´ve decided to move more troops in to attack him. Last turn there was one div moving out of the hex, this turn only one more managed to get out of the hex and so our shock attack hit four Allied divisions. Our div that lead the attack was seriously hit but those casualties are mostly only disablements. The enemy suffered far more than those 373 casualties as we have scored some 156 points for ground losses today. The Allied went through 20.000 points for ground losses today, now at 20.127... [8D] Now it depends whose divisions will be able to march faster. We have set all our divs to move into the next hex, but I guess everytime we will move in, the enemy will move out.

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15863 troops, 182 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1865

Defending force 279399 troops, 1538 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 6651



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Ground combat at Thursday Island

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 6647 troops, 31 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 150

Defending force 570 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16

Japanese max assault: 107 - adjusted assault: 108

Allied max defense: 12 - adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 108 to 1


Japanese ground losses:
3 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Allied ground losses:
27 casualties reported

[Rainer79]

Have you thought about sending a couple of MSWs on a suicide mission to Wyndham's harbor (or one hex away if you are feeling lucky)? They probably will die horribly but it might help reduce further mine hits.

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: Rainer79

Have you thought about sending a couple of MSWs on a suicide mission to Wyndham's harbor (or one hex away if you are feeling lucky)? They probably will die horribly but it might help reduce further mine hits.

they won´t get there. They only move 2 or in the best case 3 hexes a day and as soon as they´re within 4 hexes of Wyndham they will be attacked by LBA. And I´m not really a fan of such suicide missions, not even if there are only MSWs involved. The supply convoy will unload unharmed there and I won´t go there again. It´s just not worth it, the mine hits there are a joke.

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 03/31/43

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ASW attack near Koepang at 28,77

Japanese Ships
AO Ondo
AO Iro
DD Numakaze
DD Namikaze
DD Nokaze
DD Shikinami

Allied Ships
SS KXVIII, hits 5

AOs are bringing fuel to Koepang, I´m running desperately low on fuel on the whole map. Never experienced such a fuel shortage like in this campaign. Total fuel on the map is now only 1.400.000 and that´s near to nothing when you think about how dispersed it is. The sub takes a hit and four near misses...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 18
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 70

No Japanese losses

Runway hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-45 KAIa Nick bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 35
A6M3a Zero x 201
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 105

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
12 casualties reported

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 188

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x A6M3a Zero bombing at 2000 feet

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15843 troops, 182 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1865

Defending force 280491 troops, 1548 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 6676



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Ground combat at Thursday Island

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 6653 troops, 29 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 150

Defending force 500 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 11

Japanese max assault: 106 - adjusted assault: 103

Allied max defense: 8 - adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 103 to 1


Japanese ground losses:
8 casualties reported

Allied ground losses:
11 casualties reported


three of my divs have entered the hex where the four Allied divs retreated to South of Darwin and I have ordered a shock attack tomorrow. I don´t expect much though... hopefully at least we won´t take that many casualties... my other three inf units should enter the hex tomorrow but can´t join the attack...

[castor troy]

Yet another great day for the Empire!

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/01/43

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ASW attack at 35,83

Japanese Ships
DD Kawakaze
DD Hatsushima
DD Shinonome
DD Yugiri
DD Yayoi
DD Yuzuki

Allied Ships
SS KXIV, hits 3

sent out an ASW TF from Darwin with the usual minimal results...

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Sub attack near Koepang at 28,77

Japanese Ships
AO Notoro, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
DD Numakaze
DD Namikaze
DD Nokaze
DD Shikinami

Allied Ships
SS KXVIII, hits 2, on fire

grmpf... The damned TF that arrived yesterday obviously didn´t dock at the port, otherwise it would have been immune to sub attacks (level 4 port). What the hell, do I have to check every sh*t now manually??? [:@] There go 8000 tons of fuel... and the ship has only a small chance to survive as it´s burning heavily...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 2
G4M1 Betty x 51
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 69

No Japanese losses

Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 8

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-45 KAIa Nick bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 35
A6M3a Zero x 205
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 105

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 164

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

it will take three months to bring all my fighter daitais back to the strenght they had before the attacks on the enemy carriers along Australia´s North coast. But it will definetely take Miller longer to replace his carriers... [;)]

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Day Air attack on 7th USA Division, at 36,89

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

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on 40th USA Division, at 36,89

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 43
Ki-46-II Dinah x 1

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported

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

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Day Air attack on 37th USA Division, at 36,89

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 37
Ki-46-II Dinah x 1

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
40 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

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

good to see three out of the four divs being attacked as we´re shock attacking later in the day...

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Day Air attack on TF at 7,91




Japanese aircraft
D3A Val x 23
A6M3a Zero x 15
B5N Kate x 23

Japanese aircraft losses
D3A Val: 5 damaged
B5N Kate: 2 damaged

Allied Ships
CV Hornet, Bomb hits 31, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet
3 x B5N Kate bombing at 10000 feet

after refulling at Koepang we have set KB to full speed towards Perth to catch the two undamaged retreating British BBs (only possible if they run out of fuel) and while KB never launched a strike the last two days against spotted TFs, today we end up in range of the heavily damaged US CV Hornet... that´s it for the mighty ship! BANZAI! BANZAI! BANZAI!

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Day Air attack on TF at 7,91

Japanese aircraft
D3A Val x 21

Japanese aircraft losses
D3A Val: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged

Allied Ships
CV Hornet, Bomb hits 12, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet

again, we launch several strikes instead of one combined...

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Day Air attack on TF at 7,91

Japanese aircraft
D3A Val x 24
A6M3a Zero x 2
B5N Kate x 24

Japanese aircraft losses
D3A Val: 4 damaged

Allied Ships
CV Hornet, Bomb hits 21, on fire, heavy damage
DD Arunta

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet
4 x B5N Kate bombing at 10000 feet

this is already in the afternoon, the aircraft carrier is still afloat, taking bomb after bomb. Never have seen 64 bomb hits (around 20 didn´t penetrate the belt armor) on an enemy carrier, the damned ship just refused to sink. But in the end it slipped beneath the waves. None of the other spotted TFs were attacked and that´s once again depressing...

but now the funny thing, Miller asked me this when he sent this turn back: I am suprised you did not send the KB after Yorktown and Hornet.......they would be dead by now if you had............ looks like he wasn´t aware of the fact that KB was so close to one of his damaged carriers already. He didn´t spot KB and I don´t know what he thought it would be when there were Alfs and Jakes spotting his TFs the last two turns... [:D]


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Ground combat at 36,89

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 61406 troops, 575 guns, 18 vehicles, Assault Value = 1574

Defending force 40299 troops, 537 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 964

Japanese max assault: 2068 - adjusted assault: 386 [X(][8|]

Allied max defense: 628 - adjusted defense: 598 [:(]

Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1


Japanese ground losses:
927 casualties reported
Guns lost 31
Vehicles lost 3

Allied ground losses:
256 casualties reported
Guns lost 21

now how does that work? We were more than 100% supplied, max disruption was 34, our bombers flew 3 attacks on the four enemy units and while our adjusted av looks horrible the enemy still gets nearly his full av. The enemy must have been highly disrupted (retreated two days ago and due to air attacks) and probably was far from fully supplied as you lose all supply in a retreat. That´s it, doubt we can do anything now, our troops are now 70+ disrupted and the enemy will be able to move South. Once again it seems Miller is the one with the super lucky die rolls. But after the loss of Hornet today I guess this happening here isn´t that much motivating...

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15843 troops, 182 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1867

Defending force 281187 troops, 1553 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 6693



Allied ground losses:
9 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Thursday Island

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 6600 troops, 31 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 148

Defending force 500 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 9

Japanese max assault: 106 - adjusted assault: 202

Allied max defense: 7 - adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 202 to 1


Japanese ground losses:
7 casualties reported

Allied ground losses:
92 casualties reported

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3rd USMC Para Battalion Wiped Out at Thursday Island by attrition!!!

[castor troy]

American CV Hornet sunk by superior IJN naval forces! BANZAI! BANZAI! BANZAI!


USS Hornet, a 19,800 ton Yorktown class aircraft carrier, was constructed at Newport News, Virginia. Commissioned in October 1941, she spent the next four months shaking down in the Atlantic. Transferred to the Pacific in March 1942, Hornet was immediately employed on the Doolittle raid. On 18 April 1942, she launched 16 Army B-25 bombers to attack Japan, a strike that caused relatively little damage, but which had enormous strategic implications.

Hornet was then sent to the South Pacific to reinforce U.S. units there following the Battle of Coral Sea, but was recalled to Pearl Harbor in mid-May. She then took part in the Battle of Midway, on 4-6 June, during which her planes shared in the sinking of the Japanese cruiser Mikuma.

In August 1942, Hornet returned to the South Pacific to join in the fight for Guadalcanal. During much of September and October, she was the only operational U.S. aircraft carrier available to oppose the Japanese in that area. On 26 October 1942, during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, her planes attacked and badly damaged the Japanese carrier Shokaku. In return, however, Hornet received heavy bomb and torpedo damage, necessitating her abandonment. Though accompanying U.S. destroyers attempted to scuttle her, she remained afloat until torpedoed and sunk by Japanese ships early in the morning of 27 October.

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/02/43

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 81
G4M1 Betty x 81

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 53

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 10000 feet

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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 21
Ki-49 Helen x 65

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49 Helen: 3 damaged


Allied ground losses:
68 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 66

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 10000 feet

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 35
A6M3a Zero x 213
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 105
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 34

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 12
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 172

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-IIa Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 43rd USA Division, at 36,89

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 87
Ki-46-II Dinah x 2

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
169 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

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

all my units entered the hex with the four Allied divs 5 hexes South of Darwin now and I have ordered a shock attack for tomorrow. Those units that suffered from the 0:1 shock attack last time are still at 50% disruption but if the enemy again only gets a 600 adjusted av then I´m confident to overcome the defenders...

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Day Air attack on Wallis Island , at 93,107


Allied aircraft
A-20B Boston x 89
B-25C Mitchell x 1
B-26B Marauder x 45


Allied aircraft losses
A-20B Boston: 2 destroyed, 15 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 1 damaged
B-26B Marauder: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
63 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Port hits 2
Port supply hits 19

Aircraft Attacking:
31 x A-20B Boston bombing at 6000 feet

I definetely prefer seeing Miller training his bomber crews than training his fighter crews... it´s all about fighters IMO...

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15798 troops, 180 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1866

Defending force 282299 troops, 1559 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 6712



Allied ground losses:
12 casualties reported

for what reason ever, Chungking´s troop number and av is going up rapidly... [X(]

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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 3130 troops, 107 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4897

Defending force 142072 troops, 1053 guns, 358 vehicles, Assault Value = 3035



Allied ground losses:
55 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Vehicles lost 1

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/03/43

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 80
G3M Nell x 6
G4M1 Betty x 165

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 56
Port hits 1
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 10000 feet

I´m working on opening another pilot training school on Mindanao. Air support is moving to Cagayan as I have more daitais in need of training than I have room at my bases I´ve been using for training so far...

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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 24
Ki-49 Helen x 37

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 2 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 5 damaged


Allied ground losses:
11 casualties reported

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 49

Aircraft Attacking:
26 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 10000 feet

this is training and has a useful purpose. Who knows what Miller is really up to with Lautern, better make sure to see it remain 100% damaged... troops are prepping for Lautern already...

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 35
A6M3a Zero x 215
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 34
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 70
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 35

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 136
Port hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
31 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 7th USA Division, at 36,89

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 36
Ki-46-II Dinah x 1

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
105 casualties reported

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

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Day Air attack on 37th USA Division, at 36,89

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 66
Ki-46-II Dinah x 1

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
80 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

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

good to see the bombers attacking...

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Ground combat at 36,89

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 106648 troops, 1062 guns, 13 vehicles, Assault Value = 2182

Defending force 39280 troops, 486 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 938

Japanese max assault: 3052 - adjusted assault: 1696 [:)]

Allied max defense: 598 - adjusted defense: 553

Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 [&o]


Japanese ground losses:
1574 casualties reported
Guns lost 28

Allied ground losses:
779 casualties reported
Guns lost 28


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

four enemy divisions are forced to retreat for the second time! That is good news, we will try to follow them further South. If we manage to force them to retreat four of five times then there´s nothing left to really fear. Will take nearly a year to rebuild those divs so we won´t see them before mid 44 again. [8D]

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15835 troops, 180 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1867

Defending force 283117 troops, 1569 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 6734

seeing Chungking´s av going up 20 points each turn is concerning me a bit. But being in an urban hex makes me still confident that we don´t have to fear anything here.

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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 7415 troops, 252 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4948

Defending force 143320 troops, 1074 guns, 359 vehicles, Assault Value = 3052



Allied ground losses:
225 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

with the thousands of tons of supplies, the Allied units at Wyndham are now gaining strenght too of course...

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/04/43

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Sub attack near Koepang at 28,77

Allied Ships
SS Sawfish

ghost sub attack...

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Sub attack near Darwin at 36,84

Japanese Ships
DD Hatsushima
DD Kawakaze
DD Shinonome
DD Yugiri
DD Yayoi
DD Yuzuki

Allied Ships
SS Pogy, hits 10, on fire, heavy damage

my ASW TF is target of Pogy but the sub missed. In return it takes a hit and 9 near misses. Pogy was later confirmed sunk after being hit by a Helen on nav search... We currently have 56 Allied subs confirmed sunk. That´s not that much considering the fact that we´ve sunk more than 2 dozen subs during our port attacks on Manila and Pearl Harbour. Means we have only been able to sink another 2 dozen subs in 15 months of war. This is mostly due to the fact that my DDs have been more or less useless all the time. Only 11 subs were confirmed sunk by DCs...

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Sub attack near Koepang at 28,77

Japanese Ships
PC Hachijo, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
APD APD-36
PC Iki
PC Oki
PC Etoforu
PC Kunashiri

Allied Ships
SS Sawfish, hits 7

sent in one of my best ASW TFs (when it comes down to ASW value) and one of my modern PCs is hit hard. The PC is in high danger of being sunk, chance to survive perhaps 10%. Disbanded into port at Koepang (level 4), nav HQ and AR present. 7 near misses on Sawfish will probably mean the sub will return to it´s home port...

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Day Air attack on Madras , at 18,21 [X(]


Allied aircraft
Vengeance I x 16


Allied aircraft losses
Vengeance I: 1 destroyed, 11 damaged

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Vengeance I bombing at 2000 feet

I guess Miller newly received this dive bomber squadron on Ceylon with the default setting "airfield attack". The bombers chose to attack Madras where we have a big base force sitting...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 81
G3M Nell x 8
G4M1 Betty x 162

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 45
Port fuel hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 10000 feet
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 35
A6M3a Zero x 215
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 68
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 35

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 146
Port hits 2
Port fuel hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Wallis Island , at 93,107


Allied aircraft
TBF Avenger x 49
Kittyhawk I x 61
P-40E Warhawk x 53


Allied aircraft losses
Kittyhawk I: 2 destroyed, 9 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 3 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
10 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Port hits 2
Port supply hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Kittyhawk I bombing at 2000 feet

Miller moved in fighters again... guess I will have to strenghten my flak defenses here. Increasing flak defense over Luganville forced him to halt his training runs there...

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Day Air attack on TF at 9,88

Japanese aircraft
D3A Val x 23
A6M3a Zero x 17
B5N Kate x 24

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
AO Platte, Bomb hits 24, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet
4 x B5N Kate bombing at 10000 feet

KB sinks a damaged AO on his way back into the SRA. As I don´t really fear an Allied offensive now, it´s time for R&R and all the upgrades. Guess we will have six months now to bring everything back into perfect shape. Hopefully this will also mean that we can stock some fuel as my fuel levels are really, really low...

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15825 troops, 182 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1866

Defending force 283920 troops, 1574 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 6747

wonder where the Chinese were drawing supply from...

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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8372 troops, 287 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4995

Defending force 144055 troops, 1075 guns, 359 vehicles, Assault Value = 3058



Allied ground losses:
26 casualties reported

more than a dozen art units are doing a whopping 26 casualties...

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/05/43

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TF 1028 encounters mine field at Tongatapu Island (94,114)

Allied Ships
MSW Swallow
MSW Starling

the last of my sub laid mines are cleared...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 80
G3M Nell x 8
G4M1 Betty x 169

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 22
Port hits 2
Port supply hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 10000 feet

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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 27
Ki-49 Helen x 75

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 2 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 3 damaged


Allied ground losses:
63 casualties reported

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 88

Aircraft Attacking:
18 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 10000 feet

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 35
A6M3a Zero x 215
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 70
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 35

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 10
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 72
Port hits 2
Port supply hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Wallis Island , at 93,107


Allied aircraft
TBF Avenger x 54
Kittyhawk I x 33
P-40E Warhawk x 50


Allied aircraft losses
Kittyhawk I: 3 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 4 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
11 casualties reported

Port hits 2
Port supply hits 4

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Kittyhawk I bombing at 2000 feet

only Allied and Japanese training runs the whole day...

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15845 troops, 182 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1866

Defending force 284749 troops, 1573 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 6758



Allied ground losses:
11 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8352 troops, 287 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4923

Defending force 144745 troops, 1080 guns, 360 vehicles, Assault Value = 3063



Allied ground losses:
52 casualties reported


pretty boring turns now, guess this is what we will mostly see for the next couple of months. Perhaps Miller will start some limited action somewhere. Air attacks out of Cairns or Townsville against PM, Gili Gili or Thursday Island comes to mind. But I doubt we will see any major invasion without carrier support. I will work on further increasing our defenses in the Pacific and I have now also decided to attack the SOVIET UNION! I have 15.000 assault points already prepped for their targets and I´ve started to move air and ground units into Manchuko to further increase our offensive capability. Guess we will see the start of hostilities against Russia in two months.

[Xxzard]

Well, good luck with that cause, I'm interested to see how the IJA does against the russian 64 plane squadrons- hopefully with obsolete fighters though. You seem to do well enough with ground campaigns, and against an immobile defense I'm sure you'll accomplish much.