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This is a great read for a noob because he doesn't clutter up his report with thousands of lines from the Combat Reports informing us that rowboat A has just fired on rowboat B at location C. Instead, he tells you what he's doing, why he's doing it, and what he thinks he might try to do in the future. If, instead of benefiting from his AAR, you decide to squander some of your time reading mine, you might notice that some of my strategies are almost identical to some of his. Probably just coincidence.
One of the main reasons I'm writting this thing is that I like to bloviate. Another reason is that writting about my game improves my game. If I'm trying to tell you what I'm doing and why I'm doing it, then it follows that I have to give some thought to my game. This is something I'm not naturally prone to do. Left to my own devices, I'd just move units around until I got bored and then hit the turn button.
Anyway here we go
[center]After Action Report - 7 December 1941[/center]
[center]Pearl Harbor Midget Subs?[/center]
Midget Sub attack inside harbor of Pearl Harbor!!!
Japanese Ships
SSX Ha-14, hits 3, heavy damage
Allied Ships
CL Helena, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
AM Grebe
DM Pruitt
[center]Pearl Harbor Morning Air Attack[/center]
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 26 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 28
B5N2 Kate x 144
D3A1 Val x 126
Allied aircraft
no flights
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
B5N2 Kate: 4 destroyed, 15 damaged
D3A1 Val: 1 destroyed, 12 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
PBY-5 Catalina: 25 destroyed on ground
P-40B Warhawk: 20 destroyed on ground
P-36A Mohawk: 8 destroyed on ground
A-20A Havoc: 6 destroyed on ground
B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed on ground
B-17D Fortress: 4 destroyed on ground
F4F-3 Wildcat: 3 destroyed on ground
SBD-1 Dauntless: 7 destroyed on ground
O-47A: 3 destroyed on ground
B-18A Bolo: 8 destroyed on ground
C-33: 1 destroyed on ground
R3D-2: 1 destroyed on ground
Allied Ships
DM Sicard, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
BB Nevada, Bomb hits 14, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
BB West Virginia, Bomb hits 11, heavy fires, heavy damage
BB California, Bomb hits 5, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires
BB Tennessee, Bomb hits 9, Torpedo hits 3, heavy fires
BB Maryland, Bomb hits 8, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
BB Oklahoma, Bomb hits 12, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
CL Detroit, Bomb hits 2, on fire
BB Pennsylvania, Bomb hits 3, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD Schley, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
BB Arizona, Bomb hits 13, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
AE Mauna Loa, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AV Curtiss, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Blue, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
DM Ramsay, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
CA New Orleans, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
CL Helena, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AMc Redbird, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DM Preble, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
PG Sacramento, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
CL St. Louis, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
CL Phoenix, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Jarvis, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AM Turkey, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
CA San Francisco, Bomb hits 1
DD Monaghan, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
CL Honolulu, Bomb hits 2
SS Dolphin, Bomb hits 1
DD Dale, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
[center]Philippines - Clark gets off easy![/center]
Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 160 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 56 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 25
G3M2 Nell x 36
G4M1 Betty x 27
Allied aircraft
no flights
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
P-35A: 1 destroyed on ground
You've got to hand it to those 88 Japanese pilots. They really did a number on that P-35A!!
Airbase hits 3
Runway hits 8
[center]Malaya - Force Z goes down![/center]
[center]Morning air attack[/center]
Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 28 minutes
Japanese aircraft
G3M2 Nell x 9
G4M1 Betty x 13
Japanese aircraft losses
G3M2 Nell: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 11 damaged
Allied Ships
BB Prince of Wales, Torpedo hits 2
BC Repulse
[center]Second morning attack[/center]
Japanese aircraft
G3M2 Nell x 9
Japanese aircraft losses
G3M2 Nell: 9 damaged
Allied Ships
BC Repulse, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage
BB Prince of Wales, Torpedo hits 2, on fire
[center]That afternoon[/center]
Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 19
Allied aircraft
Buffalo I x 7
Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 9 destroyed, 7 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
Allied Ships
BB Prince of Wales
BC Repulse, Torpedo hits 4, and is sunk
[center]The final blow[/center]
Japanese aircraft
G3M2 Nell x 9
Allied aircraft
Buffalo I x 7
Japanese aircraft losses
G3M2 Nell: 3 destroyed, 6 damaged
Allied Ships
BB Prince of Wales, Torpedo hits 4, and is sunk
[center]Elsewhere[/center]
Hong Kong - Japanese air attacks
Philippines - Batan Island captured
Malaya - Japanese land at Kota Bharu
[center]Ships sunk - 7 December 1941[/center]
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[/center]What's the matter with those nitwits? They're supposed to sink BBs, not destroyers. Destroyers I need. Not only that, they're bombing coastal AMcs! I can just see it now:
Imperial Navy Headquarters
Flying officers Chicomarxsu, Harpomarxsu and Grouchomarxsu report to Admiral Yamamoto.
Yamamoto: "Hey guys, what's the story? I give you a nice brand new airplane, put a neat bomb on it for you, truck you all the way over to Pearl Harbor, and what do you do? You waste the Emperor's time and money bombing a converted shrimp boat for Chrisakes! While you were lolly gagging over Ford, did you happen to notice those big gray things next to the piers? They're called battleships, and the Emp and I were kind of hoping you'd at least scratch the paint on some of those babies. I'm issuing a dull dinner knife to each of you. You know what to do."
[center]Pearl Harbor Damage Report - 7 December 1941[/center]
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[/center][center]Scorecard[/center]
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