25 pounders are real killers compared to 18 pounders and 3.7" mountain guns....
They are best at suppression though somethign not really modelled well in game.
At PM I am up to 3 forts already with over 500 'good' AV by end of December and its good AV as well had PZB not snuck that invasion force into rabaul he would have gotten a nasty shock.
How is you opponent doing in PI and Malaya - PZB is like a steamroller I cannot stop him as he is being disciplined and methodical and that means hard to defeat.
He takes few risks an early attack on PM is a BIG risk for the Japanese the allies are strong enough to counter it hard if they assume its an early target.
Andy
AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy
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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy
ORIGINAL: Andy Mac
25 pounders are real killers compared to 18 pounders and 3.7" mountain guns....
They are best at suppression though somethign not really modelled well in game.
At PM I am up to 3 forts already with over 500 'good' AV by end of December and its good AV as well had PZB not snuck that invasion force into rabaul he would have gotten a nasty shock.
How is you opponent doing in PI and Malaya - PZB is like a steamroller I cannot stop him as he is being disciplined and methodical and that means hard to defeat.
He takes few risks an early attack on PM is a BIG risk for the Japanese the allies are strong enough to counter it hard if they assume its an early target.
Andy
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I guess I just don´t have enough of the 25 pounders at PM and with the assault value I´ve got there a hundred of them wouldn´t change the tides. My main problem in my PM adventure is that I just didn´t think it would be possible to advance so fast. Well, I thought there´s a difference to WITP and it really would also slow down the Japanese´s advance but obviously I´m wrong when I see a division and two rgts moving around in this region this early.
Lesson learnt, this is something I did "different" from WITP (unlike other things) and it proved that I was wrong, seriously wrong about my assumptions. Don´t know about Malaya, I´ve retreated everything into Singapore and haven´t spotted an enemy division yet, his spearhead is still 4 hexes North of Singapore without being attacked or delayed. I prefer to bring back everything possible to Singapore intact. PI already has 920 enemy av at Clark and units just moved into Manila. I´m defending both sites as I can still move between them when enemy units entered my hexes (unlike in WITP and this is a great improvement IMO). No landings at Southern Bormeo or Java yet and nothing really moving on Rangoon spotted yet. But most of Sulawesi and the (North-)Western tip of New Guinea are taken out already.
And there´s not much chance to intervene with his invasions due to the fact that either KB is nearby or baby KB (in the SRA) which carries some three dozen Kates that can put everything out of action quite quickly if you dare to move in something bigger than a DD.
I can´t really see how PM early on is a risk for the Japanese though as long as the have KB around. You can´t intervene with LBA or your carriers, everythign would get whiped out, so the only thing left would be to have more troops at PM than the enemy which I missed due to my above mentioned wrong assumption of IJN capabilities in AE.
RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy
Unless you are careful, you will regret attempting to defend both Clark and Manila. If I am the Japanese, I prep everyone for Clark, withdraw 2 divisions to a hex in between the two, then pounce on Clark before you can move. If you are shoved out of Clark, those forces retreat to Bataan, effectively splitting the USAFFE in two. I took Luzon Jan 20 in my PBEM this way. In my other PBEM, I moved everyone to Clark, and lasted until March 5th. In both cases, Japanese brought 4 divisions.
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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy
The 4th Division starts in Japan along with the 8th BF. Both are unrestricted, but he would probably need most of his APs to load them both up. The 144 Rgt is set for Guam, so afterwards just reload and head to target B.
KB will probably head for Darwin and support invasions around Ambon and Timor. At least I would.
KB will probably head for Darwin and support invasions around Ambon and Timor. At least I would.
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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy
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Unless you are careful, you will regret attempting to defend both Clark and Manila. If I am the Japanese, I prep everyone for Clark, withdraw 2 divisions to a hex in between the two, then pounce on Clark before you can move. If you are shoved out of Clark, those forces retreat to Bataan, effectively splitting the USAFFE in two. I took Luzon Jan 20 in my PBEM this way. In my other PBEM, I moved everyone to Clark, and lasted until March 5th. In both cases, Japanese brought 4 divisions.
Thought I could move between Clark and Manila with the new ZOC rules? This would be major trouble if I couldn´t, the hex border is green in any case. [&:] I would be pretty much screwed if it wouldn´t work. As long as he has only the same av as I have in any hex (only true at Clark field) I can easily defend both places, perhaps I can lure him into an attack. If I outnumber him strongly, he won´t attack and just pound me with his LBA and his arty I guess. We´ll see, if the movement won´t work then I can´t do anything anymore anyway.
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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy
ORIGINAL: ny59giants
The 4th Division starts in Japan along with the 8th BF. Both are unrestricted, but he would probably need most of his APs to load them both up. The 144 Rgt is set for Guam, so afterwards just reload and head to target B.
KB will probably head for Darwin and support invasions around Ambon and Timor. At least I would.
It seems it was not really hard to move the div, the rgt and the bf. We´re three turns ahead of the AAR and it looks like KB is heading South now, perhaps going to bomb Brisbane, I have no idea. KB isn´t needed around Timor as there´s not much I can do anyway. His three CVLs are like a death star so sending out my bombers is a complete waste so I guess he will cover his invasions with his mini KB. There are something like 20 av on Timor so what can one do to stop the enemy...
RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy
You should be able to move between the two. But you have to move quicker than the Japanese. If you do that in Move mode, you expose the troops to more casualties from bombing. And if you don't notice the shift in time, he can mass against one half of your forces. You also have to prep your forces for both; the Japanese can pick, and you won't know what they picked until the hammer falls.
Manila doesn't have the same terrain advantages it did in WITP. In fact, Clark, being rough jungle, is better terrain. If he captures Manila, he can't use the port anyway if you have Bataan.
Better to let the Japs have Manila and move to Clark IMO.
Manila doesn't have the same terrain advantages it did in WITP. In fact, Clark, being rough jungle, is better terrain. If he captures Manila, he can't use the port anyway if you have Bataan.
Better to let the Japs have Manila and move to Clark IMO.
RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy
And as I just discovered v PZB moving in combat mode wit fatigued troops even on a good road takes an age,
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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy
So far I´ve only spotted some 1300 Japanese av in the PI and that isn´t enough to either take Clark or Manila. And I´m regrouping my troops now. Guess it will be a fighting withdraw now from Manila...
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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy
Happy new year to everyone. Did the new years eve turn on Silvester real life... [:D]
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 01, 42
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ASW attack near Truk at 110,111
Japanese Ships
PB Chiyo Maru #4
Allied Ships
SS Pompano, hits 1
SS Pompano is sighted by escort
Pompano diving deep ....
PB Chiyo Maru #4 attacking submerged sub ....
PB Chiyo Maru #4 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
I´ve got some subs around in the shipping lanes to and from Truk so perhaps we will kill off some shipping in the next weeks...
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Amphibious Assault at Tulagi
TF 112 troops unloading over beach at Tulagi, 114,137
after the first small invasion TF was killed off by two of my subs (AKLs that were shot to pieces with MG and gunfire), the enemy has come back and will take the empty Tulagi...
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ASW attack near Saigon at 61,74
Japanese Ships
PB Takunan Maru #8
Allied Ships
SS Sargo
SS Sargo is sighted by escort
Sargo bottoming out ....
PB Takunan Maru #8 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
even if there´s only one escort, it really makes a huge difference...
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Heavy cloud
Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet
Rainer keeps sweeping to make sure I won´t have a couple of fighters in the air to engage his (escorted) bomber strike... Clark field won´t see Allied fighters in the air before 44 when I´ll be back...
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Heavy cloud
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 36
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 24
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 11 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 4 damaged
Allied ground losses:
20 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 27
Aircraft Attacking:
24 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
29 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
6 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
Also attacking Subic Bay Defenses ...
Also attacking Clark Field ...
Also attacking 31st Infantry Regiment ...
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Light cloud
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 21
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 12
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 5
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 21 damaged [:D]
Allied ground losses:
16 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Airbase hits 10
Runway hits 10
Aircraft Attacking:
21 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
our flak is learning to aim obviously... Singapore could be the grave of the IJAAF´s bomber force... don´t know about how many pilots are really lost in those attacks though...
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Light cloud
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 7
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 42
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 22 damaged
Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 18
Aircraft Attacking:
19 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 16000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
23 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 16000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
you can only be sure about a flak kill when the bomber goes down during the replay... but when I think about my B-17s that suffered 20% losses of the damaged aircraft in one attack I can only hope that those Jap bombers with a durability halve of that of a B-17 will take more losses...
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Morning Air attack on Subic Bay Defenses , at 79,76 (Clark Field)
Weather in hex: Heavy cloud
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 10
Ki-27b Nate x 10
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged
Allied ground losses:
21 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Aircraft Attacking:
9 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 1695 troops, 144 guns, 93 vehicles, Assault Value = 790
Defending force 24102 troops, 464 guns, 490 vehicles, Assault Value = 896
Japanese ground losses:
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
191 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 14 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 8 (2 destroyed, 6 disabled)
Assaulting units:
1st Formosa Inf. Regiment
48th Recon Regiment
48th Engineer Regiment
4th Tank Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
47th Infantry Regiment
65th Brigade
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
48th Field Artillery Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
14th Army
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
Defending units:
31st PA Infantry Division
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
11th PA Infantry Division
14th PS Engineer Regiment
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
192nd Tank Battalion
4th Marine Regiment
194th Tank Battalion
21st PA Infantry Division
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
31st Infantry Regiment
Subic Bay Defenses
I Philippine Corps
Far East USAAF
1st USMC AA Battalion
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
1st PI Base Force
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
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Ground combat at Mergui (53,62)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 1112 troops, 7 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 43
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese adjusted assault: 22
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 22 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Mergui !!!
Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(+), leaders(-)
Assaulting units:
III./143rd Infantry Battalion
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Ground combat at Talaud-eilanden (79,97)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 457 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 21
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese adjusted assault: 9
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 9 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Talaud-eilanden !!!
Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(-)
Assaulting units:
1st Sasebo SNLF Coy
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 777 troops, 88 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 887
Defending force 25002 troops, 242 guns, 512 vehicles, Assault Value = 790
Japanese ground losses:
75 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 7 (2 destroyed, 5 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
17 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Assaulting units:
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
192nd Tank Battalion
11th PA Infantry Division
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
31st PA Infantry Division
14th PS Engineer Regiment
21st PA Infantry Division
194th Tank Battalion
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
4th Marine Regiment
31st Infantry Regiment
Subic Bay Defenses
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
1st USMC AA Battalion
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
I Philippine Corps
Far East USAAF
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
1st PI Base Force
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
Defending units:
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
65th Brigade
4th Tank Regiment
47th Infantry Regiment
48th Engineer Regiment
1st Formosa Inf. Regiment
48th Recon Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
14th Army
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
48th Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 01, 42
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ASW attack near Truk at 110,111
Japanese Ships
PB Chiyo Maru #4
Allied Ships
SS Pompano, hits 1
SS Pompano is sighted by escort
Pompano diving deep ....
PB Chiyo Maru #4 attacking submerged sub ....
PB Chiyo Maru #4 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
I´ve got some subs around in the shipping lanes to and from Truk so perhaps we will kill off some shipping in the next weeks...
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Amphibious Assault at Tulagi
TF 112 troops unloading over beach at Tulagi, 114,137
after the first small invasion TF was killed off by two of my subs (AKLs that were shot to pieces with MG and gunfire), the enemy has come back and will take the empty Tulagi...
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ASW attack near Saigon at 61,74
Japanese Ships
PB Takunan Maru #8
Allied Ships
SS Sargo
SS Sargo is sighted by escort
Sargo bottoming out ....
PB Takunan Maru #8 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
even if there´s only one escort, it really makes a huge difference...
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Heavy cloud
Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet
Rainer keeps sweeping to make sure I won´t have a couple of fighters in the air to engage his (escorted) bomber strike... Clark field won´t see Allied fighters in the air before 44 when I´ll be back...
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Heavy cloud
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 36
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 24
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 11 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 4 damaged
Allied ground losses:
20 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 27
Aircraft Attacking:
24 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
29 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
6 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
Also attacking Subic Bay Defenses ...
Also attacking Clark Field ...
Also attacking 31st Infantry Regiment ...
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Light cloud
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 21
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 12
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 5
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 21 damaged [:D]
Allied ground losses:
16 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Airbase hits 10
Runway hits 10
Aircraft Attacking:
21 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
our flak is learning to aim obviously... Singapore could be the grave of the IJAAF´s bomber force... don´t know about how many pilots are really lost in those attacks though...
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Light cloud
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 7
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 42
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 22 damaged
Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 18
Aircraft Attacking:
19 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 16000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
23 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 16000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
you can only be sure about a flak kill when the bomber goes down during the replay... but when I think about my B-17s that suffered 20% losses of the damaged aircraft in one attack I can only hope that those Jap bombers with a durability halve of that of a B-17 will take more losses...
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Morning Air attack on Subic Bay Defenses , at 79,76 (Clark Field)
Weather in hex: Heavy cloud
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 10
Ki-27b Nate x 10
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged
Allied ground losses:
21 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Aircraft Attacking:
9 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 1695 troops, 144 guns, 93 vehicles, Assault Value = 790
Defending force 24102 troops, 464 guns, 490 vehicles, Assault Value = 896
Japanese ground losses:
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
191 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 14 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 8 (2 destroyed, 6 disabled)
Assaulting units:
1st Formosa Inf. Regiment
48th Recon Regiment
48th Engineer Regiment
4th Tank Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
47th Infantry Regiment
65th Brigade
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
48th Field Artillery Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
14th Army
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
Defending units:
31st PA Infantry Division
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
11th PA Infantry Division
14th PS Engineer Regiment
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
192nd Tank Battalion
4th Marine Regiment
194th Tank Battalion
21st PA Infantry Division
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
31st Infantry Regiment
Subic Bay Defenses
I Philippine Corps
Far East USAAF
1st USMC AA Battalion
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
1st PI Base Force
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
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Ground combat at Mergui (53,62)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 1112 troops, 7 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 43
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese adjusted assault: 22
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 22 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Mergui !!!
Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(+), leaders(-)
Assaulting units:
III./143rd Infantry Battalion
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Ground combat at Talaud-eilanden (79,97)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 457 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 21
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese adjusted assault: 9
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 9 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Talaud-eilanden !!!
Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(-)
Assaulting units:
1st Sasebo SNLF Coy
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 777 troops, 88 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 887
Defending force 25002 troops, 242 guns, 512 vehicles, Assault Value = 790
Japanese ground losses:
75 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 7 (2 destroyed, 5 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
17 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Assaulting units:
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
192nd Tank Battalion
11th PA Infantry Division
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
31st PA Infantry Division
14th PS Engineer Regiment
21st PA Infantry Division
194th Tank Battalion
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
4th Marine Regiment
31st Infantry Regiment
Subic Bay Defenses
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
1st USMC AA Battalion
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
I Philippine Corps
Far East USAAF
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
1st PI Base Force
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
Defending units:
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
65th Brigade
4th Tank Regiment
47th Infantry Regiment
48th Engineer Regiment
1st Formosa Inf. Regiment
48th Recon Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
14th Army
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
48th Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 02, 42
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Naval bombardment of Port Moresby at 98,130 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!
3 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
BB Mutsu
BB Nagato
CA Kako
CA Furutaka
Allied ground losses:
78 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
BB Mutsu firing at 15th RAAF Base Force
BB Nagato firing at 15th RAAF Base Force
CA Kako firing at 15th RAAF Base Force
CA Furutaka firing at 15th RAAF Base Force
IJN battlewaggons support the invasion now... only the base force is targeted and not even hit hard... nav bombardements are more or less useless (except disrupting base forces that then could be attacked from the air without putting up good flak fire I guess)...
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Heavy rain
Raid detected at 160 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 53 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Heavy rain
Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 25 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 43
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 10
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 23
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 19 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 6 damaged
Allied ground losses:
25 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 28
Aircraft Attacking:
23 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
29 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
14 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
Also attacking Subic Bay Defenses ...
Also attacking Clark Field ...
Also attacking 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion ...
Also attacking 4th Marine Regiment ...
excellent flak defense at Clark field today, probabyl due to the low attack alt of the bombers... pretty sure that all bombers are coming from bases on the PI so I doubt they reall suffer from the damage taken...
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 16
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 5
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 15 damaged
Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Runway hits 6
Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
100% of the incoming bombers hit... looks like bombing Singapore is a bad idea... [:D]
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 8
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 7
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 23
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 22 damaged
Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Runway hits 2
Aircraft Attacking:
17 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 16000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
6 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 16000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
also here, all but one bomber damaged... [:)]
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 9
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 15
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 11 damaged
Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 16000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
even though the bombers are more or less all damaged daily, their total numbers incoming day after day seem not to be reduced...
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Afternoon Air attack on 49th Australian Battalion, at 98,130 (Port Moresby)
Weather in hex: Partial cloud
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 17 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 7
B5N2 Kate x 132 [:(]
Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 1 destroyed, 15 damaged
Allied ground losses:
405 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 44 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 16 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Aircraft Attacking:
25 x B5N2 Kate bombing from 9000 feet
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
Also attacking Port Moresby Brigade ...
Also attacking Lark Battalion ...
my only combat worth unit on PM is knocked out... even if it would be a division, the disruption of the unit hit by such an airstrike would be in the 90s, making it completely useless for at least two turns. I gues with the KB around you would need at 600-700 av to fend off two high exp IJA divs. KB is the deciding factor here and the carriers can launch a lot of attacks with the Kates only...
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Ground combat at Port Moresby (98,130)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 15044 troops, 132 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 440
Defending force 3961 troops, 65 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 72
Japanese adjusted assault: 306
Allied adjusted defense: 21
Japanese assault odds: 14 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Port Moresby !!!
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
87 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Allied ground losses:
2217 casualties reported
Squads: 39 destroyed, 13 disabled
Non Combat: 142 destroyed, 21 disabled
Engineers: 31 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 36 (36 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 5 (5 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 5
Units destroyed 1
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
4th Division
8th Base Force
Defending units:
49th Australian Battalion
Lark Battalion
B Coy/NG Rifles
Port Moresby Brigade
15th RAAF Base Force
Rabaul Det. Base Force
Port Moresby is lost, it´s 2nd Jannuary... in the end I´m happy I haven´t moved in a couple of units more as I can´t see how I could have held against 4th division. I have ordered Brit 18th div to prep for Port Moresby and have set the convoy to move to Australia to unload and fom up with other ships to an amphib TF to be able to unload at PM. The convoy made it to Australia but it would have needed at least another two and a half or three weeks to really have 18th div at the base. Will use this one rare combat worthy division elsewhere now...
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 1663 troops, 144 guns, 93 vehicles, Assault Value = 920
Defending force 23896 troops, 463 guns, 488 vehicles, Assault Value = 890
Japanese ground losses:
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
133 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 17 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 7 (1 destroyed, 6 disabled)
Assaulting units:
65th Brigade
48th Engineer Regiment
1st Formosa Inf. Regiment
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
Tanaka Detachment
Kanno Detachment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
47th Infantry Regiment
48th Recon Regiment
4th Tank Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
14th Army
48th Field Artillery Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
Defending units:
31st Infantry Regiment
21st PA Infantry Division
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
11th PA Infantry Division
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
192nd Tank Battalion
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
4th Marine Regiment
194th Tank Battalion
14th PS Engineer Regiment
31st PA Infantry Division
Subic Bay Defenses
I Philippine Corps
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
1st PI Base Force
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
1st USMC AA Battalion
Far East USAAF
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
we´re at 1:1 against the Japanese agressors at Clark field and our troops are still confident sitting behind level 2 forts (more won´t be possible I guess due to the ongoing daily air attacks)... so what is "jungle rough" worth in the defense? The manual says it´s a 3x defensive multiplier compared to the only 2x multiplier Manila gets as urban light. No idea how the ground fighting really looks like in AE but at the moment I´m confident (which surely is a misinterpretation of the situation anyway [:D]) as a 3x multiplier on the defense should mean 2000 IJA av at least to take out Clark field against the troops I have there now and I can move in another 900 av from Manila. The main factor will be supply which we don´t have a lot even now before the fighting really starts...
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Ground combat at Tulagi (114,137)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 342 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese adjusted assault: 3
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Tulagi !!!
Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(+), leaders(-), disruption(-)
Assaulting units:
2nd Indpt SNLF Coy
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Ground combat at 67,87
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 504 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 22
Defending force 210 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1
Japanese adjusted assault: 8
Allied adjusted defense: 4
Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-)
Attacker: fatigue(-)
Japanese ground losses:
10 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
60 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units retreated 1
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
I/81st Naval Guard Unit
Defending units:
107th RN Base Force
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 739 troops, 88 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 884
Defending force 28595 troops, 268 guns, 515 vehicles, Assault Value = 920
Japanese ground losses:
120 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 5 (2 destroyed, 3 disabled)
Assaulting units:
31st PA Infantry Division
194th Tank Battalion
11th PA Infantry Division
31st Infantry Regiment
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
14th PS Engineer Regiment
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
4th Marine Regiment
192nd Tank Battalion
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
21st PA Infantry Division
Subic Bay Defenses
1st PI Base Force
I Philippine Corps
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
1st USMC AA Battalion
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
Far East USAAF
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
Defending units:
1st Formosa Inf. Regiment
47th Infantry Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
Tanaka Detachment
4th Tank Regiment
65th Brigade
48th Engineer Regiment
48th Recon Regiment
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
Kanno Detachment
2nd Tank Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
14th Army
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
48th Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
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Naval bombardment of Port Moresby at 98,130 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!
3 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
BB Mutsu
BB Nagato
CA Kako
CA Furutaka
Allied ground losses:
78 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
BB Mutsu firing at 15th RAAF Base Force
BB Nagato firing at 15th RAAF Base Force
CA Kako firing at 15th RAAF Base Force
CA Furutaka firing at 15th RAAF Base Force
IJN battlewaggons support the invasion now... only the base force is targeted and not even hit hard... nav bombardements are more or less useless (except disrupting base forces that then could be attacked from the air without putting up good flak fire I guess)...
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Heavy rain
Raid detected at 160 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 53 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Heavy rain
Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 25 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 43
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 10
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 23
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 19 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 6 damaged
Allied ground losses:
25 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 28
Aircraft Attacking:
23 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
29 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
14 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
Also attacking Subic Bay Defenses ...
Also attacking Clark Field ...
Also attacking 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion ...
Also attacking 4th Marine Regiment ...
excellent flak defense at Clark field today, probabyl due to the low attack alt of the bombers... pretty sure that all bombers are coming from bases on the PI so I doubt they reall suffer from the damage taken...
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 16
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 5
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 15 damaged
Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Runway hits 6
Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
100% of the incoming bombers hit... looks like bombing Singapore is a bad idea... [:D]
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 8
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 7
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 23
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 22 damaged
Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Runway hits 2
Aircraft Attacking:
17 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 16000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
6 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 16000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
also here, all but one bomber damaged... [:)]
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 9
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 15
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 11 damaged
Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 16000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
even though the bombers are more or less all damaged daily, their total numbers incoming day after day seem not to be reduced...
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Afternoon Air attack on 49th Australian Battalion, at 98,130 (Port Moresby)
Weather in hex: Partial cloud
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 17 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 7
B5N2 Kate x 132 [:(]
Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 1 destroyed, 15 damaged
Allied ground losses:
405 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 44 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 16 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Aircraft Attacking:
25 x B5N2 Kate bombing from 9000 feet
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
Also attacking Port Moresby Brigade ...
Also attacking Lark Battalion ...
my only combat worth unit on PM is knocked out... even if it would be a division, the disruption of the unit hit by such an airstrike would be in the 90s, making it completely useless for at least two turns. I gues with the KB around you would need at 600-700 av to fend off two high exp IJA divs. KB is the deciding factor here and the carriers can launch a lot of attacks with the Kates only...
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Ground combat at Port Moresby (98,130)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 15044 troops, 132 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 440
Defending force 3961 troops, 65 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 72
Japanese adjusted assault: 306
Allied adjusted defense: 21
Japanese assault odds: 14 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Port Moresby !!!
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
87 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Allied ground losses:
2217 casualties reported
Squads: 39 destroyed, 13 disabled
Non Combat: 142 destroyed, 21 disabled
Engineers: 31 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 36 (36 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 5 (5 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 5
Units destroyed 1
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
4th Division
8th Base Force
Defending units:
49th Australian Battalion
Lark Battalion
B Coy/NG Rifles
Port Moresby Brigade
15th RAAF Base Force
Rabaul Det. Base Force
Port Moresby is lost, it´s 2nd Jannuary... in the end I´m happy I haven´t moved in a couple of units more as I can´t see how I could have held against 4th division. I have ordered Brit 18th div to prep for Port Moresby and have set the convoy to move to Australia to unload and fom up with other ships to an amphib TF to be able to unload at PM. The convoy made it to Australia but it would have needed at least another two and a half or three weeks to really have 18th div at the base. Will use this one rare combat worthy division elsewhere now...
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 1663 troops, 144 guns, 93 vehicles, Assault Value = 920
Defending force 23896 troops, 463 guns, 488 vehicles, Assault Value = 890
Japanese ground losses:
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
133 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 17 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 7 (1 destroyed, 6 disabled)
Assaulting units:
65th Brigade
48th Engineer Regiment
1st Formosa Inf. Regiment
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
Tanaka Detachment
Kanno Detachment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
47th Infantry Regiment
48th Recon Regiment
4th Tank Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
14th Army
48th Field Artillery Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
Defending units:
31st Infantry Regiment
21st PA Infantry Division
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
11th PA Infantry Division
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
192nd Tank Battalion
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
4th Marine Regiment
194th Tank Battalion
14th PS Engineer Regiment
31st PA Infantry Division
Subic Bay Defenses
I Philippine Corps
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
1st PI Base Force
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
1st USMC AA Battalion
Far East USAAF
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
we´re at 1:1 against the Japanese agressors at Clark field and our troops are still confident sitting behind level 2 forts (more won´t be possible I guess due to the ongoing daily air attacks)... so what is "jungle rough" worth in the defense? The manual says it´s a 3x defensive multiplier compared to the only 2x multiplier Manila gets as urban light. No idea how the ground fighting really looks like in AE but at the moment I´m confident (which surely is a misinterpretation of the situation anyway [:D]) as a 3x multiplier on the defense should mean 2000 IJA av at least to take out Clark field against the troops I have there now and I can move in another 900 av from Manila. The main factor will be supply which we don´t have a lot even now before the fighting really starts...
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Ground combat at Tulagi (114,137)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 342 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese adjusted assault: 3
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Tulagi !!!
Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(+), leaders(-), disruption(-)
Assaulting units:
2nd Indpt SNLF Coy
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Ground combat at 67,87
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 504 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 22
Defending force 210 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1
Japanese adjusted assault: 8
Allied adjusted defense: 4
Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-)
Attacker: fatigue(-)
Japanese ground losses:
10 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
60 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units retreated 1
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
I/81st Naval Guard Unit
Defending units:
107th RN Base Force
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 739 troops, 88 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 884
Defending force 28595 troops, 268 guns, 515 vehicles, Assault Value = 920
Japanese ground losses:
120 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 5 (2 destroyed, 3 disabled)
Assaulting units:
31st PA Infantry Division
194th Tank Battalion
11th PA Infantry Division
31st Infantry Regiment
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
14th PS Engineer Regiment
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
4th Marine Regiment
192nd Tank Battalion
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
21st PA Infantry Division
Subic Bay Defenses
1st PI Base Force
I Philippine Corps
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
1st USMC AA Battalion
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
Far East USAAF
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
Defending units:
1st Formosa Inf. Regiment
47th Infantry Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
Tanaka Detachment
4th Tank Regiment
65th Brigade
48th Engineer Regiment
48th Recon Regiment
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
Kanno Detachment
2nd Tank Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
14th Army
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
48th Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
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- Location: Austria
RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 03, 42
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ASW attack near Hengchun at 83,67
Japanese Ships
SC Ch 3
SC Ch 1
E Kiku
Allied Ships
SS S-38
SS S-38 is located by SC Ch 3
E Kiku fails to find sub and abandons search
SC Ch 3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
at the moment it seems all sealanes are empty of Japanese convoys and only ASW TFs are left... Rainer must have completely rerouted ALL of his shipping because out of a sudden everything just disappeared... [&:]
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Sub attack near Hengchun at 83,67
Japanese Ships
SC Ch 3
SC Ch 1
E Kiku
Allied Ships
SS S-38
SS S-38 launches 4 torpedoes at SC Ch 3
S-38 diving deep ....
E Kiku fails to find sub and abandons search
SC Ch 3 attacking submerged sub ....
SC Ch 3 cannot establish contact with SS S-38
SC Ch 3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
boy I really start to wonder if there´s a database error in this scenario... my MK10 torps seem to be as faulty as the MK14 and really really rarely do boom... [&:][&:][&:]
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Sub attack near Kavieng at 107,119
Japanese Ships
xAK London Maru, Torpedo hits 1
LSD Akitsu Maru
xAP Huzi Maru
xAK Shinkoku Maru
xAK Kuraido Maru
PB Shonon Maru #15
Allied Ships
SS Pompano
SS Pompano launches 4 torpedoes at xAK London Maru
PB Shonon Maru #15 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
MK14 exploded on target but no damage noticed... not sure but it seems such hits are FOW...
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ASW attack near Quinhon at 67,70
Japanese Ships
PB Takunan Maru #8
Allied Ships
SS Sargo
SS Sargo is sighted by escort
Sargo diving deep ....
PB Takunan Maru #8 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
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ASW attack near San Francisco at 205,91
Japanese Ships
SS I-26, hits 1
Allied Ships
DD King
xAP Santa Inez
xAK Examiner
DD Kane
DD Hatfield
SS I-26 launches 6 torpedoes at DD King
I-26 diving deep ....
DD Kane fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Hatfield attacking submerged sub ....
DD Hatfield fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
near San Francisco is funny in this case as it´s something like two dozen hexes out in the ocean away from SF... this is a high value troop TF that is returning to SF... Hatfield achieved a hit on I-26 and it is now reported as sunk but I guess that´s definetely FOW... Rainer is smart enough to keep his subs well off the West Coast out of air search range and still attacking my convoys now and then... all convoys going in and out from the WC are using different paths via set waypoints so my ship movement shouldn´t be predictable at all... and the good thing, the further away the subs are from the coast, the higher the chance they miss my convoys...
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Sub attack near Kavieng at 107,119
Japanese Ships
ACM Tama Maru
Allied Ships
SS Searaven
SS Searaven launches 4 torpedoes
ACM Tama Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
another attack, another dud salvo...
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Morning Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53
Weather in hex: Light cloud
Raid detected at 24 NM, estimated altitude 27,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 9
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
9 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 24000 feet
have moved out my aircraft as I didn´t want to run into another one of those massed stratosphere sweeps of Zeroes... and here they come...
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Morning Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53
Weather in hex: Light cloud
Raid detected at 200 NM, estimated altitude 27,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 66 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 46
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
17 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 24000 feet
guess the Zeroes are coming from Bangkok... will move in fighters only if ships are going to Rangoon to evacuate troops... but as I´ve already spotted IJA units East of Pegu I guess it´s time to run soon anyway...
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Morning Air attack on Asiatic Fleet , at 79,77 (Manila)
Weather in hex: Light cloud
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 22
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 5 damaged
Allied ground losses:
43 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Aircraft Attacking:
22 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 33
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 6
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 23 damaged
Allied ground losses:
4 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 8
Aircraft Attacking:
18 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
15 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
one of the daily Singapore runs and the flak strikes back... [:D]
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 15
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 14 damaged
Port hits 1
Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
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Morning Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53
Weather in hex: Light cloud
Raid detected at 42 NM, estimated altitude 26,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 12
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
12 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 24000 feet
three sweeps on Rangoon today, 67 Zeroes were coming in... too many for my taste...
if the air losses are correct then I´m quite satisfied with this turn as our flak definetely did it´s job and some Zeroes could be lost to ops too... notice the total air losses of both sides, the Japanese nearly have lost as many ac as we did. Clearly due to me doing a full scale Sir Robin... my air losses will go up drastically again when the enemy attacks Java as all those Dutch ac will be shot down then. This should account for 150-200 ac destroyed...
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ASW attack near Deboyne Islands at 99,141
Japanese Ships
BB Hiei
CA Chikuma
CL Abukuma
DD Isokaze
DD Kasumi
DD Arare
DD Tanikaze
DD Hamakaze
Allied Ships
SS Seawolf
SS Seawolf is sighted by escort
Seawolf diving deep ....
DD Kasumi fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tanikaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Hamakaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tanikaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
this is KB!!! After having covered the invasions of PM and Horn Island KB now swings South it seems... Rainer going for a run on Brisbane and (or) Sidney? My flak is ready and was reinforced by some units at both bases, also got lots of ac there but am not keen to send them out to act as training targets for KB´s UBER Zeroes. Also have got halve a dozen subs in the area that were tasked to move out for a patrol so they will now be placed into the expected path of KB going South... perhaps we´re lucky with a torp or we scare Rainer with lots of subs in the area... If he hits one of those bases, he won´t find a lot anyway...
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ASW attack near Emirau Island at 108,116
Japanese Ships
DMS Taneko
LSD Akitsu Maru
xAP Huzi Maru
xAK Shinkoku Maru
xAK Kotobuki Maru #5
PB Shonon Maru #15
Allied Ships
SS Searaven
SS Searaven launches 4 torpedoes at DMS Taneko
Searaven diving deep ....
PB Shonon Maru #15 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
another time PLOINK...
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 1251 troops, 92 guns, 93 vehicles, Assault Value = 908
Defending force 25805 troops, 502 guns, 487 vehicles, Assault Value = 975
Japanese ground losses:
Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
85 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 10 (1 destroyed, 9 disabled)
Assaulting units:
9th Tank Regiment
65th Brigade
48th Division
4th Tank Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
14th Army
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
Defending units:
11th PA Infantry Division
192nd Tank Battalion
194th Tank Battalion
4th Marine Regiment
91st PA Infantry Division
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
21st PA Infantry Division
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
31st PA Infantry Division
31st Infantry Regiment
14th PS Engineer Regiment
Subic Bay Defenses
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
1st PI Base Force
I Philippine Corps
1st USMC AA Battalion
Far East USAAF
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
I´ve only spotted two more units moving into Clark field yet...
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Ground combat at 79,92
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 3904 troops, 32 guns, 17 vehicles, Assault Value = 155
Defending force 118 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4
Japanese adjusted assault: 144
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 144 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), fatigue(-), morale(-)
experience(-)
Attacker:
Allied ground losses:
116 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units retreated 1
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
146th Infantry Regiment
Defending units:
1st /101st PA Battalion
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Ground combat at Manila (79,77)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 2072 troops, 36 guns, 19 vehicles, Assault Value = 716
Defending force 12965 troops, 134 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 446
Assaulting units:
57th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team
51st PA Infantry Division
3rd/12th PA Inf Battalion
1st PA Constabulary Regiment
71st PA Infantry Division
3rd/45th PS Inf Battalion
41st PA Infantry Division
2nd PA Constabulary Regiment
Cavite USN Base Force
Manila USAAF Base Force
II Philippine Corps
Asiatic Fleet
USAFFE
PAF Aviation
Defending units:
16th Engineer Regiment
9th Infantry Regiment
Kimura Det
20th Infantry Regiment
Kure 1st SNLF
and the troops that are in Manila are by far not enough to scare me...
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 719 troops, 88 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 971
Defending force 28515 troops, 267 guns, 513 vehicles, Assault Value = 908
Japanese ground losses:
42 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled)
Assaulting units:
192nd Tank Battalion
31st PA Infantry Division
194th Tank Battalion
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
91st PA Infantry Division
14th PS Engineer Regiment
11th PA Infantry Division
31st Infantry Regiment
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
4th Marine Regiment
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
21st PA Infantry Division
Subic Bay Defenses
1st PI Base Force
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
1st USMC AA Battalion
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
I Philippine Corps
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
Far East USAAF
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
Defending units:
48th Division
65th Brigade
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
4th Tank Regiment
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
14th Army
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
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ASW attack near Hengchun at 83,67
Japanese Ships
SC Ch 3
SC Ch 1
E Kiku
Allied Ships
SS S-38
SS S-38 is located by SC Ch 3
E Kiku fails to find sub and abandons search
SC Ch 3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
at the moment it seems all sealanes are empty of Japanese convoys and only ASW TFs are left... Rainer must have completely rerouted ALL of his shipping because out of a sudden everything just disappeared... [&:]
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Sub attack near Hengchun at 83,67
Japanese Ships
SC Ch 3
SC Ch 1
E Kiku
Allied Ships
SS S-38
SS S-38 launches 4 torpedoes at SC Ch 3
S-38 diving deep ....
E Kiku fails to find sub and abandons search
SC Ch 3 attacking submerged sub ....
SC Ch 3 cannot establish contact with SS S-38
SC Ch 3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
boy I really start to wonder if there´s a database error in this scenario... my MK10 torps seem to be as faulty as the MK14 and really really rarely do boom... [&:][&:][&:]
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Sub attack near Kavieng at 107,119
Japanese Ships
xAK London Maru, Torpedo hits 1
LSD Akitsu Maru
xAP Huzi Maru
xAK Shinkoku Maru
xAK Kuraido Maru
PB Shonon Maru #15
Allied Ships
SS Pompano
SS Pompano launches 4 torpedoes at xAK London Maru
PB Shonon Maru #15 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
MK14 exploded on target but no damage noticed... not sure but it seems such hits are FOW...
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ASW attack near Quinhon at 67,70
Japanese Ships
PB Takunan Maru #8
Allied Ships
SS Sargo
SS Sargo is sighted by escort
Sargo diving deep ....
PB Takunan Maru #8 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
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ASW attack near San Francisco at 205,91
Japanese Ships
SS I-26, hits 1
Allied Ships
DD King
xAP Santa Inez
xAK Examiner
DD Kane
DD Hatfield
SS I-26 launches 6 torpedoes at DD King
I-26 diving deep ....
DD Kane fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Hatfield attacking submerged sub ....
DD Hatfield fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
near San Francisco is funny in this case as it´s something like two dozen hexes out in the ocean away from SF... this is a high value troop TF that is returning to SF... Hatfield achieved a hit on I-26 and it is now reported as sunk but I guess that´s definetely FOW... Rainer is smart enough to keep his subs well off the West Coast out of air search range and still attacking my convoys now and then... all convoys going in and out from the WC are using different paths via set waypoints so my ship movement shouldn´t be predictable at all... and the good thing, the further away the subs are from the coast, the higher the chance they miss my convoys...
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Sub attack near Kavieng at 107,119
Japanese Ships
ACM Tama Maru
Allied Ships
SS Searaven
SS Searaven launches 4 torpedoes
ACM Tama Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
another attack, another dud salvo...
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Morning Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53
Weather in hex: Light cloud
Raid detected at 24 NM, estimated altitude 27,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 9
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
9 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 24000 feet
have moved out my aircraft as I didn´t want to run into another one of those massed stratosphere sweeps of Zeroes... and here they come...
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Morning Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53
Weather in hex: Light cloud
Raid detected at 200 NM, estimated altitude 27,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 66 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 46
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
17 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 24000 feet
guess the Zeroes are coming from Bangkok... will move in fighters only if ships are going to Rangoon to evacuate troops... but as I´ve already spotted IJA units East of Pegu I guess it´s time to run soon anyway...
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Morning Air attack on Asiatic Fleet , at 79,77 (Manila)
Weather in hex: Light cloud
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 22
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 5 damaged
Allied ground losses:
43 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Aircraft Attacking:
22 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 33
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 6
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 23 damaged
Allied ground losses:
4 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 8
Aircraft Attacking:
18 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
15 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
one of the daily Singapore runs and the flak strikes back... [:D]
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 15
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 14 damaged
Port hits 1
Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
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Morning Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53
Weather in hex: Light cloud
Raid detected at 42 NM, estimated altitude 26,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 12
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
12 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 24000 feet
three sweeps on Rangoon today, 67 Zeroes were coming in... too many for my taste...
if the air losses are correct then I´m quite satisfied with this turn as our flak definetely did it´s job and some Zeroes could be lost to ops too... notice the total air losses of both sides, the Japanese nearly have lost as many ac as we did. Clearly due to me doing a full scale Sir Robin... my air losses will go up drastically again when the enemy attacks Java as all those Dutch ac will be shot down then. This should account for 150-200 ac destroyed...
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ASW attack near Deboyne Islands at 99,141
Japanese Ships
BB Hiei
CA Chikuma
CL Abukuma
DD Isokaze
DD Kasumi
DD Arare
DD Tanikaze
DD Hamakaze
Allied Ships
SS Seawolf
SS Seawolf is sighted by escort
Seawolf diving deep ....
DD Kasumi fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tanikaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Hamakaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tanikaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
this is KB!!! After having covered the invasions of PM and Horn Island KB now swings South it seems... Rainer going for a run on Brisbane and (or) Sidney? My flak is ready and was reinforced by some units at both bases, also got lots of ac there but am not keen to send them out to act as training targets for KB´s UBER Zeroes. Also have got halve a dozen subs in the area that were tasked to move out for a patrol so they will now be placed into the expected path of KB going South... perhaps we´re lucky with a torp or we scare Rainer with lots of subs in the area... If he hits one of those bases, he won´t find a lot anyway...
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ASW attack near Emirau Island at 108,116
Japanese Ships
DMS Taneko
LSD Akitsu Maru
xAP Huzi Maru
xAK Shinkoku Maru
xAK Kotobuki Maru #5
PB Shonon Maru #15
Allied Ships
SS Searaven
SS Searaven launches 4 torpedoes at DMS Taneko
Searaven diving deep ....
PB Shonon Maru #15 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
another time PLOINK...
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 1251 troops, 92 guns, 93 vehicles, Assault Value = 908
Defending force 25805 troops, 502 guns, 487 vehicles, Assault Value = 975
Japanese ground losses:
Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
85 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 10 (1 destroyed, 9 disabled)
Assaulting units:
9th Tank Regiment
65th Brigade
48th Division
4th Tank Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
14th Army
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
Defending units:
11th PA Infantry Division
192nd Tank Battalion
194th Tank Battalion
4th Marine Regiment
91st PA Infantry Division
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
21st PA Infantry Division
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
31st PA Infantry Division
31st Infantry Regiment
14th PS Engineer Regiment
Subic Bay Defenses
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
1st PI Base Force
I Philippine Corps
1st USMC AA Battalion
Far East USAAF
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
I´ve only spotted two more units moving into Clark field yet...
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Ground combat at 79,92
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 3904 troops, 32 guns, 17 vehicles, Assault Value = 155
Defending force 118 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4
Japanese adjusted assault: 144
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 144 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), fatigue(-), morale(-)
experience(-)
Attacker:
Allied ground losses:
116 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units retreated 1
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
146th Infantry Regiment
Defending units:
1st /101st PA Battalion
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Ground combat at Manila (79,77)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 2072 troops, 36 guns, 19 vehicles, Assault Value = 716
Defending force 12965 troops, 134 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 446
Assaulting units:
57th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team
51st PA Infantry Division
3rd/12th PA Inf Battalion
1st PA Constabulary Regiment
71st PA Infantry Division
3rd/45th PS Inf Battalion
41st PA Infantry Division
2nd PA Constabulary Regiment
Cavite USN Base Force
Manila USAAF Base Force
II Philippine Corps
Asiatic Fleet
USAFFE
PAF Aviation
Defending units:
16th Engineer Regiment
9th Infantry Regiment
Kimura Det
20th Infantry Regiment
Kure 1st SNLF
and the troops that are in Manila are by far not enough to scare me...
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 719 troops, 88 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 971
Defending force 28515 troops, 267 guns, 513 vehicles, Assault Value = 908
Japanese ground losses:
42 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled)
Assaulting units:
192nd Tank Battalion
31st PA Infantry Division
194th Tank Battalion
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
91st PA Infantry Division
14th PS Engineer Regiment
11th PA Infantry Division
31st Infantry Regiment
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
4th Marine Regiment
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
21st PA Infantry Division
Subic Bay Defenses
1st PI Base Force
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
1st USMC AA Battalion
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
I Philippine Corps
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
Far East USAAF
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
Defending units:
48th Division
65th Brigade
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
4th Tank Regiment
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
14th Army
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
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Sub attack near Laoag at 79,69
Japanese Ships
PB Rokko Maru #2
PB Kyo Maru #13
PB Chohakusan Maru
AMC Asaka Maru
xAP Kongo Maru
xAK Yoneyama Maru
xAK Yasuteru Maru
PB Shonan Maru #17
PB Shonan Maru #2
PB Shonan Maru #1
Allied Ships
SS S-38
SS S-38 launches 4 torpedoes at PB Rokko Maru #2
PB Rokko Maru #2 fails to find sub and abandons search
PB Shonan Maru #17 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Shonan Maru #2 attacking submerged sub ....
PB Shonan Maru #1 fails to find sub and abandons search
PB Shonan Maru #17 fails to find sub and abandons search
PB Shonan Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Shonan Maru #2 attacking submerged sub ....
PB Shonan Maru #2 is out of ASW ammo
PB Shonan Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
I really start to hate my S-class subs... what´s wrong with them in this PBEM... only every fourth attack seems to be succesful, what an awful performance...
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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 53 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 33
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 27
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 13 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 9 damaged
Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 36
Aircraft Attacking:
27 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
29 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
4 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
Also attacking Subic Bay Defenses ...
Also attacking Clark Field ...
Also attacking Subic Bay Defenses ...
the Japanese seem to be pretty resistant against op losses...
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Heavy rain
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 25
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 6
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 15 damaged
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 8
Aircraft Attacking:
16 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
9 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
not much shot down today... holes in the aircraft are repaired with a handful paper and you can launch again tomorrow...
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Morning Air attack on 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion, at 79,76 (Clark Field)
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 23 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 11
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 8 damaged
Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Akyab at 54,45
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes
Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 13
Allied aircraft
Buffalo I x 9
Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 2 destroyed, 2 damaged
Allied Ships
xAP Siberg, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage [8|]
xAP Santhia
xAP Van Landsberge, Bomb hits 1, on fire [8|]
Allied ground losses:
Vehicles lost 12 (7 destroyed, 5 disabled)
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb
4 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Type 91 Torpedo
CAP engaged:
No.488 Sqn RAF with Buffalo I (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters to 15000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 20 minutes
this is one of the examples that seem to be true when it says "AE slows down operations"... so far I can only see how it slows down Allied operations. In this case, amphibious TFs try to unload at Akyab and even if it is an amphib TF all I get all the time is "TF xy can´t completely unload at Akyab"... heck, it not just doesn´t completely unload, the damn TFs don´t unload more than five soldiers a day... Not enough Buffaloes in the air and the UBER Betties sink two ships with bombs... I must be doing something seriously wrong, or better say I must be a damn bad player when I compare my situation to the situation of Allied players in other AARs... Aussie vs Amies AAR for example. The Allied have hundreds of av at Akyab and over a dozen units... how the hell did they get there when I only unload one gun and three squads per day there (and the supply vanishes completely
- no not going into the units) out of three TFs trying to unload... shaking head...
five Betties were reported shot down in the end...
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Submarine attack near Rangiroa at 177,176
Japanese Ships
SS I-15
Allied Ships
xAK Rona, Torpedo hits 1
xAK Rona is sighted by SS I-15
SS I-15 launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Rona
this is in the Society Islands!! What the hell is an IJN sub doing in the Society Islands... this is some 40 hexes off the normal shipping lanes! [8|] no idea how well this sub spotting and reaction really works, don´t know if the sub just stumbled over this TF or what was going on... the AK was empty so it´s expendable, TF is on it´s way back to SF...
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 15524 troops, 269 guns, 179 vehicles, Assault Value = 908
Defending force 25670 troops, 502 guns, 486 vehicles, Assault Value = 970
Japanese ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
115 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 4 (0 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Vehicles lost 13 (1 destroyed, 12 disabled)
Assaulting units:
9th Tank Regiment
48th Division
4th Tank Regiment
65th Brigade
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
14th Army
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
Defending units:
11th PA Infantry Division
192nd Tank Battalion
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
4th Marine Regiment
21st PA Infantry Division
14th PS Engineer Regiment
31st Infantry Regiment
194th Tank Battalion
31st PA Infantry Division
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
91st PA Infantry Division
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
Subic Bay Defenses
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
1st USMC AA Battalion
I Philippine Corps
1st PI Base Force
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
Far East USAAF
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
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Ground combat at Pegu (55,53)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 16374 troops, 136 guns, 52 vehicles, Assault Value = 592
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese adjusted assault: 349
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 349 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Pegu !!!
Combat modifiers
Attacker:
Assaulting units:
Imperial Guards Division
112th Infantry Regiment
15th Army
21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion
Imperial Guards div is one hex off Rangoon on 4th Jan... also really really slowed down it seems... 1st Burma division was rebuilt and is already save back in Calcutta, everything that is in Rangoon at the moment has been set to move out, marching North... no sense trying to fight the Imperial Guards division...
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Ground combat at Manila (79,77)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 2072 troops, 36 guns, 19 vehicles, Assault Value = 716
Defending force 13584 troops, 134 guns, 90 vehicles, Assault Value = 499
Assaulting units:
71st PA Infantry Division
3rd/45th PS Inf Battalion
51st PA Infantry Division
3rd/12th PA Inf Battalion
1st PA Constabulary Regiment
57th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team
41st PA Infantry Division
2nd PA Constabulary Regiment
Asiatic Fleet
USAFFE
II Philippine Corps
Cavite USN Base Force
Manila USAAF Base Force
PAF Aviation
Defending units:
Kimura Det
16th Engineer Regiment
7th Tank Regiment
20th Infantry Regiment
9th Infantry Regiment
Kure 1st SNLF
500 av at Manila is by far not enough to take the base... Rainer stated that he will be curious how it will work out to defend both Manila and Clark and already said he perhaps would only starve me to death... great... [8|] this means he has enough troops to be sent around on the map to take whatever he wants and my troops just sit in the PI and starve away without having a chance to do anything...
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 678 troops, 88 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 958
Defending force 29158 troops, 308 guns, 557 vehicles, Assault Value = 907
Japanese ground losses:
25 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 4 (0 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Assaulting units:
91st PA Infantry Division
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
21st PA Infantry Division
194th Tank Battalion
192nd Tank Battalion
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
14th PS Engineer Regiment
4th Marine Regiment
31st PA Infantry Division
31st Infantry Regiment
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
11th PA Infantry Division
Subic Bay Defenses
Far East USAAF
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
I Philippine Corps
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
1st USMC AA Battalion
1st PI Base Force
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
Defending units:
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
65th Brigade
4th Tank Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
48th Division
2nd Tank Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
14th Army
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
only one damned division spotted on the PI... o n e...[8|] and it doesn´t look like he´s flooding Malaya with strong units either, but this could just be us not spotting them yet... nearly all my units have arrived undamaged at Singapore and the fortress is now bristling with 1200+ assault value and lots of flak guns... now this will be interesting how it will turn out in AE. Enough supplies on hand for a prolonged fight. What I fear the most though is that Rainer will only keep my units rotting there, same as he´s thinking about doing in the PI. This would free up a lot of IJA troops again, enough to drive into vital regions on the map. Which brings up the question: as long as Singapore is Allied, can IJN TFs move through the passage or will they be target of the big guns? If the IJN can move at their wishes then it´s senseless to bleed the IJA in Singapore anyway...
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Ground combat at Malaybalay (80,90)
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 962 troops, 13 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 340
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Allied adjusted assault: 20
Japanese adjusted defense: 1
Allied assault odds: 20 to 1 (fort level 0)
Allied forces CAPTURE Malaybalay !!!
Combat modifiers
Attacker:
Assaulting units:
102nd PA Infantry Regiment
103rd PA Infantry Regiment
3rd PA Constabulary Regiment
102nd PA Infantry Division
III Philippine Corps
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Sub attack near Laoag at 79,69
Japanese Ships
PB Rokko Maru #2
PB Kyo Maru #13
PB Chohakusan Maru
AMC Asaka Maru
xAP Kongo Maru
xAK Yoneyama Maru
xAK Yasuteru Maru
PB Shonan Maru #17
PB Shonan Maru #2
PB Shonan Maru #1
Allied Ships
SS S-38
SS S-38 launches 4 torpedoes at PB Rokko Maru #2
PB Rokko Maru #2 fails to find sub and abandons search
PB Shonan Maru #17 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Shonan Maru #2 attacking submerged sub ....
PB Shonan Maru #1 fails to find sub and abandons search
PB Shonan Maru #17 fails to find sub and abandons search
PB Shonan Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Shonan Maru #2 attacking submerged sub ....
PB Shonan Maru #2 is out of ASW ammo
PB Shonan Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
I really start to hate my S-class subs... what´s wrong with them in this PBEM... only every fourth attack seems to be succesful, what an awful performance...
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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 53 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 33
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 27
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 13 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 9 damaged
Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 36
Aircraft Attacking:
27 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
29 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
4 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
Also attacking Subic Bay Defenses ...
Also attacking Clark Field ...
Also attacking Subic Bay Defenses ...
the Japanese seem to be pretty resistant against op losses...
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Heavy rain
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 25
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 6
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 15 damaged
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 8
Aircraft Attacking:
16 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
9 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
not much shot down today... holes in the aircraft are repaired with a handful paper and you can launch again tomorrow...
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Morning Air attack on 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion, at 79,76 (Clark Field)
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 23 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 11
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 8 damaged
Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Akyab at 54,45
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes
Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 13
Allied aircraft
Buffalo I x 9
Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 2 destroyed, 2 damaged
Allied Ships
xAP Siberg, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage [8|]
xAP Santhia
xAP Van Landsberge, Bomb hits 1, on fire [8|]
Allied ground losses:
Vehicles lost 12 (7 destroyed, 5 disabled)
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb
4 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Type 91 Torpedo
CAP engaged:
No.488 Sqn RAF with Buffalo I (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters to 15000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 20 minutes
this is one of the examples that seem to be true when it says "AE slows down operations"... so far I can only see how it slows down Allied operations. In this case, amphibious TFs try to unload at Akyab and even if it is an amphib TF all I get all the time is "TF xy can´t completely unload at Akyab"... heck, it not just doesn´t completely unload, the damn TFs don´t unload more than five soldiers a day... Not enough Buffaloes in the air and the UBER Betties sink two ships with bombs... I must be doing something seriously wrong, or better say I must be a damn bad player when I compare my situation to the situation of Allied players in other AARs... Aussie vs Amies AAR for example. The Allied have hundreds of av at Akyab and over a dozen units... how the hell did they get there when I only unload one gun and three squads per day there (and the supply vanishes completely
- no not going into the units) out of three TFs trying to unload... shaking head... five Betties were reported shot down in the end...
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Submarine attack near Rangiroa at 177,176
Japanese Ships
SS I-15
Allied Ships
xAK Rona, Torpedo hits 1
xAK Rona is sighted by SS I-15
SS I-15 launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Rona
this is in the Society Islands!! What the hell is an IJN sub doing in the Society Islands... this is some 40 hexes off the normal shipping lanes! [8|] no idea how well this sub spotting and reaction really works, don´t know if the sub just stumbled over this TF or what was going on... the AK was empty so it´s expendable, TF is on it´s way back to SF...
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 15524 troops, 269 guns, 179 vehicles, Assault Value = 908
Defending force 25670 troops, 502 guns, 486 vehicles, Assault Value = 970
Japanese ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
115 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 4 (0 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Vehicles lost 13 (1 destroyed, 12 disabled)
Assaulting units:
9th Tank Regiment
48th Division
4th Tank Regiment
65th Brigade
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
14th Army
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
Defending units:
11th PA Infantry Division
192nd Tank Battalion
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
4th Marine Regiment
21st PA Infantry Division
14th PS Engineer Regiment
31st Infantry Regiment
194th Tank Battalion
31st PA Infantry Division
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
91st PA Infantry Division
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
Subic Bay Defenses
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
1st USMC AA Battalion
I Philippine Corps
1st PI Base Force
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
Far East USAAF
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
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Ground combat at Pegu (55,53)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 16374 troops, 136 guns, 52 vehicles, Assault Value = 592
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese adjusted assault: 349
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 349 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Pegu !!!
Combat modifiers
Attacker:
Assaulting units:
Imperial Guards Division
112th Infantry Regiment
15th Army
21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion
Imperial Guards div is one hex off Rangoon on 4th Jan... also really really slowed down it seems... 1st Burma division was rebuilt and is already save back in Calcutta, everything that is in Rangoon at the moment has been set to move out, marching North... no sense trying to fight the Imperial Guards division...
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Ground combat at Manila (79,77)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 2072 troops, 36 guns, 19 vehicles, Assault Value = 716
Defending force 13584 troops, 134 guns, 90 vehicles, Assault Value = 499
Assaulting units:
71st PA Infantry Division
3rd/45th PS Inf Battalion
51st PA Infantry Division
3rd/12th PA Inf Battalion
1st PA Constabulary Regiment
57th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team
41st PA Infantry Division
2nd PA Constabulary Regiment
Asiatic Fleet
USAFFE
II Philippine Corps
Cavite USN Base Force
Manila USAAF Base Force
PAF Aviation
Defending units:
Kimura Det
16th Engineer Regiment
7th Tank Regiment
20th Infantry Regiment
9th Infantry Regiment
Kure 1st SNLF
500 av at Manila is by far not enough to take the base... Rainer stated that he will be curious how it will work out to defend both Manila and Clark and already said he perhaps would only starve me to death... great... [8|] this means he has enough troops to be sent around on the map to take whatever he wants and my troops just sit in the PI and starve away without having a chance to do anything...
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 678 troops, 88 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 958
Defending force 29158 troops, 308 guns, 557 vehicles, Assault Value = 907
Japanese ground losses:
25 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 4 (0 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Assaulting units:
91st PA Infantry Division
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
21st PA Infantry Division
194th Tank Battalion
192nd Tank Battalion
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
14th PS Engineer Regiment
4th Marine Regiment
31st PA Infantry Division
31st Infantry Regiment
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
11th PA Infantry Division
Subic Bay Defenses
Far East USAAF
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
I Philippine Corps
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
1st USMC AA Battalion
1st PI Base Force
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
Defending units:
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
65th Brigade
4th Tank Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
48th Division
2nd Tank Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
14th Army
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
only one damned division spotted on the PI... o n e...[8|] and it doesn´t look like he´s flooding Malaya with strong units either, but this could just be us not spotting them yet... nearly all my units have arrived undamaged at Singapore and the fortress is now bristling with 1200+ assault value and lots of flak guns... now this will be interesting how it will turn out in AE. Enough supplies on hand for a prolonged fight. What I fear the most though is that Rainer will only keep my units rotting there, same as he´s thinking about doing in the PI. This would free up a lot of IJA troops again, enough to drive into vital regions on the map. Which brings up the question: as long as Singapore is Allied, can IJN TFs move through the passage or will they be target of the big guns? If the IJN can move at their wishes then it´s senseless to bleed the IJA in Singapore anyway...
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Ground combat at Malaybalay (80,90)
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 962 troops, 13 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 340
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Allied adjusted assault: 20
Japanese adjusted defense: 1
Allied assault odds: 20 to 1 (fort level 0)
Allied forces CAPTURE Malaybalay !!!
Combat modifiers
Attacker:
Assaulting units:
102nd PA Infantry Regiment
103rd PA Infantry Regiment
3rd PA Constabulary Regiment
102nd PA Infantry Division
III Philippine Corps
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AAR has caught up with the game now... it was a real crap turn... [:@]
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 05, 42
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Sub attack near Rangiroa at 177,175
Japanese Ships
SS I-15
Allied Ships
xAK Rona, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
xAK Rona is sighted by SS I-15
SS I-15 attacking on the surface
Society Islands... I-15 finishes the already dead xAK with another 6 torp salvo... this is good, no not losing the ship but the sub using another 6 torps on an already dead ship...
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ASW attack near Tawi Tawi at 72,90
Japanese Ships
SC Ch 23
xAK Nihonka Maru
DD Tawakaze
DD Yugao
Allied Ships
SS S-41, hits 2
SS S-41 is sighted by escort
DD Tawakaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Yugao fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
my S-class subs keep to be useless... two near misses, the sub has to retire with 12 sys damage...
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ASW attack near Tawi Tawi at 72,90
Japanese Ships
DD Tawakaze
SC Ch 23
SC Ch 22
xAK Nihonka Maru
DD Yugao
Allied Ships
SS Permit, hits 2
SS Permit launches 2 torpedoes at DD Tawakaze
DD Tawakaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Yugao fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
then a fleet sub attacks and hits but the torps were duds of course... must be a pretty valuable TF with a DD escort...
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Sub attack near Truk at 111,110
Japanese Ships
CM Tsugaru
Allied Ships
SS Pompano
SS Pompano launches 2 torpedoes
Pompano diving deep ....
CM Tsugaru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
hey ho, another hit, another dud... [:@]
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Submarine attack near Auckland at 120,185
Japanese Ships
SS I-10
Allied Ships
TK Mobilfuel, Torpedo hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
SS I-10 is sighted by TK Mobilfuel
SS I-10 launches 6 torpedoes at TK Mobilfuel
and then this fridging shit starts... this is a TK I´ve formed up right at the start of the game which now proves to have been a very poor decision as I did not have any escorts on hand...
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Submarine attack near Auckland at 120,185
Japanese Ships
SS I-10
Allied Ships
AO Platte, Torpedo hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
AO Platte is sighted by SS I-10
SS I-10 launches 6 torpedoes at AO Platte
I-10 not just sinks one valuable TK but also one of my big AOs... and the sub has still torps left, so with the mega effective react setting in AE I expect to lose another TK tomorrow... probably more subs coming in anyway... I have the bad feeling that the AAR about Australia´s industry that was started on the main forum with a quote of mine has made Rainer´s decision easy where to place subs as he´s probably sure now that I won´t move fuel in big quantities to Australia but somewhere else... and voila, there we go with a sub sitting in the shipping lane to Auckland, coming straight from the East...
may I ask every reader not to take out anything from the AAR into the main forum, at least not with a quote of mine or saying that this or that is coming from my PBEM... this is a nice intel for my opponent and can cause me real trouble...
the only good thing is that I figured out this turn that it is still possible to transport fuel with AKs just like it was possible in WITP... thought this was changed? Anyway, this has pretty much made my day as I will have plenty of AKs doing 12 knots to move big quantities of fuel to where I need it. I´m in the process or regrouping my tanker fleet now (will take two months probably) and then the TKs will go around with a pretty decent escort (fast and with a good endurance to stop the refuelling all the time - so we´ll end up using DDs or DMs probably). One thing is for sure, I won´t move the 67.000 tons of fuel to Australia to just feed the heavy industry there as it sounds too much to me to use 40 or 50% of my total TK capacity for doing this and I doubt that so many TK capacity was used in real life to do this...
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Morning Air attack on Akyab , at 54,45
Weather in hex: Thunderstorms
Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 13 [:@][:@][:@]
Allied aircraft
Buffalo I x 16
No Japanese losses
Allied aircraft losses
Buffalo I: 7 destroyed [8|][8|][8|]
Aircraft Attacking:
5 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet
CAP engaged:
No.243 Sqn RAF with Buffalo I (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling)
6 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters to 15000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes
No.488 Sqn RAF with Buffalo I (0 airborne, 5 on standby, 0 scrambling)
5 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters to 15000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes
what can I say? Not much, a kill rate of 11:0 speaks for itself I guess... and again I´m hit by the assumption that the Japanese couldn´t move forward that fast... thought Akyab would only be in range of Mrs. Betty and Mrs. Nell, but no, there´s already an airfield supported by aviation support in the normal range for the Zeroes... great... [8|] from now on I will revert to thinking in WITP terms for most things... and right now I can´t see much of what has changed for the Japanese. In two or three months the Japanese will produce more than enough fighters and bombers and with kill rates even higher than in WITP they will keep sweeping the floor with my airforce as seen in this engagement... a 11:0 against pilots in the mid 50s... great...
There was a lot discussion going on about the performance of the P-39 and P-40, resulting in the P-40 doing better in AE even though the P-39 has by far the better stats for aircombat IMO. I´m already running low on fighters for the AVG, therefore I have upgraded one squadron to P-39. Yes P-39! Next mistake probably, but what can I really do... fighting at 1000ft against Zeroes is suicide, fighting at 30.000ft is not much difference... must be an overall perfect aircraft for the IJNAF...[>:]
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 26,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 40 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 25 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 42
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 27
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 11 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 6 damaged
Allied ground losses:
28 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 32
Aircraft Attacking:
27 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
28 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
14 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
Also attacking Subic Bay Defenses ...
Also attacking Clark Field ...
Also attacking 4th Marine Regiment ...
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Heavy rain
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 19
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 6
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 13 damaged
Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 6
Aircraft Attacking:
16 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
everytime I look at the airfield damage after such a raid there is none... the bombers aren´t hitting enough and I´ve got a good number of engineers at the base to repair the damage and further increase our fort levels... I only hope that the losses for the IJAAF are higher than I see in my aircraft loss list...
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Heavy rain
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 6
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 11
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 6 damaged
Runway hits 3
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
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Sub attack near Miri at 63,84
Japanese Ships
PB Shuko Maru #2, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
PB Shonon Maru #10
Allied Ships
SS Skipjack
SS Skipjack launches 4 torpedoes at PB Shuko Maru #2
Skipjack diving deep ....
PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
the only time today when we could strike back... a sunk PB is a very small consolation prize though...
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Ground combat at Malacca (49,81)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 1207 troops, 0 guns, 183 vehicles, Assault Value = 231
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese adjusted assault: 50
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 50 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Malacca !!!
Combat modifiers
Attacker: fatigue(-)
Assaulting units:
42nd Infantry Regiment
1st Tank Regiment
14th Tank Regiment
the IJA moves closer to Singapore... I think it will take him at least another week at least to get everthing in place to move across the river alltogether... still no division spotted...
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 1875 troops, 132 guns, 137 vehicles, Assault Value = 1433
Defending force 25544 troops, 502 guns, 485 vehicles, Assault Value = 958
Japanese ground losses:
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
103 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 9 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 4 (2 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 9 (3 destroyed, 6 disabled)
Assaulting units:
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
48th Division
65th Brigade
9th Tank Regiment
38th Division
4th Tank Regiment
3rd Tank Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
14th Army
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
Defending units:
91st PA Infantry Division
4th Marine Regiment
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
21st PA Infantry Division
14th PS Engineer Regiment
11th PA Infantry Division
31st PA Infantry Division
192nd Tank Battalion
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
31st Infantry Regiment
194th Tank Battalion
Subic Bay Defenses
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
1st USMC AA Battalion
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
1st PI Base Force
I Philippine Corps
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
Far East USAAF
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
another enemy division moved into Clark... will be interesting how much more will come in... at the moment I still feel confident that an attack wouldn´t do the Japanese any good but I guess I´m wrong in the end anyway...
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Ground combat at 50,79
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 3727 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 127
Defending force 117 troops, 1 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1
Japanese adjusted assault: 58
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 58 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), morale(-), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker: leaders(-)
Allied ground losses:
106 casualties reported
Squads: 9 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Assaulting units:
56th Infantry Regiment
Defending units:
FMSV Brigade
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Ground combat at 107,124
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 402 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16
Defending force 15 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1
Japanese adjusted assault: 9
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 9 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), disruption(-), supply(-)
Attacker: leaders(-)
Assaulting units:
I/66th Naval Guard Unit
Defending units:
2/1st Ind Coy
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 684 troops, 88 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 944
Defending force 43529 troops, 431 guns, 731 vehicles, Assault Value = 1433
Japanese ground losses:
50 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled)
Vehicles lost 7 (1 destroyed, 6 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Assaulting units:
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
14th PS Engineer Regiment
21st PA Infantry Division
192nd Tank Battalion
31st PA Infantry Division
11th PA Infantry Division
194th Tank Battalion
91st PA Infantry Division
4th Marine Regiment
31st Infantry Regiment
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
Subic Bay Defenses
I Philippine Corps
1st PI Base Force
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
Far East USAAF
1st USMC AA Battalion
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
Defending units:
65th Brigade
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
4th Tank Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
48th Division
3rd Tank Regiment
38th Division
2nd Tank Regiment
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
14th Army
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 05, 42
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Sub attack near Rangiroa at 177,175
Japanese Ships
SS I-15
Allied Ships
xAK Rona, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
xAK Rona is sighted by SS I-15
SS I-15 attacking on the surface
Society Islands... I-15 finishes the already dead xAK with another 6 torp salvo... this is good, no not losing the ship but the sub using another 6 torps on an already dead ship...
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ASW attack near Tawi Tawi at 72,90
Japanese Ships
SC Ch 23
xAK Nihonka Maru
DD Tawakaze
DD Yugao
Allied Ships
SS S-41, hits 2
SS S-41 is sighted by escort
DD Tawakaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Yugao fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
my S-class subs keep to be useless... two near misses, the sub has to retire with 12 sys damage...
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ASW attack near Tawi Tawi at 72,90
Japanese Ships
DD Tawakaze
SC Ch 23
SC Ch 22
xAK Nihonka Maru
DD Yugao
Allied Ships
SS Permit, hits 2
SS Permit launches 2 torpedoes at DD Tawakaze
DD Tawakaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Yugao fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
then a fleet sub attacks and hits but the torps were duds of course... must be a pretty valuable TF with a DD escort...
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Sub attack near Truk at 111,110
Japanese Ships
CM Tsugaru
Allied Ships
SS Pompano
SS Pompano launches 2 torpedoes
Pompano diving deep ....
CM Tsugaru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
hey ho, another hit, another dud... [:@]
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Submarine attack near Auckland at 120,185
Japanese Ships
SS I-10
Allied Ships
TK Mobilfuel, Torpedo hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
SS I-10 is sighted by TK Mobilfuel
SS I-10 launches 6 torpedoes at TK Mobilfuel
and then this fridging shit starts... this is a TK I´ve formed up right at the start of the game which now proves to have been a very poor decision as I did not have any escorts on hand...
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Submarine attack near Auckland at 120,185
Japanese Ships
SS I-10
Allied Ships
AO Platte, Torpedo hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
AO Platte is sighted by SS I-10
SS I-10 launches 6 torpedoes at AO Platte
I-10 not just sinks one valuable TK but also one of my big AOs... and the sub has still torps left, so with the mega effective react setting in AE I expect to lose another TK tomorrow... probably more subs coming in anyway... I have the bad feeling that the AAR about Australia´s industry that was started on the main forum with a quote of mine has made Rainer´s decision easy where to place subs as he´s probably sure now that I won´t move fuel in big quantities to Australia but somewhere else... and voila, there we go with a sub sitting in the shipping lane to Auckland, coming straight from the East...
may I ask every reader not to take out anything from the AAR into the main forum, at least not with a quote of mine or saying that this or that is coming from my PBEM... this is a nice intel for my opponent and can cause me real trouble...
the only good thing is that I figured out this turn that it is still possible to transport fuel with AKs just like it was possible in WITP... thought this was changed? Anyway, this has pretty much made my day as I will have plenty of AKs doing 12 knots to move big quantities of fuel to where I need it. I´m in the process or regrouping my tanker fleet now (will take two months probably) and then the TKs will go around with a pretty decent escort (fast and with a good endurance to stop the refuelling all the time - so we´ll end up using DDs or DMs probably). One thing is for sure, I won´t move the 67.000 tons of fuel to Australia to just feed the heavy industry there as it sounds too much to me to use 40 or 50% of my total TK capacity for doing this and I doubt that so many TK capacity was used in real life to do this...
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Morning Air attack on Akyab , at 54,45
Weather in hex: Thunderstorms
Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 13 [:@][:@][:@]
Allied aircraft
Buffalo I x 16
No Japanese losses
Allied aircraft losses
Buffalo I: 7 destroyed [8|][8|][8|]
Aircraft Attacking:
5 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet
CAP engaged:
No.243 Sqn RAF with Buffalo I (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling)
6 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters to 15000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes
No.488 Sqn RAF with Buffalo I (0 airborne, 5 on standby, 0 scrambling)
5 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters to 15000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes
what can I say? Not much, a kill rate of 11:0 speaks for itself I guess... and again I´m hit by the assumption that the Japanese couldn´t move forward that fast... thought Akyab would only be in range of Mrs. Betty and Mrs. Nell, but no, there´s already an airfield supported by aviation support in the normal range for the Zeroes... great... [8|] from now on I will revert to thinking in WITP terms for most things... and right now I can´t see much of what has changed for the Japanese. In two or three months the Japanese will produce more than enough fighters and bombers and with kill rates even higher than in WITP they will keep sweeping the floor with my airforce as seen in this engagement... a 11:0 against pilots in the mid 50s... great...
There was a lot discussion going on about the performance of the P-39 and P-40, resulting in the P-40 doing better in AE even though the P-39 has by far the better stats for aircombat IMO. I´m already running low on fighters for the AVG, therefore I have upgraded one squadron to P-39. Yes P-39! Next mistake probably, but what can I really do... fighting at 1000ft against Zeroes is suicide, fighting at 30.000ft is not much difference... must be an overall perfect aircraft for the IJNAF...[>:]
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 26,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 40 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 25 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 42
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 27
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 11 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 6 damaged
Allied ground losses:
28 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 32
Aircraft Attacking:
27 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
28 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
14 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
Also attacking Subic Bay Defenses ...
Also attacking Clark Field ...
Also attacking 4th Marine Regiment ...
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Heavy rain
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 19
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 6
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 13 damaged
Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 6
Aircraft Attacking:
16 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
everytime I look at the airfield damage after such a raid there is none... the bombers aren´t hitting enough and I´ve got a good number of engineers at the base to repair the damage and further increase our fort levels... I only hope that the losses for the IJAAF are higher than I see in my aircraft loss list...
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Heavy rain
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 6
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 11
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 6 damaged
Runway hits 3
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
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Sub attack near Miri at 63,84
Japanese Ships
PB Shuko Maru #2, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
PB Shonon Maru #10
Allied Ships
SS Skipjack
SS Skipjack launches 4 torpedoes at PB Shuko Maru #2
Skipjack diving deep ....
PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
the only time today when we could strike back... a sunk PB is a very small consolation prize though...
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Ground combat at Malacca (49,81)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 1207 troops, 0 guns, 183 vehicles, Assault Value = 231
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese adjusted assault: 50
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 50 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Malacca !!!
Combat modifiers
Attacker: fatigue(-)
Assaulting units:
42nd Infantry Regiment
1st Tank Regiment
14th Tank Regiment
the IJA moves closer to Singapore... I think it will take him at least another week at least to get everthing in place to move across the river alltogether... still no division spotted...
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 1875 troops, 132 guns, 137 vehicles, Assault Value = 1433
Defending force 25544 troops, 502 guns, 485 vehicles, Assault Value = 958
Japanese ground losses:
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
103 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 9 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 4 (2 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 9 (3 destroyed, 6 disabled)
Assaulting units:
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
48th Division
65th Brigade
9th Tank Regiment
38th Division
4th Tank Regiment
3rd Tank Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
14th Army
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
Defending units:
91st PA Infantry Division
4th Marine Regiment
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
21st PA Infantry Division
14th PS Engineer Regiment
11th PA Infantry Division
31st PA Infantry Division
192nd Tank Battalion
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
31st Infantry Regiment
194th Tank Battalion
Subic Bay Defenses
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
1st USMC AA Battalion
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
1st PI Base Force
I Philippine Corps
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
Far East USAAF
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
another enemy division moved into Clark... will be interesting how much more will come in... at the moment I still feel confident that an attack wouldn´t do the Japanese any good but I guess I´m wrong in the end anyway...
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Ground combat at 50,79
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 3727 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 127
Defending force 117 troops, 1 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1
Japanese adjusted assault: 58
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 58 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), morale(-), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker: leaders(-)
Allied ground losses:
106 casualties reported
Squads: 9 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Assaulting units:
56th Infantry Regiment
Defending units:
FMSV Brigade
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Ground combat at 107,124
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 402 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16
Defending force 15 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1
Japanese adjusted assault: 9
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 9 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), disruption(-), supply(-)
Attacker: leaders(-)
Assaulting units:
I/66th Naval Guard Unit
Defending units:
2/1st Ind Coy
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 684 troops, 88 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 944
Defending force 43529 troops, 431 guns, 731 vehicles, Assault Value = 1433
Japanese ground losses:
50 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled)
Vehicles lost 7 (1 destroyed, 6 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Assaulting units:
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
14th PS Engineer Regiment
21st PA Infantry Division
192nd Tank Battalion
31st PA Infantry Division
11th PA Infantry Division
194th Tank Battalion
91st PA Infantry Division
4th Marine Regiment
31st Infantry Regiment
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
Subic Bay Defenses
I Philippine Corps
1st PI Base Force
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
Far East USAAF
1st USMC AA Battalion
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
Defending units:
65th Brigade
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
4th Tank Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
48th Division
3rd Tank Regiment
38th Division
2nd Tank Regiment
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
14th Army
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 06, 42
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Submarine attack near Tawi Tawi at 71,91
Japanese Ships
xAKL Taisoku Maru, Shell hits 1, on fire
Allied Ships
SS Permit
xAKL Taisoku Maru is sighted by SS Permit
SS Permit attacking on the surface
Hurst, A.M. decides to submerge SS Permit due to damage
I just hate it when I get this message... why? Because this "routine" doesn´t seem to work really well... as many times before, this sub has only 3 sys damage which makes the sub like brand new... the sub submerged after one shell fired... [8|]
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ASW attack near San Francisco at 216,73
Japanese Ships
SS I-1
Allied Ships
DD Kennison
DD Gilmer
DD Kilty
SS I-1 is located by DD Kennison
I-1 diving deep ....
DD Gilmer attacking submerged sub ....
DD Gilmer loses contact with SS I-1
DD Gilmer loses contact with SS I-1
DD Kilty attacking submerged sub ....
DD Kilty cannot reach attack position over SS I-1
DD Kilty cannot reach attack position over SS I-1
SS I-1 eludes DD Kilty by diving deep
DD Kilty cannot reach attack position over SS I-1
DD Kilty cannot reach attack position over SS I-1
DD Gilmer fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kilty fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Gilmer fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
got an ASW TF operating out of SF now as two subs were spotted just a couple of hexes off the base, they obviously reacted and reacted while following a returning convoy and ended up too close to SF...
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Submarine attack near Tawi Tawi at 72,90
Japanese Ships
xAKL Taisoku Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
Allied Ships
SS KX
xAKL Taisoku Maru is sighted by SS KX
SS KX launches 2 torpedoes
this one sank immedietely... not a real important target as the xAKL aren´t really worthy targets but perhaps it´s one of the xAKLs that the Japanese can upgrade to patrol boats (which I don´t like at all...) how many of those transports can be upgraded to PBs??? [&:]
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Amphibious Assault at Buna
TF 94 troops unloading over beach at Buna, 99,129
Japanese ground losses:
21 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
17 troops of a SNLF Squad lost in surf during unload of Maizuru 1st SNLF
10 Support troops accidentally lost during unload of Maizuru 1st SNLF /2
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Pre-Invasion action off Koepang
Japanese Ships
CA Haguro
CA Myoko
CL Kiso
CL Nagara
DD Uruyuke
DD Tatsuyuke
DD Karukaya
Allied ground losses:
22 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
CA Haguro firing at Dili Detachment
CA Myoko firing at Dili Detachment
CL Kiso firing at Dili Detachment
CL Nagara firing at Dili Detachment
DD Uruyuke firing at Timor Garrison Battalion
DD Tatsuyuke firing at Dili Detachment
DD Karukaya firing at Dili Detachment
DD Karukaya firing at enemy troops
here comes the assault on Timor... like I´ve said before, can´t see what I should do against it... there´s nothing on the island and we´re only one month into the war so it´s senseless thinking about the defense of it...
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Amphibious Assault at Koepang
TF 241 troops unloading over beach at Koepang, 68,116
10 Support troops accidentally lost during unload of Sasebo 2nd SNLF /1
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ASW attack near Tahiti at 173,179
Japanese Ships
SS I-15
Allied Ships
xAK Don Isidro
KV Dawson
SS I-15 is sighted by escort
KV Dawson fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
another IJN sub REALLY far away from home...
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Sub attack near San Francisco at 216,73
Japanese Ships
SS I-2
Allied Ships
DD Crosby
DD Gilmer
DD Kilty
SS I-2 launches 2 torpedoes at DD Crosby
DD Gilmer fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Kilty fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
after being unsuccesfully attacked earlier this day, I-2 dares to attack one of our DDs but missing it...
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Morning Air attack on Akyab , at 54,45
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 11
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
11 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet
I´m not dumb enough to still have my Buffaloes here to be slaughtered by the Zeroes at a 11:0 kill rate...
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Morning Air attack on Akyab , at 54,45
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 2
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
2 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Light rain
Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 40 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet
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Morning Air attack on 102nd PA Infantry Division, at 80,90 (Malaybalay)
Weather in hex: Thunderstorms
Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 7
G3M2 Nell x 6
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
54 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x G3M2 Nell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb
Also attacking 3rd PA Constabulary Regiment ...
I´ve moved some of my troops from Cagayan into the mountain hex South of it and it seems this is making Rainer a littel nervous... only one enemy unit at Davao...
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Light rain
Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 25 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 26
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 27
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 9 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 5 damaged
Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Airbase hits 7
Runway hits 25
Aircraft Attacking:
27 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
26 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
Also attacking 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion ...
Also attacking Clark Field ...
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Afternoon Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 17
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 10
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 14 damaged
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 20
Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
6 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
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Afternoon Air attack on Subic Bay Defenses , at 79,76 (Clark Field)
Weather in hex: Heavy cloud
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 10
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 4 damaged
Allied ground losses:
22 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
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ASW attack near Tawi Tawi at 72,90
Japanese Ships
SC Ch 23
SC Ch 21
xAK Nihonka Maru
DD Tawakaze
DD Yugao
Allied Ships
SS KX
SS KX is sighted by escort
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Yugao fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 40889 troops, 432 guns, 653 vehicles, Assault Value = 1442
Defending force 25425 troops, 500 guns, 482 vehicles, Assault Value = 948
Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1
Japanese adjusted assault: 448
Allied adjusted defense: 997
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 1)
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
920 casualties reported [8|]
Squads: 0 destroyed, 29 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 92 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 16 disabled
Vehicles lost 31 (7 destroyed, 24 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
1309 casualties reported [8|][8|][8|]
Squads: 4 destroyed, 85 disabled
Non Combat: 11 destroyed, 168 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 42 disabled
Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 95 (11 destroyed, 84 disabled)
Assaulting units:
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
3rd Tank Regiment
65th Brigade
9th Tank Regiment
38th Division
4th Tank Regiment
48th Division
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
14th Army
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
Defending units:
14th PS Engineer Regiment
21st PA Infantry Division
194th Tank Battalion
192nd Tank Battalion
91st PA Infantry Division
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
4th Marine Regiment
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
31st Infantry Regiment
31st PA Infantry Division
11th PA Infantry Division
Subic Bay Defenses
1st PI Base Force
Far East USAAF
I Philippine Corps
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
1st USMC AA Battalion
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
looks like it´s a cake walk for the Japanese... of course the forts didn´t hold, of course we lose three times the combat squads than the enemy (disabled are like destroyed for us anyway). And the enemy doesn´t suffer at all... for me, losses within the defender have always been to high but this hasn´t changed since WITP... being on the defense behind some forts should be better than being on the attack in terms of losses IMO...
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Ground combat at Singkawang (56,88)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 2716 troops, 14 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 104
Defending force 1384 troops, 17 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 40
Japanese adjusted assault: 52
Allied adjusted defense: 25
Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 1)
Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
193 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
150 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 16 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Assaulting units:
II./124th Infantry Battalion
III./124th Infantry Battalion
Defending units:
West Borneo KNIL Battalion
Singkawang Base Force
Sambas Base Force
106th RN Base Force
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Ground combat at 69,106
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 1184 troops, 7 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 43
Defending force 536 troops, 10 guns, 1 vehicles, Assault Value = 10
Japanese adjusted assault: 16
Allied adjusted defense: 3
Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker: fatigue(-)
Japanese ground losses:
62 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
98 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 14 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Units retreated 2
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
III./4th Infantry Battalion
Defending units:
Kendari Garrison Battalion
Kendari Base Force
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Ground combat at 107,124
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 402 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16
Defending force 15 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1
Japanese adjusted assault: 5
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), disruption(-), supply(-)
Attacker: leaders(-), fatigue(-)
Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Assaulting units:
I/66th Naval Guard Unit
Defending units:
2/1st Ind Coy
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 571 troops, 88 guns, 3 vehicles, Assault Value = 851
Defending force 42645 troops, 432 guns, 721 vehicles, Assault Value = 1383
Japanese ground losses:
48 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled)
Vehicles lost 4 (0 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Assaulting units:
91st PA Infantry Division
31st PA Infantry Division
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
4th Marine Regiment
21st PA Infantry Division
192nd Tank Battalion
194th Tank Battalion
31st Infantry Regiment
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
11th PA Infantry Division
14th PS Engineer Regiment
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
Subic Bay Defenses
Far East USAAF
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
1st USMC AA Battalion
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
1st PI Base Force
I Philippine Corps
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
Defending units:
9th Tank Regiment
38th Division
4th Tank Regiment
65th Brigade
48th Division
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
3rd Tank Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
14th Army
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
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Ground combat at Koepang (68,116)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 378 troops, 8 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 44
Defending force 2966 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 122
Assaulting units:
Timor Garrison Battalion
Dili Detachment
Defending units:
Sasebo 2nd SNLF /4
Kure 2nd SNLF /8
the enemy lands 122 av in one day... [8|]
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Submarine attack near Tawi Tawi at 71,91
Japanese Ships
xAKL Taisoku Maru, Shell hits 1, on fire
Allied Ships
SS Permit
xAKL Taisoku Maru is sighted by SS Permit
SS Permit attacking on the surface
Hurst, A.M. decides to submerge SS Permit due to damage
I just hate it when I get this message... why? Because this "routine" doesn´t seem to work really well... as many times before, this sub has only 3 sys damage which makes the sub like brand new... the sub submerged after one shell fired... [8|]
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ASW attack near San Francisco at 216,73
Japanese Ships
SS I-1
Allied Ships
DD Kennison
DD Gilmer
DD Kilty
SS I-1 is located by DD Kennison
I-1 diving deep ....
DD Gilmer attacking submerged sub ....
DD Gilmer loses contact with SS I-1
DD Gilmer loses contact with SS I-1
DD Kilty attacking submerged sub ....
DD Kilty cannot reach attack position over SS I-1
DD Kilty cannot reach attack position over SS I-1
SS I-1 eludes DD Kilty by diving deep
DD Kilty cannot reach attack position over SS I-1
DD Kilty cannot reach attack position over SS I-1
DD Gilmer fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kilty fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Gilmer fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
got an ASW TF operating out of SF now as two subs were spotted just a couple of hexes off the base, they obviously reacted and reacted while following a returning convoy and ended up too close to SF...
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Submarine attack near Tawi Tawi at 72,90
Japanese Ships
xAKL Taisoku Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
Allied Ships
SS KX
xAKL Taisoku Maru is sighted by SS KX
SS KX launches 2 torpedoes
this one sank immedietely... not a real important target as the xAKL aren´t really worthy targets but perhaps it´s one of the xAKLs that the Japanese can upgrade to patrol boats (which I don´t like at all...) how many of those transports can be upgraded to PBs??? [&:]
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Amphibious Assault at Buna
TF 94 troops unloading over beach at Buna, 99,129
Japanese ground losses:
21 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
17 troops of a SNLF Squad lost in surf during unload of Maizuru 1st SNLF
10 Support troops accidentally lost during unload of Maizuru 1st SNLF /2
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Pre-Invasion action off Koepang
Japanese Ships
CA Haguro
CA Myoko
CL Kiso
CL Nagara
DD Uruyuke
DD Tatsuyuke
DD Karukaya
Allied ground losses:
22 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
CA Haguro firing at Dili Detachment
CA Myoko firing at Dili Detachment
CL Kiso firing at Dili Detachment
CL Nagara firing at Dili Detachment
DD Uruyuke firing at Timor Garrison Battalion
DD Tatsuyuke firing at Dili Detachment
DD Karukaya firing at Dili Detachment
DD Karukaya firing at enemy troops
here comes the assault on Timor... like I´ve said before, can´t see what I should do against it... there´s nothing on the island and we´re only one month into the war so it´s senseless thinking about the defense of it...
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Amphibious Assault at Koepang
TF 241 troops unloading over beach at Koepang, 68,116
10 Support troops accidentally lost during unload of Sasebo 2nd SNLF /1
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ASW attack near Tahiti at 173,179
Japanese Ships
SS I-15
Allied Ships
xAK Don Isidro
KV Dawson
SS I-15 is sighted by escort
KV Dawson fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
another IJN sub REALLY far away from home...
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Sub attack near San Francisco at 216,73
Japanese Ships
SS I-2
Allied Ships
DD Crosby
DD Gilmer
DD Kilty
SS I-2 launches 2 torpedoes at DD Crosby
DD Gilmer fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Kilty fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
after being unsuccesfully attacked earlier this day, I-2 dares to attack one of our DDs but missing it...
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Morning Air attack on Akyab , at 54,45
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 11
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
11 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet
I´m not dumb enough to still have my Buffaloes here to be slaughtered by the Zeroes at a 11:0 kill rate...
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Morning Air attack on Akyab , at 54,45
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 2
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
2 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Light rain
Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 40 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet
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Morning Air attack on 102nd PA Infantry Division, at 80,90 (Malaybalay)
Weather in hex: Thunderstorms
Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 7
G3M2 Nell x 6
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
54 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x G3M2 Nell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb
Also attacking 3rd PA Constabulary Regiment ...
I´ve moved some of my troops from Cagayan into the mountain hex South of it and it seems this is making Rainer a littel nervous... only one enemy unit at Davao...
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Light rain
Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 25 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 26
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 27
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 9 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 5 damaged
Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Airbase hits 7
Runway hits 25
Aircraft Attacking:
27 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
26 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
Also attacking 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion ...
Also attacking Clark Field ...
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Afternoon Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 17
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 10
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 14 damaged
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 20
Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
6 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
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Afternoon Air attack on Subic Bay Defenses , at 79,76 (Clark Field)
Weather in hex: Heavy cloud
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 10
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 4 damaged
Allied ground losses:
22 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
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ASW attack near Tawi Tawi at 72,90
Japanese Ships
SC Ch 23
SC Ch 21
xAK Nihonka Maru
DD Tawakaze
DD Yugao
Allied Ships
SS KX
SS KX is sighted by escort
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Yugao fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 40889 troops, 432 guns, 653 vehicles, Assault Value = 1442
Defending force 25425 troops, 500 guns, 482 vehicles, Assault Value = 948
Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1
Japanese adjusted assault: 448
Allied adjusted defense: 997
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 1)
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
920 casualties reported [8|]
Squads: 0 destroyed, 29 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 92 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 16 disabled
Vehicles lost 31 (7 destroyed, 24 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
1309 casualties reported [8|][8|][8|]
Squads: 4 destroyed, 85 disabled
Non Combat: 11 destroyed, 168 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 42 disabled
Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 95 (11 destroyed, 84 disabled)
Assaulting units:
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
3rd Tank Regiment
65th Brigade
9th Tank Regiment
38th Division
4th Tank Regiment
48th Division
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
14th Army
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
Defending units:
14th PS Engineer Regiment
21st PA Infantry Division
194th Tank Battalion
192nd Tank Battalion
91st PA Infantry Division
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
4th Marine Regiment
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
31st Infantry Regiment
31st PA Infantry Division
11th PA Infantry Division
Subic Bay Defenses
1st PI Base Force
Far East USAAF
I Philippine Corps
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
1st USMC AA Battalion
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
looks like it´s a cake walk for the Japanese... of course the forts didn´t hold, of course we lose three times the combat squads than the enemy (disabled are like destroyed for us anyway). And the enemy doesn´t suffer at all... for me, losses within the defender have always been to high but this hasn´t changed since WITP... being on the defense behind some forts should be better than being on the attack in terms of losses IMO...
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Ground combat at Singkawang (56,88)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 2716 troops, 14 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 104
Defending force 1384 troops, 17 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 40
Japanese adjusted assault: 52
Allied adjusted defense: 25
Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 1)
Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
193 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
150 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 16 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Assaulting units:
II./124th Infantry Battalion
III./124th Infantry Battalion
Defending units:
West Borneo KNIL Battalion
Singkawang Base Force
Sambas Base Force
106th RN Base Force
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Ground combat at 69,106
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 1184 troops, 7 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 43
Defending force 536 troops, 10 guns, 1 vehicles, Assault Value = 10
Japanese adjusted assault: 16
Allied adjusted defense: 3
Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker: fatigue(-)
Japanese ground losses:
62 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
98 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 14 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Units retreated 2
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
III./4th Infantry Battalion
Defending units:
Kendari Garrison Battalion
Kendari Base Force
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Ground combat at 107,124
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 402 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16
Defending force 15 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1
Japanese adjusted assault: 5
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), disruption(-), supply(-)
Attacker: leaders(-), fatigue(-)
Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Assaulting units:
I/66th Naval Guard Unit
Defending units:
2/1st Ind Coy
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 571 troops, 88 guns, 3 vehicles, Assault Value = 851
Defending force 42645 troops, 432 guns, 721 vehicles, Assault Value = 1383
Japanese ground losses:
48 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled)
Vehicles lost 4 (0 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Assaulting units:
91st PA Infantry Division
31st PA Infantry Division
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
4th Marine Regiment
21st PA Infantry Division
192nd Tank Battalion
194th Tank Battalion
31st Infantry Regiment
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
11th PA Infantry Division
14th PS Engineer Regiment
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
Subic Bay Defenses
Far East USAAF
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
1st USMC AA Battalion
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
1st PI Base Force
I Philippine Corps
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
Defending units:
9th Tank Regiment
38th Division
4th Tank Regiment
65th Brigade
48th Division
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
3rd Tank Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
14th Army
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
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Ground combat at Koepang (68,116)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 378 troops, 8 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 44
Defending force 2966 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 122
Assaulting units:
Timor Garrison Battalion
Dili Detachment
Defending units:
Sasebo 2nd SNLF /4
Kure 2nd SNLF /8
the enemy lands 122 av in one day... [8|]
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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 07, 42
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ASW attack near Tockangbesi-eilanden at 71,110
Japanese Ships
DD Tachikaze
APD Tade
xAK Meigen Maru
DD Namikaze
DD Nokaze
Allied Ships
SS O19
SS O19 is sighted by escort
O19 diving deep ....
DD Namikaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Nokaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Namikaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
enemy escorts (DDs especially) perform so much better on ASW up to now it´s really causing me headache as this means that my Dutch, British and S-class subs are prevented from attacking at least 50% of the time it seems...
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Sub attack near Saigon at 61,74
Japanese Ships
CA Takao
CA Chokai
CA Atago
CL Isuzu
DD Sagiri
DD Arashio
Allied Ships
SS Sargo
SS Sargo launches 4 torpedoes at CA Takao
Sargo bottoming out ....
DD Sagiri fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Arashio fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Sagiri fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Arashio fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Sagiri attacking submerged sub ....
DD Sagiri fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Sagiri fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
torps hit the heavy cruiser but of course didn´t explode... I´m getting 90% dud salvoes, not just dud torps it seems... it´s really bad in this campaign, really bad, but I hope luck will change sides at some point... the difference between an AI game and a PBEM is drastically, in my AI test game I´ve sunk nearly a hundred ships with my subs until February, in this PBEM I will perhaps get 20...
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Submarine attack near Belep Islands at 106,155
Japanese Ships
SS I-25
Allied Ships
xAKL Mauban, Shell hits 1
xAKL Mauban is sighted by SS I-25
SS I-25 attacking on the surface
Kurihara W. decides to submerge SS I-25 due to damage
this time we´re the lucky one, this sub submerged before doing anything...
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Submarine attack near Belep Islands at 106,155
Japanese Ships
SS I-25
Allied Ships
xAKL Mauban, Shell hits 13, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAKL Mauban is sighted by SS I-25
SS I-25 attacking on the surface
Kurihara W. decides to submerge SS I-25 due to damage
but then of course it surfaced again and sunk the xAKL... what a really smart routine... [8|]
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ASW attack near Tawi Tawi at 72,90
Japanese Ships
SC Ch 23
SC Ch 21
xAK Nihonka Maru
DD Tawakaze
DD Yugao
Allied Ships
SS KX
SS KX is sighted by escort
KX bottoming out ....
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Yugao fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
and again the round went to the escorts...
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Naval bombardment of Cagayan at 79,89
Japanese Ships
TB Kamo
TB Kiji
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 3
TB Kamo firing at Cagayan
TB Kiji firing at Cagayan
my "offensive" on Mindanao seems to have made Rainer a little nervous, no idea what kind of operation this was... [:D]
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Sub attack near Tawi Tawi at 72,90
Japanese Ships
xAK Atutasan Maru
APD Aoi
DD Yukaze
DD Sawakaze
Allied Ships
SS Pike, hits 3
SS Pike launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Atutasan Maru
Pike bottoming out ....
DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Sawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Yukaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
and duds of course...[&o][&o]
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Morning Air attack on Subic Bay Defenses , at 79,76 (Clark Field)
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 48 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 5
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
5 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 25 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 36
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 27
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 13 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 5 damaged
Allied ground losses:
40 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Airbase hits 4
Runway hits 39
Aircraft Attacking:
27 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
27 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
9 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
Also attacking Subic Bay Defenses ...
Also attacking Clark Field ...
Also attacking 31st PA Infantry Division ...
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 29
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 6
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 17 damaged
Allied ground losses:
17 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 3 (0 destroyed, 3 disabled)
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 32
Aircraft Attacking:
16 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
13 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
only 1 out of 10 damaged Sallies seems to be lost... so far IJA paper bombers suffer only 1/3 of my op losses even though all of them have a crappy durability...
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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Larantoeka at 68,114
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes
Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 3
Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 2 damaged
Japanese Ships
xAK Jinshu Maru
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Naval Attack: 4 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
after a month of training our B-17 still can´t hit a slow merchant... will keep on training and as soon as the crews will reach "trained" status, they will be withdrawn... [&o]
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Afternoon Air attack on Port Moresby Brigade, at 99,130
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes
Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 5
Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged
Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Aircraft Attacking:
5 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb
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Sub attack near San Francisco at 214,80
Japanese Ships
SS I-21, hits 1
Allied Ships
DD Kennison
DD Gilmer
DD Kilty
SS I-21 launches 6 torpedoes at DD Kennison
DD Gilmer fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Kilty attacking submerged sub ....
SS I-21 eludes DD Kilty by diving deep
DD Kilty fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
like I´ve said, IJN destroyers perform far better than ours so far... luckily the torps missed...
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ASW attack near Tawi Tawi at 72,90
Japanese Ships
SC Ch 23
SC Ch 21
xAK Nihonka Maru
DD Tawakaze
DD Yugao
Allied Ships
SS KX, hits 2
SS KX is sighted by escort
KX bottoming out ....
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Yugao fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Yugao attacking submerged sub ....
SS KX eludes ASW attack from DD Yugao
DD Yugao loses contact with SS KX
DD Yugao fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
only our useless fleet subs tend to attack but their attacks are 90% failures...
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Ground combat at Buna (99,129)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 1511 troops, 19 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 62
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese adjusted assault: 27
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 27 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Buna !!!
Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(-)
Assaulting units:
Maizuru 1st SNLF
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Ground combat at 107,124
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 402 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16
Defending force 10 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1
Japanese adjusted assault: 8
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 8 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), disruption(-), supply(-)
Attacker: fatigue(-)
Assaulting units:
I/66th Naval Guard Unit
Defending units:
2/1st Ind Coy
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Ground combat at Koepang (68,116)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 2966 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 122
Defending force 956 troops, 8 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 44
Japanese adjusted assault: 20
Allied adjusted defense: 9
Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 1)
Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), disruption(-), preparation(-)
fatigue(-), experience(-)
Attacker: disruption(-), fatigue(-)
Japanese ground losses:
65 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
374 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 23 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 18 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Assaulting units:
Kure 2nd SNLF
Sasebo 2nd SNLF
Defending units:
Timor Garrison Battalion
Dili Detachment
Koepang will fall with the next attack... and again, Rainer seems to be either psychic or very lucky, like earlier in the game at Ambon, we tried to intercept the enemy with far superior surface combat forces and again, the enemy left before we arrived... [&:] the "moving in to target" is also very strange in AE, no more taking position at full speed range away from the target and then moving in at night and out again... either this was changed or isn´t working anymore... the SC TF always just moves along at cruise speed and then ends up at whatever range this resulted in... will make hit and run pretty impossible as you can end up one hex from a base the night before you want to attack... so this has to be done manually now...
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 561 troops, 88 guns, 3 vehicles, Assault Value = 849
Defending force 42768 troops, 432 guns, 729 vehicles, Assault Value = 1392
Japanese ground losses:
66 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 7 (0 destroyed, 7 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
18 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Assaulting units:
11th PA Infantry Division
91st PA Infantry Division
21st PA Infantry Division
194th Tank Battalion
14th PS Engineer Regiment
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
31st PA Infantry Division
192nd Tank Battalion
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
4th Marine Regiment
31st Infantry Regiment
Subic Bay Defenses
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
Far East USAAF
1st USMC AA Battalion
I Philippine Corps
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
1st PI Base Force
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
Defending units:
9th Tank Regiment
3rd Tank Regiment
38th Division
65th Brigade
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
48th Division
4th Tank Regiment
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
14th Army
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
the enemy at Clark pretty much outnumbers us now...
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Ground combat at Koepang (68,116)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 257 troops, 8 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 14
Defending force 2917 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 117
Assaulting units:
Timor Garrison Battalion
Dili Detachment
Defending units:
Kure 2nd SNLF
Sasebo 2nd SNLF
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ASW attack near Tockangbesi-eilanden at 71,110
Japanese Ships
DD Tachikaze
APD Tade
xAK Meigen Maru
DD Namikaze
DD Nokaze
Allied Ships
SS O19
SS O19 is sighted by escort
O19 diving deep ....
DD Namikaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Nokaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Namikaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
enemy escorts (DDs especially) perform so much better on ASW up to now it´s really causing me headache as this means that my Dutch, British and S-class subs are prevented from attacking at least 50% of the time it seems...
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Sub attack near Saigon at 61,74
Japanese Ships
CA Takao
CA Chokai
CA Atago
CL Isuzu
DD Sagiri
DD Arashio
Allied Ships
SS Sargo
SS Sargo launches 4 torpedoes at CA Takao
Sargo bottoming out ....
DD Sagiri fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Arashio fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Sagiri fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Arashio fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Sagiri attacking submerged sub ....
DD Sagiri fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Sagiri fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
torps hit the heavy cruiser but of course didn´t explode... I´m getting 90% dud salvoes, not just dud torps it seems... it´s really bad in this campaign, really bad, but I hope luck will change sides at some point... the difference between an AI game and a PBEM is drastically, in my AI test game I´ve sunk nearly a hundred ships with my subs until February, in this PBEM I will perhaps get 20...
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Submarine attack near Belep Islands at 106,155
Japanese Ships
SS I-25
Allied Ships
xAKL Mauban, Shell hits 1
xAKL Mauban is sighted by SS I-25
SS I-25 attacking on the surface
Kurihara W. decides to submerge SS I-25 due to damage
this time we´re the lucky one, this sub submerged before doing anything...
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Submarine attack near Belep Islands at 106,155
Japanese Ships
SS I-25
Allied Ships
xAKL Mauban, Shell hits 13, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAKL Mauban is sighted by SS I-25
SS I-25 attacking on the surface
Kurihara W. decides to submerge SS I-25 due to damage
but then of course it surfaced again and sunk the xAKL... what a really smart routine... [8|]
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ASW attack near Tawi Tawi at 72,90
Japanese Ships
SC Ch 23
SC Ch 21
xAK Nihonka Maru
DD Tawakaze
DD Yugao
Allied Ships
SS KX
SS KX is sighted by escort
KX bottoming out ....
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Yugao fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
and again the round went to the escorts...
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Naval bombardment of Cagayan at 79,89
Japanese Ships
TB Kamo
TB Kiji
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 3
TB Kamo firing at Cagayan
TB Kiji firing at Cagayan
my "offensive" on Mindanao seems to have made Rainer a little nervous, no idea what kind of operation this was... [:D]
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Sub attack near Tawi Tawi at 72,90
Japanese Ships
xAK Atutasan Maru
APD Aoi
DD Yukaze
DD Sawakaze
Allied Ships
SS Pike, hits 3
SS Pike launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Atutasan Maru
Pike bottoming out ....
DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Sawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Yukaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
and duds of course...[&o][&o]
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Morning Air attack on Subic Bay Defenses , at 79,76 (Clark Field)
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 48 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 5
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
5 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 25 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 36
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 27
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 13 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 5 damaged
Allied ground losses:
40 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Airbase hits 4
Runway hits 39
Aircraft Attacking:
27 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
27 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
9 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
Also attacking Subic Bay Defenses ...
Also attacking Clark Field ...
Also attacking 31st PA Infantry Division ...
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 29
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 6
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 17 damaged
Allied ground losses:
17 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 3 (0 destroyed, 3 disabled)
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 32
Aircraft Attacking:
16 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
13 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
only 1 out of 10 damaged Sallies seems to be lost... so far IJA paper bombers suffer only 1/3 of my op losses even though all of them have a crappy durability...
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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Larantoeka at 68,114
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes
Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 3
Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 2 damaged
Japanese Ships
xAK Jinshu Maru
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Naval Attack: 4 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
after a month of training our B-17 still can´t hit a slow merchant... will keep on training and as soon as the crews will reach "trained" status, they will be withdrawn... [&o]
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Afternoon Air attack on Port Moresby Brigade, at 99,130
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes
Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 5
Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged
Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Aircraft Attacking:
5 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb
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Sub attack near San Francisco at 214,80
Japanese Ships
SS I-21, hits 1
Allied Ships
DD Kennison
DD Gilmer
DD Kilty
SS I-21 launches 6 torpedoes at DD Kennison
DD Gilmer fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Kilty attacking submerged sub ....
SS I-21 eludes DD Kilty by diving deep
DD Kilty fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
like I´ve said, IJN destroyers perform far better than ours so far... luckily the torps missed...
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ASW attack near Tawi Tawi at 72,90
Japanese Ships
SC Ch 23
SC Ch 21
xAK Nihonka Maru
DD Tawakaze
DD Yugao
Allied Ships
SS KX, hits 2
SS KX is sighted by escort
KX bottoming out ....
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Yugao fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Yugao attacking submerged sub ....
SS KX eludes ASW attack from DD Yugao
DD Yugao loses contact with SS KX
DD Yugao fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
only our useless fleet subs tend to attack but their attacks are 90% failures...
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Ground combat at Buna (99,129)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 1511 troops, 19 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 62
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese adjusted assault: 27
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 27 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Buna !!!
Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(-)
Assaulting units:
Maizuru 1st SNLF
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Ground combat at 107,124
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 402 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16
Defending force 10 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1
Japanese adjusted assault: 8
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 8 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), disruption(-), supply(-)
Attacker: fatigue(-)
Assaulting units:
I/66th Naval Guard Unit
Defending units:
2/1st Ind Coy
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Ground combat at Koepang (68,116)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 2966 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 122
Defending force 956 troops, 8 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 44
Japanese adjusted assault: 20
Allied adjusted defense: 9
Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 1)
Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), disruption(-), preparation(-)
fatigue(-), experience(-)
Attacker: disruption(-), fatigue(-)
Japanese ground losses:
65 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
374 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 23 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 18 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Assaulting units:
Kure 2nd SNLF
Sasebo 2nd SNLF
Defending units:
Timor Garrison Battalion
Dili Detachment
Koepang will fall with the next attack... and again, Rainer seems to be either psychic or very lucky, like earlier in the game at Ambon, we tried to intercept the enemy with far superior surface combat forces and again, the enemy left before we arrived... [&:] the "moving in to target" is also very strange in AE, no more taking position at full speed range away from the target and then moving in at night and out again... either this was changed or isn´t working anymore... the SC TF always just moves along at cruise speed and then ends up at whatever range this resulted in... will make hit and run pretty impossible as you can end up one hex from a base the night before you want to attack... so this has to be done manually now...
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 561 troops, 88 guns, 3 vehicles, Assault Value = 849
Defending force 42768 troops, 432 guns, 729 vehicles, Assault Value = 1392
Japanese ground losses:
66 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 7 (0 destroyed, 7 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
18 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Assaulting units:
11th PA Infantry Division
91st PA Infantry Division
21st PA Infantry Division
194th Tank Battalion
14th PS Engineer Regiment
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
31st PA Infantry Division
192nd Tank Battalion
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
4th Marine Regiment
31st Infantry Regiment
Subic Bay Defenses
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
Far East USAAF
1st USMC AA Battalion
I Philippine Corps
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
1st PI Base Force
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
Defending units:
9th Tank Regiment
3rd Tank Regiment
38th Division
65th Brigade
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
48th Division
4th Tank Regiment
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
14th Army
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
the enemy at Clark pretty much outnumbers us now...
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Ground combat at Koepang (68,116)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 257 troops, 8 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 14
Defending force 2917 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 117
Assaulting units:
Timor Garrison Battalion
Dili Detachment
Defending units:
Kure 2nd SNLF
Sasebo 2nd SNLF
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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 08, 42
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Bataan at 77,77, Range 8,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
CL Natori
DD Satsuki
DD Minazuki
DD Fumizuki
DD Nagatsuki
DD Harukaze
DD Hatakaze
Allied Ships
PT-31
PT-32
PT-33
MTB 9
Maximum visibility in Overcast Conditions and 64% moonlight: 8,000 yards
Range closes to 10,000 yards...
Range closes to 9,000 yards...
Range closes to 8,000 yards...
CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 8,000 yards
CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 8,000 yards
DD Hatakaze engages PT-33 at 8,000 yards
DD Minazuki engages MTB 9 at 8,000 yards
DD Satsuki engages PT-31 at 8,000 yards
Range closes to 7,000 yards
CL Natori engages MTB 9 at 7,000 yards
DD Hatakaze engages PT-32 at 7,000 yards
DD Harukaze engages MTB 9 at 7,000 yards
DD Nagatsuki engages MTB 9 at 7,000 yards
DD Fumizuki engages MTB 9 at 7,000 yards
DD Minazuki engages PT-33 at 7,000 yards
DD Satsuki engages PT-31 at 7,000 yards
Range increases to 8,000 yards
DD Hatakaze engages MTB 9 at 8,000 yards
DD Nagatsuki engages PT-32 at 8,000 yards
DD Fumizuki engages MTB 9 at 8,000 yards
Range increases to 9,000 yards
CL Natori engages PT-32 at 9,000 yards
CL Natori engages PT-31 at 9,000 yards
DD Fumizuki engages MTB 9 at 9,000 yards
DD Fumizuki engages MTB 9 at 9,000 yards
DD Satsuki engages MTB 9 at 9,000 yards
Range increases to 12,000 yards
DD Fumizuki engages PT-33 at 12,000 yards
DD Hatakaze engages PT-31 at 12,000 yards
CL Natori engages MTB 9 at 12,000 yards
DD Fumizuki engages PT-32 at 12,000 yards
Task forces break off...
the enemy has parked a SC TF outside the entrance to Bataan for over a week already to prevent me from bringing in any supplies... guess this way he doesn´t have to keep a single bomber on nav attack and can use them elsewhere as the new routines in AE will prevent me from moving through this hex for sure as every single AK would be picked off... so I decided to send out my PTs but they didn´t achieve anything but acting as targets... range didn´t close so all the little buggers escaped... but then they rerouted towards Soerabaja (homeport was Manila) as the enemy TF now blocked the way back... [8|]
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Sub attack near Rabaul at 106,127
Japanese Ships
xAK Kunitu Maru
xAK Shinwa Maru
xAK Taikei Maru
xAKL Ujigawa Maru
DD Yakaze
Allied Ships
SS Seawolf
SS Seawolf launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Kunitu Maru
DD Yakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
we´ve got 4 subs sitting at Rabaul now due to the reaction routine... don´t like that... [8|]
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Day Time Surface Combat, near Bataan at 77,77, Range 21,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
CL Natori
DD Satsuki
DD Minazuki
DD Fumizuki
DD Nagatsuki
DD Harukaze
DD Hatakaze
Allied Ships
PT-31
PT-32
PT-33
MTB 9
Maximum visibility in Overcast Conditions: 20,000 yards
Range closes to 19,000 yards...
CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 19,000 yards
Allied TF attempts to evade combat
Range increases to 21,000 yards...
Range increases to 21,000 yards...
Allied PT Boat TF evades combat
even though the PTs moved towards Java in the night, they then engage the enemy in the same hex as in the night again...[&:] react routine...[:(] I guess I will look at it some more time and will then decide to completely turn off EVERY reaction range on all my subs and surface combatants...
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ASW attack near Salajar at 66,107
Japanese Ships
DD Tachikaze
APD Tade
xAK Jinshu Maru
DD Namikaze
DD Nokaze
Allied Ships
SS KIX
SS KIX is sighted by escort
KIX diving deep ....
DD Namikaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Nokaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Nokaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Nokaze cannot establish contact with SS KIX
Escort abandons search for sub
as if we wouldn´t already be used to this... [:o]
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Morning Air attack on 102nd PA Infantry Division, at 80,90 (Malaybalay)
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Japanese aircraft
G3M2 Nell x 7
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
72 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Aircraft Attacking:
7 x G3M2 Nell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Heavy cloud
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 27
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 6
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 13 damaged
Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Airbase hits 5
Runway hits 14
Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
13 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
what I don´t get either is the fact that every day we use up around 1000 supplies in Singapore... granted there are quite some troops and we´re building forts also, but I can only think about the air attacks also decreasing our supplies as the stock is really going down quickly... too quickly... but without achieving a hit on the supply dump there shouldn´t be supplies destroyed... perhaps this is also something that just doesn´t show up in the combat report exactly anymore (which would be completely BS again) and you´ve also have to watch the replay of stupid ground bombings to see how many supply hits the enemy achieves... is this what the developers mean about FOW??
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Morning Air attack on Subic Bay Defenses , at 79,76 (Clark Field)
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 8
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 damaged
Allied ground losses:
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
Also attacking 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion ...
Also attacking Subic Bay Defenses ...
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Afternoon Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 23 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 29
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 13 damaged
Allied ground losses:
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Airbase hits 5
Runway hits 16
Aircraft Attacking:
29 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
4 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet
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Afternoon Air attack on Port Moresby Brigade, at 99,130
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes
Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 4
Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged
Allied ground losses:
17 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Aircraft Attacking:
4 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb
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ASW attack near Tawi Tawi at 72,90
Japanese Ships
SC Ch 23
APD Aoi
xAK Nihonka Maru
DD Tawakaze
DD Yugao
DD Yukaze
DD Sawakaze
Allied Ships
SS Pike, hits 4
SS Pike is sighted by escort
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Yugao attacking submerged sub ....
DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Sawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Yugao fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Yukaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
would give a lot for so effective ASW... all my subs are more or less rendered useles...
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Sub attack near Savaii at 147,156
Japanese Ships
SS I-24, hits 2
Allied Ships
xAP President Fillmore, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
xAP President Buchanan
DD Rathburne
SS I-24 launches 6 torpedoes at xAP President Fillmore
I-24 diving deep ....
DD Rathburne fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Rathburne fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Rathburne attacking submerged sub ....
DD Rathburne cannot reach attack position over SS I-24
SS I-24 eludes ASW attack from DD Rathburne
DD Rathburne attacking submerged sub ....
DD Rathburne cannot establish contact with SS I-24
DD Rathburne fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
while the enemy subs are killers of course, no matter if we have escorts or not... while a single IJN torp is enough to sink everyone below heavy cruiser size anyway, the hit rate of the Japanese subs is also twice as high as ours... the big AP sinks within two minutes of course... I-24 suffers two surely crippling near misses... [&o]
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Pre-Invasion action off Makassar
Japanese Ships
PC Ashi
PC Ashi firing at enemy troops
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Amphibious Assault at Makassar
TF 266 troops unloading over beach at Makassar, 65,106
we´ve spotted what I would identify as mini KB moving East towards Palau, so I´m tempted to engage this invasion with my Dutch cruisers that are currently stationed at Soerabaja...
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Ground combat at Johore Bahru (50,83)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 690 troops, 0 guns, 103 vehicles, Assault Value = 58
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese adjusted assault: 57
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 57 to 1 (fort level 1)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Johore Bahru !!!
Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(+)
Assaulting units:
1st Tank Regiment
enemy armored spearhead reached Johore Bahru... I doubt that the enemy will cross the river into Singapore anytime soon though, probably not within the next week as many units are spotted still two or three hexes North... and I doubt Rainer will cross without having all his units coming along together...
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 1867 troops, 132 guns, 137 vehicles, Assault Value = 1399
Defending force 23807 troops, 498 guns, 473 vehicles, Assault Value = 857
Japanese ground losses:
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
113 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 15 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 6 (2 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Vehicles lost 7 (1 destroyed, 6 disabled)
Assaulting units:
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
38th Division
9th Tank Regiment
65th Brigade
4th Tank Regiment
3rd Tank Regiment
48th Division
2nd Tank Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
14th Army
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
Defending units:
4th Marine Regiment
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
194th Tank Battalion
91st PA Infantry Division
31st Infantry Regiment
14th PS Engineer Regiment
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
192nd Tank Battalion
31st PA Infantry Division
11th PA Infantry Division
21st PA Infantry Division
Subic Bay Defenses
1st USMC AA Battalion
I Philippine Corps
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
Far East USAAF
1st PI Base Force
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
we´ve ordered all our units at Manila to combat move on Clark field... they´re marching at 15 miles a day so it seems moving while set to combat isn´t really slow in this area...
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Ground combat at Rangoon (54,53)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 16370 troops, 136 guns, 52 vehicles, Assault Value = 592
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0
Japanese adjusted assault: 229
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 229 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Rangoon !!!
Combat modifiers
Attacker:
Assaulting units:
Imperial Guards Division
112th Infantry Regiment
15th Army
21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion
nothing I could have done against a reinforced IG div in Burma... my troops are running North and 1st Burma div is sitting at Calcutta already...
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Ground combat at Singkawang (56,88)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 2636 troops, 14 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 98
Defending force 1201 troops, 17 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 29
Japanese adjusted assault: 35
Allied adjusted defense: 7
Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Singkawang !!!
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker: fatigue(-)
Japanese ground losses:
128 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
609 casualties reported
Squads: 36 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 44 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 3 (3 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 4
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
II./124th Infantry Battalion
III./124th Infantry Battalion
Defending units:
West Borneo KNIL Battalion
Singkawang Base Force
Sambas Base Force
106th RN Base Force
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Ground combat at 107,124
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 402 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16
Defending force 10 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1
Japanese adjusted assault: 8
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 8 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), leaders(-), disruption(-)
supply(-)
Attacker: leaders(-)
Allied ground losses:
4 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Assaulting units:
I/66th Naval Guard Unit
Defending units:
2/1st Ind Coy
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Ground combat at Jesselton (68,86)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 504 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 22
Defending force 507 troops, 8 guns, 1 vehicles, Assault Value = 5
Japanese adjusted assault: 17
Allied adjusted defense: 7
Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Jesselton !!!
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), preparation(-), fatigue(-)
morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
18 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
159 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 13 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 6 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 2
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
I/81st Naval Guard Unit
Defending units:
107th RN Base Force
108th RN Base Force
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 529 troops, 85 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 850
Defending force 42958 troops, 431 guns, 728 vehicles, Assault Value = 1399
Japanese ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 4 (2 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
11 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Assaulting units:
31st PA Infantry Division
194th Tank Battalion
11th PA Infantry Division
192nd Tank Battalion
14th PS Engineer Regiment
21st PA Infantry Division
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
4th Marine Regiment
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
91st PA Infantry Division
31st Infantry Regiment
Subic Bay Defenses
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
Far East USAAF
1st USMC AA Battalion
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
1st PI Base Force
I Philippine Corps
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
Defending units:
3rd Tank Regiment
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
48th Division
9th Tank Regiment
38th Division
65th Brigade
4th Tank Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
14th Army
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
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Ground combat at Makassar (65,106)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 979 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 52
Defending force 780 troops, 0 guns, 132 vehicles, Assault Value = 81
Assaulting units:
Makassar Garrison Battalion
Makassar Base Force
Defending units:
8th Tank Rgt /2
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Ground combat at Koepang (68,116)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 257 troops, 8 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 14
Defending force 2935 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 119
Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Assaulting units:
Timor Garrison Battalion
Dili Detachment
Defending units:
Kure 2nd SNLF
Sasebo 2nd SNLF
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Bataan at 77,77, Range 8,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
CL Natori
DD Satsuki
DD Minazuki
DD Fumizuki
DD Nagatsuki
DD Harukaze
DD Hatakaze
Allied Ships
PT-31
PT-32
PT-33
MTB 9
Maximum visibility in Overcast Conditions and 64% moonlight: 8,000 yards
Range closes to 10,000 yards...
Range closes to 9,000 yards...
Range closes to 8,000 yards...
CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 8,000 yards
CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 8,000 yards
DD Hatakaze engages PT-33 at 8,000 yards
DD Minazuki engages MTB 9 at 8,000 yards
DD Satsuki engages PT-31 at 8,000 yards
Range closes to 7,000 yards
CL Natori engages MTB 9 at 7,000 yards
DD Hatakaze engages PT-32 at 7,000 yards
DD Harukaze engages MTB 9 at 7,000 yards
DD Nagatsuki engages MTB 9 at 7,000 yards
DD Fumizuki engages MTB 9 at 7,000 yards
DD Minazuki engages PT-33 at 7,000 yards
DD Satsuki engages PT-31 at 7,000 yards
Range increases to 8,000 yards
DD Hatakaze engages MTB 9 at 8,000 yards
DD Nagatsuki engages PT-32 at 8,000 yards
DD Fumizuki engages MTB 9 at 8,000 yards
Range increases to 9,000 yards
CL Natori engages PT-32 at 9,000 yards
CL Natori engages PT-31 at 9,000 yards
DD Fumizuki engages MTB 9 at 9,000 yards
DD Fumizuki engages MTB 9 at 9,000 yards
DD Satsuki engages MTB 9 at 9,000 yards
Range increases to 12,000 yards
DD Fumizuki engages PT-33 at 12,000 yards
DD Hatakaze engages PT-31 at 12,000 yards
CL Natori engages MTB 9 at 12,000 yards
DD Fumizuki engages PT-32 at 12,000 yards
Task forces break off...
the enemy has parked a SC TF outside the entrance to Bataan for over a week already to prevent me from bringing in any supplies... guess this way he doesn´t have to keep a single bomber on nav attack and can use them elsewhere as the new routines in AE will prevent me from moving through this hex for sure as every single AK would be picked off... so I decided to send out my PTs but they didn´t achieve anything but acting as targets... range didn´t close so all the little buggers escaped... but then they rerouted towards Soerabaja (homeport was Manila) as the enemy TF now blocked the way back... [8|]
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Sub attack near Rabaul at 106,127
Japanese Ships
xAK Kunitu Maru
xAK Shinwa Maru
xAK Taikei Maru
xAKL Ujigawa Maru
DD Yakaze
Allied Ships
SS Seawolf
SS Seawolf launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Kunitu Maru
DD Yakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
we´ve got 4 subs sitting at Rabaul now due to the reaction routine... don´t like that... [8|]
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Day Time Surface Combat, near Bataan at 77,77, Range 21,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
CL Natori
DD Satsuki
DD Minazuki
DD Fumizuki
DD Nagatsuki
DD Harukaze
DD Hatakaze
Allied Ships
PT-31
PT-32
PT-33
MTB 9
Maximum visibility in Overcast Conditions: 20,000 yards
Range closes to 19,000 yards...
CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 19,000 yards
Allied TF attempts to evade combat
Range increases to 21,000 yards...
Range increases to 21,000 yards...
Allied PT Boat TF evades combat
even though the PTs moved towards Java in the night, they then engage the enemy in the same hex as in the night again...[&:] react routine...[:(] I guess I will look at it some more time and will then decide to completely turn off EVERY reaction range on all my subs and surface combatants...
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ASW attack near Salajar at 66,107
Japanese Ships
DD Tachikaze
APD Tade
xAK Jinshu Maru
DD Namikaze
DD Nokaze
Allied Ships
SS KIX
SS KIX is sighted by escort
KIX diving deep ....
DD Namikaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Nokaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Nokaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Nokaze cannot establish contact with SS KIX
Escort abandons search for sub
as if we wouldn´t already be used to this... [:o]
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Morning Air attack on 102nd PA Infantry Division, at 80,90 (Malaybalay)
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Japanese aircraft
G3M2 Nell x 7
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
72 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Aircraft Attacking:
7 x G3M2 Nell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Heavy cloud
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 27
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 6
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 13 damaged
Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Airbase hits 5
Runway hits 14
Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
13 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
what I don´t get either is the fact that every day we use up around 1000 supplies in Singapore... granted there are quite some troops and we´re building forts also, but I can only think about the air attacks also decreasing our supplies as the stock is really going down quickly... too quickly... but without achieving a hit on the supply dump there shouldn´t be supplies destroyed... perhaps this is also something that just doesn´t show up in the combat report exactly anymore (which would be completely BS again) and you´ve also have to watch the replay of stupid ground bombings to see how many supply hits the enemy achieves... is this what the developers mean about FOW??
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Morning Air attack on Subic Bay Defenses , at 79,76 (Clark Field)
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 8
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 damaged
Allied ground losses:
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
Also attacking 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion ...
Also attacking Subic Bay Defenses ...
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Afternoon Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 23 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 29
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 13 damaged
Allied ground losses:
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Airbase hits 5
Runway hits 16
Aircraft Attacking:
29 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
4 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet
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Afternoon Air attack on Port Moresby Brigade, at 99,130
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes
Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 4
Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged
Allied ground losses:
17 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Aircraft Attacking:
4 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb
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ASW attack near Tawi Tawi at 72,90
Japanese Ships
SC Ch 23
APD Aoi
xAK Nihonka Maru
DD Tawakaze
DD Yugao
DD Yukaze
DD Sawakaze
Allied Ships
SS Pike, hits 4
SS Pike is sighted by escort
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Yugao attacking submerged sub ....
DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Sawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Yugao fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Yukaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
would give a lot for so effective ASW... all my subs are more or less rendered useles...
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Sub attack near Savaii at 147,156
Japanese Ships
SS I-24, hits 2
Allied Ships
xAP President Fillmore, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
xAP President Buchanan
DD Rathburne
SS I-24 launches 6 torpedoes at xAP President Fillmore
I-24 diving deep ....
DD Rathburne fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Rathburne fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Rathburne attacking submerged sub ....
DD Rathburne cannot reach attack position over SS I-24
SS I-24 eludes ASW attack from DD Rathburne
DD Rathburne attacking submerged sub ....
DD Rathburne cannot establish contact with SS I-24
DD Rathburne fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
while the enemy subs are killers of course, no matter if we have escorts or not... while a single IJN torp is enough to sink everyone below heavy cruiser size anyway, the hit rate of the Japanese subs is also twice as high as ours... the big AP sinks within two minutes of course... I-24 suffers two surely crippling near misses... [&o]
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Pre-Invasion action off Makassar
Japanese Ships
PC Ashi
PC Ashi firing at enemy troops
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Amphibious Assault at Makassar
TF 266 troops unloading over beach at Makassar, 65,106
we´ve spotted what I would identify as mini KB moving East towards Palau, so I´m tempted to engage this invasion with my Dutch cruisers that are currently stationed at Soerabaja...
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Ground combat at Johore Bahru (50,83)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 690 troops, 0 guns, 103 vehicles, Assault Value = 58
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese adjusted assault: 57
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 57 to 1 (fort level 1)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Johore Bahru !!!
Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(+)
Assaulting units:
1st Tank Regiment
enemy armored spearhead reached Johore Bahru... I doubt that the enemy will cross the river into Singapore anytime soon though, probably not within the next week as many units are spotted still two or three hexes North... and I doubt Rainer will cross without having all his units coming along together...
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 1867 troops, 132 guns, 137 vehicles, Assault Value = 1399
Defending force 23807 troops, 498 guns, 473 vehicles, Assault Value = 857
Japanese ground losses:
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
113 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 15 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 6 (2 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Vehicles lost 7 (1 destroyed, 6 disabled)
Assaulting units:
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
38th Division
9th Tank Regiment
65th Brigade
4th Tank Regiment
3rd Tank Regiment
48th Division
2nd Tank Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
14th Army
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
Defending units:
4th Marine Regiment
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
194th Tank Battalion
91st PA Infantry Division
31st Infantry Regiment
14th PS Engineer Regiment
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
192nd Tank Battalion
31st PA Infantry Division
11th PA Infantry Division
21st PA Infantry Division
Subic Bay Defenses
1st USMC AA Battalion
I Philippine Corps
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
Far East USAAF
1st PI Base Force
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
we´ve ordered all our units at Manila to combat move on Clark field... they´re marching at 15 miles a day so it seems moving while set to combat isn´t really slow in this area...
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Ground combat at Rangoon (54,53)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 16370 troops, 136 guns, 52 vehicles, Assault Value = 592
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0
Japanese adjusted assault: 229
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 229 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Rangoon !!!
Combat modifiers
Attacker:
Assaulting units:
Imperial Guards Division
112th Infantry Regiment
15th Army
21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion
nothing I could have done against a reinforced IG div in Burma... my troops are running North and 1st Burma div is sitting at Calcutta already...
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Ground combat at Singkawang (56,88)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 2636 troops, 14 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 98
Defending force 1201 troops, 17 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 29
Japanese adjusted assault: 35
Allied adjusted defense: 7
Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Singkawang !!!
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker: fatigue(-)
Japanese ground losses:
128 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
609 casualties reported
Squads: 36 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 44 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 3 (3 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 4
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
II./124th Infantry Battalion
III./124th Infantry Battalion
Defending units:
West Borneo KNIL Battalion
Singkawang Base Force
Sambas Base Force
106th RN Base Force
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Ground combat at 107,124
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 402 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16
Defending force 10 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1
Japanese adjusted assault: 8
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 8 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), leaders(-), disruption(-)
supply(-)
Attacker: leaders(-)
Allied ground losses:
4 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Assaulting units:
I/66th Naval Guard Unit
Defending units:
2/1st Ind Coy
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Ground combat at Jesselton (68,86)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 504 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 22
Defending force 507 troops, 8 guns, 1 vehicles, Assault Value = 5
Japanese adjusted assault: 17
Allied adjusted defense: 7
Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Jesselton !!!
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), preparation(-), fatigue(-)
morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
18 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
159 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 13 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 6 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 2
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
I/81st Naval Guard Unit
Defending units:
107th RN Base Force
108th RN Base Force
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 529 troops, 85 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 850
Defending force 42958 troops, 431 guns, 728 vehicles, Assault Value = 1399
Japanese ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 4 (2 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
11 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Assaulting units:
31st PA Infantry Division
194th Tank Battalion
11th PA Infantry Division
192nd Tank Battalion
14th PS Engineer Regiment
21st PA Infantry Division
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
4th Marine Regiment
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
91st PA Infantry Division
31st Infantry Regiment
Subic Bay Defenses
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
Far East USAAF
1st USMC AA Battalion
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
1st PI Base Force
I Philippine Corps
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
Defending units:
3rd Tank Regiment
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
48th Division
9th Tank Regiment
38th Division
65th Brigade
4th Tank Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
14th Army
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
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Ground combat at Makassar (65,106)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 979 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 52
Defending force 780 troops, 0 guns, 132 vehicles, Assault Value = 81
Assaulting units:
Makassar Garrison Battalion
Makassar Base Force
Defending units:
8th Tank Rgt /2
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Ground combat at Koepang (68,116)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 257 troops, 8 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 14
Defending force 2935 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 119
Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Assaulting units:
Timor Garrison Battalion
Dili Detachment
Defending units:
Kure 2nd SNLF
Sasebo 2nd SNLF
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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 09, 42
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Invasion Support action off Makassar
Japanese Ships
PC Ashi
PC Ashi firing at enemy troops
an amazingly weak escort for Makassar invasion IMO...
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ASW attack near Miri at 65,86
Japanese Ships
xAK Eihuku Maru
PB Nako Maru #2
Allied Ships
SS Skipjack
SS Skipjack is sighted by escort
Skipjack bottoming out ....
PB Nako Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
so far a rough guess would be that one IJN escort is enough to prevent my subs from attacking in 40-50% of possible times and my single escorts do this in 10-20% of the time so far... but this will all change...
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ASW attack near Tawi Tawi at 71,91
Japanese Ships
SC Ch 23
APD Aoi
xAK Nihonka Maru
DD Tawakaze
DD Yugao
DD Yukaze
DD Sawakaze
Allied Ships
SS Pike, hits 1
SS Pike is sighted by escort
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Yugao fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Sawakaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Yukaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Sawakaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Sawakaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Sawakaze is out of ASW ammo
DD Sawakaze is out of ASW ammo
DD Sawakaze is out of ASW ammo
Escort abandons search for sub
again...
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Makassar at 65,106, Range 8,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
PC Ashi, Shell hits 10, and is sunk
xAK Hokutai Maru, Shell hits 8, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAK Kasyu Maru, Shell hits 4, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAK Seikyo Maru, Shell hits 18, and is sunk
xAK Shinkyo Maru, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
Allied Ships
CL Java
CL De Ruyter
CL Tromp
DD Vendetta
DD Banckert
DD Van Nes
DD Witte de With
DD Evertsen
DD Kortenaer
DD Piet Hein
Maximum visibility in Overcast Conditions and 53% moonlight: 8,000 yards
Range closes to 11,000 yards...
Range closes to 10,000 yards...
Range closes to 9,000 yards...
Range closes to 8,000 yards...
CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 8,000 yards
Japanese ships attempt to get underway
CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 8,000 yards
CL Tromp engages PC Ashi at 8,000 yards
CL De Ruyter engages PC Ashi at 8,000 yards
CL Java engages PC Ashi at 8,000 yards
DD Evertsen engages xAK Hokutai Maru at 8,000 yards
DD Witte de With engages xAK Hokutai Maru at 8,000 yards
DD Van Nes engages xAK Hokutai Maru at 8,000 yards
DD Vendetta engages PC Ashi at 8,000 yards
Range closes to 7,000 yards
CL De Ruyter engages PC Ashi at 7,000 yards
xAK Hokutai Maru sunk by CL Java at 7,000 yards
Range closes to 4,000 yards
xAK Shinkyo Maru sunk by DD Van Nes at 4,000 yards
Range closes to 3,000 yards
DD Piet Hein engages xAK Seikyo Maru at 3,000 yards
DD Witte de With engages xAK Seikyo Maru at 3,000 yards
DD Van Nes engages xAK Seikyo Maru at 3,000 yards
xAK Seikyo Maru sunk by CL Tromp at 3,000 yards
Range increases to 4,000 yards
CL Tromp engages xAK Kasyu Maru at 4,000 yards
Range closes to 2,000 yards
CL Tromp engages xAK Kasyu Maru at 2,000 yards
DD Van Nes engages xAK Kasyu Maru at 2,000 yards
DD Van Nes engages xAK Kasyu Maru at 2,000 yards
Combat ends with last Japanese ship sunk...
as we were sure of mini KB not covering this invasion (very surprisingly given all the so far methodical invasions) we´ve sent in the Dutch to intervene with this invasion... the TF was caught unloading and was completely whiped out - as expected... no troops were destroyed and Makassar is lost anyway but at least we´ve sunk 5 enemy ships... would have preferred to meet a couple of escorts more, not just a single PC... so far I was satisfied...
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this of course changed within three seconds... [8|]
Sub attack near Makassar at 64,106
Japanese Ships
SS I-154
Allied Ships
CL Java, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage [8|]
CL Tromp
CL De Ruyter
DD Witte de With
DD Van Nes
DD Vendetta
DD Piet Hein
DD Kortenaer
DD Evertsen
SS I-154 launches 8 torpedoes at CL Java
DD Piet Hein fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Kortenaer fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Evertsen fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Kortenaer fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kortenaer fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kortenaer fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
if everything is just about die rolls then I´ve been really an asshole so far in this campaign as I´ve never hit a positive... got a fridging six DDs that of course do nothing... to top the BULLSH*T off, this is one of the subs with a WRONG database entry and therefore the sub fires a mega spread of 8 torps... and then two IJN torps are enough to immedietely sink the light cruiser... things are getting me pissed off, 8 of those wrong subs around and I guess they´ve already accounted for over a dozen ships... my ASW stays a joke so far, therefore it´s funny to hear that IJN ASW is set to 0.65 effectivity early in the war... lol, how effective will it get then? Or better, how UBER effective will get Allied ASW then when thinking about how well IJN ASW is doing already... not in sinking my subs but in making them useless (speaking about the ones with working torps...)
throw in the obvious ghost spottings all the time (still can´t figure out how TFs are spotted in the middle of nowhere all the time) and the mega effective sub react, search and destroy and it´s not surprising anymore that the enemy submarine force is taking a toll... but compared to other AARs my ship losses to IJN subs is still really, really light...
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ASW attack near Tarakan at 67,91
Japanese Ships
APD Aoi, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
DD Sawakaze
SC Ch 23
xAK Nihonka Maru
DD Tawakaze
DD Yugao
DD Yukaze
Allied Ships
SS Permit
Japanese ground losses:
22 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
SS Permit launches 2 torpedoes at APD Aoi
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Yugao fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
Permit then sinks an APD of the Tarakan invasion force... lucky shot it seems...
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TF 44 encounters mine field at Rabaul (106,125)
Allied Ships
SS Seawolf, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
with the loss of the Dutch CL and this fleet sub hitting a Type 93 mine in Rabaul it was not really a good turn... the sub is crippled and all I can say once again is that I REALLY HATE IT WHEN MY SUBS REACT INTO ENEMY BASES... they hit mines and are far to vulnerable in base hexes so I just want them to STAY OUT!!!! Don Bowen said they shouldn´t react into bases with spotted mine fields and they also should not react into bases with ports bigger than small sizes... granted this minefield wasn´t spotted earlier but I´ve got subs in port all the time so this routine seems not to work at all...
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 26 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 25 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 38
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 27
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 14 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 8 damaged
Allied ground losses:
29 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Runway hits 23
Aircraft Attacking:
27 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
29 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
9 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
8 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet
Also attacking Subic Bay Defenses ...
Also attacking Clark Field ...
Also attacking 21st PA Infantry Division ...
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Thunderstorms
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 26
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 14
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 11
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 15 damaged
Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 14
Aircraft Attacking:
12 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
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Afternoon Air attack on Lark Battalion, at 99,130
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes
Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 5
Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged
Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Aircraft Attacking:
5 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb
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Sub attack near Mangaia at 153,185
Japanese Ships
SS I-15
Allied Ships
xAK Eldorado, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
KV Dawson
Allied ground losses:
9 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 3 (2 destroyed, 1 disabled)
SS I-15 launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Eldorado
I-15 diving deep ....
KV Dawson fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
and our escort is useless once again... and due to the fact that this attack again happened in the middle of nowhere (I bet not a single ship crossed this hex in the campaign so far) I´m 100% sure that this attack is one of those miracle attacks when subs react to shipping somewhere in the middle of the ocean while shouldn´t knowing that there are even ships... [8|] I can´t explain it otherwise and my subs seem to be doing the same... every single TF leaving or going to the West Coast is doing it at different directions and they are moving so far off "normal" shipping routes it is just more than strange to meet enemy subs every second turn (which then sink a ship of course)...
this one sunk an AK with halve a construction btn aboard... [8|]
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 1891 troops, 132 guns, 137 vehicles, Assault Value = 1412
Defending force 23670 troops, 496 guns, 470 vehicles, Assault Value = 855
Japanese ground losses:
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
115 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 15 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 3 (2 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 6 (2 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Assaulting units:
48th Division
38th Division
9th Tank Regiment
3rd Tank Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
4th Tank Regiment
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
65th Brigade
2nd Tank Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
14th Army
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
Defending units:
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
192nd Tank Battalion
31st Infantry Regiment
194th Tank Battalion
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
4th Marine Regiment
91st PA Infantry Division
31st PA Infantry Division
14th PS Engineer Regiment
11th PA Infantry Division
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
21st PA Infantry Division
Subic Bay Defenses
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
Far East USAAF
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
1st USMC AA Battalion
I Philippine Corps
1st PI Base Force
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
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Ground combat at Manila (79,77)
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 7504 troops, 80 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 499
Defending force 27231 troops, 273 guns, 169 vehicles, Assault Value = 857
Allied ground losses:
18 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Assaulting units:
Kimura Det
20th Infantry Regiment
7th Tank Regiment
16th Engineer Regiment
9th Infantry Regiment
Kure 1st SNLF
Defending units:
1st PA Infantry Division
57th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team
71st PA Infantry Division
3rd/12th PA Inf Battalion
41st PA Infantry Division
51st PA Infantry Division
1st PA Constabulary Regiment
3rd/45th PS Inf Battalion
2nd PA Constabulary Regiment
USAFFE
Cavite USN Base Force
Manila USAAF Base Force
II Philippine Corps
Asiatic Fleet
PAF Aviation
my troops should reach Clark field next turn...
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Ground combat at Mersing (51,82)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 525 troops, 0 guns, 80 vehicles, Assault Value = 46
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese adjusted assault: 47
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 47 to 1 (fort level 1)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Mersing !!!
Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(+)
Assaulting units:
14th Tank Regiment
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Ground combat at 107,124
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 402 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16
Defending force 5 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1
Japanese adjusted assault: 9
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 9 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), leaders(-), disruption(-)
fatigue(-), supply(-)
Attacker: leaders(-)
Assaulting units:
I/66th Naval Guard Unit
Defending units:
2/1st Ind Coy
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Ground combat at Koepang (68,116)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 2963 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 121
Defending force 639 troops, 8 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 15
Japanese adjusted assault: 24
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 24 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Koepang !!!
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), preparation(-), fatigue(-)
experience(-)
Attacker: disruption(-)
Japanese ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
342 casualties reported
Squads: 25 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 12 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 3 (3 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 2
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
Kure 2nd SNLF
Sasebo 2nd SNLF
Defending units:
Timor Garrison Battalion
Dili Detachment
no chance for Koepang´s defenders... probably won´t take long and we´ll see Japanese airpower in this region...
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 475 troops, 83 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 849
Defending force 43109 troops, 432 guns, 729 vehicles, Assault Value = 1412
Japanese ground losses:
74 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 4 (0 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Assaulting units:
21st PA Infantry Division
14th PS Engineer Regiment
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
91st PA Infantry Division
11th PA Infantry Division
194th Tank Battalion
4th Marine Regiment
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
31st Infantry Regiment
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
31st PA Infantry Division
192nd Tank Battalion
Subic Bay Defenses
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
1st PI Base Force
I Philippine Corps
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
Far East USAAF
1st USMC AA Battalion
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
Defending units:
48th Division
3rd Tank Regiment
4th Tank Regiment
65th Brigade
38th Division
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
14th Army
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
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Ground combat at Makassar (65,106)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 974 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 52
Defending force 960 troops, 0 guns, 144 vehicles, Assault Value = 80
Assaulting units:
Makassar Garrison Battalion
Makassar Base Force
Defending units:
8th Tank Rgt /2
guess we won´t be able to hold against this tank rgt either...
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Ground combat at Makassar (65,106)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 960 troops, 0 guns, 144 vehicles, Assault Value = 80
Defending force 1433 troops, 5 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 52
Japanese adjusted assault: 79
Allied adjusted defense: 5
Japanese assault odds: 15 to 1 (fort level 1)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Makassar !!!
Allied aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft losses
No Allied losses
Combat modifiers
Defender: forts(+), fatigue(-), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker: leaders(+)
Allied ground losses:
556 casualties reported
Squads: 19 destroyed, 11 disabled
Non Combat: 28 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units retreated 2
Assaulting units:
8th Tank Rgt /2
Defending units:
Makassar Garrison Battalion
Makassar Base Force
yup, the first attack takes the base... really great adjusted av... [8|]
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Invasion Support action off Makassar
Japanese Ships
PC Ashi
PC Ashi firing at enemy troops
an amazingly weak escort for Makassar invasion IMO...
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ASW attack near Miri at 65,86
Japanese Ships
xAK Eihuku Maru
PB Nako Maru #2
Allied Ships
SS Skipjack
SS Skipjack is sighted by escort
Skipjack bottoming out ....
PB Nako Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
so far a rough guess would be that one IJN escort is enough to prevent my subs from attacking in 40-50% of possible times and my single escorts do this in 10-20% of the time so far... but this will all change...
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ASW attack near Tawi Tawi at 71,91
Japanese Ships
SC Ch 23
APD Aoi
xAK Nihonka Maru
DD Tawakaze
DD Yugao
DD Yukaze
DD Sawakaze
Allied Ships
SS Pike, hits 1
SS Pike is sighted by escort
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Yugao fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Sawakaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Yukaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Sawakaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Sawakaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Sawakaze is out of ASW ammo
DD Sawakaze is out of ASW ammo
DD Sawakaze is out of ASW ammo
Escort abandons search for sub
again...
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Makassar at 65,106, Range 8,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
PC Ashi, Shell hits 10, and is sunk
xAK Hokutai Maru, Shell hits 8, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAK Kasyu Maru, Shell hits 4, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAK Seikyo Maru, Shell hits 18, and is sunk
xAK Shinkyo Maru, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
Allied Ships
CL Java
CL De Ruyter
CL Tromp
DD Vendetta
DD Banckert
DD Van Nes
DD Witte de With
DD Evertsen
DD Kortenaer
DD Piet Hein
Maximum visibility in Overcast Conditions and 53% moonlight: 8,000 yards
Range closes to 11,000 yards...
Range closes to 10,000 yards...
Range closes to 9,000 yards...
Range closes to 8,000 yards...
CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 8,000 yards
Japanese ships attempt to get underway
CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 8,000 yards
CL Tromp engages PC Ashi at 8,000 yards
CL De Ruyter engages PC Ashi at 8,000 yards
CL Java engages PC Ashi at 8,000 yards
DD Evertsen engages xAK Hokutai Maru at 8,000 yards
DD Witte de With engages xAK Hokutai Maru at 8,000 yards
DD Van Nes engages xAK Hokutai Maru at 8,000 yards
DD Vendetta engages PC Ashi at 8,000 yards
Range closes to 7,000 yards
CL De Ruyter engages PC Ashi at 7,000 yards
xAK Hokutai Maru sunk by CL Java at 7,000 yards
Range closes to 4,000 yards
xAK Shinkyo Maru sunk by DD Van Nes at 4,000 yards
Range closes to 3,000 yards
DD Piet Hein engages xAK Seikyo Maru at 3,000 yards
DD Witte de With engages xAK Seikyo Maru at 3,000 yards
DD Van Nes engages xAK Seikyo Maru at 3,000 yards
xAK Seikyo Maru sunk by CL Tromp at 3,000 yards
Range increases to 4,000 yards
CL Tromp engages xAK Kasyu Maru at 4,000 yards
Range closes to 2,000 yards
CL Tromp engages xAK Kasyu Maru at 2,000 yards
DD Van Nes engages xAK Kasyu Maru at 2,000 yards
DD Van Nes engages xAK Kasyu Maru at 2,000 yards
Combat ends with last Japanese ship sunk...
as we were sure of mini KB not covering this invasion (very surprisingly given all the so far methodical invasions) we´ve sent in the Dutch to intervene with this invasion... the TF was caught unloading and was completely whiped out - as expected... no troops were destroyed and Makassar is lost anyway but at least we´ve sunk 5 enemy ships... would have preferred to meet a couple of escorts more, not just a single PC... so far I was satisfied...
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this of course changed within three seconds... [8|]
Sub attack near Makassar at 64,106
Japanese Ships
SS I-154
Allied Ships
CL Java, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage [8|]
CL Tromp
CL De Ruyter
DD Witte de With
DD Van Nes
DD Vendetta
DD Piet Hein
DD Kortenaer
DD Evertsen
SS I-154 launches 8 torpedoes at CL Java
DD Piet Hein fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Kortenaer fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Evertsen fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Kortenaer fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kortenaer fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kortenaer fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
if everything is just about die rolls then I´ve been really an asshole so far in this campaign as I´ve never hit a positive... got a fridging six DDs that of course do nothing... to top the BULLSH*T off, this is one of the subs with a WRONG database entry and therefore the sub fires a mega spread of 8 torps... and then two IJN torps are enough to immedietely sink the light cruiser... things are getting me pissed off, 8 of those wrong subs around and I guess they´ve already accounted for over a dozen ships... my ASW stays a joke so far, therefore it´s funny to hear that IJN ASW is set to 0.65 effectivity early in the war... lol, how effective will it get then? Or better, how UBER effective will get Allied ASW then when thinking about how well IJN ASW is doing already... not in sinking my subs but in making them useless (speaking about the ones with working torps...)
throw in the obvious ghost spottings all the time (still can´t figure out how TFs are spotted in the middle of nowhere all the time) and the mega effective sub react, search and destroy and it´s not surprising anymore that the enemy submarine force is taking a toll... but compared to other AARs my ship losses to IJN subs is still really, really light...
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ASW attack near Tarakan at 67,91
Japanese Ships
APD Aoi, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
DD Sawakaze
SC Ch 23
xAK Nihonka Maru
DD Tawakaze
DD Yugao
DD Yukaze
Allied Ships
SS Permit
Japanese ground losses:
22 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
SS Permit launches 2 torpedoes at APD Aoi
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Yugao fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
Permit then sinks an APD of the Tarakan invasion force... lucky shot it seems...
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TF 44 encounters mine field at Rabaul (106,125)
Allied Ships
SS Seawolf, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
with the loss of the Dutch CL and this fleet sub hitting a Type 93 mine in Rabaul it was not really a good turn... the sub is crippled and all I can say once again is that I REALLY HATE IT WHEN MY SUBS REACT INTO ENEMY BASES... they hit mines and are far to vulnerable in base hexes so I just want them to STAY OUT!!!! Don Bowen said they shouldn´t react into bases with spotted mine fields and they also should not react into bases with ports bigger than small sizes... granted this minefield wasn´t spotted earlier but I´ve got subs in port all the time so this routine seems not to work at all...
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 26 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 25 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 38
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 27
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 14 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 8 damaged
Allied ground losses:
29 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Runway hits 23
Aircraft Attacking:
27 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
29 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
9 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
8 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet
Also attacking Subic Bay Defenses ...
Also attacking Clark Field ...
Also attacking 21st PA Infantry Division ...
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Thunderstorms
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 26
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 14
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 11
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 15 damaged
Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 14
Aircraft Attacking:
12 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
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Afternoon Air attack on Lark Battalion, at 99,130
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes
Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 5
Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged
Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Aircraft Attacking:
5 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb
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Sub attack near Mangaia at 153,185
Japanese Ships
SS I-15
Allied Ships
xAK Eldorado, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
KV Dawson
Allied ground losses:
9 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 3 (2 destroyed, 1 disabled)
SS I-15 launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Eldorado
I-15 diving deep ....
KV Dawson fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
and our escort is useless once again... and due to the fact that this attack again happened in the middle of nowhere (I bet not a single ship crossed this hex in the campaign so far) I´m 100% sure that this attack is one of those miracle attacks when subs react to shipping somewhere in the middle of the ocean while shouldn´t knowing that there are even ships... [8|] I can´t explain it otherwise and my subs seem to be doing the same... every single TF leaving or going to the West Coast is doing it at different directions and they are moving so far off "normal" shipping routes it is just more than strange to meet enemy subs every second turn (which then sink a ship of course)...
this one sunk an AK with halve a construction btn aboard... [8|]
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 1891 troops, 132 guns, 137 vehicles, Assault Value = 1412
Defending force 23670 troops, 496 guns, 470 vehicles, Assault Value = 855
Japanese ground losses:
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
115 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 15 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 3 (2 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 6 (2 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Assaulting units:
48th Division
38th Division
9th Tank Regiment
3rd Tank Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
4th Tank Regiment
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
65th Brigade
2nd Tank Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
14th Army
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
Defending units:
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
192nd Tank Battalion
31st Infantry Regiment
194th Tank Battalion
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
4th Marine Regiment
91st PA Infantry Division
31st PA Infantry Division
14th PS Engineer Regiment
11th PA Infantry Division
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
21st PA Infantry Division
Subic Bay Defenses
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
Far East USAAF
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
1st USMC AA Battalion
I Philippine Corps
1st PI Base Force
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
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Ground combat at Manila (79,77)
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 7504 troops, 80 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 499
Defending force 27231 troops, 273 guns, 169 vehicles, Assault Value = 857
Allied ground losses:
18 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Assaulting units:
Kimura Det
20th Infantry Regiment
7th Tank Regiment
16th Engineer Regiment
9th Infantry Regiment
Kure 1st SNLF
Defending units:
1st PA Infantry Division
57th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team
71st PA Infantry Division
3rd/12th PA Inf Battalion
41st PA Infantry Division
51st PA Infantry Division
1st PA Constabulary Regiment
3rd/45th PS Inf Battalion
2nd PA Constabulary Regiment
USAFFE
Cavite USN Base Force
Manila USAAF Base Force
II Philippine Corps
Asiatic Fleet
PAF Aviation
my troops should reach Clark field next turn...
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Ground combat at Mersing (51,82)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 525 troops, 0 guns, 80 vehicles, Assault Value = 46
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese adjusted assault: 47
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 47 to 1 (fort level 1)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Mersing !!!
Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(+)
Assaulting units:
14th Tank Regiment
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Ground combat at 107,124
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 402 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16
Defending force 5 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1
Japanese adjusted assault: 9
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 9 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), leaders(-), disruption(-)
fatigue(-), supply(-)
Attacker: leaders(-)
Assaulting units:
I/66th Naval Guard Unit
Defending units:
2/1st Ind Coy
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Ground combat at Koepang (68,116)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 2963 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 121
Defending force 639 troops, 8 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 15
Japanese adjusted assault: 24
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 24 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Koepang !!!
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), preparation(-), fatigue(-)
experience(-)
Attacker: disruption(-)
Japanese ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
342 casualties reported
Squads: 25 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 12 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 3 (3 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 2
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
Kure 2nd SNLF
Sasebo 2nd SNLF
Defending units:
Timor Garrison Battalion
Dili Detachment
no chance for Koepang´s defenders... probably won´t take long and we´ll see Japanese airpower in this region...
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 475 troops, 83 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 849
Defending force 43109 troops, 432 guns, 729 vehicles, Assault Value = 1412
Japanese ground losses:
74 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 4 (0 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Assaulting units:
21st PA Infantry Division
14th PS Engineer Regiment
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
91st PA Infantry Division
11th PA Infantry Division
194th Tank Battalion
4th Marine Regiment
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
31st Infantry Regiment
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
31st PA Infantry Division
192nd Tank Battalion
Subic Bay Defenses
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
1st PI Base Force
I Philippine Corps
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
Far East USAAF
1st USMC AA Battalion
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
Defending units:
48th Division
3rd Tank Regiment
4th Tank Regiment
65th Brigade
38th Division
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
14th Army
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
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Ground combat at Makassar (65,106)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 974 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 52
Defending force 960 troops, 0 guns, 144 vehicles, Assault Value = 80
Assaulting units:
Makassar Garrison Battalion
Makassar Base Force
Defending units:
8th Tank Rgt /2
guess we won´t be able to hold against this tank rgt either...
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Ground combat at Makassar (65,106)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 960 troops, 0 guns, 144 vehicles, Assault Value = 80
Defending force 1433 troops, 5 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 52
Japanese adjusted assault: 79
Allied adjusted defense: 5
Japanese assault odds: 15 to 1 (fort level 1)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Makassar !!!
Allied aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft losses
No Allied losses
Combat modifiers
Defender: forts(+), fatigue(-), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker: leaders(+)
Allied ground losses:
556 casualties reported
Squads: 19 destroyed, 11 disabled
Non Combat: 28 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units retreated 2
Assaulting units:
8th Tank Rgt /2
Defending units:
Makassar Garrison Battalion
Makassar Base Force
yup, the first attack takes the base... really great adjusted av... [8|]
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Sub attack near Kolaka at 67,107
Japanese Ships
xAK Meigen Maru, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage
APD Tade
xAK Shinsei Maru
DD Namikaze
DD Nokaze
Allied Ships
SS O16
Japanese ground losses:
4 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
SS O16 launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Meigen Maru
O16 diving deep ....
DD Namikaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Nokaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Namikaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Namikaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Namikaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
got halve a dozen subs operating in this area (all with working torps) and hopefully I will get some more shots at this troop transport... looks like it is going towards Timor at the moment... the AK sunk right after the hits...
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Pre-Invasion action off Tarakan - Coastal Guns Fire Back!
51 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
DD Tawakaze
DD Yugao
DD Yukaze
SC Ch 23, Shell hits 2, heavy fires
SC Ch 22, Shell hits 5, heavy fires, heavy damage
SC Ch 21, Shell hits 1, on fire
Allied ground losses:
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
DD Tawakaze firing at Tarakan Coastal Gun Battalion
DD Yugao firing at Tarakan Coastal Gun Battalion
DD Yukaze firing at Tarakan Coastal Gun Battalion
SC Ch 23 firing at enemy troops
120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging SC Ch 23 at 2,000 yards
75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging SC Ch 23 at 2,000 yards
SC Ch 22 firing at enemy troops
120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging SC Ch 22 at 2,000 yards
75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging SC Ch 22 at 2,000 yards
SC Ch 21 firing at enemy troops
120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging SC Ch 21 at 2,000 yards
75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging SC Ch 21 at 2,000 yards
DD Yugao firing at enemy troops
120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Yugao at 3,000 yards
75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Yugao at 3,000 yards
DD Yukaze firing at enemy troops
120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Yukaze at 3,000 yards
75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Yukaze at 3,000 yards
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft
seems like Tarakan´s coast defense is the so far best working one the Japanese have engaged yet... both the 120 and 75mm guns have put out nice counterfire and at least one subchaser will be lost I guess... good to see the ASW vessels being attacked instead of the transports as the SCs can´t sustain that much damage and they are more important over the course of the campaign then some damaged AKs...
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Amphibious Assault at Tarakan
TF 282 troops unloading over beach at Tarakan, 67,91
Japanese ground losses:
16 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
10 Support troops lost overboard during unload of 15th Nav Gd
17 troops of a SNLF Squad lost overboard during unload of 15th Nav Gd /3
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Submarine attack near Port Kembla at 91,170
Japanese Ships
SS I-168
Allied Ships
xAP Lurline, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage [>:]
Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
xAP Lurline is sighted by SS I-168
SS I-168 launches 2 torpedoes
again a sub attack at a "strange" position... this fast AP came in unescorted (due to it being a fast liner) from the South to Sydney and was not going on any expected route... this of course helped nothing, just as the fast speed of this AP didn´t prevent a hit out of a mega salvo of 2 torps... [8|] the ship carries a US HQ and arrived at Sydney but is in sinking condition... no idea if docking helps anything, can´t disband it as long as there are troops loaded, at least the unit will survive...
high speed APs are as helpless against subs as are slow AKs, can´t see a difference at all and am not sure if it is even taken into account that those ships move quite fast...
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Invasion Support action off Tarakan - Coastal Guns Fire Back!
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft
67 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
DD Tawakaze
DD Yugao
DD Yukaze
xAK Asosan Maru, Shell hits 2, heavy fires
SC Ch 21, Shell hits 5, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Tawakaze firing at Tarakan Coastal Gun Battalion
DD Yugao firing at Tarakan Coastal Gun Battalion
DD Yukaze firing at Tarakan Coastal Gun Battalion
120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging xAK Asosan Maru at 12,000 yards
DD Tawakaze fires to suppress enemy guns at 12,000 yards
SC Ch 21 firing at enemy troops
120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging SC Ch 21 at 2,000 yards
75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging SC Ch 21 at 2,000 yards
DD Tawakaze firing at enemy troops
120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Tawakaze at 3,000 yards
75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Tawakaze at 3,000 yards
DD Yugao firing at enemy troops
120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Yugao at 3,000 yards
75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Yugao at 3,000 yards
DD Yukaze firing at enemy troops
120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Yukaze at 3,000 yards
75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Yukaze at 3,000 yards
guess this makes 2 subchasers sunk... the Dutch CD is doing very well here... many shots fired at the DDs but they were maneuvering hard to prevent being hit... the slower SCs were a nice target though...
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Sub attack near Babeldaob at 96,85
Japanese Ships
xAK Senyo Maru
xAKL Kuramasan Maru
PB Zosen Maru
Allied Ships
SS Porpoise
SS Porpoise launches 2 torpedoes at xAK Senyo Maru
Porpoise diving deep ....
PB Zosen Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
duds again... what else?
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Invasion Support action off Tarakan
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft
2 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
xAK Nojima Maru, Shell hits 1
DD Yugao
DD Tawakaze
120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging xAK Nojima Maru at 12,000 yards
DD Tawakaze fires to suppress enemy guns at 12,000 yards
Tarakan will be lost but at least it´s not a freebee for the enemy...
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Sub attack near San Francisco at 206,92 [8|]
Japanese Ships
SS I-5, hits 2
Allied Ships
xAK Alabaman, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage [8|][8|]
AM Ungava
Allied ground losses:
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
SS I-5 launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Alabaman
AM Ungava fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Ungava attacking submerged sub ....
Escort abandons search for sub
no sense having an escort with our ships, it more or less never prevents the enemy subs from attacking, no matter if we include DDs, corvettes or something else... a mistery meeting with a sub in the middle of the Pacific again... how surprising to meet one... [8|] a hard blow for us, we´ve lost halve of a tank rgt... one hit, the AK sinks immedietely...[:@]
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ASW attack near Emirau Island at 107,117
Japanese Ships
xAK Shinwa Maru
xAK Kogyoku Maru
xAKL Ujigawa Maru
DD Yakaze
Allied Ships
SS Sealion
SS Sealion is sighted by escort
DD Yakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
torps missed... [>:]
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ASW attack near Emirau Island at 107,117
Japanese Ships
xAK Shinwa Maru
xAK Kogyoku Maru
xAKL Ujigawa Maru
DD Yakaze
Allied Ships
SS Sealion
SS Sealion is sighted by escort
DD Yakaze attacking submerged sub ....
Escort abandons search for sub
another attack was driven off immedietely...
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Sub attack near Truk at 112,101
Japanese Ships
TK Nisshin Maru
PB Heimei Maru
PB Kinsyo Maru #2
PB Hozugawa Maru
Allied Ships
SS Plunger
SS Plunger launches 4 torpedoes at TK Nisshin Maru
Plunger diving deep ....
PB Kinsyo Maru #2 fails to find sub and abandons search
PB Hozugawa Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
then we hit a fat TK but no boom... hoorey...
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 26 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet
Rainer wants to make sure I never put up Cap again... nothing left here anyway...
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Morning Air attack on Subic Bay Defenses , at 79,76 (Clark Field)
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 25 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 8
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 27
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 4 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 5 damaged
Allied ground losses:
27 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Aircraft Attacking:
27 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
8 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
4 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet
Also attacking 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion ...
Also attacking 11th PA Infantry Division ...
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Heavy rain
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 27
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 8
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 14 damaged
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 9
Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
13 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 31
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 9 damaged
Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 30
Aircraft Attacking:
31 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Heavy rain
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 3
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 21
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 6 damaged
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 5
Aircraft Attacking:
21 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 21000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Heavy rain
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 10
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 24
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 9 damaged
Runway hits 1
Aircraft Attacking:
24 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 19000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
a total of two bombers reported lost today... what a great result... perhaps we should turn off flak now... op losses aren´t severe for the Japanese at all...
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ASW attack near Brunei at 65,87
Japanese Ships
xAK Eihuku Maru
PB Nako Maru #2
Allied Ships
SS Skipjack, hits 5, heavy damage [&o]
SS Skipjack is sighted by escort
Skipjack bottoming out ....
PB Nako Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Nako Maru #2 attacking submerged sub ....
PB Nako Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
two subs react into Brunei (what a great idea to do that, really!) and one is crippled in shallow water by a single PB that is dropping O N E depth charge at a time... but that´s enough in a base hex to be dangerous... once again, the into base reaction just pisses me off... happens daily...
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Sub attack near Tarakan at 67,91
Japanese Ships
DD Tawakaze
DD Sawakaze
SC Ch 23
xAK Atutasan Maru
DD Yugao
Allied Ships
SS Permit
SS Permit launches 2 torpedoes at DD Tawakaze
Permit bottoming out ....
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Yugao fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Yugao fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
another attack on the Tarakan invasion but while we hit the DD (we seem to do that 80% of the time which seems quite high), the torps fail...
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 40563 troops, 432 guns, 656 vehicles, Assault Value = 1415
Defending force 50793 troops, 767 guns, 637 vehicles, Assault Value = 1711 [:D]
Japanese adjusted assault: 586
Allied adjusted defense: 1393
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 1)
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
2751 casualties reported
Squads: 11 destroyed, 140 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 194 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 27 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 58 (1 destroyed, 57 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
2366 casualties reported
Squads: 13 destroyed, 109 disabled [:(]
Non Combat: 17 destroyed, 181 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 5 disabled
Guns lost 6 (0 destroyed, 6 disabled)
Vehicles lost 108 (18 destroyed, 90 disabled)
Assaulting units:
48th Division
38th Division
65th Brigade
4th Tank Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
3rd Tank Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
14th Army
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
Defending units:
192nd Tank Battalion
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
21st PA Infantry Division
91st PA Infantry Division
31st PA Infantry Division
51st PA Infantry Division
1st PA Constabulary Regiment
194th Tank Battalion
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
31st Infantry Regiment
4th Marine Regiment
14th PS Engineer Regiment
41st PA Infantry Division
1st PA Infantry Division
11th PA Infantry Division
3rd/45th PS Inf Battalion
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
57th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team
Subic Bay Defenses
71st PA Infantry Division
3rd/12th PA Inf Battalion
2nd PA Constabulary Regiment
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
1st PI Base Force
I Philippine Corps
Cavite USN Base Force
II Philippine Corps
USAFFE
Manila USAAF Base Force
Asiatic Fleet
Far East USAAF
1st USMC AA Battalion
PAF Aviation
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
the enemy launched another attack but exactly today all our troops from Manila arrived... the attack is driven off but the losses for us are more severe than for the enemy as he can recover... terrain and forts don´t make up the combat ability of the enemy... all of the supply from Manila was moved out... at least...
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Ground combat at Manila (79,77)
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 7494 troops, 80 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 499
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Assaulting units:
Kimura Det
9th Infantry Regiment
16th Engineer Regiment
20th Infantry Regiment
7th Tank Regiment
Kure 1st SNLF
the enemy bombards the empty town...
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Ground combat at 107,124
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 402 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16
Defending force 5 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1
Japanese adjusted assault: 9
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 9 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), disruption(-), fatigue(-)
supply(-)
Attacker: leaders(-)
Assaulting units:
I/66th Naval Guard Unit
Defending units:
2/1st Ind Coy
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 440 troops, 83 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1550
Defending force 40384 troops, 432 guns, 732 vehicles, Assault Value = 1215
Japanese ground losses:
29 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Assaulting units:
1st PA Constabulary Regiment
194th Tank Battalion
31st PA Infantry Division
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
21st PA Infantry Division
1st PA Infantry Division
31st Infantry Regiment
57th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team
14th PS Engineer Regiment
3rd/12th PA Inf Battalion
3rd/45th PS Inf Battalion
51st PA Infantry Division
192nd Tank Battalion
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
4th Marine Regiment
71st PA Infantry Division
41st PA Infantry Division
11th PA Infantry Division
91st PA Infantry Division
Subic Bay Defenses
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
2nd PA Constabulary Regiment
I Philippine Corps
PAF Aviation
1st PI Base Force
Far East USAAF
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
Asiatic Fleet
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
1st USMC AA Battalion
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
Manila USAAF Base Force
II Philippine Corps
Cavite USN Base Force
USAFFE
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
Defending units:
9th Tank Regiment
38th Division
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
3rd Tank Regiment
4th Tank Regiment
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
48th Division
65th Brigade
2nd Tank Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
14th Army
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
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Ground combat at Tarakan (67,91)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 1086 troops, 30 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 51
Defending force 2534 troops, 9 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 93
Assaulting units:
VII KNIL Battalion
Tarakan Coastal Gun Battalion
Tarakan Base Force
Defending units:
15th Nav Gd /1
I./124th Infantry Bn /2
got two subs crippled (one by a mine and one by a single PC) in base hexes in the last two turns... both subs reacted into the base... great... [&o]
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Sub attack near Kolaka at 67,107
Japanese Ships
xAK Meigen Maru, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage
APD Tade
xAK Shinsei Maru
DD Namikaze
DD Nokaze
Allied Ships
SS O16
Japanese ground losses:
4 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
SS O16 launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Meigen Maru
O16 diving deep ....
DD Namikaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Nokaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Namikaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Namikaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Namikaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
got halve a dozen subs operating in this area (all with working torps) and hopefully I will get some more shots at this troop transport... looks like it is going towards Timor at the moment... the AK sunk right after the hits...
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Pre-Invasion action off Tarakan - Coastal Guns Fire Back!
51 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
DD Tawakaze
DD Yugao
DD Yukaze
SC Ch 23, Shell hits 2, heavy fires
SC Ch 22, Shell hits 5, heavy fires, heavy damage
SC Ch 21, Shell hits 1, on fire
Allied ground losses:
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
DD Tawakaze firing at Tarakan Coastal Gun Battalion
DD Yugao firing at Tarakan Coastal Gun Battalion
DD Yukaze firing at Tarakan Coastal Gun Battalion
SC Ch 23 firing at enemy troops
120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging SC Ch 23 at 2,000 yards
75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging SC Ch 23 at 2,000 yards
SC Ch 22 firing at enemy troops
120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging SC Ch 22 at 2,000 yards
75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging SC Ch 22 at 2,000 yards
SC Ch 21 firing at enemy troops
120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging SC Ch 21 at 2,000 yards
75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging SC Ch 21 at 2,000 yards
DD Yugao firing at enemy troops
120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Yugao at 3,000 yards
75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Yugao at 3,000 yards
DD Yukaze firing at enemy troops
120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Yukaze at 3,000 yards
75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Yukaze at 3,000 yards
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft
seems like Tarakan´s coast defense is the so far best working one the Japanese have engaged yet... both the 120 and 75mm guns have put out nice counterfire and at least one subchaser will be lost I guess... good to see the ASW vessels being attacked instead of the transports as the SCs can´t sustain that much damage and they are more important over the course of the campaign then some damaged AKs...
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Amphibious Assault at Tarakan
TF 282 troops unloading over beach at Tarakan, 67,91
Japanese ground losses:
16 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
10 Support troops lost overboard during unload of 15th Nav Gd
17 troops of a SNLF Squad lost overboard during unload of 15th Nav Gd /3
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Submarine attack near Port Kembla at 91,170
Japanese Ships
SS I-168
Allied Ships
xAP Lurline, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage [>:]
Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
xAP Lurline is sighted by SS I-168
SS I-168 launches 2 torpedoes
again a sub attack at a "strange" position... this fast AP came in unescorted (due to it being a fast liner) from the South to Sydney and was not going on any expected route... this of course helped nothing, just as the fast speed of this AP didn´t prevent a hit out of a mega salvo of 2 torps... [8|] the ship carries a US HQ and arrived at Sydney but is in sinking condition... no idea if docking helps anything, can´t disband it as long as there are troops loaded, at least the unit will survive...
high speed APs are as helpless against subs as are slow AKs, can´t see a difference at all and am not sure if it is even taken into account that those ships move quite fast...
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Invasion Support action off Tarakan - Coastal Guns Fire Back!
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft
67 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
DD Tawakaze
DD Yugao
DD Yukaze
xAK Asosan Maru, Shell hits 2, heavy fires
SC Ch 21, Shell hits 5, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Tawakaze firing at Tarakan Coastal Gun Battalion
DD Yugao firing at Tarakan Coastal Gun Battalion
DD Yukaze firing at Tarakan Coastal Gun Battalion
120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging xAK Asosan Maru at 12,000 yards
DD Tawakaze fires to suppress enemy guns at 12,000 yards
SC Ch 21 firing at enemy troops
120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging SC Ch 21 at 2,000 yards
75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging SC Ch 21 at 2,000 yards
DD Tawakaze firing at enemy troops
120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Tawakaze at 3,000 yards
75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Tawakaze at 3,000 yards
DD Yugao firing at enemy troops
120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Yugao at 3,000 yards
75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Yugao at 3,000 yards
DD Yukaze firing at enemy troops
120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Yukaze at 3,000 yards
75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Yukaze at 3,000 yards
guess this makes 2 subchasers sunk... the Dutch CD is doing very well here... many shots fired at the DDs but they were maneuvering hard to prevent being hit... the slower SCs were a nice target though...
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Sub attack near Babeldaob at 96,85
Japanese Ships
xAK Senyo Maru
xAKL Kuramasan Maru
PB Zosen Maru
Allied Ships
SS Porpoise
SS Porpoise launches 2 torpedoes at xAK Senyo Maru
Porpoise diving deep ....
PB Zosen Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
duds again... what else?
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Invasion Support action off Tarakan
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft
2 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
xAK Nojima Maru, Shell hits 1
DD Yugao
DD Tawakaze
120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging xAK Nojima Maru at 12,000 yards
DD Tawakaze fires to suppress enemy guns at 12,000 yards
Tarakan will be lost but at least it´s not a freebee for the enemy...
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Sub attack near San Francisco at 206,92 [8|]
Japanese Ships
SS I-5, hits 2
Allied Ships
xAK Alabaman, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage [8|][8|]
AM Ungava
Allied ground losses:
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
SS I-5 launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Alabaman
AM Ungava fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Ungava attacking submerged sub ....
Escort abandons search for sub
no sense having an escort with our ships, it more or less never prevents the enemy subs from attacking, no matter if we include DDs, corvettes or something else... a mistery meeting with a sub in the middle of the Pacific again... how surprising to meet one... [8|] a hard blow for us, we´ve lost halve of a tank rgt... one hit, the AK sinks immedietely...[:@]
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ASW attack near Emirau Island at 107,117
Japanese Ships
xAK Shinwa Maru
xAK Kogyoku Maru
xAKL Ujigawa Maru
DD Yakaze
Allied Ships
SS Sealion
SS Sealion is sighted by escort
DD Yakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
torps missed... [>:]
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ASW attack near Emirau Island at 107,117
Japanese Ships
xAK Shinwa Maru
xAK Kogyoku Maru
xAKL Ujigawa Maru
DD Yakaze
Allied Ships
SS Sealion
SS Sealion is sighted by escort
DD Yakaze attacking submerged sub ....
Escort abandons search for sub
another attack was driven off immedietely...
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Sub attack near Truk at 112,101
Japanese Ships
TK Nisshin Maru
PB Heimei Maru
PB Kinsyo Maru #2
PB Hozugawa Maru
Allied Ships
SS Plunger
SS Plunger launches 4 torpedoes at TK Nisshin Maru
Plunger diving deep ....
PB Kinsyo Maru #2 fails to find sub and abandons search
PB Hozugawa Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
then we hit a fat TK but no boom... hoorey...
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 26 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet
Rainer wants to make sure I never put up Cap again... nothing left here anyway...
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Morning Air attack on Subic Bay Defenses , at 79,76 (Clark Field)
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 25 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 8
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 27
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 4 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 5 damaged
Allied ground losses:
27 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Aircraft Attacking:
27 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
8 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
4 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet
Also attacking 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion ...
Also attacking 11th PA Infantry Division ...
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Heavy rain
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 27
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 8
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 14 damaged
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 9
Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
13 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 31
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 9 damaged
Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 30
Aircraft Attacking:
31 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Heavy rain
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 3
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 21
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 6 damaged
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 5
Aircraft Attacking:
21 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 21000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Heavy rain
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 10
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 24
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 9 damaged
Runway hits 1
Aircraft Attacking:
24 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 19000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
a total of two bombers reported lost today... what a great result... perhaps we should turn off flak now... op losses aren´t severe for the Japanese at all...
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ASW attack near Brunei at 65,87
Japanese Ships
xAK Eihuku Maru
PB Nako Maru #2
Allied Ships
SS Skipjack, hits 5, heavy damage [&o]
SS Skipjack is sighted by escort
Skipjack bottoming out ....
PB Nako Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Nako Maru #2 attacking submerged sub ....
PB Nako Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
two subs react into Brunei (what a great idea to do that, really!) and one is crippled in shallow water by a single PB that is dropping O N E depth charge at a time... but that´s enough in a base hex to be dangerous... once again, the into base reaction just pisses me off... happens daily...
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Sub attack near Tarakan at 67,91
Japanese Ships
DD Tawakaze
DD Sawakaze
SC Ch 23
xAK Atutasan Maru
DD Yugao
Allied Ships
SS Permit
SS Permit launches 2 torpedoes at DD Tawakaze
Permit bottoming out ....
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Yugao fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Yugao fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
another attack on the Tarakan invasion but while we hit the DD (we seem to do that 80% of the time which seems quite high), the torps fail...
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 40563 troops, 432 guns, 656 vehicles, Assault Value = 1415
Defending force 50793 troops, 767 guns, 637 vehicles, Assault Value = 1711 [:D]
Japanese adjusted assault: 586
Allied adjusted defense: 1393
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 1)
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
2751 casualties reported
Squads: 11 destroyed, 140 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 194 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 27 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 58 (1 destroyed, 57 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
2366 casualties reported
Squads: 13 destroyed, 109 disabled [:(]
Non Combat: 17 destroyed, 181 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 5 disabled
Guns lost 6 (0 destroyed, 6 disabled)
Vehicles lost 108 (18 destroyed, 90 disabled)
Assaulting units:
48th Division
38th Division
65th Brigade
4th Tank Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
3rd Tank Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
14th Army
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
Defending units:
192nd Tank Battalion
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
21st PA Infantry Division
91st PA Infantry Division
31st PA Infantry Division
51st PA Infantry Division
1st PA Constabulary Regiment
194th Tank Battalion
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
31st Infantry Regiment
4th Marine Regiment
14th PS Engineer Regiment
41st PA Infantry Division
1st PA Infantry Division
11th PA Infantry Division
3rd/45th PS Inf Battalion
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
57th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team
Subic Bay Defenses
71st PA Infantry Division
3rd/12th PA Inf Battalion
2nd PA Constabulary Regiment
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
1st PI Base Force
I Philippine Corps
Cavite USN Base Force
II Philippine Corps
USAFFE
Manila USAAF Base Force
Asiatic Fleet
Far East USAAF
1st USMC AA Battalion
PAF Aviation
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
the enemy launched another attack but exactly today all our troops from Manila arrived... the attack is driven off but the losses for us are more severe than for the enemy as he can recover... terrain and forts don´t make up the combat ability of the enemy... all of the supply from Manila was moved out... at least...
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Ground combat at Manila (79,77)
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 7494 troops, 80 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 499
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Assaulting units:
Kimura Det
9th Infantry Regiment
16th Engineer Regiment
20th Infantry Regiment
7th Tank Regiment
Kure 1st SNLF
the enemy bombards the empty town...
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Ground combat at 107,124
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 402 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16
Defending force 5 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1
Japanese adjusted assault: 9
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 9 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), disruption(-), fatigue(-)
supply(-)
Attacker: leaders(-)
Assaulting units:
I/66th Naval Guard Unit
Defending units:
2/1st Ind Coy
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 440 troops, 83 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1550
Defending force 40384 troops, 432 guns, 732 vehicles, Assault Value = 1215
Japanese ground losses:
29 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Assaulting units:
1st PA Constabulary Regiment
194th Tank Battalion
31st PA Infantry Division
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
21st PA Infantry Division
1st PA Infantry Division
31st Infantry Regiment
57th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team
14th PS Engineer Regiment
3rd/12th PA Inf Battalion
3rd/45th PS Inf Battalion
51st PA Infantry Division
192nd Tank Battalion
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
4th Marine Regiment
71st PA Infantry Division
41st PA Infantry Division
11th PA Infantry Division
91st PA Infantry Division
Subic Bay Defenses
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
2nd PA Constabulary Regiment
I Philippine Corps
PAF Aviation
1st PI Base Force
Far East USAAF
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
Asiatic Fleet
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
1st USMC AA Battalion
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
Manila USAAF Base Force
II Philippine Corps
Cavite USN Base Force
USAFFE
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
Defending units:
9th Tank Regiment
38th Division
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
3rd Tank Regiment
4th Tank Regiment
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
48th Division
65th Brigade
2nd Tank Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
14th Army
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
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Ground combat at Tarakan (67,91)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 1086 troops, 30 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 51
Defending force 2534 troops, 9 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 93
Assaulting units:
VII KNIL Battalion
Tarakan Coastal Gun Battalion
Tarakan Base Force
Defending units:
15th Nav Gd /1
I./124th Infantry Bn /2
got two subs crippled (one by a mine and one by a single PC) in base hexes in the last two turns... both subs reacted into the base... great... [&o]
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A good day for the Allied...
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 11, 42
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Koepang at 68,116, Range 8,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
DD Hokaze
DD Tachikaze, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Nokaze
DD Namikaze, Shell hits 16, heavy fires, heavy damage
APD Tade, Shell hits 13, and is sunk
xAK Jinshu Maru, Shell hits 10, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Shinsei Maru, Shell hits 21, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAKL Kosho Maru, Shell hits 29, and is sunk
Allied Ships
CA Houston
CL Danae
CL Dragon
CL Mauritius
CL Boise
DD John D. Edwards, Shell hits 1
DD Paul Jones
DD Parrott
DD Whipple
DD Stewart
Japanese ground losses:
488 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 9 destroyed, 65 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Maximum visibility in Overcast Conditions and 32% moonlight: 8,000 yards
Range closes to 20,000 yards...
Range closes to 17,000 yards...
Range closes to 14,000 yards...
Range closes to 11,000 yards...
CONTACT: Allies radar detects Japanese task force at 11,000 yards
Range closes to 10,000 yards...
Range closes to 9,000 yards...
Range closes to 8,000 yards...
CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 8,000 yards
Japanese ships attempt to get underway
CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 8,000 yards
CA Houston engages DD Namikaze at 8,000 yards
CL Boise engages DD Namikaze at 8,000 yards
DD Hokaze engages CL Mauritius at 8,000 yards
CL Danae engages DD Hokaze at 8,000 yards
CL Boise engages xAK Shinsei Maru at 8,000 yards
DD Namikaze engages DD Parrott at 8,000 yards
Range closes to 7,000 yards
DD Namikaze engages CL Dragon at 7,000 yards
CL Danae engages APD Tade at 7,000 yards
DD Stewart engages DD Namikaze at 7,000 yards
DD Hokaze engages DD Paul Jones at 7,000 yards
DD Hokaze engages DD John D. Edwards at 7,000 yards
DD Namikaze engages DD Stewart at 7,000 yards
CL Boise engages APD Tade at 7,000 yards
DD Parrott engages DD Tachikaze at 7,000 yards
CL Dragon engages APD Tade at 7,000 yards
CL Danae engages DD Namikaze at 7,000 yards
DD John D. Edwards engages xAK Shinsei Maru at 7,000 yards
DD Paul Jones engages xAK Jinshu Maru at 7,000 yards
CL Dragon engages xAKL Kosho Maru at 7,000 yards
DD John D. Edwards engages DD Tachikaze at 7,000 yards
Range closes to 6,000 yards
DD Namikaze engages DD John D. Edwards at 6,000 yards
CL Boise engages xAKL Kosho Maru at 6,000 yards
CL Mauritius engages DD Namikaze at 6,000 yards
DD Hokaze engages DD Parrott at 6,000 yards
CL Danae engages APD Tade at 6,000 yards
DD Stewart engages DD Namikaze at 6,000 yards
DD Parrott engages xAK Jinshu Maru at 6,000 yards
DD Parrott engages xAKL Kosho Maru at 6,000 yards
Range closes to 4,000 yards
APD Tade sunk by CA Houston at 4,000 yards
DD Nokaze engages DD John D. Edwards at 4,000 yards
CL Mauritius engages xAK Shinsei Maru at 4,000 yards
DD John D. Edwards engages DD Hokaze at 4,000 yards
CL Danae engages DD Namikaze at 4,000 yards
DD Whipple engages DD Hokaze at 4,000 yards
DD Parrott engages DD Namikaze at 4,000 yards
DD John D. Edwards engages DD Namikaze at 4,000 yards
Range closes to 3,000 yards
DD John D. Edwards engages DD Namikaze at 3,000 yards
CL Boise engages DD Tachikaze at 3,000 yards
CL Mauritius engages xAK Jinshu Maru at 3,000 yards
CL Danae engages DD Namikaze at 3,000 yards
DD Stewart engages DD Namikaze at 3,000 yards
DD John D. Edwards engages xAKL Kosho Maru at 3,000 yards
DD John D. Edwards engages DD Nokaze at 3,000 yards
Range closes to 2,000 yards
DD Namikaze engages DD Whipple at 2,000 yards
DD Nokaze engages DD Whipple at 2,000 yards
xAKL Kosho Maru sunk by CL Mauritius at 2,000 yards
CL Dragon engages xAK Shinsei Maru at 2,000 yards
DD John D. Edwards engages xAK Shinsei Maru at 2,000 yards
DD Stewart engages xAK Jinshu Maru at 2,000 yards
DD Parrott engages DD Hokaze at 2,000 yards
DD Hokaze engages DD John D. Edwards at 2,000 yards
DD Namikaze sunk by CA Houston at 2,000 yards
DD John D. Edwards engages DD Tachikaze at 2,000 yards
DD Stewart engages DD Hokaze at 2,000 yards
Japanese Task Force Manages to Escape
Task forces break off...
looks like my Sir Robin lulled my opponent into thinking I wouldn´t do anything offensive like. While it paid off to act offensively at Makassar two days ago it also paid off today. This TF was spotted going towards Timor by both subs and patrol aircraft. The strong escort convinced me of this TF bringing in an important unit, pretty sure this is a support unit to base bombers on Timor. We caught the enemy unloading and while we didn´t whipe out the whole TF tonight, the damaged done was severe. All transports are sunk and the LCU is lost. [&o] Like at Makassar the enemy operates without carrier support and this makes it costly. And it really suprises me that Rainer offers me this chances to hurt him as he really methodically marched forward for the first four weeks of the war. DD Edwards takes one 12cm hit but retires with only minor damage (4 sys and 10 flt). Our TF left the scene during the day as I don´t want to run into a long range Betty strike out of some recently taken jungle base.
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Sub attack near Tarakan at 67,91
Japanese Ships
SC Ch 23
Allied Ships
SS KXIII
SS KXIII launches 2 torpedoes
what a joke, torps failed to detonate... what´s wrong with my subs, compare that to the IJN and every IJN sub is 4 or 5 times more effective than mine...[8|]
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Submarine attack near Broome at 62,123
Japanese Ships
SS I-160
Allied Ships
xAK Clan Alpine, Torpedo hits 1
xAK Clan Alpine is sighted by SS I-160
SS I-160 launches 8 torpedoes at xAK Clan Alpine
yeah great, the usual 8 torp sh*t... one hit but we´re on the lucky end this time, the big AK is only lightly damaged with 20 flt damage...
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ASW attack near Truk at 109,113
Japanese Ships
DD Tatsukaze
Allied Ships
SS Searaven
SS Searaven launches 4 torpedoes at DD Tatsukaze
DD Tatsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tatsukaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Tatsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
got several subs operating near Truk as I´m pretty sure that more or less all shipping inbound for the South and South East Pacific will head into this region... the torps hit but of course failed...
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Submarine attack near Tarakan at 67,91
Japanese Ships
SC Ch 23, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
Allied Ships
SS S-36
SC Ch 23 is sighted by SS S-36
SS S-36 launches 4 torpedoes
an MK10 obliberates an already damaged subchaser though...
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ASW attack near Larantoeka at 68,114
Japanese Ships
DD Nokaze
xAK Jinshu Maru, heavy fires, heavy damage
Allied Ships
SS KXVI
SS KXVI launches 4 torpedoes at DD Nokaze
DD Nokaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Nokaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
and then we miss... [8|] this is the TF that was shot up at Koepang and is now heading North East... this is the second area where I´ve concentrated my subs (nearly all of them with working torps)... heading into the area between Southern Borneo - Sulawesi - Timor will be dangerous for any IJN shipping as a succesful sub attack could lead to serious problems as there´s no bigger port anywhere near for the Japanese... perhaps baby KB will show up after the two recent naval defeats and then our subs could score on a juicy target...
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 26 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 25 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 38
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 27
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 15 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 7 damaged
Allied ground losses:
99 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 17 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Airbase hits 4
Runway hits 46
Aircraft Attacking:
27 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
30 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
8 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
Also attacking Asiatic Fleet ...
Also attacking Clark Field ...
Also attacking Subic Bay Defenses ...
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Morning Air attack on Koepang , at 68,116
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes
Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 10
B-17E Fortress x 3
Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 1 damaged
Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 15
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
am operating the PI B-17s out of Darwin at the moment... the airfield is still a level 4 and therefore too small for the heavy bombers (requirement level5) and we´re attacking with reduced loads. The good news is that we´ll reach the level 5 field within the next two days. Will fly a couple of airfield attacks in the next one or two weeks as this should further delay enemy bombers on Timor...
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Sub attack near Truk at 110,111
Japanese Ships
xAK Venice Maru
DD Tatsukaze
Allied Ships
SS Searaven
SS Searaven launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Venice Maru
DD Tatsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
another failed try, I´m not surprised anymore... PLOINK... [8|]
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ASW attack near Enderbury Island at 159,149
Japanese Ships
SS I-7
Allied Ships
AP Henderson
xAP President Taylor
xAK Admiral Y. Williams
DD Rathburne
SS I-7 is sighted by escort
DD Rathburne fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Rathburne fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
there are two DDs and a corvette in this TF but DD Rathburne is always the only escort that tries to engage the sub... the others aren´t even showing up... what´s wrong?????[:@]
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Sub attack near Truk at 111,110
Japanese Ships
CL Kashima [:@]
xAK Shinwa Maru
xAK Kogyoku Maru
xAKL Ujigawa Maru
DD Yakaze
Allied Ships
SS Sealion
SS Sealion launches 4 torpedoes at CL Kashima
Sealion diving deep ....
DD Yakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
and another HIT... but no explosion... forget the 90% dud rate, in this campaign it´s been at 95%+ so far...
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Ground combat at Manila (79,77)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 13594 troops, 134 guns, 90 vehicles, Assault Value = 500
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese adjusted assault: 413
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 413 to 1 (fort level 2)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Manila !!!
Combat modifiers
Attacker:
Assaulting units:
9th Infantry Regiment
16th Engineer Regiment
20th Infantry Regiment
Kimura Det
7th Tank Regiment
Kure 1st SNLF
the enemy takes the empty Manila... no supplies have been left behind but more than 100.000 fuel... don´t know how it really works in AE but in WITP you never conquered everything that was left behind so perhaps the enemy only got some of our fuel stocks...
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Ground combat at Tarakan (67,91)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 2554 troops, 9 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 98
Defending force 1930 troops, 46 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 51
Japanese adjusted assault: 62
Allied adjusted defense: 19
Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 1)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Tarakan !!!
Allied aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft losses
No Allied losses
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), preparation(-), fatigue(-)
morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
68 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
851 casualties reported
Squads: 10 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 31 destroyed, 19 disabled
Engineers: 6 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 32 (32 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 6 (6 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 2
Units destroyed 1
Assaulting units:
I./124th Infantry Battalion
15th Naval Guard Unit
Defending units:
VII KNIL Battalion
Tarakan Coastal Gun Battalion
Tarakan Base Force
the static CD unit surrendered, the other two units retreated... none of my Dutch bases seem to hold out...
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Ground combat at 107,124
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 402 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16
Defending force 5 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1
Japanese adjusted assault: 15
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 15 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), disruption(-), fatigue(-)
supply(-)
Attacker:
Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units destroyed 1
Assaulting units:
I/66th Naval Guard Unit
Defending units:
2/1st Ind Coy
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 856 troops, 83 guns, 80 vehicles, Assault Value = 1587
Defending force 40650 troops, 432 guns, 734 vehicles, Assault Value = 1228
Japanese ground losses:
46 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 16 (4 destroyed, 12 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
23 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 3 (3 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Assaulting units:
11th PA Infantry Division
71st PA Infantry Division
4th Marine Regiment
31st PA Infantry Division
57th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team
192nd Tank Battalion
91st PA Infantry Division
Subic Bay Defenses
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
3rd/12th PA Inf Battalion
1st PA Infantry Division
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
31st Infantry Regiment
41st PA Infantry Division
51st PA Infantry Division
194th Tank Battalion
3rd/45th PS Inf Battalion
21st PA Infantry Division
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
14th PS Engineer Regiment
1st PA Constabulary Regiment
2nd PA Constabulary Regiment
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
I Philippine Corps
Manila USAAF Base Force
PAF Aviation
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
USAFFE
1st PI Base Force
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
Cavite USN Base Force
Far East USAAF
Provisional GMC Gp
II Philippine Corps
1st USMC AA Battalion
Asiatic Fleet
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
Defending units:
48th Division
9th Tank Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
3rd Tank Regiment
4th Tank Regiment
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
38th Division
65th Brigade
2nd Tank Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
14th Army
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
with the 500 av at Manila the enemy will have parity in av here at Clark Field... wonder if he will move in more...
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 11, 42
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Koepang at 68,116, Range 8,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
DD Hokaze
DD Tachikaze, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Nokaze
DD Namikaze, Shell hits 16, heavy fires, heavy damage
APD Tade, Shell hits 13, and is sunk
xAK Jinshu Maru, Shell hits 10, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Shinsei Maru, Shell hits 21, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAKL Kosho Maru, Shell hits 29, and is sunk
Allied Ships
CA Houston
CL Danae
CL Dragon
CL Mauritius
CL Boise
DD John D. Edwards, Shell hits 1
DD Paul Jones
DD Parrott
DD Whipple
DD Stewart
Japanese ground losses:
488 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 9 destroyed, 65 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Maximum visibility in Overcast Conditions and 32% moonlight: 8,000 yards
Range closes to 20,000 yards...
Range closes to 17,000 yards...
Range closes to 14,000 yards...
Range closes to 11,000 yards...
CONTACT: Allies radar detects Japanese task force at 11,000 yards
Range closes to 10,000 yards...
Range closes to 9,000 yards...
Range closes to 8,000 yards...
CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 8,000 yards
Japanese ships attempt to get underway
CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 8,000 yards
CA Houston engages DD Namikaze at 8,000 yards
CL Boise engages DD Namikaze at 8,000 yards
DD Hokaze engages CL Mauritius at 8,000 yards
CL Danae engages DD Hokaze at 8,000 yards
CL Boise engages xAK Shinsei Maru at 8,000 yards
DD Namikaze engages DD Parrott at 8,000 yards
Range closes to 7,000 yards
DD Namikaze engages CL Dragon at 7,000 yards
CL Danae engages APD Tade at 7,000 yards
DD Stewart engages DD Namikaze at 7,000 yards
DD Hokaze engages DD Paul Jones at 7,000 yards
DD Hokaze engages DD John D. Edwards at 7,000 yards
DD Namikaze engages DD Stewart at 7,000 yards
CL Boise engages APD Tade at 7,000 yards
DD Parrott engages DD Tachikaze at 7,000 yards
CL Dragon engages APD Tade at 7,000 yards
CL Danae engages DD Namikaze at 7,000 yards
DD John D. Edwards engages xAK Shinsei Maru at 7,000 yards
DD Paul Jones engages xAK Jinshu Maru at 7,000 yards
CL Dragon engages xAKL Kosho Maru at 7,000 yards
DD John D. Edwards engages DD Tachikaze at 7,000 yards
Range closes to 6,000 yards
DD Namikaze engages DD John D. Edwards at 6,000 yards
CL Boise engages xAKL Kosho Maru at 6,000 yards
CL Mauritius engages DD Namikaze at 6,000 yards
DD Hokaze engages DD Parrott at 6,000 yards
CL Danae engages APD Tade at 6,000 yards
DD Stewart engages DD Namikaze at 6,000 yards
DD Parrott engages xAK Jinshu Maru at 6,000 yards
DD Parrott engages xAKL Kosho Maru at 6,000 yards
Range closes to 4,000 yards
APD Tade sunk by CA Houston at 4,000 yards
DD Nokaze engages DD John D. Edwards at 4,000 yards
CL Mauritius engages xAK Shinsei Maru at 4,000 yards
DD John D. Edwards engages DD Hokaze at 4,000 yards
CL Danae engages DD Namikaze at 4,000 yards
DD Whipple engages DD Hokaze at 4,000 yards
DD Parrott engages DD Namikaze at 4,000 yards
DD John D. Edwards engages DD Namikaze at 4,000 yards
Range closes to 3,000 yards
DD John D. Edwards engages DD Namikaze at 3,000 yards
CL Boise engages DD Tachikaze at 3,000 yards
CL Mauritius engages xAK Jinshu Maru at 3,000 yards
CL Danae engages DD Namikaze at 3,000 yards
DD Stewart engages DD Namikaze at 3,000 yards
DD John D. Edwards engages xAKL Kosho Maru at 3,000 yards
DD John D. Edwards engages DD Nokaze at 3,000 yards
Range closes to 2,000 yards
DD Namikaze engages DD Whipple at 2,000 yards
DD Nokaze engages DD Whipple at 2,000 yards
xAKL Kosho Maru sunk by CL Mauritius at 2,000 yards
CL Dragon engages xAK Shinsei Maru at 2,000 yards
DD John D. Edwards engages xAK Shinsei Maru at 2,000 yards
DD Stewart engages xAK Jinshu Maru at 2,000 yards
DD Parrott engages DD Hokaze at 2,000 yards
DD Hokaze engages DD John D. Edwards at 2,000 yards
DD Namikaze sunk by CA Houston at 2,000 yards
DD John D. Edwards engages DD Tachikaze at 2,000 yards
DD Stewart engages DD Hokaze at 2,000 yards
Japanese Task Force Manages to Escape
Task forces break off...
looks like my Sir Robin lulled my opponent into thinking I wouldn´t do anything offensive like. While it paid off to act offensively at Makassar two days ago it also paid off today. This TF was spotted going towards Timor by both subs and patrol aircraft. The strong escort convinced me of this TF bringing in an important unit, pretty sure this is a support unit to base bombers on Timor. We caught the enemy unloading and while we didn´t whipe out the whole TF tonight, the damaged done was severe. All transports are sunk and the LCU is lost. [&o] Like at Makassar the enemy operates without carrier support and this makes it costly. And it really suprises me that Rainer offers me this chances to hurt him as he really methodically marched forward for the first four weeks of the war. DD Edwards takes one 12cm hit but retires with only minor damage (4 sys and 10 flt). Our TF left the scene during the day as I don´t want to run into a long range Betty strike out of some recently taken jungle base.
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Sub attack near Tarakan at 67,91
Japanese Ships
SC Ch 23
Allied Ships
SS KXIII
SS KXIII launches 2 torpedoes
what a joke, torps failed to detonate... what´s wrong with my subs, compare that to the IJN and every IJN sub is 4 or 5 times more effective than mine...[8|]
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Submarine attack near Broome at 62,123
Japanese Ships
SS I-160
Allied Ships
xAK Clan Alpine, Torpedo hits 1
xAK Clan Alpine is sighted by SS I-160
SS I-160 launches 8 torpedoes at xAK Clan Alpine
yeah great, the usual 8 torp sh*t... one hit but we´re on the lucky end this time, the big AK is only lightly damaged with 20 flt damage...
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ASW attack near Truk at 109,113
Japanese Ships
DD Tatsukaze
Allied Ships
SS Searaven
SS Searaven launches 4 torpedoes at DD Tatsukaze
DD Tatsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tatsukaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Tatsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
got several subs operating near Truk as I´m pretty sure that more or less all shipping inbound for the South and South East Pacific will head into this region... the torps hit but of course failed...
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Submarine attack near Tarakan at 67,91
Japanese Ships
SC Ch 23, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
Allied Ships
SS S-36
SC Ch 23 is sighted by SS S-36
SS S-36 launches 4 torpedoes
an MK10 obliberates an already damaged subchaser though...
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ASW attack near Larantoeka at 68,114
Japanese Ships
DD Nokaze
xAK Jinshu Maru, heavy fires, heavy damage
Allied Ships
SS KXVI
SS KXVI launches 4 torpedoes at DD Nokaze
DD Nokaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Nokaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
and then we miss... [8|] this is the TF that was shot up at Koepang and is now heading North East... this is the second area where I´ve concentrated my subs (nearly all of them with working torps)... heading into the area between Southern Borneo - Sulawesi - Timor will be dangerous for any IJN shipping as a succesful sub attack could lead to serious problems as there´s no bigger port anywhere near for the Japanese... perhaps baby KB will show up after the two recent naval defeats and then our subs could score on a juicy target...
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 26 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 25 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 38
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 27
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 15 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 7 damaged
Allied ground losses:
99 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 17 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Airbase hits 4
Runway hits 46
Aircraft Attacking:
27 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
30 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
8 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
Also attacking Asiatic Fleet ...
Also attacking Clark Field ...
Also attacking Subic Bay Defenses ...
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Morning Air attack on Koepang , at 68,116
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes
Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 10
B-17E Fortress x 3
Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 1 damaged
Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 15
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
am operating the PI B-17s out of Darwin at the moment... the airfield is still a level 4 and therefore too small for the heavy bombers (requirement level5) and we´re attacking with reduced loads. The good news is that we´ll reach the level 5 field within the next two days. Will fly a couple of airfield attacks in the next one or two weeks as this should further delay enemy bombers on Timor...
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Sub attack near Truk at 110,111
Japanese Ships
xAK Venice Maru
DD Tatsukaze
Allied Ships
SS Searaven
SS Searaven launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Venice Maru
DD Tatsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
another failed try, I´m not surprised anymore... PLOINK... [8|]
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ASW attack near Enderbury Island at 159,149
Japanese Ships
SS I-7
Allied Ships
AP Henderson
xAP President Taylor
xAK Admiral Y. Williams
DD Rathburne
SS I-7 is sighted by escort
DD Rathburne fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Rathburne fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
there are two DDs and a corvette in this TF but DD Rathburne is always the only escort that tries to engage the sub... the others aren´t even showing up... what´s wrong?????[:@]
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Sub attack near Truk at 111,110
Japanese Ships
CL Kashima [:@]
xAK Shinwa Maru
xAK Kogyoku Maru
xAKL Ujigawa Maru
DD Yakaze
Allied Ships
SS Sealion
SS Sealion launches 4 torpedoes at CL Kashima
Sealion diving deep ....
DD Yakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
and another HIT... but no explosion... forget the 90% dud rate, in this campaign it´s been at 95%+ so far...
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Ground combat at Manila (79,77)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 13594 troops, 134 guns, 90 vehicles, Assault Value = 500
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese adjusted assault: 413
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 413 to 1 (fort level 2)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Manila !!!
Combat modifiers
Attacker:
Assaulting units:
9th Infantry Regiment
16th Engineer Regiment
20th Infantry Regiment
Kimura Det
7th Tank Regiment
Kure 1st SNLF
the enemy takes the empty Manila... no supplies have been left behind but more than 100.000 fuel... don´t know how it really works in AE but in WITP you never conquered everything that was left behind so perhaps the enemy only got some of our fuel stocks...
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Ground combat at Tarakan (67,91)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 2554 troops, 9 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 98
Defending force 1930 troops, 46 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 51
Japanese adjusted assault: 62
Allied adjusted defense: 19
Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 1)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Tarakan !!!
Allied aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft losses
No Allied losses
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), preparation(-), fatigue(-)
morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
68 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
851 casualties reported
Squads: 10 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 31 destroyed, 19 disabled
Engineers: 6 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 32 (32 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 6 (6 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 2
Units destroyed 1
Assaulting units:
I./124th Infantry Battalion
15th Naval Guard Unit
Defending units:
VII KNIL Battalion
Tarakan Coastal Gun Battalion
Tarakan Base Force
the static CD unit surrendered, the other two units retreated... none of my Dutch bases seem to hold out...
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Ground combat at 107,124
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 402 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16
Defending force 5 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1
Japanese adjusted assault: 15
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 15 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), disruption(-), fatigue(-)
supply(-)
Attacker:
Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units destroyed 1
Assaulting units:
I/66th Naval Guard Unit
Defending units:
2/1st Ind Coy
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 856 troops, 83 guns, 80 vehicles, Assault Value = 1587
Defending force 40650 troops, 432 guns, 734 vehicles, Assault Value = 1228
Japanese ground losses:
46 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 16 (4 destroyed, 12 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
23 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 3 (3 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Assaulting units:
11th PA Infantry Division
71st PA Infantry Division
4th Marine Regiment
31st PA Infantry Division
57th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team
192nd Tank Battalion
91st PA Infantry Division
Subic Bay Defenses
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
3rd/12th PA Inf Battalion
1st PA Infantry Division
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
31st Infantry Regiment
41st PA Infantry Division
51st PA Infantry Division
194th Tank Battalion
3rd/45th PS Inf Battalion
21st PA Infantry Division
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
14th PS Engineer Regiment
1st PA Constabulary Regiment
2nd PA Constabulary Regiment
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
I Philippine Corps
Manila USAAF Base Force
PAF Aviation
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
USAFFE
1st PI Base Force
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
Cavite USN Base Force
Far East USAAF
Provisional GMC Gp
II Philippine Corps
1st USMC AA Battalion
Asiatic Fleet
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
Defending units:
48th Division
9th Tank Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
3rd Tank Regiment
4th Tank Regiment
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
38th Division
65th Brigade
2nd Tank Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
14th Army
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
with the 500 av at Manila the enemy will have parity in av here at Clark Field... wonder if he will move in more...