AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk

ORIGINAL: castor troy

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR May 10, 42
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not one heavy bomber was lost today, but we lost two PBYs again... still losing more PBYs than I get as replacements and other players are reporting the same... PBY loss rate is ridicoulos and can´t be sustained at the given replacement rate... but hey, who cares...

It's way too much micromanagement to keep your PBYs squadrons full but I never fly them when it rains and keep a 8 hex max until they're in their 70s. Look on the bright side, they weren't spotting anything anyway. [;)]

yeah, they crash AND don´t spot anything... [:D] it´s just depressing though to lose more than what you get as replacement though...

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR May 12, 42
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ASW attack near Moppo at 100,52

Japanese Ships
xAK Sakido Maru
xAK Boston Maru
xAK Mansyu Maru
xAK Hague Maru
PB Ryusei Maru

Allied Ships
SS Sturgeon


SS Sturgeon is sighted by escort
Sturgeon bottoming out ....
PB Ryusei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Ryusei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Ryusei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Ryusei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Ryusei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

yet again, a crappy IJN PB is enough to drive the sub off while one and a halve dozen US DDs usually can´t protect my TFs... a pity... things will change over time...

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Amphibious Assault at Nias

TF 26 troops unloading over beach at Nias, 42,79

Japanese ground losses:
73 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 3 (0 destroyed, 3 disabled)


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ASW attack near San Francisco at 213,70

Japanese Ships
SS I-3

Allied Ships
DD Conyngham
DD Case



SS I-3 is located by DD Conyngham
I-3 diving deep ....
DD Conyngham fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Case fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Case fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Case fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Case fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Case attacking submerged sub ....
Escort abandons search for sub

the IJN can keep their subs close to my major ports succesfully attacking my shipping and my ASW TFs are nothing more than a nuissance... that´s true for the IJN ASW TFs and my subs too though...

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Morning Air attack on Wenchow , at 89,58

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 19



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-Ic Sally: 1 damaged



Runway hits 19

Aircraft Attacking:
19 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 20 [X(]



Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 12
B-17E Fortress x 45


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 2 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
29 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Airbase hits 23
Airbase supply hits 6
Runway hits 118 [:D]

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
10 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
4 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
4 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
10 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (3 airborne, 6 on standby, 11 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 8000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 10000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes

I first was shocked to see 20 Zeroes on Cap but it soon turned out that they don´t have a chance against the B-17E and most were driven off with a couple of them being shot down... the base was plastered... the better the crews become the more frightening (for the Japanese) become the heavy bombers...

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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 15



Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 6


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 4 damaged



Runway hits 3

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 11 scrambling)
4 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 8000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 10000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes

but then of course we suffer from the non coordination all the time and even though lots of Zeroes were damaged during the main strike, 15 again attacked the stupid piece meal strike, taking down 3 B-17D... mmmmmm [8|] strike packs...

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Morning Air attack on 24th Infantry Regiment, at 76,137 (Tennant Creek)

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 31 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 12
B-26 Marauder x 6


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
64 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)



Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on 24th Infantry Regiment, at 76,137 (Tennant Creek)

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-26 Marauder x 21


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
89 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)



Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
9 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

Tennant Creek will soon become very uncomfortable for Japanese ground troops...

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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 24 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 12



Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 6


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 3 damaged



Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 10

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 11 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 8000 , scrambling fighters to 6000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes

more of the piece meal strikes... just hate it...

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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 4



Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 6


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged



Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 10

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 3 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 8000 , scrambling fighters to 6000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes

Training flight from 3rd Ku S-1 has been caught up in attack

and some more to be pissed off... coordination? pff...

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Morning Air attack on 24th Infantry Regiment, at 76,137 (Tennant Creek)

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-26 Marauder x 9


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
23 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

we also attack the same ground unit with several strikes instead of meeting up... must have been hard to combine 40 bombers?



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Sub attack near Nagasaki/Sasebo at 101,59

Japanese Ships
TK Syoyo Maru
DD Yukaze

Allied Ships
SS Seadragon, hits 1



SS Seadragon launches 4 torpedoes at TK Syoyo Maru
DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Yukaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Yukaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

we hit a fat TK with duds and the sub takes a near miss in return...

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Ground combat at 53,105

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 1025 troops, 4 guns, 42 vehicles, Assault Value = 38

Defending force 170 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 8

Allied adjusted defense: 3

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker: leaders(-)


Allied ground losses:
18 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Assaulting units:
56th Recon Regiment

Defending units:
Semarang Base Force


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Ground combat at Akyab (54,45)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 1294 troops, 12 guns, 185 vehicles, Assault Value = 2383

Defending force 46429 troops, 729 guns, 810 vehicles, Assault Value = 1324

Japanese adjusted assault: 3

Allied adjusted defense: 2479

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 826 (fort level 3)

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
Vehicles lost 177 (37 destroyed, 140 disabled) [:D]


Allied ground losses:
24 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Assaulting units:
Imperial Guards Division
48th Division
38th Division
9th Division
9th Tank Regiment
11th Tank Regiment
21st Ind.Mixed Brigade
5th Guards Division
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
35th Field AA Battalion
27th JAAF AF Bn

Defending units:
Railway BAF Battalion
1st Gloucestershire Battalion
20th Indian Division
3rd Carabiniers Regiment
BFF Brigade
7th Armoured Brigade
44th Indian Brigade
1st Burma Division
Rangoon BAF Battalion
45th Indian Brigade
1st Indian Coastal Artillery Regiment
26th Indian Brigade
4th NW Frontier Base Force
102nd RAF Base Force
95th Heavy AA Regiment
101st RAF Base Force
103rd RN Base Force
107th RAF Base Force
21st Light AA Regiment
RAF 223 Group Wing
108th RAF Base Force
103rd RAF Base Force
100th RAF Base Force
24th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
RAF 221 Group Base Force
1st Bengal Construction Battalion
23rd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
223 Group RAF
6th Medium Regiment
20th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
106th RAF Base Force
1st Burma Auxiliary AA Regiment
1st South India Base Force
1st Bombay Construction Battalion
25th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
Burma Corps
104th RAF Base Force
1st Madras Construction Battalion
Pathan Construction Battalion


first I didn´t know what Rainer was up to with this attack until I realized that this was a TK unit crossing the river into Akyab... the unit shock attacked and was shred to pieces...

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR May 13, 42
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Submarine attack near Eureka at 215,68

Japanese Ships
SS I-3

Allied Ships
xAK Tarifa



xAK Tarifa is sighted by SS I-3
SS I-3 launches 2 torpedoes at xAK Tarifa

IJN sub missed... more attacks just off my heavily guarded bases...

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Morning Air attack on Meiktila , at 58,47

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 24 NM, estimated altitude 43,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 2



Allied aircraft
P-38E Lightning x 26


No Japanese losses

No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
26 x P-38E Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet

CAP engaged:
24th Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 38000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes

can´t there be some more leaking Cap please? We damaged one Oscar and the other one turned back, none was shot down and we lose a precious P-38 ops...

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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 5



Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 13
B-17E Fortress x 40


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 4 damaged
A6M2 Zero: 4 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 1 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 3 damaged



Airbase hits 8
Runway hits 46

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
11 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
4 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
2 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
10 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
4 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
5 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead

Thunderstorms over Lae but the hit rate is good enough to torch some fighters on the ground... resistance in the air was pathetic...

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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1



Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 13


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged



Airbase hits 4
Runway hits 16

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead

with only one remaining Zero on Cap we can afford the uncoordinated strikes...

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Afternoon Air attack on 2nd Engineer Regiment, at 76,137 (Tennant Creek)

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1



Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 9
B-26 Marauder x 9


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-26 Marauder: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
62 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)



Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
9 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
3rd Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead

Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Engineer Regiment ...
Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Engineer Regiment ...
Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...

but there´s now Cap over Tennant Creek... level 1 airfield and no airfield symbol at the base so i guess this is LRCAP from 6 hexes further North... hmmm, Daily Waters is only a level 1 airfield too... two precious Marauders are lost to the single Zero... not good...

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Afternoon Air attack on 2nd Engineer Regiment, at 76,137 (Tennant Creek)

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1



Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 9
B-26 Marauder x 18


No Japanese losses

No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
86 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled



Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
9 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
9 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
3rd Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead

Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Engineer Regiment ...
Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Engineer Regiment ...
Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...



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ASW attack near Prome at 52,50

Japanese Ships
DD Suzukaze

Allied Ships
SS KIX



SS KIX is sighted by escort
KIX diving deep ....
DD Suzukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Suzukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Suzukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Suzukaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Suzukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

single IJN raider going to Akyab?

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Submarine attack near Eureka at 215,68

Japanese Ships
SS I-3

Allied Ships
xAK Tarifa, Shell hits 2, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage



xAK Tarifa is sighted by SS I-3
SS I-3 attacking xAK Tarifa on the surface

if an IJN sub doesn´t get a kill with the first attack, it just attacks again... [8|]

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Amphibious Assault at Loewoek

TF 350 troops unloading over beach at Loewoek, 71,101

Japanese ground losses:
65 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 8 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



17 troops of a SNLF Squad lost overboard during unload of 1st Sasebo SNLF Coy
17 troops of a SNLF Squad lost in surf during unload of 1st Sasebo SNLF Coy


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Ground combat at Akyab (54,45)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 311 troops, 12 guns, 40 vehicles, Assault Value = 2359

Defending force 46701 troops, 731 guns, 813 vehicles, Assault Value = 1333

Japanese ground losses:
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
51 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)


Assaulting units:
Imperial Guards Division
9th Division
48th Division
21st Ind.Mixed Brigade
9th Tank Regiment
38th Division
11th Tank Regiment
5th Guards Division
35th Field AA Battalion
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
27th JAAF AF Bn

Defending units:
44th Indian Brigade
Rangoon BAF Battalion
1st Indian Coastal Artillery Regiment
20th Indian Division
Railway BAF Battalion
BFF Brigade
1st Gloucestershire Battalion
7th Armoured Brigade
3rd Carabiniers Regiment
45th Indian Brigade
1st Burma Division
26th Indian Brigade
20th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
104th RAF Base Force
1st South India Base Force
Burma Corps
RAF 221 Group Base Force
4th NW Frontier Base Force
6th Medium Regiment
RAF 223 Group Wing
95th Heavy AA Regiment
1st Bengal Construction Battalion
223 Group RAF
103rd RAF Base Force
100th RAF Base Force
24th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
1st Burma Auxiliary AA Regiment
21st Light AA Regiment
25th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
107th RAF Base Force
101st RAF Base Force
1st Madras Construction Battalion
108th RAF Base Force
1st Bombay Construction Battalion
102nd RAF Base Force
23rd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
103rd RN Base Force
106th RAF Base Force
Pathan Construction Battalion


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Ground combat at 53,105

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 1025 troops, 4 guns, 42 vehicles, Assault Value = 38

Defending force 157 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 19

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 19 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), fatigue(-), morale(-), supply(-)
Attacker: leaders(-)


Allied ground losses:
379 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 21 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 9 (9 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 1


Assaulting units:
56th Recon Regiment

Defending units:
Semarang Base Force


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Ground combat at 45,80

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3632 troops, 26 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 127

Defending force 440 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 14

Japanese adjusted assault: 58

Allied adjusted defense: 4

Japanese assault odds: 14 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker: leaders(+), leaders(-)


Allied ground losses:
65 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Assaulting units:
41st Infantry Regiment

Defending units:
Tapanoeli Gsn Battalion


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Ground combat at Nias (42,79)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 344 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 9

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

Japanese adjusted assault: 5

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Nias !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(-)



Assaulting units:
III/81st Naval Guard Unit

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR May 14, 42
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Submarine attack near Karachi at 37,6

Japanese Ships
SS I-166

Allied Ships
xAK Hermion, Shell hits 2, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage



xAK Hermion is sighted by SS I-166
SS I-166 attacking on the surface

I first wanted to have a hr about no subs within 5 hexes of the off map entries but it was dropped as we thought TFs would not enter the map at the same spot all the time... well, didn´t take long for Rainer and me that TFs DO enter the map at the same spot all the time if they are heading to the same destination. Means he can place his sub right at this hex waiting for my convoys going to Karachi... mmm, have to reroute...

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ASW attack near Sydney at 91,169

Japanese Ships
SS I-19, hits 7

Allied Ships
DD Jupiter
DD Panther



SS I-19 is located by DD Jupiter
DD Panther fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Jupiter fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Panther attacking submerged sub ....
DD Panther fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Panther attacking submerged sub ....
DD Panther is out of ASW ammo
DD Panther is out of ASW ammo
DD Panther fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Panther fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

one hit and six near misses, the British prove to be the only competent in ASW... Panther run out of depth charges, this is just yet another example about the ammo loadouts of ships in AE being "critical"...

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Submarine attack near San Clemente Island at 223,81

Japanese Ships
SS I-25

Allied Ships
AE Shasta, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage



AE Shasta is sighted by SS I-25
SS I-25 launches 6 torpedoes

more attacks close to my WC bases and the off map entry when heading from the Panama Canal to the WC... [8|] had to scuttle the AE...

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ASW attack near Toyohara at 125,48

Japanese Ships
xAK Senko Maru
PB Yamabato Maru

Allied Ships
SS Halibut



SS Halibut is sighted by escort
Halibut diving deep ....
PB Yamabato Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Yamabato Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Yamabato Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Yamabato Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Yamabato Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

single IJN escort stay enough of a threat to make most of my subs useless...

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ASW attack near Phuket at 48,68

Japanese Ships
TB Kari
xAK Ryoyo Maru
xAK Nissen Maru
xAK Jusan Maru
xAKL Junpo Maru
xAKL Hachirogata Maru
xAKL Shingetsu Maru
xAKL Miyako Maru
xAKL Hidaka Maru
xAKL Kaisyo Maru
xAKL Kasui Maru
xAKL Kashi Maru
DD Tawakaze

Allied Ships
SS Argonaut



SS Argonaut is sighted by escort
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

huge escort and only a handful of escorts but we don´t get a shot...

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Morning Air attack on Wenchow , at 89,58

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 19



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-Ic Sally: 1 damaged



Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 12

Aircraft Attacking:
19 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on 24th Infantry Regiment, at 76,137 (Tennant Creek)

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 45 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 2



Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 24
B-26 Marauder x 18


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
207 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 3 (0 destroyed, 3 disabled)



Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
3rd Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead

Also attacking 2nd Recon Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Engineer Regiment ...
Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Recon Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Engineer Regiment ...
Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Recon Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Engineer Regiment ...

we hit the enemy ground troops hard and also take a Zero down... nevertheless, I´m not happy seeing Cap here...

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Morning Air attack on 24th Infantry Regiment, at 76,137 (Tennant Creek)

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1



Allied aircraft
B-26 Marauder x 9


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-26 Marauder: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
33 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)



Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
3rd Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead

especially when we can count on our attacks being split up...

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Morning Air attack on 24th Infantry Regiment, at 76,137 (Tennant Creek)

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-26 Marauder x 8


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
94 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Aircraft Attacking:
8 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Ground combat at Akyab (54,45)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 67900 troops, 699 guns, 247 vehicles, Assault Value = 2386

Defending force 46947 troops, 730 guns, 814 vehicles, Assault Value = 1345

Japanese adjusted assault: 596

Allied adjusted defense: 1683

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 3)

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), experience(-)
Attacker: disruption(-)

Japanese ground losses:
3376 casualties reported
Squads: 8 destroyed, 205 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 260 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 31 disabled
Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 19 (1 destroyed, 18 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
1981 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 116 disabled
Non Combat: 22 destroyed, 299 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 31 disabled
Guns lost 5 (0 destroyed, 5 disabled)
Vehicles lost 61 (7 destroyed, 54 disabled)


Assaulting units:
9th Division
48th Division
21st Ind.Mixed Brigade
38th Division
9th Tank Regiment
Imperial Guards Division
11th Tank Regiment
5th Guards Division
35th Field AA Battalion
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
27th JAAF AF Bn

Defending units:
Railway BAF Battalion
20th Indian Division
BFF Brigade
45th Indian Brigade
1st Indian Coastal Artillery Regiment
1st Burma Division
44th Indian Brigade
1st Gloucestershire Battalion
3rd Carabiniers Regiment
Rangoon BAF Battalion
7th Armoured Brigade
26th Indian Brigade
21st Light AA Regiment
4th NW Frontier Base Force
20th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
102nd RAF Base Force
RAF 221 Group Base Force
25th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
104th RAF Base Force
108th RAF Base Force
1st Bombay Construction Battalion
1st Bengal Construction Battalion
103rd RN Base Force
1st South India Base Force
Burma Corps
24th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
1st Madras Construction Battalion
107th RAF Base Force
95th Heavy AA Regiment
103rd RAF Base Force
1st Burma Auxiliary AA Regiment
RAF 223 Group Wing
6th Medium Regiment
223 Group RAF
106th RAF Base Force
23rd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
101st RAF Base Force
100th RAF Base Force
Pathan Construction Battalion


I´m amazed that Rainer keeps attacking here, shouldn´t he have noticed already that he won´t be able to take the base with the troops he has there? I´ve decided to move all those small btn sized units out as they are usually get killed off during such attacks... we again suffered more squads destroyed than the enemy...

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Ground combat at 45,80

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3632 troops, 26 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 127

Defending force 392 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 8

Japanese adjusted assault: 14

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 14 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), leaders(-), experience(-)
supply(-)
Attacker: leaders(-), fatigue(-)


Allied ground losses:
93 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Assaulting units:
41st Infantry Regiment

Defending units:
Tapanoeli Gsn Battalion


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Ground combat at Loewoek (71,101)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 306 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 8

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

Japanese adjusted assault: 5

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Loewoek !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(-)



Assaulting units:
1st Sasebo SNLF Coy /1

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR May 15, 42
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ASW attack near Wakkanai at 121,47

Japanese Ships
xAK Hankow Maru
PB Yamabato Maru

Allied Ships
SS Porpoise



SS Porpoise is sighted by escort
Porpoise diving deep ....
PB Yamabato Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Yamabato Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Yamabato Maru attacking submerged sub ....
PB Yamabato Maru cannot reach attack position over SS Porpoise
PB Yamabato Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Yamabato Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

single escort was again enough...

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Morning Air attack on Wenchow , at 89,58

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 19



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-Ic Sally: 1 damaged



Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 27

Aircraft Attacking:
19 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on 2nd Recon Regiment, at 76,137 (Tennant Creek)

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 4



Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 15
B-26 Marauder x 18


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 1 damaged
B-26 Marauder: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
141 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 3 (0 destroyed, 3 disabled)



Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
2 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
11 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
Tainan Ku S-1 Det A with A6M2 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead
3rd Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead

Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Engineer Regiment ...
Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Recon Regiment ...
Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Recon Regiment ...

the four Zeroes hit us hard today, haven´t figured out where they are coming from as I don´t get an airfield symbol at Tennant Creek nor at Daily Waters which is the base North... hmm... [&:]

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Morning Air attack on 2nd Recon Regiment, at 76,137 (Tennant Creek)

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1



Allied aircraft
B-26 Marauder x 9


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-26 Marauder: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
31 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 3 (0 destroyed, 3 disabled)



Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
3rd Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead



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Morning Air attack on 2nd Engineer Regiment, at 76,137 (Tennant Creek)

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 9


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
50 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled



Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on 2nd Engineer Regiment, at 76,137 (Tennant Creek)

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-26 Marauder x 9


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
32 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled



Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

our bombers would do good damage but with the dispersed strikes and the small but very effective (against medium bombers) Zero Cap we just have to stop those attacks... losing 4 Marauders in one day is a disaster with the given replacement rates... the funny thing is that I noticed that you get something like three times more heavy bombers than you get medium bombers. From mid 43 to mid 44 there are only some Mitchells trickling in and that´s it. Is this really correct that there weren´t more than a dozen US medium bombers delivered to the Pacific per month for over a year in the middle of the war? This forces me to more or less only use heavy bombers... [&:] We start getting a hell a lot of Navy bombers in late 42 but the funny thing here is that there are no squadrons (not on the map and not coming as reinforcements) to put them in... Not just the Navy Liberators but also a lot of Venturas which I will probably never use as I get too many Liberators for the couple of squadrons anyway... Sounds strange...



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Sub attack near Donggala at 68,97

Japanese Ships
PB Choyo Maru #2
TK Tennan Maru
TK Nissho Maru
PB Chitose Maru

Allied Ships
SS Snapper



SS Snapper launches 4 torpedoes at PB Choyo Maru #2
Snapper diving deep ....
PB Chitose Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Chitose Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Chitose Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Chitose Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Chitose Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

of course we target an escort (which is happening FAR too often in AE)... doesn´t matter as we only fire duds though...

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Ground combat at 45,80

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3632 troops, 26 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 127

Defending force 295 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3

Japanese adjusted assault: 53

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 53 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker: leaders(-)

Japanese ground losses:
18 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
586 casualties reported
Squads: 19 destroyed, 19 disabled
Non Combat: 18 destroyed, 18 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 11 (7 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Units destroyed 1


Assaulting units:
41st Infantry Regiment

Defending units:
Tapanoeli Gsn Battalion

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR May 16, 42
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Amphibious Assault at Sarmi

TF 318 troops unloading over beach at Sarmi, 91,114

Japanese ground losses:
40 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)

Rainer really takes some effort to take every empty base and dot on the map...

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ASW attack near Port Hedland at 57,129

Japanese Ships
PB Myoken Maru

Allied Ships
SS S-47



SS S-47 is sighted by escort
PB Myoken Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Myoken Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Myoken Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

single escort, no chance for us... I´m amazed that Rainer picks up resources from here (NW Australia) as I thought there would be more than enough resources near Japan that it wouldn´t be worth it taking them from this place to Japan...

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Morning Air attack on Magwe , at 57,47

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 30 NM, estimated altitude 41,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 7 [:(]
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 40 [:(]



Allied aircraft
P-38E Lightning x 26


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-38E Lightning: 2 destroyed



CAP engaged:
24th Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 32 scrambling)
6 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 38000 , scrambling fighters between 38000 and 38500.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 17 minutes
260th Sentai with Ki-43-Ib Oscar (0 airborne, 5 on standby, 0 scrambling)
5 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 38000 , scrambling fighters to 38500.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes

now that was a disaster again... due to the fact that there was never real leaking Cap out of this hex (reported 140 fighters here) I thought there would be very few on Cap and so I decided to send in the Lightnings directly... oh well, the disaster starts right away after a couple of seconds when the Oscars BOUNCE the Lightnings that are coming in higher... not surprisingly we got our head handed then and we achieve what most people achieve with the Lightnings, a 1:1 against IJAAF fighters... great... with more than 100 Tojos coming online soon, we are totally on the losing end and I guess we´ll have to be lucky to get a total 1:1 in air losses until mid 43. [8|] The Tojo is nearly 380 mph fast, can reach nearly 37.000ft in no time, got a strong armament, a service rating of 1 and a better range than 95% of my fighters on the map and of course a far higher man rating at every altitude than my fighters, overall I would call the Tojo absolutely superior to anything I can field, except the Lightning which could be rated as equal at best. Will be fun, really... I guess it won´t be a problem for Rainer to further increase IJAAF fighter production to 200+ per month (Tojo and Oscars), I guess I won´t see Oscars much longer when the Tojo goes online as it´s clearly superior... when looking at the stats then I expect the Tojo to take out my Warhawks at a 4:1 rate on average... yeepie...

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Morning Air attack on Wenchow , at 89,58

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 19



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-Ic Sally: 1 damaged


Allied ground losses:
4 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled


Runway hits 14

Aircraft Attacking:
19 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on 98th Chinese Corps, at 85,44

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 24 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 19
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 14



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-Ic Sally: 1 damaged


Allied ground losses:
17 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
19 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 80th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 98th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 80th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 98th Chinese Corps ...


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Afternoon Air attack on Tennant Creek , at 76,137

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 4



Allied aircraft
Beaufighter Ic x 11


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 3 destroyed




Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Beaufighter Ic sweeping at 20000 feet

CAP engaged:
Tainan Ku S-1 Det A with A6M2 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes
3rd Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes

we´ve ordered a sweep of some Beaufighters and due to the fact that we got the bounce, the Zeroes were shredded... the bounce is giving you an insane advantage, the Zeroes were shot down at 4:0. Later turns will show you the opposite as Rainer immedietely set his Zeroes to max alt as a result of this engagement. AE air combat stays what it always has been, the one who gets higher wins... Sputnik warfare in the Pacific... off... you could quote Bergerud a couple of dozen times for example at which altitude aerial warfare happened and at which altitude the Japanese fighters got good performance but it doesn´t change the model anyway... it´s just off... this combat model seems to model zoom and boom, but not Allied zoom and boom but Japanese... at least that´s what the given stats and/or model is producing...



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Submarine attack near Port Hedland at 57,129

Japanese Ships
PB Myoken Maru
xAK Sinsei Maru
xAK Shinryu Maru

Allied Ships
SS S-47, hits 7, heavy damage



SS S-47 is sighted by escort
PB Myoken Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Myoken Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Myoken Maru attacking submerged sub ....
SS S-47 forced to surface!
xAK Sinsei Maru firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK Shinryu Maru firing on surfaced sub ....
PB Myoken Maru firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK Sinsei Maru firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK Shinryu Maru firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK Sinsei Maru firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK Shinryu Maru firing on surfaced sub ....
PB Myoken Maru firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK Sinsei Maru firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK Shinryu Maru firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK Sinsei Maru firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK Shinryu Maru firing on surfaced sub ....
PB Myoken Maru firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK Sinsei Maru firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK Shinryu Maru firing on surfaced sub ....
PB Myoken Maru firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK Sinsei Maru firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK Shinryu Maru firing on surfaced sub ....
Sub slips beneath the waves

the day gets even better, the single escort depth charges our sub to death... nice performance for yet another single escort... the sub isn´t sunk though and tries to move to Perth with 80+ flt damage... seriously doubt that S-47 will make it though...

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Ground combat at Akyab (54,45)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 327 troops, 12 guns, 40 vehicles, Assault Value = 2226

Defending force 45680 troops, 731 guns, 824 vehicles, Assault Value = 1265

Japanese ground losses:
Guns lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 5 (0 destroyed, 5 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
58 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 5 (4 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Assaulting units:
38th Division
11th Tank Regiment
21st Ind.Mixed Brigade
9th Division
48th Division
Imperial Guards Division
9th Tank Regiment
5th Guards Division
35th Field AA Battalion
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
27th JAAF AF Bn

Defending units:
1st Gloucestershire Battalion
1st Indian Coastal Artillery Regiment
7th Armoured Brigade
Railway BAF Battalion
BFF Brigade
44th Indian Brigade
3rd Carabiniers Regiment
20th Indian Division
1st Burma Division
45th Indian Brigade
Rangoon BAF Battalion
26th Indian Brigade
RAF 221 Group Base Force
1st Burma Auxiliary AA Regiment
1st Bombay Construction Battalion
Burma Corps
101st RAF Base Force
1st Madras Construction Battalion
103rd RN Base Force
RAF 223 Group Wing
103rd RAF Base Force
20th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
24th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
100th RAF Base Force
4th NW Frontier Base Force
21st Light AA Regiment
1st South India Base Force
25th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
104th RAF Base Force
108th RAF Base Force
1st Bengal Construction Battalion
107th RAF Base Force
6th Medium Regiment
223 Group RAF
102nd RAF Base Force
95th Heavy AA Regiment
23rd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
106th RAF Base Force
Pathan Construction Battalion

[castor troy]

If you compare the Tojo to the Allied fighter that will mostly equip my frontline squadrons until early 43 then you won´t be surprised about surely happening depressing engagements (for the Allied)... I can already see the Tojos shredding my Cap when doing Sputnik sweeps... Japanese fighters start the war absolutely superior to Allied fighters and stay superior until mid 43 when you can field more than just a couple of P-47 or Corsairs...

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR May 17, 42
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Sub attack near Toyohara at 124,48

Japanese Ships
xAKL Nitiyu Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
PB Taikei Maru

Allied Ships
SS Silversides



SS Silversides launches 6 torpedoes at xAKL Nitiyu Maru
PB Taikei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Taikei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Taikei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Taikei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Taikei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

we finally kill a small freighter... small morale boost...

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ASW attack near Sydney at 91,169

Japanese Ships
SS I-173

Allied Ships
DD Shaw
DD Perkins
DD Cushing



SS I-173 is located by DD Shaw
I-173 diving deep ....
DD Perkins fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Cushing fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Perkins fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Perkins attacking submerged sub ....
DD Perkins fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Perkins fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Perkins fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

five ASW TFs are operating between Brisbane and Sydney... at least two IJN subs are in the area but they are pretty much save...

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Chittagong at 55,41, Range 2,000 Yards [8|]

Japanese Ships
BB Kongo
BB Haruna
DD Asashio
DD Oshio
DD Michishio
DD Arashio
DD Natsugumo

Allied Ships
xAKL Lee Sang, Shell hits 6, and is sunk
xAKL Nam Yong, Shell hits 15, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAKL Jalatarang, Shell hits 1, and is sunk



Low visibility due to Thunderstorms with 7% moonlight
Maximum visibility in Thunderstorms and 7% moonlight: 2,000 yards
Range closes to 9,000 yards...
Range closes to 8,000 yards...
Range closes to 7,000 yards...
Range closes to 6,000 yards...
Range closes to 5,000 yards...
Range closes to 4,000 yards...
Range closes to 3,000 yards...
Range closes to 2,000 yards...
CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 2,000 yards
Japanese open fire on surprised Allied ships at 2,000 yards
xAKL Jalatarang sunk by BB Kongo at 2,000 yards
xAKL Lee Sang sunk by BB Haruna at 2,000 yards
BB Haruna engages xAKL Nam Yong at 2,000 yards
DD Oshio engages xAKL Nam Yong at 2,000 yards
DD Asashio engages xAKL Nam Yong at 2,000 yards
BB Haruna engages xAKL Nam Yong at 2,000 yards
DD Asashio engages xAKL Nam Yong at 2,000 yards
DD Arashio engages xAKL Nam Yong at 2,000 yards
Allied Task Force Manages to Escape
Task forces break off...

ah come on... my mega stupid naval search never spots those big TFs coming in, nor are my dozen subs in the area worth anything... three xAKLs moved in the same night and are shot to pieces of course... needless to say that this is a naval bombardment coming in...

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ASW attack near Wakkanai at 121,48

Japanese Ships
SC CHa-13
SC CHa-25

Allied Ships
SS Porpoise



SS Porpoise is located by SC CHa-13
Porpoise diving deep ....
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-25 attacking submerged sub ....
SC CHa-25 is out of ASW ammo
SC CHa-25 is out of ASW ammo
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Sub attack near Toyohara at 125,47

Japanese Ships
xAKL Hukko Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
PB Taikei Maru

Allied Ships
SS Growler



SS Growler launches 4 torpedoes at xAKL Hukko Maru
Growler diving deep ....
PB Taikei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Taikei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Taikei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Taikei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Taikei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

another small freighter sunk... two in one night, means we won´t kill anything for the next two weeks... [:D]

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Naval bombardment of Chittagong at 55,41 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed on ground
P-38E Lightning: 1 destroyed on ground
Hurricane IIb Trop: 1 destroyed on ground
P-400 Airacobra: 1 destroyed on ground
Beaufort I: 1 destroyed on ground

13 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
BB Haruna
BB Kongo


Allied ground losses:
60 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 6 (2 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Vehicles lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled)


Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 9

BB Haruna firing at Chittagong Fortress
BB Kongo firing at Chittagong

not much damage done to the airfield but still more than halve a dozen aircraft destroyed... the mines I´ve got there, useless, the subs, useless, the naval search, useless and therefore also all the bombers set to naval attack... useless... the enemy not just comes in unspotted, he moves out unspotted during the day too... some 4 dozen aircraft (radar equipped Hudson III and Catalinas) are on search (with archs covering the area where the enemy is moving) can´t spot anything... they just crash all the time and that´s it... another one of the Beauforts is destroyed and no replacements until 43... lol... forget about the British bomber force, only the Hurricanes are somewhat useful but that´s probably only true until the Tojo shows up, production start 6/42... [&o]

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Sub attack near Wakkanai at 121,47

Japanese Ships
DD Wakatake
DD Kuretake

Allied Ships
SS Silversides



SS Silversides launches 6 torpedoes at DD Wakatake
Silversides diving deep ....
DD Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kuretake attacking submerged sub ....
DD Kuretake cannot establish contact with SS Silversides
DD Kuretake cannot reach attack position over SS Silversides
DD Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kuretake attacking submerged sub ....
DD Kuretake cannot establish contact with SS Silversides
DD Kuretake loses contact with SS Silversides
SS Silversides eludes DD Kuretake by diving deep
DD Kuretake cannot establish contact with SS Silversides
DD Kuretake cannot reach attack position over SS Silversides
Escort abandons search for sub

the obligate hit of course but a dud...

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ASW attack near Itbayat Island at 83,69

Japanese Ships
SC Ch 26

Allied Ships
SS Grenadier



SS Grenadier is sighted by escort
Grenadier diving deep ....
SC Ch 26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Sub attack near Wakkanai at 121,48

Japanese Ships
DD Kuretake

Allied Ships
SS Growler



SS Growler launches 6 torpedoes at DD Kuretake
DD Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

some more hits, some more duds... MK14 homing torps...

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Morning Air attack on 98th Chinese Corps, at 85,44

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 27,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 14



No Japanese losses



Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 26000 feet



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Morning Air attack on Wenchow , at 89,58

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 19



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-Ic Sally: 1 damaged



Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 20

Aircraft Attacking:
19 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on 98th Chinese Corps, at 85,44

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 16 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 19



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
30 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
19 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 90th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 98th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 90th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 98th Chinese Corps ...


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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 9



Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 18
B-17E Fortress x 34


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Airbase hits 11
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 120

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
10 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (6 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(6 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
6 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead
264th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIa Nick (9 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(9 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
9 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead

was again amazed about that many fighters in the air... no idea where they are coming from (only level 1 af around Lae) and Lae itselve is totally wrecked... the Nick proved as a bomber killer today, taking down 2 heavy bombers over the base and another one crashed on the way home...

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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 1



Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 19


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged



Airbase hits 5
Runway hits 75

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
4 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
9 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead
264th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIa Nick (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead



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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 6


No Allied losses



Runway hits 28

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

more than 200 hits on the runway today, the base really is trashed... Zeroes reported damaged on the ground but none destroyed... guess there will still be Cap when we return... will definetely take some time to repair the damage though...

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ASW attack near Sapporo at 120,49

Japanese Ships
SC CHa-13

Allied Ships
SS Silversides



SS Silversides is sighted by escort
Silversides diving deep ....
SC CHa-13 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-13 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-13 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-13 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-13 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR May 18, 42
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ASW attack near Port Kembla at 89,170

Japanese Ships
SS I-173, hits 2

Allied Ships
DD Tucker
DD Downes
DD Cassin



SS I-173 launches 2 torpedoes at DD Tucker
I-173 diving deep ....
DD Downes fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Cassin fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Downes fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Cassin fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Downes fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Downes fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Downes attacking submerged sub ....
Escort abandons search for sub

our ASW TFs stay targets for the enemy subs... the torps missed and we critically damage the sub with two near misses...

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ASW attack near Geraldton at 47,142

Japanese Ships
SS I-11

Allied Ships
AM Ballarat
AM Toowoomba
AM Cairns



SS I-11 is sighted by escort
I-11 diving deep ....
AM Toowoomba fails to find sub and abandons search
AM Cairns fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Cairns fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Cairns fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Cairns fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Cairns fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Cairns fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

IJN subs are not only patrolling of Australia´s East coast but also near the West coast... and all are very close to my major bases, just like at the US West Coast...

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ASW attack near Port Kembla at 89,170

Japanese Ships
SS I-173

Allied Ships
DD Perkins
DD Cushing



SS I-173 is sighted by escort
DD Perkins fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Cushing fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Cushing fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Cushing fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Cushing fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Cushing fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

another try, another failure...

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Morning Air attack on Meiktila , at 58,47

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 42,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 3



Allied aircraft
P-38E Lightning x 21


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 destroyed




Aircraft Attacking:
20 x P-38E Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet

CAP engaged:
24th Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 38000
Raid is overhead

grabbing an Oscar from leaking Cap, the other two were damaged but made it home...

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Morning Air attack on 92nd Chinese Corps, at 85,44

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 45 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 17
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 14



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
12 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
17 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 9th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 92nd Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 9th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 92nd Chinese Corps ...

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR May 19, 42
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Morning Air attack on Wenchow , at 89,58

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 19



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-Ic Sally: 1 damaged



Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 23

Aircraft Attacking:
19 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb

washing machine Charly visits Wenchow daily...

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Morning Air attack on 92nd Chinese Corps, at 85,45 (Nanyang)

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 16
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 14
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 10



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
30 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
16 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
10 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 36th Group Army ...
Also attacking 41st Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 9th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 92nd Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 36th Group Army ...
Also attacking 41st Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 9th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 92nd Chinese Corps ...


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Morning Air attack on Tennant Creek , at 76,137

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 4



Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 24
Beaufighter Ic x 8
B-17E Fortress x 14
B-26 Marauder x 9


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Beaufighter Ic: 1 destroyed

Japanese ground losses:
28 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)



Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 28

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
Tainan Ku S-1 Det A with A6M2 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Raid is overhead
3rd Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Raid is overhead

Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking Tennant Creek ...
Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Recon Regiment ...
Also attacking Tennant Creek ...

thought it would be a good idea to use the high exp Beaufighter squadron to escort my bombers and that they would be enough to handle a handful of Zeroes... should have known better anyway... on the high alt sweep they shot down 5 Zeroes for no loss and on escort they get their head handed... 2 Beaus were shot down (halve a dozen more damaged) by the 4 Zeroes... we didn´t even damage a Zero, they weren´t even shot at... 5:0 and 0:2, that´s the difference between the Sputnik sweeps and being on escort... we´re coming in below 10.000ft and the Zeroes are patrolling at 30.000ft... yet another example that you should just stay as high as possible and all the myths on the forum are only grey theories, a mixture of what would be realistic and some dreams...[;)]

in this case, the best solution would be to send in the heavy bombers alone, this is what works best... as soon as the heavy bombers have cleared the path, you can send in the medium bombers too...


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Morning Air attack on Tennant Creek , at 76,137

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 2



Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 17


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged



Runway hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
Tainan Ku S-1 Det A with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Raid is overhead
3rd Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Raid is overhead

Tennant Creek obviously is not the place where those Zeroes are based...

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Morning Air attack on Tennant Creek , at 76,137

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1



Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 9
B-26 Marauder x 9


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
16 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)



Runway hits 4

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
9 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
3rd Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Raid is overhead

Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking Tennant Creek ...
Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking Tennant Creek ...
Also attacking 2nd Recon Regiment ...

thunderstorms in the desert today, doesn´t make it easier to hit something...

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Morning Air attack on Tennant Creek , at 76,137

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 43 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1



Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 6


No Japanese losses

No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
3rd Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Raid is overhead



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Morning Air attack on 2nd Engineer Regiment, at 76,137 (Tennant Creek)

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1



Allied aircraft
Beaufighter Ic x 5
B-26 Marauder x 9


No Japanese losses

No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
25 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled



Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
3rd Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Raid is overhead

and uncombined strike after strike is flown today, must have been a new record in uncombining...

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Morning Air attack on Tennant Creek , at 76,137

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-26 Marauder x 9


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
35 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)



Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Recon Regiment ...



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ASW attack near Phuket at 48,68

Japanese Ships
DMS W-18
SC Ch 16
xAK Fukko Maru
xAK Yamakisan Maru
xAK Sanuki Maru
xAK Rokko Maru
xAK Koto Maru
DD Satsuki
SC Ch 18

Allied Ships
SS Argonaut



SS Argonaut launches 4 torpedoes at DMS W-18
Argonaut diving deep ....
DD Satsuki attacking submerged sub ....
DD Satsuki cannot reach attack position over SS Argonaut
SS Argonaut eludes ASW attack from DD Satsuki
SC Ch 18 fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Satsuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Satsuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Satsuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Satsuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

how great would it be if the target routine would work better... far too many shots fired at escorts... MK10, therfore missed...

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Ground combat at Nanyang (85,45)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 7551 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5893

Defending force 52688 troops, 374 guns, 13 vehicles, Assault Value = 1903


Allied ground losses:
300 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Assaulting units:
48th Chinese Corps
98th Chinese Corps
42nd Chinese Corps
69th Chinese Corps
47th Chinese Corps
85th Chinese Corps
7th Chinese Corps
80th Chinese Corps
51st Chinese Corps
2nd Chinese Cavalry Corps
84th Chinese Corps
92nd Chinese Corps
38th Chinese Corps
8th Route Army
12th Chinese Corps
96th Chinese Corps
90th Chinese Corps
4th Chinese Cavalry Corps
34th Chinese Corps
61st Chinese Corps
9th Chinese Corps
41st Chinese Corps
93rd Chinese Corps
19th Chinese Corps
7th New Chinese Corps
5th War Area
24th Group Army
6th Group Army
21st Group Army
4th Group Army
Jingcha War Area
1st War Area
15th Group Army
22nd Group Army
3rd Group Army
14th Group Army
36th Group Army
8th Group Army
7th Group Army
39th Group Army

Defending units:
9th Ind.Mixed Brigade
13th Ind.Mixed Brigade
59th Division
6th Division
1st Ind.Mixed Brigade
58th Infantry Regiment
4th Ind.Mixed Brigade
138th Infantry Regiment
52nd Road Const Co


oh how funny the game is... ordered a unit to do a bombardment as I wanted to know what I´m facing... result is I´m taking 300 casualties and the enemy not a single one... funy game...

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR May 20, 42
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ASW attack near Wakkanai at 121,48

Japanese Ships
SC CHa-13
SC CHa-25

Allied Ships
SS Silversides



SS Silversides is located by SC CHa-13
Silversides diving deep ....
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Toyohara at 125,47

Japanese Ships
PB Ikunta Maru
PB Okiyu Maru
PB Kaiun Maru

Allied Ships
SS Porpoise



SS Porpoise is located by PB Ikunta Maru
PB Okiyu Maru attacking submerged sub ....
PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Okiyu Maru fails to find sub and abandons search
PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kaiun Maru attacking submerged sub ....
PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Sub attack near Coffs Harbour at 96,164

Japanese Ships
SS I-7, hits 3

Allied Ships
DD Fanning
DD Dunlap



SS I-7 launches 4 torpedoes at DD Fanning
I-7 diving deep ....
DD Fanning fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Dunlap attacking submerged sub ....
DD Dunlap fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Dunlap fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Dunlap fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Dunlap fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Dunlap fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

yet again, our ASW TFs are only targets...

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ASW attack near Victoria Point at 48,65

Japanese Ships
DD Satsuki
SC Ch 16
xAK Fukko Maru
xAK Yamakisan Maru
xAK Sanuki Maru
xAK Koto Maru
SC Ch 18

Allied Ships
SS Argonaut



SS Argonaut launches 4 torpedoes at DD Satsuki
Argonaut diving deep ....
DD Satsuki attacking submerged sub ....
DD Satsuki loses contact with SS Argonaut
DD Satsuki cannot establish contact with SS Argonaut
SC Ch 18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Satsuki fails to find sub and abandons search
SC Ch 18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

same is true for the IJN escorts of course... silly target routine... Argonaut fires it´s second salvo at one of the escorts in this TF instead of picking off one of the numerous freighters... wasn´t there a change in the upcoming patch regarding targetting? Or just a reduction of hit chances on escorts? The torps were MK10s and they have built in a 50% miss chance anyway... only my MK14s have a 90% hit chance as those are the MK14 homing versions...

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Sub attack near Ominato at 117,51

Japanese Ships
xAKL Nitian Maru
PB Taikei Maru

Allied Ships
SS Halibut



SS Halibut launches 4 torpedoes at xAKL Nitian Maru
Halibut diving deep ....
PB Taikei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Taikei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Taikei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Taikei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Taikei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

sometimes we also take a shot at a freighter... hit but dud...

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ASW attack near Rabaul at 106,124

Japanese Ships
xAK Venice Maru
xAK Terukawa Maru
PB Taiko Maru

Allied Ships
SS S-44



SS S-44 is sighted by escort
S-44 diving deep ....
PB Taiko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Taiko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Taiko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Taiko Maru attacking submerged sub ....
PB Taiko Maru loses contact with SS S-44
PB Taiko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

first we get driven off...

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ASW attack near Rabaul at 106,124

Japanese Ships
TB Sagi
xAK Venice Maru
xAK Terukawa Maru
PB Taiko Maru

Allied Ships
SS S-44



SS S-44 launches 4 torpedoes at TB Sagi
S-44 diving deep ....
PB Taiko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Taiko Maru attacking submerged sub ....
SS S-44 eludes ASW attack from PB Taiko Maru
PB Taiko Maru loses contact with SS S-44
PB Taiko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Taiko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Taiko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

then the oh so great targetting routine yet again decides the best target in this TF would be an escort... the MK10 even hit home... but hey, they were duds... [8|]

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Morning Air attack on Mandalay , at 59,46

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 44,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-38E Lightning x 24


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
24 x P-38E Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet

two hexes from Magwe, no leaking Cap encountered...

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Morning Air attack on Daly Waters , at 76,131

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 12
B-17E Fortress x 26


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
11 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled



Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 8
Runway hits 49

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 3 x 500 lb GP Bomb
5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

thought Daly Waters would be the Zeros´ staging base but this airfield is empty... so where the hell are those Zeroes over Tennant Creek coming from? From Katherine??? Airfield level 2 and 9 or 10 hexes away from Tennant? Must be some major advantage for the Japanese then as I can´t see how they should perform those daily LRCAP mission at such a distance and not yet suffereng a SINGLE op loss when I once tried a 2 hex LRCAP out of Chittagong and ended up with halve a dozen op losses and 80+ fatigue immedietely after one day (posted with screenshots some pages ago)... I just don´t get it, but as Tennant Creek´s and Daly Waters´ airfields are empty there´s only Katherine´s left. Or some carriers are sitting off the coast doing LRCAP but this can´t be true...

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Morning Air attack on Daly Waters , at 76,131

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 9


Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
11 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled



Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 14

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

level 1 airfield is hit hard but no airfield symbol appears nor have we damaged/destroyed a single fighter... this airfield is definetely empty...

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Afternoon Air attack on Wenchow , at 89,58

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 26 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 15



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-Ic Sally: 1 damaged



Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 12

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Ground combat at Butuan (80,89)

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: 14

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 14 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Butuan !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(-)



Assaulting units:
3rd Tank Regiment

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR May 21, 42
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ASW attack near Mergui at 50,62

Japanese Ships
DMS W-17, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage [8|]
SC Ch 16
xAK Fukko Maru
xAK Yamakisan Maru
xAK Sanuki Maru
xAK Koto Maru
DD Satsuki
SC Ch 18

Allied Ships
SS Argonaut



SS Argonaut launches 4 torpedoes at DMS W-17
Argonaut diving deep ....
DD Satsuki fails to find sub and abandons search
SC Ch 18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 18 attacking submerged sub ....
SC Ch 18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

and Argonaut fires a third time in a row at an escort... this just can´t be true. We hit and kill the minesweeper but I just don´t get why subs keep having such an insane habit about firing at escorts all the time... Argonaut is out of torps now, returning to Ceylon...

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ASW attack near Saishu To at 99,56

Japanese Ships
CM Sarushima
xAK Taian Maru

Allied Ships
SS Seadragon



SS Seadragon is sighted by escort
Seadragon diving deep ....
Sub escapes detection


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ASW attack near Balikpapan at 64,98

Japanese Ships
PB Kashiwa Maru

Allied Ships
SS Snapper



SS Snapper is sighted by escort
Snapper bottoming out ....
PB Kashiwa Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kashiwa Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kashiwa Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kashiwa Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kashiwa Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Morning Air attack on 92nd Chinese Corps, at 85,45 (Nanyang)

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 18
Ki-30 Ann x 8
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 14
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 9
Ki-51 Sonia x 8



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
54 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Ki-30 Ann bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 1 x 250 kg GP Bomb
18 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
9 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb
8 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 50 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 9th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 84th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 96th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 98th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 80th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 34th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 90th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 9th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 92nd Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 9th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 84th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 96th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 80th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 9th Chinese Corps ...

looks like Rainer got a little nervous about my 6000av being moved to Nanyang but when I saw 2000 Japanese av sitting at the base yesterday I immedietely turned around and set all my units to follow a HQ moving North...

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Morning Air attack on 92nd Chinese Corps, at 85,45 (Nanyang)

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 8



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
4 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Tennant Creek , at 76,137

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 4



Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 27


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged



Airbase hits 9
Airbase supply hits 8
Runway hits 34

Aircraft Attacking:
5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
Tainan Ku S-1 Det A with A6M2 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Raid is overhead
3rd Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Raid is overhead

this time an airfield attack against Tennant itselve, I still am not sure where the Zeroes are coming from... airfield is empty, stays the possibility that the fighters are coming from Katherine... lolz, LRCAP 9 hexes? And absolutely not suffering from it?

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Morning Air attack on Daly Waters , at 76,131

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 12


No Allied losses



Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 5

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 3 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Afternoon Air attack on 6th RAAF Base Force, at 75,136

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 45



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
110 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 30 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Aircraft Attacking:
45 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb

nice combined strike, coming from Darwin I guess...seems like all bombers attacked in one strike...

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ASW attack near Toyohara at 125,48

Japanese Ships
DD Kuretake

Allied Ships
SS Silversides



SS Silversides launches 6 torpedoes at DD Kuretake
Silversides diving deep ....
DD Kuretake attacking submerged sub ....
DD Kuretake cannot reach attack position over SS Silversides
SS Silversides eludes DD Kuretake by diving deep
SS Silversides eludes ASW attack from DD Kuretake
SS Silversides eludes DD Kuretake by diving deep
SS Silversides eludes ASW attack from DD Kuretake
DD Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

yeah baby... take on the escorts! take on the escorts! Homing MK-14 hit but failed to ignite...

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Ground combat at Akyab (54,45)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 67873 troops, 697 guns, 332 vehicles, Assault Value = 2395

Defending force 44766 troops, 700 guns, 821 vehicles, Assault Value = 1210

Japanese adjusted assault: 650

Allied adjusted defense: 1795

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 3)

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), leaders(+), fatigue(-) [&:], experience(-)
Attacker: disruption(-)

Japanese ground losses:
3081 casualties reported
Squads: 7 destroyed, 142 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 150 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 27 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 29 (1 destroyed, 28 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
1250 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 67 disabled
Non Combat: 44 destroyed, 193 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 28 disabled
Guns lost 4 (0 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Vehicles lost 63 (10 destroyed, 53 disabled)


Assaulting units:
Imperial Guards Division
11th Tank Regiment
48th Division
38th Division
9th Division
21st Ind.Mixed Brigade
9th Tank Regiment
5th Guards Division
35th Field AA Battalion
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
27th JAAF AF Bn

Defending units:
44th Indian Brigade
1st Indian Coastal Artillery Regiment
3rd Carabiniers Regiment
45th Indian Brigade
7th Armoured Brigade
20th Indian Division
1st Burma Division
26th Indian Brigade
103rd RN Base Force
106th RAF Base Force
103rd RAF Base Force
1st Madras Construction Battalion
24th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
4th NW Frontier Base Force
6th Medium Regiment
108th RAF Base Force
104th RAF Base Force
1st Burma Auxiliary AA Regiment
20th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
23rd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
101st RAF Base Force
25th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
102nd RAF Base Force
100th RAF Base Force
107th RAF Base Force
RAF 223 Group Wing
RAF 221 Group Base Force
1st South India Base Force
1st Bombay Construction Battalion
1st Bengal Construction Battalion
21st Light AA Regiment
95th Heavy AA Regiment
Burma Corps
223 Group RAF
Pathan Construction Battalion

first time that we achieved quite a good result in the defense of Akyab... Rainer still seems to think he could take the base, IMO his second attack long ago already showed that it´s senseless to keep on attacking here... and the fact that he moved in supplies via fast transport won´t make it easier to achieve something here I guess as this makes me think he´s got supply problem... why we get a negative multiplier from fatigue, while sitting in the base with full support and full supply and the Japanese don´t suffer from fatigue in this malaria hex while sitting outside the base in the jungle with definetely by far not enough support is beyond me... but hey...

that we again suffered for more dead as the defender sitting behind forts is nothing new anyway... that´s how it works...


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Ground combat at Sarmi (91,114)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 392 troops, 2 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16

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

Japanese adjusted assault: 5

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Sarmi !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(-)



Assaulting units:
I/19th Naval Guard Unit

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR May 22, 42
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ASW attack near Shikuka at 126,43

Japanese Ships
E Hachijo

Allied Ships
SS Growler



SS Growler is sighted by escort
Growler bottoming out ....
E Hachijo fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Hachijo fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Hachijo fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Hachijo fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Hachijo fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Sub attack near San Clemente Island at 223,81

Japanese Ships
SS I-25

Allied Ships
AP McCawley, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage



SS I-25 launches 6 torpedoes

well, McCawley entered the map coming out of the off map area near the West Coast and is sunk...

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Morning Air attack on Meiktila , at 58,47

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 42,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 3



Allied aircraft
P-38E Lightning x 24


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 destroyed




Aircraft Attacking:
24 x P-38E Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet

CAP engaged:
24th Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 38000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes

we attack leaking Cap, came in 1000ft higher, the IJAAF Sputniks were bounced by the USAAF spaceshuttles and two Oscars were shot down without having much of a chance... the third returned damaged to Magwe...

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Morning Air attack on Wenchow , at 89,58

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 19



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-Ic Sally: 1 damaged



Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 21

Aircraft Attacking:
19 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on 85th Chinese Corps, at 85,45 (Nanyang)

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-30 Ann x 5
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 12



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
12 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb
5 x Ki-30 Ann bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 1 x 250 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 92nd Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 85th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 92nd Chinese Corps ...


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Morning Air attack on Katherine , at 76,128

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 4



Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 27


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 4 damaged
A6M2 Zero: 3 destroyed on ground
Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 6 damaged



Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 35

Aircraft Attacking:
5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
4 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
Tainan Ku S-1 Det A with A6M2 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Raid is overhead
3rd Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Raid is overhead

it´s true, I can hardly believe it but it´s true... the LRCAP over Tennant Creek has been coming from Katherine all the time... wow, not just do the Japanese have super human on the ground that actually get kills in a 20:1 ratio over Allied soldiers (at least up to now in this campaign), they also not seem to suffer 3500 fatigue from doing daily LRCAP over something like 9 hexes (not suffering a single op loss so far it seems) while we accumulate 85+ fat from flying LRCAP for one day at two hexes... lol again... anyway, I couldn´t believe it and therefore it took some time until we finally bombed Katherine... it was worth it, the handful of Zeroes are no match for the experienced heavy bomber crews and we torch halve a dozen aircraft on the ground... there was quite substantial flak fire at the base, but we haven´t suffered a single loss... only the usual PBY was lost together with a Hudson doing a training flight... naval search stays the most dangerous task on the map... as it looks now, we will have run out of PBYs sometime in early 43 at this loss/replacement rate... the Cats are at 70% nav search now...


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Afternoon Air attack on 93rd Chinese Corps, at 85,45 (Nanyang)

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 15
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 14
Ki-51 Sonia x 5



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
38 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
5 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 50 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 41st Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 93rd Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 41st Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 93rd Chinese Corps ...


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Afternoon Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 4
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 4



Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 6
B-17E Fortress x 29


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 1 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 5 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
11 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 122 [X(]

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
8 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
4 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
4 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead
264th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIa Nick (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
4 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead

Lae got a visit too and I´m astonished by the damage done... wow, will be a hard time for the Japanes when we receive heavy bombers in numbers...

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR May 23, 42
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ASW attack near Toyohara at 124,48

Japanese Ships
xAK Hokkai Maru
xAK Tosei Maru
xAK Denmark Maru
PB Tokihime Maru

Allied Ships
SS Growler



SS Growler is sighted by escort
Growler diving deep ....
PB Tokihime Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Tokihime Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Tokihime Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Tokihime Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Tokihime Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

would like to kill one of the resource freighters for Northern Japan now and then...

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ASW attack near Wakkanai at 123,48

Japanese Ships
xAK Tosei Maru
xAK Denmark Maru
PB Tokihime Maru

Allied Ships
SS Growler



SS Growler is sighted by escort
PB Tokihime Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Tokihime Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Tokihime Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Tokihime Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Tokihime Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Newcastle at 94,170

Japanese Ships
SS I-7

Allied Ships
DD Tucker
DD Downes
DD Cassin



SS I-7 launches 2 torpedoes at DD Tucker
I-7 diving deep ....
DD Downes fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Cassin fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

I-7 has attacked our ASW TFs a couple of times already, missed every time... same as our useless destroyers...

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ASW attack near Geraldton at 47,141

Japanese Ships
SS I-155, hits 1

Allied Ships
AM Ballarat
AM Toowoomba
AM Cairns



SS I-155 is located by AM Ballarat
AM Toowoomba fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Cairns attacking submerged sub ....
AM Toowoomba attacking submerged sub ....
AM Toowoomba cannot establish contact with SS I-155
AM Cairns fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Toowoomba fails to find sub and abandons search
AM Cairns fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Cairns fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Cairns fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Cairns fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

seems like even those AM can do better... two of the four vessels attacked and dropped dozens of DCs resulting in one near miss...

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Morning Air attack on Wenchow , at 89,58

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 19



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-Ic Sally: 1 damaged


Allied ground losses:
11 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled


Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 17

Aircraft Attacking:
19 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on 85th Chinese Corps, at 85,45 (Nanyang)

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 25 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 20
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 14



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
92 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
20 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 80th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 85th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 80th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 85th Chinese Corps ...


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Morning Air attack on 24th Infantry Regiment, at 76,137 (Tennant Creek)

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 12
B-17E Fortress x 10


Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
227 casualties reported [X(]
Squads: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 14 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 5 (0 destroyed, 5 disabled)



Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
4 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

Also attacking 2nd Recon Regiment ...
Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...

light rain but we do quite some damage... notice no Zero LRCAP today, looks like my attack on Katherine has put an end to IJNAF LRCAP over Tennant Creek... at least for now... [;)] IMO Rainer has to abandon Tennant and Daly Waters, otherwise his LCUs will be toast...

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Morning Air attack on 2nd Engineer Regiment, at 76,137 (Tennant Creek)

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 6


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
57 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled



Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

Alice Springs´ airfield is "only" a level 5 but built up further (hard task with a normal size of 4 though). Am not drowning in air HQs at the moment so I can´t spare one for this secondary front and the airfield here is pretty fast overstacked (administrative) with the given small squadron sizes of the Allied. Would like to have the sizes of Japanes daitais or sentais which are twice or even three times bigger than their Allied counterparts, therefore the Japanese got a big advantage when speaking about administrative overstacking. I can place 65 bombers at a level 5 airfield at best (5x13) while the Japanese could place 180 bombers (5x36) without administrative overstacking. This without any HQs. The only reason why Alice Springs doesn´t have more bombers is the overstacknig penalty. I´ve got a HQ with a range of 5 (AND even the SAME command as the base "Australia command") but it does not give it´s bonus to the airfield and I can only use five bomber squadrons out of Alice Springs. If I set a 6th squadron on attack, I immedietely get the *... [8|]


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Morning Air attack on 2nd Engineer Regiment, at 76,137 (Tennant Creek)

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 8


Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
79 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)



Aircraft Attacking:
8 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on 24th Infantry Regiment, at 76,137 (Tennant Creek)

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 7


Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
52 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Aircraft Attacking:
7 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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ASW attack near Hengchun at 85,68

Japanese Ships
DD Hatakaze
SC Ch 17

Allied Ships
SS Permit



SS Permit is sighted by escort
DD Hatakaze fails to find sub and abandons search
SC Ch 17 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 17 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 17 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 17 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 17 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 17 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Amphibious Assault at Pagai-eilanden

TF 193 troops unloading over beach at Pagai-eilanden, 43,88

Japanese ground losses:
57 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)



17 troops of a SNLF Squad lost overboard during unload of 2nd Sasebo SNLF Coy


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Ground combat at Nanyang (85,45)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 940 troops, 99 guns, 24 vehicles, Assault Value = 1907

Defending force 165105 troops, 891 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5902

Japanese ground losses:
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
2456 casualties reported [8|]
Squads: 51 destroyed, 123 disabled [8|]
Non Combat: 64 destroyed, 209 disabled[8|]
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 8 disabled
Guns lost 18 (7 destroyed, 11 disabled)


Assaulting units:
6th Division
4th Ind.Mixed Brigade
58th Infantry Regiment
1st Ind.Mixed Brigade
13th Ind.Mixed Brigade
9th Ind.Mixed Brigade
59th Division
138th Infantry Regiment
6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
12th Army
51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
52nd Road Const Co
2nd Medium Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
19th Chinese Corps
92nd Chinese Corps
61st Chinese Corps
8th Route Army
84th Chinese Corps
9th Chinese Corps
7th Chinese Corps
93rd Chinese Corps
4th Chinese Cavalry Corps
38th Chinese Corps
96th Chinese Corps
12th Chinese Corps
47th Chinese Corps
48th Chinese Corps
90th Chinese Corps
41st Chinese Corps
34th Chinese Corps
69th Chinese Corps
85th Chinese Corps
2nd Chinese Cavalry Corps
42nd Chinese Corps
51st Chinese Corps
98th Chinese Corps
80th Chinese Corps
7th New Chinese Corps
8th Group Army
5th War Area
3rd Group Army
15th Group Army
6th Group Army
22nd Group Army
21st Group Army
36th Group Army
Jingcha War Area
7th Group Army
24th Group Army
14th Group Army
1st War Area
39th Group Army

I completely ticked out when I saw this result... two reasons for it: a) the follow unit order is still bugged as hell (just like it has been in WITP). All my units should have moved out TODAY as they were all set to "follow unit" (a HQ) and the HQ moved out today. What did the rest of the Army do? All reverted to "defend". And b) the result of the nuclear bombardement of two medium gun rgt and two crappy mountain gun rgt is just complete BS. Some discussion on the forum was the result again and the solution for it then was:

quote bigJ62

In patch 3 beta during arty pahse each atking unit DOES NOT FIRE AT EVERY DEF UNIT. Prior to patch 3 beta this was true and was a bug but has now been fixed.

this is very good news, won´t help me at the moment though.

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR May 24, 42
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Amphibious Assault at Talasea

TF 207 troops unloading over beach at Talasea, 103,125

Japanese ground losses:
34 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 3 (0 destroyed, 3 disabled)


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Morning Air attack on Mandalay , at 59,46

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 40,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 2 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-38E Lightning x 24


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
24 x P-38E Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet

tried to pick off leaking Cap at Mandalay again but our fighters failed to locate any enemy fighters...

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Afternoon Air attack on 47th Chinese Corps, at 85,45 (Nanyang)

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 13
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 14



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
94 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
13 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Ground combat at Surigao (81,88)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 682 troops, 0 guns, 103 vehicles, Assault Value = 58

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

Japanese adjusted assault: 55

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 55 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Surigao !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(+)



Assaulting units:
3rd Tank Regiment


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Ground combat at Nanyang (85,45)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 940 troops, 99 guns, 24 vehicles, Assault Value = 1908

Defending force 162969 troops, 884 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5796

Japanese ground losses:
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
1706 casualties reported
Squads: 36 destroyed, 74 disabled
Non Combat: 64 destroyed, 174 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 22 (2 destroyed, 20 disabled)


Assaulting units:
13th Ind.Mixed Brigade
59th Division
9th Ind.Mixed Brigade
58th Infantry Regiment
4th Ind.Mixed Brigade
1st Ind.Mixed Brigade
6th Division
138th Infantry Regiment
52nd Road Const Co
6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
12th Army
51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
2nd Medium Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
61st Chinese Corps
84th Chinese Corps
98th Chinese Corps
85th Chinese Corps
38th Chinese Corps
2nd Chinese Cavalry Corps
42nd Chinese Corps
90th Chinese Corps
8th Route Army
7th Chinese Corps
51st Chinese Corps
47th Chinese Corps
34th Chinese Corps
4th Chinese Cavalry Corps
41st Chinese Corps
48th Chinese Corps
92nd Chinese Corps
9th Chinese Corps
80th Chinese Corps
12th Chinese Corps
19th Chinese Corps
93rd Chinese Corps
96th Chinese Corps
69th Chinese Corps
7th New Chinese Corps
21st Group Army
8th Group Army
14th Group Army
7th Group Army
6th Group Army
5th War Area
15th Group Army
36th Group Army
1st War Area
22nd Group Army
24th Group Army
Jingcha War Area
3rd Group Army
39th Group Army

have set all my units to move out as fast as possible, Rainer said he will now stop the bombardment as my troops are only there due to the "follow unit" bug and the results are off anyway... that´s really fair, I told him he could keep up the bombardment though as we´re just using what we were given. As it stands now, I guess the Army will have marched out in the next wo days... otherwise a very quiet day...


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Ground combat at Pagai-eilanden (43,88)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 431 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 17

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

Japanese adjusted assault: 5

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Pagai-eilanden !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(-)



Assaulting units:
2nd Sasebo SNLF Coy /1

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR May 25, 42
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Sub attack near Talasea at 103,125

Japanese Ships
DD Oboro
DD Hatsuyuki
DD Amagiri

Allied Ships
SS S-38, hits 2



SS S-38 launches 4 torpedoes at DD Oboro
S-38 bottoming out ....
DD Oboro attacking submerged sub ....
DD Amagiri fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Oboro fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Oboro fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Oboro fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Oboro fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

dot base at Talasea has just been invaded and it seems the troops were brought in by fast transport... MK-10 missed and 2 near misses do no damage...

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Sub attack near Phuket at 47,69

Japanese Ships
xAK Iburi Maru
DD Mikazuki
DD Nagatsuki

Allied Ships
SS KXVI



SS KXVI launches 2 torpedoes at xAK Iburi Maru
DD Mikazuki fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Nagatsuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Nagatsuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Nagatsuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Nagatsuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Nagatsuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

then we see another Dutch sub missing it´s target...

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ASW attack near Talasea at 103,125

Japanese Ships
DD Hatsuyuki
DD Oboro
DD Amagiri

Allied Ships
SS S-38



SS S-38 is sighted by escort
S-38 bottoming out ....
DD Oboro fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Amagiri fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Amagiri fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Amagiri fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Amagiri fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Amagiri fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Amagiri fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

another unsuccesful round for the escorts...

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ASW attack near Sapporo at 118,50

Japanese Ships
DD Kuretake

Allied Ships
SS Growler



SS Growler is located by DD Kuretake
Growler diving deep ....
DD Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Morning Air attack on Katherine , at 76,128

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 25


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 5 damaged



Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 13

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
10 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

there´s quite some flak over Katherine but our heavies are tough, really tough... moderate rain keeps our hit rate low...

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Morning Air attack on Katherine , at 76,128

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 7


Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 4 damaged



Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 11

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb


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Morning Air attack on Meiktila , at 58,47

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 40,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 3



Allied aircraft
P-38E Lightning x 24


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 destroyed




Aircraft Attacking:
24 x P-38E Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet

CAP engaged:
24th Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 38000
Raid is overhead

another three Oscars are shot down... 39.000ft beats 38.000ft

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Afternoon Air attack on Wenchow , at 89,58

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 13



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-Ic Sally: 1 damaged



Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 13

Aircraft Attacking:
13 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Afternoon Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 8



Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 6
B-17E Fortress x 24


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged
A6M2 Zero: 3 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 1 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 4 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)



Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 23

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
9 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (2 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters to 10000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 8 minutes

thought it would be a good idea to visit Buna again and a lot of fighters were torched today... also here, for no loss within the heavies... amazing result today and it nearly looks that the 4Es get unbeatable when their crews further increase their exp and skills...

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Afternoon Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 31 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 5
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 3



Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 12


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 damaged
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 6 damaged



Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 5

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
264th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIa Nick (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(11 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
5 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead

not one bomber was lost today even though we encountered flak and fighters and were flying quite a distance...



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Ground combat at Talasea (103,125)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 354 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 14

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 Talasea !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(-), disruption(-)



Assaulting units:
III/66th Naval Guard Unit



25th of the month again, time for the sub statistics


starting 25th Jan:

Mk-14

total attacks 173
exploding hits 34 (20.99% of total hits)
duds 128 (79.01% of total hits)
misses 11 (6.36% of total attacks)

173 attacks in four months isn´t bad I guess. Dud rate is nearing the area you would expect with 80% dud chance for each torp. What stays absolutely amazing is the hit rate which is at over 93%. Considering how often the torps are fired at escorts you can figure out what this will mean for the IJN when the torps start getting better. MK-14 torps are really homing.


Mk-10

total attacks 24
exploding hits 11 (84.61% of total hits)
duds 2 (15.38% of total hits)
misses 11 (45.83% of total attacks)

not much change in the performance of our S-class subs, they stay mostly useless. Not many attacks, nearly halve of the miss (which is the actual joke), some duds...


53.3cm/45cm/21MkVIII

total attacks 55
exploding hits 17 (73.91% of total hits)
duds 6 (26.09% of total hits)
misses 22 (40 % of total attacks)

what can I say about Dutch and British subs? Not much change here, they totally suck too. 40% misses [8|] 26.09% duds [8|] both is a joke...


starting 25 Feb

IJN

total attacks 26
exploding hits 18 (94.73% of total hits)
duds 1 (5.26% of total hits)
misses 7 (26.92 % of total attacks)

26 attacks in three months isn´t really a lot and many of those attacks just happened lately when more and more subs showed up near my major bases near the US West Coast and Australia´s East coast. The subs operate more or less freely in those areas without having to fear my ASW forces. Don´t know if Rainer still tries to find my convoys, the IJN subs (as well as KB) have been useless when operating against my convoys due to not encountering them. The hit rate of the IJN subs is by far not as good as the USN fleet subs´ hit rate but their torps are definetely killers with nearly 95% of torps actually exploding. In total, the IJN subs are the most potent on the map at the moment and this won´t change until mid 43 I guess. Thank god the IJN subs lacked targets so far.

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR May 26, 42
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ASW attack near Toyohara at 125,47

Japanese Ships
PB Kaiun Maru
PB Okiyu Maru

Allied Ships
SS Silversides



SS Silversides is located by PB Kaiun Maru
Silversides diving deep ....
PB Okiyu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub and abandons search
PB Okiyu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Okiyu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Okiyu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Okiyu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near San Francisco at 217,73

Japanese Ships
SS I-5

Allied Ships
DD Drayton
DD Conyngham
DD Case



SS I-5 is located by DD Drayton
I-5 diving deep ....
DD Conyngham fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Case attacking submerged sub ....
DD Case fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Case fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Case attacking submerged sub ....
DD Case loses contact with SS I-5
DD Case fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

would really be cool if my DDs would be at least somewhat more potent against subs because as it stands now, the IJN would be dumb to move the subs away from really close to my major bases like San Francisco, LA or Sydney. The subs are more of a threat to the DDs than the other way around. Even if the DDs damage a sub at times, the kills in total are something like 1:1 due to the fact that a sub most times is only damaged (if even spotted) but a DD usually goes down immedietely after being hit by a torp and it doesn´t help being very close to a major base...

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Sub attack near Orchid Island at 87,68

Japanese Ships
xAK Tatumiya Maru
xAK Teiyo Maru
DD Numakaze

Allied Ships
SS Grenadier



SS Grenadier launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Tatumiya Maru
Grenadier diving deep ....
DD Numakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Numakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Numakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Numakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Numakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

and we score some more duds...

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Amphibious Assault at Nabire

TF 318 troops unloading over beach at Nabire, 86,114

Japanese ground losses:
88 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 8 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)



17 troops of a SNLF Squad lost from landing craft during unload of I/19th Nav Gd


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Sub attack near Perth at 46,147

Japanese Ships
SS I-155, hits 3

Allied Ships
AM Toowoomba, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AM Ballarat
AM Cairns



SS I-155 launches 8 torpedoes at AM Toowoomba
AM Cairns fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Cairns attacking submerged sub ....
AM Cairns loses contact with SS I-155
AM Cairns fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Cairns fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Cairns attacking submerged sub ....
Escort abandons search for sub

one of those examples... near Perth, two ASW TFs are patrolling against the subs that are waiting for my (very few) convoys in this area. One of the ASW TFs runs into the sub and 8 torpedoes (wrong) are launched at one of the useless vessels obliberating it... in return we score three near misses that won´t do much more than scratching paint...

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Sub attack near Babeldaob at 91,96

Japanese Ships
xAK Mitu Maru
xAK Kyosei Maru
xAK Tamahoko Maru
PB Kashiwa Maru

Allied Ships
SS Sculpin



SS Sculpin launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Mitu Maru
Sculpin diving deep ....
PB Kashiwa Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kashiwa Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kashiwa Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kashiwa Maru attacking submerged sub ....
SS Sculpin eludes ASW attack from PB Kashiwa Maru
PB Kashiwa Maru loses contact with SS Sculpin
PB Kashiwa Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

as revenge, we scratch the paint of a freighter with duds...

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Morning Air attack on 17th RAAF Base Force, at 75,137

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 42



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
191 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 28 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Aircraft Attacking:
42 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 6th RAAF Base Force ...
Also attacking 17th RAAF Base Force ...
Also attacking 6th RAAF Base Force ...
Also attacking 17th RAAF Base Force ...
Also attacking 6th RAAF Base Force ...
Also attacking 17th RAAF Base Force ...

those Betties are quite potent ground attack bombers... I wouldn´t use them for this senseless task of bombing a trashed base force though as those are the primary anti ship weapon for the IJN...

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Morning Air attack on Wenchow , at 89,58

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 16



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-Ic Sally: 1 damaged



Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 15

Aircraft Attacking:
16 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on 2nd Engineer Regiment, at 76,137 (Tennant Creek)

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 24
B-17E Fortress x 12
B-26 Marauder x 15


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
276 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 28 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled)
Vehicles lost 6 (0 destroyed, 6 disabled)



Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Recon Regiment ...
Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Engineer Regiment ...
Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Engineer Regiment ...
Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Recon Regiment ...
Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Engineer Regiment ...
Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Recon Regiment ...
Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...

light rain but we still do a lot of damage... Rainer still seems not to be willing to abandon Tennant Creek which is quite amazing to me as I´ve got no clue why he even holds it...

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Morning Air attack on 2nd Engineer Regiment, at 76,137 (Tennant Creek)

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-26 Marauder x 9


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
91 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled



Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

and his LCUs in open terrain there make perfect targets for my bombers...

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR May 27, 42
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ASW attack near Sapporo at 118,50

Japanese Ships
E Ishigaki

Allied Ships
SS Silversides



SS Silversides is sighted by escort
E Ishigaki fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Ishigaki fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Ishigaki attacking submerged sub ....
E Ishigaki fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Ishigaki fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

Ishigaki dropped some DCs but didn´t even come close to scoring a hit...

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Morning Air attack on Wenchow , at 89,58

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 16



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
10 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Runway hits 18

Aircraft Attacking:
16 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Meiktila , at 58,47

Weather in hex: Extreme overcast

Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 42,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 12 [X(]
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 30 [X(]



Allied aircraft
P-38E Lightning x 24


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ib Oscar: 3 destroyed
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 3 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-38E Lightning: 2 destroyed



CAP engaged:
24th Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 14 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 38000
Raid is overhead
50th Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 16 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 6000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes
260th Sentai with Ki-43-Ib Oscar (12 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
12 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 38000
Raid is overhead

nice trap Rainer! As I´ve employed the tactic of picking off leaking Cap from Magwe and Meiktila seemed to be the only base where Magwe´s Cap leaked to in very small numbers lately, Rainer has put LRCAP over the base today (at least I guess it´s LRCAP and not leaking Cap). I was shocked when I got the message about 42 Oscars being on Cap. Then the fight began and it´s the usual clash just below 40.000ft that can be seen in AE all the time and also the outcome was the usual one. Due to us flying 1000ft higher than the Oscars we bounced them of course and that was the start of a massacre. 10:0 in kills for the Lightnings during the bounce. There were too many Oscars though to see the never ending bounce on our side and suddenly the Oscars began bouncing us. Result? 3:0 for the Oscars. So with the bounce on the Oscars´ side they reverted a 0:10 into a 3:0 in kills. Not bad eh? Yet another example what the bounce gives you. In this case quite an off example though as the Lightnings could just dive away from the Oscars but this isn´t modelled anyway. It stays the same though, get as high as possible to get the bounce at all cost and the one who gets it wins. Loss list says 15 Oscars (unsure) lost for 3 Lightnings (correct) today, giving us a 5:1 kill rate which is by FAR better to what people are reporting when they try to use the fighters of both sides like they were used in real life (means at reasonable alts). With such a result I can´t say the Lightning is a dog like reported by other people that achieve 1:1 kill rates at best. The only reason for my P-38 to perform that good is the fact that they can go 1000ft higher than any of my opponent´s fighters. A nice result, nevertheless I first thought we would be hit hard today as there were three times more IJAAF fighters than what I would have like to see. Seeing 27 Lightnings bouncing a dozen Oscars would be perfect... [;)] I would expect to damage/shoot down all of the enemy fighters for not losing a single Lightning A2A (or 1 lost A2A the worst case).

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Morning Air attack on Finschhafen , at 100,126

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 2
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 12



Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 19


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-45 KAIa Nick: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged



Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 11

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
4 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(5 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead
264th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIa Nick (12 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(12 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
12 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead

hmm... quite a heavy Cap over Finschhafen. My recon tells me that Lae (the only level 4 af in the area) is still totally trashed but we´ve still always encountered Cap in this area so I´m no trying to attack all those level 1 airfields around Lae. We started with Finschhafen, the airfield itselve was empty but we still met 14 fighter in the air again... where do those bastards come from? Lae? [&:] Our heavy bombers are ruling every air engagement though and the theory about the bombers always coming through seems to be true. Heavy rain prevented us from really trashing the base though...

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Morning Air attack on Finschhafen , at 100,126

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 2



Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 15


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 3 damaged



Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 5

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead
264th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIa Nick (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead

follow on strike and another fighter is shot down... kill rate A2A for my B-17E during this campaign must be somewhere between 2 to 3:1. Add in the destroyed ac on the ground and the B-17E is definetely my best fighter killer. Op losses stay low. Only naval search is causing massive losses, the Catalinas must have been quite useless trash aircraft...

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Morning Air attack on Finschhafen , at 100,126

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 42 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 6


No Allied losses



Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

and the third strike... the "strike packs" are still causing me headache...

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Morning Air attack on 24th Infantry Regiment, at 76,137 (Tennant Creek)

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 12
B-17E Fortress x 38


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
225 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)



Aircraft Attacking:
4 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
10 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

Also attacking 2nd Engineer Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Recon Regiment ...
Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Recon Regiment ...
Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Engineer Regiment ...
Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Recon Regiment ...
Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...

thunderstorm in the dessert again, we´re still causing nice damage...

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Morning Air attack on Finschhafen , at 100,126

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 6


No Allied losses



Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 8

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

and the fourth strike against Finschhafen today... still having one squadron flying B-17D with a dozen more of those bombers in the pool. Will use up the pool and when the squadron only got halve of it´s bombers left I will upgrade to another type...



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ASW attack near Sapporo at 118,50

Japanese Ships
DD Kuretake

Allied Ships
SS Silversides



SS Silversides is sighted by escort
DD Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kuretake attacking submerged sub ....
DD Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Ground combat at Malaybalay (80,90)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 4064 troops, 32 guns, 17 vehicles, Assault Value = 213

Defending force 9903 troops, 58 guns, 50 vehicles, Assault Value = 411


Allied ground losses:
6 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)


Assaulting units:
4th Tank Regiment
146th Infantry Regiment

Defending units:
3rd/101st PA Battalion
103rd PA Infantry Regiment
3rd PA Constabulary Regiment
102nd PA Infantry Regiment
102nd PA Infantry Division
Cagayan USAAF Base Force
III Philippine Corps


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Ground combat at Nabire (86,114)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 303 troops, 2 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 12

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

Japanese adjusted assault: 4

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Nabire !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(-)



Assaulting units:
I/19th Naval Guard Unit


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Ground combat at Akyab (54,45)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 1267 troops, 117 guns, 56 vehicles, Assault Value = 1153

Defending force 68116 troops, 731 guns, 441 vehicles, Assault Value = 2289

Japanese ground losses:
103 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Assaulting units:
45th Indian Brigade
1st Indian Coastal Artillery Regiment
7th Armoured Brigade
20th Indian Division
1st Burma Division
3rd Carabiniers Regiment
44th Indian Brigade
26th Indian Brigade
21st Light AA Regiment
104th RAF Base Force
103rd RN Base Force
1st Burma Auxiliary AA Regiment
107th RAF Base Force
1st Madras Construction Battalion
6th Medium Regiment
1st Bengal Construction Battalion
101st RAF Base Force
24th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
20th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
23rd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
1st South India Base Force
95th Heavy AA Regiment
102nd RAF Base Force
Burma Corps
1st Bombay Construction Battalion
223 Group RAF
108th RAF Base Force
25th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
RAF 223 Group Wing
RAF 221 Group Base Force
103rd RAF Base Force
100th RAF Base Force
4th NW Frontier Base Force
106th RAF Base Force
Pathan Construction Battalion

Defending units:
38th Division
Imperial Guards Division
48th Division
9th Division
11th Tank Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
21st Ind.Mixed Brigade
5th Guards Division
35th Field AA Battalion
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
27th JAAF AF Bn

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR May 28, 42
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ASW attack near Newcastle at 94,169

Japanese Ships
SS I-7

Allied Ships
DD Downes
DD Cassin



SS I-7 is located by DD Downes
I-7 diving deep ....
DD Downes fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Cassin fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Cassin fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Cassin fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Cassin fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Cassin fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

another unsuccesful try of one of our ASW TFs to drive off an IJN sub from close to our major bases...

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ASW attack near Perth at 45,145

Japanese Ships
SS I-162

Allied Ships
AM Cairns



SS I-162 is located by AM Cairns
I-162 diving deep ....
AM Cairns fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Cairns fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Cairns fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Cairns fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Cairns fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

same here...

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ASW attack near Newcastle at 94,170

Japanese Ships
SS I-7

Allied Ships
DD Dunlap
DD Fanning



SS I-7 launches 2 torpedoes at DD Dunlap
I-7 diving deep ....
DD Fanning fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Dunlap fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Dunlap fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Dunlap fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Dunlap fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Dunlap fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

and here... the sub even attacks our TF again...

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Sub attack near Perth at 46,147

Japanese Ships
SS I-11

Allied Ships
AM Eland Dubois, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage [&o]
AM Abraham Crijnssen



SS I-11 launches 6 torpedoes at AM Eland Dubois
AM Abraham Crijnssen fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Abraham Crijnssen fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Abraham Crijnssen fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Abraham Crijnssen fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

and here... [>:] four tries of our ASW TFs to do something against the couple of subs staying just outside of Sydney and Perth with the result of not a single DC dropped, one unsuccesful and one succesful torpedo attack against our ASW TFs... it stays the same, a sub is far more dangerous to ASW TFs than the other way around... pretty funny...

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Amphibious Assault at Sipora

TF 193 troops unloading over beach at Sipora, 43,86

Japanese ground losses:
84 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)





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ASW attack near Sydney at 93,171

Japanese Ships
SS I-7

Allied Ships
DD Fanning
DD Dunlap



SS I-7 is sighted by escort
I-7 diving deep ....
DD Fanning fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Dunlap fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

oh! Another attack by our mighty ASW forces? The usual outcome it seems... you´re in fact better off not using those ASW TFs as you just risk losing a DD for nothing and you just go on with some escorted convoys as it´s less a pain to lose a small freighter than to lose a DD...

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Sub attack near Phuket at 48,68

Japanese Ships
xAK Shoho Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
xAK Okuni Maru
xAK Fukko Maru
xAK Somedono Maru
xAK Eiko Maru #2
DD Satsuki
SC Ch 18

Allied Ships
SS S-37



SS S-37 launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Shoho Maru
S-37 diving deep ....
DD Satsuki fails to find sub and abandons search
SC Ch 18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 18 attacking submerged sub ....
SC Ch 18 is out of ASW ammo
SC Ch 18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

shipping lane to Rangoon, a medium sized freighter is sunk... long time no kill for the S-class subs... the enemy subchaser dropped DCs until being out of ammo...

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ASW attack near Toyohara at 125,47

Japanese Ships
PB Okiyu Maru
PB Kaiun Maru

Allied Ships
SS Silversides



SS Silversides is sighted by escort
PB Okiyu Maru fails to find sub and abandons search
PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

we´re driven off near Northern Japan...

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ASW attack near Newcastle at 94,168

Japanese Ships
SS I-7, hits 1

Allied Ships
DD Perkins
DD Cushing



SS I-7 is sighted by escort
DD Perkins fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Cushing fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Cushing fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Cushing fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Cushing attacking submerged sub ....
SS I-7 eludes DD Cushing by diving deep
DD Cushing fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

and we achieve a near miss... hurrey... if I would be Rainer, with the results lately, I would send out all available subs and would mass them near Sydney - Brisbane and San Francisco - Los Angeles...

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Morning Air attack on Wenchow , at 89,58

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 16



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled


Airbase hits 8
Runway hits 30

Aircraft Attacking:
16 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on 24th Infantry Regiment, at 76,137 (Tennant Creek)

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6



Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 3
B-17E Fortress x 30


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
123 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 5 (0 destroyed, 5 disabled)



Aircraft Attacking:
4 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
11 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
Tainan Ku S-1 Det A with A6M2 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 25000
Raid is overhead
Tainan Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 25000
Raid is overhead
3rd Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 25000
Raid is overhead

Also attacking 2nd Engineer Regiment ...
Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Recon Regiment ...
Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Recon Regiment ...
Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Recon Regiment ...

Halve a dozen Zeroes on escort again but our B-17 escorts take care of them... the Zeroes only get one shot at a Mitchell but lose a fighter to the B-17´s gunners... pretty bad weather in the desert lately...

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Morning Air attack on 2nd Engineer Regiment, at 76,137 (Tennant Creek)

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1



Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 9


No Japanese losses

No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
134 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 9 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)



Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
Tainan Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 25000
Raid is overhead

but we still do good damage...

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Morning Air attack on 24th Infantry Regiment, at 76,137 (Tennant Creek)

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 37 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1



Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 9


No Japanese losses

No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
59 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)



Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
Tainan Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 25000
Raid is overhead

unfortunetely I can´t really mass bombers in the area due to the new stacking limits. Really like those, otherwise 200 bombers here would whipe out the enemy. Like it is now, all my 4Es at this base are set to attack but only a few 2Es with all the Marauders there stood down. I would like to use my mediums only here but with the Zero threat I can not afford that. We just need the B-17 to do escort duty and therefore B-17s are flying with the Mitchells instead of the Marauders...


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ASW attack near Newcastle at 94,168

Japanese Ships
SS I-7

Allied Ships
DD Perkins
DD Cushing



SS I-7 launches 4 torpedoes at DD Perkins
DD Perkins fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Cushing fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Cushing fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Cushing fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Cushing fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Cushing fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

no hit? Guess at some point I-7 will just run out of torps and will have to retire... the ASW TFs can´t force it home anyway...

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Ground combat at Akyab (54,45)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 1259 troops, 116 guns, 56 vehicles, Assault Value = 1157

Defending force 68147 troops, 731 guns, 441 vehicles, Assault Value = 2297

Japanese ground losses:
57 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


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 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)


Assaulting units:
1st Indian Coastal Artillery Regiment
44th Indian Brigade
3rd Carabiniers Regiment
7th Armoured Brigade
1st Burma Division
45th Indian Brigade
20th Indian Division
26th Indian Brigade
RAF 221 Group Base Force
107th RAF Base Force
23rd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
1st Burma Auxiliary AA Regiment
20th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
103rd RAF Base Force
1st Madras Construction Battalion
1st South India Base Force
106th RAF Base Force
103rd RN Base Force
Burma Corps
6th Medium Regiment
4th NW Frontier Base Force
24th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
RAF 223 Group Wing
21st Light AA Regiment
101st RAF Base Force
223 Group RAF
1st Bengal Construction Battalion
95th Heavy AA Regiment
100th RAF Base Force
25th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
104th RAF Base Force
102nd RAF Base Force
108th RAF Base Force
1st Bombay Construction Battalion
Pathan Construction Battalion

Defending units:
Imperial Guards Division
48th Division
21st Ind.Mixed Brigade
9th Tank Regiment
9th Division
38th Division
11th Tank Regiment
5th Guards Division
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
35th Field AA Battalion
27th JAAF AF Bn

our bombardments become pretty useless again... would be cool if the next official patch would come out sooner than later as the bug of not taking replacements really hurts me in this PBEM. And the further we get, the more it hurts me of course as my units just don´t take any replacements after upgrading their devices. Some bugs are really a joke and are game killers if you reach a certain point... I´m drowning in my pool of squads and tanks, yet for example my armored units move around with a dozen tanks...[8|]

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR May 29, 42
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Submarine attack near Akyab at 54,44

Japanese Ships
SS I-156, hits 1

Allied Ships
xAKL Belray, Shell hits 8, heavy fires, heavy damage



xAKL Belray is sighted by SS I-156
SS I-156 attacking on the surface
SS I-156 low on gun ammo, Ikura I. breaks off surface engagement and submerges

I-156 kills one of my small supply freighters going to Akyab... the 12cm shell hits were easily enough to kill the small freighter...

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Submarine attack near Akyab at 54,44

Japanese Ships
SS I-156

Allied Ships
xAKL Belray, Torpedo hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage



xAKL Belray is sighted by SS I-156
SS I-156 launches 8 torpedoes

... but I-156 then decided to attack again, this time with one of the (wrong) 8 torp salvoes... 4 torps slam into the already dead ship...

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ASW attack near Hengchun at 85,68

Japanese Ships
DD Hatakaze
SC Ch 17

Allied Ships
SS Permit



SS Permit is located by DD Hatakaze
Permit diving deep ....
DD Hatakaze fails to find sub and abandons search
SC Ch 17 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 17 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 17 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 17 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 17 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 17 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

while our subs are driven off...

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Sub attack near Aogashima at 111,65

Japanese Ships
xAK Yosida Maru #3
PB Narita Maru

Allied Ships
SS Halibut



SS Halibut launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Yosida Maru #3
Halibut diving deep ....
PB Narita Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Narita Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Narita Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Narita Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Narita Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

or fire duds...

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Morning Air attack on 8th Chinese Corps, at 76,54 (Kweilin)

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 18 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-36 Ida x 17
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 8
Ki-44 Tojo x 3



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-36 Ida: 1 damaged



Aircraft Attacking:
17 x Ki-36 Ida bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 30 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 14th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 8th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 14th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 8th Chinese Corps ...

Rainer obviously has spotted my troops at Kweilin marching West... just to make him nervous, I can´t do any offensive action anyway... and I won´t enter a clear hex for sure as two dozen IJA 150mm guns would wreck my whole Army...

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Morning Air attack on Sian , at 83,41

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 13



No Japanese losses



Runway hits 5

Aircraft Attacking:
13 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 11000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

those attacks are 100% useless... Sian has the amazing amount of 80 supplies (yes, 80...) and I´m not building any forts due to lack of supply anyway so these attacks achieve nothing... and airfield damage is repaired without using supplies anyway... can be seen as training runs at best...

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Morning Air attack on 2nd Engineer Regiment, at 76,137 (Tennant Creek)

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 24 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 21
B-17E Fortress x 43


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
304 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 14 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 16 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Vehicles lost 6 (1 destroyed, 5 disabled)



Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
7 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Recon Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Engineer Regiment ...
Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Engineer Regiment ...
Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Engineer Regiment ...
Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Recon Regiment ...
Also attacking 2nd Engineer Regiment ...
Also attacking 24th Infantry Regiment ...

we continue our attacks on the LCUs at Tennant Creek doing some nice damage again despite another day with thunderstorms in this desert hex... amazingly, a nice combined strike today... all bombers in one attack...

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Afternoon Air attack on Milne Bay , at 101,133

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 29


Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged



Port hits 13
Port supply hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
9 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

Milne Bay´s port is visited by a couple of strike packs... very small garisson there, port 2, airfield 0, enemy probably only building forts...

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Afternoon Air attack on Milne Bay , at 101,133

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 5
B-17E Fortress x 6


No Allied losses



Port hits 6
Port supply hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
5 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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ASW attack near Toyohara at 125,48

Japanese Ships
DD Kuretake

Allied Ships
SS Growler



SS Growler is sighted by escort
DD Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

Kuretake is part of an ASW TF patrolling in Northern Japan... we know this ship very well already...

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Ground combat at Sipora (43,86)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 365 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 13

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

Japanese adjusted assault: 13

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 13 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Sipora !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(+)



Assaulting units:
2nd Sasebo SNLF Coy


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Ground combat at Akyab (54,45)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 1260 troops, 115 guns, 56 vehicles, Assault Value = 1162

Defending force 68376 troops, 731 guns, 441 vehicles, Assault Value = 2323

Japanese ground losses:
76 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)



Assaulting units:
3rd Carabiniers Regiment
7th Armoured Brigade
1st Indian Coastal Artillery Regiment
45th Indian Brigade
44th Indian Brigade
1st Burma Division
20th Indian Division
26th Indian Brigade
1st Bengal Construction Battalion
25th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
104th RAF Base Force
RAF 221 Group Base Force
24th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
6th Medium Regiment
108th RAF Base Force
101st RAF Base Force
95th Heavy AA Regiment
23rd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
4th NW Frontier Base Force
103rd RAF Base Force
1st Burma Auxiliary AA Regiment
Burma Corps
106th RAF Base Force
100th RAF Base Force
RAF 223 Group Wing
102nd RAF Base Force
1st Madras Construction Battalion
20th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
223 Group RAF
1st South India Base Force
103rd RN Base Force
21st Light AA Regiment
1st Bombay Construction Battalion
107th RAF Base Force
Pathan Construction Battalion

Defending units:
Imperial Guards Division
11th Tank Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
48th Division
21st Ind.Mixed Brigade
9th Division
38th Division
5th Guards Division
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
35th Field AA Battalion
27th JAAF AF Bn

the enemy troops at Akyab are reported to be moving East and those bombardments only got one purpose, to slow the enemy movement. This should prevent the enemy from moving in "move" mode... guess it will take the IJA divs one and a halve months to reach the Japanese bases in Burma... and time is on my side, 5 divs and 1 bgd less to worry about for the next two months as they also need some rest... [:D] while the enemy´s attack on Cox´s Bazar was succesfully due to my div surrendering there (even though it had a nice retreat path and the other units retreated), the attack on Akyab was stalled. We couldn´t really hurt the enemy, other than disabling some 600 squads but the most important thing is the time we won. The enemy attack failed and all in all this operation will have taken him 3 to 4 months. We´re nearly in June and we´re only growing stronger... what we really lack is a strong airforce in India. The British bombers are mainly useless (Hudsons and Blenheims, with 6 Wellingtons per month) and I´ve got no US squadrons there yet. Some are coming in as reinforcements, some more are shipped there at the moment. But when those squadrons arrive there, we will still lack the bombers to fill them out and I don´t want to use up all my pool replacements as those are needed at other fronts that have higher priority. Leaves the British fighters, the Hurricanes do quite good against the Oscars (if not bounced en masse) and do even better against the Zeroes as the Hurricanes can go higher than the Zeroes and therefore we bounce them. Everything will change with the arrival of the Tojo which will start mass production in the next days. Intel tells us that over a hundred Tojos will leave the factories each month and there´s no doubt that the whole IJAAF will fly Tojos soon. The Tojo is superior to all Allied figthers except the Lightning. Means we are again highly outclassed until early 43 when a couple of Corsairs arrive each month. We won´t start having a real competitive fighter force before mid/late 43. Especially the backbone of our fighter squadrons until mid 43, the P-40, is totally outclassed by everything the IJAAF and IJNAF can field. We will only be able to counter this wiss massed 4E attacks but "massed" only works if we don´t get a lot of those "strike packs".