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ASW attack near Nagasaki/Sasebo at 101,59
Japanese Ships
SC CHa-32
SC CHa-1
Allied Ships
SS Sturgeon
SS Sturgeon is located by SC CHa-32
Sturgeon diving deep ....
SC CHa-32 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-32 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-32 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-32 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-32 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
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Sub attack near Nagasaki/Sasebo at 101,59
Japanese Ships
xAKL Saiho Maru
PB Toshi Maru #2
Allied Ships
SS Sturgeon
SS Sturgeon launches 4 torpedoes at xAKL Saiho Maru
PB Toshi Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toshi Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toshi Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toshi Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toshi Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
dud
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Sub attack near Nagasaki/Sasebo at 101,59
Japanese Ships
SC CHa-1
SC CHa-32
Allied Ships
SS Sturgeon
SS Sturgeon launches 4 torpedoes at SC CHa-1
SC CHa-32 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-32 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-32 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-32 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-32 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
ploink
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Morning Air attack on Prome , at 55,50
Weather in hex: Thunderstorms
Raid detected at 23 NM, estimated altitude 43,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 4
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 1
Allied aircraft
P-38E Lightning x 21
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
P-38E Lightning: 1 destroyed
Aircraft Attacking:
14 x P-38E Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet
CAP engaged:
11th Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (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 38000
Raid is overhead
15th Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 6000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes
interesting... first stratosphere sweep after the latest patch and my Lightnings got bounced by the Zeroes that have been set to fly at 6.000ft... first time in this campaign... strange things happen if you know that nothing has been changed? [&:] until exactly this turn it would have been true that such a number of fighters on a sweep flying higher than such a small number of fighters on Cap, the sweep would get the endless "dive" to whipe the floor with the Cap. In this surprising case noone had the "dive" in the beginning, changing over to the "dive" for the Oscars and the Zeroes to end with the "dive" for the Lightnings... very, very interesting... nothing has been changed with the patch, yet both my opponent and me have noticed that this was "strange" so to say... ???
not that I wouldn´t like it, it´s just not what has been true in the six months game time before...
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Morning Air attack on 100th Chinese Corps, at 89,56
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 3
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
22 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
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Morning Air attack on Prome , at 55,50
Weather in hex: Thunderstorms
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 43,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 8
Allied aircraft
P-38E Lightning x 3
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
P-38E Lightning: 1 destroyed
CAP engaged:
15th Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(6 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
4 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 6000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes
11th Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (8 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(8 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
8 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 38000
Raid is overhead
here only we were dived on... and again we have been the ones that were coming in higher... amazing, amazing... we still get a 2:1 A2A today but that´s far from what we could afford...
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Afternoon Air attack on Finschhafen , at 100,126
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 3
Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 43
No Japanese losses
Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 5 damaged
Japanese ground losses:
8 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Airbase hits 9
Airbase supply hits 10
Runway hits 92
Aircraft Attacking:
7 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-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
9 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
CAP engaged:
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (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 10000
Raid is overhead
better to just have heavy bombers deal with enemy fighters...
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Afternoon Air attack on Finschhafen , at 100,126
Weather in hex: Partial cloud
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 9
Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 6
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 2 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:
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (9 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(8 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
9 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead
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Afternoon Air attack on Finschhafen , at 100,126
Weather in hex: Partial cloud
Raid spotted at 26 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes
Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 9
No Allied losses
Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 24
Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
even if they go in in piecemeal strike packs all the time...
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Afternoon Air attack on Finschhafen , at 100,126
Weather in hex: Partial cloud
Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes
Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 9
Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged
Japanese ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 14
Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
nav search has been the killer of the day again... I can´t go lower with my nav search settings and I won´t, as it´s more or less useless already anyway so I´ll just take the losses until I´ve got so few squadrons left that 17 PBY replacements per month will be enough to keep them fully operational... at some point I will just strip the Pacific of patrol squadrons and will only have them near the frontline
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Ground combat at Malaybalay (80,90)
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 1080 troops, 61 guns, 92 vehicles, Assault Value = 275
Defending force 9641 troops, 48 guns, 50 vehicles, Assault Value = 396
Assaulting units:
4th Tank Regiment
3rd Tank Regiment
146th Infantry Regiment
3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
Defending units:
3rd PA Constabulary Regiment
3rd/101st PA Battalion
103rd PA Infantry Regiment
102nd PA Infantry Regiment
102nd PA Infantry Division
Cagayan USAAF Base Force
III Philippine Corps
