The intel has become more accurate. There are several airfields that are between size of 4-5 around Guadacanal. It seems he has been building up here.
Another note worthy thing is that I think he has anywhere between 400-700 aircraft gathered here also.
Allied LBA bombers did fly missions againts Tulagi, Lunga, Munda and Port Moresby. Only Munda is getting decent hits and has 80% airfield damage. He can fly CAP there but no bombers.
Carriers launched strikes againts enemy supply ships unlodiang at Guadacanal. The casualty levels did rise up due to heavy resistance of japanese airfoce untis.
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Morning Air attack on TF, near Thousand Ships Bay at 114,136
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 27
A6M3a Zero x 17
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 18
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 9
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 63
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 10
Allied aircraft
Martlet IV x 6
F4F-4 Wildcat x 48
F6F-3 Hellcat x 63
SBD-5 Dauntless x 13
TBF-1 Avenger x 13
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed
A6M3a Zero: 1 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 5 destroyed
F6F-3 Hellcat: 1 destroyed
SBD-5 Dauntless: 2 destroyed, 2 damaged
TBF-1 Avenger: 4 destroyed, 3 damaged
Japanese Ships
xAK Nichiryo Maru, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAK Eiko Maru #2, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Hirota Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Mochizuki
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Morning Air attack on TF, near Thousand Ships Bay at 114,136
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 38 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 22
A6M3a Zero x 16
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 15
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 8
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 58
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 10
Allied aircraft
Martlet IV x 6
F4F-4 Wildcat x 30
F6F-3 Hellcat x 40
TBF-1 Avenger x 1
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 destroyed
Ki-45 KAIa Nick: 1 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 4 destroyed
F6F-3 Hellcat: 4 destroyed
TBF-1 Avenger: 1 destroyed
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Morning Air attack on TF, near Thousand Ships Bay at 114,136
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 19 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 16
A6M3a Zero x 12
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 13
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 8
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 41
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 6
Allied aircraft
Martlet IV x 2
F4F-4 Wildcat x 14
F6F-3 Hellcat x 21
TBF-1 Avenger x 3
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed
A6M3a Zero: 2 destroyed
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 destroyed
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 1 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
Martlet IV: 1 destroyed
F4F-4 Wildcat: 4 destroyed
F6F-3 Hellcat: 4 destroyed
TBF-1 Avenger: 2 destroyed
Japanese Ships
xAK Hirota Maru, on fire
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Morning Air attack on TF, near Thousand Ships Bay at 114,136
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 52 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 8
A6M3a Zero x 7
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 2
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 4
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 26
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 3
Allied aircraft
F6F-3 Hellcat x 14
SB2C-1C Helldiver x 16
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 2 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
F6F-3 Hellcat: 1 destroyed
SB2C-1C Helldiver: 10 destroyed, 2 damaged
Japanese Ships
xAK Eiko Maru #2, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Hirota Maru, on fire
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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Thousand Ships Bay at 114,136
Weather in hex: Partial cloud
Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 44 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 23
A6M3a Zero x 14
A6M5 Zero x 7
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 15
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 8
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 42
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 4
Allied aircraft
Martlet IV x 4
F4F-4 Wildcat x 34
F6F-3 Hellcat x 67
SBD-5 Dauntless x 9
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed
A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 destroyed
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 1 destroyed
Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 1 destroyed
Ki-45 KAIa Nick: 1 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
Martlet IV: 1 destroyed
F4F-4 Wildcat: 3 destroyed
F6F-3 Hellcat: 5 destroyed
SBD-5 Dauntless: 6 destroyed, 1 damaged
Japanese Ships
xAK Hirota Maru, on fire
The battle at Ndeni did not go well though. Despite having plenty of supplies our av value was globbered...
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Ground combat at Ndeni (120,143)
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 1329 troops, 40 guns, 173 vehicles, Assault Value = 952
Defending force 4867 troops, 37 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 131
Allied adjusted assault: 24
Japanese adjusted defense: 229
Allied assault odds: 1 to 9 (fort level 3)
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
251 casualties reported
Squads: 7 destroyed, 11 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Vehicles lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Damn... I was for much better results. Another assault is ordered next turn also since fatigue/distruption levels are not high.
Stay tuned for more action.
