Bettys in the sky with diamonds- Gladiatt (A) vs John_Smid (J). No John please

[rtrapasso]

It's always useful to damage a major unit... since the speed of repairs is based on DUR (inverse relationship - the higher the DUR, the slower the repairs), it may be some time before the damage is off Yamato... i've had BBs sitting in SF for WEEKS trying to get off just 10 damage (and still not done).

[gladiatt]

screenshot is not perfect: only took the OOB;
yunan besieged since 1st march

[gladiatt]

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slaughter in China

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WHAT'S THIS MESS ??
My planes on escort or LRCAP never engage the jap LRCAP !!! resulting in slaughter of my bombers !!
How can a game be so stupid ???

[gladiatt]

and once more

[gladiatt]

DEI ; trying to build Aru Island: too far from my LRCAP from Darwin.
Cost: 3 AK+ 1 PT Boat; 5 Brewster. 1 zero downed. 140 mens and 19 vehicules of a See Bee unit.
Building too slow....

[gladiatt]

4th march. Jap still on the offensive ??
No capability for me to react : CV all together, far away and WITHOUT fuel.

[rominet]

Salut

une torpille sur le Yamato, je t'assure que ça risque de lui prendre nettement plus que 15 jours de réparations.
Ça m'est arrivé une fois: 20 pts de dommage système, 3 mois plus tard, il n'était toujours pas complétement réparé.
Comme dit rtapasso, plus un navire a une durabilité élevée, plus ça prend de temps à réparer.
Maintenant, l'inconnue est le réel dégât système du navire.

PS; tiens, mon AAR "betty in the sky with torpedoes" va reprendre en novembre.[:D]

[gladiatt]

4th time.
My LRCAP and escort don't engage (except for 3 poor Hurricanes torn by the japs).
My sweep didn't fly.
Slaughter in China.

Enough is enough, i give up, too many things depend on random or on stupid game system.

[gladiatt]

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[rtrapasso]

LR-CAP will NEVER assist any attacking bombers: that is just the way the game is structured (with LR CAP you are telling your pilots "JUST DEFEND THE HEX - DO NOT ASSIST ANYONE)... it is ONLY useful in protecting the hex FROM attacking ENEMY bombers.

If you want to get fighters to escort your bombers more effectively, you need:
1) get more effective leaders in your fighter squadrons.
2) you need to the AIR-HQ units involved: set the objective of the unit to the area you want attacked... this will mobilized more fighters (and bombers) to fly when attacking that hex.

[gladiatt]

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[gladiatt]

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[flaggelant]

the fact that your sweeps dont hit might be because their alltitudes are different from the incoming Fighters?
so you might wanna check their last alt from a combat report and set yours to the same altitude + 1000 or 2000.
(being higher is an advantage, but if their to high to see em its kind of a disadvantage)

[rtrapasso]

Again: you can get more aircraft to sweep using better leader for your squadrons (aggressiveness, air combat, and admin abilities)... and use those air HQ units... it doesn't matter if they are British or US: if you want to have an offensive against (say) Rangoon, set the air HQ at a major air base to have its objective for Rangoon...

The game does a die roll (1-100) and checks vs. the prep level of the HQ... if the "save" is made, then the HQ lends its effect to the air units under its command... so after about 3 months, ALL the units in range will benefit.

[jomni]

So is gladiatt quitting?  Too bad because I enjoyed the AAR up until the latest posts.

[gladiatt]

ORIGINAL: jomni

So is gladiatt quitting? 

Really thinking about it


Too bad because I enjoyed the AAR

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up until the latest posts.

- Yeah, that's what i thought

[gladiatt]

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[gladiatt]

just had an mail exchange with my opponant.
He is giving me time to relax. This guys is great and i could recomand it to anyone because he is really reliable and cool !

i will try to stick back to this %*][:@] war in a few days.
Just give me time to breath.

And still my apologize to everyone

[gladiatt]

6th march 1943 see 2 giants dogfights in the Pacific.


Darwin (Australia)

Since 3 days now , a base force and a SeeBee unit are landed on Aru Island, hopping to create a new airfield.
Dutch Brewster 339D gave long range cover against Zeros and Sallys coming from Amboine, but these planes are a bit crappy.
9 brewster are lost in 2 days (4th and 5th march) for 2 Zeros and 1 sally (not so bad !). But 2 AK are sunk, 3 others damaged.

Seing the building too slow to my taste ( 1% of airstrip per day), and wishing to avoid the same fate than Koepang, i did "play" the wet chicken for the second wave ( an australian AA unit and an australian engineer battalion), thinking that every thing would be disrupted too quickly by the japs bombers. The ships that had just departed Darwin get back to the port. I will find another target, with others assets, later ( when i will have decent long range fighters in good number).

On 6th march, 16 sally and 9 Helen straffe my PT Boat TF that was warding Aru, sinking 2 and damaging one.
But for some unknow reason, a jap raid targetted Darwin :



(sorry about the screenshot, it failed on first try, and then the map on the side disapear, but this is Darwin).
The new arrived P-38 of 24th FG/C give help to the dutch and australians squadrons. 31th RAAF Squadron, Beaufighter, suffer against the zeros: 5 beaufighters are downed (and 2 pilots lost), but manage to shot 3 betty in reply.
The whole dogfight costed 7 allied planes (with the 5 beaufighters, 1 Hurricane and 1 P-38).
It costed the japs 17 zeros and 20 Bettys !

[gladiatt]

Efate


There was (at least) ASW naval assets trying to hunt the usual japs subs spotted there. Once more these assets don't have luck.
15 bettys from Guadalcanal attacks 2 australians MSW, sinking MSW Kalgoorlie. The LRCAP of my planes was given, this day, to another TF of AK unloading supplies in Luganville. Too bad....
Another raid by 2 bettys score a torpedo hit against SC 751 wich sink in a few minutes.

Altough KB was seen closing to Fiji, i had given orders for a A-24 squadron to bomb Efate airfield, always in the mind of keeping it closed.
But KB came near, and send a LRCAP of Zeros above Efate . It costed me 2 bombers for 1 zeros