first of all : thanks to all who gave support about RL. Things are not settle/healed yet.
second: my opponant is once more in hollidays. I hope he enjoy. At first i thought it would slow the game and the AAR, but with the RL issue, this was a most welcome pause.
21th - 27th MARCH - YUNAN
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21st march; my bombers , targetting the japs ground units came unescorted. 12 chinese B-25J are lost for 2 Tony , no result on ground.
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22st march, the japs start an AIR OFFENSIVE against Yunan airfield.
91 japs fighters escort 47 Sallys. My 20 planes loose 10 but in spite of the odds, destroy 30 japs fighters and 5 bombers
. There are 13 hits on the airbase and 31 on runway.
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23th march, my orders were to counter-attack, trying to strike Kunming airfield in japanese hands.
22 chinese B25J and 110 4E (flying from Dacca) only score 7 hits on airbase and 25 on runway.
In the same time , the japs send 2 waves against Yunan, one from Kunming, the others one from Luang Prabang.
200 japs fighters and 120 bombers face my 8 planes (AVG/A was on needless sweep mission above Kunming).
The spitfire of 605 RAF squadron and F4U of VMO 251 exact a great toll to the japs. All my planes are shot, but 21 japs fighters and 2 bombers are destroyed. The Yunan airbase suffer: 18 hits on it, and 56 on runway.
For 605 squadron, reduced to 0 planes , the danger is to be destroyed, as it cannot be transfered elsewhere.
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24th march, at Kunming, the chinese B25J come unescorted ( OUCH), 11 out of 19 are destroyed by a CAP of 70 japs fighters covering the place since my raid of the previous day. At Dacca, weather stuck my 4E on ground
Above Yunan, came 37 japs fighters and 101 sally. AVG/A is still defending the place, 7 P-38 take off. 2 planes are destroyed, one, damaged, will crash on landing (but pilot alive), and they down 12 japs.
The airbase suffer 4 hits, the runway 58, the damages are huge and can't be repaired overnight....the closing of the airfield is just a matter of time....
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25th march
615 RAF squadron (Spitfire Vb) has come to relieve my airforce at Yunan. The japs raid gather 33 Tojo and 150 bombers. My 22 fighters ( with the remnants of VMO 251) loose 4 planes but down 11 jpas fighters and 14 bombers.
My counter strike against Luang Prabang came scattered. 40 US B25C (forget the unit, and lazy to check right now) , unescorted, loose 5 planes scoring no result, but the 110 4E on second wave destroy 12 japs planes (for loosing 6), scoring a few hits on airfield.
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26th march at Yunan, my CAP of 12 planes manage to shoot 18 planes (14 bombers) out of a raid of 160 bombers, for the loss of 1 Spitfire. The flak at Yunan manage to damage 16 others japs . But with 32 hits on runway, my base is now trashed.
At Luang Prabang, once more my first wave of B25C suffer, loosing 6 planes. The second wave of 67 4E, while loosing 11 planes, destroy 9 japs, and score 35 hits on runway.
The same day, 26th march, the japs launch a deliberate attack on the town, with an OOB gathering 9900 AV ! [X(]
The attackers suffer a setback, with 8500 casualties and 200 guns, for 2500 chinese casualties and 70 guns.
But my forts are downed 1 level, to level 8, and it can't be repaired as long as the airfield is damaged.
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27th march, probably being bored of suffering high losses from my fighters, Jan launch a sweep above Yunan, 90 fighters.
I had withdrawn all the planes that i could. AVG/A has disapeared: it has no more planes (same fate as 605 sq).
(on 28th march, a fragment of 34th FS with P-38 land on Yunan, in order to help AVG/A to withdrawn, but the unit will respawn in Sn Francisco, thus negating the advantage of operation GET BACK with AVG/B).....
At Luang Prabang, my 82 4E face 30 Tony. i lost 4 bombers, but destroyed 24 japs on ground or in the air.
The whole week in China has costed me 58 bombers and 28 fighters. The japs had lost 44 bombers and 110 fighters.
Although the industrial outputs of the japs allow this ( estimated production for the japs is twice mine: 800 fighters a month, and brand new models, and 700 bombers; my industry produce roughly 300 fighters, of wich half are craps. this is a topic that i find pretty hard to admit in this game, but anyway this game is good),
my opponant stated in a mail that his airforce suffer.... And it is not going to end.
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