Damn the torpedoes, Full speed ahead! - dennishe vs njp72 - early 1944

[dennishe]

Not so much is happening in the central Pacific besides an incidental submarine attack. However, this may change very shortly.

[dennishe]

In the southwest Pacific the boys are up for a tough fight...

[dennishe]

It seems that there is more action to come in the Philippines

[dennishe]

The waters between OZ, New Zealand and Noumea are extremely dangerous...

[dennishe]

The shit hit the fan in Burma. Hopefully some troops can get out of the encirclement...

[dennishe]

More on the Philippines. It is june and the Japanese have by far not won this battle yet...

[dennishe]

Too many views of my carriers in the Japanese periscopes. This one ended well. Pfffff.

[GreyJoy]

gotta admit that i never took a look at this AAR...Boy how wrong i was... in a word: AWESOME!!!!
 
keep it up, please...thrilling game and wonderful looking AAR....[&o]

[dennishe]

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

gotta admit that i never took a look at this AAR...Boy how wrong i was... in a word: AWESOME!!!!

keep it up, please...thrilling game and wonderful looking AAR....[&o]

Thanks!!!
And I have to admit that I also do not read everything on this forum.

[dennishe]

Day two of the Carrier battle at Tabiteuea

[GreyJoy]

Not a single hit?!"?!?!?!?!?!?[:-]

[dennishe]

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

Not a single hit?!"?!?!?!?!?!?[:-]

That was a serious setback. A couple of hits would have made the life of the Allies a lot easier. But I couldn't expect too much from the Dauntless pilots as they were unexperienced land based units in contrast tot the experienced crews on the carriers. Even more astonishing was the sinking of the BB Mississippi by a couple of Japanese destroyers. Aarrrggg...

[GreyJoy]

Slow old BBs are easy prey for the long lance torp attacks. Especially in low visibility conditions it's better to always screen slow BBs with a Destroyer division TF...
 
i feel your pain....

[Karsten]

This form of AAR is great. It msut be a lot of work!

[dennishe]

It seems there is a change for revenge very soon...

[dennishe]

ORIGINAL: Karsten

This form of AAR is great. It msut be a lot of work!

Thanks!
But perhaps suprisingly it doesn't cost a lot of work. I just have paint open next to WITPAE and once a nice shot comes by I make a printscreen. After the turn it is quickly copy pasting and browsing for some photos on the internet. I copy everything to a powerpoint file where I also do the typing. In powerpoint you can save one single page as a JPEG. This is what I post on the forum. And after a while I will convert the whole powerpoint file which still contains every single page into PDF. An than it is truely an E-book which you can scroll through. I will also post these on the forum when the book is a little bigger. Cheers!

[GreyJoy]

Is the pic taken from Il2 Sturmovick1946? ...love that game!!!!
 
1000lb on the Mogami? Penetrating hit?...she could be in a very bad shape if so...

[dennishe]

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

Is the pic taken from Il2 Sturmovick1946? ...love that game!!!!

1000lb on the Mogami? Penetrating hit?...she could be in a very bad shape if so...

I don't know where the picture is from. I just downloaded it from the internet.
I used to play CFS2 and never touched the IL2.
I didn't see black smoke so I still expect her to show up later tonight at T.

[Crackaces]

ORIGINAL: dennishe

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

Is the pic taken from Il2 Sturmovick1946? ...love that game!!!!

1000lb on the Mogami? Penetrating hit?...she could be in a very bad shape if so...

I don't know where the picture is from. I just downloaded it from the internet.
I used to play CFS2 and never touched the IL2.
I didn't see black smoke so I still expect her to show up later tonight at T.

Even if it was not penatrating there is a good chance a 1K bomb caused enough damage to form an escort TF ... [;)] If that annimation is correct it at least caused severe / major damage of some sort ...[My experience is only severe damage hits trigger the flames from the hit as opposed to the flames and black smoke from severe fires ...] Just a thought ...

[dennishe]

The dauntless bombers hit it wit another bomb. Just to be sure [;)]