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

[dennishe]

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

Just to say that i truly love this AAR.... not only because it's greatly made, but also because this match is very particular and full of great actions!

Keep it up!

thx

Thanks! I'm glad you like it as I'm about to start a second AAR of this kind.
Yes, this game is a lot of fun and full of action. As a result though I'm very short on APs and CVs.

I also like your AAR a lot by the way.

[dennishe]

A quote from my opponent which sums up everything:

Wow someone put a division on Tarawa. Great recon done by the boys [:@]
Ahhhhhhhhhhh, well played, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[dennishe]

And another page with pictures to capture the atmosphere of the battle...

[rader]

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

Just to say that i truly love this AAR.... not only because it's greatly made, but also because this match is very particular and full of great actions!

Keep it up!

thx

Yes, very nice AAR! I love all the pictures, it makes it a lot of fun to read.

[dennishe]

Yes, very nice AAR! I love all the pictures, it makes it a lot of fun to read.

I'm glad you like it.

[dennishe]

For some reason battleships take a very important role in this war, whereas carriers have hardly been involved. There was only one carrier vs carrier battle so far (wherein the CV Wasp and CVL Zuiho were sunk) and one one-sided carrier battle wherein KB sank two obsolete US Navy battleships. This one again is a "traditional" battleship vs battleship battle. And the Royal Navy did great [:D]

[dennishe]

Although the battle for Karachi was won, the Japanese blockade just moved further back. Attacking it now with the battleships would make them susceptible for an attack by the carrier based aircraft possitioned further to the south.

[Sly]

For several weeks I dont have so much time to look on the forum but when I'm here always reading your AAR.
It is so good !!! He heh. Merry Christmas..

[dennishe]

ORIGINAL: Sly

For several weeks I dont have so much time to look on the forum but when I'm here always reading your AAR.
It is so good !!! He heh. Merry Christmas..

Thanks. I wish you and everybody else who reads this also a merry Christmas.

Usually I have a pretty good idea why one of my opponents is making a particular move. This time I'm confused. KB is loitering around Sydney for quite a while now and it hardly has found any juicy targets except for a single CL that was already under repair at port Sydney.

[dennishe]

Slowly the US Army is filling all its squadrons with P39s, P40s and P38s and especially with 65 new P40Ks arriving every month things start to look very nice. Especially since we are now winning every dogfight over New Guinea [:D]

[dennishe]

For the ones interested you can now also download this story as a pdf file. This reads easier. You can download the different chapters below via my dropbox. It may take a while for some of these to load. Enjoy,


Chapter 1: Suprise attack on Pearl Harbor

Chapter 2: Invasion of the Philippines

Chapter 3: The battle for Singapore

Chapter 4: Invasion of the Dutch East Indies

Chapter 5: The fall of Hong Kong

Chapter 6: Early Central Pacific Operations

Chapter 7: The Battle for Australia

Chapter 8: The Second Sino - Japanese War

Chapter 9: The Battle for India

Chapter 10: New Zealanders at War

Chapter 11: The Southwest Pacific Theatre

Chapter 12: The Burma Campaign

Chapter 13: Operation "Thunderstruck"

Chapter 14: The Central Pacific, back on the defensive

[dennishe]

India is mine again [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

[dennishe]

The VII Bomber Command is now located at T. and 4 (more in the future?) B24D squadrons are flying from the airbase bombarding several targets in the Marshall Islands. For now a ground attack on Jaluit and a port attack on Kwajalein have been carried out. [:D]

[dennishe]

The boys had to walk for quite a bit but now it is time for them to kick Japanese ass [:D]

[Crackaces]

Both of our games are following similar strategies .. you are much further along and I follow this thread with much anticipation [;)]

I am also developng Tabiteueua and I am currently stationing the 7th USAAF to project power into the Southern Marshall's as you ahve successful demonstrated . .. the other front of interest is how you are maintaining supply into Northern Oz. I am folowing Ksfgo's advice here ..but I think the beta has different supply behavior now that is quite unexpected to the veteran JFB ...[8D]

[dennishe]

ORIGINAL: Crackaces

Both of our games are following similar strategies .. you are much further along and I follow this thread with much anticipation [;)]

I am also developng Tabiteueua and I am currently stationing the 7th USAAF to project power into the Southern Marshall's as you ahve successful demonstrated . .. the other front of interest is how you are maintaining supply into Northern Oz. I am folowing Ksfgo's advice here ..but I think the beta has different supply behavior now that is quite unexpected to the veteran JFB ...[8D]

This is an open AAR, which means that my opponent is also allowed to take a look. I therefore cannot tell you here how I'm supplying northern OZ. If you are really interested I can send you a PM. I'm not sure though how the beta handles supplies in northern OZ compared to vanilla WITPAE. I do think that Tabiteuea is a key base if build up and I will always try to take it and reinforce it in an early stage in the war.

[dennishe]

Slowly the heavy bombers are put to work. 4 squadrons of B24Ds are daily bombarding Japanese positions in the Marshalls and 4 squadrons of B17Es are daily bombarding Noumea.

[dennishe]

For some reason either my naval commanders are total cowards and are the first ones to jump off a burning ship, or for some reasons naval captains are no longer being removed from the game after their ship sinks. RADM Shafroth should have went down with his ship, the CA Houston and indeed is no longer aboard any of the ships that still remain in the task force. However, one can still pick him from the list of commanders to command a new TF. I had the same thing with VADM Philips, whose ship the BB Repulse sank while he was on it. Do naval commanders still die in beta?

[dennishe]

I was holding back some updates as I didn't want to give my opponent (who is allowed to read this AAR) any information what to expect at Wake Island. Since the battle has commenced there is no reason not to post anymore

[dennishe]

With a 6000 stacking limit there is no place for base forces, thus AV Wright was used to maintain the Catalinas and Wildcats at the base. Since the presence of KB has been established and the few F4F-3s cannot do anything anyways it was time for AV-1 to leave