Gorn to be wild. vontiger(J) vs geofflambert(A) rematch

[geofflambert]

2/18/42 Changsha has fallen. That has never happened to me before. I dare say it will not be the last thing. On the bright side, this went exactly according to my plan. The Japanese are quickly falling into my trap.

[geofflambert]

Now for your mythology lesson for the day. Here in the magnificent Republic of South Canada, we have a myth which is celebrated on Feb. 2 each year, called "Groundhog Day", where a poor little fat woodchuck is hauled out of its burrow to observe the snow, and if it sees its shadow, we will enjoy 6 more weeks of winter (or something like that[&:]). The Japanese have something very similar, but it involves the Sun Goddess Amaterasu who is hiding in a cave out of fear (that's another story) and the other Gods are trying to coax her out. I will pretend this is occurring on February 17 for the sake of the story. Now the Dawn Goddess (what's her name) begins a bawdy dance in front of the cave in an attempt to draw Amaterasu out....

[geofflambert]

Now the other Gods found this so hilarious that they laughed and laughed. Amaterasu took a peek out of her cave to see what all the commotion was about, and spied her own reflection in a mirror hung from a tree by (what's her name). This caused her to come forth in all her glory, and the day was saved! I bring you this story on the occasion of the fall of Changsha, as the state of the Japanese Imperium always seems darkest before the dawn. As in the movie "Groundhog Day", this is to be repeated ad infinitum. But today they will rejoice and only calm down when Amaterasu goes hiding back in her cave. I will discuss the Moon Goddess when the time seems appropriate, perhaps when the IJN night optics prove superior to the USN radar, at this stage in the game.

[geofflambert]

2/20/42

[geofflambert]

vontiger will be on vacation thru the 16th. He says he'll try to laptop me some turns during that time, but I wouldn't expect to see any of his detailed reports. I'll try to fill in if there's any interesting battles. Here's a baseline for you.

[geofflambert]

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[geofflambert]

I don't think I'm giving away much that he doesn't know.

[geofflambert]

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[geofflambert]

There were earlier (false) reports that Chokai had sunk. I didn't believe them at the time.




I will file other reports on current developments when OPSEC allows. I believe there may be some interesting stuff about to happen.

[geofflambert]

vontiger hasn't gotten this far - 2/16 so I thought I'd show it. I'm not sure I understand what happened here, nor do I know what vontiger makes of this. The report doesn't show that the P-40s actually successfully intercepted. They were all on 100% general training anyway. I didn't think of screen capping the inquiry screen that would have shown them to be air-air or op losses. [&:] If anyone has any thoughts, please speak up.

[vontiger]

02/15/1942

Reported losses for this day are as follows:
Land
Bombardment 84,42- 9 IJA to 7 Chinese (outside Sian)
Attacked Bataan- 927 IJA to 476 Allied
Bombardment Changsha- 90 Chinese
Bombardment Manila- 18 Allied
Bombardment Pingsiang- 0
Attacked Singapore- 2 guns IJA to 31 Allied

Air
Regular Chinese ground bombings- 124 Changsha
Regular Malay ground/af bombings-
Regular Filipino ground/af bombings
Af Bomb Cairns- 2 Des 13 dam Wirraway, 1 Des 4 dam B-17D, 20 dam B-17E+ 6 allied+ 7 base, 1 supply, 33 runway
Sweep/AF Darwin- 1 base+ 16 runway
Bomb Allied units Palembang- 18 Dutch

Navy
Bombardment 69,116- 255 Dutch

Sub

[vontiger]

02/16/1942

Reported losses for this day are as follows:
Land
Attacked 57,89- 39 IJN to 88 Dutch, Dutch held
Attacked 62,97- 42 Dutch, Dutch Held
Attacked 69,116- 8 Dutch, Dutch Held
Bombardment 84,42- 6 Chinese (outside Sian)
Bombardment Bataan- 40 Allied
Bombardment Changsha- 51 Chinese
Bombardment Manila- 0 Allied
Bombardment Palembang- 0 Allied
Bombardment Pingsiang- 0
Bombardment Singapore- 2 guns IJA to 36 Allied

Air
Regular Chinese ground bombings- 173 Changsha
Regular Malay ground/af bombings-
Regular Filipino ground/af bombings
Sweep/AF Darwin- 2 A6M2+ 6 G3M2 des- Training mission hit the raid... I suspect the raid was lower then the training mission ie why my planes got spanked
Bomb Allied units Palembang- 39 Dutch
Bomb Af Port Moresby- 3 base+4 Runway

Navy

Sub

[vontiger]

02/17/1942

Reported losses for this day are as follows:
Land
Attacked 69,116- 8 Dutch, Dutch Held
Bombardment 84,42- 19 IJA to 8 Chinese (outside Sian)
Bombardment Bataan- 22 Allied
Captured Changsha- 1215 IJA to 18856 Chinese
Bombardment Manila- 17 Allied
Bombardment Palembang- 0 Allied
Bombardment Pingsiang- 0
Attacked Singapore- 1460 IJA to 1871 Allied

Air
Regular Chinese ground bombings-
Regular Malay ground/af bombings-
Regular Filipino ground/af bombings
Bomb Allied units Palembang- 18 Dutch
Bomb Af Port Moresby- 2 A6M2 to 1 P-40E + 1 base+ 2 Supply+ 17 Runway
Bomb TF Port Moresby- CM Prins van Oranje 4 bomb sunk
Bomb AF Tuyun- 3 dam DC-2+ 2 base,1 supply-20 Runway

Navy
Amphibious Babo

Sub

[vontiger]

02/18/1942

Reported losses for this day are as follows:
Land
Attacked 57,89- 125 IJN to 148 Allied, Allies held
Attacked 62,97- 10 IJN to 10 Dutch, Dutch Held
Atacked 67,89- 9 British, British Held
Attacked 69,116- 21 IJN to 46 Dutch, Dutch Held
Bombardment 84,42- 11 IJA to 15 Chinese (outside Sian)
Bombardment Bataan- 19 Allied
Bombardment Manila- 1 IJA vech
Attacked Palembang- 222 IJA to 288 Allied
Bombardment Pingsiang- 8
Bombardment Singapore- 86 Allied
Captured Babo

Air
Regular Chinese ground bombings- 219 Pingsiang
Regular Malay ground/af bombings-
Regular Filipino ground/af bombings
Allied Bomb at Buna- 2 dam Wirraway, 8 P-40E Des, 1 Des 3 dam B-17D + 8 base, 3 supply, 11 runway
Bomb Allied units Palembang- 59 Dutch
Sweep Darwin- Clear
Bomb Af/Sweep Port Moresby- 1 A6M2 to 2 Des 2 dam + 1 des on ground P-40E + 4 Allies+ 5 base+ 15 Runway
Bomb AF Tuyun- 1 dam DC-2+ 5 base,2 supply-22 Runway

Navy
Bombardment Cagayan- 37 Allied

Sub
SS RO-63 4 hits to AKL Bordvik 4 shells on fire

[vontiger]

02/19/1942

Reported losses for this day are as follows:
Land
Attacked 67,89- 6 British, British Held
Attacked 69,104- 64 IJN to 226 Dutch, Dutch reteated
Attacked 69,116- 21 IJN to 22 Dutch, Dutch Held
Bombardment- 83,42- 19 IJA
Bombardment- 84,42- 7 Chinese (outside Sian)
Attacked Bataan- 1154 IJA to 930 Allied
Bombardment Manila- 5 Allied
Attacked Palembang- 222 IJA to 288 Allied
Captured Pingsiang- 1738 IJA to 5022 Chinese
Bombardment Singapore- 74 Allied
Captured Ramree Island

Air
Regular Chinese ground bombings-
Regular Malay ground/af bombings-
Regular Filipino ground/af bombings-supply, 11 runway
Bomb Allied units Palembang- 47 Dutch
Sweep Darwin- Clear
Sweep Port Moresby- Clear
Bomb AF Tuyun- 1 dam DC-2+ 8 base,4 supply,30 Runway

Navy

Sub

[geofflambert]

There was no Buna attack on the 19th, he duplicated the 18th attack in error. I'm occasionally finding large discrepancies between his reports and mine, but I don't trust the reports I'm receiving, so [&:]

[geofflambert]

2/23/42 The following bit of humor is not intended to disparage anyone who actually fought at Bataan

Bataan has fallen. The most prominent cause of this was the Japanese' miraculous ability to destroy all supplies on the ground from the air. You would think the bombs would have missed often enough and killed a lot more soldiers. All of the canned peaches and frozen strawberries were blown to smithereens!




Manila still holds, but they still have quite a bit of avocados and cream.

[geofflambert]

more 2/23/42

[moore4807]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

There was no Buna attack on the 19th, he duplicated the 18th attack in error. I'm occasionally finding large discrepancies between his reports and mine, but I don't trust the reports I'm receiving, so [&:]

Yeah I'm having the same thing with my game... My Catalinas and Devastators report hitting SS' @ Midway nearly every turn, but the same 2 subs keep attacking my shipping and ASW ships... I'd think the ASW air was winning the war if the results didn't speak for themselves!

[vontiger]

I have found the same thing. You may be hitting subs, but it isn't the same name but the same class.