Parry and Spar, or is it... Reluctant Admiral 4.2 Fulkerson(J) vs Moore (A)

[larryfulkerson]

And then there was this attack at Cebu:

[larryfulkerson]

And then there was this attack at Port Moresby:

[larryfulkerson]

Okay Jim, that's all the combat results, you can post your synopsis of the turn now:

[moore4807]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 12, 42
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Apologies to all for slacking, little busy around the house this week.

Larry's bringing a world of hurt to Midway. A BBTF, covered by a CVTF, and I guess the invasion fleet coming soon?

Night Time Surface Combat, near Midway Island at 158,91, Range 22,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
BB Kongo
CA Tone
CL Kitakami
CL Oi
CL Tatsuta
DD Hayashio

Allied Ships
DD Henley, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Patterson, heavy damage


This sub was lurking figuring some IJN subs were coming back - Now even subs are getting damage @ Midway!

ASW attack near Midway Island at 158,91
Japanese Ships
DD Hayashio

Allied Ships
SS Salmon, hits 3

Removing all doubt...

Night Time Surface Combat, near Midway Island at 158,91, Range 10,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
BB Kongo
CA Tone
CL Kitakami
CL Oi
CL Tatsuta
DD Hayashio

Allied Ships
DD Henley, Shell hits 4, and is sunk
DD Patterson, Shell hits 3, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk


Not much else you can do here...Larry's got his BBTF in place, just matter of time.

Night Naval bombardment of Cebu at 80,86 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!
Japanese Ships
BB Hyuga
BB Haruna
CA Aoba
CL Abukuma
CL Yura
CL Jintsu
CL Sendai
DD Umikaze
DD Hamakaze

Allied ground losses:
213 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 39 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Manpower hits 2
Fires 205
Runway hits 7


Efate, Efate, SCTF of 2 IJN DD's - oh and a RO sub there too, an advance party ya think?
,
Day Time Surface Combat, near Efate at 119,155, Range 3,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
DD Kagero
DD Isokaze

Allied Ships
xAKL Wawa, Shell hits 13, and is sunk
xAKL Vichy, Shell hits 14, and is sunk


One less MSW to worry about...

Sub attack near Oosthaven at 48,96
Japanese Ships
DMS W-20, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS O24


I figure Larry's got a CV and maybe 2 CVL/CVE in his CVTF... Not that I can do anything about it!

Morning Air attack on Midway Island , at 158,91
Weather in hex: Light rain
Raid detected at 41 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 24

Allied aircraft
F2A-3 Buffalo x 8

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
F2A-3 Buffalo: 3 destroyed


I cannot figure out why Larry doesnt move some fighters around here to at least bleed me down some?

Morning Air attack on 31st Chinese Corps, at 74,55 (Liuchow)
Weather in hex: Thunderstorms
Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 3

Allied aircraft
H81-A3 x 7

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 2 destroyed

No Allied losses


Like this... [:D] The Buffalo is NO match for the Zero, but I really have no other options.

Afternoon Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 7
G4M1 Betty x 8



Allied aircraft
Blenheim IF x 2
Buffalo I x 12
Hurricane IIb Trop x 10


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Blenheim IF: 1 destroyed
Buffalo I: 2 destroyed


I'll stick with my CVTF #'s assessment, but he must be putting every plane up that can fly...

Afternoon Air attack on Midway Island , at 158,91
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid detected at 76 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 28 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 37
D3A1 Val x 34

Allied aircraft
F2A-3 Buffalo x 2

Japanese aircraft losses
D3A1 Val: 2 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F2A-3 Buffalo: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
AR Medusa, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AE Mauna Loa, Bomb hits 1

Port hits 1
Port fuel hits 1


OK, I'm a bit puzzled, Kate's so far have only bombed, no torps? Not that I'm complaining, ships are going down anyway.

Afternoon Air attack on Midway Island , at 158,91
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid detected at 30 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 10
B5N2 Kate x 2

Allied aircraft
F2A-3 Buffalo x 1

No Japanese losses

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
AR Medusa, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage


At least the silent service is trying...

ASW attack near Midway Island at 158,91
Japanese Ships
CL Tatsuta
DD Hayashio
CA Tone

Allied Ships
SS Salmon
SS Salmon launches 4 torpedoes at CL Tatsuta


Ouch, dadgumit!

ASW attack near Banjoewangi at 57,107
Japanese Ships
PB Shoei Maru

Allied Ships
SS O20, hits 3


A little good news in China...

Ground combat at 86,49 (near Sinyang)
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 7471 troops, 62 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 274
Defending force 13434 troops, 71 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 412


Surprisingly little in way of IJA troops - I have no means or desire to hold the city, just gave him a bloody nose!

Ground combat at Sinyang (86,48)
Allied Shock attack
Attacking force 21925 troops, 119 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 636
Defending force 2892 troops, 24 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 90

Allied adjusted assault: 613
Japanese adjusted defense: 45

Allied assault odds: 13 to 1 (fort level 3)

Allied forces CAPTURE Sinyang !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), op mode(-), preparation(-)
experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
698 casualties reported
Squads: 41 destroyed, 47 disabled
Non Combat: 36 destroyed, 15 disabled
Engineers: 21 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 18 (8 destroyed, 10 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 4

Allied ground losses:
298 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 35 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!


Yes, I'm hitting his units that I have a chance to defeat, bleeding him before he masses...

Ground combat at 84,48 (near Ichang)
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 21712 troops, 161 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 671
Defending force 1272 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 53

Allied adjusted assault: 248
Japanese adjusted defense: 7

Allied assault odds: 35 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), experience(-)
Attacker: leaders(-)

Japanese ground losses:
628 casualties reported
Squads: 17 destroyed, 20 disabled
Non Combat: 12 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 8 (2 destroyed, 6 disabled)
Units retreated 1


Allied ground losses:
61 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 8 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


For those who are thinking I'm not going to retreat in China, I will as soon as Larry starts showing he is getting serious there.
Til then I'm going to try and make him use up his resources repairing his armies.

PS: Larry I'm reading your having your AKE's shuttling supplies? If you disband the AKE's into port they can draw from the port using the "load tenders" button.
This way your AK/AKL's can run the risk of being torp'd and your AKE's stay relatively safe in port.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: moore4807
PS: Larry I'm reading your having your AKE's shuttling supplies? If you disband the AKE's into port they can draw from the port using the "load tenders" button. This way your AK/AKL's can run the risk of being torp'd and your AKE's stay relatively safe in port.

That certainly works for me. The problem is that the base doesn't have the supplies to rearm the AKE's.....not all of them. I'm shipping
them to the base hex like they are peanuts and I can't eat just one. I like your idea of moving supplies to the base however, good one.

[larryfulkerson]

And another thing........that computer controlled TF we allowed to do the bombardment mission........it ended up in the target hex
with the mission of surface combat instead of ending up back in it's base hex getting rearmed. So now I gotta bring 'em back to
the base hex to get rearmed before I can send 'em out to bombard again. I guess that computer controlling things didn't work
after all.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's me turning off the repair of the refineries at Miri until the oil centers get repaired first.

[larryfulkerson]

This check of supply levels at the big three oil producer bases shows everybody is okie dokie except for Palembang which has fallen
below 10K supplies and therefore isn't repairing it's oil centers anymore. D'oh. I'll have to see if I can't find some supplies for Palley.

[moore4807]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

And another thing........that computer controlled TF we allowed to do the bombardment mission........it ended up in the target hex
with the mission of surface combat instead of ending up back in it's base hex getting rearmed. So now I gotta bring 'em back to
the base hex to get rearmed before I can send 'em out to bombard again. I guess that computer controlling things didn't work
after all.

The BBTF automatically becomes a SCTF after the bombardment, you have retirement allowed, so it should have started back to its home base after one turn bombardment. They work prety well for me - although I have had the SCTF hang around for more than one turn too. Usually because I forgot to take off the remain on station command! [:'(]

[larryfulkerson]

I was thinking about turning on the refineries at Palembang to start outputting fuel again and wondered if the fuel level is growing
or shrinking or .....??? and I remembered that Tracker gives us a resource history of the base itself and I see where the fuel level
is going lower because I've shipped out fuel as fast or faster than the refineries can produce it. That's a good sign. It's nowhere
near the max fuel level for Palley yet so there's time yet to get some routes together and working moving the goodies here and
there.

[Saros]

Palembang can pretty much manage to repair its own oil centers with the supply output of the refinery (980 supplies a turn in your case).

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: Saros
Palembang can pretty much manage to repair its own oil centers with the supply output of the refinery (980 supplies a turn in your case).

Oh wow, I hadn't thought of that. Good catch. Thanks.


EDIT: Okay, Jimbo, I've sent my moves to you Sun. 06:03 am and the ball's in your court.

[larryfulkerson]

I started to list all the fuel / oil levels of the Northern PI area but quit half-way done.

[larryfulkerson]

Okay Jim....it's Sunday pm ( 17:58 ) and I've received your moves. What follows are the combat results from 13Feb42:


Wow, five hits on a sub in one attack.....it appears that the DD's are doing better ASW work than the PB's are doing.

[larryfulkerson]

Uh oh, it looks like I may have some ships in trouble. The Allied PT boats are starting to swarm and I'm not sure my air cover will take
care of them all. I may have some surface assets that can help though.

[larryfulkerson]

And then there was this night naval bombardment of Cebu. Not very many casualties even though we had three spotter aircraft
up spotting. The Allies must have been dug in tight.

[larryfulkerson]

Oh no my Midway operation may be in jepardy........I lost a key AO and now there's no way to refuel all those combatants
at Midway. I'll have to see if I can round up another AO or scale back my actions around the island. Or something.

[larryfulkerson]

And then my carrier-borne Zero's do a sweep of Midway and bag another Buffalo.

[larryfulkerson]

And then there's this Jap air raid on Singapore. It went rather well I guess.

[larryfulkerson]

We had even better results with this air raid on Manila: