For those of you who are wondering what Doomedmantis is crapping on about (and there would only be a few of you), one of his AGs managed to sink one of my subs.................................
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 07/05/42
Weather: Clear
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Sub attack at 14,43
Japanese Ships
AG 118
Allied Ships
SS S-42, Shell hits 8, on fire, heavy damage
Special mention must go to the crew of AG 206 who last night sunk the incompetantly led submarine S-42. In an engagement where S-42 failed to notice 25 barges steaming along at 5 knots, S-42 surfaced, where the crew of AG 206 quickly put out rounds of AA into the sub.
Nothing much to report - the v2.3 weather bug continues with yet more thunderstorms.
There have not been three consecutive turns in this game without thunderstorms and the result is that my slow to repair IJN BBs and CVs aren't going to go trapsing around copping incidental sys damage - especially if CVs moving around on the ocean either loose A/C in the bad weather or have their CAP grounded etc. etc. infer doomsday events blah blah blah.
On the up side, Raver's hudsons are the only things flying and they carry puny bombs to Irau to bomb my lazy-arse engineers.
In other news there are a lot of ships in Tokyo - just that none of them are headed my way. Was hoping for another couple of AVs, but will have to make do without.
With dancing Bananas and Storm Troopers who needs BBs?
December '42 is not far off, and plans for the offensive are progressing well, with little or no interuption from Luskan. The airfield construction program is running a tad behind, but nothing that a few Seabees can't fix. I will give you all an update on where I have been building these new 'fields later.
Oh yeah, almost forgot.............more thunderstorms.
Never argue with an idiot, he will only drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
Raver's buliding program is gamey! He is depositing a team of engineers on every flyspeck dot one by one, just north of Luganville. He's got about 6 or 8 bases that are 1(0) 1(1) in size and is going to try to build them all up to size 4 airfields. All he is doing is creating many small size 4 airbases south of the autovictory row - and being small, it won't need much supply to achieve a massive autovictory!
He hasn't got as far north as Gavigamana yet - which is dumb because Gavigamana and Nevea are the only possible airfields that are in p-38 range of Irau. These are the only two bases worth bothering with - so I have concluded that Raver is being gamey by building a million stupid little bases that won't impact the outcome of the war, but will contribute greatly to his base points!
I don't mind - he needs every point he can get - and although the allies have plenty of eng units in every scenario, tiring them out early will only mean more time for my "eng" (they really are very, very lazy workers) to complete their lunch breaks/smokoes/siestas and get back to work.
I used to have ships sitting out in the thunderstorms near Gavigamana and Nevea just waiting for the surface combat chance of a lifetime to catch unloading transports . . . But after three months of waiting and crappy weather (Raver could sail the Fairstar up the slot in those thunderstorms and I wouldn't know until days later when the flies arrived on all my islands followed by hundreds of people struggling to get off the "floating matress"!
I think he's probably sitting back waiting for his CVs to be repaired before he tries anything - and when he does it will be PM or Irau, or maybe GG (unlikely, too exposed with Buna supplying PM overland).
In other news I sent 15 of my LCVPs (allied barges) out to hunt down and smoke one of Adm. Arctic's subs at Tulagi and got rewarded with a sunk barge. I'll be arming barge crews with special anti submarine fishing nets and hand grenades to give them an edge.
With dancing Bananas and Storm Troopers who needs BBs?
Originally posted by Luskan Raver's buliding program is gamey! He is depositing a team of engineers on every flyspeck dot one by one, just north of Luganville. He's got about 6 or 8 bases that are 1(0) 1(1) in size and is going to try to build them all up to size 4 airfields. All he is doing is creating many small size 4 airbases south of the autovictory row - and being small, it won't need much supply to achieve a massive autovictory!
There is only ONE base that is on the same hex row as Luganvillie, all the rest are north of the line.
He hasn't got as far north as Gavigamana yet - which is dumb because Gavigamana and Nevea are the only possible airfields that are in p-38 range of Irau. These are the only two bases worth bothering with - so I have concluded that Raver is being gamey by building a million stupid little bases that won't impact the outcome of the war, but will contribute greatly to his base points!
Wanker....just because the bases cannot fly P-38s does not mean that they are no good.....I have "other" aircraft that I am planning to use from them.
I don't mind - he needs every point he can get - and although the allies have plenty of eng units in every scenario, tiring them out early will only mean more time for my "eng" (they really are very, very lazy workers) to complete their lunch breaks/smokoes/siestas and get back to work.
Points are of no interest to me at this point of the game......I only start to worry about points in mid'43. And by then Luskan will be lucky to still own Narua!
I used to have ships sitting out in the thunderstorms near Gavigamana and Nevea just waiting for the surface combat chance of a lifetime to catch unloading transports . . . But after three months of waiting and crappy weather (Raver could sail the Fairstar up the slot in those thunderstorms and I wouldn't know until days later when the flies arrived on all my islands followed by hundreds of people struggling to get off the "floating matress"!
I think he's probably sitting back waiting for his CVs to be repaired before he tries anything - and when he does it will be PM or Irau, or maybe GG (unlikely, too exposed with Buna supplying PM overland).
Keep guessing ratbrain.
In other news I sent 15 of my LCVPs (allied barges) out to hunt down and smoke one of Adm. Arctic's subs at Tulagi and got rewarded with a sunk barge. I'll be arming barge crews with special anti submarine fishing nets and hand grenades to give them an edge.
DoomedMantis you are not!
Never argue with an idiot, he will only drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
In developing news, Luskan launched an air raid and managed to hit the AP "Harris" . Combat details are as follows:-
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 11/26/42
Weather: Overcast
Air attack on TF, near Wunpuko at 51,51
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 16
G4M1 Betty x 12
Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 9
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero x 1 destroyed
G4M1 Betty x 1 destroyed
G4M1 Betty x 5 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat x 2 destroyed
Allied Ships
AP Ormsby
AK Serpens
AP Harris, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
Attacking Level Bombers:
4 x G4M1 Betty at 200 feet
3 x G4M1 Betty at 200 feet
4 x G4M1 Betty at 200 feet
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Air attack on TF, near Wunpuko at 51,51
Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 3
Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 8
Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty x 2 damaged
Allied Ships
SC 738
Attacking Level Bombers:
3 x G4M1 Betty at 200 feet
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Air attack on TF, near Wunpuko at 51,51
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 30
G4M1 Betty x 6
Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 8
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero x 2 destroyed
G4M1 Betty x 3 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat x 2 destroyed
F4F-4 Wildcat x 1 damaged
Allied Ships
TK Bishopdale
SC 741, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
Attacking Level Bombers:
2 x G4M1 Betty at 200 feet
4 x G4M1 Betty at 200 feet
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I am sure that Luskan is far from happy with damage that the raid did. As for the "Harris" well she was 76/76/15 damaged points.......stupid name for a ship anyway, so I scuttled her.
For those of you interested, I am building airfields on the following Islands:-
Aobe Island
Santa Maria
Vanua Lava.
Never argue with an idiot, he will only drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
My surface combat group went up against RAaver's (he was ready for me) and he lost a DD, I lost two DDs, and a CL (although I had about 8 badly damaged ships and he had about 6 damamged ships).
Then his CVs showed up from NORTH of Nevea (man am I going to murder some search plane pilots) and although they only sank my CL, it was convincing. I've been had - there are fat, slow transports at Lunga and in the area, half a dozen smashes up CAs and DDs limping home (still faster than the transports though) and my CVs WAY out of position.
Raver will post the results and gloat - and then we'll have another turn to see how many of my ships escape.
With dancing Bananas and Storm Troopers who needs BBs?
I have no idea where Luskans CVs are and only having a small CV Tf (2 CVs in the TF) it would be folly to chase the crippled ships without knowing what I am sailing into. Yeah I know that I am letting a sitting target go begging, but descression is the better part of valour.
Here is the CR:D
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 11/28/42
Weather: Rain
Night Time Surface Combat, near Wunpuko at 51,51
Japanese Ships
CA Mogami, Shell hits 2
CA Suzuya, Shell hits 3, on fire
CA Kumano, Shell hits 1
CL Sendai
CL Yura, Shell hits 1
CL Kinu, Shell hits 1, on fire
CL Abukuma, Shell hits 1
CL Tatsuta, Shell hits 2
DD Michishio, Shell hits 1
DD Oite, Shell hits 1
DD Yunagi
DD Minekaze
DD Okikaze
DD Akikaze, Shell hits 1
DD Yukaze
DD Hokaze, Shell hits 1
DD Tachikaze, Shell hits 1
DD Numakaze, Shell hits 7, on fire, heavy damage
Allied Ships
BB Washington, Shell hits 2
BB South Dakota
CA Portland, Shell hits 2, on fire
CA Salt Lake City, Shell hits 3
CA Vincennes, Shell hits 1
CL Helena, Shell hits 1
DD Lansdowne
DD Lardner, Shell hits 1
DD Welles, Shell hits 1
DD Gridley
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Wunpuko at 51,51
Japanese Ships
CA Mogami, Shell hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
CA Suzuya, Shell hits 2, on fire
CA Kumano, Shell hits 2, on fire
CL Sendai, Shell hits 1
CL Yura, Shell hits 1, on fire
CL Kinu, Shell hits 6, on fire, heavy damage
CL Abukuma, Shell hits 2
CL Tatsuta, Shell hits 1
DD Michishio
DD Oite, Shell hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
DD Yunagi, Shell hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD Minekaze, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Okikaze
DD Akikaze
DD Yukaze
DD Hokaze, Shell hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD Tachikaze
DD Numakaze, Shell hits 4, and is sunk
Allied Ships
BB Washington, Shell hits 1
BB South Dakota, Shell hits 2
CA Portland, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
CA Salt Lake City, Shell hits 1
CA Vincennes, Shell hits 5, Torpedo hits 2, on fire
CL Helena
DD Lansdowne, Shell hits 3, on fire
DD Lardner, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Welles, Shell hits 7, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Gridley
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Wunpuko at 51,51
Japanese Ships
CA Mogami, on fire, heavy damage
CA Suzuya, Shell hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
CA Kumano, Shell hits 1, on fire
CL Sendai
CL Yura, on fire
CL Kinu, Shell hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
CL Abukuma
CL Tatsuta
DD Michishio
DD Oite, on fire, heavy damage
DD Yunagi, on fire, heavy damage
DD Minekaze, on fire
DD Okikaze
DD Akikaze
DD Yukaze
DD Hokaze, on fire, heavy damage
DD Tachikaze
Allied Ships
PT 66, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
PT 67, Shell hits 22, on fire, heavy damage
PT 109
PT 111
PT 114, Shell hits 2, and is sunk
PT 115
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Air attack on Buna , at 12,38
Raver - if you haven't seen the turn, stop reading this and go and do the turn! Don't want to spoil all the fun.
Well, Raver sent the last turn to me saying that he could hide a lot of stuff in storms. Well, as fortune would have it - I had a lot of stuff hiding in the same storm! Having lost the Kinu and the Yunagi and another DD to Raver's battleships (that CR surface combat phase opened with a 16 inch hit on the Mogami, first shot) it looks like the rest of my smashed 1st wave will survive to return to Japan and be turned into something like machine guns. They are afloat, but they're absolutely whacked - Raver just badly damaged about 15% of my destroyer and 70% of my CL fleets, not to mention some of my better CAs.
But then the 2nd wave arrived this turn, and the story was different. Raver's surface combat groups had gone off to wherever they go when they've been lightly damaged in return for whalloping some IJN ships - and all of his transport groups had returned to Wupunko! Without any screening!
So Kono lead his 3 CAs, 3 CLs, and half dozen or so DDs into the harbour and . . . slammed the Kinugasa onto a big mine - and then the Furutaka. Not to be daunted by the fact that these two ships were now basically crippled and on fire, he pressed on with the attack - somehow surprising the allied task forces.
LONG LANCE TORPEDO ATTACKS RULE!!! They are the best reason to play as the IJN and risk your surface fleet. It was beautiful. It was masterful. It was not worth the price I paid (Kinugasa and Furutaka were bombed and had to be scuttled - the rest of my fleet escaped without a scratch) for the bargain price of: 5 X AK, 6 X AO/TK, 2 X SC, 1 X DD, and over a thousand men drowning during the battle (with many ships sinking after the battle tossing men and guns into the water as well). Two CAs are probably worth about that much I guess so I'll call it even.
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 11/29/42
Weather: Partly Cloudy
Night Time Surface Combat, near Wunpuko at 51,51
Japanese Ships
CA Atago
CA Kinugasa, Shell hits 2, on fire
CA Furutaka, on fire, heavy damage
CL Nagara, Shell hits 2
CL Isuzu, Shell hits 1
CL Tenryu
DD Isokaze
DD Amatsukaze
DD Tokitsukaze
DD Natsugumo
DD Kamikaze
DD Harukaze
DD Matsukaze
Allied Ships
AO Kankakee, Shell hits 7, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
AO Laramie, Shell hits 6, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AO Kennebec, Shell hits 8, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
SC 709, Shell hits 2, and is sunk
SC 738
TK Pecos, Shell hits 3, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Wunpuko at 51,51
Japanese Ships
CA Atago
CA Kinugasa, on fire, heavy damage
CA Furutaka, on fire, heavy damage
CL Nagara
CL Isuzu
CL Tenryu
DD Isokaze
DD Amatsukaze
DD Tokitsukaze
DD Natsugumo
DD Kamikaze
DD Harukaze
DD Matsukaze
Allied Ships
SC 699
SC 739
AK Adhara, Shell hits 32, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
AK Alcyone, Shell hits 4, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK Cassiopeia
AK Cetus
AK Draco, Shell hits 20, on fire, heavy damage
AK Eridanus, Shell hits 5, Torpedo hits 4, and is sunk
AK Murzim, Shell hits 11, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
AK Lyra
AK Sculptor
Allied ground losses:
Men lost 1121
Guns lost 2
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Wunpuko at 51,51
Japanese Ships
CA Atago
CA Kinugasa, Shell hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
CA Furutaka, on fire, heavy damage
CL Nagara, Shell hits 2
CL Isuzu, Shell hits 1
CL Tenryu, Shell hits 1
DD Isokaze, Shell hits 1
DD Amatsukaze
DD Tokitsukaze
DD Natsugumo
DD Kamikaze
DD Harukaze
DD Matsukaze
Allied Ships
DD Fletcher, Shell hits 34, and is sunk
SC 707
SC 708
SC 742, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
SC 743
TK Tallulah, Shell hits 5, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
TK Bishopdale, Shell hits 30, and is sunk
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Air attack on Maizuru 4th SNLF, at 12,38
Allied aircraft
Hudson x 14
no losses
Attacking Level Bombers:
14 x Hudson at 9000 feet
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Air attack on TF at 48,49
Allied aircraft
SBD Dauntless x 18
P-40E Warhawk x 12
Allied aircraft losses
SBD Dauntless x 1 destroyed
SBD Dauntless x 6 damaged
Japanese Ships
CA Furutaka, Bomb hits 6, on fire, heavy damage
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Air attack on TF at 48,49
Allied aircraft
B-26B Marauder x 8
no losses
Japanese Ships
CA Furutaka, on fire, heavy damage
CA Kinugasa, on fire, heavy damage
Attacking Level Bombers:
4 x B-26B Marauder at 6000 feet
4 x B-26B Marauder at 6000 feet
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Air attack on TF at 48,49
Allied aircraft
SBD Dauntless x 15
P-40E Warhawk x 8
Allied aircraft losses
SBD Dauntless x 1 damaged
Japanese Ships
CA Kinugasa, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
Wiley 'ole Raver's CVs have disappeared - probably east of Luganville where I won't be chasing them, but he was right about my CVs being close enough to race out and cover the cripples. IJN CVs are fast.
5 AKs is important for me - I've barely made any dents in Raver's transport fleet so far and this was a good start (although by this stage of the game when I'm playing the USN most IJN players have 20 or 30 of my transports sunk). 6 tankers is a good result, but again, Raver certainly has tankers to spare. Hopefully later in the game if his supply lines extend (doubtful) he'll have to operate his ships with less forward flowing fuel. The last 2 turns and last turn I put the Vincennes out of action (she's off to sit at Pearl beside the San Francisco) and grabbed two more DDs from Raver.
With so many DDs sunk and damaged later in the game hopefully a: my sub threat will be magnified by the lack of DDs to counter them, b: my DDs launch all the more long lance torpedo attacks against Raver's less-screened capital ships, and c: Raver's transports are either unescorted (please!) or CLs and CAs have had to be diverted to escort duty, and away from offensive ops.
Coming up: the dozen smashed up IJN ships return home under heavy CV escort.
With dancing Bananas and Storm Troopers who needs BBs?
Major battles on both sides. Crippling ships can sometimes be even more important then sinking them -- they may never return to the front, especily if you're playing as Japan. Both sides, it sounds lot, got bloodied during the last few days and we're heading back into a recovery period.
Ah, good news on the real war and the fake one.
The US Navy could probaly win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to try -- Samuel Morison
I am in a state of shock.........it was a masterful attack and out of left-field, I was totally caught of balance.
This has really put a dent in my AOs and I will have to work around it some how. In fact I will now have to delay the forth coming operation "Hammer" by at least 2 weeks, maybe even 4.
On the good side, a crippled ship is as good as a sunk ship in my view.
Never argue with an idiot, he will only drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
USN CVs sighted at Efate - tempted to send my CVs after them to wipe them out at all costs. I have 550 aircraft and 68 float planes embarked with my CVs - Surely Raver can't have that many in Noumea, Efate and Luganville?
Two more CVs out would ruin the rest of his CV game. But it is a big risk for my undamaged CV force. Especially if I want to cripple his surface fleet with mine, and then use my CV advantage to stand off in later battles.
Disappointed I didn't get a torpedo hit on one of Raver's BBs - IJN BBs are a poewrful threat to the allies, especially when they think about invading places but only if the Allies don't have 4 or 5 BBs themselves (as I've had in later games).
With dancing Bananas and Storm Troopers who needs BBs?
Christallmighty! Carriers sighted to the north ! And not just one or two but shitloads of them! *Panic* I am no where near ready to fight another CV battle...........................RUN!:eek:
Never argue with an idiot, he will only drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
It gets worse (as if it could!:( ) We now have confirmed sightings of a TF with TEN Cvs now sitting due north north west of Luganville. I cannot even muster a third of that number:(
I think that a large hammer is about to fall on Luganville, it will not be good .
Standby for further reports.
Never argue with an idiot, he will only drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
Raver may have sent his own CVs further north - wherever the hell he has sent them - I cant find them. I've sighting dozens of SCs, hundreds of PT boats around Luganville, maybe 20 tfs - as well as minesweepers and smaller craft at Noumea - Yamaguchi did not launch his strike planes until he found a worthy target: even more of Raver's tankers.
He even managed to get this raid off during a thunderstorm - with more storms next turn hopefully Raver's planes will stay on the ground. Still no idea where the hell he sent his CVs - further north? Wherever it is, my CVs should have intercepted them this turn - halfway between Luganville and Nevea, but no luck.
As for 10 CVs - I only have 10 on his doorstep, but his coastwatchers have rumbled the presence of yet more IJN flat tops (3 reported this turn, 1 last turn) in Lunga harbour - my "cover" CVs for the damaged ships that all made port before the storms (thankfully).
I think after this turn it is probably time to scoot - come back some other time some other place when I'm not expected. Especially since Raver probably just transferred every level bomber on Earth to Noumea and Luganville (like I did against him!).
Enjoy:
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 12/02/42
Weather: Thunderstorms
Air attack on TF at 54,63
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 43
D3A Val x 18
B5N Kate x 15
Japanese aircraft losses
D3A Val x 6 damaged
B5N Kate x 3 damaged
Allied Ships
AO Tippecanoe, Bomb hits 3, on fire
AO Kanawha, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
AO Cuyama, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
MSW Pursuit
SC 704, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
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Air attack on TF at 54,63
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 16
D3A Val x 19
B5N Kate x 14
Japanese aircraft losses
D3A Val x 1 destroyed
D3A Val x 2 damaged
B5N Kate x 3 destroyed
B5N Kate x 6 damaged
Allied Ships
AO Tappahanock
AO Cuyama, on fire, heavy damage
AO Neosho, Bomb hits 3, on fire
AO Kanawha, on fire, heavy damage
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Air attack on TF at 54,63
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 14
D3A Val x 18
B5N Kate x 14
Japanese aircraft losses
D3A Val x 1 destroyed
D3A Val x 3 damaged
B5N Kate x 3 destroyed
B5N Kate x 11 damaged
Allied Ships
AO Tippecanoe, on fire
AO Kanawha, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AO Guadalupe, Bomb hits 3, on fire
TK Suamico, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AO Cuyama, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
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Air attack on TF at 54,63
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 13
D3A Val x 18
B5N Kate x 29
Japanese aircraft losses
B5N Kate x 11 damaged
Allied Ships
AO Cuyama, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AO Merrimack
AO Tippecanoe, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
TK Suamico, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
AO Tallulah, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AO Tappahanock
AO Neosho, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AO Brazos, Bomb hits 5, on fire, heavy damage
I might have even sunk 4 of these! 1 definately sank, and they were on fire big time. Cutting that fuel supply to Wupenko and Luganville will make Raver's job stealing Irau (or wherever he may plan) that much more difficult. Would have preferred CVs or transports however.
My bombers need to stop wasting torpedoes and bombs on SCs. Its embarassing.
With dancing Bananas and Storm Troopers who needs BBs?
*exasperation* I've had bombers stacked up to the eyeballs for the last 2 turns, and none of the cowards will fly !! Luskan is cruising around in my backyard as if it were some P&O luxury weekend and there is not a Fcuking thing that I can do about it! Thank christ he didn't bring an invasion force with him!:(
Never argue with an idiot, he will only drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
Well, my CVs have retired before the usual Buggy weather goes back to constant thunderstorms.
Only action to report since has been that one of Raver's tankers sank in harbour at Noumea, and his p-38s have made 3 consecutive raids escorting hudsons to Buna - they drop 1 bomb, hit the runway from 6000 ft, and loost 2 or 3 planes a mission. Then Raver switched the hudsons to GG - without escort. My CAP was up and outnumbered his hudsons 2 to 1 - and the hudsons got away scott free. Go figure.
New suggestion for the game: half the number of thunderstorms, and add in a once or twice a game typhoon/cyclone weather that kills every plane in the air that turn (And isn't always predicted), can sink, or at least damage ships.
With dancing Bananas and Storm Troopers who needs BBs?
Thank god that Luskans "super" CV TF has gone home, I had NOTHING that could touch it, and I fear that this has now given him the idea that he can sail down south anytime he wants too, with even an invasion force in tow next time? *Shudder*
I have it on good intel that Luskan has at least 12 CVs, while I am struggling to find two ! Friggin PH has decleared that this area is now "Moderate" for ship release, so something big must be happening somewhere else, but man could I use some ships right now!
Never argue with an idiot, he will only drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
