The Bitter End - Topeverest (A) vs Admiral Kamikaze (E)

[topeverest]

CV's survive 6 seperate air battles

[topeverest]

CV tf takes no hits...amazing

[topeverest]

BB task force attacked 7 times.

NO fighter support there because the P51's were supposed to sweeps Diego - but didn't. AND BB's were supposed to be with carriers.

King George V takes a fish.

2 DD's take bombs.

[topeverest]

three crippled ships including the BB are limping back to Colombo while the remainder of the bombardment fleet moves in closer for a BB attempt next turn. At least there were excellent air loss results this past turn.

[topeverest]

I was scratching my head why they were refused. I will take your advice next time. Results could have been much worse

ORIGINAL: traskott

Change the admiral, he should have aggr over 60.....

[traskott]

Only a fish on one BB ?

UN BE LI A BLE !! [X(][X(][X(]

Amazing...

[topeverest]

I went back and looked about 40 aircraft broke through on the BB's. They must have had low naval attack skill

ORIGINAL: traskott

Only a fish on one BB ?

UN BE LI A BLE !! [X(][X(][X(]

Amazing...

[topeverest]

Finally, about 100 fighters and 200 bombers went after the carriers about 6 hexes closer to Diego. They absorbed the bulk of the air raids. Notably, his attacks were sharded into a number of attacks, which was the only reason the CV's survived. I am betting he has insufficient air support and or bad commanders. In any event, works out good so far despite my batch of refused orders. I am holding off unleashing the 29's until I have bombarded Diego.

Several more turns coming today.

[topeverest]

Shore BOmbardment occurs

[topeverest]

Sharded empire attacks due to the airbase damage

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Diego Garcia at 11,58

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 103 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 38 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zero x 16
A6M5c Zero x 22
G3M3 Nell x 4

Allied aircraft
Corsair IV x 19
Hellcat F.II x 31
Seafire L.III x 33

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M5 Zero: 4 destroyed
A6M5c Zero: 1 destroyed
G3M3 Nell: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Hellcat F.II: 2 destroyed
Seafire L.III: 1 destroyed



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Morning Air attack on TF, near Diego Garcia at 11,58

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 100 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 42 minutes

Japanese aircraft
B5N2 Kate x 7

Allied aircraft
Corsair IV x 19
Hellcat F.II x 19
Seafire L.III x 28

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 4 destroyed

No Allied losses




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Morning Air attack on TF, near Diego Garcia at 11,58

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 113 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 29 minutes

Japanese aircraft
D4Y1 Judy x 18
G4M1 Betty x 3

Allied aircraft
Corsair IV x 19
Hellcat F.II x 19
Seafire L.III x 27

Japanese aircraft losses
D4Y1 Judy: 6 destroyed

No Allied losses





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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Diego Garcia at 11,58

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 118 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 30 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zero x 5
A6M5c Zero x 19
D4Y1 Judy x 8

Allied aircraft
Corsair IV x 19
Hellcat F.II x 22
Seafire L.III x 27

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M5 Zero: 2 destroyed
A6M5c Zero: 2 destroyed
D4Y1 Judy: 2 destroyed
D4Y1 Judy: 3 destroyed by flak

Allied aircraft losses
Corsair IV: 1 destroyed
Hellcat F.II: 1 destroyed
Seafire L.III: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
DD Rotherham
DD Queensborough

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x D4Y1 Judy releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 500 kg SAP Bomb

[topeverest]

B-29's do not attack again. Getting to be a broken record.

Avengers from CV's execute port attack with good results. Can't say why he had those ships in that port. It makes no sense.

[topeverest]

Well, the B-29's finally showed up and buried the base. Now I can move on to phase 2.

[topeverest]

Went in at 6K to ensure that I would knock it out all the way...took some damage, but that is OK. Oh an the CV group launched port attack and sunk the remaining ships in port.


First Raid results
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Morning Air attack on Diego Garcia , at 11,62

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Allied aircraft
B-29-1 Superfort x 16
B-29-25 Superfort x 58

Allied aircraft losses
B-29-1 Superfort: 3 damaged
B-29-25 Superfort: 8 damaged
B-29-25 Superfort: 1 destroyed by flak

Japanese ground losses:
14 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Airbase hits 77
Airbase supply hits 15
Runway hits 234

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb


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and the port attack.

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Afternoon Air attack on Diego Garcia , at 11,62

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Allied aircraft
Avenger II x 51
Corsair IV x 8
Hellcat F.II x 11
Seafire L.III x 12

Allied aircraft losses
Avenger II: 3 damaged

Japanese Ships
AMC Okinoshima, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
AKV Hague Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage

Japanese ground losses:
4 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Port hits 12
Port supply hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
30 x Avenger II bombing from 6000 feet
Port Attack: 2 x 500 lb GP Bomb

[topeverest]

It is important to mention the cost of the 6K raids was 19 B-29's, which is a pretty damn high loss ration. Certainly I would not be doing that on a daily basis.

[topeverest]

Here's the hard part, he probably has a level 6 or greater fort. I will need to bomb the base for about a month to soften it up before I invade. I am pretty gun shy invading atolls after some of the beatings I took earlier in the game. As long as the base is KO'd, it satisfies my immediate needs. I will get back to this base around March 1.

[topeverest]

I actively use sub raiders and paratroopers on unoccupied bases. The empire withdrew from Horne Islands about the time I invaded Townsville. Anyway, it is a freebie.

[Lowpe]

B29 losses -- did you hit balloons?

I really like the premise of this game. [:)]

[topeverest]

Empire appears to have completely withdrawn from southeastern Oz. I am pushing up para troops and raiders to accelerate movements. I cannot locate a single enemy unit.

[topeverest]

Should be interesting. he has a level 9 and some small ships there, plus, at least 400 planes.

If it goes badly, there will be quite a few losses.

Note I still don't have engineers to Cooktown, so I can't really go after PM by air yet.

[topeverest]

Let's try something a bit new. Following is a summary of the turn.

Sub War -
KXVII - damaged near Balikpapan by DD sweep
Seahorse - wanders too close to Yokahama takes heavy damage in two separate eboat attacks
Two enemy subs sunk, two at Diego Garcia and one severely damaged or sunk at Port Moresby

Port Moresby -
naval combat 1 - 3PB sunk
Naval combat 2 - 2 DD and 5 AK sunk
bombardment - 7 planes destroyed, 101 damaged - 44 airbase and runway hits
task force makes it back to Cooktown unscathed

Oz
Hungerford captured - no resistance (84,155)
Rankin (80,139) 6 divisions almost assembled for push on tennent creek
Bourke (86,160) using rail to push 4 armored divisions to push to Adelaide once arrived
Tamworth (91,163) captured. Will rail units forward to get to Sydney
Brisbane - air support finally arrives - will use paras to get to Sydney and new castle

Allied fleet locations
Townsville - 5 BB and 5 CV
Noumea - 40 CVE and 10 CV balance BB's
Pearl - 1 CV 5 CVE

Note once I take Sydney, Oz is technically liberated as per our HR's, and I can begin to pursue the war to the inner ring

Burma -
begin major ground offensive to get across the Bilin river to get to Moulmein. trying to force crossing in 4 successive hexes away from his strength. plan to build roads where I make the crossing - and move on Moulmein.
Bombed - pistambule 600 total runway and airbase hits - no empire response.

Pearl Harbor -
about 80 units all engineer types still need to be moved to Oz. about 600 AK worth are already underway to Brisbane. Should be complete on the PH end by March 1.