Road to Tokyo. MrKane(A) vs Spidery(J)

[MrKane]

[font="Courier New"]7th March, 1944 - Marianas Island Campaign Day 1.

A/C day losses: Japan(164) Allies(5)

Southwest Pacific HQ:

B-24 of 5th USAAF launches night raid against Miri oil. No losses on allied bombers side, 6 night fighters shoot down by rear gunners and 104 oil wells destroyed by bombs. Very very nice It it the last place with oil he has outside China or Japan.

Central Pacific - Battle of Guam island - Day 1.

Amphib did not unload due my orders fail. The were still with order "do not unload"
However my bombardment forces did wonderful job closing level 8 airfield on island and destroying ~160 planes on ground. Bombardment was performed by 3 old BB and 7 new BB supported by 55 destroyers. Only one destroyer was hit by 150mm shell.[/font]

[MrKane]

[font="Courier New"]8th March, 1944 - Marianas Islands Campaign Day 2.

A/C day losses: Japan(104) Allies(28)

Southwest Pacific HQ:

B-24 of 5th USAAF launches night raid against Miri oil again. This time rear gunners scored 13 night fighters and bombing eliminated 25 oil resources for cost 2 B-24D.

I continue my air campaign over Miri today either. 35th and 475th FG swept Miri and for cost of 16 P-47 my pilots eliminated 53 N1K1-J and 21 Ki-84r. It seems my air offensive temp is taking toll on his pilot morale and fatigue. This time it was easy walk for my fighters trough his CAP. Most of P-47 lost are ops losses due operating on extended range 9. Anyway 4.5:1 kill ratio is not bad at all.
Tomorrow Miri will be visited by Lighting and Corsairs again.
BTW. I am very surprised that he does not produce N1K2-J. Well it is does not perform so well like N1K1-J but it is much easier keep them flaying form medium and small airfield.


Central Pacific - Battle of Guam island - Day 2.

This time US divisions landed on Guam. Two divisions and 4 tank destroyers, 4 Art Regiments, 1 combat eng. unit and 1 HQ are already on island. I have high hope for my M-10 to eliminate fast his tank and let my infantry take care rest.
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[MrKane]

[font="Courier New"]9th March, 1944 - Marianas Islands Campaign Day 3.

A/C day losses: Japan(82) Allies(64)

Southwest Pacific HQ:

B-24 of 5th USAAF launches night raid against Miri oil again. This time rear gunners scored 13 night fighters and bombing eliminated 13 oil resources for cost 8 B-24J. It seems to me they need rest for while.

Marine squadrons: 111, 211, 212, 216, 217, 218, 222, 223 swept Miri with high cover from 51st and 49th FG today.
Enemy put a fresh units on CAP over the base: 127 N1K1-J, 30 Ki-84r. For lost of 15 P-38H and 8 FU4-1a my pilots managed to destroy 50 Gorges and 23 Franks. Kill ratio 3.1:1 not bad but not so good either. Anyway we will see who will win this battle soon.


Central Pacific - Battle of Guam island - Day 3.

My amphib taskforce is returning to Kavieng. Still not trace of KB. Echelon of 50+ subs between Japan and Marinas and between Philippines and Marianas are not reporting any Japan fleet activity. Strange !!!.

Southeast Asia HQ:

33 Franks from 13th Sentai managed to intercept my bombing raid vs 37th IJA Division. Losses are noticeable: 13 Hurricanes and 5 Beaufighters.[/font]

[MrKane]

[font="Courier New"]10th March, 1944 - Marianas Islands Campaign Day 4.

A/C day losses: Japan(8) Allies(5)

Southwest Pacific HQ:

B-24 of 5th USAAF launches night raid against Miri oil again. This time rear gunners scored 13 night fighters and bombing eliminated 3 oil resources for cost 5 B-24J. It seems to me they need rest for while.

35th FG swept Miri, not enemy opposition this time ??? Did I won battle or just relocation of his air units.

Central Pacific - Battle of Guam island - Day 4.

USN is continuing bombarding runs from Truk under cover over 1000 Hellcats and Wildcats form 5th Fleet.
Still not trace of Empire fleet.



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[MrKane]

[font="Courier New"]11th March, 1944 - Marianas Islands Campaign Day 5.


A/C day losses: Japan(76) Allies(43)


Southwest Pacific HQ:

347th FG swept Miri with help of 2 RAF and one RAAF squadrons. Enemy raised CAP again, so it is not the end
57 Gorges and 54 Franks engaged 75 P-38J and 46 Spitfires Mark VIII. As usually Spits and Lightnings do not perform well against Gorges So it was 3rd attempt to use them offensively, no more try.

Additionally VF-71 swept Brunei were they meet 21 Gorges and 13 Franks.

So, day summary is not optimistic . 9 Hellcats, 18 P-38 and 13 Spits for just 39 Gorges and 23 Franks.

Group of US destroyers were attacked by over 20 B7A2, 9 planes become victim to ships AA without hit on destroyers.


Central Pacific - Battle of Guam island - Day 4.

First attack on Guam did not go well, but it is not surprise. However I had hopes for fort reduction, but Gods of dices decided otherwise.

Ground combat at Guam (106,95)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 27877 troops, 522 guns, 694 vehicles, Assault Value = 930

Defending force 30825 troops, 414 guns, 572 vehicles, Assault Value = 688

Allied adjusted assault: 195

Japanese adjusted defense: 3377

Allied assault odds: 1 to 17 (fort level 8)

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

Japanese ground losses:
410 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 9 disabled
Non Combat: 9 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Vehicles lost 17 (3 destroyed, 14 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

Allied ground losses:
2712 casualties reported
Squads: 32 destroyed, 201 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 63 disabled
Engineers: 10 destroyed, 41 disabled
Guns lost 70 (3 destroyed, 67 disabled)
Vehicles lost 87 (9 destroyed, 78 disabled)

Assaulting units:
33rd Infantry Division
627th Tank Destroyer Battalion
632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion
637th Tank Destroyer Battalion
6th Infantry Division
110th Cmbt Engineer Battalion
640th Tank Destroyer Battalion
97th Coast AA Regiment
4th Field Artillery Battalion
145th Field Artillery Battalion
97th Field Artillery Battalion
165th Field Artillery Battalion
Eighth US Army
98th Field Artillery Battalion
198th Field Artillery Battalion
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment

Defending units:
53rd Nav Gd /1
3rd Tank Division
2nd Amphibious Brigade
Kure 7th SNLF
38th Div /1
14th JAAF AF Bn
8th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
49th JNAF AF Unit
11th Air Defense AA Regiment
40th Field AA Battalion
8th RF Gun Battalion
19th Army
46th JNAF AF Unit
3rd Special Base Force
33rd Ind.AA Gun Co
21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion
43rd JNAF AF Unit
61st JNAF AF Unit
4th Fleet
41st JNAF AF Unit
2nd JAAF AF Bn
101st JAAF AF Bn



USN is continuing bombarding runs from Truk under cover over 1000 Hellcats and Wildcats form 5th Fleet.[/font]

[MrKane]

[font="Courier New"]12th March, 1944 - Marianas Islands Campaign Day 6.


A/C day losses: Japan(50) Allies(13)

Southwest Pacific HQ:

Marine squadrons: 111, 211, 212, 216, 217, 218, 222, 223 swept Miri with high cover from 51st and 49th FG today.
CAP over the base was composed of 57 N1K1-J, 5 Ki-84r. For lost of 10 Corsairs my pilots managed to destroy 45 Gorges and 2 Franks. Kill ratio 4.7:1 nice.

22nd Marine Regiment, 37th US Division and 1st (Spec) Cav Division landed at Rabaul. It seems to me it will be nice place to gain some experience for those completely green units.


Central Pacific - Battle of Guam island - Day 6.

USN is continuing bombarding runs from Truk under cover over 1000 Hellcats and Wildcats form 5th Fleet.
Still no trace of Japan fleet. It looks like he will not try actively defend island again


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[JohnDillworth]

Yikes!!!! Fort Level 8 is tough. Well Truk will sure help in reloading your BB because you are going to need them

[MrKane]

ORIGINAL: JohnDillworth

Yikes!!!! Fort Level 8 is tough. Well Truk will sure help in reloading your BB because you are going to need them

Yeah, that the reason for taking Truk at all. Rearming in PH will not work for my needs there.

[MrKane]

[font="Courier New"]13th March, 1944 - Marianas Islands Campaign Day 7.

RO-66 sunk by DD Cowell near Guam.

I have 20 DE patrolling direct path between Guam and Truk, sending there sub is suicide.

A/C day losses: Japan(106) Allies(21)

Pacific Battle of Guam island - Day 7.

4 Emilys and 12 Nells attacked my destroyers taskforce during night shore bombardment at Babeldaob. The destroyers
manage to shoot down 2 H8K2 and 5 G3M3 additionally to several damaged planes on airfield by bombardment.

I mess-up orders of two PB4Y squadrons on Borneo. They should night search/naval attack but they went for port on Miri. They did not score any hits on ships, however for cost of 4 Liberators they shoot down 14 night fighters.

VF-2 and VF-3 swept Tainan today. Enemy CAP consisted of 48 Oscars and 17 Gorges has been completely annihilated, for cost of 5 Hellcats they loose 33 Oscars and 13 Gorges. 9.2:1 Kill ratio very nice.

35th FG Swept Burnei today, by mistake they should be attacking Miri . Marin had there 36 Gorges and 11 Franks on CAP. Price for 35th for Shooting down 40 N1K1-J and 7 Ki-84r was 8 P-47D2. 5.87:1 nice kill ratio either.

Question how many N1K1-J he still have ?, according to my Intel he has already lost 2272 of them !!!
And this is the only a/c in his arsenal with is really shooting down my sweepers.


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[MrKane]

[font="Courier New"]14-30 March. 1944 Marianas Islands Campaign Day 23th

Sorry for lack of update, first I got sick for week.
And next I have lost whole content of my HDD thanks to excellent work of Avast anti-virus software team and my overwhelming trust that they know what they are releasing !!!

So no real update today. Generally I am still fighting on Guam, it does not look good, I am loading 2 more divisions however it seems that game has some problem with this idea, it is 9th day and my TF is still loading troops in port size 8 and hundreds navy support stuff

Spidery send two CA east of PH and managed to sink one of my a new CVE.

In Burma slowly marching through Jungle, no real progress.

The only success is that I have finally managed to eliminate Miri as oil supplier for Empire.[/font]

[MrKane]

[font="Courier New"]Well this AAR going to be suspended, I hope not for very long. I lost contact with Martin over 2 weeks ago. And last message from him says that he had accident and he is going to be in hospital for few days. I just hope he is OK and just need time to recover.[/font]

[Lowpe]

Oh no. Best wishes for a speedy recovery!

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Oh no. Best wishes for a speedy recovery!

Ditto! Never exchanged messages with him but if he is playing this game he must be a good guy! Hate to hear about misfortunes falling on them.

[obvert]

Crap. Yes, send on my best wishes. [:(]

[Banori]

i´ve read the big battle one year after happening . in may 2015. great aar. it was interesting and a pleasure.
i hope i could play and handle this game half of you.
#thanks for posting