Tale of the Sheep! - JocMeister (A) vs. Lowpe (J)

[JocMeister]

Email from Jeff. No turn.

He says he will have it for me tomorrow though. Fingers crossed. [:(]

[Lokasenna]

He is in the final 45 days of his other campaign. I wouldn't be surprised if he were putting that one ahead of this one in order to get it off of his plate. Although it seems he's busy, as he hasn't been posting much about that one either.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

He is in the final 45 days of his other campaign. I wouldn't be surprised if he were putting that one ahead of this one in order to get it off of his plate. Although it seems he's busy, as he hasn't been posting much about that one either.

Lowpe mentioned in the tech forum that he has a knee injury and can only comfortably use his IPad right now. He would have to use a Windows emulator to play the game and he likely does not have all the tools he normally uses at hand either.

[JocMeister]

[font="Verdana"]Airlosses[/font]
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Well. The day was even better then expected! Not only did we do very well in our sweeps (51vs6 A2A) it also looks like at least one(?) CVL sank this turn.

[JocMeister]

[font="Verdana"]Ship losses[/font]
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A more sad sight here...A shame. I would have like to see them return after their excellent performance.

Can Burke repeat it tomorrow?

[JocMeister]

[font="Verdana"]KB[/font]
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Here is the situation. Going to try and connect with KB. I think Jeff will pull back so I´ll head almost due East at full speed.

[JocMeister]

Not going to flip the turn today. Forgot pretty much what I was doing where and need to go through the map.

We reached a big milestone today! [:)]

[JocMeister]

Turn off to Jeff.

Big allied attempt on closing the airfield at Camp Pendleton. Must be a lot of damaged planes there and his morale must be shot by now. 150 bombers (all I have) will go in at 9k with P39s for escort. P38s and P40s will sweep.

Burke TF will try and intercept KB...

Besides that nothing major planned. No attack at LA next turn. Going to let the troops recover one more day.

[JocMeister]

[font="Verdana"]26th January 1943 [/font]
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Not often that things go pretty much as plan. Today was the exception though!

First some sub action outside the WC and Borneo.

Sub attack near Santa Ana at 226,76

Japanese Ships
AK Tenryu Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
E Ishigaki

Allied Ships
SS S-32

Sub attack near Miri at 65,86

Japanese Ships
TK Ceram Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
PB Kaisho Maru

Allied Ships
SS Plunger, hits 4

[JocMeister]

[font="Verdana"]Camp Pendleton [/font]
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Jeff actually managed to get a big CAP up. Probably the biggest since he landed. Didn´t help though...[:)]

Morning Air attack on Camp Pendleton , at 226,77

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 30,600 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zero x 68
A6M5b Zero x 3
E13A1 Jake x 1
F1M2 Pete x 1
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 61
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 50

Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 25

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed
Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 2 destroyed
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 3 destroyed

2nd one...

Morning Air attack on Camp Pendleton , at 226,77

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 20 NM, estimated altitude 34,580 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zero x 61
A6M5b Zero x 3
E13A1 Jake x 1
F1M2 Pete x 1
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 49
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 38

Allied aircraft
P-40K Warhawk x 25

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 3 destroyed
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-40K Warhawk: 2 destroyed

3rd one...CAP is still strong!

Morning Air attack on Camp Pendleton , at 226,77

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 29 NM, estimated altitude 27,600 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zero x 53
A6M5b Zero x 3
E13A1 Jake x 1
F1M2 Pete x 1
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 38
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 28

Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 25

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M5 Zero: 2 destroyed
Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 2 destroyed
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 3 destroyed

4th one. Now the really good squadrons starts coming in...

Morning Air attack on Camp Pendleton , at 226,77

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 39 NM, estimated altitude 30,580 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zero x 42
A6M5b Zero x 3
E13A1 Jake x 1
F1M2 Pete x 1
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 34
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 22

Allied aircraft
P-40K Warhawk x 18

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M5 Zero: 2 destroyed
A6M5b Zero: 1 destroyed
E13A1 Jake: 1 destroyed
F1M2 Pete: 1 destroyed
Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 1 destroyed
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-40K Warhawk: 1 destroyed

5th one. CAP is severely diminished.

Morning Air attack on Camp Pendleton , at 226,77

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 29 NM, estimated altitude 34,580 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zero x 34
A6M5b Zero x 2
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 30
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 18

Allied aircraft
P-40K Warhawk x 24

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M5 Zero: 3 destroyed
Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 2 destroyed
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 3 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-40K Warhawk: 1 destroyed

6th one. A P38 sweep almost clears the skies.

Morning Air attack on Camp Pendleton , at 226,77

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 27 NM, estimated altitude 31,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zero x 23
A6M5b Zero x 1
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 25
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 10

Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 25

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M5 Zero: 2 destroyed
A6M5b Zero: 1 destroyed
Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 1 destroyed
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-38G Lightning: 1 destroyed

But we are not finished here...

[JocMeister]

[font="Verdana"]Camp Pendleton[/font]
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Bombers come in. Sky is almost completely clear of enemy planes and the P39s protects the bombers.

Morning Air attack on Camp Pendleton , at 226,77

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zero x 15
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 17
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 7

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 15
B-17F Fortress x 14
B-24D Liberator x 25
B-25C Mitchell x 34
B-26 Marauder x 3
P-39D Airacobra x 50

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed, 14 damaged
A6M5 Zero: 2 destroyed on ground
Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 7 damaged
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 4 destroyed on ground
A6M5b Zero: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
B-17F Fortress: 1 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 2 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 1 damaged
B-26 Marauder: 1 damaged
P-39D Airacobra: 1 destroyed

Japanese ground losses:
73 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)

Airbase hits 22
Airbase supply hits 9
Runway hits 86

Sadly the weather prevents a knock out blow. Scattered bombers hitting the airfield later still finds a CAP up. Runway will be pretty beat up tomorrow and we will go in again. Corsairs and P47s will lead the way.

[JocMeister]

[font="Verdana"]Air losses[/font]
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Its hard to predict. The allies certainly took some losses today but mostly among the outdated P40Es. The "Ks" did really well and the replacement pool is in good shape. Japanese took another beating. His morale must be absolutely shot. I saw several messages of squadrons withdrawing.

I think if anything that Jeff lost more planes today then he has done on any single day so far. Certainly more than 50 today. I think the Corsairs and P47s can deliver the knockout blow tomorrow. Or I´ll just send in another wave of P40s tomorrow. I have 125 not used in the sweeps today ready at SF. Depends on how much FAT the P47s have recovered.

[JocMeister]

[font="Verdana"]CL Detroit[/font]
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Sadly the KB found her and promptly put her under. A shame. [:(] Especially as I thought she would make it. This was the absolutely last thing that happened in the air phase.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Eureka at 199,86

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 78 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 29 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zero x 22
B5N2 Kate x 24
D3A1 Val x 11
D3A2 Val x 11

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 1 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
OS2U-3 Kingfisher: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
CL Detroit, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
DD Litchfield, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk

The 2 damaged DDs from the Fletcher TF was also sunk by KB. Fletcher TF are safely back to SF without ever finding KB.

[jwolf]

Sad for your cruisers but they did a great job against the mini KB. Your P40K Warhawks really did a great job as well. If I understand this right, you've cleared his LBA or made it unusable -- so either he covers with KB or concedes complete air superiority to you. Right?

[Lokasenna]

His airfield is toasted. You won't even need to sweep. With that number of hits from 500 lb bombs, the airfield damage is going to be way up there.

[CaptBeefheart]

Omahas for CVLs is a good trade. Well done.

Cheers,
CC

[JocMeister]

ORIGINAL: jwolf
If I understand this right, you've cleared his LBA or made it unusable -- so either he covers with KB or concedes complete air superiority to you. Right?

Yes, pretty much that but with a twist. KB can´t really provide air cover as at least a good portion of the KB fighter squadrons have been doing LBA duty at Camp Pendleton. I assume their morale is pretty much shot by now.

Not going to celebrate in advance but its not looking good for Japan in the air.

[JocMeister]

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

His airfield is toasted. You won't even need to sweep. With that number of hits from 500 lb bombs, the airfield damage is going to be way up there.

You might be right but I´ll sweep anyway just to be safe. [:)]

[JocMeister]

ORIGINAL: Commander Cody

Omahas for CVLs is a good trade. Well done.

Cheers,
CC

Thanks. Would have been nice to save the Omahas but I can´t really complain now can I... [:)]

[JocMeister]

[font="Verdana"]P47[/font]
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This is the state of the P47 squadrons. Their value can certainly not be understated. To any JFB thinking about invading the WC in early 42: Remember that these arrive...

Kills: 107
Losses: 6

I still have 69 of these guys available. I can probably keep 1-2 squadrons operational until production start in July. Not an easy nut to crack for Jeff.