Islands of Destiny: RA 5.0 Japanese Side

John 3rd · Post by **John 3rd** » Wed Dec 13, 2017 5:10 pm

March 1, 1945

NOT what I expected! OK. Moving to next objective...

JohnDillworth · Post by **JohnDillworth** » Wed Dec 13, 2017 8:05 pm

Wow! you got the A team there! The good Divisions......Plus AAA....Der Schwerpunkt

John 3rd · Post by **John 3rd** » Wed Dec 13, 2017 9:10 pm

It is a good group. There is one more ID that lagged a day. It is also at full strength.

Watch out for this turn coming. A set of 16" and 18" rifles are going into action at Genzan!

John 3rd · Post by **John 3rd** » Thu Dec 14, 2017 11:36 am

March 2, 1945

There are just some times you watch things play out, scratch your head, shake your fist at the heavens, and really want to RE-THINK your previous turn's choices...

adarbrauner · Post by **adarbrauner** » Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:24 pm

ORIGINAL: JohnDillworth

Wow! you got the A team there! The good Divisions......Plus AAA....Der Schwerpunkt

Where are the taaankss, by jove

adarbrauner · Post by **adarbrauner** » Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:25 pm

ORIGINAL: John 3rd

March 2, 1945

There are just some times you watch things play out, scratch your head, shake your fist at the heavens, and really want to RE-THINK your previous turn's choices...

What went bad with this?

I mean, apart from the low level escorts?

adarbrauner · Post by **adarbrauner** » Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:29 pm

ORIGINAL: John 3rd

March 1, 1945

It is March 1945 and the Japanese Army is launching a multi-pronged assault upon the Allied Forces. There is no hope for decisive victory but there is real hoping for successful spoiling attacks that might blunt the Allied momentum for a short period of time.

The Fusan Perimeter

This troop concentration SHOULD draw the American B-24s. In this campaign, 2EB don't attack troops often. It is left to the trooping killing, all powerful 4EB. GOOD! From five separate AFs 100s of Fighters are dedicated to LRCAP over this base. To be honest I have no idea as to how many are assigned. Best guess is 5-600 minimum. For the record here are the altitude settings--FRANK 30,000Ft, SAM 20,000Ft, and Tony-100 10,000Ft.

Sounds promising - finally!

bobsteele · Post by **bobsteele** » Mon Dec 18, 2017 1:26 am

What went bad with this?

I mean, apart from the low level escorts?

His BBs got their asses kicked by DDs and CLs, and a CA.. And he only had _low level_ escorts. Many things went bad.

Lowpe · Post by **Lowpe** » Mon Dec 18, 2017 2:07 am

Cardinal sin putting those E's in there, unless they can make 30 knots...which I am willing to bet they can't, but you never know since this is the beefed up mod. Like going into battle dragging your anchor behind you.

Still, that is a very powerful Allied surface group if upgraded.

ny59giants · Post by **ny59giants** » Mon Dec 18, 2017 4:30 am

SC TF "General Rules of Thumb" - same caliber/range of guns for the warships means that BB usually don't mix well with CA/CLs. This wasn't the case here, but sometimes one class of large warships will sit out combat. Next, is not to have too many speeds of the ships. Hope that wasn't the case here, but the "E" don't run with the big and fast greyhounds.

jwolf · Post by **jwolf** » Mon Dec 18, 2017 12:01 pm

Next, is not to have too many speeds of the ships. Hope that wasn't the case here, but the "E" don't run with the big and fast greyhounds.

I confess I hadn't thought about this before, and I've made the same mistake multiple times, I'm sure. Sometimes you need escorts and you just grab anything you can get (well, at least I do). I naively thought the speed wouldn't matter if they're making a short run anyway, but apparently and sensibly the speed also counts in a tactical sense and that is where these E boats ran into or caused problems. This was definitely an eye opener for me.

John 3rd · Post by **John 3rd** » Mon Dec 18, 2017 2:21 pm

March 4, 1945

In a totally unexpected development, the Japanese CV/CVL TFs covering the evacuation of all the Northern Borneo Bases run smack into the Allied shipping taking empty wessels back to Boela. The results are ugly with several bright spots:

John 3rd · Post by **John 3rd** » Mon Dec 18, 2017 2:23 pm

BRIGHT Spot:

FlyByKnight · Post by **FlyByKnight** » Mon Dec 18, 2017 2:26 pm

ORIGINAL: John 3rd

BRIGHT Spot:

With these frequent aerial ambushes you keep pulling off, how is your pilot quality?

John 3rd · Post by **John 3rd** » Mon Dec 18, 2017 2:31 pm

Not-so-bright spot:

John 3rd · Post by **John 3rd** » Mon Dec 18, 2017 2:34 pm

Not an ambush. This was a BRAWL. Totally unplanned battle on both sides. He was escorting shipping south and I was moving away from Miri preparing to swing down along the east side of Borneo to fuel.

He re-acted. My 3 CVs re-acted and this led to my ship losses. Nearly all the CV--CVLs were carrying extra fighters...BUT the CVs moving away set-up trouble for the Junyo and CVLs.

Ohhhh...welll...

John 3rd · Post by **John 3rd** » Mon Dec 18, 2017 2:36 pm

The CVs are fine and barely scratched. My CVLs took it on the chin. Course--to take it on the chin--he first had to fight thru the CAP!

jwolf · Post by **jwolf** » Mon Dec 18, 2017 3:44 pm

Ouch, you're getting short of BBs now, I think. Admittedly the Allied air losses were high, but probably worth it for them IMHO. It's ironic as you said that this was totally unplanned by either side.

obvert · Post by **obvert** » Mon Dec 18, 2017 3:46 pm

ORIGINAL: John 3rd

March 2, 1945

There are just some times you watch things play out, scratch your head, shake your fist at the heavens, and really want to RE-THINK your previous turn's choices...

From your notes here it's sometimes hard to know exactly what happened. This seems to have turned out badly?

Lots of action lately. Pretty entertaining game with a lot still to fight for in 45. Well done.

Lowpe · Post by **Lowpe** » Mon Dec 18, 2017 3:54 pm

ORIGINAL: obvert

From your notes here it's sometimes hard to know exactly what happened. This seems to have turned out badly?

Lots of action lately. Pretty entertaining game with a lot still to fight for in 45. Well done.

John seldom gives much details on setbacks.[;)] I kind of always assume the worse, and that several torpedoes struck home in the surface fight against Japan.

Otoh, I take perverse joy in describing how I have been humiliated.[:D] All too frequent of late.[:-]

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