Islands of Destiny: RA 5.0 Japanese Side

[John 3rd]

That is usually what I do. Hand't noticed that one this Daitai. Good catch. Will fix.

[zuluhour]

Thank you for posting that. I've been curious about that screen for a long time.

[John 3rd]

Will show the pilots themselves in a few minutes.

[John 3rd]

Here is another unit's pilots:

[MakeeLearn]

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn


Training Mission : Kamikaze


Do the pilots have a Kamikaze skill?

Yes. Although training attrition is an issue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es0t50H ... 0H44IE&t=3

You should not have posted that! That film shows the King's Own Royal Crashlanders Regiment training, it has not been declassified and is still Top Secret.

[zuluhour]

It may be worth a PM to Alfred or a general post to see if training at various altitudes
could help. My guess is you would lose cohesion but screw with the CAP over the target.

[Andav]

NLow is the skill for kamikaze attacks. I do not know if a kamikaze squadron would still train NLow if set to 10,000 or not. I saw no reason to test the system since NLow is the required skill.

The attack altitude is voodoo. I mixed mine between very low and very high and somewhere in between. Against Death Star, the Allied player will probably have layered CAP to cover all altitudes. You are just hoping to generate enough waves to wear down the CAP.

Wa

[John 3rd]

March 27, 1945

The fur is really flying right now. The arrival of the Allied Fleet provides a mental tonic to Dan to do all sorts of stuff.

The enemy has gone back to Night Bombing the Home Islands and elsewhere:

Osaka
46 Night Fighters (NF) vs. 23 -29s, 6 -29, 5 -29, 3 -29, and 18 -29. They fly in at 7,000 Ft instead of 2,200. My NF do quite well and the AA present raises some serious Hell. Target is Manpower and he gets a total of 71 with about 100,000 Fires.

Nagasaki
35 NF vs 6 B-24. No survivors...

Sabang
Gets a dose from 9 -24s.

Night Bombardments
Keijo
Is hit by TWO TFs of a CA and 5 DD and a CA, CL, CLAA, and 7 DDs. Casualties are 269 and 411 with the runway taking 53 hits.

Day
Fusan continues to be THE target for Allied Fighter Sweeps. This day starts with 82 Japanese Fighters taking on 34 F4U, 30 F4U, then 40 Fighters take on 38 B-24 and give them a good drubbing at 23,000 Ft, 21 P-51, and then 11 F4U/ The Runway is only hit 7 times by the -24s.

Don't think Dan has noticed that nearly all my convoys are now unloading at Kanko, KOREA instead of Fusan.

Fukuoka gets swept by two Squadrons with 34 Fighters taking on 18 F4U and 13 F4U.

For the 2nd day in a row I rest Nagasaki's Fighters and the base is swept by a big one of nearly 175 F4U from the carriers.

Great Nicobar
The one location war suddenly goes up a little when an Invasion Force is spotted at Great Nicobar. This is why the B-24 hit Sabang earlier in the night. A strike of 19 SAMS and 19 Jill fight thru 36 Allied Fighters (couple of CVEs as well as LBA) and sink an LSM. The landing force is composed of 4 Regiment-sized units spearheaded by the 9th Marines.

Near Mindanao a small flight of 4 Bombers sink an LST. NICE!

Ground
Hankow
The massed Chinese enemy hits this surrounded base and gets a 4-1 result. Forts drop to 4. There are 1900 Japanese Cas for 2247 Chinese. The garrison has done its job in occupying a HUGE number of Chinese troops for nearly three weeks.


Orders
1. Move more air up from Singapore to Georgetown and Sabang. Maybe we can inflict some real damage on the Allied shipping at Great Nicobar.
2. At Georgetown is a Task Force picking up 10-12,000 troops to move back down to Singers. It has not beeb interfered with to this point.
3. The China Offensive will either succeed or fail in the next 2-3 days. As soon as Hankow falls, we shall evacuate back to the Main Line of Resistance just west of Manchuria.
4. Set-up aerial ambushes over the skies of Keijo and one of the Korean hexes where Dan has been attacking with just bombers.

Aerial Results:

[John 3rd]

Great Nicobar

[John 3rd]

March 28, 1945

Score ONE for the Emperor! Hit plus fuel storage explosion. NICE!

[MakeeLearn]

One less Dragons' Dungeon...

[John 3rd]

Great picture!

[jwolf]

ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn

One less Dragons' Dungeon...

I want this mod! [:D]

[John 3rd]

March 29, 1945

This is a good turn and a very bad turn. As is our want let us begin with the good. Great Nicobar falls this day to a 59-1 assault. While not good it keeps Allied shipping moving between islands. It is, therefore, vulnerable. A strike force of 32 Fighters escort 40 veteran Judy DB. They catch an un-escorted TF of LSTs returning to Port Blair. LRCAP is provided in the form of 18 P-51. The veteran Frank pilots chew through the P-51s like they are not even there!

All 40 Judy DB DIVE on the LSTs!

Yummy. Seven of the LST are hit by multiple 800Kg bombs and SINK!

A plaintive BANZAI is issued from this backwater theatre of war...

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: John 3rd

March 29, 1945

This is a good turn and a very bad turn.

It is all good from here on out! Silly. You are doing so well, at such a late date,...

[John 3rd]

March 29, 1945

To the ugly. The Allies massively change their tactics over the Home Islands. Did someone spill the beans as to what was discussed in this Thread a little earlier?

Air
Nagasaki
Seven SWEEPS come in and level the Fighters defending Nagasaki. After that, in comes EVERY (seemingly) 4EB that Dan has in the area. Eight AA units do pretty well but it isn't enough to slow the aerial onslaught. A total--if I added everything together correctly--of 24 2EB, 276 B-24, and 142 B-29 plaster the city. Manpower, the AF, Port, HI...you name it...is hit and nailed pretty hard. Move in 250 Fighters for tomorrow...

Fukoaku
The Allied Carrier Fleet strikes this base with a total of five strikes by only CV aircraft. These waves are met by 89+ Japanese Fighters. Once the first two strikes big strikes go through the smaller ones get chewed up! All the effort, compared to Nagasaki, yields nothing. OK. That is a lie. Japan loses--exactly--ONE HI. bring in 150 Fighters.


Ground
Hankow
This base finally falls. In what should be a total surrender, Dan misses a hex side so the troops retreat to the east and move into the forest.

East of Tsinan
The 3rd Tank Div is holding the Allies off in the hex just east of one of the Japanese targets when it gets totally clobbered by two Allied ID and a Brigade. Though my Tankers were at 50% strength I had HOPED they would hold. CRAP! Issue orders to retreat back towards the Manchurian Frontier.

Georgetown
The Allies take this base. They SHOULD have attacked the undefended AKs present there for two days as I loaded 8,500 troops and bring them back south.

Malaya continues as a holding action. I shall now include Sumatra in that equation. Move three banged up Brigades and three Base Forces to Tand-whatever its name is and begin to spread them out to hold the bases and see if we can punish Allied shipping anymore.

Other
1. The Japanese TK Force is one day south of Iwo Jima on its way home. Carrying nearly 600,000 fuel/oil, its arrival will carry Japan until the surrender. The 48 Tankers haven't lost a ship as of yet...

2. I-186 SINKS LST-810 near Bathurst Isle.

3. Keijo is bombarded by a CA and 5 DDs.

[John 3rd]

ORIGINAL: zuluhour

2 cents here
He is using the B29s wrong if he is hitting different targets with his smallish fleet of them now. I sent upwards of 600 at the
same target and got some spectacular results, overwhelming the fighter cover and having 7-8 waves hit the target. After
the first several waves start the fires and wear out the CAP, some of the stragglers, even 4-7 planes escalate the fires to the
400,ooo-500,ooo levels.
*READERS: DO NOT REPEAT THIS IN DANS AAR!!!!

This is exactly what just took place using B-24 and B-29.

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: John 3rd

ORIGINAL: zuluhour

2 cents here
He is using the B29s wrong if he is hitting different targets with his smallish fleet of them now. I sent upwards of 600 at the
same target and got some spectacular results, overwhelming the fighter cover and having 7-8 waves hit the target. After
the first several waves start the fires and wear out the CAP, some of the stragglers, even 4-7 planes escalate the fires to the
400,ooo-500,ooo levels.
*READERS: DO NOT REPEAT THIS IN DANS AAR!!!!

This is exactly what just took place using B-24 and B-29.

Relax, concentration of force isn't exactly a new tactic in a Grigsby game, let alone WITP AE.

[zuluhour]

+1
No sign of leakage in the other AAR. This is an area, strategic bombing, I have become familiar with playing
to the end as allies. Dan probably just caught on.

[John 3rd]

Figured as much. Timing was circumspect and I automatically thought of it.

Hoping to get another in today.