An Aussie Affair....round three!

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Bang bang !

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Used a storm to hide my approch for the north against Luganville with my CV TF, and caught some nice fat targets in port. The damage was not as much as I had hopped for but either way there are a few capitol ships that will be needing work in the docks now. Luskan had 130 fighters waiting for me :eek: but lost at least 30 of them to my Zeros.
As usual the kates copped it in the neck :(

All in all not a bad raid.

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 09/22/42

Weather: Overcast

Air attack on TF, near Luganville at 53,53

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 32
A6M3 Zero x 32
D3A Val x 59
B5N Kate x 71

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 80
P-400 Airacobra x 9
P-39D Airacobra x 42

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero x 10 destroyed
A6M3 Zero x 4 destroyed
D3A Val x 9 destroyed
D3A Val x 21 damaged
B5N Kate x 15 destroyed
B5N Kate x 33 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat x 17 destroyed
F4F-4 Wildcat x 8 damaged
P-400 Airacobra x 8 destroyed
P-400 Airacobra x 1 damaged
P-39D Airacobra x 7 destroyed
P-39D Airacobra x 4 damaged

LTJG W.Kamihira of F1/6th Daitai is credited with kill number 5

LTJG W.Kamihira of F1/6th Daitai is KILLED

Allied Ships
BB North Carolina, Torpedo hits 2
BB Washington, Bomb hits 1
DD Cummings, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD Tucker
CLAA Atlanta, Bomb hits 4, Torpedo hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
DD Benham, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
DD Drayton
CL Nashville, Bomb hits 3, on fire
DD Conyngham
DD Ellet
DD Helm
DD Hull, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Wilson
DD Smith


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Air attack on TF, near Luganville at 53,53

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 14
D3A Val x 25
B5N Kate x 16

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 51
P-400 Airacobra x 1
P-39D Airacobra x 2

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero x 2 destroyed
D3A Val x 3 destroyed
D3A Val x 10 damaged
B5N Kate x 9 destroyed
B5N Kate x 8 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat x 5 destroyed
F4F-4 Wildcat x 2 damaged

2LT W. Lees of VMF-223 is credited with kill number 3

Allied Ships
DD Jarvis
DD Hammann
DD Monaghan, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Woodworth


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Post by Luskan »

Well, Raver's approach was excellent - I didn't see him coming. His timing wasn't so good - he missed all the transports.

Yes, he caught some capitol ships, but he lost 62 planes to my 35, which at this stage of the game, without any of my cvs afloat, I think is a small victory for the US - Yank force's two Bbs are going to need some repairs however.

The question is, how long will he hang around? Long enough to be a problem?
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Gotchya!

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Well the short comings of my raid on Luganville (or should we call it Luskanville :D ) were more than made up for by my LRB which raided Cairns.......and found no CAP ! Needless to say they had a field day bombing the docks and all the ships tied up in port ! Looks like I caught Luskan with his pants down ! :D
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 09/23/42

Weather: Partly Cloudy

Air attack on Cairns , at 7,56

Japanese aircraft
G3M Nell x 86
G4M1 Betty x 149

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty x 1 damaged

Allied Ships
DD Aylwin, Bomb hits 1, on fire
CA New Orleans, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
DD Dewey, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
CL Phoenix, Bomb hits 5, on fire, heavy damage
CA Quincy, Bomb hits 3, heavy damage
DD Swanson, Bomb hits 1
CL Achillies, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD Preston, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
DD Fanning, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Worden, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
CL Hobart, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD Perkins, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage


Allied ground losses:
Men lost 45

Port hits 11
Port fuel hits 4
Port supply hits 5

Attacking Level Bombers:
3 x G3M Nell at 6000 feet
4 x G4M1 Betty at 6000 feet
5 x G3M Nell at 6000 feet
3 x G3M Nell at 6000 feet
6 x G4M1 Betty at 6000 feet
20 x G4M1 Betty at 6000 feet
3 x G4M1 Betty at 6000 feet
3 x G4M1 Betty at 6000 feet
10 x G4M1 Betty at 6000 feet
3 x G3M Nell at 6000 feet
12 x G4M1 Betty at 6000 feet
14 x G4M1 Betty at 6000 feet
3 x G3M Nell at 6000 feet
15 x G3M Nell at 6000 feet
9 x G4M1 Betty at 6000 feet
3 x G4M1 Betty at 6000 feet
3 x G4M1 Betty at 6000 feet
12 x G3M Nell at 6000 feet
8 x G3M Nell at 6000 feet
11 x G4M1 Betty at 6000 feet
7 x G3M Nell at 6000 feet
18 x G3M Nell at 6000 feet
9 x G3M Nell at 6000 feet
14 x G4M1 Betty at 6000 feet
12 x G4M1 Betty at 6000 feet
6 x G4M1 Betty at 6000 feet
15 x G4M1 Betty at 6000 feet
4 x G4M1 Betty at 6000 feet

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Post by Luskan »

That is twice Raver has caught me at Luganville - fortunately, bettys and nells just don't cut it when they have to drop bombs. He's hit some ships 8 and 9 times in three turns but they haven't sunk because the bomb hits are so small. If those were 200 betties attacking with torps (that they should be able to do in some deep water harbours) Raver would be laughing his head off while my ships sank left right and centre.

Of course, I've had a word to my fighter pilots.
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Quiet few turns, although a couple of Raver's APs (hit by subs a long time ago) sank short of Truk over the last few days. Also, my sub laid minefield (I ahve a LOT of subs) was discovered - as Murphy would have predicted, by a huge tf of minesweepers moving down the slot. Seems to suggest Raver is moveing MSWs forward to be part of invasions?

One of his destroyers hit a mk 10 mine in Lunga harbour - which is always nice to hear.

As for my plans, lots of supplies are being packed forward, and I'm confident I have enough garrison troops in place to make any autovictory bases impossible for the IJN to take. Lots of CD units and tanks (to exploit the IJN anti-tank difficulties) have arrived and been shipped to their destinations. Soon, my hunt for Raver's APs (by sub or surface ship) will resume.
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Re: An Aussie Affair....round three!

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I launched my first heavy bomber raid, and the inexperienced b17s and liberators were NOT, repeat NOT that impressive. Will let raver post the results, but I copped lots of damaged planes, and didn't do much damage for 80 heavy bombers over Lunga.
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A sad way to end.

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Gentlemen,

Due to an unforeseen event, both myself and Luskan will not be able to carry on with our current game. But I would like to thank all of the readers of our AARs for their input,comments, jokes and for just reading!

This was our third game and also our third AAR but due to the unforseen event the question of who is the greatest is still left un-answered. With a draw being declared for this game we are both one win each with one draw.

While I am not at liberty to discuss the reason that has caused the game to be ended, I can say that both Luskan and I will be back while a new AAR that will just blow your minds !

Once again, thankyou one and all for your support !


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Actually, Raver is just being gracious. Because the game was cut short, technically it is "incomplete", but in reality we all know who was going to win . .. :mad:

Although I think I was extremely unlucky, I had lost 12 ships to Raver's 33. however only one of his lost ships was a cv, while 6 of mine were. As the IJN, I'd have a problem surrendering, much preferring to die with honour. As the USN however, without 6 cvs, and having taken a three beatings with my surface fleet (Raver's port bombing and cv attacks on my surface ships were actually much more effective than reported) I pinned my last hopes on my heavy bombers.

They launched 1 raid at lunga. 80 b17s went on that raid, and I lost 19. That is almost 3 months worth of replacements. It was really only a matter of time before Raver caught some of my transports with his cvs and made sure my offensive options were all over (in doing so could either sit back, bulid bases and laugh at my inability to supply bombers, or select an autovictory target and wipe me out.

Would like to add my thanks to Raver's - excluding any kiwis that might be reading. Especially kiwis who think that they are going to win the World Cup (yes - you know who you are! ;) ) - pretty soon Raver and I'll be back with more tales of violence and gore since I can't really leave the question about who is the greatest up in the air now can I????.

If there is any USN player that has lost 6 cvs (without inflicting aprpeciable loss on the ijn cv fleet) and has gone on to draw or win the game somehow, be sure to post it somewhere I'll see it! I was racking my brains for a solution to the problem of no CVs - and short of sending Long Island and some marine dauntlesses out to intercept shipping between truk and rabaul . . . well you get the idea.
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Lost CV

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Hi, You can read the AAR between Erik R (USN) and myself. And the first AdmiralDadman and myself. Both games saw the USN lose their CV (without getting the Japanese CV) Both games the IJN lost.
I've taken over a game where the USN CV were destroyed and the player resigned and I've noticed that losing the USN CV early (1942) is less damaging to future success then losing them in 1943 at the start of offensive operations.
This may be confusing so I'll try to clarify. If the USN CV are lost early in 1942 the Allied player simply adopts a slower approach. He builds bases for his bombers and waits for long range escorts. (and hopefully the Japanese allow their CV to engage LBA and lose)
If both sides retain their CV into 1943 and then fight a carrier battle (with USN losing their CV) Then there is less time to switch to the slower approach and the Japanese are far less likely to send their CV in range of LBA. (They likely will not attempt an auto victory)
This places the burden of success on the USN surface forces. They have to seek out the IJN surface forces and defeat/exchange them off to where USN transport TF's covered by LRCAP can move. (with IJN CV lurking about)
As long as the IJN has surface ships that can appear at landing sites the USN cannot undertake any landings. (The IJN CV and LBA can not be counted on to prevent a landing. Transports only need 3 phases to unload. LBA can be shut down by weather,bombardment and heavy bombers. CV have endurance concerns and weather can prevent strikes. Also the ALlies can use medium bombers escorted by long range fighters to keep enemy CV at a distance. )
So while the loss of the first 6 USN CV lengthens the game to be sure it does not mean a Japanese victory. (Unless the Japanese can exploit the loss by capture of auto victory base)
By mid 1943 the USN player can afford huge loss if in exchange he deprives the Japanese of units to respond to landing with. The Allied heavy bombers with bases in normal range of Japanese concentrations produce a large number of victory points with practicly no Japanese counter ability.
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Post by Crowsfan »

May I just say... as a lurker for a while now... how much I have enjoyed Luskan and Raver's battles. I have enjoyed many others too (Mogami especially... Wooblies.. Dadman).. but there is something about the friendly competiveness in this series that has made this so fascinating. Raver you are a true gentleman for being "gracious" as Luskan says. I look forward to the next game. I have been thinking of playing by email, but to be honest you guys scare the **** out of me :D
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This is... a great game... btw
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Post by wobbly »

yep, Dadman Mogami Raver and Luskan (plus plenty of others) I would consider twice before taking on, herbie and I however are pretty close to Newbies. The Mogami's of this world must be reading our AAR and going "don't do it, don't do it man, it'll all end in tears ;)"

And Luskan: the fighting Irish next, I'd be shaking in my little space booties if I were you!
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Tears

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Aussies dont shed tears (unless beteen in the rugby by Kiwis).
Yes being a shocking player must be amusing to read, still PBEM is the only way to go.
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