CL Honolulu suffered minor damage, dispite taking 2 deck penetration hits.
She is at 11 system damage, 2 minor flood damage, and 3 minor engine damage, and no fires.
Still able to make 30 knots.
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I'd say the hits were FOW then and only one actually damaged her and even then you were quite lucky with the die rolls that she took only that light damage. I've seen three 250kg bombs sinking heavy cruisers if they didn't get into a port soon enough.
Are you playing a mod with reduced bomb damage?
No, this is Andy Macs updated scenario 2 with extra bases. I checked with my other game that is a standard scenario 2 and the 250 kg bombs have an effect of 370 in both scenarios.
Just dumb luck I guess. Note that one of the hits was an ineffective belt hit.
He tried bombing Chittagong at night to no effect.
Night Air attack on Chittagong , at 55,41
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid spotted at 72 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 20 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 11
Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 16
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged
No Allied losses
Aircraft Attacking:
5 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
CAP engaged:
No.607 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIb Trop (3 airborne, 11 on standby, 2 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 25 minutes
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Night Air attack on Chittagong , at 55,41
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid detected at 43 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 7
Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 16
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 damaged
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed by flak
No Allied losses
Aircraft Attacking:
7 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
CAP engaged:
No.607 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIb Trop (14 airborne, 0 on standby, 2 scrambling)
14 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 14000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 49 minutes
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Night Air attack on Chittagong , at 55,41
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid detected at 46 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 9
Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 15
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 damaged
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed by flak
No Allied losses
Airbase hits 1
Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
CAP engaged:
No.607 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIb Trop (13 airborne, 0 on standby, 2 scrambling)
13 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 17000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes
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Night Air attack on Chittagong , at 55,41
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid spotted at 24 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 8
Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 15
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 2 damaged
No Allied losses
Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
CAP engaged:
No.607 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIb Trop (13 airborne, 0 on standby, 2 scrambling)
13 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 17000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes
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Night Air attack on Chittagong , at 55,41
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 6
Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 14
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 4 damaged
No Allied losses
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
CAP engaged:
No.607 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIb Trop (12 airborne, 0 on standby, 2 scrambling)
12 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 17000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes
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Night Air attack on Chittagong , at 55,41
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 8
Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 14
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 damaged
No Allied losses
Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
CAP engaged:
No.607 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIb Trop (14 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
14 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters to 17000.
Raid is overhead
He lost 4 Sally bombers, 1 air-2-air and 3 to flack.
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I did a ground attack at Shortlands, I detected 2 Naval Guard units.
Recon says 3 units and since I have seen aircraft there I will assume
that the third unit is a Base Force of some kind.
Allied Ships
CL Concord, Bomb hits 1
CL Trenton
xAP Camphuys, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
DD Nepal
xAP Kwangtung, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
13 x D3A1 Val releasing from 1000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 250 kg SAP Bomb
16 x B5N2 Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Type 91 Torpedo
9 x D3A1 Val releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 250 kg SAP Bomb
3 x D3A1 Val releasing from 3000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 250 kg SAP Bomb
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAP Camphuys
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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Vella Lavella at 110,133
Weather in hex: Heavy rain
Raid detected at 43 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 41
B5N2 Kate x 13
D3A1 Val x 23
Allied Ships
xAP Soochow, Bomb hits 1, on fire
CL Concord, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires
DD Nepal, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
CL Trenton, Bomb hits 5, heavy fires
xAP Camphuys, heavy fires, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
9 x D3A1 Val releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 250 kg SAP Bomb
13 x B5N2 Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Type 91 Torpedo
3 x D3A1 Val releasing from 3000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 250 kg SAP Bomb
11 x D3A1 Val releasing from 1000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 250 kg SAP Bomb
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring CL Concord
xAP Kwangtung and xAP Camphuys were sunk outright
With any luck CL Trenton, CL concord, and DD Nepal will make it to a friendly port.
They have 2 an 3 fires and will have to move at full speed this turn.
xAP Soochow was disbanded into port, her speed was too low to try get away, we will see what happens.
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He also attack the port at Ontong Java, sinking xAKL Island Mail and AVD Thornton and probably AVE McFarland wlll sink in the next day or so.
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The only good part is two attacks on TFs at Tulagi
Morning Air attack on TF, near Tulagi at 114,137
Weather in hex: Heavy rain
Raid detected at 98 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 36 minutes
CAP engaged:
18th FG/6th FS with P-40B Warhawk (0 airborne, 17 on standby, 0 scrambling)
8 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 21000 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 21000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 26 minutes
18th FG/78th FS with P-40B Warhawk (0 airborne, 17 on standby, 0 scrambling)
6 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 13000 , scrambling fighters between 11000 and 18000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 28 minutes
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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Tulagi at 114,137
Weather in hex: Thunderstorms
Raid detected at 41 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 17 minutes
CAP engaged:
18th FG/6th FS with P-40B Warhawk (8 airborne, 17 on standby, 0 scrambling)
8 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 21000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 21000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 27 minutes
8 planes vectored on to bombers
18th FG/78th FS with P-40B Warhawk (8 airborne, 17 on standby, 0 scrambling)
8 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 13000 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 13000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 23 minutes
13 planes vectored on to bombers
This cost him a few A6M3as and about 13 each of Vals and Kates.
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My Cats from Port Moresby tried a torpedo attack and failed. This is the first sighting of Tojos
Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Kavieng at 106,122
Weather in hex: Light rain
Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 5,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 22 minutes
CAP engaged:
246th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 10 on standby, 0 scrambling)
4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 5000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 21 minutes
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A note about KB
On Nov 24 my mouseover showed 179 fighters and 204 bombers
on Nov 26 my mouseover showed 272 fighters and 266 bombers
Not sure exactly what it means. There is always some FoW in the
mouseovers, but that seems to be a lot, and he might have merged
some more CVs with his original KB.
I sent 72 B25C/B26/B26B on a night bombing mission at Magwe, targeting the oil
60 of them found the target and bombed. Mouseover shows I damaged 20 oil.
Tonight I target something else.
CL Trenton, CL concord, and DD Nepal all made it to a friendly port.
xAP Soochow looks like it will make it, barring further bomb hits
AVD McFarland looks bad, fires went up to 44 and sys damage is at 83,
I fear she will not make it.
My bombers in India hit a small LI in Burma with no hits!! [:(]
He tried bombing my airfield at Silcar to no effect
Interesting that KB showed back up, I kind of expected it.
KB is two hexes East of Green Island and he launched a port attack
on Vella Lavella, sinking xAP Soochow.
Morning Air attack on Vella Lavella , at 110,133
Weather in hex: Light rain
Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 47
B5N2 Kate x 32
D3A1 Val x 50
Japanese aircraft losses
D3A1 Val: 1 damaged
Allied Ships
xAP Soochow, Bomb hits 4, and is sunk
Port hits 20
Port supply hits 3
Aircraft Attacking:
5 x D3A1 Val releasing from 3000'
Port Attack: 1 x 250 kg GP Bomb
16 x B5N2 Kate bombing from 5000 feet
Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb
16 x D3A1 Val releasing from 3000'
Port Attack: 1 x 250 kg GP Bomb
16 x B5N2 Kate bombing from 5000 feet
Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb
9 x D3A1 Val releasing from 2000'
Port Attack: 1 x 250 kg GP Bomb
11 x D3A1 Val releasing from 1000'
Port Attack: 1 x 250 kg GP Bomb
6 x D3A1 Val releasing from 2000'
Port Attack: 1 x 250 kg GP Bomb
3 x D3A1 Val releasing from 1000'
Port Attack: 1 x 250 kg GP Bomb
He does seem to be playing ropeadope with KB. I am not worried, he is just
expending fuel for no real gain.
Japanese Ships
xAKL Yanagigawa, Shell hits 5, on fire
Allied Ships
SS Tuna
SS Tuna attacking on the surface
SS Tuna low on gun ammo, Taylor, E.B. breaks off surface engagement and submerges
She fired 1/4 of her torps and got no BOOMS, some Doinks.
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This was a BOOM and a DOINK
Submarine attack near Palembang at 49,90
Japanese Ships
xAKL Kofuku Maru, Shell hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
Allied Ships
SS Skipjack
xAKL Kofuku Maru is sighted by SS Skipjack
SS Skipjack attacking xAKL Kofuku Maru on the surface
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And then SS Salmon also got a DOINK and a BOOM
Sub attack near Muntok at 49,89
Japanese Ships
PB Heiyo Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
PB Mikitade Maru
Allied Ships
SS Salmon
SS Salmon launches 2 torpedoes at PB Heiyo Maru
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He made 4 night bombing runs at Silchar, I have night CAP up, but none showed
up. Nothing in the Combat Report and nothing on the replay animation.
The weather was Thunderstorms, so maybe they just didn't find them or
couldn't take off.
He got no hits, but lost 3 Salley bombers, 2 Flak and 1 ops
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I made 10 attacks on the Resources at Mandalay
93 bombers made bomb runs, I lost 1 B-26 to ops loss, and I got about 4 hits
the weather was really bad, Severe Storms.
Forecast is for rain again, so I will keep all my bombers on the ground tonight.
I am flying these missions mostly to gain experience for my bomber crews, I do not
have enough long range fighters to be able to do daylight bombing at this time.
KB moved 9 hexes to the East, it is now 11 hexes directly East of Green Island.
The F6F-3 have a 130 per month rate. I accelerated their development by 4 months.
I think I would not have taken the extra Infantry Division if I had it to do over.
But I was trying to strike a balance between all the types of variants.
A couple of intel items I have picked up on.
He is accelerating the A6M5c but not the A6M5 or A6M5b
He is accelerating the D4Y4 Judy but not the D4Y1, D4Y2, or D4Y3.
The F6F-3 have a 130 per month rate. I accelerated their development by 4 months.
I think I would not have taken the extra Infantry Division if I had it to do over.
But I was trying to strike a balance between all the types of variants.
A couple of intel items I have picked up on.
He is accelerating the A6M5c but not the A6M5 or A6M5b
He is accelerating the D4Y4 Judy but not the D4Y1, D4Y2, or D4Y3.
Do you have a hr about R&D? He would get the D4Y4 way faster if he would research the first version and then just go 1, 2, 3 to 4 and not directly for the D4Y4 which will take him most likely 1,5 years longer that way. Same for the Zeke. [&:]
Hi caster troy, we have no house rules, he is free to do what he wants. But I am also able to do what I want.
I wondered about that. I also thought he would buy two Ki-84a factories with his variants, but he chose to
buy two Ki-84r.
Nothing much happened today. He had a DMS at Palembang and swept the mines I laid before. I only got one PB with them.
Another working Mk-14 causes a BOOM
Sub attack near Palembang at 49,90
Japanese Ships
DMS W-18, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
Allied Ships
SS Skipjack
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I landed a USMC defense Battalion at Tabiteuea and it did not
do a shock attack against the empty base. I thought it would
A Recon, air bombing and a Naval bombardment at Shortlands shows not much there.
Recon says 3 units, I see two Naval Guard units.
Night Naval bombardment of Shortlands at 109,131
Allied Ships
BB Mississippi
BB New Mexico
BB Idaho
BB California
BB Maryland
Resources hits 1
Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 26
Port hits 7
Port fuel hits 2
BB Mississippi firing at Shortlands
BB New Mexico firing at 82nd Naval Guard Unit
BB Idaho firing at Shortlands
BB California firing at 65th Naval Guard Unit
BB Maryland firing at Shortlands Morning Air attack on 65th Naval Guard Unit, at 109,131 (Shortlands)
Weather in hex: Heavy rain
Raid detected at 38 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
Also attacking 82nd Naval Guard Unit ...
Also attacking 65th Naval Guard Unit ...
Also attacking 82nd Naval Guard Unit ...
Also attacking 65th Naval Guard Unit ...
Also attacking 82nd Naval Guard Unit ...
Also attacking 65th Naval Guard Unit ...
Also attacking 82nd Naval Guard Unit ...
Also attacking 65th Naval Guard Unit ...
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Strat bombed Paoshan, mouseover says I damaged 11 LI.
Tabiteuea flipped this turn and I moved a PBY unit in, my AVPs will be there tomorrow.
And of course the really intrepid intel from the guys in the dark shack
Well, 365 days into the game. We did turn 1 on August 31, 2021 and now, 116 days later we just did turn 365.
That works out to 3.15 turns per day( just about PI )
On the ground a DA by me at Arakan Yoma C
Ground combat at Arakan Yoma C (55,47)
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 136082 troops, 1583 guns, 1611 vehicles, Assault Value = 5844
Defending force 27056 troops, 242 guns, 111 vehicles, Assault Value = 939
Assaulting units:
14th Indian Division
20th Indian Division
26th Indian Division
2nd British Division
268th Motorised Brigade
7th Indian Division
47th Chinese Corps
18th Chinese Corps
18th British Division
23rd Indian Division
7th Armoured Brigade
29th Chinese Corps
74th Chinese Corps
92nd Chinese Corps
6th Medium Regiment
26th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
25th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
6th Heavy AA Regiment
21st Light AA Regiment
22nd Group Army
Defending units:
10th Division
14th Division
My troops are low on supply and have some disruption, they will rest a turn or two.
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At sea my subs that are moving to Tulagi for upgrades
found this
ASW attack near Nauru Island at 120,125
Japanese Ships
BB Ise
BB Fuso
BB Nagato
CA Furutaka
DD Samidare
DD Murasame
DD Ushio
DD Yugiri
DD Asagiri
Allied Ships
SS Runner, hits 1
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ASW attack near Nauru Island at 120,125
Japanese Ships
DD Harusame
BB Ise
BB Fuso
BB Nagato
CA Furutaka
DD Murasame
DD Ushio
DD Yugiri
DD Asagiri
Allied Ships
SS Gurnard
A mouse over shows aircraft in this TF 63 fighters and 68 Bombers.
It is now 8 hexes NE of Tulagi.
I am going to roll the dice a bit. I have 38 TBF-1s and 57 DBs at Tulagi
with a good number of fighters to escort and some to CAP.
My Death Star is at Tabiteuea and is now moving West 9 hexes to be closer to KB.
I think it will be out of range for this turn, I need to see what might happen.
I have a SCTF with 5 old USN BBs that will move to Tulagi this turn.
One never knows what might happen.
xAP Van Overstraten sank with some of the troops from the Bobcats
Not a terrible loss, DD Porter will make it to Tulagi this turn
and begin repairs.
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KB had a lot more aircraft that the mouseover showed last turn, or
there are two different TFs. I am not sure. This turn the mouseover
showed 282 fighters and 291 bombers. My air at Tulagi did launch but
to no success, just a lot of lost aircraft and pilots
I will save you the long CR of my failure, We will just say I lost the
following aircraft 32 F4F-4, 29 TBF-1, 24 SBD-3, 7 F4F-3, 4 P-38E
And I record that Japan lost about 2 Jake, 2 A6M3a, 2 A6M2, and 1 Val.
Not a very good showing, but my guys were vastly outnumbered. Note that
none of the Fighters lost were USN, all USA and USMC.
The weather in the morning was moderate rain and the afternoon was Heavy Cloud.
I am going to move my DS to a place where it should be out of range
for the turn but close enough to move in if he makes strikes at one of my heavily
defended Bases
I am very leery of getting DS too close to KB, DS is showing a 10/11 detection level,
not good.
Assaulting units:
26th Indian Division
23rd Indian Division
29th Chinese Corps
18th British Division
20th Indian Division
7th Armoured Brigade
14th Indian Division
47th Chinese Corps
18th Chinese Corps
2nd British Division
7th Indian Division
268th Motorised Brigade
74th Chinese Corps
92nd Chinese Corps
6th Heavy AA Regiment
6th Medium Regiment
21st Light AA Regiment
26th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
25th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
22nd Group Army
Not much happening today.
It seems he was flying supply to his units at Arakan Yoma (C) and forgot to
change their destination or put them at rest.
He lost 14 Topsy and 5 Sally transport aircraft all to flak.
RO-60 took some minor damage near misses
Sub attack near Lunga at 114,138
