Test of new scenario #21 "Nasty" AI

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the results of the strike at Pearl and it was a lot more expensive than I was planning on since I lost 24 of my Zeros. That's the result of my straffing the airfield at 100 feet of altitude I think. I'm going to quit doing that. Also, there were no sunk Allied ships so I need to do a second strike at Pearl.

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[larryfulkerson]

I did a strike on Allied TF Z and sank the Prince of Wales and 3 torpedo hits on the Repulse for the loss of a single Betty. I ran them in at 200 feet to make sure I got some hits and it worked out okie dokie. This is just the first of several strikes on TF Z.

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[larryfulkerson]

I invaded midway with a smallish unit and captured the base. Now to ship some supply and fuel and some engineers to build up the facilities to use it as a sub base. I may have to ship some aircraft to this spot because it's so far east that my smaller planes can't reach it from the bases I own.

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[larryfulkerson]

I decided to invade Johnston Island with another smallish unit and captured the base. It needs some supply and fuel and some engineers and I need to ship some aircraft there for a CAP and maybe some anti-ship bombers and some naval search aircraft. I need to beef up the defenses there to hold onto it in case the Allied forces try to take it back, which is what I would do if I were the Allies.

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[larryfulkerson]

I thought I'd whittle down my aircraft production to about a dozen different models to decrease the number of different engine types I need to produce and increase the efficiency of my aircraft production. At the bottom of the image I've included the information about the losses of my aircraft during the first turn and I noticed the large number of Zeros that were lost and I'm keeping in mind that the greatest majority of those losses were as a result of the Pearl Harbour attack, but I have decided that I need to convert several of my aircraft factories to build Zeros instead of whatever they are currently producing. I'm not too keen on producing the Nate so converting the factories at Maebashi and Harbin to build the Zero would be my first step. There's only one factory building the Val and I'm not going to need a lot of Pete's so I plan on converting the factory at Nagasaki/Sasebo from the Pete to the Val. I don't think I need so many Ki-43-Ia Oscars so I'm going to change one of the factories at Sapporo to Zeros instead. I need to study the differences between the different bombers to decide which one would be best to build.

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[larryfulkerson]

I decided to do an 08Dec Pearl Harbour attack and these are the results. Again, very few ships sunk. In fact only one AG was sunk. But I did get some serious hits on a lot of Allied ships. I'm done with striking Pearl and the KB TF is leaving, headed to Wake.

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[BBfanboy]

And the AG sunk was not even hit again on the second strike!

The CR shows a lot of damaged aircraft but we all know that some of those will be lost on the way back to the carriers. What were the actual losses in KB aircraft from the second strike (by type, please)?

[larryfulkerson]

It's now 10Dec41 and I thought it was about time to review the condition of my carriers and I've discovered KB has a problem. The Pearl Harbour strike(s) depleted my aircraft squadrons and need to be refit and take on some replacements. I plan on unloading them at Osaka and taking on some fresh squadrons. Some squadrons that haven't been resized yet would be good. That way I can resize them and get some fresh squadrons in combat to give them some experience. I found TF 3 pulling into BubbleDrop and TF 1 is steaming away from Pearl on it's way to Osaka. I'll find the rest of the carriers and check them out as well.

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[larryfulkerson]

And the AG sunk was not even hit again on the second strike!

The CR shows a lot of damaged aircraft but we all know that some of those will be lost on the way back to the carriers. What were the actual losses in KB aircraft from the second strike (by type, please)?

Thank you for your question 'cause it caused me to be curious about that as well. Um....There were two seperate strikes on 08Dec41 and here's the results of them:
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Morning Air attack on Pearl Harbor , at 180,107

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 17

Allied aircraft
P-26A x 11
P-36A Mohawk x 22
P-40B Warhawk x 20
F4F-3 Wildcat x 1
SNJ-3 Texan x 1

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-26A: 1 destroyed
P-36A Mohawk: 3 destroyed
P-40B Warhawk: 3 destroyed

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet

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Morning Air attack on Pearl Harbor , at 180,107

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 102 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 33 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 119
B5N2 Kate x 135
D3A1 Val x 127
A6M2s Zero x 7

Allied aircraft
P-26A x 3
P-36A Mohawk x 10
P-40B Warhawk x 10
SNJ-3 Texan x 1

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed
B5N2 Kate: 9 damaged
B5N2 Kate: 3 destroyed by flak
D3A1 Val: 28 damaged
D3A1 Val: 7 destroyed by flak

Allied aircraft losses
P-26A: 1 destroyed
P-36A Mohawk: 2 destroyed
P-40B Warhawk: 2 destroyed
SNJ-3 Texan: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
BB Nevada, Bomb hits 4, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
BB California, Bomb hits 3
CA New Orleans, Bomb hits 1
BB Maryland, Bomb hits 5, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
BB Pennsylvania, Bomb hits 8, on fire
BB Tennessee, Bomb hits 7, on fire, heavy damage
CL Detroit, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 1
BB Arizona, Bomb hits 4, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
BB Oklahoma, Bomb hits 5, heavy fires
BB West Virginia, Bomb hits 5, heavy fires
DD Dale, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
CA San Francisco, Bomb hits 2
AD Rigel, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AG Antares, and is sunk

Allied ground losses:
8 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Repair Shipyard hits 9
Port hits 8
Port fuel hits 1

[larryfulkerson]

Here's some info about TF 1, the KB, about the aircraft remaining as they are right now. As you can see there's a lot of aircraft missing.

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[BBfanboy]

No - I don't need to see the combat reports - I wanted to see the losses after combat - when damaged planes don't make it back! Easiest way to show that is the aircraft daily losses (by plane model) in the Intel Reports.

[larryfulkerson]

I used Combat Reporter to retrieve these lines from the "Damaged" tab:
08Dec41:
A6M2 Zero from Akagi-1 is damaged on landing
Damaged D3A1 Val from Kaga-2 crashes, pilot reported killed
B5N2 Kate from Soryu-3 is damaged on landing
A6M2 Zero from Zuikaku-1 is damaged on landing
B5N2 Kate from Zuikaku-3 is damaged on landing
A6M2 Zero from Surugu-1 is damaged on landing
D3A1 Val from Settsu-2 is damaged on landing

Is that what you mean?

[BBfanboy]

No, the Intel Report Air Losses screen which can be sorted on the daily loss column and will show, by model of aircraft, how many were lost on that day by all causes. Example:

[larryfulkerson]

Unfortunately I don't keep the old files from previous turns but I did find some intel info from Tracker. Turn 2 was 08Dec41 and the following info is from that turn:

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[larryfulkerson]

I put this together for a way to help me get better organized but I thought you guys might want to see it as well. I've got some Zero's and Betty's at Bangkok that need some time off to get their contingent up to speed. There's three squadrons of Nates at Singora that need to redeployed as soon as I get more airports up and operating. Task Force 105 is on the verge of landing at Miri. Maybe after midnight tonight.

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[larryfulkerson]

I'm doing a study of the bases I've captured so far and here's what I found.

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[larryfulkerson]

It looks like we're about to have some drama happen soon at Tarawa because there's an Allied TF headed that way that allegedly has three ships in it. I have some Mavis aircraft at Jaluit but that's about all I have in the way of offensive weapons available. I need to reroute some SCTF's or aircraft or both to this area to defend against the Allied TF and soon.

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[larryfulkerson]

I took a look around and found some nearby assets that I might be able to use to defend Tarawa from the approaching Allied TF. I stripped off the SCTF assets from a TF unloading supplies at Jaliut and I'm sending them to Tarawa and there appears to be a squadron of Claudes at Maloelap that I might be able to employ as well. I'll see what I can do with these assets.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now 11Dec41 and I've done this study of the ship traffic near Aparri that I need to deal with. There's some Allied TF's headed NE that could be a major problem depending on whether I can find some SCTF's near Okinawa or not.

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[popejohnpaul]

Michael posted an updated scenario #2 ( he's calling it scenario #8 ) and I decided to start over using it. I'm in the process of doing the Jap setup and the first thing I did was turn off the building of 748 ships: those ships built after 01May45 because I doubt that the game will last that long so there's no need to build those ships. Also, I thought I ought to look at engine and aircraft production to tweak both to my liking. Here's a list of the most numerous aircraft and how many engines I have for those aircraft.

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