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RE: 1-8-42

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Not alot different today, his carriers continue to hammer that surface fleet out of Broome. He moved zeros to the Hengchow air battle (excellant, precisely what I wanted). 1 of his subs north of pearl hit two ASW destroyers that were after him and sinking one of them....

He took Jahore this turn in Malaya...all units have retired to Singapore for the last effort.
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RE: 1-8-42

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West Coast

Nothing new here. 4 days until major naval reinforcements arrive from the east coast.

Midway

Midway is now well supplied. I will probably take the level up to over 25 K before I send the group to pearl to finish off loading there. THe SDBs and wildcats are a couple of days out.

Pearl Harbor

Lost 2 ASW DD (one sank one heavily damaged) to a sub north of Pearl....send more destroyers to deal with this guy. I have a 50K supply convoy two days away.

Wake

Is his.

Alaska

nothing new here.

China

The Henchow air battle has hurt him. He has moved up those valuable zeros into the battle. I will now shift some AVG units into range and toy with his fighters. If the zeros are over this battle ;) they arent on the offensive somewhere else. WHich is exactly what I want. Tying up his high end units.

Burma

The 1st Burma continues to hold.

Malaya

Jahore has fallen and Malaya enters its final stage.

DEI

I remain frozen here.

Australia

Well the surface force failed. THe destroyers continue to flee and like predators he is picking off the stragglers.

PM

Awaiting the arrival of some more aussies.

Noumea

1st NZ Cal is on its way.

PI

He has 120K troops facing my 30K at Clark and about 30K at manilla. He is making deliberate attacks at Manila which are serving to wear him down (and me a bit).


Solomon Islands

Nothing new, Im still considering sending the NZ troops to Lunga instead of Noumea.

Carrier Group One.

At anchor in Auckland.
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1-9-42

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Andaman Island drew a sally bombing formation today...Once again he is spending his assets how I want him to...poorly :). Its time to move fighters into PM as it suffered its first heavy bombing raid of the war (42 Nells). I hammered Hengchow again...this time there was no Zero CAP he must of been stunting with them to try and convince me he was committed to defending his troops from the air there.

He drove the first Burma back today they will attempt to reform the line north of Rangoon...all in all they have done a great job.
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RE: 1-8-42

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West Coast

Nothing new here. 3 days until major naval reinforcements arrive from the east coast.

Midway

Midway is now well supplied. Fighters and Dive Bombers are a day away.

Pearl Harbor

No subs spotted today

Wake

Is his.

Alaska

nothing new here.

China

The weight of his armies is headed towards Henchow. I no longer believe he has any interest in the north part of china. He backed off the deliberate attacks at Henchow this turn, he is probably resting and waiting for more reinforcements. Hopefully the 5 divisions I have moving down the road can blast a gap through his lines and allow the troops trapped at Henchow to escape. I will continue with the aerial fireworks until they arrive.

Burma

The 1st Burma was forced back to north of Rangoon. Which is good news. I had thought they would be destroyed out right if forced to surrender...now they have a path of retreat and hopefully can continue to serve as a speedbump.

Malaya

He has 110K troops bearing down on Singapore. I hope the 60 thousand I have there can make a good show of it.

DEI

I remain frozen here.

Australia

11 of the 17 surface ships made it past his carriers and are screaming south for Perth. Frankly I hope he pursues...it would allow the other 6 (he has yet to sink anything) to escape to derby or Darwin with their damage. All in all this kinda worked out well. I transfered the 19th BG (B17s) to Cairns. If he doesnt take Rabaul today I will slide them up and hit him at Truk. My intel says he has 88 ships in harbor....nice fat targets.

PM

Moved a Wirraway fighter squad here...not much...but if he send the Nells in naked again they should at least give him a it to worry about.

Noumea

1st NZ Cal is on its way.

PI

He has 120K troops facing my 30K at Clark and about 30K at manilla.

Solomon Islands

Nothing new, Im still considering sending the NZ troops to Lunga instead of Noumea.

Carrier Group One.

At anchor in Auckland.
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1-10-42

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He is now making fighter sweeps over Sumatra. My Martins out of Broome took another poke at is carriers...same old results, but its nice to see the Dutch do what the Americans refuse to do. He is planning to push my troops out of Nanning soon, every day I see increasing Xargunite troop levels there.
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1-11-42

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1-11-42

West Coast

Nothing new here. 2 days until major naval reinforcements arrive from the east coast.

Midway

Midway is now well supplied standing at 25K. I will probably add another 10K before I withdraw the Supply group back to pearl. Fighters and Dive Bombers are still a day away.

Pearl Harbor

1 sub spotted today. I transfered teh 5th BG (B17) to Canton today enroute to the south pacific. They could end up at Rabaul or Darwin depending on how much longer he let's me keep Rabaul...something which he is about to get a prompting on.

Wake

Is his.

Alaska

nothing new here.

China

Some heavy fighting around the approaches of Henchow as he continues to close the pocket there. He is bombing the edges of the battlefield not Henchow itself. He did put a CAP up over Henchow which cost me a couple of supply planes. My bombers did not fly today, something I dont follow but hopefully they will be back up pounding his troops here tomorrow. My 7th BG (B17) has spent 2 days in Kunming and their morale has plummented to 17...eh? who knows...sometimes this game is wierd. I have transfered them back to Dacca for R and R.

Burma

He has 61K troops southeast of Rangoon....in blocking position the 425 men of te 1st Burma. It should be ugly, but again, I am trying to slow him down to give my Akyab-Mandalay time to fotify.

Malaya

Nothing new. I had a badly damaged AK in port I have ordered them to see and embarked some of the 22 Aussie ....lets see if they can make the dash to Sumantra

DEI

I have ordered 2 dutch units (about 400 troops each) to at Balik. Let's see what he has defending the place (they are based at Samarinda)

Australia

He sank one of my CLs, but weather is hampering his ops. He chose not to follow the "good" destroyers to Perth so they will escape. 11 good destroyers for the cause. I have moved the 19th BG to Rabaul for some bombing of his port at Truk, bet I see a Rabaul op post haste now. Their morale should be shot in a day or two, I have ordered them to come in low to increase teh accuracy of their attacks.

PM

2nd Aussie Brigade has arrived. I now have right at 2000 infantry here and about 10K other personal. More coming. Aussie I Corp, SW Pac and the 1st Aussie Brigade are now enroute.

Noumea

Nothing new.

PI

The seige of Clark and Manilla continue

Solomon Islands

I have sent the NZ troops towards Lunga...if I see no air activity I will land them here.

Carrier Group One.

At anchor in Auckland.

I have decided to order all my submarines home. They have proved to be completely ineffective. I can count on 1 hand how many engagements that they have scored in 5 weeks. I will likely go back to my last game of mining the hell out of every thing with them.
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RE: 1-11-42

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The air assault of singapore has begun again. He had zero figher coverage over Truk and my bombers made him pay with hits on four of his ships
A sub tendor, AP and two minelayers. The skies over Hengchow were busy again as AVG engaged his zeros for superiority. My bombers also struck
Nanning, As did his. THose dutch are at it again, putting a 500 lb bomb into Suzuya! He finally got some good weather in the Timor sea putting
torpedos into three of my already stricken warships (destroyers).
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RE: 1-12-42

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1-12-42

West Coast

Nothing new here. 1 days until major naval reinforcements arrive from the east coast.

Midway

The SPDs and Wildcats have arrived. SUpplies at 30K another few and Im done here.

Pearl Harbor

Couple more sub sightings, destroyers enroute.

Wake

Is his.

Alaska

nothing new here.

China

The Hengchow pocket continues to get most of the attention, I rotated chinese fighter units out of the city and replaced them with fresh ones.
He has been intercepting my supply planes, hopefully the fresh wings will deal with his CAP. I moved P 40s to Kwieyang and put them on
a long range CAP over Nanning, if he sends his bombers in unescorted again I hope to give him a lead welcoming.

Burma

His lead elements have reached the 1st Burma north of Rangoon, I doubt they will be able to delay him very long.

Malaya

Using some of my dutch fighters to ground attack his troops north of Singapore. They likely wont do much, but anything is better then
nothing.

DEI

Rearranging alot of my air units as I prepare for phase 2 of his assault.

Australia

Most of my destroyers have survived so far...and are out of his range. He will probably go back to crushing those light cruisers still trapped
at Broome. Ah well...save a few lose a few.

PM

Switched the 19th BG (B17s) to a night attack at Truk out of Rabaul, Im sure his fighters will be up during the day (unlike yesterday), but I would like to get one more day of attacks in before I withdraw them. ALready half of them are down.

Noumea

The 5th BG (B17s) is now here and will be based here...doing the naval search thing. One freaking day at Canton and already their morale is crap...damn wimp US pilots

PI

The seige of Clark and Manilla continues

Solomon Islands

NZ troops enroute.

Carrier Group One.

At anchor in Auckland.
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RE: 1-12-42

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My night bombers out of Rabaul hit a minelayer...time to beat feet he has a task group headed south no doubt for Rabaul. He made another push on Clark that cost him 3K in troops. Other then that the usual air battles over Hengchow and Nanning (he got the best of me over Nanning)
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RE: 1-12-42

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1-13-42

West Coast

Colorado battle group ordered south to San Diego where she will join Yorktown and Saratoga for a yet undecided transit somewhere...Im thinking of raiding Wake, but I need to figure out where the rest of his carriers are (4 off broome 2 in the yards 2 in the south central pacific.) Im also forming supply groups, a couple for pearl and one for the south pacific. Also troop transports groups galore. Basically I'm bum rushing his subs off the west coast. I will lose some ships to his subs, but the majority will get through, I am putting Yorktown and Sara together and deploying them west of 132 row...if his carriers come out to attack my supply ships...going to be a little fight :).

Midway

35K in supplies. I have detached the group and ordered them to Pearl where they will off load everything else. I have ordered the AV Wright to midway.

Pearl Harbor

Chasing subs mostly. Another supply convoy has arrived.

Wake

Is his.

Alaska

nothing new here.

China

Same stuff over the Hengchow pocket. I did order my b17s to bomb pendories (a port) noticed he has a lot of ships stacked up there.

Burma

nothing new

Malaya

The end is near

DEI

Nothing new

Australia

His carriers are on the move...but where :)

PM

I have moved the 19th BG (B17) out of Rabaul...morale is in the teens. Only 9 bombers made the flight...aussie crews working feverishly to get the other 13 up prior to the Xargun invasion which is sure to come :).

Noumea

Nothing new

PI

The seige of Clark and Manilla continues

Solomon Islands

NZ troops enroute.

Carrier Group One.

At anchor in Auckland.

Carrier Group Two

Enroute to San Diego

31 days until Hornet is available.
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RE: 1-12-42

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I understand the wish to hit him in the underbelly, but the problem with B-17s is they are hard coded to get damaged easily. You may find you have B-17s on the ground when he takes Rabaul.

This is often my mistake: hypothesize where he is going to strike, put my planes there to hit the incoming invasion, then find I have a whole lot of damaged planes on the ground at the place he is about to take!
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Airgroup Morale

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Factors that will lower air group morale:-

1) Damage to airfield service facilities
2) Having insufficient supplies at the base (i.e. pink or red)
3) Losing planes on the ground
4) Getting shot at a lot in the air

Factors that seem to slow down the recovery rate:-

5) Having a leader with Inspiration less than 50
6) Low pilot experience

I think that "Morale" is not just a simple measure of the mental state of the crews, more like a generalised "efficiency" rating with a psychological component. The idea being to prevent over-usage of planes and crews.
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RE: Airgroup Morale

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What about the presence (resp. lack of) an Air HQ? Does it affect moral and repair efficiency?
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RE: 1-12-42

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ORIGINAL: wobbly

I understand the wish to hit him in the underbelly, but the problem with B-17s is they are hard coded to get damaged easily. You may find you have B-17s on the ground when he takes Rabaul.

This is often my mistake: hypothesize where he is going to strike, put my planes there to hit the incoming invasion, then find I have a whole lot of damaged planes on the ground at the place he is about to take!


Yeah, you are right, I actually resisted moving them up to Rabaul assuming he would take it during the first few weeks because I have hit him from it in each of the 3 games we started. He didnt, and seeing 88 ships in harbor there (according to the game's intel) became too much to resist. Right now I have 12 damaged ones on the ground so its a race against time to get them out of their. If i lose them that would suck, but they are the older ones (19th BG) so it won't be a huge loss.
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RE: Airgroup Morale

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ORIGINAL: WhoCares
What about the presence (resp. lack of) an Air HQ? Does it affect moral and repair efficiency?

Not as far as I know. What I know doesn't mean squat though.

Since the precise ins and outs of every formula are unknown I just tend to fall back on the over-engineering route. If you have too much of everything you can't go wrong ... ;)
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RE: Airgroup Morale

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ORIGINAL: Captain Cruft

Factors that will lower air group morale:-

1) Damage to airfield service facilities
2) Having insufficient supplies at the base (i.e. pink or red)
3) Losing planes on the ground
4) Getting shot at a lot in the air

Factors that seem to slow down the recovery rate:-

5) Having a leader with Inspiration less than 50
6) Low pilot experience

I think that "Morale" is not just a simple measure of the mental state of the crews, more like a generalised "efficiency" rating with a psychological component. The idea being to prevent over-usage of planes and crews.


Rabaul
1) Undamaged.
2) decently but not greatly supplied
3) no losses on the ground...he did bomb it once, but that was prior to me moving up the bombers
4) I did send them in during the day at 1000 feet...so othat might of had something to do with it.

I have seen this repeatedly with B17s. I have a group in Dacca (I think its my 41st) that I had gotten up to 75 morale, 1 day in China (1 mission) and their morale dumped into the teens. the base they had had too many bombers and was a bit undersupported, but to take that big of a drop :)...eeek
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The air battle of burma has opened up with him making fighter sweeps over the fields at Taung Gyi the southermost field I control. He followed those with a massive heavy sally strike (59) planes. His nells payed Rabaul another visit...48 planes...no waiting. His Carriers popped up off of Broome again :) guess he is back to finish the job....he did sink the Tromp...the nancy boy has it coming he does.

He lost another 2K in troops attacking Clark...forts are holding.
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Forum ate my orders...too numerous to try to reproduce...Ill get the next day out soon since I see xarg on.
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My B-17s in China struck at Pesacadores hitting 3 merchant ships with bombs. Another day another broome attack. The air battle over Hengchow continues with all the fury you can imagine. He continued yesterdays sweeps and bombings in Burma and Malaya...he also has singled out Manilla for some very fierce air attacks. I did lose a dutch sub to earlier damage. All in all it was a quiet day in the Pacific War.
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1-15-42

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1-15-42

West Coast

USS Saratoga will meet USS Yorktown 60 miles off the San Diego coast. I'm hoping Xargun gets a good look at them :). The Colorado battle group will join up with them for their transit to Pearl.

Midway

Nothing new.

Pearl Harbor

Nothing new.

Wake

Is his.

Alaska

nothing new here.

China

The 93rd BG had some fun (B17s) but I am withdrawing them from China back to Dacca for some rest. Hengchow pocket remains a disaster for me, at least I'm drawing a lot of his troops and airpower there.

Burma

nothing new

Malaya

No units in Singapore....yet.

DEI

Nothing new

Australia

His carrier storm continues to pound broome.

PM

More B17s out of Rabaul. Down to the last 5 there.

Noumea

Nothing new

PI

The seige of Clark and Manilla continues

Solomon Islands

I have decided to land the NZ troops. They should be here by tomorrow.

Carrier Group One.

At anchor in Auckland.

Carrier Group Two

Forming off of San Diego

31 days until Hornet is available.
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