My war against Gen.Hoepner

[Ron Saueracker]

ORIGINAL: hawker

Hi Pauk,
Its little overloaded but i have 3x supply needed and two air brigade HQ

[X(] 3x supply...sounds like oodles of supply.

[Kereguelen]

ORIGINAL: hawker
I have 300 fighters on escort,morale 99(last month these fighters only fly training missions)
Bombers are set to AF attack.
Weather is perfect.

Fighter planes are set to escort bombers to target destination and with enough range allowed to reach target?

Happened to me that my fighter escorts were not having sufficient range allowed when I wanted to hit a target with escorted bombers (just because you mentioned that they were on training mission before, maybe with "0" range?).

[hawker]

Things get even worse.
I moved away some planes to other AF and now i have 500 planes in Mutankiang and 500 planes in other airport.This is overstacking but GH overstacks all the time.
Guess what,nates take off along with oscars but zeros didnt!!!
Off course nates are decimated.
One more thing,
I encounter north off Vladivostok one Russian unit. My 7000APs against one unit,i win but this unit didnt retreat south,is this some kind of joke.
This whole Russia thing sucks and bugs are everywhere.
I cannot fight that,i even spend PPs to convert some zeros to Kwantung with no result.
After Jawa i am going to defence,i wont surrender but war is over anyway.Russia is activated and he can destroy my industry in Japan easy.My aircrafts has no wish to fly and i am doomed.
I put all efforts and hopes in this Russia thing,i will try one more time,but defeat is inevitable

[hawker]

He has 700+ aircrafts in Vladivostok,but they are fly.

[String]

ORIGINAL: hawker

He has 700+ aircrafts in Vladivostok,but they are fly.

Vladivostok is also a level 9 airfield. I'm sorry to say this but oversights and having bad luck doesn't count as bugs.

And you can never know how many Hoepners missions don't fly, you get no notification for them and I doubt he would tell you that for example, he has 2435 B-29's on Iwo Jima but they have refused to fly for the last 3 turns.

BTW, do you have clouds turned on? I was thinking that my planes didn't fly in clear weather either, then I discovered that I had somehow turned clouds off, and actually most of the time, if not all, my bases had been rained in. Even with clear broadcasts, occasional clouds can still happen.

[AmiralLaurent]

Before you really lose your temper,

1) Japanese air units won't fly against Soviet targets before the border is crossed. You can't bomb Russia the first turn of the war. It's not a bug but a (bad IMOO) game design.

2) the Soviet unit you attack N of Vladivostok is a static fortress unit and can't retreat, it will eventually surrender, like did surrounded units, but will be as tough as Chinese to destroy. They usually will last some days or a week. You have to get trough fortifications and it is costing time.

3) from a overstacked airfield, 25% and then 50% of AC won't fly, according to manual, depending of the overstacking. It seems to me that the 50% penalty never applies, or maybe it is 50% of the AC above the maximum allowed that don't fly, but one thing I am sure is that the penalty is applied to whole units and not to 25% of all units in the field. And as always in WITP the game is ordering the units by database orders and Nates units have lower DB numbers than Zeroes so they are under the AF limitation while Zeroes are wholly suffering of it (they are the 25 or 50% units grounded). Again it is bad design rather than a real bug.

The best way to neutralize Vladivostok AF is BB, but I think yours are off Java. I will advice you to not use Nates over Siberia at all, Soviet fighters will slaugther them anytime.

[Speedysteve]

Doesn't Vladivostock also have a CD unit or 2? Just thinking regarding the option of sea bombardment...........

[AmiralLaurent]

ORIGINAL: Speedy

Doesn't Vladivostock also have a CD unit or 2? Just thinking regarding the option of sea bombardment...........

Yes, so it's not a good idea to send cruisers or DD but a BB squadron (4+ BBs) will overwhelm CD defenses with very probably no loss, even if one BB or two may get damaged. Especially with the fact that Soviet have no torpedoes, no minefields and big Japanese ports are nearby.

[hawker]

First some answers,

Japanese air units won't fly against Soviet targets before the border is crossed. You can't bomb Russia the first turn of the war. It's not a bug but a (bad IMOO) game design.

Russia is activated month ago,so that rule is accomplished[;)]

Yes, so it's not a good idea to send cruisers or DD but a BB squadron (4+ BBs) will overwhelm CD defenses with very probably no loss, even if one BB or two may get damaged. Especially with the fact that Soviet have no torpedoes, no minefields and big Japanese ports are nearby.

My BBs are in Jawa,soon they be at Vladivostok

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/16/42

JAWA

Forts are down to 7,every two days with combo bombers-BBs i manage to disable arround 10000 men. The end is near.
Soon,half a milion troops will be free for attack elsewhere.

Naval bombardment of Soerabaja, at 23,66

Japanese Ships
DD Hayate
DD Harukaze
DD Yugiri
DD Asagiri
DD Isonami
DD Natsugumo
DD Tanikaze
DD Hagikaze
DD Urakaze
DD Akigumo
CL Kuma
CL Natori
CA Mogami
CA Atago
CA Chikuma
CA Tone
BB Hyuga
BB Ise
BB Yamashiro
BB Fuso
BB Nagato
BB Kirishima
BB Hiei
BB Haruna
BB Kongo


Allied ground losses:
7941 casualties reported
Guns lost 83
Vehicles lost 3

Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 64
Port hits 24
Port fuel hits 2
Port supply hits 3


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Ground combat at Soerabaja

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 275701 troops, 2171 guns, 629 vehicles

Defending force 77130 troops, 493 guns, 435 vehicles

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 7

Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 7)


Japanese ground losses:
6418 casualties reported
Guns lost 80
Vehicles lost 9

Allied ground losses:
4147 casualties reported
Guns lost 101
Vehicles lost 3


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RUSSIA

My aircrsfts still wont fly[:(].
Anyway,i push reds from north of Vladivostok destroying unit that blocks me way south,battle for Vladivostok will soon occur.

[hawker]

One more thing to add,
Imperial HQ decide that after Jawa main forces of Southern area army will set sail to HK.I gathered 250 transport ships at Jawa.
Idea is surprise,he will be very surprised when he see 10 elite divisions of Southern area in China.
With this i will kick him out from China and secure Russia invasion.
I must do that becouse my position in China is vulnerable and he may try counterattack there.
Beecouse of losses he suffered in Jawa he wont be able to any counter-attack in DEI while Southern area army deals with those poor chinese[;)]

[hawker]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/18/42

RUSSIA

At last!!
This day is to be remembered. First japanese fighters take off today in large sweeping mission over Vladivostok.
Results are good,i wipe out his fighters from the skies.
Strange thing,bombers didnt take off[:@].

Day Air attack on Vladivostok , at 65,33

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 313
A6M3 Zero x 46

Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 8
I-16 Type 24 x 45
MiG-3 x 72
LaGG-3 x 107
Yak-1 x 38

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 132 destroyed, 26 damaged
A6M3 Zero: 10 destroyed, 3 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-3 Wildcat: 8 destroyed
I-16 Type 24: 33 destroyed
MiG-3: 70 destroyed
LaGG-3: 107 destroyed
Yak-1: 38 destroyed

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JAWA

Nothing to report,regular bombarding. Few days and his apperance in Jawa will be seal[:D]

Day Air attack on Soerabaja , at 23,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 59
Ki-48 Lily x 130
Ki-46-II Dinah x 14

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48 Lily: 6 damaged
Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 damaged


Allied ground losses:
39 casualties reported
Guns lost 7

Airbase hits 14
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 106

[hawker]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/19/42

RUSSIA

Big news is,bombers start to fly!!
Sky over Vladivostok is full with Japanese planes.
I was able to,once more,crush his fighters and clear the way for my bombers. Vladivostok is hit hard.

First,my "cleaners" come

Day Air attack on Vladivostok , at 65,33

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 216
A6M3 Zero x 24

Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 3
I-16 Type 24 x 41
MiG-3 x 109
LaGG-3 x 51
Yak-1 x 6

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 108 destroyed
A6M3 Zero: 4 destroyed, 3 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-3 Wildcat: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
I-16 Type 24: 37 destroyed
MiG-3: 89 destroyed
LaGG-3: 43 destroyed
Yak-1: 6 destroyed

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Then,my "destroyers" come

Day Air attack on Vladivostok , at 65,33

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 249
Ki-49 Helen x 52

Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 2
MiG-3 x 20
LaGG-3 x 5

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21 Sally: 3 destroyed, 23 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 8 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-3 Wildcat: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
MiG-3: 4 destroyed, 8 damaged
LaGG-3: 16 destroyed
Yak-1: 4 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
288 casualties reported
Guns lost 9

Airbase hits 41
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 142
All bombers bombard from 13000 feet
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JAWA

Usual set of punisment:
-Naval bombardment
-Air bombardment
-Deliberate attack

I crush one more fort and achive 1-1 ratio. Battle for Jawa is close to end[;)]

First came big boys
Naval bombardment of Soerabaja, at 23,66

Japanese Ships
DD Hayate
DD Harukaze
DD Yugiri
DD Asagiri
DD Isonami
DD Natsugumo
DD Tanikaze
DD Hagikaze
DD Urakaze
DD Akigumo
CL Kuma
CL Natori
CA Mogami
CA Atago
CA Chikuma
CA Tone
BB Hyuga
BB Ise
BB Yamashiro
BB Fuso
BB Nagato
BB Kirishima
BB Hiei
BB Haruna
BB Kongo


Allied ground losses:
5449 casualties reported
Guns lost 56
Vehicles lost 6

Airbase hits 9
Airbase supply hits 11
Runway hits 66
Port hits 50
Port fuel hits 2
Port supply hits 12

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Second came avio punishment
Day Air attack on Soerabaja , at 23,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 63
Ki-48 Lily x 106
Ki-46-II Dinah x 14

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48 Lily: 8 damaged


Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported

Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 48
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Third came land boys
Ground combat at Soerabaja

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 286756 troops, 2195 guns, 619 vehicles

Defending force 71472 troops, 388 guns, 435 vehicles

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 6

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 6)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 6


Japanese ground losses:
6176 casualties reported
Guns lost 64
Vehicles lost 18

Allied ground losses:
2717 casualties reported
Guns lost 99
Vehicles lost 13


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[hawker]

Current situation in Russia,

[Ron Saueracker]

I just love those F4F-3s flying over Vlad.[8|]

[hawker]

I just love those F4F-3s flying over Vlad.

Yes Ron,rare thing to see.
Only problem is that they fly very short time[:D]

[hawker]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/21/42

RUSSIA

Today general Yamashita sent radio message to Tokio and imperial HQ. All Russian aircrafts in Vladivostok and Nahodka are stop to exist,our brave zero pilots wiped out last of them in todays battle over Nahodka.
Now,we can bomb these citys to ruins before sea invasion.
I pay PP and "buy" one division from Japan.This division will disembark at Nahodka when ready.

Zeros came to clean the skies
Day Air attack on Nakhodka , at 66,34

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 206
A6M3 Zero x 39
Ki-46-II Dinah x 1

Allied aircraft
I-16 Type 24 x 122

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 48 destroyed, 1 damaged
A6M3 Zero: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
I-16 Type 24: 97 destroyed

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Bombers came unnoticed
Day Air attack on Nakhodka , at 66,34

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 235
Ki-49 Helen x 42

Allied aircraft
no flights

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
I-16 Type 24: 29 destroyed
Beaufort I: 4 destroyed
PBY Catalina: 2 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
8 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 17
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 100
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JAWA
Tommorow is another set of naval bombarding and deliberate attack.
Bombers bombard Soserbaya every day.

[hawker]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/22/42

RUSSIA

Vladivostok AF is closed,soon Nhodka will be closed too.
In Japan(Tokio) i manage to assemble 6 CVs,5 CVL/CVE for upcoming attack on Nhodka.

Day Air attack on Vladivostok , at 65,33

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 227
Ki-49 Helen x 43

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21 Sally: 1 destroyed, 23 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 6 damaged


Allied ground losses:
209 casualties reported
Guns lost 12
Vehicles lost 1

Airbase hits 18
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 186
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JAWA
My brave soldiers manage to crush another fort and gain 2-1 ratio[8D].
Few days is left for those poor allied soldiers at Soserbaya.
They will pay for their ignorance and foolishnes.
They will be exterminate without mercy.

Naval bombardment of Soerabaja, at 23,66

Japanese Ships
DD Hayate
DD Harukaze
DD Yugiri
DD Asagiri
DD Isonami
DD Natsugumo
DD Tanikaze
DD Hagikaze
DD Urakaze
DD Akigumo
CL Kuma
CL Natori
CA Mogami
CA Atago
CA Chikuma
CA Tone
BB Hyuga
BB Ise
BB Yamashiro
BB Fuso
BB Nagato
BB Kirishima
BB Hiei
BB Haruna
BB Kongo


Allied ground losses:
4862 casualties reported
Guns lost 103
Vehicles lost 1

Airbase hits 18
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 79
Port hits 42
Port fuel hits 2
Port supply hits 2

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Ground combat at Soerabaja

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 282818 troops, 2086 guns, 574 vehicles

Defending force 65036 troops, 315 guns, 429 vehicles

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 6)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 5


Japanese ground losses:
3588 casualties reported
Guns lost 74
Vehicles lost 9

Allied ground losses:
4881 casualties reported
Guns lost 50
Vehicles lost 11


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JAPAN

Japanese shipyard deliver brand new batlleship Yamato. Just in time for Russia operation.

[hawker]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/24/42

RUSSIA

Big battle ocurr today above Mutankiang. Everything starts with "special" war that GH starts. He sent me e-mail and says that AF in Vladivostok is not closed,he lurks me to bombard it. My intel says that Vladivostok AF has 91 damage. That convinces me that he planning big time attack on my zero base at Mutankiang. I was suspicuous and set all zero at Mutankiang to 90 CAP. Just in time!
He came in two waves and losses are big on both sides. We lost 150 planes each,but my losses means that i must withdraw most zero daitais from Russia,fill their ranks and retrain them[:@].
Everything depends of Jawa now,i must win there within a week.

Day Air attack on Mutankiang , at 64,31

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 125
A6M3 Zero x 22

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 3
Kittyhawk I x 16
P-40E Warhawk x 20
MiG-3 x 3
Pe-2 x 119
R-12 x 7

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 32 destroyed, 32 damaged
A6M3 Zero: 2 destroyed, 4 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 3 destroyed
Kittyhawk I: 13 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 19 destroyed
MiG-3: 3 destroyed
Pe-2: 38 destroyed, 43 damaged
R-12: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
27 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 10

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Pe-2 bombing at 10000 feet
9 x Pe-2 bombing at 6000 feet
3 x Pe-2 bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on Mutankiang , at 64,31

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 96
A6M3 Zero x 21

Allied aircraft
Buffalo I x 16
Wellington III x 15
B-25C Mitchell x 63
B-26B Marauder x 37
B-17E Fortress x 59

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 43 destroyed, 10 damaged
A6M3 Zero: 8 destroyed, 6 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Buffalo I: 16 destroyed
Wellington III: 5 destroyed, 5 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 9 destroyed, 19 damaged
B-26B Marauder: 5 destroyed, 1 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 3 destroyed, 19 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
271 casualties reported
Guns lost 10

Airbase hits 12
Airbase supply hits 6
Runway hits 90 AF is not closed[:D]
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JAWA

Nothing new,tomorrow is main attack.
He will lost many good units here.

[hawker]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/26/42

RUSSIA

Most of Zero daitais is moved to Singapore for undergoing hard training. This guys must to be retrained. I have still two zero daitai with 90 exp.,several is about 80,but others are disaster(55-60) so train,train. My training spot is one empty dutch base at Sumatra 180 miles from Singapore.
I am stuck in Russia and i must wait for reinforcements from Jawa. This was bad timing becouse he holds Jawa 3 weeks longer then expected.
He treatens my left flank north of Vladivostok with 17 units,maybe some 50000 men. I must wait for two divisions to come here. I am still confident,i am overstreched,but he is overstreched too.

JAWA

Two days,two forts go down. Soserbaya is now level 3 fort and i will pause for one day before final attack. After one more bombardment BB fleet will sail at full speed towards Russia.

Ground combat at Soerabaja

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 277952 troops, 1958 guns, 539 vehicles

Defending force 56738 troops, 211 guns, 419 vehicles

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 4)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 3


Japanese ground losses:
3668 casualties reported
Guns lost 40
Vehicles lost 15

Allied ground losses:
3819 casualties reported
Guns lost 55
Vehicles lost 12


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[hawker]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/29/42

RUSSIA

He bombed Mutankiang today and close the AF. Everything going according the plan,he massing american and brittish bombers here,so no bombers at other places-GOOD[8D]. I am surprised that he took the bait,he may bomb some of my bases but nothing important.
Soon i will stroll thru China and if he moves bombers there i will stroll thru Russia,he doesnt have enough bombers for all fronts. This Russia adventure begins to gave me some results.
I pull out all Zeros from Russia and retrain them in Malaya. Training goes abnormally well[:D]. I was surprised to see how well training goes.

JAWA

Everything is over! Last charge of my brave soldiers destroys opposition. Almost 90000 POWs taken and promptly executed[8D].
Heads of these soldiers will be put on new BB Yamato to raise battle moral[:D].
200 transport ships steaming from Batavia to Soserbaya to pick up these divisions. Hard times waits Hoepner[;)]

Ground combat at Soerabaja

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 273289 troops, 1866 guns, 500 vehicles

Defending force 51289 troops, 137 guns, 409 vehicles

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1

Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Soerabaja base !!!


Japanese ground losses:
2646 casualties reported
Guns lost 42
Vehicles lost 6

Allied ground losses:
87499 casualties reported
Guns lost 362
Vehicles lost 271


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