And here´s the rest of 3/25/43...
Day Air attack on TF at 25,83
Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 6
G3M Nell x 6
G4M1 Betty x 13
Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 8
FM-2 Wildcat x 6
Japanese aircraft losses
G3M Nell: 1 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed, 11 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged
Allied Ships
CA Chester
BB Washington, Torpedo hits 1
CVL Independence
BB North Carolina
Aircraft Attacking:
2 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet
this is a TF in the same hex as Yorktown and Hornet is in. Don´t know if Wasp is also in this TF... Washington takes a fish and counter floods... enemy Cap has not much effect anymore but they got one shot at the Nells and all of them turned back so Cap wasn´t totally useless...
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Day Air attack on TF at 34,84
Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 15
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49 Helen: 1 destroyed, 10 damaged
Allied Ships
BB Warspite, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 3000 feet
Warspite still afloat? [X(] Thought the ship would be finished already...
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Day Air attack on TF at 34,84
Japanese aircraft
G3M Nell x 13
Japanese aircraft losses
G3M Nell: 12 damaged
Allied Ships
BB Warspite, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x G3M Nell launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Warspite takes another one... doubt she will make it...
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Day Air attack on TF at 32,85
Japanese aircraft
G3M Nell x 2
Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 19
Japanese aircraft losses
G3M Nell: 1 destroyed
not good... Miller set Lightnings from Wyndham to fly LRCAP... they are covering the TF with all the fuel loaden AOs. I would fly cover with everything I have over the supply carrying AKs though...
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Day Air attack on TF at 35,84
Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 27
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 4
No Japanese losses
Allied Ships
DD Bailey, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
more of the silly targetting routine... we start attacking the DDs that were split off from the supply convoy due to damage... total overkill and there are far more important targets around...
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Day Air attack on TF at 35,83
Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 24
Japanese aircraft losses
B5N Kate: 2 damaged
Allied Ships
DD Bagley, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
4 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Bagley is killed too, the Allied lose 6 DDs today...
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Day Air attack on TF at 32,85
Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 18
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 38
Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 19
Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 12 damaged
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 11 destroyed, 5 damaged
ouch... [:(]
Allied aircraft losses
P-38G Lightning: 1 destroyed, 11 damaged [:(]
Allied Ships
DD Helm
AO Cimarron, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
DD Mugford
AO Cache
Aircraft Attacking:
2 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet
even though our Tojos are high experienced, they have no chance... they are on escort, they got bounced on and on and on and the far less exp Lightnings achieve a 11:1 kill rate... we will see many of those encounters in the next months I fear... and we won´t have a really competitive fighter until the Frank shows up... lol, that will be in mid 44...
damage done here wasn´t worth the losses...
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Day Air attack on TF at 34,84
Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 3
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49 Helen: 1 damaged
Allied Ships
CVE Chenango, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 3000 feet
3 Helen, 3x250kg AP bomb hits on the CVE that was already lying dead in the water...
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Day Air attack on TF at 34,84
Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 3
Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 3 damaged
Allied Ships
AO Tallulah, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet
damaged AO that was alone trying to make Wyndham...
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Day Air attack on Derby , at 24,85
Allied aircraft
Beaufort I x 9
B-25C Mitchell x 83
B-25J Mitchell x 13
No Allied losses
Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 71
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Beaufort I bombing at 15000 feet
3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 15000 feet
this attack doesn´t concern us at all... those bombers are coming from Broome and Broome will soon be in Japanese hands. Our tanks will arrive there in three days, curious what we will encounter there, other than level 9 forts and base forces (hopefully nothing else... [;)])
guess Miller wanted to go sure that this airfield can´t be used to launch strikes on his fleeing TFs... good decision. But I don´t have air support there (could be flown in with Tabbies though) and the airfield was quite damaged before this strike anyway (that was the reason I didn´t fly in bombers). Now it is totally out of operational state though.
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Day Air attack on TF at 34,83
Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 6
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 41
Allied aircraft
Brewster 339D x 17
Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 6 damaged
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 3 destroyed, 5 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
Brewster 339D: 9 destroyed
Allied Ships
DD Laffey
AK Empire Voice
Aircraft Attacking:
2 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Also the supply convoy is covered by LRCAP from Wyndham. Only by Dutch Brewsters but they don´t perform that bad as they take down 3 of the Tojos for no loss. Usually the Brewsters lost something like 15:1, their exp must have been terrible, don´t know about their exp they had today... This is the MAIN target for all my forces, but I can´t tell that the targetting routine... [8|]
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Day Air attack on TF at 25,83 [&o]
Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 63
G3M Nell x 9
G4M1 Betty x 6
Ki-49 Helen x 6
Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 4
FM-2 Wildcat x 3
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 3 destroyed, 4 damaged
G3M Nell: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
FM-2 Wildcat: 2 destroyed
Allied Ships
CV Yorktown, Torpedo hits 3, on fire
CV Hornet, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 3000 feet
1 x G3M Nell launching torpedoes at 200 feet
afternoon strike from Koepang, again against the TF with Hornet and Yorktown. Again I can only shake my head about the number of bombers, this is a wet fart when I look at the bomber numbers at Koepang. But considering the number of bombers and the fatigue of the crews, this was an amazing result. It´s a pity that we split our attacks between both carriers. Hornet was hit in the morning by a torp, suffered an ammo storage explosion and now takes another torp and suffers again an ammo storage explosion. [&o] Should be quite damaged now, one or two more torps would probably done her in. Yorktown takes three torps but no follow on explosions and while the ship is on fire, it doesn´t even show up as heavily damaged.
So what will bigbaba do with this TF now? Bringing back Yorktown and Hornet to Wyndham (would mean they will be in attack range tomorrow also, probably for two days), or moving them towards Perth, then they will perhaps still be in range tomorrow. But it´s a loooong way to Perth and I doubt that both would make it, only with a hell a lot of luck. IMO a move towards Wyndham would mean both will be sunk. CV Lexington is also at Wyndham, at least this is what Miller stated in his last email. This attack really made the overall situation for the Allied totally catastrophic. With bad weather over Koepang or a worse hit rate, the Allied would have lost a lot, but the would still have Yorktown, Hornet, Wasp and CVL Independence that could have got away. Now it really looks grim...
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Day Air attack on TF at 34,84
Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 23
G4M1 Betty x 10
No Japanese losses
Allied Ships
CVE Chenango, Torpedo hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Kates from Darwin finish the last floating CVE...
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Day Air attack on TF at 34,84 [:@][:@]
Japanese aircraft
D3A Val x 84
A6M3a Zero x 21
B5N Kate x 111
No Japanese losses
Allied Ships
CVE Chenango, on fire, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
4 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet
1 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
and while the targetting routine was already bad in the morning, it doesn´t do better in the afternoon... let´s fire off a full KB strike against an already sunk CVE... [:@]
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Day Air attack on TF at 34,84
Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 26
Japanese aircraft losses
B5N Kate: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged
Allied Ships
BB Warspite, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
2 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Warspite dies...
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Ground combat at Wyndham
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 252257 troops, 2235 guns, 27 vehicles, Assault Value = 4845
Defending force 137908 troops, 1034 guns, 355 vehicles, Assault Value = 3009
Japanese max assault: 4046 - adjusted assault: 1618
Allied max defense: 3241 - adjusted defense: 7824 [8|][8|]
Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 8) [:(]
Japanese ground losses:
7583 casualties reported
Guns lost 124
Vehicles lost 8
Allied ground losses:
1866 casualties reported
Guns lost 75
Vehicles lost 5
why risking the whole USN and RN to bring supplies to Wyndham? The troops there don´t need any supplies at all, they get an insane adjusted av anyway while we don´t even bring down the forts. This was our fourth attack and all that happens is that our losses are getting higher with every attack... that´s just crazy. We have used up nearly 50.000 supplies from Darwin already, that´s surely a couple of times more than the Allied even had at Wyndham at the start of the siege and they still don´t suffer at all... nice die rolls...
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Ground combat at Chungking
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 15843 troops, 179 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1863
Defending force 272429 troops, 1467 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 6453
Allied ground losses:
23 casualties reported
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Ground combat at Kweiyang
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 22707 troops, 268 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2822
Defending force 178931 troops, 10 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5104
Allied ground losses:
34 casualties reported
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Ground combat at 24,86
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 45372 troops, 113 guns, 2442 vehicles, Assault Value = 1366
Defending force 19846 troops, 101 guns, 8 vehicles, Assault Value = 448
Japanese max assault: 2248 - adjusted assault: 1494
Allied max defense: 346 - adjusted defense: 91
Japanese assault odds: 16 to 1
Japanese ground losses:
253 casualties reported
Guns lost 4
Vehicles lost 10
Allied ground losses:
1152 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Vehicles lost 4
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
we´re shock attacking us towards Broome...
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Ground combat at 36,88
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 53043 troops, 625 guns, 9 vehicles, Assault Value = 2096
Defending force 83330 troops, 961 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2052
Allied ground losses:
105 casualties reported
Guns lost 3
wonder if the six Allied divisions four hexes South of Darwin will ever dare to attack. Doubt they are in good supply. My divisions are, they are drawing supplies from our huge storages at Darwin while the Allied have to draw them from Alice Springs over a dozen of hexes of roads and rail. And I doubt that Alice Springs has a lot of supplies anyway. So the next place would be in the Townsville area, probably too far away...
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Ground combat at Thursday Island
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 6684 troops, 30 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 150
Defending force 620 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 15
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Ground combat at 36,88
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 83149 troops, 953 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2043
Defending force 96397 troops, 1034 guns, 32 vehicles, Assault Value = 2096
Japanese ground losses:
231 casualties reported
Guns lost 7
Vehicles lost 1
I have just offered my final surrender to Chris. I have played this game like an idiot and paid the penalty.
