Beware the Dorniers! Scen 17 Tier 3 (Lowpe vs AI (Spoilers))

[Lowpe]

Heavy Air losses.

[Lowpe]

A look at builds and pools.

[Lowpe]

Two weeks and a few days in and the Tony surprisingly is winning the r&d race, for now.

[Lowpe]

December 24, 1941

Miri taken, but all the oil factories are destroyed. 300,000 supply needed there...

Archimedes or Task Force Z hanging out at Kuantan.

[HansBolter]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

December 24, 1941

Miri taken, but all the oil factories are destroyed. 300,000 supply needed there...

Better hope that doesn't become a trend.

[Lowpe]

I am assuming those PBYs where at Miri.

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: HansBolter

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

December 24, 1941

Miri taken, but all the oil factories are destroyed. 300,000 supply needed there...

Better hope that doesn't become a trend.

My guess is it will be, as I bet Andy beefed up the engineers at all the bases. Miri certainly was heavily defended compared to stock game.

Perhaps rng will smile on me a little bit. Hong Kong fell without a point of damage...but it seemed to not have a larger garrison either.

[PaxMondo]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

December 24, 1941

Miri taken, but all the oil factories are destroyed. 300,000 supply needed there...

Crap!!!

That's sad news indeed. …

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[Jorge_Stanbury]

It is engineers + random; right?

so if the enemy have engineers there is a chance to get industry destroyed; and more engineers, more chances?

[Lowpe]

December 25, 1941

I feel that my advance is horrendously slow, at least very slow compared to a pbem game.

We try to catch Archimedes or Task Force Z at Kuantan, but they have left and are now adjacent to Singers and their 115 fighters.

We catch elements of the thundering herd head east...a surprising direction but easily spotted.

Battleship Division 1 is on approach to Manado, and they shrug off six bomb hits from strafing Beaufighters.

Day Time Surface Combat, near Babeldaob at 93,86, Range 13,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CA Haguro, Shell hits 1
DD Kuroshio
DD Oyashio

Allied Ships
xAP President Madison, Shell hits 16, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Doryssa, Shell hits 3, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAP Kota Gede, Shell hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAP Kota Radja, Shell hits 11, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAP Kota Pinang, Shell hits 7, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Modjekerto, Shell hits 20, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Sloterdijk, Shell hits 7, heavy fires
xAP Van Overstraten, Shell hits 18, heavy fires, heavy damage


Day Time Surface Combat, near Babeldaob at 93,86, Range 11,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CA Haguro
DD Kuroshio
DD Oyashio

Allied Ships
xAP President Madison, Shell hits 9, and is sunk
xAP Kota Gede, Shell hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAP Kota Pinang, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Modjekerto, Shell hits 8, and is sunk
xAK Sloterdijk, Shell hits 5, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAP Van Overstraten, Shell hits 11, and is sunk

Reduced visibility due to Rain
Maximum visibility in Rain: 15,000 yards

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: Jorge_Stanbury

It is engineers + random; right?

so if the enemy have engineers there is a chance to get industry destroyed; and more engineers, more chances?

That is the theory. A lot of times it seems mostly random, or at least I remember those more clearly.[:D]

[RangerJoe]

I also think that a shock attack makes it worse. It also depends upon the total strength of the defense, at least what I have seen in China by grinding away the infantry with armour at a base, then evicting the highly trashed units.

[CaptBeefheart]

Very interesting and challenging. The AI still does a few headscratching things, though, like keeping airplanes at a base empty of ground troops.

Can you post a screenie of the Archimedes from the database (or your best guess as to what class it is)? That has me curious.

Cheers,
CB

[Lowpe]

This is the only other non Alaska class CB in the database:

Archimedes

[Lowpe]

December 25th & 26th & 27th

Luzon: Getting shipping into and out of Luzon is dangerous with all the American Air power still there. Trying to get rid of the Warhawks, but it is tough going.

Alor Star taken...this might speed up the conquest of Malaya.

Allied adjusted defense: 87

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

Japanese forces CAPTURE Alor Star !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), leaders(-), preparation(-), morale(-)
experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
283 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 22 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled

Allied ground losses:
6383 casualties reported
Squads: 170 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 292 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 33 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 111 (111 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 25 (25 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 2

Assaulting units:
11th Infantry Regiment
5th Engineer Regiment
41st Infantry Regiment
5th Recon Regiment
1st Tank Regiment
91st Naval Guard Unit
25th Army
5th Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
3rd SSVF Brigade
109th RAF Base Force

[Lowpe]

Potential carrier clash....If there are two enemy fleet carriers here it could go very badly.

[Lowpe]

Need to get Manado operational, and from there we will probably look at taking Jolo, Tarakan to surrond the Phillipines with decent ground based air threats (and search). Will steer clear of Ambon for now, and of course getting to Balikpapan safely is a high priority.

[Lowpe]

It was the SS Thor (?) which nailed the destroyer riding herd on the Carrier Division 1....her counterflooding is bad, but system damage only medium. If she can avoid another sub, she might make it back to Vietnam.

I don't want to lose Kagero class destroyers.[:(]

ASW attack near Groot Natoena at 58,79

Japanese Ships
DD Hamakaze, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
BB Kongo
DD Akigumo
DD Arashio
DD Asashio
DD Tanikaze

Allied Ships
SS Thor

SS Thor launches 6 torpedoes at DD Hamakaze
Thor bottoming out ....
DD Arashio fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Asashio fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tanikaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Asashio fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Tanikaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tanikaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tanikaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tanikaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Groot Natoena at 58,79

Japanese Ships
BB Haruna
DD Ushio
DD Sazanami
DD Hibiki

Allied Ships
SS Thor, hits 4

SS Thor is sighted by escort
DD Ushio fails to find sub and abandons search

[Jorge_Stanbury]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

This is the only other non Alaska class CB in the database:

Archimedes

what is this "40" capacity? planes/ float planes? [X(]

is this why it is a "flight cruiser"

[Lowpe]

China needs troops. Nanchang, Foochow and Amoy are in trouble.