Regarding Naval Bombardment

[Sheytan]

Regarding the KB it hit Pearl Harbor, returned to port, where im clueless, then appeared off the coast of PI. It struck a number of targets there, and frankly the damage was quite painful, it then moved to Siagon, and then entered the Indian Ocean. I really felt like a rat at this point, running everything out, trying to dodge this beast, and I lost a 20 ship supply convoy that got stuck on the map edge! At any rate my major British surface units evaded, and the KB ran out of gas, in fact it was so out of gas I seeded the entire channel leading up to Singapore with mines and subs waiting for its arrival and didnt hit a thing! [:@]

After that the KB again sallied around PI and returned to port, the next time I see any intel regarding them is when I launched a H and I mission against the port at Truk and see ive hit seven of them[:D]

[Ambassador]

ORIGINAL: Sheytan

Regarding the KB it hit Pearl Harbor, returned to port, where im clueless, then appeared off the coast of PI. It struck a number of targets there, and frankly the damage was quite painful, it then moved to Siagon, and then entered the Indian Ocean. I really felt like a rat at this point, running everything out, trying to dodge this beast, and I lost a 20 ship supply convoy that got stuck on the map edge! At any rate my major British surface units evaded, and the KB ran out of gas, in fact it was so out of gas I seeded the entire channel leading up to Singapore with mines and subs waiting for its arrival and didnt hit a thing! [:@]

After that the KB again sallied around PI and returned to port, the next time I see any intel regarding them is when I launched a H and I mission against the port at Truk and see ive hit seven of them[:D]

Nice surprise. It was Christmas early.[:D]

In my first (aborted after over a month) try at the campaign, the KB pretty much did the same : PH, then disappeared, and reappeared south of the Philippines (hitting my DEI evac very heavily).
For the second try, I didn't care risking my BBs, so I sortied them and got lucky (very lucky). It's just sad I didn't have any S-class subs, because I got a ton of duds from my subs who chased KB thereafter (until they escaped with a sudden burst of speed).
Now, I've got patrol planes from Mindanao to New Guinea, to be warned of their eventual arrival, and will even move a few useless subs as a picket line (since messages like "D3A Val has spotted a submarine" only mean there's a flat-top nearby, and that's KB).



Beaufort are 2E bombers, and I use them at low- to mid-altitude. Even with such antiquated models as Hudson I, Blenheim I, Martin 139, and a few better Blenheim IV, I still get decent results. Those are the planes, along with a few torpedo bombers, who ravaged Bangkok's DD with 250lbs and 500lbs bombs. A mixed force of Martin, Hudson and TIV also managed to put a 500lbs bomb on the flight deck of CVL Zuiho, from an 8000ft altitude, SE of Mindanao, unless it was a very lucky hit of two very-high-altitude-flying B-17s* who erred on this side of the PI and joined the attack (I forgot to stand down the B-17 that were damaged in Cagayan, after a high-altitude bombing of the Legaspi invasion force - I moved the intact bombers to Manilla, but when the Fortresses were repaired, they resumed their earlier mission : high altitude naval attack).[:D]



* sadly, if they were the hitters, they've been punished by the Providence : that turn, I lost 2 B-17s as Operational losses, and those were the only ones to move that day.[:(]