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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 19, 41
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ASW attack near Billiton at 53,92

Japanese Ships
SS I-159

Allied Ships
AM Toowoomba



SS I-159 is sighted by escort
I-159 bottoming out ....
AM Toowoomba fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

one of the rare events when one of our escorts prevents an enemy sub from attacking... it´s unbelievable how much I lack escorts... I´m more or less using everything (except this HDML crap) for escort duty but probably 3 out of 4 TFs move around unescorted... will be happy 6 months for the IJN subs...

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Sub attack near Wake Island at 136,98

Japanese Ships
xAK Nikki Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
PB Kohuku Maru

Allied Ships
SS Triton

Japanese ground losses:
40 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



SS Triton launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Nikki Maru
PB Kohuku Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

we finally score a hit near Wake, hopefully the ship won´t make it as it´s a far way to a bigger port but the damage seems light...

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Sub attack near Puerto Princesa at 73,83

Japanese Ships
PB Kantori Maru

Allied Ships
SS Seal



SS Seal launches 4 torpedoes at PB Kantori Maru
Seal bottoming out ....
PB Kantori Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Pre-Invasion action off Puerto Princesa

Japanese Ships
PB Kantori Maru
PB Chosa Maru



PB Kantori Maru firing at enemy troops
PB Chosa Maru firing at enemy troops

next invasion...

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Amphibious Assault at Puerto Princesa

TF 87 troops unloading over beach at Puerto Princesa, 73,83

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Invasion Support action off Puerto Princesa

Japanese Ships
PB Kantori Maru
PB Chosa Maru

PB Kantori Maru firing at enemy troops
PB Chosa Maru firing at enemy troops

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ASW attack near Kuching at 60,86

Japanese Ships
PB Nako Maru #2

Allied Ships
SS Sailfish



SS Sailfish is sighted by escort
Sailfish bottoming out ....
PB Nako Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Sub attack near Itbayat Island at 83,69

Japanese Ships
SC Ch 18
SC Ch 15

Allied Ships
SS S-36



SS S-36 launches 4 torpedoes at SC Ch 18
S-36 diving deep ....
SC Ch 18 fails to find sub and abandons search
SC Ch 15 attacking submerged sub ....
SS S-36 eludes SC Ch 15 by diving deep
SC Ch 15 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

performance of my S-class subs is really depressing, I guess they have only sunk two or three ships so far...

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Morning Air attack on Hong Kong , at 77,61

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 27 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-27b Nate x 7
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 3
Ki-51 Sonia x 16



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 2 damaged
Ki-51 Sonia: 6 damaged


Allied ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled


Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 3

Aircraft Attacking:
16 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing from 11000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 50 kg GP Bomb
3 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 11000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking Kowloon Brigade ...
Also attacking Hong Kong ...


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Morning Air attack on Hong Kong Fortress, at 77,61 (Hong Kong)

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 56 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-36 Ida x 21
Ki-44 Tojo x 4
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 3



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-36 Ida: 1 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 3 damaged


Allied ground losses:
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Aircraft Attacking:
21 x Ki-36 Ida bombing from 12000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 30 kg GP Bomb
3 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 11000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb



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ASW attack near Takao at 84,64

Japanese Ships
SC Ch 10
SC Ch 11

Allied Ships
SS KXV



SS KXV is located by SC Ch 10
SC Ch 11 fails to find sub and abandons search
Escort abandons search for sub

like I´ve said, only ASW TFs left around Formosa...

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Ground combat at Hong Kong (77,61)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 20202 troops, 321 guns, 218 vehicles, Assault Value = 551

Defending force 4520 troops, 129 guns, 58 vehicles, Assault Value = 142

Japanese adjusted assault: 223

Allied adjusted defense: 277

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 0) [:D]

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

Japanese ground losses:
169 casualties reported [8|]
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 17 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 8 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
495 casualties reported [:(]
Squads: 10 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 15 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 4 (2 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Assaulting units:
19th Ind. Engineer Regiment
66th Infantry Regiment
38th Division
20th Ind. Engineer Regiment
2nd RF Gun Battalion
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Mortar Battalion
5th RF Gun Battalion
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
20th Ind. Mtn Gun Battalion

Defending units:
Rifles of Canada Battalion
Hong Kong Fortress
Winnipeg Grenadiers Battalion
Kowloon Brigade
102nd RN Base Force

Rainer seems to become impatientely. After the failed attack yesterday he orders another one today which fails again. But he didn´t take any losses so it doesn´t hurt him anyway... [8|] Still amazing how lucky we´ve been with the die rolls in Hong Kong to hold the town until this date...

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Ground combat at Iba (78,75)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 1224 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 43

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 6

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 6 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Iba !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(-), fatigue(-)



Assaulting units:
Kanno Detachment

The enemy is moving on Clark...

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Ground combat at Taiping (49,75)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3632 troops, 26 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 127

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 122

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 122 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Taiping !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker:



Assaulting units:
42nd Infantry Regiment

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 20, 41
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Sub attack near Wake Island at 136,98

Japanese Ships
xAK Nanman Maru, Torpedo hits 1
PB Kohuku Maru

Allied Ships
SS Tambor



SS Tambor launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Nanman Maru
Tambor bottoming out ....
PB Kohuku Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

another AK is hit near Wake, probably in trouble...

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Sub attack near Wake Island at 136,98

Japanese Ships
xAK Nanman Maru
PB Kohuku Maru

Allied Ships
SS Tambor



SS Tambor launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Nanman Maru
Tambor bottoming out ....
PB Kohuku Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

or not... another attack and the ship doesn´t show up as damaged at all... [&:]

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ASW attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 65,78

Japanese Ships
PB Fuji Maru #4

Allied Ships
SS Skipjack



SS Skipjack is sighted by escort
Skipjack diving deep ....
PB Fuji Maru #4 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

guess we will have to focus on anti resource/oil - TFs soon as the invasion and supply convoys will soon drastically reduce in numbers... only chances left will be around Java and Southern Bormeo... IMO Rainer will have conquered everything within the next three months at the latest as the Allied just have nothing to put in the Japanese way... [8|]

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ASW attack near Kuching at 59,88

Japanese Ships
PB Nako Maru #2

Allied Ships
SS Sculpin



SS Sculpin is sighted by escort
PB Nako Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Pre-Invasion action off Manado - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

2 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
DD Tachikaze
DD Kamikaze
xAK Zuiko Maru
DD Nokaze



DD Tachikaze firing at Manado Base Force
DD Kamikaze firing at Manado Base Force
DD Nokaze fires to suppress enemy troops at 12,000 yards


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Amphibious Assault at Manado

TF 9 troops unloading over beach at Manado, 75,99

Japanese ground losses:
Vehicles lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)



Type 95 Light Tank dropped into water during unload of 8th Tank Rgt
Type 89A Medium Tank dropped into water during unload of 8th Tank Rgt
10 Support troops accidentally lost during unload of 3rd JNAF AF Unit


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Pre-Invasion action off Davao

Japanese Ships
PB Nanpo Maru
PB Kiso Maru
PB Kanko Maru


Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


PB Nanpo Maru firing at enemy troops
PB Kiso Maru firing at enemy troops
PB Kanko Maru firing at enemy troops


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Amphibious Assault at Davao

TF 19 troops unloading over beach at Davao, 79,91

Japanese ground losses:
38 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



10 Support troops lost overboard during unload of 146th Infantry Rgt
17 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost in surf during unload of 146th Infantry Rgt /3
20 troops of a IJA HMG Squad accidentally lost during unload of 146th Infantry Rgt /5
10 Support troops lost overboard during unload of 146th Infantry Rgt /7

the losses during invasions has been so much toned down for AE that the Japanese can conquer the whole SRA and have all their troops more or less completely intact...

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Pre-Invasion action off Sorong

Japanese Ships
DD Namikaze
DD Hakaze
DD Minekaze


Allied ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


DD Namikaze firing at Sorong Det. Base Force
DD Hakaze firing at Sorong Det. Base Force
DD Minekaze firing at Sorong Det. Base Force
DD Namikaze firing at enemy troops


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Amphibious Assault at Sorong

TF 192 troops unloading over beach at Sorong, 82,107

nothing around to defend New Guinea...

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Invasion Support action off Davao

Japanese Ships
PB Nanpo Maru
PB Kiso Maru
PB Kanko Maru



PB Nanpo Maru firing at enemy troops
PB Kiso Maru firing at enemy troops
PB Kanko Maru firing at enemy troops


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Afternoon Air attack on Manila , at 79,77

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 45 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6

No Japanese losses

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 6000 feet

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Afternoon Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 32
Ki-27b Nate x 38
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 17



Allied aircraft
P-35A x 1
P-40B Warhawk x 7
P-40E Warhawk x 11


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-27b Nate: 2 destroyed
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged




Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 13

Aircraft Attacking:
16 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
24th PG/3rd PS with P-40E Warhawk (1 airborne, 2 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 29000 , scrambling fighters to 7000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes
24th PG/17th PS with P-40E Warhawk (2 airborne, 4 on standby, 1 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 29000 , scrambling fighters to 9000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes
24th PG/20th PS with P-40B Warhawk (2 airborne, 4 on standby, 1 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 29000 , scrambling fighters between 12000 and 32400.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes
35th PG/21st PS with P-40E Warhawk (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 29000
Raid is overhead
35th PG/34th PS with P-35A (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 29000
Raid is overhead

the Zeroes did nothing and our fighters were able to get a shot at the Nates... this is Rainer´s first mistake, he shouldn´t use Nates in the frontline, but I guess he wants to use his Zeroes somewhere else already and there are nearly none of my fighters left in the Philipinese...

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Afternoon Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 32
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 17



Allied aircraft
P-40B Warhawk x 2
P-40E Warhawk x 3


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 5 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
3 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 15

Aircraft Attacking:
17 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
3 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 6000 feet
5 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 6000 feet
8 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 6000 feet

CAP engaged:
24th PG/17th PS with P-40E Warhawk (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 1 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 29000 , scrambling fighters to 2000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 24 minutes
24th PG/20th PS with P-40B Warhawk (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 29000
Raid is overhead

as soon as Zeroes show up our fighters are dead... just no sense fighting 80 exp pilots with 50 exp pilots (at best) in obsolete aircraft compared to the Zero... no matter at what altitude, the Zero is clearly superior to everything the Allied can put in the air until late 42... oh boy... unfortunetely tactics aren´t inplemented in AE... [:(]

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Afternoon Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 160 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 56 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 47
G4M1 Betty x 12



Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 5 damaged

Allied Ships
AS Holland, Bomb hits 1, on fire



Port hits 6
Port fuel hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet
Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb
3 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 6000 feet
5 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 6000 feet
8 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 6000 feet

and we can´t count on flak either... I´m still used to WITP Nikmod flak that could actually harm low incoming strikes but in AE we´re pretty much back to WITP stock flak values, which means pretty useless... on the other side, every flak kill counts as two kills in WITP as I guess the production numbers in AE will (hopefully) be lower... at the moment I doubt that they will be significantly lower though... time will tell...

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Afternoon Air attack on 3rd SSVF Battalion, at 49,79 (Kuala Lumpur)

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 15
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 10
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 16



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
73 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Afternoon Air attack on Manila , at 79,77

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 15



No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
AO Pecos, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage


Allied ground losses:
10 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Port hits 4
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Afternoon Air attack on 6th Burma Rifles Battalion, at 55,55 (Moulmein)

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 15
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 12



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 2 damaged


Allied ground losses:
123 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Afternoon Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 32
C5M2 Babs x 1



No Japanese losses



Aircraft Attacking:
3 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 6000 feet
5 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 6000 feet
8 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 6000 feet

even if we would engage such a low alt sweep, we would get our heads handed over...

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Invasion Support action off Manado

1 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
xAKL Kumakawa Maru, Shell hits 1
DD Nokaze
APD Nadakaze
APD Shimakaze



75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging xAKL Kumakawa Maru at 12,000 yards
DD Nokaze fires to suppress enemy troops at 12,000 yards
APD Nadakaze firing at enemy troops
APD Shimakaze firing at enemy troops


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Invasion Support action off Davao

Japanese Ships
PB Nanpo Maru
PB Kiso Maru
PB Kanko Maru



PB Nanpo Maru firing at enemy troops
PB Kiso Maru firing at enemy troops
PB Kanko Maru firing at enemy troops



total losses looked good though today... a very small morale boost...

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 21, 41
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Invasion Support action off Manado

1 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
xAKL Kumakawa Maru, Shell hits 1
DD Nokaze
APD Nadakaze
APD Shimakaze



75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging xAKL Kumakawa Maru at 12,000 yards
DD Nokaze fires to suppress enemy troops at 12,000 yards
APD Nadakaze firing at enemy troops
APD Shimakaze firing at enemy troops

I don´t know how it would look like if the enemy would engage major CD defenses but so far if there are a couple of 75mm up to 6 inch CD guns they do more or less nothing while firing a couple of shots at best and the rest of the guns isn´t engaging landing troops at all it seems (unlike WITP)...

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Invasion Support action off Davao

Japanese Ships
PB Nanpo Maru
PB Kiso Maru
PB Kanko Maru



PB Nanpo Maru firing at enemy troops
PB Kiso Maru firing at enemy troops
PB Kanko Maru firing at enemy troops


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ASW attack near Port Moresby at 98,132

Japanese Ships
SS RO-33

Allied Ships
AM Deloraine



SS RO-33 is sighted by escort
RO-33 diving deep ....
AM Deloraine fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Deloraine attacking submerged sub ....
AM Deloraine cannot reach attack position over SS RO-33
SS RO-33 eludes ASW attack from AM Deloraine
AM Deloraine fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

we´re bringing some reinforcements and supply to PM, one of our most important bases... unfortunately we have not really a lot to put there at the moment, it just takes too long to get things moving...


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ASW attack near Wake Island at 136,98

Japanese Ships
PB Kohuku Maru

Allied Ships
SS Triton



SS Triton is sighted by escort
Triton bottoming out ....
PB Kohuku Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

it seems Rainer is pulling some of the troops he´s landed here out again...

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Invasion Support action off Manado

1 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
xAK Hino Maru #3
DD Nokaze



75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging xAK Hino Maru #3 at 12,000 yards
DD Nokaze fires to suppress enemy troops at 12,000 yards


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Invasion Support action off Davao

Japanese Ships
PB Nanpo Maru
PB Kiso Maru
PB Kanko Maru



PB Nanpo Maru firing at enemy troops
PB Kiso Maru firing at enemy troops
PB Kanko Maru firing at enemy troops


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ASW attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 66,74

Japanese Ships
PB Takunan Maru #8

Allied Ships
SS Shark



SS Shark launches 2 torpedoes at PB Takunan Maru #8
Shark diving deep ....
PB Takunan Maru #8 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Takunan Maru #8 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Invasion Support action off Manado

1 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
xAK Daido Maru
DD Nokaze



75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging xAK Daido Maru at 12,000 yards
DD Nokaze fires to suppress enemy troops at 12,000 yards


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Invasion Support action off Davao

Japanese Ships
PB Nanpo Maru
PB Kiso Maru
PB Kanko Maru



PB Nanpo Maru firing at enemy troops
PB Kiso Maru firing at enemy troops
PB Kanko Maru firing at enemy troops


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ASW attack near Hengchun at 82,67

Japanese Ships
E Kiku
SC Ch 3

Allied Ships
SS KXV



SS KXV is sighted by escort
KXV diving deep ....
E Kiku fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 3 fails to find sub and abandons search
E Kiku attacking submerged sub ....
E Kiku fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

more and more ASW TFs show up to engage our subs... will have to relocate...

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Sub attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 66,76

Japanese Ships
xAK Giyu Maru
PB Kantori Maru

Allied Ships
SS Seal



SS Seal launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Giyu Maru
PB Kantori Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

hit but no explosion... nothing new...

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Morning Air attack on Singapore Fortress, at 50,84 (Singapore)

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 25 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 13



No Japanese losses



Aircraft Attacking:
13 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 6000 feet

except two recon Buffalos there´s nothing left in Singapore... no sense having everything shot to pieces when fighting the Japanese UBER airforce... kill rates of 6-7:1 make it unworthy to engage the enemy... even if our pilots in the 50s are crap, getting them killed and replaced with pilots in the 20s is even worse... and in late 44 the RAF will get two dozen Thunderbolts a month, perhaps we the 50s pilots are of use then... [:D]

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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 160 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 53 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 65



Allied aircraft
P-35A x 1
P-40B Warhawk x 6
P-40E Warhawk x 6


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
P-40B Warhawk: 3 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed



Aircraft Attacking:
15 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet

CAP engaged:
24th PG/3rd PS with P-40E Warhawk (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 29000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 55 minutes
24th PG/17th PS with P-40E Warhawk (0 airborne, 3 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 29000 , scrambling fighters between 13000 and 18000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 65 minutes
24th PG/20th PS with P-40B Warhawk (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 1 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 29000 , scrambling fighters between 18000 and 24000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 54 minutes
35th PG/21st PS with P-40E Warhawk (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 29000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 57 minutes
35th PG/34th PS with P-35A (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 29000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes

what can I say, there´s nothing an Allied player can do against the Zeroes if the Japanese player isn´t making a mistake... in WITP you were at least partially able to hurt the Japanese, even without the Japanese player screwing something up, but in AE I can´t see any hope to punish the Japanese if they keep on going methodically... by now, I guess the Japanese are already producing three times more Oscars and Zeroes than I get "first line fighters" and if you add in the kill rate of Zeroes vs my "first line fighters" than I would only need 300 of them each month...

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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 30
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 18
Ki-27b Nate x 19
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 18



Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 1


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 6 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 5 damaged




Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 30

Aircraft Attacking:
18 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb
18 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
2 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 6000 feet

CAP engaged:
35th PG/21st PS with P-40E Warhawk (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 29000
Raid is overhead



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Morning Air attack on Singapore Fortress, at 50,84 (Singapore)

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 25



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 2 destroyed, 17 damaged


Allied ground losses:
15 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Aircraft Attacking:
24 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 2/215th Bty 80th AT Gun Regiment ...
Also attacking Singapore Fortress ...
Also attacking 2/215th Bty 80th AT Gun Regiment ...
Also attacking Singapore Fortress ...

attacking a ground unit at Singapore is the wrong target at the moment as it doesn´t prevent me from building up the forts... I don´t expect my forts reaching a higher level than 3 though...

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Morning Air attack on Penang Fortress, at 49,74 (Georgetown)

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 20
Ki-27b Nate x 15



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
30 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)


Aircraft Attacking:
20 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Manila , at 79,77

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 23



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 damaged

Allied Ships
xAK Tantalus, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage



Repair Shipyard hits 3
Port hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
City Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
12 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Afternoon Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 28,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 15



Allied aircraft
H81-A3 x 53
Buffalo I x 18


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
H81-A3: 2 destroyed



CAP engaged:
No.21 Sqn RAAF with Buffalo I (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 25000
Raid is overhead
AVG/1st Sqn with H81-A3 (0 airborne, 12 on standby, 0 scrambling)
12 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 6 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 21000 and 26000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes
AVG/2nd Sqn with H81-A3 (0 airborne, 12 on standby, 0 scrambling)
12 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 19000 and 28000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes
AVG/3rd Sqn with H81-A3 (0 airborne, 12 on standby, 0 scrambling)
12 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 23000 and 27000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes
No.67 Sqn RAF with Buffalo I (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
8 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 19000 and 27000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes
No.243 Sqn RAF with Buffalo I (1 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling)
5 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 22000 and 23000.
Raid is overhead
No.243 Sqn RAF Det with Buffalo I (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 25000
Raid is overhead

a probing sweep to Rangoon it seems, hopefully half a dozen Zeroe pilots haven´t returned... Rainer keeps doing the high alt sweeps as this works just fine with the Zeroes... we´ve more or less operating at max alt now and the AVG is our best unit - needless to say... the aircraft losses show 9 Zeroes lost today, perhaps 5 or 6 pilots died... I´m expecting to see 70-80 Zeroes on a sweep soon, which will mean that the AVG will be whiped out within two or three attacks for the loss of 20-25 Zeroes in total (with 15 pilots perhaps)...

I´m not going to defend Burma, I´m on full retreat and convoys are coming in to pick up the Burma division, the RAF HQ and at least three base forces... the rest, which is nothing but those crappy small units, will first stay at Rangoon and when the enemy closes in will be withdrawn North and perhaps moved overland to India (if the enemy isn´t faster than us)... am thinking about defending (and building up) Akyab and Cox Bazar... will be hard though if the Japanese keep Zeroes in Rangoon...



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Afternoon Air attack on Manado Base Force, at 75,99 (Manado)

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 16



Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 3 damaged


Allied ground losses:
44 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
16 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb

I´m amazed that Rainer quite often orders those ground strikes against our "combat units" at his invasion sites as we can´t put up anything against his landed troops anyway, no matter with or without his ground strikes... the Betties don´t suffer op losses during these attacks on quite a distance so it´s probably just a good ground bomb training run...

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Invasion Support action off Manado

1 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
xAK Daido Maru, Shell hits 1
DD Nokaze



75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging xAK Daido Maru at 12,000 yards
DD Nokaze fires to suppress enemy troops at 12,000 yards


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Invasion Support action off Davao

Japanese Ships
PB Nanpo Maru
PB Kiso Maru
PB Kanko Maru



PB Nanpo Maru firing at enemy troops
PB Kiso Maru firing at enemy troops
PB Kanko Maru firing at enemy troops


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Ground combat at Hong Kong (77,61)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 2085 troops, 153 guns, 133 vehicles, Assault Value = 562

Defending force 4234 troops, 127 guns, 58 vehicles, Assault Value = 127

Japanese ground losses:
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
47 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Assaulting units:
38th Division
66th Infantry Regiment
19th Ind. Engineer Regiment
20th Ind. Engineer Regiment
5th RF Gun Battalion
2nd Mortar Battalion
2nd RF Gun Battalion
2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
20th Ind. Mtn Gun Battalion

Defending units:
Rifles of Canada Battalion
Hong Kong Fortress
Winnipeg Grenadiers Battalion
Kowloon Brigade
102nd RN Base Force

14 days into the war and Hong Kong is still Allied... not far away from the 17 days HK held out in real life... this is where Betty attacks would make a difference... [;)]

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Ground combat at Atimonan (80,79)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 1025 troops, 4 guns, 42 vehicles, Assault Value = 38

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 20

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 20 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Atimonan !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(+), leaders(-)



Assaulting units:
16th Recon Regiment


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Ground combat at 50,77

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3732 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 127

Defending force 1584 troops, 16 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 57

Japanese adjusted assault: 25

Allied adjusted defense: 25

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
102 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
125 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled


Assaulting units:
56th Infantry Regiment

Defending units:
FMSV Brigade
8th Indian Brigade
3rd ISF Base Force

the troops that were pushed out from Khota Baru are able to hold off one attack on the railway... surprisingly...

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Ground combat at Davao (79,91)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3846 troops, 32 guns, 17 vehicles, Assault Value = 154

Defending force 344 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 18

Japanese adjusted assault: 71

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 71 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Davao !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), disruption(-), preparation(-)
fatigue(-), experience(-)
Attacker: leaders(-)

Japanese ground losses:
25 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled


Allied ground losses:
351 casualties reported
Squads: 8 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units retreated 1


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
146th Infantry Regiment

Defending units:
1st /101st PA Battalion

wonder if the enemy will land more on Mindanao than just this rgt... in a week I will receive a PA division as reinforcement which should get up my assault value at Cagayan to around 200... but Mindanao isn´t important at all at this stage, I always preferred to bypass it completely and in AE this is even more an option as I can´t put any ac there because I´ve got none...

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Ground combat at Sorong (82,107)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 342 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16

Defending force 83 troops, 2 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 15

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 15 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Sorong !!!

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
No Allied losses

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


Allied ground losses:
47 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units retreated 1


Assaulting units:
1st Indpt SNLF Coy

Defending units:
Sorong Det. Base Force

no chance at Sorong...
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Ground combat at Puerto Princesa (73,83)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 504 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 22

Defending force 141 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4

Japanese adjusted assault: 7

Allied adjusted defense: 1

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

Japanese forces CAPTURE Puerto Princesa !!!

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


Allied ground losses:
82 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units retreated 1


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
2nd Sasebo SNLF Coy

Defending units:
2nd PI Base Force

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 22, 41
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ASW attack near Feni Islands at 108,126

Japanese Ships
BB Hiei
CA Chikuma
CL Abukuma
DD Isokaze
DD Kasumi
DD Arare
DD Tanikaze
DD Hamakaze

Allied Ships
SS Tarpon, hits 4



SS Tarpon is sighted by escort
DD Kasumi fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Arare attacking submerged sub ....
DD Tanikaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Hamakaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Kasumi fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Arare fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Tanikaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

this is near Rabaul... BB Hiei? This pretty much looks like the KB´s escort but we haven´t spotted any carriers (yet)... Even if it wouldn´t be KB, I don´t like to see any major IJN naval assets near Rabaul as this could indicate an attempt to attack PM... or it´s only the escort for the invasion of Rabaul...

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Sub attack near Wake Island at 132,101

Japanese Ships
xAK Nanman Maru
PB Hirotama Maru

Allied Ships
SS Triton



SS Triton launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Nanman Maru
Triton diving deep ....
PB Hirotama Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Hirotama Maru attacking submerged sub ....
PB Hirotama Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

we keep firing torps at Nanman Maru but even 12 torps so far aren´t enough to sink this ship... in real life I´m pretty sure it would have been enough to sink this merchant, even with the high dud rate, because in real life, less torps would have been fired at once and the hit rate was always FAR higher than in both WITP and AE... guess we will keep on firing...

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Amphibious Assault at Rabaul

TF 6 troops unloading over beach at Rabaul, 106,125

Japanese ground losses:
43 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)



75mm T94 Mtn Gun lost in surf during unload of 144th Infantry Rgt
17 troops of a SNLF Squad lost overboard during unload of 15th Base Force /1
8 Naval Support troops lost in surf during unload of 15th Base Force /1
8 Engineers lost overboard during unload of 15th Base Force
8 Naval Support troops accidentally lost during unload of 15th Base Force /3
8 Engineers lost overboard during unload of 15th Base Force /3
10 Support troops lost from landing craft during unload of 144th Infantry Rgt /2
17 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost overboard during unload of 144th Infantry Rgt /3
10 Support troops accidentally lost during unload of 144th Infantry Rgt /4

Rabaul was evacuated and the troops were brought to Port Moresby... if he sends only this rgt to PM then we will probably have a good chance to hold...

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Invasion Support action off Manado

1 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
xAK Daido Maru, Shell hits 1
DD Nokaze



75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging xAK Daido Maru at 12,000 yards
DD Nokaze fires to suppress enemy troops at 12,000 yards


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Submarine attack near Newcastle at 95,171

Japanese Ships
SS I-17

Allied Ships
xAK Lewis Luckenbach, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage



xAK Lewis Luckenbach is sighted by SS I-17
SS I-17 launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Lewis Luckenbach

guess this was an AK I could have converted to an AE? [:(] got no escorts available, therfore this TF is moving unescorted... not much chances, either not moving out of port or mostly moving unescorted...

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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 68
Ki-27b Nate x 19



Allied aircraft
P-35A x 1
P-40B Warhawk x 1
P-40E Warhawk x 7


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-27b Nate: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed



Aircraft Attacking:
15 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet
11 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 6000 feet
9 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 6000 feet
6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 6000 feet
9 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet
9 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 6000 feet
17 x Ki-27b Nate sweeping at 6000 feet

CAP engaged:
24th PG/3rd PS with P-40E Warhawk (1 airborne, 2 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 29000 , scrambling fighters between 25000 and 29000.
Raid is overhead
24th PG/17th PS with P-40E Warhawk (0 airborne, 3 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 29000 , scrambling fighters between 14000 and 22000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes
24th PG/20th PS with P-40B Warhawk (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 29000
Raid is overhead
35th PG/34th PS with P-35A (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 29000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 4 minutes

another sweep with nearly 70 Zeroes... what can I do to stop them... can´t say Rainer has any problems coordinating his attacks, everything works just fine...


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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 28 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 33
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 23
Ki-27b Nate x 18
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 17



Allied aircraft
P-40B Warhawk x 1
P-40E Warhawk x 2


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 7 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 3 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed



Airbase hits 3
Runway hits 7
Port hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
17 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb
23 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
9 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 6000 feet
6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 6000 feet
9 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet
9 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 6000 feet
18 x Ki-27b Nate sweeping at 6000 feet

CAP engaged:
24th PG/20th PS with P-40B Warhawk (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 29000
Raid is overhead
24th PG/17th PS with P-40E Warhawk (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 29000
Raid is overhead

our fighters in the air were dead meat once again...

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Morning Air attack on Hong Kong , at 77,61

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 41 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-27b Nate x 7
Ki-44 Tojo x 4
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 5
Ki-51 Sonia x 18



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 1 damaged
Ki-51 Sonia: 7 damaged


Allied ground losses:
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)


Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 11

Aircraft Attacking:
18 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing from 11000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 50 kg GP Bomb
5 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 11000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking Kowloon Brigade ...
Also attacking Hong Kong ...
Also attacking Hong Kong Fortress ...
Also attacking Hong Kong ...


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Morning Air attack on Hong Kong Fortress, at 77,61 (Hong Kong)

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 37 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-36 Ida x 21
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 3



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-36 Ida: 3 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 2 damaged



Aircraft Attacking:
21 x Ki-36 Ida bombing from 12000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 30 kg GP Bomb
3 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 11000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 102nd RN Base Force ...
Also attacking Hong Kong Fortress ...
Also attacking 102nd RN Base Force ...
Also attacking Hong Kong Fortress ...


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Morning Air attack on Manila , at 79,77

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 23 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 19



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 damaged



Port hits 4
Port fuel hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
19 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Manila , at 79,77

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 3
G4M1 Betty x 12



Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 6 damaged

Allied Ships
xAK Tantalus, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AO Pecos, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage



Port hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet
Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 33
C5M2 Babs x 1
Ki-27b Nate x 18



No Japanese losses



Aircraft Attacking:
9 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 6000 feet
6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 6000 feet
9 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet
9 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 6000 feet
18 x Ki-27b Nate sweeping at 6000 feet



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Afternoon Air attack on 8th Indian Brigade, at 50,77

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 37 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 15
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 14
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 16



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
115 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb


8th Indian is moving to Singapore...

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Afternoon Air attack on Manado Base Force, at 75,99 (Manado)

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 22



Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 3 damaged


Allied ground losses:
11 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
22 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb



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Pre-Invasion action off Ternate

Japanese Ships
PB Kure Maru #5



PB Kure Maru #5 firing at enemy troops


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Amphibious Assault at Ternate

TF 107 troops unloading over beach at Ternate, 78,102





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Ground combat at Manado (75,99)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 944 troops, 0 guns, 144 vehicles, Assault Value = 85

Defending force 1599 troops, 2 guns, 3 vehicles, Assault Value = 59

Japanese adjusted assault: 40

Allied adjusted defense: 3

Japanese assault odds: 13 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Manado !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
929 casualties reported
Squads: 21 destroyed, 18 disabled
Non Combat: 46 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 3 (3 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 2


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
8th Tank Regiment
3rd JNAF AF Unit

Defending units:
Manado Garrison Battalion
Manado Base Force


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Ground combat at Hong Kong (77,61)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 20462 troops, 321 guns, 218 vehicles, Assault Value = 577

Defending force 4216 troops, 126 guns, 58 vehicles, Assault Value = 130

Japanese adjusted assault: 443

Allied adjusted defense: 133

Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Hong Kong !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
211 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 18 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled


Allied ground losses:
7313 casualties reported
Squads: 397 destroyed, 61 disabled
Non Combat: 418 destroyed, 104 disabled
Engineers: 32 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 255 (249 destroyed, 6 disabled)
Vehicles lost 113 (112 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Units destroyed 5


Assaulting units:
66th Infantry Regiment
38th Division
19th Ind. Engineer Regiment
20th Ind. Engineer Regiment
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
5th RF Gun Battalion
3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Mortar Battalion
2nd RF Gun Battalion
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
20th Ind. Mtn Gun Battalion

Defending units:
Rifles of Canada Battalion
Hong Kong Fortress
Winnipeg Grenadiers Battalion
Kowloon Brigade
102nd RN Base Force

Hong Kong finally surrenders... nearly achieved historical performance, surrendering one day earlier than real life... not bad...

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Ground combat at 50,77

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3688 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 124

Defending force 1398 troops, 15 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 42

Japanese adjusted assault: 100

Allied adjusted defense: 10

Japanese assault odds: 10 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), disruption(-), fatigue(-)
morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
42 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
545 casualties reported
Squads: 40 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 27 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Units retreated 3


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
56th Infantry Regiment

Defending units:
FMSV Brigade
8th Indian Brigade
3rd ISF Base Force

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 23, 41
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Invasion Support action off Ternate

Japanese Ships
PB Kure Maru #5

PB Kure Maru #5 firing at enemy troops

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TF 345 encounters mine field at Cam Ranh Bay (64,72)

Allied Ships
SS Saury, Mine hits 1

and here we go... this is what I´ve described earlier and what I don´t want to see at all... Saury, who had it´s patrol zone nearly a dozen hexes away of Cam Ran Bay reacted and reacted until it ended up in the base hex, promptly hitting a mine... the sub will get away as the IJN mine is more of a handgrenade but there was also a lot of luck involved... just don´t want to see my subs reacting into ports but I can´t prevent them from doing so...

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Submarine attack near Lord Howe Island at 98,172

Japanese Ships
SS I-17

Allied Ships
xAK Hauraki, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage

xAK Hauraki is sighted by SS I-17
SS I-17 launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Hauraki

damn I-17...

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Sub attack near Sangi at 76,97

Japanese Ships
DD Kamikaze, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
xAK Nanrei Maru
DD Nokaze
DD Tachikaze

Allied Ships
SS KXVII



SS KXVII launches 4 torpedoes at DD Kamikaze
DD Nokaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Tachikaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Nokaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Tachikaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

but we strike back and hit a nice target... heard the sound of a sinking ship so I guess the DD broke apart...

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Invasion Support action off Ternate

Japanese Ships
PB Kure Maru #5

PB Kure Maru #5 firing at enemy troops

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Amphibious Assault at Busuanga

TF 149 troops unloading over beach at Busuanga, 77,80

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Pre-Invasion action off Ocean Island

Japanese Ships
DD Yunagi
DD Asanagi



DD Yunagi firing at Heron Det.
DD Asanagi firing at Heron Det.
DD Yunagi firing at enemy troops
DD Asanagi firing at enemy troops

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Amphibious Assault at Ocean Island

TF 184 troops unloading over beach at Ocean Island, 130,130

am amazed that Rainer is mopping up completely unimportant atolls already... there are more juicy targets around...

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Day Time Surface Combat, near Manado at 76,99, Range 19,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CA Myoko
CA Haguro
CL Kiso
CL Oi
DD Kuroshio
DD Oyashio
DD Yamagumo

Allied Ships
xAK Nanning, Shell hits 20, and is sunk

Maximum visibility in Partly Cloudy Conditions: 28,000 yards
Range closes to 23,000 yards...
Range closes to 21,000 yards...
Range closes to 19,000 yards...
CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 19,000 yards
CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 19,000 yards
CA Myoko engages xAK Nanning at 19,000 yards
CL Kiso engages xAK Nanning at 19,000 yards
DD Yamagumo engages xAK Nanning at 19,000 yards
Range closes to 17,000 yards
CA Haguro engages xAK Nanning at 17,000 yards
CL Oi engages xAK Nanning at 17,000 yards
DD Yamagumo engages xAK Nanning at 17,000 yards
DD Oyashio engages xAK Nanning at 17,000 yards
DD Kuroshio engages xAK Nanning at 17,000 yards
Range closes to 13,000 yards
CA Haguro engages xAK Nanning at 13,000 yards
Range closes to 10,000 yards
DD Kuroshio engages xAK Nanning at 10,000 yards
CA Myoko engages xAK Nanning at 10,000 yards
CL Oi engages xAK Nanning at 10,000 yards
CL Kiso engages xAK Nanning at 10,000 yards
xAK Nanning sunk by DD Kuroshio at 10,000 yards
Combat ends with last Allied ship sunk...

guess there are only two or three transports left in the SRA that were helplessly moved around by the "flee from enemy routine"...

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ASW attack near Horn Island at 93,130

Japanese Ships
SS RO-33

Allied Ships
AVD Childs
xAP Rochambeau
AM Quail



SS RO-33 is sighted by escort
AM Quail fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

sub missed, TF for PM...


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Invasion Support action off Ternate

Japanese Ships
PB Kure Maru #5

PB Kure Maru #5 firing at enemy troops

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Sub attack near Quinhon at 66,70

Japanese Ships
xAK Meiyo Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Shark



SS Shark launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Meiyo Maru
Sub escapes detection

this one is a kill...

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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 47 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 14



Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 1


No Japanese losses

No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
14 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet

CAP engaged:
24th PG/3rd PS with P-40E Warhawk (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 29000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes

a remaining Warhawk acted as a training target for the Zeroes...

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Morning Air attack on Bataan , at 78,77

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 31 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6



No Japanese losses


Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 6000 feet


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Morning Air attack on Bataan , at 78,77

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 43 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 9



No Japanese losses



Aircraft Attacking:
9 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet



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Morning Air attack on Manila , at 79,77

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 28 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 23
G4M1 Betty x 22



Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 4 damaged

Allied Ships
AO Pecos, Bomb hits 4, and is sunk
xAK Tantalus, Bomb hits 1, heavy damage



Port hits 5
Port fuel hits 3
Port supply hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
22 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet
Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb

the last ships are sinking in the Philipinese... homeport for my subs have been reset to Singapore and Soerabaja already...

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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 26 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 8



No Japanese losses



Aircraft Attacking:
2 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet

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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 15
Ki-27b Nate x 19
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 18



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 9 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 4 damaged

Allied Ships
AS Holland, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage


Allied ground losses:
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 17
Port hits 7
Port fuel hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
18 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb
15 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

also the AS at Clarkfield is history... should have tried to move them out but they would have caught by the UBER surface combat TFs anyway...

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Morning Air attack on Bataan , at 78,77

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 22


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 3 damaged


Allied ground losses:
16 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Port hits 5
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 4

Aircraft Attacking:
22 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb


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Morning Air attack on Port Blair RN Det , at 46,58 (Port Blair)

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 23
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 12



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 6 damaged


Allied ground losses:
58 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
23 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Port Blair , at 46,58

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 26,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 16



No Japanese losses



Aircraft Attacking:
16 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 24000 feet *



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Morning Air attack on TF, near Port Moresby at 98,130 [:@][:@]

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 30
B5N2 Kate x 26
D3A1 Val x 13



Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 1 damaged

Allied Ships
xAKL Fiona, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAKL Matthew Flinders, Bomb hits 8, and is sunk
xAKL Coolana, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
xAKL James Cook, Bomb hits 4, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAKL Burwah, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk



Aircraft Attacking:
13 x B5N2 Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Type 91 Torpedo
9 x D3A1 Val diving from 1000' *
Naval Attack: 2 x 60 kg GP Bomb
13 x B5N2 Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Type 91 Torpedo
4 x D3A1 Val diving from 10000' *
Naval Attack: 2 x 60 kg GP Bomb

Coolana caught transferring cargo ...
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAKL Matthew Flinders
Burwah caught transferring cargo ...

my mistake! I should have known better when we spotted BB Hiei, KB is in the area... This TF has brought supplies to PM and has nearly completed unloading... not a major target but I hate losing ships, no matter if Queen Mary or just a couple of xAKLs... nothing we can do against such a hit rate... when KB is operating near PM then I don´t doubt that this is the next target... hey, we´re already 16 days into the war, why not invading PM soon? [8|] Heck, I knew I should have trust the guys that said AE is really slowing down the pace of advance... lol, what a joke, it´s as fast as in WITP, if not faster due to the Japanese knowing that the Allied can´t do anything anyway...


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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Port Moresby at 98,130

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 17 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 28
B5N2 Kate x 25



No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
AM Deloraine, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAP Koolama, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk



Aircraft Attacking:
25 x B5N2 Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Type 91 Torpedo

also the second TF that has brought troops and supplies to PM is history...

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Sub attack near Lord Howe Island at 102,172

Japanese Ships
SS I-17

Allied Ships
xAK Michael Goulandris, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage


SS I-17 launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Michael Goulandris

damn bugger is following my TF and I can´t do anything against it, changed direction twice already... guess the f*cking sub will sink my AKs as long as it carries torps...

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Sub attack near Malden Island at 172,151

Japanese Ships
SS I-16

Allied Ships
AG Argonne, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage
AM Grebe



SS I-16 launches 6 torpedoes at AG Argonne
I-16 diving deep ....
AM Grebe fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Grebe attacking submerged sub ....
AM Grebe cannot reach attack position over SS I-16

AM Grebe fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

another AK history...

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Amphibious Assault at Amchitka Island

TF 2 troops unloading over beach at Amchitka Island, 158,52

Japanese ground losses:
41 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



17 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost in surf during unload of 8th Garrison Unit
10 Support troops lost in surf during unload of 8th Garrison Unit
17 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost from landing craft during unload of 8th Garrison Unit /3

Rainer moves further East in the Aleutans... he can move to Anchorage and I wouldn´t care...

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Invasion Support action off Ternate

Japanese Ships
PB Kure Maru #5


PB Kure Maru #5 firing at enemy troops

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Ground combat at Rabaul (106,125)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3971 troops, 41 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 165

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 29

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 29 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Rabaul !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: fatigue(-)



Assaulting units:
144th Infantry Regiment
15th Base Force

empty Rabaul falls...

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Ground combat at Ternate (78,102)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 1184 troops, 7 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 43

Defending force 88 troops, 2 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 38

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 38 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Ternate !!!

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
No Allied losses

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


Allied ground losses:
154 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 17 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 4 (3 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Units destroyed 1


Assaulting units:
I./4th Infantry Battalion

Defending units:
Ternate Det. Base Force


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Ground combat at Port Blair (46,58)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 102 troops, 1 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 7

Defending force 211 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6

Japanese adjusted assault: 6

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 6 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Port Blair !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), disruption(-), morale(-)
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(+), leaders(-)

Japanese ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
391 casualties reported
Squads: 11 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 33 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 9 (9 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 1


Assaulting units:
1st Raiding Rgt /1

Defending units:
Port Blair RN Det


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Ground combat at Ocean Island (130,130)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 1468 troops, 13 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 61

Defending force 82 troops, 2 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 24

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 24 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Ocean Island !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: disruption(-), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(-)

Japanese ground losses:
19 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
122 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 9 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 1


Assaulting units:
61st Nav Gd /2

Defending units:
Heron Det.

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 24, 41
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TF 109 encounters mine field at Hong Kong (77,61)

Japanese Ships
DMS W-19
DMS W-18
DMS W-17
DMS W-16
DMS W-15
DMS W-12
DMS W-11
DMS W-10
DMS W-9



247 mines cleared

preparation work for moving out the victorious troops at Hong Kong it seems...

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Submarine attack near San Luis Obispo at 218,82

Japanese Ships
SS I-19

Allied Ships
xAK Panaman, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage



xAK Panaman is sighted by SS I-19
SS I-19 launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Panaman

can´t await 43 when I will have enough escorts for my convoys... then it will be payback time... guess during the course of the war I will lose two merchants for every IJN sub I will sink... more wouldn´t be good, the less the better...

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Submarine attack near Tourane at 67,67

Japanese Ships
xAK Meiyo Maru, heavy fires, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Shark



xAK Meiyo Maru is sighted by SS Shark
SS Shark launches 2 torpedoes

mmmm.... [>:]

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Amphibious Assault at Morotai

TF 131 troops unloading over beach at Morotai, 80,101


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TF 109 encounters mine field at Hong Kong (77,61)

Japanese Ships
DMS W-19
DMS W-18
DMS W-17
DMS W-16
DMS W-15
DMS W-12
DMS W-11
DMS W-10
DMS W-9



75 mines cleared

two days and no mine will be left...


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Submarine attack near Tourane at 68,66

Japanese Ships
xAK Meiyo Maru, heavy fires, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Seadragon



xAK Meiyo Maru is sighted by SS Seadragon
SS Seadragon launches 4 torpedoes

Shark missed and Seadragon can´t score either on the heavily damaged ship...

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ASW attack near Hengchun at 85,68

Japanese Ships
PB Suyozai Maru
PB Seki Maru #3
PB Toko Maru #4

Allied Ships
SS Perch



SS Perch is located by PB Suyozai Maru
PB Seki Maru #3 fails to find sub and abandons search
PB Toko Maru #4 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toko Maru #4 attacking submerged sub ....
Escort abandons search for sub

one of the ASW TFs in this area... I guess the risk of meeting ASW TFs is acceptable as long as we don´t encounter pure DD ASW TFs...

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ASW attack near Christmas Island at 172,143

Japanese Ships
SS I-16

Allied Ships
AM Grebe



SS I-16 is sighted by escort
I-16 diving deep ....
AM Grebe fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

the AK that moved supplies to Christmas was lost (after unloading luckily) and the AM is now retiring to Pearl...

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Sub attack near Groot Natoena at 60,84

Japanese Ships
xAKL Haguro Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
xAKL Kaishi Maru
PB Nako Maru #2

Allied Ships
SS Sculpin



SS Sculpin launches 8 torpedoes at xAKL Haguro Maru
Sculpin diving deep ....
PB Nako Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

Sculpin scores... would like to see a Japanese merchant sunk every day for the next two months... will be hard to achieve...

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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 47 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 14



Allied aircraft
P-40B Warhawk x 1
P-40E Warhawk x 4


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 2 destroyed



Aircraft Attacking:
12 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet

CAP engaged:
24th PG/3rd PS with P-40E Warhawk (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 29000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes
24th PG/17th PS with P-40E Warhawk (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 29000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes
24th PG/20th PS with P-40B Warhawk (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 29000
Raid is overhead

zzz...

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Morning Air attack on Bataan , at 78,77

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 28 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 12
G4M1 Betty x 14



Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 2 damaged

Allied Ships
AS Canopus, Bomb hits 1



Port hits 4
Port fuel hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet
Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 26 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 2



No Japanese losses



Aircraft Attacking:
2 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet



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Morning Air attack on Manila , at 79,77

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 160 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 50 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-27b Nate x 18
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 17



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 1 damaged



Aircraft Attacking:
13 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 16000 feet *
Port Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb
4 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 16000 feet *
City Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Bataan , at 78,77

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 23 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 35



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 12 damaged

Allied Ships
AS Canopus, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage



Port hits 3
Port fuel hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
21 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

we´re still able to build forts at Clark field and Manila but I´m not sure we will ever reach 3, currently being around 2 (25%)...

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Amphibious Assault at Adak Island

TF 158 troops unloading over beach at Adak Island, 162,52

Japanese ground losses:
24 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


75mm Infantry Gun dropped into water during unload of I./33rd Inf Regt
20 troops of a IJA HMG Squad lost in surf during unload of I./33rd Inf Regt

shouldn´t invasions in winter around Alaska be deadly? The Japanese invasion bonus seems to be also enabled against Alaskan Winter... [8|]

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Ground combat at Sidate (75,100)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 944 troops, 0 guns, 144 vehicles, Assault Value = 81

Defending force 900 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 28

Japanese adjusted assault: 38

Allied adjusted defense: 4

Japanese assault odds: 9 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Sidate !!!

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


Allied ground losses:
449 casualties reported
Squads: 17 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 20 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units retreated 2


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
8th Tank Regiment

Defending units:
Manado Garrison Battalion
Manado Base Force

it took the Japanese Tank regiment only a couple of days to move out of Menado to kick our retreating troops on hex further... why the TK rgt is following us is beyond me though...

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Ground combat at Amchitka Island (158,52)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3133 troops, 15 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 119

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 106

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 106 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Amchitka Island !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker:



Assaulting units:
8th Garrison Unit


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Ground combat at Lucena (79,79)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 1025 troops, 4 guns, 42 vehicles, Assault Value = 38

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 37

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 37 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Lucena !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(+)



Assaulting units:
16th Recon Regiment


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Ground combat at Busuanga (77,80)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 315 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 5

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Busuanga !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker:



Assaulting units:
4th JNAF Coy


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Ground combat at Georgetown (49,74)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 1468 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 61

Defending force 346 troops, 8 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 28

Allied adjusted defense: 2

Japanese assault odds: 14 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Georgetown !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: leaders(-), experience(-)
Attacker: leaders(+), leaders(-)


Allied ground losses:
888 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 65 destroyed, 14 disabled
Engineers: 8 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 11 (11 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 1


Assaulting units:
91st Naval Guard Unit

Defending units:
Penang Fortress


static unit at Georgetown surrenders...



and here´s the bad news of the day... like I´ve already feared, the enemy is clearly moving on Port Moresby... heck, what were the guys smoking when they said also the Japanese advance will be slowed down by the new "features" of AE? And what was the guy smoking that said AE would be the ALLIED Edition? lol, nothing more to say I guess...

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 25, 41
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ASW attack near Takao at 84,64

Japanese Ships
SC CHa-15
SC CHa-11

Allied Ships
SS KXV



SS KXV is sighted by escort
SC CHa-15 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

another ASW TF...

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ASW attack near Hengchun at 85,68

Japanese Ships
PB Seki Maru #3
PB Toko Maru #4

Allied Ships
SS O20



SS O20 is located by PB Seki Maru #3
O20 diving deep ....
PB Seki Maru #3 fails to find sub and abandons search
Escort abandons search for sub

same here, but those TFs are really useless and it seems there are no transport TFs around anymore...

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Submarine attack near Morotai at 80,101

Japanese Ships
xAKL Kashiwa Maru

Allied Ships
SS KXVI



xAKL Kashiwa Maru is sighted by SS KXVI
SS KXVI launches 2 torpedoes at xAKL Kashiwa Maru

non-defective torps seem to miss too often... firing only two torps at a merchant results in a miss nearly 50% of the time in WITP and AE...

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Submarine attack near Norfolk Island at 111,172

Japanese Ships
SS I-25

Allied Ships
xAK Andrea Luckenbach, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage



xAK Andrea Luckenbach is sighted by SS I-25
SS I-25 launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Andrea Luckenbach

my AK TF that left Brisbane for LA is under constant sub attack... I´m changing direction daily but this just doesn´t help with the react feature of the subs... [8|] means that I will lose all ships in this TF if there are enough subs around... pff... guess this was even one of the precious AKs I wanted to upgrade to an AE... grrrrrr...........

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Submarine attack near Morotai at 80,101

Japanese Ships
xAKL Fukkai Maru, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS KXVI



xAKL Fukkai Maru is sighted by SS KXVI
SS KXVI attacking xAKL Fukkai Maru on the surface

two torp salvoes and some gunfire to kill this small transport...

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ASW attack near Rabaul at 106,125

Japanese Ships
DD Akikaze
xAK Shinwa Maru
xAK Kogyoku Maru
DD Yakaze

Allied Ships
SS Sealion, hits 2



SS Sealion launches 4 torpedoes at DD Akikaze
Sealion bottoming out ....
DD Yakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Yakaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Yakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

two near misses, no mines at Rabaul yet... sub reacted...

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Submarine attack near Ontong Java at 114,128

Japanese Ships
xAKL Katsuragisan Maru, Shell hits 56, heavy fires, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Thresher, hits 3

Japanese ground losses:
83 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 15 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



xAKL Katsuragisan Maru is sighted by SS Thresher
SS Thresher attacking xAKL Katsuragisan Maru on the surface
SS Thresher low on gun ammo, Lawson E. breaks off surface engagement and submerges

wow, now that was a shootout... the small transport was pumped full with cal.50 MG fire and more than a dozen 3 inch shells... not one torp was fired but I guess the transport should sink... Thresher isn´t damaged so I guess this is FOW...

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Submarine attack near Morotai at 80,101

Japanese Ships
xAKL Kashiwa Maru

Allied Ships
SS KVIII


xAKL Kashiwa Maru is sighted by SS KVIII
SS KVIII attacking on the surface
Caspers, J.W. decides to submerge SS KVIII due to damage

the torps missed (again[8|]) and then the sub submerges due to damage that isn´t existing... great... the skipper must have been drunk...

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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 22 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 13



No Japanese losses



Aircraft Attacking:
13 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet

good to see the Zeroes are still in the Philipinese...

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Morning Air attack on Manila , at 79,77

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 42 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-27b Nate x 19



No Japanese losses


Aircraft Attacking:
19 x Ki-27b Nate sweeping at 6000 feet


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Morning Air attack on Manila , at 79,77

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 28 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 15
G4M1 Betty x 15



No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
xAK Tantalus, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk



Port hits 9
Port supply hits 5

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet
Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb


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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 2



No Japanese losses



Aircraft Attacking:
2 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet


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Morning Air attack on Bataan , at 78,77

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 23 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 23



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 damaged


Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Port hits 4
Port fuel hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
23 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

not enough damage to prevent us from building up the forts but there aren´t really a lot of engineers in the Philipinese so it really is going on sloooowly...

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Sub attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 62,78

Japanese Ships
xAKL Kaika Maru
xAKL Kaishi Maru
PB Nako Maru #2

Allied Ships
SS Sailfish



SS Sailfish launches 4 torpedoes at xAKL Kaika Maru
Sailfish diving deep ....
PB Nako Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


PLOINK...

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Ground combat at Morotai (80,101)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 402 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 5

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Morotai !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(-)



Assaulting units:
Bandasan SNLF


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Ground combat at Beaufort (66,87)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 486 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 20

Defending force 262 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 17

Allied adjusted defense: 4

Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Beaufort !!!

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


Allied ground losses:
72 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units retreated 1


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
I/81st Naval Guard Unit

Defending units:
107th RN Base Force



the enemy is moving on PM, I don´t have any doubts about this anymore... I´ve got the troops at PM that start there and everything that was at Rabaul, plus a base force that was moved in... hopefully only the rgt that landed at Rabaul is moving in, if it´s more that is coming in than I´m screwed... with KB flying ground attacks, the rgt would be enough anyway... with the enemy not being slowed down in AE at all (heck, who really notices a slow down of the Japanese movement??) I am absolutely caught with my pants down. I wanted to build up PM as much as possible and have 600 assault points there, I´ve even moved a British division into the region but it would still be two weeks out, just not possible to move faster. Same goes for my reinforcements that are coming from Australia, I didn´t concentrate on moving everything possible to PM from day one on (due to the thought AE really would slow down something) so I´m lost here now... but I´ve learned for my next PBEM (no matter if Allied or Japanese), if you want to defend PM you have to move everything you can within the first week of the war, otherwise you´re screwed...

slowing down the pace... lol...[8|]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 26, 41
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ASW attack near Laoag at 80,72

Japanese Ships
xAKL Ichiyo Maru
SC CHa-24

Allied Ships
SS KXV



SS KXV is sighted by escort
KXV diving deep ....
SC CHa-24 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

another unsuccesful engagement of one of our subs with functioning torps...

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Submarine attack near Ontong Java at 114,131

Japanese Ships
xAKL Tateyama Maru

Allied Ships
SS Tautog



xAKL Tateyama Maru is sighted by SS Tautog
SS Tautog launches 4 torpedoes at xAKL Tateyama Maru

these torps failed to ignite...

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Submarine attack near Norfolk Island at 116,175

Japanese Ships
SS I-25

Allied Ships
xAK Oakbank, Shell hits 2, Torpedo hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage



xAK Oakbank is sighted by SS I-25
SS I-25 attacking xAK Oakbank on the surface

something IJN subs don´t experience... more ships of my AK TF going out from Brisbane are sunk... yes, changed direction yesterday once again... only thing that would help against the new react-feature would be to scatter the ships into single ship TFs... [>:]

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Pre-Invasion action off Ambon

2 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
xAP Baikal Maru, Shell hits 1
AV Sanuki Maru
CM Itsukushima
APD Tade

Japanese ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


150mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging xAP Baikal Maru at 12,000 yards
CM Itsukushima fires to suppress enemy guns at 12,000 yards
APD Tade firing at enemy troops

perhaps I should intervene with the Ambon invasion... got some surface assets in the area, but the IJN CVLs are also nearby and two dozen Kates are easily able to kill off any capitol ships...

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Amphibious Assault at Ambon

TF 89 troops unloading over beach at Ambon, 76,109

Japanese ground losses:
10 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



17 troops of a SNLF Squad lost from landing craft during unload of Sasebo 1st SNLF


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Amphibious Assault at Boela

TF 243 troops unloading over beach at Boela, 80,110


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Sub attack near Kavieng at 107,121

Japanese Ships
xAK Ryunan Maru
xAK China Maru
PB Tama Maru #8

Allied Ships
SS Pompano



SS Pompano launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Ryunan Maru
Pompano diving deep ....
PB Tama Maru #8 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Tama Maru #8 attacking submerged sub ....
PB Tama Maru #8 cannot establish contact with SS Pompano
PB Tama Maru #8 loses contact with SS Pompano
PB Tama Maru #8 cannot reach attack position over SS Pompano
PB Tama Maru #8 cannot establish contact with SS Pompano
PB Tama Maru #8 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

those torps missed... we´re far away from sinking a merchant every day...

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Invasion Support action off Ambon

4 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
CM Itsukushima, Shell hits 2
AV Sanuki Maru
APD Tade


Allied ground losses:
3 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


150mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging CM Itsukushima at 12,000 yards
CM Itsukushima fires to suppress enemy guns at 12,000 yards
APD Tade firing at enemy guns
150mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging APD Tade at 2,000 yards

and coast defenses are pretty much teethless too... 4x150mm and half a dozen 75mm CD guns can´t do much... this is one of our bases that has a "real" coast defense when you leave Singapore and Bataan aside... but I guess Singers, Bataan and Pearl Harbour are the only ones that can really harm the enemy... and Singapore and Bataan will be gone in a couple of weeks/months wihtout having shot a single shell at enemy shipping...

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Sub attack near Rekata Bay at 114,133

Japanese Ships
xAKL Tateyama Maru

Allied Ships
SS Thresher



SS Thresher launches 4 torpedoes at xAKL Tateyama Maru

hit but no boom...

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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 16 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 9



No Japanese losses



Aircraft Attacking:
9 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet

would be nice to see some op losses but none show up in my aircraft loss list... no idea how accurate it is anyway, the combat reports are completely useless when it comes down to losses... wonder why because they don´t even reflect what you can see during the replay, which is wrong IMO... FOW yes, but you should see the same losses in the report as in the replay, it´s only divided by two or three anyway all the time... just like the great FOW in WITP when destroyed ac on the ground always were divided by two... [>:]

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Clark Field at 79,76

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 28 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6
G4M1 Betty x 5



No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
xAKL Yat Shing, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage



Aircraft Attacking:
5 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb
4 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 6000 feet

Yat Shing caught transferring cargo ...
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAKL Yat Shing

for what reason ever this xAKL stopped unloading at 500 tons even though I´ve set it to unload for at least four times... oh well...

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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 160 NM, estimated altitude 21,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 53 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1



No Japanese losses



Aircraft Attacking:
1 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet



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Morning Air attack on Tarakan , at 67,91

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6



No Japanese losses


Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet

no Dutch fighters here... they will die soon enough anyway, I expect the Zeros achieve a 15:1 kill rate... so the Dutch fighter force will be whiped out for the loss of two Zeroes and one Zero pilot will probably survive... [:D]

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Morning Air attack on Asiatic Fleet , at 79,77 (Manila)

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 25 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-27b Nate x 10
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 18



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 1 damaged



Aircraft Attacking:
18 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 51st PA Infantry Division ...
Also attacking Asiatic Fleet ...

no idea why ground attacks, airfield attacks would be better IMO...

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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 18
Ki-27b Nate x 9



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 4 damaged


Allied ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 10

Aircraft Attacking:
18 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
24th PG/20th PS with P-40B Warhawk (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead

Training flight from 24th PG/20th PS has been caught up in attack

have set all my remaining fighters (only a couple of them left) to training and one was damaged in this raid... not even this shows up in the combat report... when you see two dozen damaged aircraft in the replay, they don´t show up in the report, which makes it even more important to watch each replay carefully... don´t get it why the cr was cut down completely, making it more or less useless... with the replay and the loss list though you can get a good picture of what really happened it seems...

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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 21,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 30
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 14
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 51



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 5 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 5 damaged



Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 3

Aircraft Attacking:
25 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 16000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
22 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 16000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
29 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 16000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
5 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 16000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

bad weather, high alt makes a very poor hit rate... flak is more or less useless though against bombes coming in that high... but such attacks can´t prevent us from further building up the forts... I´ve also replaced the leader of our command HQ in Singapore (has cost me 150pp [X(]) so we´ll see if it will help (doubt it). If we could get the forts to five (doubt it) then the nearly 1200 av at Singapore could do some damage. We´ve got more than enough supplies it seems to fight a prolonged fight and if the enemy bombers come in lower to actually do some damage then perhaps our flak will start to score... I´ve rebuilt all units that were able to rebuild, perhaps this increases our combat ability...

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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 19



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 4 damaged



Runway hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
19 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 16000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

no hits at all at extended range... amazing that not all bombers are coming from bases in Malaya yet...

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 54,53

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 17 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 14


Allied aircraft
H81-A3 x 54
Buffalo I x 22


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ib Oscar: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
H81-A3: 1 destroyed



CAP engaged:
AVG/1st Sqn with H81-A3 (3 airborne, 12 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 30000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes
AVG/2nd Sqn with H81-A3 (6 airborne, 9 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(6 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
6 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 30000 and 32400.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 11 minutes
AVG/3rd Sqn with H81-A3 (6 airborne, 9 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(5 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
6 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 9000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 8 minutes
No.67 Sqn RAF with Buffalo I (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 13000 and 30000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes
No.243 Sqn RAF with Buffalo I (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 13000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 15 minutes

most of the Oscars were split from the bombers they were tasked to escort, so this turned out to be something like a sweep... the 1:1 losses are completely BS again (I reall hate that as you have to start taking more and more notes if you want to do an AAR [8|]) as we´ve took out 3 Oscars over the base while damaging at least half a dozen more (Oscar on fire, etc...) this was clearly a small victory for us... waiting for the massed Zero sweep at 20.000ft+...

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 54,53

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 6



Allied aircraft
H81-A3 x 36
Buffalo I x 18


Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 2 destroyed [8|][8|][8|] complete BS...




CAP engaged:
AVG/1st Sqn with H81-A3 (10 airborne, 3 on standby, 0 scrambling)
10 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 12000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 20 minutes
AVG/2nd Sqn with H81-A3 (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
5 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 23 minutes
AVG/3rd Sqn with H81-A3 (11 airborne, 3 on standby, 0 scrambling)
11 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 12000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 9 minutes
No.67 Sqn RAF with Buffalo I (3 airborne, 3 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters to 10000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 22 minutes
No.243 Sqn RAF with Buffalo I (0 airborne, 3 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 6 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 11000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 20 minutes

and here are the bombers that should have had a 36 Oscar escort... not one bomber survived and half a dozen high experienced crews died... the cr is absolutely wrong again...overall a clear victory in the air today... due to me doing the UBER Sir Robin with my airforce (except the Dutch and the fighters in the Philipines that can´t move out) and due to the low damaged done to my airforce on Hawai the overall airlosses don´t look to bad compared to the Japanese... but this will change as soon as we have to make a stand and throw in the flying crap we have...



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Submarine attack near Rekata Bay at 114,133

Japanese Ships
xAKL Tsuneshima Maru, Shell hits 1

Allied Ships
SS Thresher

Japanese ground losses:
10 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



xAKL Tsuneshima Maru is sighted by SS Thresher
SS Thresher attacking xAKL Tsuneshima Maru on the surface
SS Thresher low on gun ammo, Lawson E. breaks off surface engagement and submerges

breaking off due to low gun ammo is great if you haven´t fired a single torp... one shot and submerge... damn the cowardly skipper...

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Sub attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 65,72

Japanese Ships
xAK Hiyoshi Maru
PB Ginyo Maru

Allied Ships
SS Sailfish



SS Sailfish launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Hiyoshi Maru
PB Ginyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

Sailfish fired but the torps failed to explode...

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Naval bombardment of Ambon at 76,109

Japanese Ships
CA Haguro
CA Myoko
CL Oi
CL Kiso



Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 4
Port hits 3
Port supply hits 2

CA Haguro firing at Ambon
CA Myoko firing at Ambon
CL Oi firing at Ambon
CL Kiso firing at Ambon

quite a support force for the Ambon invasion... Rainer seems to know that Ambon´s defender have quite some CD guns... hindsight? [:D]

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Sub attack near Kavieng at 108,118

Japanese Ships
PB Toshi Maru #3
xAK China Maru
PB Tama Maru #8

Allied Ships
SS Sealion



SS Sealion launches 4 torpedoes at PB Toshi Maru #3
Sealion diving deep ....
PB Tama Maru #8 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

unsuccesful day for the submarine force again...

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Invasion Support action off Ambon

4 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
xAP Baikal Maru, Shell hits 3, on fire
AV Sanuki Maru
CM Itsukushima
APD Tade



150mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging xAP Baikal Maru at 12,000 yards
CM Itsukushima fires to suppress enemy guns at 12,000 yards
APD Tade firing at enemy troops

3 big shells hits don´t really touch the big troop ship...

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Ground combat at Adak Island (162,52)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 596 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 22

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 13

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 13 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Adak Island !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: disruption(-)



Assaulting units:
I./33rd Inf Regt


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Ground combat at Cabanatuan (80,76)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 600 troops, 0 guns, 90 vehicles, Assault Value = 136

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 55

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 55 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Cabanatuan !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker:



Assaulting units:
Tanaka Detachment
7th Tank Regiment


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Ground combat at Ambon (76,109)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 359 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 55

Defending force 1462 troops, 19 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 59



Assaulting units:
Molukken Garrison Battalion
4th Coastal Gun Battalion
Ambon Base Force

Defending units:
Sasebo 1st SNLF /3

there´s no doubt the Japanese will invade Port Moresby on the 27th Dec, 20 days after outbrake of the war... slow pace...

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 27, 41
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ASW attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 64,73

Japanese Ships
xAKL Kaishi Maru
PB Nako Maru #2

Allied Ships
SS Shark



SS Shark is sighted by escort
Shark diving deep ....
PB Nako Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

no matter if the escort attacks first, the torps would miss or fail to ignite probably anyway...

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Naval bombardment of Ambon at 76,109

Japanese Ships
CA Haguro
CA Myoko
CL Oi
CL Kiso


Allied ground losses:
24 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Runway hits 4
Port hits 1
Port supply hits 1

CA Haguro firing at Ambon
CA Myoko firing at Ambon
CL Oi firing at Ambon
CL Kiso firing at 4th Coastal Gun Battalion


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Amphibious Assault at Tawi Tawi

TF 12 troops unloading over beach at Tawi Tawi, 72,90


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Submarine attack near Auki at 114,135

Japanese Ships
xAKL Tsuneshima Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Thresher

Japanese ground losses:
28 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)



xAKL Tsuneshima Maru is sighted by SS Thresher
SS Thresher launches 4 torpedoes at xAKL Tsuneshima Maru

but this xAKL should be dead... looks like this TF is moving on Tulagi...

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Submarine attack near Auki at 114,135

Japanese Ships
xAKL Tateyama Maru, Shell hits 9, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Gudgeon

Japanese ground losses:
16 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



xAKL Tateyama Maru is sighted by SS Gudgeon
SS Gudgeon attacking on the surface

and two of our subs have been reacting to this TF for at least three turns already... subs really stick on enemy convoys, no matter what weather and no matter how the visibility looks like... in this case it was a mistake not to have an escort in the TF, two ships sunk, none left it seems (or the subs lost contact during the day)...

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TF 8 encounters mine field at Port Moresby (98,130) - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

2 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
DMS Taneko
xAK Yokohama Maru, Mine hits 1, heavy fires

Japanese ground losses:
16 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Rabaul Det. Base Force firing at DMS Taneko
1 mine cleared

I had only time for one minelaying mission with a CM and so it´s not surprising that 120 mines can´t harm the enemy at all... and the CD guns are useless too...

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ASW attack near Truk at 110,112

Japanese Ships
PB Toshi Maru #3
PB Tama Maru #8

Allied Ships
SS Sealion



SS Sealion launches 4 torpedoes at PB Toshi Maru #3
Sealion diving deep ....
PB Tama Maru #8 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Tama Maru #8 attacking submerged sub ....
PB Tama Maru #8 is out of ASW ammo
PB Tama Maru #8 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

another react into an enemy port... no mines at Truk? Doubt it...

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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 25
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 11
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 38



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 9 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 1 destroyed, 14 damaged


Allied ground losses:
4 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Airbase hits 12
Runway hits 26

Aircraft Attacking:
21 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 11000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
16 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 11000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
21 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 11000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
4 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 11000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

daily bombings now it seems... today the bombers came in lower and their hit rate increased significantly, as did flak effectiveness... not that many bombers reported shot down in the end though...

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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 18



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 14 damaged


Allied ground losses:
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Airbase hits 5
Runway hits 7

Aircraft Attacking:
18 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 11000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

Singapore won´t ever see Allied aircraft again, the two Hurricane recons will die there...

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Morning Air attack on Asiatic Fleet , at 79,77 (Manila)

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 23 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 20
Ki-27b Nate x 18
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 13



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 damaged


Allied ground losses:
24 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
20 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 51st PA Infantry Division ...
Also attacking Asiatic Fleet ...
Also attacking 51st PA Infantry Division ...
Also attacking Asiatic Fleet ...

ground attack? Would concentrate on the airfield instead... [;)]

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Ambon at 76,109

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 48 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 22


Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 10 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Haguro
CL Kiso
CA Myoko
DD Yamagumo
DD Kuroshio



Aircraft Attacking:
4 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Naval Attack: 4 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
4 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Naval Attack: 4 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
3 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Naval Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Naval Attack: 4 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
5 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Naval Attack: 4 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

isn´t it great what you get told... you don´t get a lot of B-17 (heck you don´t get enough to even fill out your squadrons and when you fill them out, they will withdraw with all bombers a month later), but they are really, really hard to shoot down and Japanese flak won´t be able to do so anyway... same as Japanese paper fighters... well, let´s have a look at the losses later... that they can´t hit something isn´t surprising anyway, have been training them since day one though... learned something today, it was a mistake to send out the bombers, I should conserve them until mid 43...

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Ambon at 76,109

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 8


Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 8 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Myoko
CL Kiso
CA Haguro



Aircraft Attacking:
2 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Naval Attack: 4 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
3 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Naval Attack: 4 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
3 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Naval Attack: 4 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

afternoon attack, again against the cruisers, I would have liked to target the merchants that were unloading, perhaps we could hit them but I doubt that too... 8 out of 8 bombers damaged... interesting to see that those IJN cruisers put up more flak fire than all my AA guns at Singapore it seems (which more or less has all of Malaya´s AA guns)...

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Larantoeka at 67,112

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 29



Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 3


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
CVL Ryujo



Aircraft Attacking:
1 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Naval Attack: 4 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

CAP engaged:
Ryujo-1 with A6M2 Zero (4 airborne, 9 on standby, 0 scrambling)
4 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 32810.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 16 minutes
Zuiho-1 with A6M2 Zero (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 9000 and 12000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 8 minutes
Hosho-1 with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 13000 , scrambling fighters to 3000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes

we´ve also sent three of our "Fortresses" to attack the three IJN baby carriers South of Borneo... nearly 30 Zeroes were set on Cap (didn´t take long to upgrade all Claudes???) and shot down a bomber immedietely while heavily damaging the others too... one bomber dropped some bombs that landed 87 miles off the target...

we lose 5 B-17... 8 is the monthly replacement rate... lol[8|]




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Afternoon Air attack on Molukken Garrison Battalion, at 76,109 (Ambon)

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 22



Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 3 damaged


Allied ground losses:
17 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Aircraft Attacking:
22 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Afternoon Air attack on 49th Australian Battalion, at 98,130 (Port Moresby)

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 17 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 7
B5N2 Kate x 133



Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 1 destroyed, 6 damaged


Allied ground losses:
103 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 4 (0 destroyed, 4 disabled)


Aircraft Attacking:
25 x B5N2 Kate bombing from 9000 feet
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 15th RAAF Base Force ...
Also attacking Port Moresby Brigade ...
Also attacking Rabaul Det. Base Force ...
Also attacking 49th Australian Battalion ...

when I look at this number of Kates than I don´t want to get anywhere near the KB for the next 24 months... our LCU is max disrupted and had no combat ability after this attack...

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Memboro at 61,112

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 24
B5N1 Kate x 11



Japanese aircraft losses
B5N1 Kate: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged

Allied Ships
AM Ballarat
AO TAN 5, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
AO TAN 3, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
AM Eland Dubois



Aircraft Attacking:
10 x B5N1 Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Type 91 Torpedo

Baby Kido Butai attacked a TF consisting of short ranged AO that I´ve used to bring fuel from Soerabaja to Northern Australia... two are sunk, two more remaining...

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Pre-Invasion action off Port Moresby - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

12 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
DD Tatsukaze
xAKL Amakasu Maru
PB Takunan Maru #2
PB Shonon Maru #15
PB Shuko Maru #5
PB Sonan Maru #6

Japanese ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



DD Tatsukaze firing at 15th RAAF Base Force
6" Mk XI/XII Gun Coastal Battery engaging xAKL Amakasu Maru at 12,000 yards
DD Tatsukaze fires to suppress enemy troops at 12,000 yards
PB Takunan Maru #2 firing at enemy troops
PB Shonon Maru #15 firing at enemy troops
PB Shuko Maru #5 firing at enemy troops
PB Sonan Maru #6 firing at enemy troops
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft

every CD gun was able to fire 3 shots... amazing performance... CD fire was definetely toned down to non existant in AE, that´s obvious... same non existant gun fire was possible in WITP too but only if the CD unit got disrupted by air attacks or nav bombardments before... our CD guns weren´t disrupted at all but still do nothing... the Japanese land the 4th DIVISION!!!!! [8|] And they suffer ridicoulosly for invading the place... a fridging squad is DISABLED... laughing my a$$ off, really... not just can the Japanese land everywhere just like in WITP, it seems to be even easier... 20 days after the outbreak of the war, the 4th division that starts the war in Japan lands without suffering any losses at Port Moresby... AE is really doing well, it´s really, really hard for the Japanese, just like it was in real life... boy... even if I would have spent every fridging pp for Aussie troops and used every available AP in Australia I couldn´t do ANYTHING against the invasion of a full fridging division... but hey, as you know, the Japanese haven´t invaded anything else... they landed everywhere with ease and can still land a division in PM and three days earlier a full rgt on Rabaul...

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Amphibious Assault at Port Moresby

TF 8 troops unloading over beach at Port Moresby, 98,130

Japanese ground losses:
189 casualties reported
Squads: 8 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 19 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



16 troops of a IJA Cavalry Squad lost overboard during unload of 4th Div
18 troops of a IJA Engineer Squad accidentally lost during unload of 4th Div /3
17 troops of a SNLF Squad accidentally lost during unload of 8th Base Force
10 Support troops lost in surf during unload of 8th Base Force
10 Support troops lost overboard during unload of 8th Base Force
10 Support troops lost in surf during unload of 8th Base Force /4
8 Engineers lost in surf during unload of 8th Base Force /5
19 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad accidentally lost during unload of 4th Div /4
19 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad accidentally lost during unload of 4th Div /4
19 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost in surf during unload of 4th Div /5
10 Support troops lost from landing craft during unload of 4th Div /5
10 Support troops accidentally lost during unload of 4th Div /5
10 Support troops lost overboard during unload of 4th Div /6
10 Support troops lost in surf during unload of 4th Div /6
10 Support troops accidentally lost during unload of 4th Div /6
10 Support troops lost in surf during unload of 4th Div /7
10 Support troops accidentally lost during unload of 4th Div /7
10 Support troops accidentally lost during unload of 4th Div /7
19 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad accidentally lost during unload of 4th Div /8
19 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost overboard during unload of 4th Div /8
10 Support troops lost overboard during unload of 4th Div /8

in the afternoon, with our CD guns not firing a single shot, some of the Japanese troops go overboard, causing horrendous losses... PM is lost, no doubt... without having enough TKs to move fuel to Australia and with PM lost, there´s nothing I can do the next 8-10 months. What really pisses me off is the fact that you need the tanker capacity of 100.000 tons to bring fuel to Australia MONTHLY to just feed the damned industry there that is sucking your fuel depots dry and you have no possibility to turn the damned HI off. This is the biggest joke within many I´ve "discovered" so far... This means that 25% of your total TK capacity is used just to feed Australia´s industry and you haven´t brought a single ton of fuel for your ships. Considering the fact that it takes at least a month for a TF to move from the West Coast to Australia and another month back then you will use 50% !!!! of your TK capacity just to haul fuel to OZ for nothing but to get HI points for your pool that you don´t need at all. If this is correct than I´m Buggs Bunny! Anyone ever thought about this before releasing the game? [8|] I´ve not done exact calculations but around Sidney alone is enough HI to suck your fuel depots dry. So what is the solution? Not using Australia as a staging point for operations at all? Just because you can´t deny HI to use your fuel? What a crappy BS... Hey, let´s go through the Aleutains and land on Hokkaido with massive carrier support in mid 43... must be a funny game then... I seriously doubt that 50% of the US TK fleet in the Pacific was used to feed Australia´s heavy industry. Seriously...

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Pre-Invasion action off Kendari

Japanese Ships
PB Hakata Maru #2
PB Aso Maru #7


Allied ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


PB Hakata Maru #2 firing at enemy troops
PB Aso Maru #7 firing at enemy troops


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Amphibious Assault at Kendari

TF 235 troops unloading over beach at Kendari, 70,106

10 Support troops lost from landing craft during unload of III./4th Infantry Bn /3


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Ground combat at Boela (80,110)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 402 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 4

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Boela !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(-)



Assaulting units:
III/66th Naval Guard Unit


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Ground combat at Ambon (76,109)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 1466 troops, 19 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 60

Defending force 2043 troops, 25 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 52

Japanese adjusted assault: 12

Allied adjusted defense: 16

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

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

Japanese ground losses:
27 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
74 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Assaulting units:
Sasebo 1st SNLF

Defending units:
Molukken Garrison Battalion
4th Coastal Gun Battalion
Ambon Base Force


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Ground combat at Kendari (70,106)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 529 troops, 9 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 25

Defending force 2358 troops, 14 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 86



Assaulting units:
Kendari Garrison Battalion
Kendari Base Force

Defending units:
III./4th Infantry Bn /1
II./4th Infantry Bn /1


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Ground combat at Ambon (76,109)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 348 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 47

Defending force 1444 troops, 19 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 58



Assaulting units:
Molukken Garrison Battalion
4th Coastal Gun Battalion
Ambon Base Force

Defending units:
Sasebo 1st SNLF


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Ground combat at Port Moresby (98,130)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 2412 troops, 30 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 133

Defending force 11253 troops, 78 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 402



Assaulting units:
49th Australian Battalion
B Coy/NG Rifles
Lark Battalion
D Coy/NG Rifles
A Coy/NG Rifles
Port Moresby Brigade
15th RAAF Base Force
Rabaul Det. Base Force

Defending units:
4th Div /2
8th Base Force /2

no doubt, a fridging full IJA division is coming ashore with a full base force... another full base force landed on Rabaul... isn´t this also something the Japanese are so terrible short of?

rechecked the manual and at least the first shock about the HI in Australia and it´s fuel needs has been reduced a bit. HI doesn´t need 10 fuel per 1 HI but 2 fuel. So this reduces the fuel need to somewhere around 1500+ per day in Australia I guess. But this still would mean you need the TK capacity of 90.000 tons just to move the fuel to Australia per month that is used by the HI there. Not encouraging at all. Over 1.000.000 tons of fuel just for the HI in OZ that does you no good at all. So where to put your fuel instead? Tasmania? Keeping Australia completely dry and shipping everything to Tasmania (or New Zealand seems to be the only possibility I see. [8|] Still better than LOSING 1.000.000 tons of fuel per year when you hardly have enough tankers to fuel your fleet.

Seems kinda wasteful but I send supply to Oz instead of fuel. Tankers are almost too valuable to send that far and risk interception by KB.

I haven't played a pbem of AE but the allied side's pace is definitely slowed. I have to wait until I can get enough escorts in place to form many tfs because of the threat from subs (they get better when the dc upgrades start in 2/42 or so). It's hard to move lcus around to react to the IJN/IJA.

Good luck and it's great to see another aar from you.

ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk

Seems kinda wasteful but I send supply to Oz instead of fuel. Tankers are almost too valuable to send that far and risk interception by KB.

I haven't played a pbem of AE but the allied side's pace is definitely slowed. I have to wait until I can get enough escorts in place to form many tfs because of the threat from subs (they get better when the dc upgrades start in 2/42 or so). It's hard to move lcus around to react to the IJN/IJA.

Good luck and it's great to see another aar from you.

I´m also moving supply to OZ which seems not to be much of a problem, enough AKs around and 100.000 tons are moved within a month. But I lack the fuel and without fuel in OZ, no offense, no defense, no nothing within 100 hexes of Brisbane. If I don´t move fuel there then the only possibility would be moving through the Pacific via island hopping and this is not within the scope of the USN until mid 43 at the earliest. Until then, the IJN can easily react and the KB is far superior. I´ve looked at the reinforcements and I get more or less nothing [:D]. Best escort I can provide are two DDs for my most valuable convoys and if it´s one going from the WC to OZ you won´t see those DDs for at least 9-10 weeks.

On the topic of CD guns-- the way they work in the game does not make much sense to me.

On a small island they should be positively deadly in any numbers. The guns at Wake were certainly very dangerous to the invading forces. Sometimes that is the way it is in the game, but usually not. Some losses, but in the end, not crippling.

Meanwhile, invasions of Java, for example, should almost certainly be unopposed. Given the length of coastline that needed to be defended, and the relative dearth of units the dutch experienced, they would be lucky to even realize an invasion had occurred, let alone have CD guns available. There would always be an unguarded beach to land at. A dozen guns won't effectively cover a 46 mile front, not by a long shot.

In the game though, it seems both are treated about equal in terms of CD gun fire.

ORIGINAL: castor troy

rechecked the manual and at least the first shock about the HI in Australia and it´s fuel needs has been reduced a bit. HI doesn´t need 10 fuel per 1 HI but 2 fuel. So this reduces the fuel need to somewhere around 1500+ per day in Australia I guess. But this still would mean you need the TK capacity of 90.000 tons just to move the fuel to Australia per month that is used by the HI there. Not encouraging at all. Over 1.000.000 tons of fuel just for the HI in OZ that does you no good at all. So where to put your fuel instead? Tasmania? Keeping Australia completely dry and shipping everything to Tasmania (or New Zealand seems to be the only possibility I see. [8|] Still better than LOSING 1.000.000 tons of fuel per year when you hardly have enough tankers to fuel your fleet.

If it's any consolation, your math is a bit off. According to witpStaff there is a deficit of about 2000 fuel a day in Eastern Australia. This is about 60,000 instead off 100,000 a month.

It also seems historical that you have to do this. Leaving all of Australia without fuel for the duration of the war would have been unacceptable.

ORIGINAL: Smeulders

ORIGINAL: castor troy

rechecked the manual and at least the first shock about the HI in Australia and it´s fuel needs has been reduced a bit. HI doesn´t need 10 fuel per 1 HI but 2 fuel. So this reduces the fuel need to somewhere around 1500+ per day in Australia I guess. But this still would mean you need the TK capacity of 90.000 tons just to move the fuel to Australia per month that is used by the HI there. Not encouraging at all. Over 1.000.000 tons of fuel just for the HI in OZ that does you no good at all. So where to put your fuel instead? Tasmania? Keeping Australia completely dry and shipping everything to Tasmania (or New Zealand seems to be the only possibility I see. [8|] Still better than LOSING 1.000.000 tons of fuel per year when you hardly have enough tankers to fuel your fleet.

If it's any consolation, your math is a bit off. According to witpStaff there is a deficit of about 2000 fuel a day in Eastern Australia. This is about 60,000 instead off 100,000 a month.

It also seems historical that you have to do this. Leaving all of Australia without fuel for the duration of the war would have been unacceptable.

it was just a rough guess of mine and I don´t use Staff or Tracker (tried to get this one running in WITP but failed with my first try so I gave up on this), so thanks for the exact info on this one. A quick view showed me 980 HI so probably I missed some sites. 60.000 fuel a month is still insane and is really putting a real constraint on my further operations if I plan them to go out of Australia (which I did so far).

60.000 tons of fuel per month would mean using more tankers going back and forth all the time than the British have in total. So the British tankers alone won´t be enough, even though I could spare most of them as the British fleet will be supported more or less easily with a couple of tankers coming from Abadan and going to Colombo.

All I can say is that it was a real shock for me but as it stands now, there seems not much choice than to spend this huge amount of fuel every month to feed completely useless HI in Australia... what a mess.

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 29, 41
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Invasion Support action off Port Moresby
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft

10 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
xAKL Amakasu Maru, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Tatsukaze
xAK Matsue Maru
PB Takunan Maru #2
PB Shonon Maru #15
PB Shuko Maru #5



6" Mk XI/XII Gun Coastal Battery engaging xAKL Amakasu Maru at 12,000 yards
DD Tatsukaze fires to suppress enemy troops at 12,000 yards
DD Tatsukaze fires to suppress enemy troops at 12,000 yards
PB Takunan Maru #2 firing at enemy troops
6" Mk XI/XII Gun Coastal Battery engaging PB Takunan Maru #2 at 2,000 yards
PB Shonon Maru #15 firing at enemy troops
PB Shuko Maru #5 firing at enemy troops

seems like the enemy is unloading only supplies at this stage...

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Sub attack near Morotai at 81,100

Japanese Ships
APD Tade

Allied Ships
SS KXVII



SS KXVII launches 2 torpedoes
KXVII diving deep ....
APD Tade fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

a pity, the torps missed... would have like to kill another APD...

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TF 47 encounters mine field at Perth (49,147)

Japanese Ships
SS I-123, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage [:D][:D][:D]

everytime I hear the sound from a mine hit I start smiling during the replay and can´t wait to look at the report as mine hits aren´t shown during the replay... really nice to see an IJN mine layer sub to hit a mine at Perth... I guess the sunk before being able to lay mines as I´ve got several TFs in this hex and none spotted any mines... really nice! Must be sub number four or five being victim of mines in one of my base hexes...

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ASW attack near Lahaina at 182,107

Japanese Ships
SS I-2

Allied Ships
DD Sands
xAK Examiner
DD Kane
DD Hatfield



SS I-2 is sighted by escort
I-2 diving deep ....
DD Kane fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Hatfield fails to find sub and abandons search
Escort abandons search for sub

our strong escort was enough to guard our troop convoy... the sub dared to linger around just two hexes off Pearl Harbour... got quite a lot of Catalinas on nav search around Hawai but they hardly ever spot a sub and I´m sure there are still a couple of them around...

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ASW attack near Lahaina at 182,107

Japanese Ships
SS I-2

Allied Ships
DD Sands
xAK Examiner
DD Kane
DD Hatfield



SS I-2 launches 2 torpedoes at DD Sands
I-2 diving deep ....
DD Kane fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Hatfield fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

and then the sub dared to fire torps at one of my escorts but missed... the DDs again couldn´t locate the sub in deep water...

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Invasion Support action off Port Moresby
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft

13 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
xAK Terukawa Maru, Shell hits 1
DD Tatsukaze
xAKL Amakasu Maru, heavy fires
PB Takunan Maru #2, Shell hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
PB Shonon Maru #15
PB Shuko Maru #5



6" Mk XI/XII Gun Coastal Battery engaging xAK Terukawa Maru at 12,000 yards
DD Tatsukaze fires to suppress enemy troops at 12,000 yards
6in CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging xAKL Amakasu Maru at 12,000 yards
DD Tatsukaze fires to suppress enemy troops at 12,000 yards
PB Takunan Maru #2 firing at enemy troops
6" Mk XI/XII Gun Coastal Battery engaging PB Takunan Maru #2 at 2,000 yards
PB Shonon Maru #15 firing at enemy troops
PB Shuko Maru #5 firing at enemy troops

some CD guns open up fire and a PB is hit hard by a 6 inch shell...

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Amphibious Assault at Kuantan

TF 58 troops unloading over beach at Kuantan, 51,79

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Invasion Support action off Port Moresby
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft

10 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
xAK Venice Maru
DD Tatsukaze
xAKL Amakasu Maru, heavy fires
PB Shonon Maru #15
PB Shuko Maru #5



6" Mk XI/XII Gun Coastal Battery engaging xAK Venice Maru at 12,000 yards
DD Tatsukaze fires to suppress enemy troops at 12,000 yards
DD Tatsukaze fires to suppress enemy troops at 12,000 yards
PB Shonon Maru #15 firing at enemy troops
PB Shuko Maru #5 firing at enemy troops

all guns miss... would like to see 50 shots fired instead of 10...

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Morning Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 200 NM, estimated altitude 29,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 66 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 71 [:(]



Allied aircraft
H81-A3 x 53
Buffalo I x 22


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 3 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
H81-A3: 7 destroyed [8|][8|]
Buffalo I: 4 destroyed [8|]



Aircraft Attacking:
19 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 24000 feet


CAP engaged:
AVG/1st Sqn with H81-A3 (3 airborne, 12 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 21000 and 30000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes
AVG/2nd Sqn with H81-A3 (3 airborne, 12 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 20000 and 30000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 71 minutes
AVG/3rd Sqn with H81-A3 (0 airborne, 12 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 5 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 15000 and 30000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 80 minutes
No.21 Sqn RAAF with Buffalo I (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 24000 and 30000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 77 minutes
No.243 Sqn RAF with Buffalo I (0 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 25000 and 30500.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 73 minutes

what can I say... this is what I´ve feared for the last couple of weeks and it wasn´t unexpected... even the result isn´t unexpected at all, I knew how UBER the Zeroes are with their pilots in the 80s... The incoming raid was spotted by radar and we had over an hour to get into position... didn´t help, the following stratosphere air combat again went to the Japanese... the Japanese lost only 4 Zeroes above Rangoon, no idea how many really crashed on their way home... during the engagement, the Zeroes scored nearly 5:1 against the combined Cap of my Buffalos and the AVG. Depressing when you see your by far best fighter group being shot out of the sky like flies. We were at least diving on the enemy, otherwise it would have been even worse. The bounce is the all or nothing thing it seems, just like it was in WITP. Therefore both Rainer and me seem to try to fly as high as possible, I guess he thought I would fly Cap at 20.000ft and he cam in at 24.000ft... Pretty high for Zeroes on a sweep, no? It´s already clear to me that this won´t change until the end of the war, the only good thing is that in 43 I will get fighters that will perform better than the Zero, but by then the Japanese will produce fighters that can easily match ours and they will produce three times more than we´ll get... will see... If the enemy has lost half a dozen of his elite fighter pilots than that´s all we can hope for, means 6 dead out of the 350-400 on the map. We´ve lost more aircraft than pilots, I guess our pilot losses didn´t exceed 5 or 6 within the AVG and nearly the same number of Buffalo pilots...

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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 26 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6



No Japanese losses



Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet

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Morning Air attack on Asiatic Fleet , at 79,77 (Manila)

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 25 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 14
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 21



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
11 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Aircraft Attacking:
21 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking Cavite USN Base Force ...
Also attacking Asiatic Fleet ...


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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 22
Ki-27b Nate x 9



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 4 damaged


Allied ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled


Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 13

Aircraft Attacking:
22 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 24
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 2
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 4
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 20



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 17 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 15 damaged


Allied ground losses:
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 30

Aircraft Attacking:
21 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 11000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
14 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 11000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
3 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 11000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
6 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 11000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb

the Lillies were hit hard by flak today (at least according to the loss list - don´t know if it´s anywhere accurate). The Sallies are clearly far tougher.

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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 15
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 11
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 13



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 11 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged


Allied ground losses:
Vehicles lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 21

Aircraft Attacking:
13 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 11000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
12 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 11000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb

if we could achieve these losses within the enemy bomber force nearly daily this would be great as it then would result in probably two hundred bombers lost over Singapore until our troops will surrender... but I guess Rainer will adjust his attack alt again soon if not immedietely... but his then would give us the chance to further build up our forts... it´s a trade off... [:D] at least Singapore is far from a freebee for him...



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Afternoon Air attack on 4th Coastal Gun Battalion, at 76,109 (Ambon)

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 22



Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 3 damaged


Allied ground losses:
36 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Aircraft Attacking:
22 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Invasion Support action off Port Moresby
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft

14 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
xAK Matsue Maru, Shell hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
DD Tatsukaze
PB Shonon Maru #15
PB Shuko Maru #5, Shell hits 1



6" Mk XI/XII Gun Coastal Battery engaging xAK Matsue Maru at 12,000 yards
DD Tatsukaze fires to suppress enemy troops at 12,000 yards
6in CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging xAK Matsue Maru at 12,000 yards
DD Tatsukaze fires to suppress enemy troops at 12,000 yards
PB Shonon Maru #15 firing at enemy troops
PB Shuko Maru #5 firing at enemy troops
6" Mk XI/XII Gun Coastal Battery engaging PB Shuko Maru #5 at 2,000 yards

are three 6 inch hits enough to sink this transport? probably not...

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Amphibious Assault at Hollandia

TF 251 troops unloading over beach at Hollandia, 93,116

Rainer starts to mop up empty bases on New Guinea already, which is quite surprising to me...

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Ground combat at Port Moresby (98,130)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 12920 troops, 114 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 474

Defending force 4758 troops, 66 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 133

Japanese adjusted assault: 295

Allied adjusted defense: 91 [>:]

Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 2) [:(]

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
396 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 24 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled


Allied ground losses:
301 casualties reported
Squads: 8 destroyed, 9 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 21 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Assaulting units:
4th Division
8th Base Force

Defending units:
A Coy/NG Rifles
49th Australian Battalion
D Coy/NG Rifles
B Coy/NG Rifles
Lark Battalion
Port Moresby Brigade
15th RAAF Base Force
Rabaul Det. Base Force

looks like there´s nothing we can do against this full IJA division... it´s a shame, it´s just too early to have a chance to defend PM... when I read AndyMac´s AAR against PzB then he´s talking about bringing reinforcements from the West Coast to PM and he´s at the same date in game. Lol, this would mean the Japanese wouldn´t attack before mid March as it takes nearly 6 weeks to bring troops from the WC to PM. I´m facing a full IJA division there at the end of December...

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Ground combat at Temuloh (50,78)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3732 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 127

Defending force 280 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5

Japanese adjusted assault: 128

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 128 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Temuloh !!!

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


Allied ground losses:
274 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 8 (8 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 1
Units destroyed 1


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
56th Infantry Regiment

Defending units:
FMSV Brigade
3rd ISF Base Force


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Ground combat at Moulmein (55,55)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3366 troops, 20 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 151

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 30

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 30 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Moulmein !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker:



Assaulting units:
112th Infantry Regiment
55th Cavalry Regiment

another base on Malaya falls to the enemy...

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Ground combat at 106,123

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 402 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16

Defending force 31 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2

Japanese adjusted assault: 16

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 16 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), leaders(-), disruption(-)
fatigue(-), supply(-)
Attacker:


Allied ground losses:
15 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units retreated 1


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
I/66th Naval Guard Unit

Defending units:
2/1st Ind Coy


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Ground combat at Batangas (79,78)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 1488 troops, 19 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 61

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 15

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 15 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Batangas !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(-)



Assaulting units:
Kure 1st SNLF


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Ground combat at Ambon (76,109)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 1452 troops, 19 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 58

Defending force 1703 troops, 25 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 28

Japanese adjusted assault: 45

Allied adjusted defense: 10

Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Ambon !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), preparation(-), fatigue(-)
morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
4839 casualties reported
Squads: 92 destroyed, 48 disabled
Non Combat: 304 destroyed, 84 disabled
Engineers: 19 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 41 (34 destroyed, 7 disabled)
Units destroyed 3


Assaulting units:
Sasebo 1st SNLF

Defending units:
Molukken Garrison Battalion
4th Coastal Gun Battalion
Ambon Base Force

Ambon falls too and all my troops surrender... I had planned to intercept the enemy cruisers that have been in a support role here but I came a day late due to the game routine being really strange in AE it seems. In WITP your SC TF would take position at it´s max speed range the day before to sprint in at night... this seems to be wrong in AE and you have to get in position manually [&:] you learn something new every day... my TF ended up 2 hexes from Ambon on it´s way BACK out (completely nuts or what) instead of being there at night and move out at full speed again (the TF was three hexes off Ambon the turn before - which was even more nuts with the enemy CVLs in the area)...

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Ground combat at Port Moresby (98,130)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 4279 troops, 66 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 117

Defending force 15209 troops, 132 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 452

Japanese ground losses:
44 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Assaulting units:
A Coy/NG Rifles
Lark Battalion
49th Australian Battalion
B Coy/NG Rifles
D Coy/NG Rifles
Port Moresby Brigade
15th RAAF Base Force
Rabaul Det. Base Force

Defending units:
4th Division
8th Base Force


we´ve got a dozen 25 pounder guns here and I´ve though together with the other guns we could do some damage (expected 200 casualties per bombardment) but we don´t do any significant damage... seems like I´ve overestimated the 25 pdr artillery as Andy Mac once stated they would be real killers...

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 30, 41
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Morning Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 10 NM, estimated altitude 27,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 13



Allied aircraft
H81-A3 x 44
Buffalo I x 12


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
H81-A3: 1 destroyed
Buffalo I: 1 destroyed



CAP engaged:
AVG/1st Sqn with H81-A3 (3 airborne, 9 on standby, 6 scrambling)
12 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 17000 and 31000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes
AVG/2nd Sqn with H81-A3 (0 airborne, 9 on standby, 0 scrambling)
9 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters to 30000.
Raid is overhead
AVG/3rd Sqn with H81-A3 (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
8 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 20000 and 31000.
Raid is overhead
No.21 Sqn RAAF with Buffalo I (2 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling)
6 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 17000 and 26000.
Raid is overhead
No.243 Sqn RAF with Buffalo I (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling)
4 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 26000 and 30000.
Raid is overhead

massive Zero sweep yesterday and more show up today... don´t like that, really don´t like it... the fact that we outnumbered the Zeroes more than 4:1 and that we had again height advantage didn´t help that much though... the Zeroes are going in now just below 30.000ft! Woof... what have I said before? AE will turn out to have aircombat regularly being at alts that Europe hasn´t seen...

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Morning Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 200 NM, estimated altitude 29,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 66 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 38



Allied aircraft
H81-A3 x 24
Buffalo I x 7


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
H81-A3: 3 destroyed
Buffalo I: 1 destroyed



Aircraft Attacking:
11 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 24000 feet


CAP engaged:
AVG/1st Sqn with H81-A3 (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 13 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 80 minutes
AVG/2nd Sqn with H81-A3 (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 7 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 78 minutes
No.21 Sqn RAAF with Buffalo I (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 78 minutes
AVG/3rd Sqn with H81-A3 (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 68 minutes
No.243 Sqn RAF with Buffalo I (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes

and here comes the main sweep... second day in a row, the Zeroes come in just below 25.000ft... our fighter squadrons are shot to pieces, including the AVG... all I can say is that we are really helpless... it just doesn´t matter how high the Zeroes come in, they defeat us again and again... only the kill rate will change from 4:1+ to 7:0 if we would be at 20.000ft and the Zeroes at 24.000ft... all in all, completely depressing results... 6 Zeroes are reported being shot down today with 8 yesterday... the AVG is down to roughly 2/3 of it´s aircraft... in this raid every single of our fighters was either shot down or damaged and many fighters were written off... pilot losses were nearly the same as last turn...

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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 26 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6



No Japanese losses



Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet

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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 46
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 19



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 16 damaged


Allied ground losses:
66 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)


Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 46

Aircraft Attacking:
27 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
19 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 11th PA Infantry Division ...
Also attacking Subic Bay Defenses ...
Also attacking Clark Field ...


low level attacks at Clark Field, but our flak defense isn´t really strong there...

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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 27
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 11
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 36



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 14 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 16 damaged


Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 41

Aircraft Attacking:
24 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 16000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
17 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 16000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
19 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 16000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
3 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 16000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

which can´t be said about Singapore... we´ve got pretty decent flak fire there and we also have another AA unit marching towards the fortress. This will give us another two dozen 40mm Bofors. Really good to see those bombers being hit hard... Rainer reacted quickly in going up 5.000ft compared to yesterday but our flak seems to more or less be as effective at 16.000ft as it is at 11.000ft...

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Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 11



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 7 damaged



Runway hits 4

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 16000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 14 NM, estimated altitude 27,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 9



Allied aircraft
H81-A3 x 5


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
H81-A3: 1 destroyed



Aircraft Attacking:
9 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 24000 feet

CAP engaged:
AVG/1st Sqn with H81-A3 (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes
AVG/2nd Sqn with H81-A3 (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes

and another 9 Zeroes were sweeping in the afternoon, taking out another AVG fighter... depressing... [:(]



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Naval bombardment of Horn Island at 91,128

Japanese Ships
BB Mutsu
BB Nagato
CA Kako
CA Furutaka


Allied ground losses:
43 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled


Airbase hits 1
Port hits 5
Port supply hits 1

BB Mutsu firing at Horn Island
BB Nagato firing at Torres Strait Battalion
CA Kako firing at Torres Strait Battalion
CA Furutaka firing at Horn Island

no doubt, Rainer also intends to invade the island West of Port Moresby... don´t care about this one, with PM being lost for sure, I don´t have use for Horn Island either... I will probably use it as a training target for my bombers, they will be set to train nav attack and will train ground bomb by learning by doing...

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Amphibious Assault at Tabiteuea

TF 184 troops unloading over beach at Tabiteuea, 137,134

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Ground combat at Port Moresby (98,130)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 15160 troops, 132 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 448

Defending force 4544 troops, 66 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 117

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 54

Allied adjusted defense: 59

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 0)

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker: disruption(-), fatigue(-)

Japanese ground losses:
305 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 16 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 19 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
249 casualties reported
Squads: 8 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 16 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled


Assaulting units:
4th Division
8th Base Force

Defending units:
D Coy/NG Rifles
B Coy/NG Rifles
A Coy/NG Rifles
Lark Battalion
49th Australian Battalion
Port Moresby Brigade
15th RAAF Base Force
Rabaul Det. Base Force

pretty bad adjusted av for the Japanes, wonder why... pure luck probably and I guess we won´t hold for much longer...

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Ground combat at Kuantan (51,79)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 350 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 7

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 2

Allied adjusted defense: 1

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

Japanese forces CAPTURE Kuantan !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(-), disruption(-)



Assaulting units:
4th JAAF AF Coy


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Ground combat at Port Moresby (98,130)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 4190 troops, 66 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 108

Defending force 14912 troops, 132 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 431

Japanese ground losses:
9 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Assaulting units:
Lark Battalion
49th Australian Battalion
A Coy/NG Rifles
B Coy/NG Rifles
Port Moresby Brigade
15th RAAF Base Force
Rabaul Det. Base Force

Defending units:
4th Division
8th Base Force


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Ground combat at Tabiteuea (137,134)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 1468 troops, 13 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 61

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 28

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 28 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Tabiteuea !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(-)



Assaulting units:
61st Nav Gd /1

Here´s one reason why Cap is helpless all the time... Fighters being set on Cap are accumulating insane fatigue, the devs can´t be serious... there was a good reason for this not happening in WITP which is playability. Not true in AE anymore and Cap is the number 1 reason to reach fatigue levels that can kill you without you being shot at by the enemy. How insane... My fighters are set to 60% Cap and I´ve maxed out the pilots, which means each AVG squadron had a dozen spare pilots before the Zeroes showed up.

The Zeroes flew something like 16 hexes yesterday and everyone would tell you not to do the same the next day. Well, flying a back to back sweep with your full complement of fighters is accumulating less fatigue than having your squadron at 60% Cap with a dozen pilots in reserve to be rotated... this is just plain wrong, seriously. Makes Cap useless and surely is one of the reasons why Cap performs so awfully bad. But hey, this is hitting both sides so I´m hit by this for probably one year and the Japanese for the other three. Still makes the game hard to handle and playability again is on the losing side. Sweeps have been UBER in WITP already, the overly accumulation of fatigue for fighters flying Cap made sweep even more UBER in AE... not everything has become better, just because you´ve got more chrome during the replay doesn´t mean everything is ok now.

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 31, 41
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Sub attack near Djailolo at 78,100

Japanese Ships
xAK Miyadono Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
xAK Konan Maru
PB Hakata Maru #2

Allied Ships
SS KXVII



SS KXVII launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Miyadono Maru
KXVII diving deep ....
PB Hakata Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

heard the sound of a sinking ship so I´m sure this one is gone...

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Pre-Invasion action off Horn Island

4 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
CL Kashima
DD Yakaze
DD Akikaze



CL Kashima firing at Horn Isl Det.
DD Yakaze firing at Horn Isl Det.
DD Akikaze firing at A Coy/49th Aus Battalion
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft

and here comes the invasion... KB is still holding position South West of PM...

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Amphibious Assault at Horn Island

TF 6 troops unloading over beach at Horn Island, 91,128

Japanese ground losses:
51 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



17 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost overboard during unload of 144th Infantry Rgt
17 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost from landing craft during unload of 144th Infantry Rgt /3
17 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost from landing craft during unload of 144th Infantry Rgt /4
10 Support troops lost from landing craft during unload of 144th Infantry Rgt /8

there was an infantry rgt landing at Rabaul, a couple of days later there´s the 4th division landing at Port Moresby, followed another couple of days later by this regiment at Horn Island... THANK GOD THE PACE OF THE CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN SLOOOOWED DOWN IN AE!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you... for those who haven´t noticed the date: it´s 31st of December 1941 and the war is 24 days old... lol, nothing more to say... can´t blame Rainer though, he´s only using what he was given and so far he´s doing a perfect assault around the map with the only exception being his operation in the Gilberts that was caught by my two carriers... and no, these landings aren´t done by fragments, those are FULL STRENGTH units...

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Amphibious Assault at Talaud-eilanden

TF 268 troops unloading over beach at Talaud-eilanden, 79,97

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ASW attack near Davao at 80,92

Japanese Ships
PB Showa Maru #5

Allied Ships
SS KXVIII



SS KXVIII is sighted by escort
PB Showa Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

no DCs dropped... no danger here...

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Cooktown at 97,137

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 7



No Japanese losses


Aircraft Attacking:
7 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 15000 feet

I had an AVP at PM to aid the patrol ac I had there... I tried to get the ship out of there today but it is spotted and attacked immedietely... the only thing that saved it here was the fact that all the bombers got lost on the way to their target and only the escorts arrived... why they are "sweeping" is beyond me and I´ve got no clue how this works...

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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 26 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6



No Japanese losses



Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet



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Morning Air attack on Asiatic Fleet , at 79,77 (Manila)

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 25 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 24



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
20 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
24 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 23 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 45
Ki-27b Nate x 18



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 14 damaged


Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)


Airbase hits 7
Runway hits 24

Aircraft Attacking:
28 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
17 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 31st PA Infantry Division ...
Also attacking 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion ...
Also attacking Clark Field ...

looks like our flak units woke up today... supply is already at a pretty poor level, in total we´ve got some 30.000 supplies in the remaining three bases and this won´t last long at all... Singapore is still above 50.000 so this should last until the base will fall...

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Cooktown at 97,137

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 16
D3A1 Val x 9



Japanese aircraft losses
D3A1 Val: 2 damaged

Allied Ships
AVP Heron, Bomb hits 4, and is sunk



Aircraft Attacking:
9 x D3A1 Val diving from 1000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 250 kg SAP Bomb

Heavy smoke from fires obscuring AVP Heron

then some bombers showed up and the ship is sunk in no time... the enemy was diving from 1.000ft... so how does this work? [&:][&:]

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ASW attack near Jolo at 74,90

Japanese Ships
DD Shinonome
DD Ayanami

Allied Ships
SS S-41, hits 3



SS S-41 is sighted by escort
S-41 bottoming out ....
DD Ayanami fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Ayanami attacking submerged sub ....
DD Ayanami fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

S-41 takes 3 near misses and suffers half a dozen sys damage... still full complement of torps aboard so it would be nice if it would attack at some point... our S-class subs have been performing miserably so far...

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ASW attack near Tawi Tawi at 72,89

Japanese Ships
CA Nachi
CL Kitakami
CS Chiyoda
DD Yugumo
DD Amatsukaze
DD Maikaze
DD Hayashio

Allied Ships
SS Permit



SS Permit is sighted by escort
Permit diving deep ....
DD Amatsukaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Maikaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Hayashio fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Maikaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Hayashio fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

is this baby KB?


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Sub attack near Exmouth at 52,123

Japanese Ships
SS I-155

Allied Ships
AM Eland Dubois
AM Jan van Amstel
TK Angelina
AM Abraham Crijnssen
AM Pieter de Bitter



SS I-155 launches 8 torpedoes at AM Eland Dubois
I-155 diving deep ....
AM Eland Dubois fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Abraham Crijnssen fails to find sub and abandons search
AM Pieter de Bitter fails to find sub and abandons search
AM Eland Dubois fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Eland Dubois fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Eland Dubois attacking submerged sub ....
AM Eland Dubois loses contact with SS I-155
SS I-155 eludes ASW attack from AM Eland Dubois
SS I-155 eludes ASW attack from AM Eland Dubois
AM Eland Dubois attacking submerged sub ....
AM Eland Dubois cannot reach attack position over SS I-155
SS I-155 eludes ASW attack from AM Eland Dubois
AM Eland Dubois fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

one of the subs with the wrong 8 torpedo tubes... surprisingly that all 8 torps missed the crappy AM... this is a TF with a couple of AMs and some of the short legged Dutch tankers (not much capacity but not worth losing either). The attack happened some 300 miles to the North of Broome...

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Ground combat at Sambas (57,88)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 2716 troops, 14 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 104

Defending force 460 troops, 9 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6

Japanese adjusted assault: 60

Allied adjusted defense: 7

Japanese assault odds: 8 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Sambas !!!

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
No Allied losses

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

Japanese ground losses:
16 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
229 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 12 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 2


Assaulting units:
II./124th Infantry Battalion
III./124th Infantry Battalion

Defending units:
Sambas Base Force
106th RN Base Force


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Ground combat at Hollandia (93,116)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 324 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 4

Allied adjusted defense: 1

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

Japanese forces CAPTURE Hollandia !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: leaders(-)



Assaulting units:
3rd JNAF Coy


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Ground combat at 74,82

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 504 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 22

Defending force 76 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2

Japanese adjusted assault: 20

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 20 to 1

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


Allied ground losses:
29 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units retreated 1


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
2nd Sasebo SNLF Coy

Defending units:
2nd PI Base Force


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Ground combat at Port Moresby (98,130)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 4180 troops, 66 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 106

Defending force 14929 troops, 132 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 432

Japanese ground losses:
82 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Assaulting units:
Lark Battalion
B Coy/NG Rifles
49th Australian Battalion
A Coy/NG Rifles
Port Moresby Brigade
15th RAAF Base Force
Rabaul Det. Base Force

Defending units:
4th Division
8th Base Force

looks like the Japanese are set to defend to rest and finish us off within the next couple of days...

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Ground combat at Horn Island (91,128)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 3937 troops, 42 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 133

Defending force 787 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 19

Japanese adjusted assault: 102

Allied adjusted defense: 6

Japanese assault odds: 17 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Horn Island !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: disruption(-), preparation(-), fatigue(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(-)

Japanese ground losses:
25 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
1589 casualties reported
Squads: 38 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 74 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 5 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 5 (5 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 3


Assaulting units:
144th Infantry Rgt /1

Defending units:
A Coy/49th Aus Battalion
Torres Strait Battalion
Horn Isl Det.


no chance for Horn Island´s defenders... another nice catch for the enemy, racking up victory points... I´m also suffering 3-6 victory points lost each day for partisan attacks all around the map and with the fast movement of the enemy assaults I will be hard pushed to prevent the enemy from achieving a decisive victory at the end of the year. How much does it take now to achieve auto victory?

The plus though is the fact that the enemy didn´t sink a single BB at Pearl [:D] so instead of scoring some 1.500 points there he scored only 100 for three subs, a DD and 60 aircraft...

We have to count on our subs to score the most victory points during 42 but they have to remarkably increase their performance to do so...