Olympic 45

[larryfulkerson]

Here's where one squadron of B-17's flies into the face of two Jap squadrons and gets clobbered.

EDIT: I guess the moral of the story is that this mission needed to use dedicated escorts because the normal AS mission
didn't fly for some reason. And the bombers went in w/o escorts.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the results of a squadron of B-29's bombing a Jap air base and I for one would like to know how many of these were shot
down and how many were destroyed on the ground. With the mechanics of TOAW I'm not sure how you would find the answer to
that question.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the condition of the aircraft after all those attacks. If we rest all the less than green ones then about half the fleet is left to use
for some reason. I think maybe it's time I did a sweep of the fighter bases w/ my fighters to make bombing the airfleids safe for the
bombers.

[larryfulkerson]

On the other hand, this is the total losses for the Japs so far:

[larryfulkerson]

So for round two I'm going to shoot the ships at stuff onshore. I've driven about four of my BB's in close enough to do an airfield
attack on three separate air bases. I'm hoping to drive the squadrons into reorg so I can bomb them at my leisure. I want to do one
round shooting just the ships and then carry on afterward. There's 80% of the turn left right now, hopefully it won't drop to 10% or
something like that. I need a lot of combat rounds for this turn.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the current condition of a typical carrier-borne attack group: As you can see there's about a dozen Helldivers missing from
the Bombing 3 squadron and they are going to need some time to refit and get some more planes shipped in. They don't have to
go to a port to get planes in TOAW onto carriers to be replacements. It's automatic. Something the WITP-AE players would rather
like to have.

[larryfulkerson]

OK.....I've moved everybody who's going to move and assigned the fighters to sweep ONE of the Jap airfields and have given missions
to all the ships and I guess if this combat round gets turn burn then this will be the positions they will be in during the Jap turn. I've
tried not to make any multiple-unit hexes afloat so as to cut down on the losses in case of attack(s) by the Japs. I'm hoping that this
combat round won't leave less than say 30% or so. I'd be happy w/ that.

[larryfulkerson]

I guess, judging from the results of this attack, that 4 DD's don't throw very big shells although they fire a lot. Not much damage to get
from a lot of effort. So, as soon as the Jap planes are bombarded into submission maybe I should use the BB's on the shore defenses
to make sure it's safe for our troops to just try to walk ashore.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's what 2 BB's shooting a one-dot attack on a Jap airfield did: 27 planes destroyed or damaged. I think maybe the 706th
Composite Group is now in reorg and won't fly next combat round.

This is the kind of attack I should have done on round one. I live and I learn.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's where only one fighter group takes on a whole Jap air base by itself and didn't do to bad after all. I'd still rather bombard w/
ships.

[larryfulkerson]

Here we go, that's what I'm talking about. I'm not sure that it took all 18 ships to do that kind of damage but better have too many than
not enough I guess.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's where I had a bunch of fighters gang up on one Jap air base. Maybe losses to my aircraft won't be so high from now on.

EDIT: I just discovered that 50% of my turn is left. Time for some land-unit attacks I think.

[larryfulkerson]

OK.....so I'm assigning invading units to a specific attack and two of the units actually got ashore. And a third sailed ashore and has 3
movement points left over so in a later round ( if there is one ) I'll use him to attack something adjacent to him.

EDIT: It just dawns on me that those two Marine Regiments makes the traffic indicator yellow already. That means I may have sailed
way way too many units into this bay unless I want to stack them red-dense. And that just guarentees heavy losses. Not a good thing
to have happen. I'll just land those that can't get ashore this turn.

[larryfulkerson]

OK......I've assigned the land units to attacks and all the ships have a mission and I'm resting the planes this round .....I think I'm ready.
Oh, and I've parked all the extra elements to the left edge islands.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the results in the first invader fighting to get ashore. It seems that it's not all that hard when you have boucou support.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a Marine Regiment that came ashore in the face of two separate Jap arty batteries. Losses were heavier than I had hoped.

[larryfulkerson]

OK......here's what it looks like now. The next attack will be the last attack probably because there's only 30% of the turn left. I haven't
moved anybody yet but it looks like the north units got ashore and the southern ones had problems because of the Jap arty tubes and
some of the targets contained an LCU ( Land Combat Unit ). I think maybe I'll just drive the survivors still afloat ashore and attack from
a landed hex and put any extra on one of the western islands.

[larryfulkerson]

OK.......I've assigned missions to all the ships and set the air superiority, CS, and INT missions for the planes and I think I may be
ready for the final round of attacks:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the Japanese losses so far:

EDIT: Oh. I guess I should explain that the attacks resolved and now it's the Jap turn. I'm going to let the computer run them.

[larryfulkerson]

I managed to drop bridges in 5 places and I have reason to believe that the battlefield is isolated from troops being railed in to
reinforce the beachead. I'm going to have to watch those places because those industrious buggers will get busy and repair
them I bet.