Focus Pacific Scen 78 Allies

[btd64]

Let the games begin....GP

[BillBrown]

Day one is over. The carnage begins. But I think it is not too bad. Here is a composite picture of the sunk ships and the damaged ones. There is one more sunk ship, an HDML at Rangoon, that does not show. There is also 2 xAKs in Rangoon that are damaged. In this scenario 4 of the BBs at Pearl Harbor start the game in the Repair Shipyard, they are still there so they do not show up on the Pearl Harbor damaged ship report. I will show them in the next post.

[btd64]

What kind of damage at PH?. The ship damage looks bad acually....GP

[BillBrown]

And here are the air losses and the BBs in the shipyard at Pearl Harbor. They do get protected, but of course the other 4 all sank. I like the air losses, I only lost a few more that he did and most of his were KB pilots. KB start with god like pilots and I need to get those attritioned down somehow. Him attacking non TF targets is a plus for me most of the time.

[BillBrown]

ORIGINAL: btd64

What kind of damage at PH?. The ship damage looks bad acually....GP

Considering that he has 180 Kates and 153 Vals, it is not all that bad.

PH has 26 Port Damage, 30 Airfield Service Damage, and 41 Airfield Runway Damage.

And do not forget that the KB pilots start with 75 - 90 Experience and 70-80 in there primary skill.
They are truly god like and the results tend to show that.

For anyone who wants to look at it, the combat report in full is appended.

[BillBrown]

I did forget that 27 Vals also hit Lahina Port

[durnedwolf]

Were most of Japan's fighter air losses @ Kwangchowen? Was Wing able to knock the Kwangchowan airfield down a couple of pegs? That was a rough base for me as Japan in my last FP game.

[BillBrown]

No and I forgot that Kwangchowan got hit also( I watched the replay a couple of days ago ) He lost almost all of them at Pearl Harbor. The CR shows 29 destroyed by flak at PH.

He attacked the port and not the airfield, that may come back to haunt him.

[btd64]

ORIGINAL: durnedwolf

Were most of Japan's fighter air losses @ Kwangchowen? Was Wing able to knock the Kwangchowan airfield down a couple of pegs? That was a rough base for me as Japan in my last FP game.

There's a way to knock out this base....GP

[BillBrown]

This first turn has gotten a bit disjointed, I should have rewatched the replay before starting on the AAR. Sorry, here is a picture of Hong Kong, also a port attack.

[BillBrown]

One thing to keep in mind, we are using the settings that GP posted for his original release. So that means that there are no unit withdrawals. So none of the ships that normally go somewhere else have to go, I get to keep them.

[AleRonin]

37 Zeros, 14 Vals and 9 Kates, all KB losses? Is so very nice.

[Bif1961]

The 37 Zeros due to flak losses were mostly because he didn't change the settings for them strafing at PH. I always make it a mental note to change those settings as I don't want lose 1/3rd of the KB fighters over PH on the first day. I would say your ship loses were heavy and all four sunk BBs succumbed to 800 bombs rather than the real killers of the BBS, except AZ which were the torpedoes. Your loses in cruisers and DD/DMs were higher than historic but you mentioned your aircraft loses were far lighter.

[zuluhour]

Just stopping in while sipping some joe and enjoying Memorial Day. Best of luck here. Those ship losses would
horrify me in stock, he even took a chunk out of the destroyer flotilla. Those guys are golden to me for the first
year. I do not religiously follow IJ AARs but will look in now and again to see what's what with the mod.

[BillBrown]

Hi Zulu, I know that everyone things I lost a bunch of ships, but given the mod I don't think it is that bad. I do get
a number additional DD with this mod. I get 35 Canadian DDs, 24 French, I think I get 4 more British DDs to start.
I will lose more ships as this ominous picture shows.

[BillBrown]

The Dec 8, 1941 turn is away. Everything done was for Logistic and defense needs. Started a ton of ships to locations to prepare to bring men, supply, and fuel to the front.
Started a lot of fortification building.

He only landed at Kota Bharu, Miri, and Batan Island. I see no TFs that went beyond what a stock opening would do.

[Canoerebel]

Your AAR isn't disjointed.

Besides, my effort from the start was to disjoint it through intentional tangential conversational interjections.

The losses look steep, but I have zero knowledge of this mod. I guess this is the first screenies or AAR I've read involving Focus Pacific.

Good luck!

[Lovejoy]

ORIGINAL: BillBrown

One thing to keep in mind, we are using the settings that GP posted for his original release. So that means that there are no unit withdrawals. So none of the ships that normally go somewhere else have to go, I get to keep them.

The R-Class and QE-Class BBs that you get to keep now should help make up for those BB losses at PH. Does Scenario 78 still have the 2 Lexington-Class BCs?

The French DD squadron at Kwang-Chou-Wan can raise cain with Japanese shipping if it is not dealt with early, though IIRC, the naval base cannot resupply torpedoes unless it is expanded above its port size rating.

Really looking forward to seeing how this AAR turns out!

[BillBrown]

I have plenty of BBs in this mod, here is a list. I get 61 BB/BCs in the game and I have lost 4 so far.
Note also that 5 of these are Iowa Build hulls that probably will be built as CVs, so I am down to only 52 BB/BCs [8D]

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: BillBrown

I have plenty of BBs in this mod, here is a list. I get 61 BB/BCs in the game and I have lost 4 so far.
Note also that 5 of these are Iowa Build hulls that probably will be built as CVs, so I am down to only 52 BB/BCs [8D]

61 BB/BCs? There aren't that many US states/territories. The rulebook clearly says you can't build it if it would break the naming standard. [:D]