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ORIGINAL: Mike Scholl

ORIGINAL: Mr.Frag

I had one where the weather turned bad in the Hawaiian Islands on 12/7/41 and only 6 zeros made an attack at all...,

Thats actually a problem Mike, the weather is hard coded for the first turn because of the obvious implications. Remember the options you were running with?

Sorry Frag, I don't have a clue. It was one of my first few starts and I was sort of trying
the variables at random to see what the differences might be. Obviously it was pretty
variable---but I remember thinking at the time it WAS realistic. The Japanese had their
whole war plan triggered to go at that time (including the Declaration that was delivered
late), and if the weather had turned out lousy in Hawaii that day they WERE hosed.

Understood Mike ... thats why they coded the weather to be the way it is on turn 1. Obviously had it not been good, PH would have been a really silly place to be on Dec 7th.

I seem to get better results however I changed the starting PH attack with one of my own.

In my new AAR (had to restart. Dont like how the AI handles subs.) I reset the KB to following

All Zeros to 10,000 feet (Want to preserve them to defend the KB)

Vals were set to 5,000 feet but they actually went lower than that. Also distributed them as follows

Akagi/kaga groups attack naval
Hiryu/Soryu attack Port
Zuikaku/Shokaku attack Airfeilds

And for the kates I set them all to 1000 feet. Some went lower to drop torpedoes.

Oddy when I reset the attack Nagumo lauches TWO attacks on Dec 7th. The second attack does so well Nagumo doesnt have to stay around for another day.

the results edited for brevity...
7 BBs, 1 CA and 2 PTs sunk

Day Air attack on Pearl Harbor , at 112,68

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 90
D3A Val x 126
B5N Kate x 125

Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 4
P-26A x 3
P-36A Mohawk x 3
P-40B Tomahawk x 17

Japanese aircraft losses
D3A Val: 28 destroyed, 61 damaged
B5N Kate: 12 destroyed, 31 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-3 Wildcat: 11 destroyed, 3 damaged
P-26A: 17 destroyed
P-36A Mohawk: 24 destroyed, 14 damaged
P-40B Tomahawk: 45 destroyed, 38 damaged
B-18A Bolo: 17 destroyed, 16 damaged
SBD Dauntless: 16 destroyed, 8 damaged
PBY Catalina: 33 destroyed, 32 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 4 destroyed, 8 damaged
A-20B Boston: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
BB Oklahoma, Bomb hits 7, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
BB West Virginia, Bomb hits 5, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
BB Pennsylvania, Bomb hits 9, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
BB Maryland, Bomb hits 7, Torpedo hits 5, on fire, heavy damage
AV Wright, Bomb hits 1, on fire
BB Nevada, Bomb hits 9, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
CL Detroit, Bomb hits 1, on fire
BB California, Bomb hits 8, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
BB Tennessee, Bomb hits 5, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD Phelps, Bomb hits 1, on fire
BB Arizona, Bomb hits 6, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK Laida, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Cummings, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Henley, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
CA New Orleans, Bomb hits 1
DD Allen, Bomb hits 1
AK Mercury, Bomb hits 1, on fire
CL Helena, Bomb hits 2, on fire
PT PT-27, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
CL Honolulu, Bomb hits 1
AK Hirondelle, Bomb hits 1, on fire
CL St. Louis, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
PT PT-28, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
CA San Francisco, Bomb hits 1, on fire

Allied ground losses:
97 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Airbase hits 29
Runway hits 63

Aircraft Attacking:
126 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet
98 x B5N Kate bombing at 1000 feet
27 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
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Day Air attack on Pearl Harbor , at 112,68

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 87
D3A Val x 26
B5N Kate x 102

Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 1
P-40B Tomahawk x 6

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed
D3A Val: 10 destroyed, 19 damaged
B5N Kate: 28 destroyed, 61 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-3 Wildcat: 2 destroyed, 1 damaged
P-40B Tomahawk: 6 destroyed, 1 damaged
B-18A Bolo: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
A-20B Boston: 1 destroyed
P-36A Mohawk: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged

Allied Ships
BB Oklahoma, Bomb hits 5, Torpedo hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
DD Chew, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
CA San Francisco, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK Antares, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
BB Arizona, Bomb hits 3, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
AR Medusa, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
BB Maryland, Bomb hits 3, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
BB Tennessee, Bomb hits 4, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
BB Pennsylvania, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
BB West Virginia, Bomb hits 5, on fire, heavy damage
CL Honolulu, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
BB Nevada, Bomb hits 4, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Tucker, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
CL Phoenix, Bomb hits 1, on fire
CL St. Louis, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
CL Raleigh, Bomb hits 1, on fire
BB California, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

Airbase hits 3
Runway hits 8

Aircraft Attacking:
102 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
26 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet