The rant goes on... PBEM QUIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy
Light cruiser HMS Enterprise will show up in all British news papers tomorrow!
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RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/05/42
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Lautem at 33,78
Japanese Ships
DD Tsuga, Shell hits 32, and is sunk
APD APD-32, Shell hits 9, on fire, heavy damage
AK India Maru
AK Sinko Maru
AK Eizan Maru
AK Sanwa Maru
AK Koto Maru, Shell hits 4, on fire
AK Oyashima Maru, Shell hits 5
AK Tokuwa Maru
AK Bunzan Maru
Allied Ships
DD Griffin, Shell hits 3
DD Pakenham, Shell hits 4
we sent in two British DDs and they fought very well. Only one hit on my DDs did really happen I think, the rest was FOW. A 4.7 inch hit from the APD on Pakenham caused 18 sys damage. The other hits were all achieved by the AKs and like the AKs hitting subs with their guns it seems that 95% of those hits from AKs are FOW. The torps we launched missed but another Japanese DD and one of the high ASW value APDs is gone. Wonder why Hortlund uses his best ship as an escort to this high risk area.
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Day Air attack on Diamond Harbor , at 28,23
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 29
Ki-46-II Dinah x 1
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 damaged
we don´t put up any cap over India at the moment...
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Day Air attack on Port Moresby Defense Brigade, at 54,92
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 10
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported
Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Port Moresby Defense Brigade, at 54,92
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 21
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Aircraft Attacking:
21 x A6M2 Zero bombing at 2000 feet
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Lautem at 33,78
Japanese Ships
DD Tsuga, Shell hits 32, and is sunk
APD APD-32, Shell hits 9, on fire, heavy damage
AK India Maru
AK Sinko Maru
AK Eizan Maru
AK Sanwa Maru
AK Koto Maru, Shell hits 4, on fire
AK Oyashima Maru, Shell hits 5
AK Tokuwa Maru
AK Bunzan Maru
Allied Ships
DD Griffin, Shell hits 3
DD Pakenham, Shell hits 4
we sent in two British DDs and they fought very well. Only one hit on my DDs did really happen I think, the rest was FOW. A 4.7 inch hit from the APD on Pakenham caused 18 sys damage. The other hits were all achieved by the AKs and like the AKs hitting subs with their guns it seems that 95% of those hits from AKs are FOW. The torps we launched missed but another Japanese DD and one of the high ASW value APDs is gone. Wonder why Hortlund uses his best ship as an escort to this high risk area.
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Day Air attack on Diamond Harbor , at 28,23
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 29
Ki-46-II Dinah x 1
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 damaged
we don´t put up any cap over India at the moment...
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Day Air attack on Port Moresby Defense Brigade, at 54,92
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 10
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported
Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Port Moresby Defense Brigade, at 54,92
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 21
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Aircraft Attacking:
21 x A6M2 Zero bombing at 2000 feet
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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/06/42
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Sub attack at 28,50
Japanese Ships
AP Kinryu Maru, Torpedo hits 1
Allied Ships
SS Perch
Japanese ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
We shadowed this convoy for nearly a week now and a couple of hexes East of Singapore we´re finally succesful. One out of two torps hits the big AP that probably won´t sink...
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Day Air attack on Port Moresby Defense Brigade, at 54,92
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 8
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Port Moresby Defense Brigade, at 54,92
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 20
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
4 casualties reported
Aircraft Attacking:
20 x A6M2 Zero bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF at 31,78 [8|][8|][:(][:(][&:][&:]
Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 6
B-17E Fortress x 6
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
APD APD-32, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
AK Tokuwa Maru
AK Koto Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
2 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet
we saw Hortlund LRCAPing Lautern were this TF was first heading to. We also sent in a British cruiser to Lautern this turn but the TF was now not anymore going to Lautern but heading West towards Koepang. We expected to engage it at Lautern, then seeing it retreating one hex out of the base hex (as it did last turn) and then it would not be anymore under LRCAP. The plan was to then sink the whole TF with the 150 heavy and medium bombers from Darwin. That was the plan. The convoy wasn´t anymore at Lautern so this was already going wrong, but nevertheless the convoy wasn´t LRCAPed as the Zeroes were still flying over Lautern (recon showed that). But then? [&:] Out of 150 bombers we get 12 taking off... oh c´mon... air HQ, huge airfield, lots of supply, no fatigue, high morale... the usual stuff... we get 12 bombers attacking a fat convoy of 10 AKs in range of 150 bombers...[:(]
at least the APD is now definetely sunk as our B-17s put 3x1000lb bombs in the ship...
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Sub attack at 28,50
Japanese Ships
AP Kinryu Maru, Torpedo hits 1
Allied Ships
SS Perch
Japanese ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
We shadowed this convoy for nearly a week now and a couple of hexes East of Singapore we´re finally succesful. One out of two torps hits the big AP that probably won´t sink...
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Day Air attack on Port Moresby Defense Brigade, at 54,92
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 8
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Port Moresby Defense Brigade, at 54,92
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 20
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
4 casualties reported
Aircraft Attacking:
20 x A6M2 Zero bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF at 31,78 [8|][8|][:(][:(][&:][&:]
Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 6
B-17E Fortress x 6
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
APD APD-32, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
AK Tokuwa Maru
AK Koto Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
2 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet
we saw Hortlund LRCAPing Lautern were this TF was first heading to. We also sent in a British cruiser to Lautern this turn but the TF was now not anymore going to Lautern but heading West towards Koepang. We expected to engage it at Lautern, then seeing it retreating one hex out of the base hex (as it did last turn) and then it would not be anymore under LRCAP. The plan was to then sink the whole TF with the 150 heavy and medium bombers from Darwin. That was the plan. The convoy wasn´t anymore at Lautern so this was already going wrong, but nevertheless the convoy wasn´t LRCAPed as the Zeroes were still flying over Lautern (recon showed that). But then? [&:] Out of 150 bombers we get 12 taking off... oh c´mon... air HQ, huge airfield, lots of supply, no fatigue, high morale... the usual stuff... we get 12 bombers attacking a fat convoy of 10 AKs in range of 150 bombers...[:(]
at least the APD is now definetely sunk as our B-17s put 3x1000lb bombs in the ship...
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RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy
Bad luck.
You have enough recon? I usually have allied bomber squadrons at 20-30% nav search in the early days when their exp is lower.
You have enough recon? I usually have allied bomber squadrons at 20-30% nav search in the early days when their exp is lower.
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RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy
ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk
Bad luck.
You have enough recon? I usually have allied bomber squadrons at 20-30% nav search in the early days when their exp is lower.
there are 48 Catalinas, a dozen Dutch patrols, 400 bombers on 10% nav search, all in range of that TF, even a sub was in the same hex that turn... [:D]
I think we even got a message of "xy plane spotted xy ship" for 90% of the ships in this TF. The detection level could not have been the problem. I bet it must be the Allied super advantage for Allied weaklings that this troll... ehhm... trollelite is speaking about all the time... [;)]
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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/07/42
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Day Air attack on Port Moresby Defense Brigade, at 54,92
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 8
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Port Moresby Defense Brigade, at 54,92
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 21
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Aircraft Attacking:
21 x A6M2 Zero bombing at 2000 feet
super short cr... obviously nothing happened...
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Day Air attack on Port Moresby Defense Brigade, at 54,92
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 8
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Port Moresby Defense Brigade, at 54,92
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 21
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Aircraft Attacking:
21 x A6M2 Zero bombing at 2000 feet
super short cr... obviously nothing happened...
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RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/08/42
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TF 1072 encounters mine field at Koepang (28,77)
Allied Ships
DD Paladin, Mine hits 1
second time we moved in a surface TF and second time it has hit a mine since Hortlund laid them there... 100% efficiency for mines is rare IMO...
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Koepang at 28,77
Japanese Ships
PT Gyoraitei #1
PT Gyoraitei #2
PT Gyoraitei #3, Shell hits 2, and is sunk
PT Gyoraitei #4
Allied Ships
DD Paladin, on fire
we sink one PT for no shots fired in return... we weren´t able to attack the BIG transport TF in the hex... strange again...[8|]
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Sub attack at 22,50
Japanese Ships
ML Hirashima
Allied Ships
SS O24
hey ho... we miss of course... this was one of the fat Japanese MLs...[:(]
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Day Air attack on Diamond Harbor , at 28,23
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 85
Ki-46-II Dinah x 1
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 damaged
Hortlund is reconning Diamond Harbour every day and saw 80 fighters on Cap... of course the next day we see a big Zero sweep but all my fighters were stood down...
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Day Air attack on Port Moresby Defense Brigade, at 54,92
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 20
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
20 x A6M2 Zero bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on No. 112 RAN Base Force, at 54,92
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 7
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
7 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Dili at 31,77
Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 36
Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged
Japanese Ships
AP Sasago Maru, Bomb hits 4, on fire
DD Akatsuki, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Matsukaze
AP Kimishima Maru, Bomb hits 3, on fire
AP Igasa Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
Japanese ground losses:
112 casualties reported
Aircraft Attacking:
4 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 6000 feet
this time we get at least 15% of our bombers flying, not only 3%... all hits are 500lb bomb hits... Hortlund´s Zeroes were still LRCAPing Lautern (where´s nothing to LRCAP anyway) and we attack an undefended TF... again, we are dreaming about at least 100 bombers attacking a TF of a dozen ships... perhaps the 2 medium APs are in trouble...
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Day Air attack on TF at 29,81
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 34
Ki-49 Helen x 10
No Japanese losses
Allied Ships
DD Paladin
Aircraft Attacking:
2 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet
Paladin gets away on the way back to Northern Australia... sys dam from the mine hit is 42 [8|]... a type 4 mine - isn´t that the smalles IJN mine??
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Day Air attack on TF, near Dili at 31,77
Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 3
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
AP Kimishima Maru, on fire
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 6000 feet
in the afternoon we get 0,5% of our bombers attack the 30 times spotted and in the morning attacked TF...[8|] I have already changed the commander of my air HQ but it seems that didn´t help... [;)] AE needs a button for "shot air HQ commander"
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Day Air attack on TF at 25,83
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 34
Ki-49 Helen x 15
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49 Helen: 3 damaged
Allied Ships
CL Glasgow
Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet
[X(][X(] ooops... forgot about Glasgow moving towards Darwin at mission speed. Wanted here to go on full speed when she arrives in the area of Broome... we were definetely lucky here...
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TF 1072 encounters mine field at Koepang (28,77)
Allied Ships
DD Paladin, Mine hits 1
second time we moved in a surface TF and second time it has hit a mine since Hortlund laid them there... 100% efficiency for mines is rare IMO...
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Koepang at 28,77
Japanese Ships
PT Gyoraitei #1
PT Gyoraitei #2
PT Gyoraitei #3, Shell hits 2, and is sunk
PT Gyoraitei #4
Allied Ships
DD Paladin, on fire
we sink one PT for no shots fired in return... we weren´t able to attack the BIG transport TF in the hex... strange again...[8|]
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Sub attack at 22,50
Japanese Ships
ML Hirashima
Allied Ships
SS O24
hey ho... we miss of course... this was one of the fat Japanese MLs...[:(]
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Day Air attack on Diamond Harbor , at 28,23
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 85
Ki-46-II Dinah x 1
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 damaged
Hortlund is reconning Diamond Harbour every day and saw 80 fighters on Cap... of course the next day we see a big Zero sweep but all my fighters were stood down...
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Day Air attack on Port Moresby Defense Brigade, at 54,92
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 20
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
20 x A6M2 Zero bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on No. 112 RAN Base Force, at 54,92
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 7
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
7 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Dili at 31,77
Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 36
Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged
Japanese Ships
AP Sasago Maru, Bomb hits 4, on fire
DD Akatsuki, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Matsukaze
AP Kimishima Maru, Bomb hits 3, on fire
AP Igasa Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
Japanese ground losses:
112 casualties reported
Aircraft Attacking:
4 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 6000 feet
this time we get at least 15% of our bombers flying, not only 3%... all hits are 500lb bomb hits... Hortlund´s Zeroes were still LRCAPing Lautern (where´s nothing to LRCAP anyway) and we attack an undefended TF... again, we are dreaming about at least 100 bombers attacking a TF of a dozen ships... perhaps the 2 medium APs are in trouble...
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Day Air attack on TF at 29,81
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 34
Ki-49 Helen x 10
No Japanese losses
Allied Ships
DD Paladin
Aircraft Attacking:
2 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet
Paladin gets away on the way back to Northern Australia... sys dam from the mine hit is 42 [8|]... a type 4 mine - isn´t that the smalles IJN mine??
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Day Air attack on TF, near Dili at 31,77
Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 3
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
AP Kimishima Maru, on fire
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 6000 feet
in the afternoon we get 0,5% of our bombers attack the 30 times spotted and in the morning attacked TF...[8|] I have already changed the commander of my air HQ but it seems that didn´t help... [;)] AE needs a button for "shot air HQ commander"
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Day Air attack on TF at 25,83
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 34
Ki-49 Helen x 15
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49 Helen: 3 damaged
Allied Ships
CL Glasgow
Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet
[X(][X(] ooops... forgot about Glasgow moving towards Darwin at mission speed. Wanted here to go on full speed when she arrives in the area of Broome... we were definetely lucky here...
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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/09/42
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TF 1030 encounters mine field at Koepang (28,77)
Allied Ships
CL Enterprise, Mine hits 1[8|][8|][&:][&:]
third time I have sent in a surface combat TF since Hortlund has laid mines, third time a ship hits a mine... I HAVE NEVER SEEN SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPENING IN 2000+ TURNS OF PBEM... in fact I see surface or bombardment TFs RARELY hitting mines, even if I have 10.000+ mines at a base. I told Hortlund that there seem to be some very rare die rolls, but he thinks that this is the normal behaviour of WITP. Never seen something like that since UV... 3 times, 3 hits... 100% efficiency of mines... [X(][X(][X(][8|][8|][8|]
when I checked the cruiser, the mine hit must have been FOW though as it only has 4 sys damage and it started off from Darwin with 3 IIRC...
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ASW attack at 37,59
Japanese Ships
PG Kanko Maru
PG Toyotsu Maru
PG Kaiun Maru
PG Busho Maru
APD APD-31
Allied Ships
SS S-39, hits 6
and the IJN ASW combat TFs are now really killers also... [X(] 5 near misses, 1 real hit again... next sub out of the war for 3 months... and every turn at least one sub seems to be hit by a Sally or Helen, even though I move them EVERY turn... Hortlund said he has nearly all his medium bombers for ASW already... great, eh?? [8|] he said it would be better to kill my subs with IJA medium bombers than to see his bombers being shot down by my flak... AE should have only dedicated IJA medium bombers with a nav search/attack/ASW button to interdict the use of ALL IJA bombers for anti shipping/anti sub use... same goes for Allied bombers also of course...
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Koepang at 28,77
Japanese Ships
PT Gyoraitei #1
PT Gyoraitei #2, Shell hits 4, and is sunk
PT Gyoraitei #4
Allied Ships
CL Enterprise
the at this time undamaged CL sinks a PT but AGAIN we don´t engage the transport TF... what´s going on???? Normally you attack one TF after another if your ships aren´t damaged or sunk...
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ASW attack at 24,54
Japanese Ships
MSW W.9
MSW W.7
Allied Ships
SS O24, hits 1
one near miss but hey, O24 lost her forward torp tubes and is now not usable anymore... the thing about damaged torp tubes seems to be NOT working in my PBEMs. Yes I´m patched to the latest patch, but MY subs are never repairing their torp tubes... I know I can look at the numbers of torps, even if the tube is still a red 0... no, they are never being repaired...
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Sub attack at 42,63
Japanese Ships
AK Nichii Maru
Allied Ships
SS Growler
we miss... I want a button that enables me to rename ships in AE... I would rename my subs to USS miss Growler for example...
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Day Air attack on Diamond Harbor , at 28,23
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 66
No Japanese losses
Horltund still saw the fat, dark airfield symbol and decided to take out my aircraft... beginning with a sweep... finding no aircraft in the air...
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Day Air attack on Diamond Harbor , at 28,23
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 124
Ki-49 Helen x 46
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21 Sally: 8 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 6 damaged
Allied ground losses:
20 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 11
Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 20000 feet
at least he has NOT all his IJA bombers on ASW duty... propaganda from me and from him in our emails... still, nearly every turn a sub is hit by an IJA bomber... Diamond Harbour can be considered a flak base and at the moment has 130 fighters/fighter bombers... but they were all out flying LRCAP for a British cruiser TF in the area of Diamond Harbour... fearing flak, the bombers are flying too high to do real damage to the airfield...
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Day Air attack on Diamond Harbor , at 28,23
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 27
G3M Nell x 9
G4M1 Betty x 84 [X(][X(][X(]
Japanese aircraft losses
G3M Nell: 5 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 3 destroyed, 20 damaged
Allied ground losses:
18 casualties reported
Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 16
Aircraft Attacking:
22 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 17000 feet
those bombers were coming from Rangoon... long range strike, but still with Zeroes as escorts... again the airfield is empty and those Betties should be on nav attack. We are lucky our cruisers haven´t been spotted as this high number of long range torp bombers is really freightening me. I expected to see Betties at Rangoon but more around 50 (perhaps 2 Daitais). But not 90+... LRCAP wouldn´t save my cruisers when 27 Zeroes followed by 90+ Betties going in on them... next turn will be really interesting...[:D] This turn the Japanese lost 14 aircraft with 0 lost on our side. 7 Betties and 2 Helen lost to flak, 1 Betty to ops...
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Day Air attack on Port Moresby Defense Brigade, at 54,92
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 8
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Port Moresby Defense Brigade, at 54,92
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 19
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
29 casualties reported
Aircraft Attacking:
19 x A6M2 Zero bombing at 2000 feet
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Sub attack at 37,60
Japanese Ships
AP Yuzan Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
Allied Ships
SS S-40
a little success, we hit an empty medium AP...
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TF 1030 encounters mine field at Koepang (28,77)
Allied Ships
CL Enterprise, Mine hits 1[8|][8|][&:][&:]
third time I have sent in a surface combat TF since Hortlund has laid mines, third time a ship hits a mine... I HAVE NEVER SEEN SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPENING IN 2000+ TURNS OF PBEM... in fact I see surface or bombardment TFs RARELY hitting mines, even if I have 10.000+ mines at a base. I told Hortlund that there seem to be some very rare die rolls, but he thinks that this is the normal behaviour of WITP. Never seen something like that since UV... 3 times, 3 hits... 100% efficiency of mines... [X(][X(][X(][8|][8|][8|]
when I checked the cruiser, the mine hit must have been FOW though as it only has 4 sys damage and it started off from Darwin with 3 IIRC...
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ASW attack at 37,59
Japanese Ships
PG Kanko Maru
PG Toyotsu Maru
PG Kaiun Maru
PG Busho Maru
APD APD-31
Allied Ships
SS S-39, hits 6
and the IJN ASW combat TFs are now really killers also... [X(] 5 near misses, 1 real hit again... next sub out of the war for 3 months... and every turn at least one sub seems to be hit by a Sally or Helen, even though I move them EVERY turn... Hortlund said he has nearly all his medium bombers for ASW already... great, eh?? [8|] he said it would be better to kill my subs with IJA medium bombers than to see his bombers being shot down by my flak... AE should have only dedicated IJA medium bombers with a nav search/attack/ASW button to interdict the use of ALL IJA bombers for anti shipping/anti sub use... same goes for Allied bombers also of course...
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Koepang at 28,77
Japanese Ships
PT Gyoraitei #1
PT Gyoraitei #2, Shell hits 4, and is sunk
PT Gyoraitei #4
Allied Ships
CL Enterprise
the at this time undamaged CL sinks a PT but AGAIN we don´t engage the transport TF... what´s going on???? Normally you attack one TF after another if your ships aren´t damaged or sunk...
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ASW attack at 24,54
Japanese Ships
MSW W.9
MSW W.7
Allied Ships
SS O24, hits 1
one near miss but hey, O24 lost her forward torp tubes and is now not usable anymore... the thing about damaged torp tubes seems to be NOT working in my PBEMs. Yes I´m patched to the latest patch, but MY subs are never repairing their torp tubes... I know I can look at the numbers of torps, even if the tube is still a red 0... no, they are never being repaired...
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Sub attack at 42,63
Japanese Ships
AK Nichii Maru
Allied Ships
SS Growler
we miss... I want a button that enables me to rename ships in AE... I would rename my subs to USS miss Growler for example...
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Day Air attack on Diamond Harbor , at 28,23
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 66
No Japanese losses
Horltund still saw the fat, dark airfield symbol and decided to take out my aircraft... beginning with a sweep... finding no aircraft in the air...
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Day Air attack on Diamond Harbor , at 28,23
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 124
Ki-49 Helen x 46
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21 Sally: 8 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 6 damaged
Allied ground losses:
20 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 11
Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 20000 feet
at least he has NOT all his IJA bombers on ASW duty... propaganda from me and from him in our emails... still, nearly every turn a sub is hit by an IJA bomber... Diamond Harbour can be considered a flak base and at the moment has 130 fighters/fighter bombers... but they were all out flying LRCAP for a British cruiser TF in the area of Diamond Harbour... fearing flak, the bombers are flying too high to do real damage to the airfield...
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Day Air attack on Diamond Harbor , at 28,23
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 27
G3M Nell x 9
G4M1 Betty x 84 [X(][X(][X(]
Japanese aircraft losses
G3M Nell: 5 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 3 destroyed, 20 damaged
Allied ground losses:
18 casualties reported
Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 16
Aircraft Attacking:
22 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 17000 feet
those bombers were coming from Rangoon... long range strike, but still with Zeroes as escorts... again the airfield is empty and those Betties should be on nav attack. We are lucky our cruisers haven´t been spotted as this high number of long range torp bombers is really freightening me. I expected to see Betties at Rangoon but more around 50 (perhaps 2 Daitais). But not 90+... LRCAP wouldn´t save my cruisers when 27 Zeroes followed by 90+ Betties going in on them... next turn will be really interesting...[:D] This turn the Japanese lost 14 aircraft with 0 lost on our side. 7 Betties and 2 Helen lost to flak, 1 Betty to ops...
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Day Air attack on Port Moresby Defense Brigade, at 54,92
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 8
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Port Moresby Defense Brigade, at 54,92
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 19
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
29 casualties reported
Aircraft Attacking:
19 x A6M2 Zero bombing at 2000 feet
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Sub attack at 37,60
Japanese Ships
AP Yuzan Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
Allied Ships
SS S-40
a little success, we hit an empty medium AP...
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RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy
the at this time undamaged CL sinks a PT but AGAIN we don´t engage the transport TF... what´s going on???? Normally you attack one TF after another if your ships aren´t damaged or sunk...
Yeah, I've had this happen too - recently I had Musashi TF even remain at the base (Adak) until morning while on a night surface sweep and get pounded.
I'm not 100% sure - but at this point I think it is heavily influenced by how many OP points the TF has remaining. So in my case - ONE of the flippin' DDs was apparently short on fuel and that caused me to remain in the hex. So start your night runs closer to the target hex and make sure you start with plenty of gas .. and don't fight any battles or subs along the way ... and you should be better off. Those are my theories anyway.
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RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy
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the at this time undamaged CL sinks a PT but AGAIN we don´t engage the transport TF... what´s going on???? Normally you attack one TF after another if your ships aren´t damaged or sunk...
Yeah, I've had this happen too - recently I had Musashi TF even remain at the base (Adak) until morning while on a night surface sweep and get pounded.
I'm not 100% sure - but at this point I think it is heavily influenced by how many OP points the TF has remaining. So in my case - ONE of the flippin' DDs was apparently short on fuel and that caused me to remain in the hex. So start your night runs closer to the target hex and make sure you start with plenty of gas .. and don't fight any battles or subs along the way ... and you should be better off. Those are my theories anyway.
the problem is that starting off nearer at the base would most likely end in my ships being spotted AND sunk! [:D] but thank´s for the explanation, something I was thinking about too. But the second later I was sure again, that I have seen it 100? 200? times that surface combat TFs sprint to a target hex and engaging all and every TFs... and if you set them to retire they always go in from max distance, in this case 6 hexes.
It´s just like with slow BB bombardment TFs. They can move 4 hexes, engage a dozen TFs, kill all of them AND then nuke the base if enough recon was done before... [:D] so in this case I don´t understand why my DDs or CLs aren´t engaging more than the PT TF...
2 left now, this means I will send in two more surface combat TFs, to see one ship hit a mine [;)] both times, but then all of the four PTs there are gone...
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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/10/42
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ASW attack at 22,51
Japanese Ships
PG Nanpo Maru
PG Saga
PC Ch 17
PC Takunan Maru #5
DD Uranami
Allied Ships
SS O24, hits 3
the Japanese ASW keeps being too succesful at the moment for my taste... 3 near misses but sys dam 12 now, sub retires to India again...
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Amboina at 39,73
Japanese Ships
AP Akashisan Maru
AP Chicago Maru
AP Konron Maru, Shell hits 9, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AP Nichiro Maru
Allied Ships
DD Griffin, Shell hits 1
Hortlund could interdict all those surface raids of mine by just putting a CA with a couple of DDs in a surface combat TF at the base he intends to reinforce...
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Naval bombardment of Akyab, at 30,29 [:D][8D][:D]
Japanese aircraft
no flights
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 13 destroyed
Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 destroyed
Allied Ships
CA Exeter
CA Cornwall
CL Newcastle
CL Birmingham
CA Devonshire
Japanese ground losses:
2879 casualties reported
Guns lost 12
Airbase hits 26
Airbase supply hits 17
Runway hits 120
my plan seems to be working... my cruisers destroyed the airfield of Akyab... at this moment I wondered how many Zeroes on Cap we will engage when our bombers will go in in the morning...
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Sub attack at 23,55
Japanese Ships
ML Hirashima
Allied Ships
SS Permit
second time we fire torps at this big IJN ML and second time that we miss... damn it... [:@]
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Sub attack at 39,72
Japanese Ships
AP Konron Maru, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
Allied Ships
SS S-27
DD Griffin forced the TF with the four APs out of Amboina into the hex where S-27 was waiting... she sunk the already damaged medium AP...
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Day Air attack on Akyab , at 30,29 [:D][:D]
Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 77
No Allied losses
not a single Zero is able to take off and our sweep found nothing to engage... Akyab airfield wasn´t operational anymore after our cruisers visited the place... [8D]
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Day Air attack on Akyab , at 30,29 [8D]
Japanese aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft
Wellington III x 112
P-40B Tomahawk x 39
B-26B Marauder x 48
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 18 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
B-26B Marauder: 1 damaged
Japanese ground losses:
25 casualties reported
Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 104
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Wellington III bombing at 11000 feet
36 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 11000 feet
following our sweep we see the first attack of Wellington III bombers... flak fire wasn´t existing and we could have gone in at 6.000 ft but we did a lot of damage from 11.000 ft also...
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Day Air attack on Diamond Harbor , at 28,23
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 107
Ki-49 Helen x 27
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21 Sally: 2 destroyed, 14 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 7 damaged
Allied ground losses:
59 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Vehicles lost 1
Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 8
Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 20000 feet
still seeing a fat, dark airfield symbol Hortlund decided to attack again, but again he can´t destroy any of my aircraft on the ground because they were LRCAPing my cruisers (which weren´t spotted anyway). So the IJA found my airfield empty and the damage done isn´t worth mentioning...
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Day Air attack on Diamond Harbor , at 28,23
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 27
G3M Nell x 18
G4M1 Betty x 67
Allied aircraft
no flights
Japanese aircraft losses
G3M Nell: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 3 destroyed, 15 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
Allied ground losses:
41 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Airbase hits 5
Runway hits 6
Aircraft Attacking:
12 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 17000 feet
9 x G3M Nell bombing at 17000 feet
and again, there´s a big IJN strike from Rangoon. Those Betties should have all been on nav attack with a high % on nav search, then my cruisers could have been in trouble. As the day ends, our plan worked perfectly... [&o]
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Day Air attack on No. 112 RAN Base Force, at 54,92
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 8
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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ASW attack at 23,55
Japanese Ships
ML Hirashima
ML Sarushima
Allied Ships
SS Permit, hits 3
Permit is out of action now also... [8|] retiring with 14 sys dam...
A great day for the combined forces of the RN, RAF and USAAF! For minimal losses we were able to nearly destroy 3 of the IJN´s Zero daitais at Akyab. The base is completely destroyed and we´re keeping up the pressure. As expected the Wellington III really boosts our offensive capability out of India. What we do lack at the moment are some more recon aircraft. We have only one of the Dutch recons left...
Hortlund told me he didn´t lose any pilots (just like at the day when we torched 100+ Oscars on Koepang´s airfield) but I think this is mostly propaganda. A guess would be that he lost a dozen of his pilots... not counting the other dozen IJN pilots he lost with his two long range strikes from Rangoon! [:D]
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ASW attack at 22,51
Japanese Ships
PG Nanpo Maru
PG Saga
PC Ch 17
PC Takunan Maru #5
DD Uranami
Allied Ships
SS O24, hits 3
the Japanese ASW keeps being too succesful at the moment for my taste... 3 near misses but sys dam 12 now, sub retires to India again...
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Amboina at 39,73
Japanese Ships
AP Akashisan Maru
AP Chicago Maru
AP Konron Maru, Shell hits 9, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AP Nichiro Maru
Allied Ships
DD Griffin, Shell hits 1
Hortlund could interdict all those surface raids of mine by just putting a CA with a couple of DDs in a surface combat TF at the base he intends to reinforce...
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Naval bombardment of Akyab, at 30,29 [:D][8D][:D]
Japanese aircraft
no flights
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 13 destroyed
Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 destroyed
Allied Ships
CA Exeter
CA Cornwall
CL Newcastle
CL Birmingham
CA Devonshire
Japanese ground losses:
2879 casualties reported
Guns lost 12
Airbase hits 26
Airbase supply hits 17
Runway hits 120
my plan seems to be working... my cruisers destroyed the airfield of Akyab... at this moment I wondered how many Zeroes on Cap we will engage when our bombers will go in in the morning...
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Sub attack at 23,55
Japanese Ships
ML Hirashima
Allied Ships
SS Permit
second time we fire torps at this big IJN ML and second time that we miss... damn it... [:@]
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Sub attack at 39,72
Japanese Ships
AP Konron Maru, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
Allied Ships
SS S-27
DD Griffin forced the TF with the four APs out of Amboina into the hex where S-27 was waiting... she sunk the already damaged medium AP...
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Day Air attack on Akyab , at 30,29 [:D][:D]
Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 77
No Allied losses
not a single Zero is able to take off and our sweep found nothing to engage... Akyab airfield wasn´t operational anymore after our cruisers visited the place... [8D]
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Day Air attack on Akyab , at 30,29 [8D]
Japanese aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft
Wellington III x 112
P-40B Tomahawk x 39
B-26B Marauder x 48
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 18 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
B-26B Marauder: 1 damaged
Japanese ground losses:
25 casualties reported
Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 104
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Wellington III bombing at 11000 feet
36 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 11000 feet
following our sweep we see the first attack of Wellington III bombers... flak fire wasn´t existing and we could have gone in at 6.000 ft but we did a lot of damage from 11.000 ft also...
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Day Air attack on Diamond Harbor , at 28,23
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 107
Ki-49 Helen x 27
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21 Sally: 2 destroyed, 14 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 7 damaged
Allied ground losses:
59 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Vehicles lost 1
Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 8
Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 20000 feet
still seeing a fat, dark airfield symbol Hortlund decided to attack again, but again he can´t destroy any of my aircraft on the ground because they were LRCAPing my cruisers (which weren´t spotted anyway). So the IJA found my airfield empty and the damage done isn´t worth mentioning...
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Day Air attack on Diamond Harbor , at 28,23
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 27
G3M Nell x 18
G4M1 Betty x 67
Allied aircraft
no flights
Japanese aircraft losses
G3M Nell: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 3 destroyed, 15 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
Allied ground losses:
41 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Airbase hits 5
Runway hits 6
Aircraft Attacking:
12 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 17000 feet
9 x G3M Nell bombing at 17000 feet
and again, there´s a big IJN strike from Rangoon. Those Betties should have all been on nav attack with a high % on nav search, then my cruisers could have been in trouble. As the day ends, our plan worked perfectly... [&o]
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Day Air attack on No. 112 RAN Base Force, at 54,92
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 8
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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ASW attack at 23,55
Japanese Ships
ML Hirashima
ML Sarushima
Allied Ships
SS Permit, hits 3
Permit is out of action now also... [8|] retiring with 14 sys dam...
A great day for the combined forces of the RN, RAF and USAAF! For minimal losses we were able to nearly destroy 3 of the IJN´s Zero daitais at Akyab. The base is completely destroyed and we´re keeping up the pressure. As expected the Wellington III really boosts our offensive capability out of India. What we do lack at the moment are some more recon aircraft. We have only one of the Dutch recons left...
Hortlund told me he didn´t lose any pilots (just like at the day when we torched 100+ Oscars on Koepang´s airfield) but I think this is mostly propaganda. A guess would be that he lost a dozen of his pilots... not counting the other dozen IJN pilots he lost with his two long range strikes from Rangoon! [:D]
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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/11/42
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Lautem at 33,78
Japanese Ships
PT Gyoraitei #5
PT Gyoraitei #6, Shell hits 3, and is sunk
Allied Ships
CL Enterprise
recon reports showed two AKs!!! at Lautern so we sent in Enterprise that was low on fuel already and what did we find? 2 PTs! [:D] One was shot to pieces from 7000 yards. So far our ships never engaged the IJN PTs from shorter than 5.000 yards and no torps were launched so far...
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Day Air attack on Port Moresby Defense Brigade, at 54,92
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 6
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Sub attack at 40,67
Japanese Ships
AK Fukushu Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
Allied Ships
SS Dolphin
big AK is hit by a MK14... at the moment we have around one and a half dozen subs on station, nearly all are operating on spotted TFs... a dozen more is retiring or going to the patrol area...
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Lautem at 33,78
Japanese Ships
PT Gyoraitei #5
PT Gyoraitei #6, Shell hits 3, and is sunk
Allied Ships
CL Enterprise
recon reports showed two AKs!!! at Lautern so we sent in Enterprise that was low on fuel already and what did we find? 2 PTs! [:D] One was shot to pieces from 7000 yards. So far our ships never engaged the IJN PTs from shorter than 5.000 yards and no torps were launched so far...
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Day Air attack on Port Moresby Defense Brigade, at 54,92
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 6
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Sub attack at 40,67
Japanese Ships
AK Fukushu Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
Allied Ships
SS Dolphin
big AK is hit by a MK14... at the moment we have around one and a half dozen subs on station, nearly all are operating on spotted TFs... a dozen more is retiring or going to the patrol area...
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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/12/42
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ASW attack at 24,54
Japanese Ships
PG Nanpo Maru
PG Saga
PC Ch 17
PC Takunan Maru #5
DD Uranami
Allied Ships
SS KXV, hits 2, on fire
wonder why my ASW forces are doing so crappy in my game against Swift, but Hortlund´s ASW forces are real killers... A real hit again, KXV has to retire...
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TF 135 encounters mine field at Kendari (33,71)
Japanese Ships
MSW Shanan Maru #16
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Amboina at 39,73
Japanese Ships
DD Shiratsuyu
DD Murakumo, Shell hits 1, on fire
Allied Ships
CL Glasgow, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
Hortlund doesn´t put CAs at his bases, but now he has surface forces there... as usual the DDs are able to put a torp into my high experienced CL...
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Amboina at 39,73
Japanese Ships
DD Shiratsuyu
DD Murakumo, Shell hits 3, on fire
Allied Ships
CL Glasgow, Shell hits 1, on fire
another round but we can´t do significant damage. Murakumo took 3x6 inch shells and 1x4 inch shell... Glasgow retires with 21/24/3 damage to Darwin...
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TF 117 encounters mine field at Victoria Point (25,39)
Japanese Ships
MSW W.17
MSW W.18
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Day Air attack on Akyab , at 30,29
Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 85
No Allied losses
what we started two turns ago, will be completed today... we rested last turn to reduce fatigue and to see if Hortlund would LRCAP Akyab from Mandalay, like he did earlier. No LRCAP yesterday, so we decided to send in our airforce again... The Hurricanes only came for sight seeing...
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Day Air attack on Akyab , at 30,29
Japanese aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft
Wellington III x 115
P-40B Tomahawk x 39
B-26B Marauder x 46
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-15 Babs: 3 destroyed
A6M2 Zero: 21 destroyed
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 12 destroyed
Ki-46-II Dinah: 3 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
Wellington III: 2 damaged
Japanese ground losses:
109 casualties reported
Airbase hits 10
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 167
Aircraft Attacking:
9 x Wellington III bombing at 11000 feet
and following our sweep, the bombers go in again... wonderful hit rate, those Wellingtons are doing really good with their 9x500 lb bomb load... the biggest bomb load in Nikmod until the B-29 arrives... 5/42 really proves to be a very important date in WITP as you can upgrade the RAF. Our bomber force is using the Wellington III now, with 30 being in the pool and the additional Hurricanes we now have also come in handy... a lot of aircraft were destroyed at Akyab again, I bet Hortlund has lost some two dozen pilots (very high experienced pilots) in the last three turns... [:D]
The Allied weakling strikes back!!!!! [:D]
130+ aircraft (mostly Zeroes) were destroyed on the ground at Akyab airfield in the last three days...
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ASW attack at 24,54
Japanese Ships
PG Nanpo Maru
PG Saga
PC Ch 17
PC Takunan Maru #5
DD Uranami
Allied Ships
SS KXV, hits 2, on fire
wonder why my ASW forces are doing so crappy in my game against Swift, but Hortlund´s ASW forces are real killers... A real hit again, KXV has to retire...
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TF 135 encounters mine field at Kendari (33,71)
Japanese Ships
MSW Shanan Maru #16
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Amboina at 39,73
Japanese Ships
DD Shiratsuyu
DD Murakumo, Shell hits 1, on fire
Allied Ships
CL Glasgow, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
Hortlund doesn´t put CAs at his bases, but now he has surface forces there... as usual the DDs are able to put a torp into my high experienced CL...
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Amboina at 39,73
Japanese Ships
DD Shiratsuyu
DD Murakumo, Shell hits 3, on fire
Allied Ships
CL Glasgow, Shell hits 1, on fire
another round but we can´t do significant damage. Murakumo took 3x6 inch shells and 1x4 inch shell... Glasgow retires with 21/24/3 damage to Darwin...
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TF 117 encounters mine field at Victoria Point (25,39)
Japanese Ships
MSW W.17
MSW W.18
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Day Air attack on Akyab , at 30,29
Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 85
No Allied losses
what we started two turns ago, will be completed today... we rested last turn to reduce fatigue and to see if Hortlund would LRCAP Akyab from Mandalay, like he did earlier. No LRCAP yesterday, so we decided to send in our airforce again... The Hurricanes only came for sight seeing...
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Day Air attack on Akyab , at 30,29
Japanese aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft
Wellington III x 115
P-40B Tomahawk x 39
B-26B Marauder x 46
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-15 Babs: 3 destroyed
A6M2 Zero: 21 destroyed
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 12 destroyed
Ki-46-II Dinah: 3 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
Wellington III: 2 damaged
Japanese ground losses:
109 casualties reported
Airbase hits 10
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 167
Aircraft Attacking:
9 x Wellington III bombing at 11000 feet
and following our sweep, the bombers go in again... wonderful hit rate, those Wellingtons are doing really good with their 9x500 lb bomb load... the biggest bomb load in Nikmod until the B-29 arrives... 5/42 really proves to be a very important date in WITP as you can upgrade the RAF. Our bomber force is using the Wellington III now, with 30 being in the pool and the additional Hurricanes we now have also come in handy... a lot of aircraft were destroyed at Akyab again, I bet Hortlund has lost some two dozen pilots (very high experienced pilots) in the last three turns... [:D]
The Allied weakling strikes back!!!!! [:D]
130+ aircraft (mostly Zeroes) were destroyed on the ground at Akyab airfield in the last three days...
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RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy
it seems you are doing well[:)]. Can you post strategic map, intel screen and naval losses?
Just remember: you must continue with pressure on Japan - but only at places where you can fight on your terms!
As long term Japanese player, i would say that 100 (app 4 Daitais) crippled Zeros MUST hurt Japanes offensive capabilities...
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RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy
ORIGINAL: pauk
it seems you are doing well[:)]. Can you post strategic map, intel screen and naval losses?
Just remember: you must continue with pressure on Japan - but only at places where you can fight on your terms!
As long term Japanese player, i would say that 100 (app 4 Daitais) crippled Zeros MUST hurt Japanes offensive capabilities...
Hi Pauk!
honour to have you aboard. With the reduced production rates in Nikmod this is about a monthly production of Navy fighters but he surely has enough in his pools as the air war wasn´t that bloody so far. I will post a strategic map and the info you need tomorrow!
RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy
I'm not familiar with your houserules and Nikmod a much, but still...
4 crippled Zero daitais means they are out of action for few weeks (regrouping, replacements, repairs). I really think you should exploit that and attack where is weak. I'm sure that you can find a weak spot in his little Empire[;)].
- hit strategica targets (oil and resources). You will benefit not only on long term with that (limiting his industry expansion, forcing him to spend supply for repairing raw materials rather than expanding industry and use supply for future offensives); you will force him to divert airgroups for defending such targets and therefore weaken his offensive capabilities.
- once when you know where are his carriers, do a "Doolitle raid" on HI. Trust me, that was one of my bigest fears in my games, since i do like to concentrate my AF in one place (there i will attack next) - and that is certainly not in the HI. I'm sure that you, as Japanese player, are familiar with Zero Daitais designations[:D]
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RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy
ORIGINAL: pauk
I'm not familiar with your houserules and Nikmod a much, but still...
4 crippled Zero daitais means they are out of action for few weeks (regrouping, replacements, repairs). I really think you should exploit that and attack where is weak. I'm sure that you can find a weak spot in his little Empire[;)].
- hit strategica targets (oil and resources). You will benefit not only on long term with that (limiting his industry expansion, forcing him to spend supply for repairing raw materials rather than expanding industry and use supply for future offensives); you will force him to divert airgroups for defending such targets and therefore weaken his offensive capabilities.
- once when you know where are his carriers, do a "Doolitle raid" on HI. Trust me, that was one of my bigest fears in my games, since i do like to concentrate my AF in one place (there i will attack next) - and that is certainly not in the HI. I'm sure that you, as Japanese player, are familiar with Zero Daitais designations[:D]
we´re following the "most common" house rules... what ever that means! [:D] We have stacking limits of airfield size x50 on land and max 550 in a sea hex.
I´m on the offense now with the RAF from India but it has to be limited at the moment. But we will continue to hit hard as soon as we encounter a lightly capped base.
Even though we don´t have a hr on not bombing ressources / oil, I had those hrs in all my other PBEMs, as well in the game against Swift and so far it has worked good for me. No bombing off Japanese occupied Allied ressources / oil / HI. I want to do a sub war and to sink his ships, not killing a huge ressource center with one or two 200 aircraft raids. Though I told Hortlund that if he will use ALL his IJA bombers on ASW (or better say if I have the feeling he´s doing this) then I may switch some bombers to kill his ressource of oil sites, of which a couple is in range of my B-17s anyway.
I did that Doolittle raid you mention ONCE, unfortunately with the result of having 3 US carriers sunk due to a 150 Betty strike with 100 Zeroes as escorts. I WILL NEVER TRY TO DO THAT AGAIN! [:D] At the moment all my carriers are reducing sys damage, as well as their escorts. In about a month I will start my first invasion. In the meantime I will kill more Zeroes and Oscars in Burma and in the Timor area.
I will post the intel you wished in the afternoon.
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RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy
Pauk, here are the screens you requested, starting off with the strategic map. As you can see, Hortlund has expanded his Empire nearly all over the map, most bases he conquered were early on when they still were empty and there was nothing I could do against it. Only base that was reinforced that he took was Koepang and that wasn´t an easy target for him at all. He already had his Midway invasion TF at sea but turned back when he reconned the base... [:D] As it stands now, I can´t see him making progress ANYWHERE. The islands in the Pacific are well fortified (not immune to attacks, but it would be a blood bath for the Japanese), Australia is a fortress and we´re keeping up the pressure on him, not he is attacking us. Same goes for India, we´re already striking back while I don´t see a chance at all for him to attack India, besides his attacks with the IJA where flak is our best defense at the moment...
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RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy
i assume that your first invasion will be in SRA (from Northern OZ) - if that is not forbidden by your house rules?
That is a weakest spot of the Japanese Empire.
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RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy
Here you can see the directions of possible offensives. I left out India as there won´t be a ground offensive, only air attacks for the next year. IMO it doesn´t do Horltund any good that he attacked Johnston and Palmyra (besides the fact that my convoy routes are longer now) but he didn´t go for Canton, Pago Pago and the Fidjis. Now those islands are fortresses and a good staging point for a possible attack into the Tarawa area. New Caledonia is nearly impossible to defend with the 3 bases so this would be a tempting target also, perhaps I start off with a probing attack on Norfolk Island to have a small base for recon and to fly in fighters and bombers from New Zealand. A somewhat tougher target would be Port Moresby but with PM in my hands again, the whole Solomon chain and all base further South would be in trouble. Though I expect Hortlund to defend PM at all costs. At the moment there are 4 units but the base hasn´t really been built up. What really wonders me is the fact that there seem to be 150 Betties in Burma, those should be in the Pacific. Even though he can transfer them in pretty quickly, it still takes a week to see them combat effective and a week could be TOO late to really interfere with an invasion.
A slow progress but much safer would be to build up the islands North of Australia´s North coast, from there I could threaten the SRA directly. So far Timor hasn´t been built up, only Koepang on the far West, but the base started out as port 3 and airfield 4 already. Lautern and Dili are still very small and not really garrisoned. I could really put some pressure on Timor from my 3 built up bases on the North coast. 200 B-25, 100 B-17 and 100 B-26 could make life hard for the Japanese there if I let them lose... [:D] With the small islands built up I could also fly sweeps with my Hurricanes and Kittyhawks to Lautern if the Japanese decide to build up the base and defend it.
And as the last option I could go the Northern route, but honestly, I´m not really interested in a war up there. I´m happy that Hortlund attacked up there, now he must have some troops there - those troops aren´t in the South Pacific where I will focus my attacks.
A slow progress but much safer would be to build up the islands North of Australia´s North coast, from there I could threaten the SRA directly. So far Timor hasn´t been built up, only Koepang on the far West, but the base started out as port 3 and airfield 4 already. Lautern and Dili are still very small and not really garrisoned. I could really put some pressure on Timor from my 3 built up bases on the North coast. 200 B-25, 100 B-17 and 100 B-26 could make life hard for the Japanese there if I let them lose... [:D] With the small islands built up I could also fly sweeps with my Hurricanes and Kittyhawks to Lautern if the Japanese decide to build up the base and defend it.
And as the last option I could go the Northern route, but honestly, I´m not really interested in a war up there. I´m happy that Hortlund attacked up there, now he must have some troops there - those troops aren´t in the South Pacific where I will focus my attacks.
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