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Hitting Colombo, I hope very hard...

Attacking at Rockhampton...

Bombarding at Bundaberg...and a full out attack. Night bombing, sweeping the port with 3 Desrons TFs, 2 CL SAGs and 10 subs, no radar equipped ones yet however. Japan has the advantage in weight with BB(s) and CAs. Oh my![X(]

Bombarding at Diego Garcia

Sweeping Chittagong

When the fighters are bomb/strafing and are attacked by CAP, a flight will drop their bombs and engage the enemy CAP. However, I do not believe that they are considered escorting the strike (I do not know if they are or not, maybe a dev can help on that) so they would not thus be constrained like escorting fighters. This is something to consider doing with drop tanks at altitude to possibly catch training fighters along with any CAP instead of using the sweep.

Fulmers were the highest scoring British carrier based fighter of the war I believe

Fulmar goodness:

Yet its long range was useful at times as evidenced in the 1941 chase of the German battleship Bismarck where Fulmars acted as carrier-borne spotters, tracking and trailing the fleeing battleship.[13]

First seeing action on Malta convoy protection patrols in September 1940, the sturdy Fulmar was able to achieve victories against its far more agile Italian and German adversaries. By the autumn, Fulmars had shot down ten Italian bombers and six enemy fighters, while giving top cover to the Swordfish raid on Taranto.

Fulmars played a prominent role in the ill-fated raid on Kirkenes and Petsamo in July 1941. By 1942, the Fulmar was being replaced by single-seat aircraft adapted from land fighters such as the Supermarine Seafire or by American single seat fighters such as the Grumman Martlet. It saw useful service in nighttime roles as a convoy escort and intruder and was used to train crews for the Fairey Barracuda. On the other hand, its flight characteristics were considered pleasant, its wide undercarriage provided good deck handling capacities and it had excellent fuel capacity and range. Fulmars were used in long-range reconnaissance after they were withdrawn as fighters. Most Fleet Air Arm fighter aces scored at least part of their victories in Fulmars, for example, Sub Lieutenant S.G. Orr, finished the war with 12 confirmed air victories, as the third-highest scoring pilot in the FAA.

At one time, 20 squadrons of the FAA were equipped with the Fulmar. It flew from eight fleet aircraft carriers and five escort carriers. No. 273 Squadron RAF operated them for some months in 1942 from China Bay, Ceylon, seeing action against Japanese forces during the raid on 9 April 1942;[14] though about half the squadron personnel were Navy. Fulmars destroyed 112 enemy aircraft, which made it the leading fighter type, by aircraft shot down, in the Fleet Air Arm during the Second World War.

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Ceylon -- Ramillies and Resolution & friends set to bombard!

I vote for the Shipyard. 41 supply per turn is not going to feed all the troops on Ceylon, but loss of the shipyard will limit his confidence in having important ships that far west in the IO. Singapore would be the next nearest Shipyard, and he doesn't have that yet so Saigon is nearest for him.

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Hitting Colombo, I hope very hard...

Attacking at Rockhampton...

Bombarding at Bundaberg...and a full out attack. Night bombing, sweeping the port with 3 Desrons TFs, 2 CL SAGs and 10 subs, no radar equipped ones yet however. Japan has the advantage in weight with BB(s) and CAs. Oh my![X(]

Bombarding at Diego Garcia

Sweeping Chittagong

Oh Boy!

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Ceylon -- Ramillies and Resolution & friends set to bombard!

I vote for the Shipyard. 41 supply per turn is not going to feed all the troops on Ceylon, but loss of the shipyard will limit his confidence in having important ships that far west in the IO. Singapore would be the next nearest Shipyard, and he doesn't have that yet so Saigon is nearest for him.

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Plus Saigon is limited in the size of ships that can get there.

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Hitting Colombo, I hope very hard...

Attacking at Rockhampton...

Bombarding at Bundaberg...and a full out attack. Night bombing, sweeping the port with 3 Desrons TFs, 2 CL SAGs and 10 subs, no radar equipped ones yet however. Japan has the advantage in weight with BB(s) and CAs. Oh my![X(]

Bombarding at Diego Garcia

Sweeping Chittagong

Oh Boy!

Also forgot, we are naval bombarding Chittagong too!

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Ceylon -- Ramillies and Resolution & friends set to bombard!

I vote for the Shipyard. 41 supply per turn is not going to feed all the troops on Ceylon, but loss of the shipyard will limit his confidence in having important ships that far west in the IO. Singapore would be the next nearest Shipyard, and he doesn't have that yet so Saigon is nearest for him.

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Plus Saigon is limited in the size of ships that can get there.

I think you guys are correct, but I still allocated some planes to the Light Industry. Any which way, I think Japan is in trouble here, as there is no AA that I see that can get here anytime quickly. So, even if he moves in fighters, the night bombers will take over.

Interesting that I am hitting him with Mitchells and Banshees.[;)] Their first strategic targets of the war.

April 17, 1942

Looks like he is fleeing Bundaberg...

Found the big girls...even if we don't hit anything, we are draining their ammunition.

Our guys are Wickes class destroyers I believe.

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

April 17, 1942

Looks like he is fleeing Bundaberg...

How is the moonlight and/or weather for PT Boats to encourage the Japanese to play bumper ships?

Now about some P-39s on Low Naval?

A long combat that costs us at least one destroyer...would be nice to damage the IJN destroyers so we get some good torpedo runs in on them....

So far the night is progressing as planned, destroyers first...

Another skirmish...

I liked that ship! [X(]

Not enough runway hits at Colombo...

I don't think Japan has any aviation support at Colombo yet...

Love eliminating these DMS - they are very useful ships for Japan.

Looks like one CL task force didn't make it Bundaberg...

At Diego Garcia this is promising.

We managed to sweep, but there are a lot of Japanese fighters here....might be a tough day for the bombers.

More sweeps in the afternoon, this time at Chit.

Our bombers didn't fly at Colombo in the morning...