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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/29/42

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TF 23 encounters mine field at Akyab (30,29)

Japanese Ships
BB Hyuga, Mine hits 1 [:D]

sub laid VH2 hits Hyuga. SS O19 and O20 are mining the area and are replenishing at Diamond Harbour, so they lay 50 mines and can replenish a couple of turns later...

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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-46, hits 8, on fire

Japanese ASW gets too good for my taste... S-46 retires with 35 sys and 63 float... 50/50 chance I would say... [:(]

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ASW attack at 33,64

Japanese Ships
DD Yugumo

Allied Ships
SS S-43

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TF 158 encounters mine field at Rangoon (29,34)

Japanese Ships
PC Ch 12

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Day Air attack on 2nd Tank Regiment, at 34,27


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 32
P-40E Warhawk x 69


No Allied losses

We swept the hex with the TK rgt in as we spotted LRCAP last turn, but we encountered no fighters this turn... cat and mouse game...

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/30/42

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TF 1044 encounters mine field at Lautem (33,78)

Allied Ships
CL De Ruyter, Mine hits 1, on fire

I will break every record in WITP regarding mine hits of "non invasion" TFs... what kind of joke of am I the victim? [&:] said it before, I just don´t understand what´s happening in this PBEM regarding those mine hits...

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TF 113 encounters mine field at Palembang (20,55)

Japanese Ships
MSW W.14

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Day Air attack on 2nd Tank Regiment, at 34,27


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 78
P-40E Warhawk x 62
SB-2c x 1


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
101 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 5

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet

the LRCAP last turn was just a feint or a try to catch some unescorted ground strike... no LRCAP today...

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Sub attack at 53,47

Japanese Ships
AP Biyo Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
PG Kantori Maru
PG Hakkaisan Maru
PC Shonon Maru #3

Allied Ships
SS Tautog

Japanese ground losses:
39 casualties reported

we sent a new "Wolfpack" of 6 subs to the front (operating as single subs in different hexes of course) and one day after the subs arrived one achieved a hit on a medium sized AP...

the important fact of this turn is that I got recon reports about the IJA bombers being back at Mandalay. I´m taking advantage of me seeing Hortlund´s aircraft transfers because I´m the second player and I have to say I never liked that feature. So what should I do? I can´t stop looking at the enemy airfields completely and if I see that aircraft are moved in should I just wait until I get clobbered? I don´t like this "feature"...[8|]

well, the IJA bombers are back so I´m expecting an attack on one of my airfields in India tomorrow. Probable target will be Imphal where I have 150 aircraft that were attacking the IJA TK rgt. I moved my bombers back to Dacca with 36 Tomahawks of AVG for escort. Those ac are now set on NAV attack / airfield attack Mandalay (6 hexes). This means my bombers will attack in the afternoon. So the plan is to do a sweep on Mandalay in the morning both from Imphal and Chandpur and see my bombers grounded in the morning. The IJA (if set to airfield attack) will attack in the morning and will be grounded in the afternoon. As Dacca was empty yesterday (that´s what Hortlund saw) I don´t expect him to bomb my bombers at Dacca in the morning. He surely orders escorts for his bombers so his Cap will below the 100 fighters like the last days. My sweeps in the morning will deal with the remaining Cap and my bombers with AVG escorts will torch the IJA escorts and bombers on the ground...

that´s the plan... [:D] will be interesting what will go wrong...

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/31/42

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TF 114 encounters mine field at Rangoon (29,34)

Japanese Ships
BB Hyuga, Mine hits 1, on fire [:D][:D]

After hitting a mine at Akyab, Hyuga retired to Rangoon to hit her second VH2 mine... think she will spend the next months in a repair yard... [:D]

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ASW attack at 6,99

Japanese Ships
SS I-124, hits 1 <---- IJN mine layer on it´s way to Perth...

Allied Ships
DD Foxhound
DD Stuart

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Sub attack at 52,47

Japanese Ships
AP Daifuku Maru
PG Kantori Maru
PG Hakkaisan Maru
PC Shonon Maru #3

Allied Ships
SS Drum

our Wolfpack keeps operating on the TF that was attacked yesterday... Drum misses with a salvo of 6 torps...

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ASW attack at 27,31

Japanese Ships
PC Ch 12
PC Ch 11
PC Ch 10
PC Ch 6
PG Kamitsu Maru

Allied Ships
SS KVII, hits 1

one near miss...
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Sub attack at 39,50

Japanese Ships
AK Tosan Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
PC Shimushu
DD Murakumo

Allied Ships
SS Haddock, hits 1

Tosan Maru hit by MK14 torp... one near miss for Haddock...

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Day Air attack on Mandalay , at 33,30


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 87
P-40E Warhawk x 65
A-20B Boston x 1
SB-2c x 1


No Allied losses

[X(][X(][X(] what´s Hortlund doing??? Not a single fighter on CAP... very careless, but this is working perfectly for me...

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Day Air attack on Mandalay , at 33,30


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 78
P-40E Warhawk x 23
A-20B Boston x 1


No Allied losses

also our second sweep is only a sightseeing trip for our pilots...

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Day Air attack on Imphal , at 33,26

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 76 [X(]
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 144 [X(][X(]
Ki-21 Sally x 76
Ki-49 Helen x 46
Ki-46-II Dinah x 8
Ki-15 Babs x 12

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21 Sally: 2 destroyed, 11 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 3 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
SB-2c: 1 destroyed
A-20B Boston: 1 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed
Hurricane IIb: 1 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
89 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
Vehicles lost 1

Airbase hits 18
Airbase supply hits 6
Runway hits 78

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 11000 feet

then, as expected, Hortlund bombs Imphal that is nearly empty as our fighters/fighter bombers have left the airfield to sweep Mandalay... Hortlund sets 220 fighters on escort/sweep and has not a single fighter left for Cap... I don´t feel for him if I bomb his unguarded airfield... what a mistake IMO...

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Day Air attack on Imphal , at 33,26

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 31
Ki-49 Helen x 46

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49 Helen: 1 destroyed, 10 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
SB-2c: 3 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
41 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 1

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 28

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 11000 feet

a second strike from Pagan...

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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 127


Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 1 destroyed, 10 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
226 casualties reported
Guns lost 8

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 7
Runway hits 32

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 16000 feet
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afternoon phase...


Day Air attack on Mandalay , at 33,30 [:D][:D][:D]

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
Wellington III x 66
P-40B Tomahawk x 4
B-26B Marauder x 46

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 13 destroyed
Ki-21 Sally: 15 destroyed
A6M2 Zero: 3 destroyed
Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 destroyed
A6M3 Zero: 5 destroyed
Ki-15 Babs: 1 destroyed
Ki-49 Helen: 8 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Wellington III: 5 destroyed, 21 damaged
B-26B Marauder: 8 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
587 casualties reported
Guns lost 20

Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 16
Runway hits 60

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Wellington III bombing at 11000 feet

all but 50 bombers attack Mandalay with a very small escort but nevertheless we torch a lot of aircraft on the ground... have to say that our plan worked better than expected, as we didn´t lose any fighters to the enemy cap...

Here are todays air losses! As Hortlund thinks that days where we exchange air losses at 1:1 is a success for him (can´t understand that at all at this date, but I´m happy that he´s happy - I´m happy too! [;)]) I can surely say that today was a CLEAR ALLIED VICTORY then... [:D] Hortlund has lost hundreds of aircraft more in this area so far than we did and so far, all in all he had better planes and far better pilots. So I´m perfectly happy with the situation...



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Day Air attack on Imphal , at 33,26

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 3
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 44
Ki-46-II Dinah x 3
Ki-15 Babs x 3

No Japanese losses

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Day Air attack on TF at 28,30


Allied aircraft
Wellington III x 11
P-40B Tomahawk x 7


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
PC Ch 10
PC Ch 12

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Wellington III bombing at 11000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF at 28,30


Allied aircraft
Wellington III x 25
P-40B Tomahawk x 24


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
PG Kamitsu Maru
PC Ch 10
PC Ch 6
PC Ch 11

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Wellington III bombing at 11000 feet

this TF is the reason why not all bombers were flying the airfield attack on Mandalay...

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ASW attack at 50,47

Japanese Ships
PC Ch 21
PC Ch 20
PC Ch 19
PG Tamo Maru #7

Allied Ships
SS Sealion, hits 4

4 near misses but Sealion has to retire home...

let´s look at the ASW war so far... as mentioned earlier Hortlund is using massive IJA medium bomber formations to take out my subs. I move them every turn but the IJA bombers have achieved dozens of hits so far with half a dozen subs sunk and 15+ sitting in port now with heavy damage. Every day, our subs are attacked by Helens and Sallies... those bombers are sweeping the seas from Allied subs. Makes it impossible in the long run to keep up the sub war like the Allied should do it and I have to say a WITP campaign without a sub war is just plain BS... [8|] But before I lose all my subs to land based IJA medium bombers I will just stop it...

here´s the average op report:
OPERATIONAL REPORT FOR 05/31/42

Ki-49 Helen sighting report: 1 Allied ship at 30,68 , Speed 2 , Moving Southwest
Ki-49 Helen attacking S-43 at 30,68
S-43 is reported HIT
Ki-49 Helen sighting report: 1 Allied ship at 30,68 , Speed 6 , Moving Southwest
Ki-51 Sonia reports suspected submarine at 40, 68
Ki-49 Helen reports suspected submarine at 30, 68
Ki-49 Helen sighting report: 1 Allied ship at 38,63 , Speed 2 , Moving Southeast
Ki-21 Sally reports diving submarine at 40, 67
Ki-21 Sally attacking S-46 at 38,63
S-46 is reported HIT
Ki-21 Sally sighting report: 1 Allied ship at 38,63 , Speed 6 , Moving Southeast
G4M1 Betty reports shadow in water at 30, 68
G4M1 Betty reports shadow in water at 38, 63
G4M1 Betty reports radio transmissions at 30, 68
G4M1 Betty attacking Shark at 38,63
E13A1 Jake reports shadow in water at 38, 63
E13A1 Jake reports radio transmissions at 38, 63
F1M2 Pete reports shadow in water at 40, 68
Hudson I sighting report: 1 Japanese ship at 28,77 , Speed 8 , Moving Southwest
Ki-49 Helen reports periscope at 38, 63
Ki-49 Helen reports radio transmissions at 30, 68
Ki-49 Helen reports shadow in water at 38, 63
Ki-49 Helen reports suspected submarine at 30, 68
Ki-49 Helen attacking S-46 at 38,63
S-46 is reported HIT
Ki-49 Helen reports radio transmissions at 38, 63
Ki-21 Sally reports suspected submarine at 38, 63
Ki-21 Sally reports periscope at 40, 68
Ki-21 Sally reports shadow in water at 38, 63
Ki-21 Sally reports shadow in water at 38, 63
G4M1 Betty reports shadow in water at 38, 63
G4M1 Betty reports suspected submarine at 30, 68
G4M1 Betty reports suspected submarine at 30, 68
E13A1 Jake sighting report: 1 Allied ship at 40,68 , Speed 11 , Moving Southwest
E13A1 Jake reports shadow in water at 40, 68
Catalina I reports submarine at 29,27
Catalina I sighting report: 1 Japanese ship at 28,30 , Speed 15 , Moving Northeast
Hudson I has spotted Gyoraitei #4 at 28,77
Hudson I has spotted Chokai at 33,78
Wakkanai expands airfield to size 5
Kweilin expands airfield to size 5
Haiphong expands airfield to size 5
Trimcomalee expands airfield to size 6
Rabaul expands port to size 7
Previous British Withdraw Penalty Paid = 300
For 6/42, the British Must Withdraw: 1 BB + 2 DD
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S-46 sunk and S-43 will sink the next couple of turns with 88 floatation damage now... great eh? [8|] As soon as the Japanese player uses hundreds of IJA bombers to clean the sea of Allied subs it´s impossible to send out the subs on patrol... perhaps something to consider for AE... [8|]

NOTE: CA Chokai was spotted at Lautern, 6 hexes from Darwin. Could be either a feint to destroy another surface TF of mine or a bombardment TF that takes position to attack Darwin tomorrow. I moved out all my ships and precious aircraft (like B-17 and P-40) and will wait what will happen tomorrow... I could really use BB Royal Sovereign now, the BB was tasked to cover Darwin...

GOD DAMN THOSE F***ING BUGS OF THIS GAME!!!!! For no reason, we´re out of synch again! [:@][:@][:@][:@]

This happened in my turn, but not in our game... [:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@]

Day Air attack on TF, near Lautem at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 5

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 54

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 4 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Chokai, Bomb hits 12, on fire, heavy damage
DD Usugumo, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/03/42

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Koepang at 28,77

Japanese Ships
AP Koshin Maru
AP Siraha Maru, Shell hits 10, on fire, heavy damage
AP Shoto Maru, heavy damage

Allied Ships
CL Sumatra, Shell hits 2

damaged APs were sitting in Koepang´s port and Sumatra hits the medium AP Siraha Maru with 10x5,9 inch shells... Note: no mine hits today!

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Koepang at 28,77

Japanese Ships
PT Gyoraitei #1
PT Gyoraitei #4

Allied Ships
CL Sumatra

normally the PTs engage first... [&:] range 8.000 yards, no hits, TFs break off...

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ASW attack near Lautem at 33,78

Japanese Ships
DD Usugumo
DD Hakaze
DD Kisaragi

Allied Ships
SS Plunger, hits 4, on fire

one real hit, Plunger needs 2 months of yard time...

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Day Air attack on 8th Tank Regiment, at 34,27


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 77
P-40E Warhawk x 18


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
91 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Vehicles lost 4

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet

72 P-40s are ordered on escort but only 18 are flying...[&:]
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Day Air attack on TF at 4,70

Japanese aircraft
E13A1 Jake x 13

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
AP Empire Chivalry

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x E13A1 Jake bombing at 2000 feet

there´s a CS sitting at the map edge on the shipping lanes between India and Australia... [8|]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/04/42

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TF 9 encounters mine field at Tarawa (85,91)

Japanese Ships
DD Kari

sub laid mines from a sub that moved from the West Coast to Australia...

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Day Air attack on 8th Tank Regiment, at 34,27


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 79
P-40E Warhawk x 20


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
142 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Vehicles lost 7

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet

I´m sure we will soon see a Japanese LRCAP ambush over the TK regiment...

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/05/42

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TF 71 encounters mine field at Akyab (30,29)

Japanese Ships
MSW W.18
MSW W.17
DD Hayabusa, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage [:D]

VH2 mine found a victim... don´t know why Hortlund has a DD in his mine sweeper TF... also BB Haruna is in this hex, probably functioning as cover for the mine sweeper TF...

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Day Air attack on Koepang , at 28,77

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 32
A6M3 Zero x 19
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 6

Allied aircraft
Hudson I x 13
B-25C Mitchell x 196

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed, 10 damaged
A6M3 Zero: 4 destroyed, 12 damaged
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 1 damaged
B5N Kate: 2 destroyed
Ki-46-II Dinah: 2 destroyed
G4M1 Betty: 3 destroyed
Ki-15 Babs: 1 destroyed
H8K Emily: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 8 destroyed, 65 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
982 casualties reported
Guns lost 15

Airbase hits 31
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 120

Aircraft Attacking:
33 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 16000 feet

our B-25s were hit hard but we also achieved a very good hit rate if we consider that there was strong fighter opposition and Koepang is a FLAK base... my B-25 units don´t look good at the moment... in the afternoon, not a single fighter was seen flying cap but my B-17 that were ordered to attack stayed home... [8|] could have been the end of the Japanese fighter force if my 4Es would have launched...

if our bomber pilot´s morale would have been lower, probably all bombers would have turned back. With high morale (that is history now of course) we were able to press this attack through at all costs...



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Day Air attack on TF, near Koepang at 28,77


Allied aircraft
Hudson I x 3


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
DD Sagiri

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Hudson I bombing at 6000 feet

95% of the Hudsons failed to locate the TF... all in all, not much worked in this turn...

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/06/42

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TF 71 encounters mine field at Akyab (30,29)

Japanese Ships
MSW W.18
MSW W.17
DD Hasu

more DDs in this MSW TF... we´ve already learnt that Hortlund doesn´t need his DDs! [;)]

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Day Air attack on Koepang , at 28,77

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 38
A6M3 Zero x 47
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 5

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 87

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 18 damaged
A6M3 Zero: 2 destroyed, 31 damaged
Ki-46-II Dinah: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 4 destroyed, 79 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
235 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 21

Aircraft Attacking:
20 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 16000 feet

ouch again... even more fighters were on Cap today and our B-17s are shredded, even though in the end we "only" lose 5 (16 replacement / month). Nearly 100% shot down or damaged... [:(]With the repair rates this means we won´t have full strenght in our B-17 BGs for at least two or three weeks. At least morale will have recovered by then. Again, Hortlund was kind of lucky, as again, in the afternoon there weren´t any fighters seen on CAP and AGAIN my bombers didn´t take off in the afternoon. This time my B-25s were grounded, the airstrike was cancelled due to a thunderstorm over Derby. Amazing how many thunderstorms there are in Northern Australia. As it stands now, we can´t keep up continued bomber attacks. It doesn´t matter if escorted or unescorted, because even if we would chase away the enemy fighters, the high flak concentration would damage 30-50% of the bombers every time, even when attacking at 16.000ft. Going even higher makes no sense I think. No hr on numbers of flak units at a base, this could be something people should think about when starting a Nikmod game. But on the other side, with the Japanese fighters unable to really harm (when speaking of kills) armored US medium and heavy bombers, the Japanese should be allowed to place as many flak units where ever he wants. A BB bombardment could take out a lot of support troops at Koepang, but that isn´t an option at the moment. Perhaps we should just concentrate on the East End of Timor... With 400 fighters in Burma and 200 on Timor there can´t be much left for all the other areas. My first invasion will take advantage of these concentrations. Even if those fighters can be transferred in in 4 or 5 turns, this could be too late to really harm an invasion, not to think about the fatigue those fighter pilots would have. And our fighters with their .50 cal six pack can take down Japanese bombers. Not like in stock but perhaps enough to really take a toll on the Japanese bomber squadrons...


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Day Air attack on TF, near Tenimbar at 36,81

Japanese aircraft
D3A Val x 5

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
AK Sipirok, Bomb hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet

Vals from Lautern attack a small AK at Tenimbar, the small size 0 island North of Darwin. I wanted to build it up to level 3 but this takes half a year. There are 3 sea bee units, but we increase the size 0 airfield only 3% every turn... [:(] impossible to really build it up it seems... I wanted to use the size 3 airfield as a torp bomber base if the Japanese try a bombardment of Darwin. Then my bombers would have a perfect staging base due to their range of only 4.

Like every turn, our subs are victim of Japanese air attacks. Not just Helens and Sallies attacked, there seems to be a carrier TF moving around the North of the Philipines as 3 subs were attacked by Vals and Kates... as I said before, the seas are being swept of Allied subs by a high concentration of Japanese aircraft on ASW duty... [:(]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/07/42

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Day Air attack on 8th Tank Regiment, at 34,27


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 80
P-40E Warhawk x 21


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
89 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Vehicles lost 7

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet

Hortlund expected a strike from me on Mandalay today, as he had no Cap there last turn. This was too obvious Steve! [:D] There were all of Mandalay´s fighters flying Cap and those from Akyab on LRCAP as we spotted 220+ fighters in the air over Mandalay! [X(] We bombed a TK rgt instead...

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Day Air attack on TF, near Koepang at 28,77

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 16
A6M3 Zero x 19
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 7
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 4

Allied aircraft
Hudson I x 11

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 damaged
A6M3 Zero: 5 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Hudson I: 3 destroyed, 5 damaged

Japanese Ships
DD Sagiri
DD Shirakumo

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Hudson I bombing at 6000 feet

Hortlund isn´t happy with the A2A at the moment and I can understand him as I´m thinking it´s working good at some point, then a bit later, I again think it´s not working that good at another point. From this strike I lost 6 Hudsons. 6 out of 11 isn´t a loss rate I can cheer about and for me it seems it´s pretty good working. Of course if you see 180 Mitchels going in against 70 Zeroes and you see "only" 15 lost (but 75 more damaged[X(]) then you might think it was working not so good. But in fact, one of those strikes of my bombers completely shredds my offensive capabilities as you have only 50% of your bombers operational the next days, so it seems it makes it impossible to do continuos attacks and therefore it´s very hard to close bases down like in stock. So in that case, it seems everything is working very good, compared to stock. You just have to get used to see different kill rates, compared to the completely off numbers of stock.

what makes it even worse for Steve is the fact that he is reading the kill numbers wrong all the time... can´t figure out why, perhaps someone should tell him that there´s an info screen where he can see the real kills of a turn. He stated in his email that it´s a joke that 40 fighters are only able to take out 3 bombers, but in fact 6 were shot down. 6 out of 11... it seems he isn´t aware that the combat report alone isn´t telling him the real numbers... 6 out of 11 shot down and the rest damaged looks like a perfectly realistic result for WW2. And it would be a disaster for the one who lost 6 out of 11 bombers. In fact it´s not nice for me either as I receive only 20 Hudsons a month.

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ASW attack at 51,47

Japanese Ships
PC Ch 21
PC Ch 20
PC Ch 19
PG Tamo Maru #7
PG Takunan Maru #8

Allied Ships
SS Greenling

all patrols fail to locate our sub... one S-class sub sunk today due to an air attack... [8|]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/08/42

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TF 71 encounters mine field at Rangoon (29,34)

Japanese Ships
MSW W.18
MSW W.17

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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 15
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 18

Allied aircraft
P-40B Tomahawk x 57
A-20B Boston x 5
B-17E Fortress x 47

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 3 destroyed, 2 damaged
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 2 destroyed, 7 damaged
Ki-30 Ann: 5 destroyed
D3A Val: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-40B Tomahawk: 4 destroyed, 20 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 13 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
208 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 18

Aircraft Attacking:
5 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 16000 feet

my Tomahawks are sitting ducks against the Japanese fighters but they were able to fight the bombers through. A dozen turned back due to low morale, without escorts we would have seen all turn back. From 112 B-17Es deployed (ON THE WHOLE MAP!!!) we have now 41 operational after two attacks. Both BG with morale below 40... hit rate of this attack wasn´t impressing either...

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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 13
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 17

Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 154

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 4 destroyed, 3 damaged
D3A Val: 1 destroyed
Ki-30 Ann: 2 destroyed
E7K2 Alf: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 17 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
282 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 61

Aircraft Attacking:
5 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 16000 feet

today we were able to force our Mitchels to fly again. Around 30 bombers turned back due to low morale. No further attacks are possible at the moment, if the enemy is still able to put cap into the air...

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Day Air attack on TF at 27,80


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 16


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
BB Yamato [X(]
CL Natori

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet

during the night phase a single AK unloading at Derby was retreating due to a Japanese surface raid. Now I see what was trying to attack my shipping at Derby. Something I don´t understand, why risk Yamato if you can do the same with a CL or CA escorted by one or two DDs? I only used a BB when I tried to engage enemy cruisers. To go after some cargoes or DDs, a CL works better...

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/09/42

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TF 1094 encounters mine field at Baker Island (94,92)

Allied Ships
DD Kane, Mine hits 1, on fire
DD Humphreys, Mine hits 1
DD Schley, Mine hits 1, on fire
DD Litchfield, Mine hits 1, on fire

I have never seen my surface TFs hitting so many mines in any of my games. My SC TFs hit more mines in 6 months in this game than in all my other games together, speaking of some 2000+ turns...

don´t know what phenomena we see here but at some point this is just getting ridicoulos. What is this? UV^3??


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Night Time Surface Combat, near Baker Island at 94,92

Japanese Ships
MSW W.19, Shell hits 4, on fire
AK Tenposan Maru, Shell hits 3

Allied Ships
DD Litchfield, on fire
DD Chew
DD Schley, on fire
DD Humphreys, Shell hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Kane, Shell hits 3, on fire, heavy damage

two of the Flush Deckers will surely sink, the other tow are severly damaged. One returns without damage, the Japanese don´t suffer at all as a single MSW outperforms 5 US DDs...

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Day Air attack on Myitkyina , at 36,28


Allied aircraft
SB-2c x 12


No Allied losses

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x SB-2c bombing at 10000 feet

no flak? Our Hurricanes will show up tomorrow...

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Day Air attack on TF at 27,83

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 2

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
AK Empire Wildebeeste

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet

two Betties launch from Koepang but miss our AK... Hortlund started to fly recon with a DinahII over Derby and with Japanese BBs in the area I´m sure we will soon see all our bases in Northern Australia being nuked with BBs. We don´t have BBs to cover every base up there and our torp bombers only have a range of 4 so this will get nasty if Hortlund really decides to nuke our bases... Fort level 9 everywhere but forts have NEVER helped against BB bombardments. All you have to do is RECON, RECON, RECON... and then...

ORIGINAL: castor troy


the important fact of this turn is that I got recon reports about the IJA bombers being back at Mandalay. I´m taking advantage of me seeing Hortlund´s aircraft transfers because I´m the second player and I have to say I never liked that feature. So what should I do? I can´t stop looking at the enemy airfields completely and if I see that aircraft are moved in should I just wait until I get clobbered? I don´t like this "feature"...[8|]

Hi Castor

I really (really) hate this as well, although I'm playing the Japanese in my game. It completely screws the airwar by handing the allied side the whip hand. My opponent has been pretty good about introducing house rules and the best way we have found of handling this one is to limit allied bombers by not allowing them to be flown on the turn they transfer. It avoids the Allies jumping them into a base invisibly, launching a strike and jumping away before any kind of counter-strike can be launched. It's not perfect: there is still the problem that the allies can jump lots of fighters into a base that appears empty to the japanese player and savage un- or under-escorted bombers.....but there's not much you can do about that one.

Great AR BTW - always my first stop for catching up.

ORIGINAL: Yakface

ORIGINAL: castor troy


the important fact of this turn is that I got recon reports about the IJA bombers being back at Mandalay. I´m taking advantage of me seeing Hortlund´s aircraft transfers because I´m the second player and I have to say I never liked that feature. So what should I do? I can´t stop looking at the enemy airfields completely and if I see that aircraft are moved in should I just wait until I get clobbered? I don´t like this "feature"...[8|]

Hi Castor

I really (really) hate this as well, although I'm playing the Japanese in my game. It completely screws the airwar by handing the allied side the whip hand. My opponent has been pretty good about introducing house rules and the best way we have found of handling this one is to limit allied bombers by not allowing them to be flown on the turn they transfer. It avoids the Allies jumping them into a base invisibly, launching a strike and jumping away before any kind of counter-strike can be launched. It's not perfect: there is still the problem that the allies can jump lots of fighters into a base that appears empty to the japanese player and savage un- or under-escorted bombers.....but there's not much you can do about that one.

Great AR BTW - always my first stop for catching up.

thanks

this "feature" was and is always a problem. Even if I don´t attack with my bombers the turn I move them in, it still favours me because a) I could empty an airfield that my opponent sees as fully stacked and will be the probable target for his attack or b) attack the airfield when my bombers aren´t transferred in and they were already sitting at their base.

But I think that AE takes care of this problem...

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/10/42

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Sub attack at 25,63

Japanese Ships
ML Ninoshima, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
ML Ma 1
ML Takashima

Allied Ships
SS O23


super short combat report for today but with a very nice engagament... Ninoshima sank immediately...[:D]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/11/42

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TF 1016 encounters mine field at Broome (21,85)

Allied Ships
AK Modjekerto, Mine hits 1

sub laid Type 88 mine... I even spotted a sub here, but I didn´t think of sending a MSW... 35 sys and 40 float for the AK...

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Sub attack at 27,65

Japanese Ships
ML Enoshima, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage [:D]
ML Ma 1
ML Takashima

Allied Ships
SS O23

after sinking a ML last turn, O23 finishes another one this turn! [&o]

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Sub attack at 27,65

Japanese Ships
ML Toshima, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage [:D][:D][:D]
ML Ma 1
ML Takashima

Allied Ships
SS O23

and it seems unbelievable but another ML is finished by O23... [&o]

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Day Air attack on Rangoon , at 29,34 [:D]


Allied aircraft
Wellington III x 113


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
BB Hyuga, Bomb hits 2
BB Yamashiro, Bomb hits 6, on fire
CL Jintsu, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
CA Maya, Bomb hits 1

Japanese ground losses:
51 casualties reported

Port supply hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Wellington III bombing at 11000 feet

I´ve been reconning Rangoon for quite some time and last turn Chandpur was built up to level 4 airfield so I brought in my Wellingtons with a range of 9, which is the range from Chandpur to Rangoon. We spotted 2 dozen ships there and no CAP with only 4 ground units. There were no fighters in the air and no flak fire at all!!! [X(] We lost one Wellington to ops and achieve one penetrating hit on CL Jintsu and perhaps some sys damage on the BBs... This attack should force Hortlund to spread out his fighters as well as his AA units, not concentrating everything at Mandalay and Akyab (which is completely empty now...[&:])

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Day Air attack on Myitkyina , at 36,28


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 90
P-40E Warhawk x 24


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
36 casualties reported

Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 23

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet

same here, no flak fire or fighters at Myitkina... heavy LRCAP over the TK rgt that we attacked a couple of times today...

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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 9

Allied aircraft
P-40B Tomahawk x 40
A-20B Boston x 4
B-17E Fortress x 35

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
Ki-30 Ann: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-40B Tomahawk: 7 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 6 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
212 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 16

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 16000 feet

those Tomahawks are really performing bad. 7 were damaged for not a single hit on the Oscars. We outnumbered them AND had the bounce. Our B-25s stayed home once again... seems impossible to see an attack from Darwin and Wyndham the same day...

quiet day...

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/12/42

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TF 108 encounters mine field at Tarawa (85,91)

Japanese Ships
PG Keijo Maru

Keijo Maru destroys 2 mines...

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TF 1006 encounters mine field at Perth (7,100)

Allied Ships
MSW Grebe

we begin to sweep the sub laid mines at Perth...

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ASW attack at 28,65

Japanese Ships
ML Ma 1
ML Takashima

Allied Ships
SS O23

[:D] would have been cool if O23 would have killed her fourth ML in three days... today the MLs attack first...

Recon shows now nearly 200 aircraft at Lautern, but only 7 Oscars were on Cap... BB Yamato is also at Lautern now... Japanese recon over the small island North of Darwin...

I move them every turn but the IJA bombers have achieved dozens of hits so far with half a dozen subs sunk

FWIW, you're not losing them any faster than the real allies did as far as I can tell.

ORIGINAL: mdiehl

I move them every turn but the IJA bombers have achieved dozens of hits so far with half a dozen subs sunk

FWIW, you're not losing them any faster than the real allies did as far as I can tell.

at the moment it´s like 10-12 subs hit by air ASW in a month of which 4-6 sink. A Brit sub was hit today, 32 sys, 71 float... 27 hexes to Darwin... chances are 1:4 that the sub will survive...

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/13/42

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Day Air attack on Darwin , at 36,84 [X(]

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 38

Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 14
Hurricane IIb x 13
Kittyhawk I x 17

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 7 destroyed, 7 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-3 Wildcat: 3 destroyed, 6 damaged
Hurricane IIb: 3 destroyed, 7 damaged
Kittyhawk I: 2 destroyed, 6 damaged

now I know why there are so many fighters on Timor. This is the first sweep on Darwin, coming from Lautern. I was shocked! We had nearly 100 fighters on 80% Cap and see only a laughable number of 44 in the air! [&:] I think we have a dozen radar stations at Darwin. Nevertheless we achieved a great result as in the end 11 Zeroes are lost today. So that was kind of surprising, as my RAAF and USMC fighter pilots are all in the mid to high 50s only... I also set my 50 Tomahawks on Cap now. I thought my base would be safe with a high number of Cap. A massed strike of IJA bombers could have really done serious damage... Even though we flew some massive strikes so far, it seems we really have to get serious now to force the Japanese to more or less retreat from Timor OR to invade Australia (which isn´t a real possibility for the Japanese IMO).

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Day Air attack on Darwin , at 36,84

Japanese aircraft
Ki-46-II Dinah x 1

Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 11
Hurricane IIb x 10
Kittyhawk I x 15

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 damaged


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Day Air attack on Darwin , at 36,84

Japanese aircraft
Ki-46-II Dinah x 1

Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 23
Hurricane IIb x 14
Kittyhawk I x 27

No Japanese losses

No Allied losses

afternoon phase so more fighters in the air...

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ASW attack at 54,47

Japanese Ships
APD APD-34
DD Ayanami

Allied Ships
SS Spearfish

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/14/42

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TF 1006 encounters mine field at Perth (7,100)

Allied Ships
MSW Grebe

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TF 98 encounters mine field at Lunga (67,97)

Japanese Ships
DD Arare

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ASW attack at 28,66

Japanese Ships
APD APD-39
APD APD-36
APD APD-35
DD Oboro
DD Hatsuharu

Allied Ships
SS KXVI

oops, one of the dangerous APD TFs...

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Sub attack at 28,66

Japanese Ships
APD APD-35
APD APD-39
APD APD-36
DD Oboro
DD Hatsuharu

Allied Ships
SS KXVI

damn, we miss with 4 torps...

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TF 16 encounters mine field at Tarawa (85,91)

Japanese Ships
PG Shoei Maru
DD Yukaze
TK Shinkoku Maru, Mine hits 1, on fire

fuel loaden TK seems to be burning... MK10 mine found a victim...

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TF 1031 encounters mine field at Broome (21,85)

Allied Ships
MSW Latrobe

Allied and Japanese subs are laying mines at key ports... mostly only annoying actions but you can also knock out a BB like we did with Yamashiro that hit 2 sub laid VH2 mines... [:D]

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Sub attack near Darwin at 36,84

Japanese Ships
SS I-27, hits 1

Allied Ships
MSW Pieter de Bitter, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
MSW Jan van Amstel

wonder what that damn sub is doing at Darwin. Spotted it last turn and thought that it would lay mines. Created an ASW TF out of DDs (which did nothing of course) and a mine sweeping TF which acted as a target for the sub...

what is interesting here is the fact that we spotted a BB TF (Kirishima spotted) 6 hexes North East of Darwin heading East. No IJN BB can move 6 hexes normally (seen the Kongos do it sometimes even if their max speed is 29 and therefor they "should" only move 5 hexes) so I wonder if this TF tries to do a bombardment of Darwin or if it is heading East and retiring to Truk or somewhere else. At Darwin we have BB Colorado (night rating below 50)and BB Resolution (with a night rating of 80) with 3 DDs as escorts - 4 ships with radar, this should prevent us from being surprised. If I would play the Japanese I would NEVER engage BBs with my BBs, it´s mostly a gamble. At night every BB will be able to penetrate the enemy´s armor due to the range mostly below 10.000 yards. One or two 15 or 16 inch shells that hit one of the Japanese BBs could slow one down to 4 hexes or even slower and then my 70 torp bombers from Darwin will have a big, fat and slow target right in front of them. Of course there´s still the danger of seeing a nuke on my base or Darwin being clouded the whole day. At the moment I would guess that it´s just too dangerous for Hortlund and he´s only moving his BBs away, but who knows. What makes me a bit sceptic is the fact that he´s so near to Darwin...

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Day Air attack on Koepang , at 28,77

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
Hudson I x 8
B-25C Mitchell x 182

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3 Zero: 1 destroyed
H6K4 Mavis: 1 destroyed
A6M2 Zero: 3 destroyed
G4M1 Betty: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 2 destroyed, 20 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
1046 casualties reported
Guns lost 12

Airbase hits 14
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 49

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 16000 feet

5 Mitchels are lost, 11 aircraft destroyed on the ground. No cap [&:] but nearly 70 fighters on Cap over Lautern today...

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Day Air attack on 8th Tank Regiment, at 34,27


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 80
P-40E Warhawk x 21


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
56 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
Vehicles lost 2

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet

no Cap here, tomorrow we will do a big style attack in Burma with nearly all we´ve got...