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Aug 31 - Sept 1 1943

While another TF of mine pays a visit to Auki during night time (we're not causing too much damage, but enough to keep Rader uneasy with the idea of basing in his front line bases too many air units), ...

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Night Naval bombardment of Auki at 115,136

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIc Tojo: 60 damaged
Ki-44-IIc Tojo: 2 destroyed on ground

Allied Ships
CA Louisville
CA Portland
CL Trenton
CL Detroit
CL Leander
DD Woodworth
DD Duncan
DD Aaron Ward
DD Monssen
DD Grayson

Japanese ground losses:
501 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 48 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 33 disabled



Airbase hits 31
Airbase supply hits 7
Runway hits 96
Port hits 33
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 3

East of Sydeny the Boise found another AMC which, the night of the 28th, had savaged 2 xAKLs moving to Aukland....

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Day Time Surface Combat, near Lord Howe Island at 98,179, Range 19,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
AMC Akagi Maru, Shell hits 9, heavy fires, heavy damage

Allied Ships
CL Boise, Shell hits 1
DD Gilmer, Shell hits 1, heavy fires
DD King


The Boise was moving back to Shipyard to Sydeny in order to get repaired after the collision suffered last week at tulagi....

The battle was less one sided that i expected....the Akagi Maru fired several salvos of 150mm[X(]...one mauled the DD Gilber and another one cause 27 (TWENTYSEVEN) sys damage to the Boise...then finally the 6inch Boise's cannons finished the bastard who sunk the next day...
Even the Gilber should get back safely to Sydney

While our Eastern Army moved out of Hyderabad, we sent 50 Liberators to bomb Multan at 24k....darn! Flak is intense over there[:-]...will be a tough march...i know...

Sep 4, 5 1943

A good turn on the seas.
While we are both clearly massing our forces for the fighting autumn to come, and while in India our Eastern Army is already 2 hexes far from Hyderabad (no sign of attack by his air force yet), in SOPAC our PTs raided Thousands Ships bay at night and found a 10 PBs TF...clearly moving supplies to the targeted base...we sunk a PB losing a PT...a nice exchange!

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Thousand Ships Bay at 114,136, Range 6,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
PB Hakkaisan Maru
PB Hokutai Maru, Shell hits 1
PB Hirota Maru
PB Ikuta Maru
PB Kasyu Maru
PB Kensin Maru
PB Kogane Maru, Shell hits 5
PB Kenan Maru
PB Konsan Maru
PB Sinko Maru
PB Senyo Maru
PB Sensan Maru
PB Kinsyo Maru #4, Shell hits 11, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk

Allied Ships
PT-346
PT-347
PT-350
PT-355, Shell hits 5, on fire, heavy damage


Then it was time of our subs to finally make a couple of good attacks!
We sunk an AV north of Bouganville and a PB nearby, while near Tavoy 2 big jap xAPs were torpedoed...not bad

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Sub attack near Lihir at 113,118

Japanese Ships
AV Goyo Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
PB Kaiun Maru

Allied Ships
SS Sealion

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Submarine attack near Victoria Point at 49,65

Japanese Ships
xAP Hakusan Maru, Torpedo hits 1

Allied Ships
SS Amberjack




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Submarine attack near Victoria Point at 49,66

Japanese Ships
xAP Kamakura Maru, Torpedo hits 1

Allied Ships
SS Haddock

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Sub attack near Lihir at 113,118

Japanese Ships
PB Kaiun Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Sealion

Your subs are going nuts all of a sudden!

Well, i'd trade those hits with the missed ones on CVs and BBs every day....but i get what i get and live on

We lost contact with the KB however...and that's not a good thing....

September, 1943, your torpedoes are completely well. they now have a dud rate of 10%. Most every hit will now result in an explosion.

ORIGINAL: Dan Nichols

September, 1943, your torpedoes are completely well. they now have a dud rate of 10%. Most every hit will now result in an explosion.

Seriously? That's an incredible news!!!! I was so sick of seeing dud torpedo hits!!!!

Now what we do need is to repeat that serie of lucky hits on his capital ships...[;)]

1 more day to go...and i'll be here....can't wait[8D]

Ah, Dreadfort in the Summer. Let's see, Reek, I think your room is under the middle hut, tied to the fifth pier. Okay place, until the tide comes in and the crabs start to bite. We'll have to remember to pull you up before then.

Have a nice journey and stay.

princep Bolton

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

ORIGINAL: Dan Nichols

September, 1943, your torpedoes are completely well. they now have a dud rate of 10%. Most every hit will now result in an explosion.

Seriously? That's an incredible news!!!! I was so sick of seeing dud torpedo hits!!!!

Now what we do need is to repeat that serie of lucky hits on his capital ships...[;)]

But by 1/44 he will start getting a lot of the super E class ships, that will lay waste to your Allied subs. It is not pretty by any means.

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

1 more day to go...and i'll be here....can't wait[8D]

How do you spell Tsunami?

I though the impact of the super E's had been moderated in the beta by reducing the size of the launch salvos or some such

ORIGINAL: JeffK

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

1 more day to go...and i'll be here....can't wait[8D]

How do you spell Tsunami?

Sep 6, 7 1943

Another good day for my subs...2 more AVs sunk...by now Rader has really lost a number of AVs and AMCs...


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Submarine attack near Nauru Island at 127,128

Japanese Ships
AV Fushimi Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire

Allied Ships
SS Nautilus



AV Fushimi Maru is sighted by SS Nautilus
SS Nautilus launches 4 torpedoes


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Sub attack near Ontong Java at 119,127

Japanese Ships
AV Tokyo Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Hoe



SS Hoe launches 4 torpedoes at AV Tokyo Maru
Hoe diving deep ....
Sub escapes detection


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Sub attack near Nauru Island at 127,128

Japanese Ships
AV Fushimi Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Nautilus



AV Fushimi Maru is sighted by SS Nautilus
SS Nautilus launches 4 torpedoes


for the rest...quiet before the storm everywhere....

Our fast BBs are moving back to Lunga...let's see if i can drag him into a fight...

ORIGINAL: princep01

Ah, Dreadfort in the Summer. Let's see, Reek, I think your room is under the middle hut, tied to the fifth pier. Okay place, until the tide comes in and the crabs start to bite. We'll have to remember to pull you up before then.

Have a nice journey and stay.

princep Bolton

Yes, the place is located somewhere in the summer isles...where it came the prince Tsao whatever...d'u remember that beggar prince that was always begging Robert for some troops and coins during the first books?[:D]

So...september 43 is advancing and we're almost ready for our next push. 20 more days and we'll begin. Our Eastern Army in India is advancing towards its starting positions. I really don't know if my troops will be enough....Rader has more than 500k fighting troops in India and, even if my units are all well equipped and upgraded (with lots of new armoured units equipped with Grants and Lees) it will be really a challenge...but, even if i don't manage to breakthrough, i'll tie down a considerable portion of japanese LCUs....which is already a good thing...stealing from Rader some of his precious mobility!
 
In the Solomons he's clearly waiting for me...and we're both warming our engines...
 
In Western Oz, Exmouth is already a decent base with port 3 and AF 5. Moving in the first base forces and some CD guns right now. 6 Eng regiments will now move towards Broome and Port Heeland...getting closer to Darwin

ORIGINAL: Itdepends

I though the impact of the super E's had been moderated in the beta by reducing the size of the launch salvos or some such

Not in the betas. I don't think they have been touched and they are still pretty obscene.

I think some of the mods have tweaked them though.

Subs are looking good.

So what will you be doing on this place? Do they have an internet connection? [:)]

I was just in Fiji over the summer. I could walk around the island in 5 minutes. Amazing.

Have fun!

I just returned from three nights camping in the frigid mountains and find that GreyJoy is in some South Seas thatched hut (probably wearing a thong to show off his "naturally hairy" anatomy). I thought he just returned from a three-week vacation about three weeks ago? What is this?

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I just returned from three nights camping in the frigid mountains and find that GreyJoy is in some South Seas thatched hut (probably wearing a thong to show off his "naturally hairy" anatomy). I thought he just returned from a three-week vacation about three weeks ago? What is this?

sometimes you need a vacation to relax after a vacation.... no?

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I just returned from three nights camping in the frigid mountains and find that GreyJoy is in some South Seas thatched hut (probably wearing a thong to show off his "naturally hairy" anatomy). I thought he just returned from a three-week vacation about three weeks ago? What is this?

Unfortunately my GF, who stayed home for the whole summer studying like a dog for his final "wanna-become-a-lawyer" exams - bicthing and "voodoing" me relaxing and partying on the beach - passed and got promoted and so i have to manitain my promise and have to take her to Zanzibar (Tanzania-Africa)...don't say i'm not happy about that (that pic shows the restaurant of our hotel) but first this damned week will cost me a treasure, and second it's a kind of mess to leave the office for a whole week in october....
last but not least i hate the idea of slowing down my PBEM[:@]

So...i'll drink cool cocktails on the beach, get sunbathing, eat fresh and juicy fruits, relax and get the usual african-diarrhea [8|]

ORIGINAL: obvert

Subs are looking good.

So what will you be doing on this place? Do they have an internet connection? [:)]

I was just in Fiji over the summer. I could walk around the island in 5 minutes. Amazing.

Have fun!

They promised me they have a wi-fii connection at the pool-area....hopefully i'll be able to run a couple of turns...[&o]

My subs are denetely looking good...and i hope Crsutton is not right on the super-Es...i'll hate the idea of retire them back again...[:o]