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ORIGINAL: crsutton

Waste of imitative and resources to attack xAP ans XAKs at Kirakira. Sinking ten merchants does not come close to compensating for revealing where KB is. Very poorly thought out on his behalf. Perhaps he just could not think of anything else to do.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Camp Pendleton at 226,77

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 13
F4F-4 Wildcat x 18
SBD-3 Dauntless x 16

Allied aircraft losses
SBD-3 Dauntless: 1 destroyed by flak

Japanese Ships
AMC Kiyosumi Maru, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
AK Yamagiri Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
xAP Kanzyu Maru
E W-5

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 3000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
8 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 4000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb

Heavy smoke from fires obscuring AK Yamagiri Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring AMC Kiyosumi Maru


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Morning Air attack on TF, near Camp Pendleton at 226,77

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 33 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
Kittyhawk I x 15
Kittyhawk III x 15
P-39D Airacobra x 6
P-40E Warhawk x 13
TBF-1 Avenger x 44

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
TBF-1 Avenger: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
AK Azumasan Maru
AK Yamaura Maru, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
xAK Anzan Maru, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
AMC Kiyosumi Maru, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
PB Kashiwa Maru
AK Yamazumi Maru, Torpedo hits 1
AK Kinka Maru, Torpedo hits 1
xAP Kanzyu Maru
xAK Kusuyama Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
18 x TBF-1 Avenger launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 22.4in Mk 13 Torp.
26 x TBF-1 Avenger launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 22.4in Mk 13 Torp.



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Morning Air attack on TF, near Camp Pendleton at 226,77

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 34 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Allied aircraft
SBD-3 Dauntless x 45

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
xAP Kanzyu Maru, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Kusuyama Maru, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
PB Tenzan Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
AK Yamagiri Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
AK Yamazumi Maru, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
PB Kibi Maru, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Kagero, Bomb hits 1
AK Azumasan Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Yamanagiri
AK Kinka Maru, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 3000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
14 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 3000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
2 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 4000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
11 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
4 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 4000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb

Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Kusuyama Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring AK Yamagiri Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAP Kanzyu Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring AK Yamazumi Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring PB Kibi Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring AK Kinka Maru


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Morning Air attack on TF, near Camp Pendleton at 226,77

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 39 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Allied aircraft
SBD-3 Dauntless x 18

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
AK Azumasan Maru, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires
AK Kinka Maru, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
AK Yamazumi Maru, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
xAK Kusuyama Maru, Bomb hits 4, and is sunk

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 3000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
12 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 4000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
2 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb

Heavy smoke from fires obscuring AK Kinka Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring AK Yamazumi Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Kusuyama Maru


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Morning Air attack on TF, near Camp Pendleton at 226,77

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 38 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 16 minutes

Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 24
SB2U-3 Vindicator x 18

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
AK Yamagiri Maru, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk
xAP Kanzyu Maru, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
AK Azumasan Maru, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
PB Tyuwa Maru, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x SB2U-3 Vindicator releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
12 x SB2U-3 Vindicator releasing from 4000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb

Massive explosion on AK Yamagiri Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring AK Yamagiri Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAP Kanzyu Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring AK Azumasan Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring PB Tyuwa Maru

ORIGINAL: poodlebrain

What are the port levels of the bases the Japanese control on the West Coast? It will take forever to load heavy equipment. My guess is the Japanese load what they can in one day and run for safety. Otherwise the risk of loss just escalates.

The bigger issue is what are the Japanese plans for the troops at L.A.? Is the extraction of troops from S.D. just a diversion to soak off your strength before the real evacuation is attempted? The lack of support for the S.D. operation is what makes my spidey sense tingle. Can you get some subs in the area? Should be a target rich environment, and any ASW efforts should reveal presence of KB.

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

PS. If someone with programming skills wants to help me out with a small program to format the text let me know! [:)]

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

Yeesh.

Have you tried Notepad++? In "programming school", all the early exercises on reading, writing, and formatting text are extreeeeeeeemely tedious. I'll pass [:'(].

Ground combat at Milne Bay (101,133)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3135 troops, 100 guns, 23 vehicles, Assault Value = 215

Defending force 420 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16

Allied adjusted assault: 170

Japanese adjusted defense: 3

Allied assault odds: 56 to 1 (fort level 0)

Allied forces CAPTURE Milne Bay !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), fatigue(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
198 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units retreated 1

Allied ground losses:
16 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
1st Australian Division

Defending units:
2nd Indpt SNLF Coy

ORIGINAL: Gräfin Zeppelin

Thats some fine ships he throws away. Japan has plenty of xAKs but only limited AKs. I find those very valuable, especially the fast ones.

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Looks like he is using the FT "Pick up troops" option - I think all those ships are capable of FT missions.

I have a Pendleton up near Seattle but well inland on the stock map and nothing called Camp Pendleton near SD. What scenario map are you using?

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

Yeesh.

Have you tried Notepad++? In "programming school", all the early exercises on reading, writing, and formatting text are extreeeeeeeemely tedious. I'll pass [:'(].

To clarify a bit what I would like: I want to just paste the text into a box or whatever and the program then adds the formatting for colors, size, quotes, bold text and whatnot. The program would have to recognize where to put the formatting and stuff and its way beyond what I can do. The actual format are just text within brackets.

This is how my usual formatting of ground combat looks like:

Ground combat at Milne Bay (101,133)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3135 troops, 100 guns, 23 vehicles, Assault Value = 215

Defending force 420 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16

Allied adjusted assault: 170

Japanese adjusted defense: 3

Allied assault odds: 56 to 1 (fort level 0)

Allied forces CAPTURE Milne Bay !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), fatigue(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
198 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units retreated 1

Allied ground losses:
16 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
1st Australian Division

Defending units:
2nd Indpt SNLF Coy

Its a PITA to do it manually when there are loads of attacks. Air attacks are usually more numerous and takes even longer if there are several I want to show. That quote above takes about 2 minutes to do. Now imagine if there are 5 attacks...and 10 air combats I want to show. It can take up to about 30 mins to manually edit in all the formatting sometimes. Then add a few screens and some screen editing and just doing the screens and formatting can take up to an hour.