Wild Sheep Chase - obvert (J) vs JocMeister (A)

[obvert]

ORIGINAL: Grollub

... and I remember getting a mail from my car insurance company informing me about a 50% fee increase due to "greatly improved information services".

I phoned them and asked what the "greatly improved information service" was and got the reply (from a slightly embarrased helpdesk person) "we'll send you an info folder with every monthly bill telling you about our other insurances" ...

I moved my insurance to another company.

Well done. You're probably one of very few who asked the question.

So glad the only insurance i have to deal with is through my job and they negotiate for us all.

[obvert]

Well, the next turn began with some good runs in at Moppo. Some Es and SC cleared the way, some PB, ML and MTB tried to get into the minefields at Moppo with only partial success, and the Es managed to take out a few more subs on the way.

Always nice to take out an early war veteran Dutch sub. Payback! [:D]

[obvert]

At Shimoneseki the AM and million ML local minesweeping TF sacrifices 3 boats to the God of Mines and clears 242 mines in the night phase! [8D]

This drop was over a week ago, and there are still active mines in the port (although it's useable now daily). How many mines are here?!?[X(]

[obvert]

The old boys went in first, absolutely crippling the base and then ...

[obvert]

... the Yamatos added onto that!

Interesting to note there are no combat troops among the casualties!!!? Very interesting.

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Night Naval bombardment of Moppo at 100,54

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
PBY-5 Catalina: 20 damaged
PBY-5 Catalina: 1 destroyed on ground
Seafire IIC: 3 damaged
Seafire IIC: 1 destroyed on ground
PBM-3D Mariner: 21 damaged
PBM-3D Mariner: 1 destroyed on ground
SB2C-4 Helldiver: 22 damaged
SB2C-4 Helldiver: 1 destroyed on ground
Avenger II: 1 destroyed on ground

[font="Trebuchet MS"]Japanese Ships
BB Hyuga
BB Ise
BB Fuso

Allied ground losses:
[color=#990000] 1246 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 29 destroyed, 82 disabled
Engineers: 61 destroyed, 147 disabled
Guns lost 7 (2 destroyed, 5 disabled)
Vehicles lost 9 (6 destroyed, 3 disabled)[/color]

Airbase hits 12
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 46
Port hits 1

BB Hyuga firing at Moppo
E13A1b Jake acting as spotter for BB Ise
BB Ise firing at Moppo
BB Fuso firing at Moppo

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Night Naval bombardment of Moppo at 100,54

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
PBM-3D Mariner: 11 damaged
PBM-3D Mariner: 1 destroyed on ground
Corsair II: 4 damaged
Corsair II: 1 destroyed on ground
SB2C-4 Helldiver: 1 destroyed on ground
Seafire IIC: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
BB Musashi
BB Yamato

Allied ground losses:
481 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 11 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 32 destroyed, 19 disabled
Guns lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled)

Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 14
Port hits 1

BB Musashi firing at Moppo
BB Yamato firing at Moppo Where is the spotter? Two groups set to spot.
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[obvert]

The Es have been able to operate at Moppo itself, which is interesting, hitting subs and usually missing mines. In this case they actually swept a few as well! [:)]
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Sub attack near Moppo at 100,54

Japanese Ships
SC Ch 51
SC Ch 5
E Oga

Allied Ships
SS Hammerhead, hits 11, heavy damage

SS Hammerhead launches 2 torpedoes at SC Ch 51
Hammerhead bottoming out ....
E Oga attacking submerged sub ....
Sounds of submarine breaking up detected!
Escort abandons search for sub

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TF 151 encounters mine field at Moppo (100,54)

Japanese Ships
E Oga

1 mine cleared[/font]
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[koniu]

Engineers: 61 destroyed, 147 disabled
Engineers: 32 destroyed, 19 disabled

Not best days to be engineer
With every disabled, destroyed engineer squad his ability to repair AF is smaller. Add to that huge disruption and his ability to do that is minimal.

[obvert]

Losses over the Allied fleet are taking a toll on recon, patrol and FP groups. I keep shifting groups every day to let them recover, but it's about 8-10 planes a day lost. On the other hand, the Allies have not been to port since the last big CV battle, and must have very spartan and tired groups on those CVs. The longer they stay out there the better. Some strike planes are lost in search and others going for small targets.

Today two IJN DDs hit mines at Moppo in spite of the best efforts of the suicide ML crews, and one is sunk by Allied strikes right in the center of our LR CAP. Not sure why nothing flew from nagasaki, but it probably saved 50 fighters from the sweeps coming through just offshore, so it balanced out.

[obvert]

ORIGINAL: koniu

Engineers: 61 destroyed, 147 disabled
Engineers: 32 destroyed, 19 disabled

Not best days to be engineer

No! not sure of course how many he brought, but they can't be in good shape right now.

[obvert]

Bombs away in China, still. [:)]

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There were no PTs in Moppo today. This also was attacked by some willful if misguided Ann kamis that missed everything in spite of these being dead in the water.

So this means one of two, or maybe three things. One, the Allies are low on supplies at Moppo. Two the Allies have no more fuel at Moppo. Three, and this is the least likely of course, they are actually running low on PT boats. about 70 have been sunk in the last month, but this can't be the case, right? They are endless!

Some little SCs that have been hiding in Shanghai will try to dart out at 10 knots tomorrow and duke it out with the suntanned PT crews.

[koniu]

ORIGINAL: obvert

ORIGINAL: koniu

Engineers: 61 destroyed, 147 disabled
Engineers: 32 destroyed, 19 disabled

Not best days to be engineer

No! not sure of course how many he brought, but they can't be in good shape right now.

With high disruption even if he have 1000 engineers they will repair nothing
And it look that Yours BB have great skill with aiming in engineers more than any other squad type

[obvert]

Now the big news. Either the operator forgot to turn off some 4E strikes to Hamamatsu, or Jocke is indeed hellbent for leather on taking out the best airframe factories and industry, losses be damned.

Today several packages totaling 113 B-24J hit Hamamatsu and the Ki-83 factory. In spite of pretty good CAP, the bombers get through, this time due to some escorts added. That is rare, but probably a good idea.

[Lokasenna]

Little or no combat troops at Moppo (I did see some in the Yamatos combat report)? Do you think it would be beneficial to take advantage of that? If so, are you able to do so?

[obvert]

ORIGINAL: koniu

ORIGINAL: obvert

ORIGINAL: koniu

Engineers: 61 destroyed, 147 disabled
Engineers: 32 destroyed, 19 disabled

Not best days to be engineer

No! not sure of course how many he brought, but they can't be in good shape right now.

With high disruption even if he have 1000 engineers they will repair nothing
And it look that Yours BB have great skill with aiming in engineers more than any other squad type

Or that's all that is there other than basic support and AS. We'll see.

[obvert]

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

Little or no combat troops at Moppo (I did see some in the Yamatos combat report)? Do you think it would be beneficial to take advantage of that? If so, are you able to do so?

I have a few paratroops left, but not many in the right spot right now. i might move all I can back in the next few days and see if I can at least do a recon mission with them. A landing might be too much with the mines, some CD guns if they are still working, and little prep. I'll start prepping a few crappy brigades though just in case. Might as well be prepared in case it seems like a good plan all of a sudden.

On land I have 9-10k AV marching forward now. The Allies have reacted, which may be a bad choice. More on that later.

[koniu]

ORIGINAL: obvert

ORIGINAL: koniu

ORIGINAL: obvert




No! not sure of course how many he brought, but they can't be in good shape right now.

With high disruption even if he have 1000 engineers they will repair nothing
And it look that Yours BB have great skill with aiming in engineers more than any other squad type

Or that's all that is there other than basic support and AS. We'll see.

Counter invasion maybe????

[obvert]

Two strikes arrive with the escorts and get a total of 8 hits on the factory, knocking it back to 9 (21). On the day 34 B-24J are reported shot down or lost, and 12 P-38 and 6 P-51 are shot down also. So again the mission costs almost exactly 30% of the bombers sent. He can't do that forever.

Can he? [&:]

[obvert]

ORIGINAL: koniu

ORIGINAL: obvert

ORIGINAL: koniu




With high disruption even if he have 1000 engineers they will repair nothing
And it look that Yours BB have great skill with aiming in engineers more than any other squad type

Or that's all that is there other than basic support and AS. We'll see.

Counter invasion maybe????

I'll certainly get it ready just in case.

[obvert]

The sweeps again arrive after the main strikes. So that means we got to the bombers, and then lost about 25 fighters to the P-47N.