Pacific War 3.0 (No Encircled please!)

[RangerJoe]

What does the combat state? I do believe that is correct for both sides.

[rader]

The combat report matched the Japanese version. I think that's considered the "correct" version, and the other is a spuriously generated one.

[rader]

Didn't realize this was an actual ship. Ought to use it as bait for the USS Enterprise

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: rader

Didn't realize this was an actual ship. Ought to use it as bait for the USS Enterprise

Oh yes, they did put it in the game![:D]

[rader]

June 16, 1943.

Minor naval skirmish off the coast of Western Australia. The Allies lost 2 DDs to Japan's 1 DD and 1 AV. It should have gone a lot better for Japan - a Japanese TF of 1 CA, 4 DD found 4 Allied DDs in daylight but the CA (Atago) didn't engage and the Allied DDs got away with sinking a Japanese DD and then making a break for it (but not before two of them ate long lance torpedoes and promptly went to the bottom).

[rader]

June 17, 1943.

Minor 3 DD vs 3 DD skirmish off the coast of Western Australia, trying to run down the remaining destroyers from the day before. One British destroyer ate a long lance and went down.

Also, near Milne Bay, a Dutch sub torpedoed I-22 and she sank fast.

[rader]

Also some night bombing and managed to bring down 3x B-24s at a cost of 23 sacrificial bait fighters [8|]

[rader]

Ugh... game on hold for 3 weeks as my esteemed opponent replaces his broken computer [:(]

[PaxMondo]

ouch!


[:(][X(][:(]

[rader]

We're back at it after the 2.5 week computer outage hiatus.

Quite a lot of air losses today over India as I tried to bomb some of his 4E bases and some Flak losses over Darwin as I tried to delay the return of the Allies in force.

He's got quite a lot of units and Flak at Darwin... not sure I'll be able to stop the buildup this time. He could be back in Darwin to stay.

[rader]

Another day of major airframe losses as his 4Es prove unstoppable again, this time at Chungking.

[rader]

July 4, 1943.

Our houserule on no strat bombing expired July 1, so now it's open season and the Allied 4Es have been torching every city in range since the start of the month. Today it was Rangoon's turn.

[DesertWolf101]

What is the CV balance like thus far?

[rader]

ORIGINAL: DesertWolf101

What is the CV balance like thus far?

Basically no one has lost any carriers yet because he has kept them hidden the whole war and I've been fairly cautious with them too.

[rader]

July 5, 1943

In Burma, a strong advancing Allied army compels Japanese forces to abandon Myitkiyna - no big loss because we were having trouble supplying it anyway.

4Es hit the Magwe oil hard at night but are met by both fighters who die in droves and massed flak guns that take down a large complement of Liberators. Porobably an exchange favoring the Japanese despite the loss of so many fighters.

[rader]

In the East, Rabaul is feeling more and more under siege with each passing day as the Milne Bay and Port Morsesby airfields build and a large Allied army advances on Buna. Rabaul will likely either fall or be isolated within a matter of months.

[DesertWolf101]

I'm curious about your experience with the Tojo B. I was thinking of skipping directly from the A to the C version given the inaccuracy of the 40mm cannons. Would you suggest I reconsider this decision, do you find that they are effective against bombers?

[Bif1961]

The Ploesti raid of Burma?

[PaxMondo]

Tojo-b is a miss-step in the eyes of most players. The 40mm fire at such a slow rate that the hit rate is a rare event.

[rader]

ORIGINAL: DesertWolf101

I'm curious about your experience with the Tojo B. I was thinking of skipping directly from the A to the C version given the inaccuracy of the 40mm cannons. Would you suggest I reconsider this decision, do you find that they are effective against bombers?

We have a houserule that I can't "skip" models - so I need to research B (up to one month remaining) before I switch to C. I already have C but I'm using up my stockpiles of B first.

I'd say the B model is somewhere in between the A and C models. The centerline HMGs of the B version are good. The 40mms maybe occasionally do something, hard to tell, but they certainly aren't killers. The C version has probably better argument with 4x HMGs (still not stellar) and armor. None of them really compare to the Frank, except their service ratings are a lot better.