What's your Strategy?
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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
Nice pressure on his Burma AF, but with the rail lines he can move out his damaged aircraft before you can pound them again. [:(]
ORIGINAL: obvert
He won't be happy wth 47 Franks hit on the ground. you also probably damaged anything left for the next few days, so even if he were to try to support from nearby bases most of these groups would be out of action.
Your sweeps did well. Curious if he's using the low CAP settings? All below 10k and layered?
ORIGINAL: JocMeister
ORIGINAL: obvert
He won't be happy wth 47 Franks hit on the ground. you also probably damaged anything left for the next few days, so even if he were to try to support from nearby bases most of these groups would be out of action.
Your sweeps did well. Curious if he's using the low CAP settings? All below 10k and layered?
They were layered at different altitudes with the Franks stacked on top @30k. But only 70 where available as Jeff had been doing lots of offensive actions with the Franks sweeping here and there for a couple of days.
ORIGINAL: obvert
ORIGINAL: JocMeister
ORIGINAL: obvert
He won't be happy wth 47 Franks hit on the ground. you also probably damaged anything left for the next few days, so even if he were to try to support from nearby bases most of these groups would be out of action.
Your sweeps did well. Curious if he's using the low CAP settings? All below 10k and layered?
They were layered at different altitudes with the Franks stacked on top @30k. But only 70 where available as Jeff had been doing lots of offensive actions with the Franks sweeping here and there for a couple of days.
Interesting. I was wondering, now that I'm on the Allied side again, how you're getting such good results against the low CAP settings he normally uses. I guess he's now experimenting with other things.
Good to see the AAR up and running more regularly. I know what it takes now to try and do this with a young one in the house! Not easy. And you have a few!
If you get a chance I think you might like Siren Brewery's IPA. Seems your style. Big and hoppy and full of flavours.
ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
Lucky for you that your P-47s arrived first on the sweep, instead of the P-38s [;)].
Day Time Surface Combat, near Rabaul at 106,125, Range 29,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
BB Hiei, Shell hits 3
BB Nagato, Shell hits 5
CA Tone, Shell hits 3
CA Chikuma, Shell hits 7, on fire
CA Mikuma, Shell hits 8
CA Kumano, Shell hits 4, on fire
DD Teruzuki
DD Kazegumo, Shell hits 2
DD Kagero, Shell hits 1
DD Hamakaze
DD Hayate
DD Tadeshiwa, Shell hits 1
Allied Ships
CL St. Louis, Shell hits 3, on fire
CL Helena, Shell hits 9, on fire
CL Boise, Shell hits 7
CL Nashville, Shell hits 5, heavy fires
DD Fletcher, Shell hits 2
DD Chevalier, Shell hits 4
DD Conway, Shell hits 1
DD Cony, Shell hits 3
DD DeHaven, Shell hits 1
DD Jenkins, Shell hits 1
DD Frazier, Shell hits 2, on fire
DMS Chandler, Shell hits 9, and is sunk
DMS Wasmuth
Day Time Surface Combat, near Rabaul at 106,125, Range 29,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
BB Hiei
BB Nagato, Shell hits 1
CA Tone, Shell hits 2, on fire
CA Chikuma, Shell hits 5, heavy fires
CA Mikuma, Shell hits 6, heavy fires
CA Kumano, Shell hits 1, heavy fires
DD Teruzuki, Shell hits 4, heavy fires
DD Kazegumo, on fire
DD Kagero, Shell hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Hamakaze
DD Hayate, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
DD Tadeshiwa, Shell hits 1
Allied Ships
CL St. Louis, Shell hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
CL Helena, Shell hits 4, on fire
CL Boise, Shell hits 1, on fire
CL Nashville, Shell hits 3, heavy fires
DD Fletcher, Shell hits 6, on fire
DD Chevalier
DD Conway
DD Cony, Shell hits 1
DD DeHaven, Shell hits 1
DD Jenkins, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Frazier, Shell hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
DMS Wasmuth, Shell hits 1, heavy fires
Morning Air attack on TF, near Rabaul at 105,125
Weather in hex: Thunderstorms [:@]
Raid detected at 76 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 36 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2-N Rufe x 2
Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 10
FM-1 Wildcat x 18
F6F-3 Hellcat x 30
TBF-1 Avenger x 46
No Japanese losses
Allied aircraft losses
FM-1 Wildcat: 1 destroyed
TBF-1 Avenger: 5 damaged
TBF-1 Avenger: 1 destroyed by flak
Japanese Ships
BB Hiei, Torpedo hits 1
DD Tadeshiwa
BB Nagato
Aircraft Attacking:
8 x TBF-1 Avenger launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 22.4in Mk 13 Torp.
7 x TBF-1 Avenger launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 22.4in Mk 13 Torp.
8 x TBF-1 Avenger launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 22.4in Mk 13 Torp.
8 x TBF-1 Avenger launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 22.4in Mk 13 Torp.
7 x TBF-1 Avenger launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 22.4in Mk 13 Torp.
7 x TBF-1 Avenger launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 22.4in Mk 13 Torp.
Ground combat at Kodiak (181,42)
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 12913 troops, 192 guns, 139 vehicles, Assault Value = 346
Defending force 4146 troops, 22 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 114
Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 0
Allied adjusted assault: 132
Japanese adjusted defense: 15
Allied assault odds: 8 to 1 (fort level 0)
Allied forces CAPTURE Kodiak !!!
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), preparation(-), fatigue(-)
experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
1374 casualties reported
Squads: 8 destroyed, 48 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 39 disabled
Engineers: 7 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 11 (8 destroyed, 3 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
237 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 36 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Assaulting units:
53rd (Sep) Infantry Regiment
50th Cmbt Engineer Regiment
22nd Marine Regiment
31st Infantry Regiment
5th Marine Defense Battalion
Provisional GMC Grp
Defending units:
65th Bde /4
302nd Ind.Infantry Battalion
Ichiki Det.
ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
Well, they were faster BBs. In my experience, unless it's a slow American BB you can't really hit it with an aerial torpedo until it's been slowed down or taken damage from something else (bomb or shell). Sometimes you get lucky.
Unless I think a CV battle is happening, I fly my TBFs with 2x500-lb bombs. More reliable.
