AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 08/03/42
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ASW attack at 38,58
Japanese Ships
DD Yudachi
DD Samidare
DD Yamakaze
DD Kawakaze
DD Umikaze
Allied Ships
SS Narwhal, hits 3
Allied ground losses:
27 casualties reported
evac sub...
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Sub attack at 75,131
Japanese Ships
SS I-30
Allied Ships
DD Stewart
DD Parrott
DD Russell
DD Smith
DD Cummings
DD Ralph Talbot
I-30 fires a salvo of 6 torps at DD Stewart. Was surprised that they hit and in the same moment I was surprised again... torpedoes fail to detonate... something I really see very very rarely... Stewart dropped a dozen DCs but no hits...
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Sub attack at 78,131
Japanese Ships
SS I-4, hits 2
Allied Ships
DD Ralph Talbot, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Stewart
DD Parrott
DD Russell
DD Smith
DD Cummings
we attack again! [&o] Must be my lucky day... [;)] I-4 fires two torps of her rear tubes and surprisingly hits Ralph Talbot. The ship is 15-20 hexes from the next bigger port so perhaps we can score a kill...
hurrey! 
USS Ralph Talbot (DD-390), 1937-1948
USS Ralph Talbot, a 1500-ton Bagley class destroyer built at the Boston Navy Yard, was commissioned in October 1937. For the next four years she served with the Battle Force, mainly in the Pacific. Based at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, after mid-1941, she was moored there when the Japanese attacked on 7 December 1941 and was able to get to sea before the raid was finished. Ralph Talbot spent the next few months operating with carrier task forces, participating in some of the early raids on Japanese bases in the central Pacific.
After serving as an escort for shipping in the west coast and Hawaii areas, in June 1942 Ralph Talbot steamed to the south Pacific. She took part in the Guadalcanal-Tulagi operation in early August and in the Battle of Savo Island on the 9th of that month. She was seriously damaged by gunfire in that action, losing twelve of her crew, and necessitating a return to the U.S. for repairs.
Ralph Talbot's next combat operations were in the central Solomons, where she participated in the Rendova-New Georgia invasion and the Battle of Kolombangara in July 1943. Later in the year, the destroyer supported landings in New Britain and in the first month of 1944 performed similar duties off New Guinea. She was assigned to the central Pacific in mid-1944, where her guns bombarded the enemy on Saipan and Tinian in July. From late August, Ralph Talbot escorted Task Force 38's aircraft carriers during strikes on the Volcano and Bonin Islands, the Palaus, Okinawa, Formosa and the Philippines. In this role, she took part in the action off Cape Engaño during the Battle of Leyte Gulf on 25 October 1944.
In January-June 1945, Ralph Talbot took part in operations to capture northern Luzon, Iwo Jima and the Ryukyus. She was hit by a "Kamikaze" suicide attack off Okinawa on 27 April but was repaired locally and remained on duty in the central and western Pacific until the end of the Pacific War. At the beginning of September 1945, the destroyer was present when Japanese forces on Truk surrendered.
Following service supporting the occupation of Japan, Ralph Talbot returned to the United States in November 1945. The following spring the now-elderly ship was designated as a target in the upcoming atomic bomb tests at Bikini, in the Marshall Islands. She was contaminated by radioactivity after the two July 1946 nuclear explosions and was decommissioned a month later. USS Ralph Talbot was scuttled in deep water off Kwajalain on 8 March 1948.
USS Ralph Talbot was named in honor of U.S. Marine Corps aviator Second Lieutenant Ralph Talbot (1897-1918), who was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in aerial action over France and Belgium in October 1918 and died in a plane crash later in that month.
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Day Air attack on Kweichow , at 46,32
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 37
A6M3 Zero x 20
Ki-21 Sally x 99
Allied aircraft
I-16c x 2
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21 Sally: 9 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
I-16c: 1 destroyed
SB-2c: 1 destroyed
Allied ground losses:
50 casualties reported
Airbase hits 16
Airbase supply hits 10
Runway hits 89
Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet
flak kills two Sallies today.
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Day Air attack on Mandalay , at 33,30
Allied aircraft
Wirraway x 22
Wellington III x 14
A-20B Boston x 14
Allied aircraft losses
Wirraway: 6 damaged
Wellington III: 1 damaged
Japanese ground losses:
736 casualties reported
28 medium bombers and 736 casualties... what the hell is wrong with this combat routine????
Guns lost 17
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 31
Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Wellington III bombing at 6000 feet
flak kills one Wirraway...
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Day Air attack on Taung Gyi , at 33,32
Allied aircraft
Blenheim IV x 15
Wellington III x 39
Hudson I x 12
F-5A Lightning x 1
B-25C Mitchell x 49
Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 1 damaged
Japanese ground losses:
501 casualties reported
Guns lost 3
Airbase hits 11
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 102
Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Wellington III bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on Taung Gyi , at 33,32
Allied aircraft
Beaufighter VIF x 3
Blenheim IV x 26
Liberator III x 38
B-17E Fortress x 23
LB-30 Liberator x 10
B-24D Liberator x 15
Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed
Japanese ground losses:
186 casualties reported
Guns lost 3
Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 110
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Liberator III bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on Cebu , at 42,58
Japanese aircraft
A6M2-N Rufe x 23
G3M Nell x 23
G4M1 Betty x 26
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2-N Rufe: 2 damaged
Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 15
Aircraft Attacking:
11 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 29,34
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 44
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 48
Ki-61 KAIb Tony x 19
Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 6
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 damaged
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 1 destroyed, 10 damaged
Ki-61 KAIb Tony: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
B-24D Liberator: 6 destroyed
Liberators coming in to attack the shipping in port. Glad only half a dozen. They take two IJA fighters down but all get shot down in return. 264 fighters at Rangoon set to 90% cap and we see not even 50% in the air... [8|] One strike and we say good bye. The biggest problem is the fact that the Allied launch always three attacks from three different bases. So this would mean the first raid would meet the "full" cap but would damage most of the fighters, so wave two and three would go in completely unopposed, thus leading to the loss of perhaps 200 planes at Rangoon... [:(] Only 6 Liberators damage or destroy 10% of the cap that scrambles. The "funny" thing is that there must be a die roll on how many planes are on cap today. Let´s say 50% today, while the other 50% stay on the ground undamaged. When the 50% that scrambles against the first wave are all damaged, then there is no cap at all anymore!!! IMO there should be that die roll for EVERY wave, not just for the first, as there is no reason why the undamaged planes that didn´t scramble against the first wave don´t scramble against the next waves also but get torched on the ground.
AND I JUST WONDER WHY??? WHY IS THE UNDAMAGED REST STILL GROUNDED????? 
So many things that make just no sense at all. A friend of mine is a SQL programmer and I always wonder if he has some common sense left the longer he works in his job as it seems to get fewer and fewer. Must be a normal programmer disease....
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Ground combat at Homan
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 14314 troops, 464 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2692
Defending force 278971 troops, 946 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 8343
Allied ground losses:
194 casualties reported
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Ground combat at 47,31
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 47116 troops, 536 guns, 34 vehicles, Assault Value = 1009
Defending force 1794 troops, 5 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 56
Japanese max assault: 944 - adjusted assault: 364
Allied max defense: 52 - adjusted defense: 8
Japanese assault odds: 45 to 1
Japanese ground losses:
61 casualties reported
Guns lost 4
Allied ground losses:
218 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
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Ground combat at 41,59
Allied Shock attack
Attacking force 117 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 8
Defending force 822 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 25
Allied max assault: 2 - adjusted assault: 0
Japanese max defense: 22 - adjusted defense: 11
Allied assault odds: 0 to 1
Allied ground losses:
65 casualties reported
I´m already at a point where I just shouldn´t think about planes lost. Lose 100, don´t care and bring in another 100. Ramp up production so you produce three times more planes than the US and make the Allied cry about that. This seems to be the way to go in this game. In stock this begins later, in this mod earlier (because the A2A works better - but causes more problems [:D]).
) but they only damage laughable TWO bombers. Two base forces at Taung Gyi results in FEW losses (for the AA units) AND they also manage TWO bombers damaged. 
