AAR-The Italian Affair--Hoepner vs. mc3744

[AmiralLaurent]

You're not using a map mod but you're playing a modified scenario, right ? Maybe the B-17 are screwed in this one.

[mogami]

HI, If I restarted every time I discovered a mistake in my planning.......OH well I look forward to the new AAR

[Gen.Hoepner]

ORIGINAL: AmiralLaurent


You're not using a map mod but you're playing a modified scenario, right ? Maybe the B-17 are screwed in this one.

Tanaka's Mod,yes. But this Mod modifies only the upgrade path for the nates and oscars...nothing more.

[Gen.Hoepner]

ORIGINAL: Mogami

HI, If I restarted every time I discovered a mistake in my planning.......OH well I look forward to the new AAR

I understand Mogami what you're saying, and i cannot but agree with you.
The fact, under my modest point of view, is that the leak in my strategy, found after this nasty massacre, wasn't a little one. Under my point of view Japan could no longer hope to hold anything in the whole south pacific, so, that's why i declared the final defeat. It was like if during a friendly tennis match you discover, after few shots, that your opponent isn't an amateur but Roger Federer ( ok, the example was not the best one i know[:)]).
And believe me: i feel the shame of dishonour for my behaviour[:(]

[AmiralLaurent]

My understanding was probably the same as you, Gen: heavy bombers from size 4 airfields will fly will extended range loads at normal range ONLY. It seems that they are able to fly to extended range too.

My fighter units are always flying CAP at 90% when they have nothing more to do. Fatigue will remain between 4 and 9, op losses are very small and this is reducing a lot the heavy bomber raids on rear area bases because of the morale test due to CAP and also reduced the efficiency of the bombing and increased the losses. Any base attacked by heavy bombers and that is not 100% repaired at the end of the day is evacuated.

I hate the fact that you know the base where enemy planes are based and he knows where yours are without any recon. I try to hide my planes by sending small units of Petes taken out of ships in all bases in active area. So sometimes a B-17 raid will hit an empty airfield (it will vaporize 1 or 2 Petes but I don't care).

[Gen.Hoepner]

Talked about the new game with mc3744. House rules decided and agreed. We're just waiting for 1.5 to come out.
This weekend i will start a new AAR thread, where i will begin to speak about the Japanese strategy for the next match.
It's been a pleasure to write this thread and i thank you all to have been reading my lines and partecipated to this awesome drama[:)]

See you on the next thread![8D]

[Smiffus64]

Thanks for the read, shame that it had to end this way.

[pauk]

greetings...

have been from a forum for several days (been in Egypt) so forgive if i don't see obvious things.

Am i right? you quit because fall of Gilli Gilli and one massive air raid on Rabaul which destroyed your air force in SP?

It sounds really wierd to me because when i stop watch your AAR you was over 4-1 ratio and you had CV superiority...? (just don't get the point of your surrender reading AAR)

however, it was really intersting to read, looking foward to another one!

[Gen.Hoepner]

Hi Pauk, glad to see you back among us[:)]

No, Gili gili and Rabaul raid weren't the point. I discovered, after that allied raid from Thurdays Island, that i had misunderstood the whole code about allied 4E bombers. Since the beginning of the war i've based my whole strategy for the south pacific in the defence of Rabaul from his heaviest. I tought from a level 4 AF the 4E planes could not take off and bomb at max range ( 13 ), and that's why i didn't bother to get on the east west coast of NG and so secure Rabaul, and that's why i didn't place any cap above rabaul ( which was after that raid, completely unusable as a air base), so the whole south pacific theatre was a mess. I dropped the match because i felt that i could no longer hope to fight in those conditions and because i really felt frustrated for having been so idiot not to have read the manual enough[:@]
Now i've learnt the lesson.
So, in the end, wasn't a problem of results, but a problem of misunderstood rules

[pauk]

oh, i see. however, i think you would not get such a good opportunity against mc in a re-match, sure he learnt also from his early mistakes[;)]

now, be sure to check ratings (range, climb rate, guns...) of japanese fighters for upcomming 1.5. You don't want to find your self in position like this.

"lets produce lots of tony's, they are excellent defensive weapon"...

later...

"umph, i should produce much more tojos, they are almost good as tony's and they have longer range"...


[:)][;)]

once more, thanks for your effort in this AAR, i learnt so much