Feb 13, 1944
Allies surge three or four task forces into Fusan...not a single mine hit, not a single coastal gun hit. I lost a lot of cargo ships, which I figure are gone pretty much anyhow but I would like to hit something in return.
Maybe during the day I put a destroyer or two down.
Deathstar cap flies right by my escorts (I had hundreds with my best pilots and frames) and only 7 planes make an attack on the carriers. That is probably an exaggeration.[:)] I did have some Oscars sweep ahead, and he lost probably 25% of his fighter CAP, well probably less with FOW. But I can do it again today with even more, much more.
Will try again tomorrow. Throwing in all the Kamikazes, the surface ships, all his escorts have run out of fuel or ammo on my convoys. Surely something will hit...high, low, and medium. He did lose a fair number of carrier fighters.
Over in Hokkaido, Allies shock attack again, some of the Marine divisions are below 75 in AV, but he manages to force almost all my troops to retreat.
I really don't mind the cargo ships, a lot of 3200 capacity guys, but he did get and sink some nicer ships, not any tankers I don't think, and none with troops on them.
Perhaps the most disheartening attack of the day, was the smallest attack - when a little less than a dozen Zekes Kamikazes, flying in at 38.5K got shot down by the CAP. I guess you can't fly over CAP anymore. I think 2 made runs and missed... (probably not a bad thing I guess - not being able to flyover CAP).
On the bright side, the Allied 4Es attacked the empty runways at Ominato, and a sweep went off on Hokkaido dropping a half dozen or more Allied fighters including Lightnings. Plus quite a few Allied task forces are scattered all over the place and the deathstar cap is weaker, and got to be getting heavily fatigued.
And also on the bright side, I am making almost 3000 planes a month. Just a bummer watching 70 skill (not experience) bombers miss. I had one really abysmal attack, it was 14 Lilly divebombers on 5 destroyers that were dead in the water, they got one or two hits. Hopefully, my surface ships will take care of some of this come this turn.
I pretty much just put everyone on attack with a little search and flew them at max range with altitudes varying by airfields. Since a lot of the planes have different strike radius, it may spread the CAP way out, and perhaps my luck will turn. One of the low attacks I put with a high escort, I wonder how that will turn out?
I would gladly trade 3x or 5x the losses (in cargo ships) if I can nail his carriers. .
I flipped the turn fast, I might be able to really hurt the Allies this turn, but the way my luck has been running....I guess it isn't luck, but poor play on my part.[;)]
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