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42/11/13:
Got home from a poker game friday night. Did the combat replay at 2am saturday morning. Fell asleep watching the replay (Boring). Woke up at 4am and went to bed then went to work at 9am.
Saturday night. 9pm. working my turn. WTF IS THAT.

That's just a task force with a few carriers in it - I'm sure it's nothing to worry about. [8|]

ORIGINAL: durnedwolf

That's just a task force with a few carriers in it - I'm sure it's nothing to worry about. [8|]

I think that those are cruisers, not carriers.

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

ORIGINAL: durnedwolf

That's just a task force with a few carriers in it - I'm sure it's nothing to worry about. [8|]

I think that those are cruisers, not carriers.

Whatever it was has run away or disappeared. I was shocked that it showed up in range of my CVE TF with all planes on search.(note a needed adjustment for possible air Naval cmbt).

42/11/15 and 16:

42/11/17:

42/11/20

Two torpedoes attacks from one sub in the same "battle?"

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

Two torpedoes attacks from one sub in the same "battle?"

Different sub, missed the screenie button. Still got 2 hits.

42/11/23a: Suva fell. Jap VPS becoming a concern.

42/11/23b: A very good port raid at Shanghai and a night raid at Noumae, both with results.
An allied CAP trap was set at Geraldton with 50+ Jap planes shot down. Note Jap escort abandoned the betty bombers.

It is my intention to rejoin the AAR now that school is done. Life has been beyond stupid busy. My eldest survived his Junior Year (despite himself) and my youngest is now a sophomore. May and June (so far) have been pretty busy but I want to get back in with the occasional contribution.

November 26, 1942
The Ocean Between Hawaii and the West Coast

A Japanese Raiding TF makes its presence known appearing with no warning and sinks CVE's Nassau and Tangier, an AMC, AM, and DD's Brooks and Farragut. Japanese strikes were made up of 60Z--26 Val--13 Kate, 59 Zero--25 Val--14 Kate, and 13 Kate. An American counter-attack of 14 SBD runs into a massed force of 174 Zeros and 21 Float Fighters.

We'll give this little surprise a weak BANZAI for the day.

Japan continues to beat on the allies with aggressive moves from AUS to Suva to NW of the Line Islands.

42/11/27:

November 28, 1942
Near WC USA

My opponent has described it as a 'target rich environment.' That is an understatement! Strikes fly morning and afternoon and even though the TFs are in single and two ship units, they are sunk as fast as possible. Thankfully the AI manages to divide up the attacks so there is not a huge amount of overkill with any one attack.

It is like the heady days of December 1941 again!

Course...we KNOW that is not true, but it is nice to do some serious sinking.

By my count, 13 strikes fly and sink at least 1-2 AK per attack. It is a good day for pilots to fly and gain a bit of experience beyond simple training flights.

42/11/28: IJN CVTS have moved NW and located itself into the direct supply chain from SF to Pearl with above average results.[:@]

November 29, 1942

Don't those losses above just warm the heart??!! Today's bag is not as good due to weather. Allies lose at least one YMS and three more AK.

Going by BigRed's loss list above, total bag for three day's worth of action is: 2 CVE, 2 DD, 1 AMC, 2 AM, 18 AK, and 2 YMS = 27 ships. I'll take it. Other then the CVEs, it is but a pinprick, but VP are VP!

12/1/1942a:

12/1/42b: