Ocean of (Allied) Blood.

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ChungKing has fallen.  It was expected.  Current VP count is roughly 58000/22000 counting CK.  FatR needs 66000 for a 44 auto victory.
 Could be less if he takes two of my big bases. 

[John 3rd]

Hey Sir. Not to hijack your AAR but since you are a ways into the Mod, could note in the RA Thread any art issues on the Allied side? Additionally if you have any insights as to improvement I would really appreciate it.

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ORIGINAL: John 3rd

Hey Sir. Not to hijack your AAR but since you are a ways into the Mod, could note in the RA Thread any art issues on the Allied side? Additionally if you have any insights as to improvement I would really appreciate it.

Hi John. I am happy w/ the art. I am not much of a naval ship design expert but I do greatly enjoy the new and different ships and art. Concerning the RA70 Mod this is my second RA70 game. My only suggestion concerning the mod is not to tinker w/ the allied planes, specifically the hurricane. I noted there was talk of toning down the hurricane on the RA thread which I am against. Suspect the allies need all the help they can get. Also w/ FatR playing Japan in this senario he is THE MAN. FatR designed this senario so he knows the ins and outs. If you take him on be prepared to recieve a combination of good training and an ass whipping.

Concerning this game I am sure the reason for the point differential is mostly do to with:
1. some mistakes I have made operationally:
a. Loss of BBs at Pearl in sept42 in effort to resupply (caused by my lack of experience concerning early IJNAAF naval torpedo power) and
b. Continued drain of surface assets at Andamans in effort to resupply ground units on the islands. ( am not sure but if i replayed the senario I might evac or abandon the units).

2. Playing a "no rules" game when I excepted the game.
a. The biggest problem I created for my self was to allow the manchuko garrison to help destroy china. Originally I thought this would not be a problem and i could control the situation. I underestimated the power of the additional units from manchuria. I wanted to give FatR a counter balance to the at start problem w/ the chinese at full strenght. I should have played the original game house rules...shame on me.

Bottom line, the only problem in my game is my learning curve.
RA70 is a kick ass senario. Japan has a weakness caused by the Senario which the allies have to figure out how to exploit.

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I really expected to get trashed when i saw 2 jap divsion come after my brigade.  I was surprised by the combat result. I'm tripled in the mountain rough. Wonder of FatR has a supply problem in Burma. Combat report said nothing about supply. maybe we both had a supply problem....



Ground combat at 60,46 (near Mandalay)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 25752 troops, 246 guns, 127 vehicles, Assault Value = 960

Defending force 2458 troops, 42 guns, 18 vehicles, Assault Value = 121

Japanese adjusted assault: 570

Allied adjusted defense: 448

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
1073 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 80 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 8 disabled


Allied ground losses:
296 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 69 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Assaulting units:
48th Division
56th Division

Defending units:
14th British Brigade


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[bigred]

I have closed on Buna w/ 30AUS BDE.  Current level five fort and I dont have armor.  FatR is using a fragment unit defense.
IJN is unloading reinforcements at Lae and Madang which I have not tried to interdict...




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Ground combat at Buna (99,129)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 3220 troops, 33 guns, 49 vehicles, Assault Value = 136

Defending force 1867 troops, 6 guns, 85 vehicles, Assault Value = 7

Allied adjusted assault: 62

Japanese adjusted defense: 15

Allied assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 6)

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 5

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), disruption(-), preparation(-)
experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
77 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Vehicles lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled)
Units destroyed 2


Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Assaulting units:
30th Australian Brigade
Kanga Force Bn /1

Defending units:
35th Fld AA Bn /1
5th Naval Construction Battalion
3rd Mortar Battalion
5th JNAF Coy
2nd Area Army
24th JAAF AF Bn /1
4th Indpt SNLF Coy /1

[bigred]

Buna has recieved an eng and a base force and soon will become operational.  This has shown me that it is feasable to walk all the way to Lae if needed.  Currently i have a 100 ship amphib TF at port morsby ready to make another move into the Coral sea area. 

Sadly fatR has again responded w/ a massive buildup of air power which is displayed on this screen print.  All these jap fighters seemed to have moved overnight into new forward positions. 

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I find the easiest way is to kill jap fighters is to utilize b24 night bombing over his air fields.  I have showed this ability of the b24 defensive fire to FatR in a private email.

Email to fatR:

Yhe next air raid at magwe will come in at 10000ft. Please post this turn and next turn combat report of magwe to me for BDA. I will give you my results also.
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Night Air attack on Magwe , at 57,47

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 26,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 31 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M4-J Zero x 20
Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 14
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 41



Allied aircraft
Blenheim VD x 4
Vengeance I x 17
B-24D Liberator x 5
B-24D1 Liberator x 21
B-25D1 Mitchell x 3
PV-1 Ventura x 4
SBD-3 Dauntless x 11


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M4-J Zero: 2 destroyed
Ki-44-IIc Tojo: 1 destroyed
Ki-45 KAIa Nick: 3 destroyed
Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
Blenheim VD: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
Vengeance I: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 1 damaged
B-24D1 Liberator: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged
B-25D1 Mitchell: 1 damaged
SBD-3 Dauntless: 1 destroyed



Runway hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x SBD-3 Dauntless bombing from 20000 feet
Airfield Attack: 1 x 1000 lb GP Bomb
4 x Vengeance I bombing from 20000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x Vengeance I bombing from 20000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x Blenheim VD bombing from 20000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 20000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
2 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 20000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
2 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 20000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
4 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 20000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
2 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 20000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
4 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 20000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
4 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 20000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
4 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 20000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
252 Ku S-1 with A6M4-J Zero (0 airborne, 14 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters to 20000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 11 minutes
5th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIa Nick (0 airborne, 18 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 8 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 14000 and 21000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 8 minutes
27th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIa Nick (0 airborne, 10 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 12000 and 27000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 6 minutes
59th Sentai with Ki-44-IIc Tojo (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling)
7 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 36740 , scrambling fighters between 14000 and 36000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 9 minutes



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1LT Cullen N. of 5th BG/72nd BS is credited with kill number 3
CPT Franklin R. of 5th BG/72nd BS is credited with kill number 5
CPT Franklin R. of 5th BG/72nd BS attains ace status!!
MAJ Bryan R. of 5th BG/72nd BS is credited with kill number 4
2LT Kroll A. of 5th BG/31st BS is credited with kill number 4
1LT Cullen N. of 5th BG/72nd BS is credited with kill number 4
MAJ Dobbs N. of 7th BG/492nd BS is credited with kill number 9
1LT Cullen N. of 5th BG/72nd BS is credited with kill number 5
1LT Cullen N. of 5th BG/72nd BS attains ace status!!
MAJ Thanos C. of 7th BG/9th BS is credited with kill number 4

My experience in the b24 sqns is close to 70 and i am starting to get alot of aces...amazing, I set all bombers to 50 % rest about a week ago. What is the effect on you?

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Two turns earlier:

CPT Billings K. of 7th BG/492nd BS is credited with kill number 3
1LT Allen H. of 28th CG/21st BS is credited with kill number 4
CPT Billings K. of 7th BG/492nd BS is credited with kill number 4
CPT Billings K. of 7th BG/492nd BS is credited with kill number 5
CPT Billings K. of 7th BG/492nd BS attains ace status!!
CPT Baker L. of 7th BG/9th BS is credited with kill number 4
2LT Morrison D. of 7th BG/9th BS is credited with kill number 5
2LT Morrison D. of 7th BG/9th BS attains ace status!!

Three turns ago:

CPT Arnold R. of 43rd BG/403rd BS is credited with kill number 2
2LT Jennings I. of 7th BG/492nd BS is credited with kill number 4
LTC Gregor P. of 7th BG/492nd BS is credited with kill number 2
MAJ Kramer K. of 43rd BG/403rd BS is credited with kill number 2
MAJ Rea N. of 43rd BG/403rd BS is credited with kill number 4
1LT Evans O. of 5th BG/72nd BS is credited with kill number 3
MAJ Kroll K. of 5th BG/72nd BS is credited with kill number 2
MAJ Kroll K. of 5th BG/72nd BS is credited with kill number 3
1LT Campbell C. of 43rd BG/403rd BS is credited with kill number 3
CPT Blair S. of 43rd BG/403rd BS is credited with kill number 2
1LT Campbell C. of 43rd BG/403rd BS is credited with kill number 4
LTC Gregor P. of 7th BG/492nd BS is credited with kill number 3
1LT Moorhouse F. of 5th BG/31st BS is credited with kill number 2
2LT Landry R. of 5th BG/31st BS is credited with kill number 5
2LT Landry R. of 5th BG/31st BS attains ace status!!

[bigred]

The large fleet at PM is a feint.  Hawaii is the target.  The 5th fleet is on the move and been spotted 300nm SE of Kona.

[bigred]

I have not seen a turn from Fatr in 4 days.  I have asked him if he wishes to surrender.[:D]

[bigred]

Phase one of operation Relief is progressing as planned.  We have about 240 ftrs in Fleet w/ about 150 on cap.  Lost about 3 ships so far.  Air war seems to have gone my way as FatR forgot to turn all his torpedo bombers to the use of torps....and he did take about 90 planes losses.  I sent a carrier night strike of about 30 planes to Kona, minimal damage but probably helped raise the fatigue level on his betties.

[bigred]

if I get about two more turns like this then maybe this campaign will be in the books.

[bigred]

Currentrly I dont feel see any reaction from the KB on the Palymira/Johnson line.  Recon of Truk, mili, and Kwag shows no sign of CV presence so I figure FatR KB has gone to sea.  Sub picket line reports judy sighting at 144/116. I have moved too close to the Marshals. What is max judy range from Maoplap? I am 8 hexes out.

So if the KB is at sea in this area I figure I have 4 days to develop the situation in Hawaii before I have real problems.

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This screen print of the Judy from my other game shows the max range of 7.   So judy ASW is carrier bound at 144/116.  At a closing speed of 10 hexes per turn I have 4 days to get ashore before I am caught in a nutcracker w/ the KB to my west and the Hawaiian LBA to my east and north.

[bigred]

KB move rate.

[bigred]

Over 100 planes have been pulled from SoPac this turn.  Probably headed to marshals then on to Lahani.

[bigred]

ashore at Kona.. No sign of the KB.  No flights by the IJAAF.  

[bigred]

I stand corrected.  Jap Ki49s did fly but w/out escort.  I would bet the Ftrs could not muster the .5 to one ratio needed to fly. In addition the nells sat on Hilo and got shelled by one of my SCTF.


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Morning Air attack on TF, near Kona at 182,111

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 2,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49-IIa Helen x 14



Allied aircraft
F6F-3 Hellcat x 52


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49-IIa Helen: 6 destroyed, 7 damaged

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
APA Fuller
LCI-330
AKA Virgo, Bomb hits 1, on fire



CAP engaged:
VF-1 with F6F-3 Hellcat (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead
VF-9 with F6F-3 Hellcat (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead
VF-16 with F6F-3 Hellcat (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead
VF-18 with F6F-3 Hellcat (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead
VF-71 with F6F-3 Hellcat (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead
VF-22 with F6F-3 Hellcat (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead
VF-23 with F6F-3 Hellcat (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead
VF-24 with F6F-3 Hellcat (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead
VF-37 with F6F-3 Hellcat (3 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 38800.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 25 minutes
VRF-1F with F6F-3 Hellcat (4 airborne, 9 on standby, 0 scrambling)
4 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 9000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 7000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 15 minutes
VRF-4F with F6F-3 Hellcat (4 airborne, 9 on standby, 0 scrambling)
4 plane(s) intercepting now.
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Naval bombardment of Hilo at 183,111

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M2 Betty: 20 damaged
A6M5 Zero: 4 damaged
A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied Ships
CA Quincy
CL Mobile
CL Santa Fe
CLAA San Diego
DD Aulick
DD Anthony
DD Fletcher

Japanese ground losses:
55 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 14 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Airbase hits 30
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 84
Port hits 32
Port supply hits 7

CA Quincy firing at Hilo
CL Mobile firing at Hilo
CL Santa Fe firing at Hilo
CLAA San Diego firing at Hilo
DD Aulick firing at Hilo
DD Anthony firing at Hilo
DD Fletcher firing at Hilo


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CAP did not pick up one 3000ft skipbomb attack.

[bigred]

I figured out why we can send a pilot home for 180 days...It is so other pilots can become aces also.

[bigred]

Wondering around tracker and found one b24 pilot w/ 8 kills in one turn in Burma.