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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A))
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 12:12 pm
by Lowpe
Dawn arrives as the IJN convoy desperately seeks safety, fleeing flank speed from Task Force Australia (which retired to replenish ammunition)...and right into the perfectly timed pincer attack of Desron #12 at Manus.
DD Patterson ran right in and launched a devastating torpedo attack...and took a large caliber hit...but there would be no escape during daylight, as the merciless Yank destroyers even used 50 caliber Brownings on the convoy.
RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A))
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 12:16 pm
by Lowpe
Our Dutch light cruisers and destroyers stand off from the Japanese fleets in Western Australia, electing not to close and we can only hope they aren't bombed by naval air power.
But the Dutch pilots are made of sterner stuff...
RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A))
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 12:20 pm
by Lowpe
Tiaotso...a little festung...these Chinese troopers should be able to hold for quite a while...
RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A))
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 12:22 pm
by Lowpe
On the Sian road...
RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A))
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 12:26 pm
by Lowpe
The IJA makes some good tactical decisions here and forces a retreat...before we could retreat out of the base.
RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A))
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 12:29 pm
by Lowpe
Townsville also was being abandoned, but in both cases the IJA armored pursue...
RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A))
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 12:31 pm
by Lowpe
Port Moresby is now doomed...
RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A))
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 12:33 pm
by Lowpe
Elements of the battered Chinese 35th Corp (C unit) have nowhere to go...and elect to hold the rail line. They might last for a few more days.
RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A))
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 12:38 pm
by Lowpe
Flying Tigers dance with Oscars over Pakhoi...and get the worst of it, but not that badly as several Oscars ditch on the return home.
RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A))
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 12:59 pm
by Lowpe
Jan 1, 1942 Scoresheet, with a comparison to another game...
Japan absolutely destroyed the Dutch/Singapore shipping fleet.
RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A))
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 1:02 pm
by Lowpe
DD Patterson took a big hit!
These Bagley class destroyers are slated to join the carrier fleet, but with four 5 inch guns they make for good ambushers here in the chaotic amphibious phase.
I am trying not to lose them.[;)]
RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A))
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 1:07 pm
by Lowpe
Tracker has 36 IJN ships sunk for 581 VPs.
It is the fog of war![:'(]
RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A))
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 1:12 pm
by GetAssista
ORIGINAL: Lowpe
Elements of the battered Chinese 35th Corp (C unit) have nowhere to go...and elect to hold the rail line. They might last for a few more days.
Elected to hold the rail line in favor of x4 terrain next door? You need to hammer some basic military sense into those Chinese [:D]
ORIGINAL: Lowpe
...but there would be no escape during daylight, as the merciless Yank destroyers even used 50 caliber Brownings on the convoy.
65th Bde goes glug-glug? Congratulations! Always a warm fuzzy feeling when enemy convoy is eliminated to the last ship.
RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A))
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 1:24 pm
by 821Bobo
Empire paying the price for overextending the IJN. Whole brigade in hostile waters without any escort, seems fair result. [8D]
RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A))
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 2:28 pm
by BBfanboy
ORIGINAL: Lowpe
On the Sian road...
If the enemy has tanks there, fuggeddaboutit! [:-]
If attacking uses more supply than defending - ditto. [:-]
Otherwise, it's worth a try to keep him honest. [:)]
RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A))
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 2:32 pm
by BBfanboy
ORIGINAL: Lowpe
Tracker has 36 IJN ships sunk for 581 VPs.
It is the fog of war![:'(]
The Intel summary page indicates not many points lost for IJ ships - so those important ships likely did not go down. Probably mine hits that did damage - the sunk ships page seems to always include (initially) any ship that had a mine or torp hit without any consideration of ability to survive.
RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A))
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 4:29 pm
by ushakov
ORIGINAL: Lowpe
Flying Tigers dance with Oscars over Pakhoi...and get the worst of it, but not that badly as several Oscars ditch on the return home.
Wow, the Japanese attack on Townsville was apparently so powerful that it caused the cancellation of a corvette on the slipway in Sydney dockyard [:'(]
RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A))
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 5:04 pm
by szmike
ORIGINAL: mind_messing
ORIGINAL: Alfred
ORIGINAL: Lowpe
Okay turn is away, and we have three separate solid naval intercepts and one potential naval air attack...but other than that it is all Japan right now![;)]
Do you mean by that, that you have created 3 separate transport TFs each comprised of only merchantmen and you are sending them directly to a Japanese port which displays an enemy TF icon present, or to the ocean hex which displays an enemy TF icon?[:)]
If you keep sending single xAK TFs to enemy ports, the enemy combat TFs may never have sufficient OPS/ammo to leave port after combat. That's one way to keep your valuable combat TFs safe from naval intercepts.[;)]
Alfred
Also a useful tactic offensively as chaff in major fleet engagements - IJN DD's seem to love expending Long Lances on freighters. Much more comforting fighting IJN ships knowing the big damage dealers have been expended.
I would consider it gamey at best.
RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A))
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 8:36 pm
by BBfanboy
ORIGINAL: ushakov
ORIGINAL: Lowpe
Flying Tigers dance with Oscars over Pakhoi...and get the worst of it, but not that badly as several Oscars ditch on the return home.
Wow, the Japanese attack on Townsville was apparently so powerful that it caused the cancellation of a corvette on the slipway in Sydney dockyard [:'(]
That was a minesweeper at Townsville - look to the right for the location.
RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A))
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 9:33 pm
by ushakov
ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
That was a minesweeper at Townsville - look to the right for the location.
In game, yes - but the real-life Dubbo was a Bathhurst-class under construction in Sydney at this point in the war:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS_Dubbo_(J251). Not sure if it was a deliberate decision in DB to move her to Townsville?