Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A))

[Lowpe]

A good bombardment:

Night Naval bombardment of Shanghai at 92,55

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M5 Zero: 4 damaged
A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed on ground
F1M2 Pete: 6 damaged
A6M8 Zero: 37 damaged
A6M8 Zero: 3 destroyed on ground
J2M3 Jack: 24 damaged
J2M3 Jack: 1 destroyed on ground
Ki-84r Frank: 1 damaged
Ki-44-IIc Tojo: 12 damaged
Ki-44-IIc Tojo: 1 destroyed on ground
A6M2 Zero: 1 damaged
B6N1 Jill: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
AG Unkai Maru #1, Shell hits 1
SC Ch 42, Shell hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage

Allied Ships
CA Astoria
CA New Orleans
CA Chicago
CA Northampton

Japanese ground losses:
1002 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 25 destroyed, 84 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Vehicles lost 18 (5 destroyed, 13 disabled)

Airbase hits 28
Airbase supply hits 7
Runway hits 57
Port hits 1

CA Astoria firing at Shanghai
SOC-1 Seagull acting as spotter for CA New Orleans
CA New Orleans firing at Shanghai
CA Chicago firing at Shanghai
CA Northampton firing at Shanghai

[Lowpe]

Ok, true believers, major synch bugs....argh, why even waste time watching the replay.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Ningpo at 93,58

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 3,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M8 Zero x 9
G4M1 Betty x 20

Allied aircraft
Beaufighter VIc x 3
F4U-1A Corsair x 14

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M8 Zero: 6 destroyed
G4M1 Betty: 10 destroyed, 2 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 2 destroyed by flak

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
BB Queen Elizabeth

[Lowpe]

Emilys.

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Ningpo at 93,58

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 60 NM, estimated altitude 5,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 22 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zero x 15
A6M5b Zero x 13
H8K2 Emily x 10
N1K2-J George x 2
Ki-84r Frank x 2

Allied aircraft
Beaufighter VIc x 3
F4U-1A Corsair x 13

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M5 Zero: 4 destroyed
A6M5b Zero: 5 destroyed
H8K2 Emily: 6 damaged
N1K2-J George: 1 destroyed

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
DD O'Bannon
BB Queen Elizabeth, Torpedo hits 6, and is sunk

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x H8K2 Emily launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 45cm Type 91 Torp
7 x A6M5 Zero sweeping at 23000 feet

[Lowpe]

Losses for the day....nothing like the replay.

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[Lowpe]

Losses...no idea where our losses come from. sigh.

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[Lowpe]

Rant mode on: I am going back to not watching the replay. I spent two hours enjoying the turn, posting play by play updates to the AAR, and wrong. This has occurred so many times during the game....it just disgusts. I know I will never play the Allies again, and most likely never play another PBM game as I think back to all the times it hit my opponents and they requested do over turns etc creating hard feelings in an endeavor for fun. Hard to subject another player to this condition....


Over the course of the game, I was initially excited, especially to be fighting back against an aggressive Japanese attack in a scenario 2 game with a strange order of battle and devices. These bugs hits and the AAR was no fun when they did and my enthusiasm for the game dropped. It dropped even more during most of 1943 when I was giving five to ten minutes to the turn, but it started perking back up as I was excited to see how strategic bombing would play out.

Even the other day, the Hornet probably got hit by the synch bug and I missed it grasping at a searching naval plane.

Rant off. Sorry if this upsets some the very few readers that are left on the forum. Just how I feel.

[Lowpe]

The situation. Wasp in port. Hornet approaching.

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[ushakov]

Rant off. Sorry if this upsets some the very few readers that are left on the forum. Just how I feel.

Not at all, I know I'd feel the same way in your shoes - that really sucks!

I've had a half-formed thought that I was planning to post in both yours and your opponent's threads whenever the campaign ends, but I guess now's a good time for a short version: thank you for continuing with the AAR up to now. I've posted (mostly lurked) here for... wow, a lot of years, and as the game ages and the forum community dwindles, I think this is probably going to be the last great 'dual' AAR, where we get at least semi-regular updates from both sides and see into each perspective as events play out. And what a great one it is, a really exciting campaign!

I know it must be a lot of time and effort to post the play-by-plays especially, even without the frustrations like what just happened (on top of just playing the turns themselves at this point in the game ), and I do appreciate it, even if I just read and don't say much.

[T Rav]

I agree with the post above.

I appreciate your AAR more than you know.

In the immortal words of the Col Liscum, 9th Inf Rgt Commander during the Boxer Rebellion, "Keep Up The Fire."

Thank you
T Rav

[Lowpe]

From the 20th of Jan combat report....glad I didn't see this, how in the world did they get thru?

Morning Air attack on TF, near Shanghai at 94,58

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 77 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 22 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M8 Zero x 7
P1Y1 Frances x 13

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 45
F4U-1A Corsair x 39
F6F-3 Hellcat x 97

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M8 Zero: 4 destroyed
P1Y1 Frances: 6 destroyed
P1Y1 Frances: 3 destroyed by flak

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
CV Benedict Arnold
CV Hornet, Torpedo hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
5 x P1Y1 Frances launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 45cm Type 91 Torp

CAP engaged:
VF-2 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 17000 , scrambling fighters to 9000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 7 minutes
1 planes vectored on to bombers
VF-3 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 17000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 8000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 29 minutes
1 planes vectored on to bombers
VF-40 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling)
16 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 17000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 38800.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 60 minutes
10 planes vectored on to bombers
VF-6 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
25 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 17000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 29500.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 24 minutes
28 planes vectored on to bombers
VF-8 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
18 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 17000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 17000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 26 minutes
8 planes vectored on to bombers
VF-16 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
15 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 17000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 38800.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 14 minutes
9 planes vectored on to bombers
VF-37 with F4F-4 Wildcat (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
19 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 5000 , scrambling fighters between 3810 and 13000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 17 minutes
5 planes vectored on to bombers
VF-60 with F4F-4 Wildcat (0 airborne, 1 on standby, 0 scrambling)
12 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 10000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 10 minutes
1 planes vectored on to bombers
VRF-5F with F4F-4 Wildcat (0 airborne, 9 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 34000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 24 minutes
5 planes vectored on to bombers
VMF-121 with F4U-1A Corsair (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 5000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 10000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes
VMF-222 with F4U-1A Corsair (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling)
8 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 7000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 11 minutes
4 planes vectored on to bombers
VMF-215 with F4U-1A Corsair (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
8 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 12000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 40 minutes
3 planes vectored on to bombers
VMF-422 with F4U-1A Corsair (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling)
7 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 9000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 23 minutes
8 planes vectored on to bombers

[Lowpe]

Four torpedo strikes against the Queen Elizabeth...Betty and Mavis in the morning, beaten off, and Emily and Emily in the afternoon. This is the first afternoon strike, prior to the Queen taking 6 torpedoes from from less than a dozen Emilys...i already posted that strike.

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Ningpo at 93,58

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zero x 10
H8K2 Emily x 2

Allied aircraft
Beaufighter VIc x 3
F4U-1A Corsair x 12

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M5 Zero: 7 destroyed
H8K2 Emily: 1 destroyed

No Allied losses

CAP engaged:
VMF-441 with F4U-1A Corsair (12 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(12 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
12 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 0 and 10000.
Raid is overhead
No.27 Sqn RAF with Beaufighter VIc (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(9 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 0 and 10000.
Raid is overhead

[Lowpe]

I agree with the post above.

I appreciate your AAR more than you know.

In the immortal words of the Col Liscum, 9th Inf Rgt Commander during the Boxer Rebellion, "Keep Up The Fire."

Thank you
T Rav

Thanks for the sentiments you guys...we will soldier on in game and in AAR.

[MBF]

fwiw - I read both your AAR and you opponents AAR faithfully and am amazed at the amazing game play and really appreciate that you both haven't migrated to youtube or discord (which is blocked at work) (but maybe I am old school etc ... sigh)

Keep soldiering on the end of the game is guaranteed to be amazing

[RangerJoe]

I enjoy your AAR, it is the first one that I will look at. Not that I can give a lot of advice to you on tactics or strategy but I can sometimes give advice on how things work like device upgrades. The only advice that I think would be useful is "Find the bastards and pile on!" by Major General George Smith Patton.

https://www.goupstate.com/story/news/20 ... 726295007/

[Lowpe]

Jan 23, 1944

Lots of air attacks as Japan is super aggressive....our air defense is worn thru at Ningpo, despite devastating naval bombardments of Shanghai.

But the 1st Australian Div is fully unloaded at Ningpo...

Japan swarms Foochow with Iboats looking to get a damaged fleet carrier...no joy but it was close.

Our LRPs survive at Shaohing, next to Ningpo although Japan is building up troops at Hangchow (rail line).

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[DesertWolf101]

I understand your frustrations Lowpe, but I will echo some of the previous posters. We do appreciate the time you take to post your AAR, and I certainly hope that you continue.

The WITP AE community remains very vibrant (arguably even more so now), but the vast majority of players have migrated to Youtube and especially discord. I myself, despite having posted frequently here in the past, have done so as well. Nevertheless, it is still nice to see AARs in the old format still going here. There are some advnatages to posting in the forum that you don't get in discord, notably a more accessible and permanent record.

Cheers.

[Lowpe]

Sitmap:

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[Lowpe]

I have got three large Desrons at Ningpo, patrolling, and they won't go fight the IJN one hex away, but four SCs will react into that hex hunting an Iboat. Go figure. Plus several PT boat squadrons....what more could you ask for: no moon, thunderstorms. Even my subs don't make contact.

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Night Naval bombardment of Shanghai at 92,55

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-84r Frank: 15 damaged
Ki-84r Frank: 1 destroyed on ground
Ki-43-IV Oscar: 55 damaged
Ki-43-IV Oscar: 9 destroyed on ground
A6M8 Zero: 32 damaged
A6M8 Zero: 4 destroyed on ground
F1M2 Pete: 7 damaged
F1M2 Pete: 2 destroyed on ground
Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 20 damaged
Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 2 destroyed on ground
Ki-46-II Dinah: 54 damaged
Ki-46-II Dinah: 2 destroyed on ground
Ki-44-IIc Tojo: 30 damaged
Ki-44-IIc Tojo: 1 destroyed on ground
J2M3 Jack: 25 damaged
J2M3 Jack: 1 destroyed on ground
D3A2 Val: 12 damaged
D3A2 Val: 1 destroyed on ground
D4Y1 Judy: 36 damaged
D4Y1 Judy: 2 destroyed on ground
N1K1-J George: 17 damaged
N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed on ground
B6N1 Jill: 1 damaged
B6N1 Jill: 1 destroyed on ground

Japanese Ships
TK Kanto Maru, Shell hits 1

Allied Ships
CA Wichita
CA Astoria
CA New Orleans
CA Chicago
CA Northampton

Japanese ground losses:
376 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 9 destroyed, 72 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled
Guns lost 7 (1 destroyed, 6 disabled)
Vehicles lost 14 (6 destroyed, 8 disabled)

Airbase hits 22
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 65

CA Wichita firing at Shanghai
CA Astoria firing at Shanghai
SOC-1 Seagull acting as spotter for CA New Orleans
CA New Orleans firing at Shanghai
CA Chicago firing at Shanghai
CA Northampton firing at Shanghai

[Lowpe]

Still bombing Pescadores with two squadrons of single engine bombers (DB and TB). As the number of viable resources dwindles, it is hard to score hits on them.

Big tank battle west of Canton...Guards Tank Division is doing all the heavy lifting here despite rather strong aerial bombing.

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Ground combat at 76,58 (near Wuchow)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 53381 troops, 718 guns, 1109 vehicles, Assault Value = 2004

Defending force 23630 troops, 278 guns, 644 vehicles, Assault Value = 859

Allied adjusted assault: 265

Japanese adjusted defense: 2545

Allied assault odds: 1 to 9

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
1083 casualties reported
Squads: 43 destroyed, 74 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 27 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 14 disabled
Guns lost 10 (3 destroyed, 7 disabled)
Vehicles lost 70 (12 destroyed, 58 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
462 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 47 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 52 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 7 disabled
Vehicles lost 174 (50 destroyed, 124 disabled)

Assaulting units:
2/4th Armoured Regiment
3rd Carabiniers Regiment
3rd NZ Armoured Sqn
254th Armoured Brigade
2/8th Armoured Regiment
640th Tank Destroyer Battalion
Guides Cavalry Regiment
33rd Infantry Division
Gardner's Horse Regiment
11th Indian Division
192nd Tank Battalion
5th Chinese Corps
205th Coast AA Regiment
2nd RAA Jungle Regiment
13th Field Regiment
10th Marine Defense Battalion
4th Australian Lt AA Regiment
251st Cst AA Rgt /2

Defending units:
3rd South Seas Det.
15th Tank Regiment
11th Tank Regiment
5th Ind.Mixed Brigade
23rd Ind.Mixed Brigade
19th Tank Regiment
Guards Tank Division
4th RF Gun Battalion
22nd Ind.Mtn Gun Battalion
30th Field Artillery Regiment

[Lowpe]

Distraction raid...hopefully it causes Japan to allocate a bit more to air defense.

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