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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/06/43

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 5
B5N Kate x 54
G4M1 Betty x 9
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 139

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 8
Runway hits 95

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Bulla , at 40,75

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 34
Ki-49 Helen x 77
Ki-46-II Dinah x 1

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 43

Aircraft Attacking:
18 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 35

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 14

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-45 KAIa Nick bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Koumac , at 67,111


Allied aircraft
Seafire x 14
P-40B Tomahawk x 42
P-40E Warhawk x 80


No Allied losses

Runway hits 22

Aircraft Attacking:
38 x P-40B Tomahawk bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 15
P-40E Warhawk x 40


Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 3 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
13 casualties reported

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 13

Aircraft Attacking:
18 x P-40E Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet

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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16048 troops, 201 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3525

Defending force 203390 troops, 352 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5571



Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Manila

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 150 troops, 5 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 11

Defending force 4862 troops, 33 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 148


it should heat up a bit again in the next days...

Hmmm, no action is rather a good thing, isn't it ?

ORIGINAL: Ambassador

Hmmm, no action is rather a good thing, isn't it ?

depends on what you plan... [;)]

back into real action again...

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/07/43

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Day Air attack on Chungking , at 43,32

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 36
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 36
Ki-46-II Dinah x 1

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 26
Hurricane IIc x 25
I-153c x 5
I-16c x 58

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 24 destroyed
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 3 destroyed, 8 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb: 6 destroyed, 14 damaged
Hurricane IIc: 2 destroyed, 14 damaged
I-153c: 2 destroyed, 1 damaged
I-16c: 30 destroyed

and it´s as usual, we fight the hardcoded bounce due to a couple of Allied radar stations present... The Oscar sentai get´s wiped out, the Tojos did better but hey, the Hurricanes (perhaps exp 60) achieved a 3,5:1 kill rate today. My sentais were 80 exp... I love the bounce... alt doesn´t matter in the well designed WITP but nevertheless I´ve sent my fighters in at 25.000 and 30.000ft...[8|]

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Day Air attack on Chungking , at 43,32

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 72
Ki-49 Helen x 170

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 18
Hurricane IIc x 20
I-153c x 3
I-16c x 14

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 9 destroyed, 5 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 3 destroyed, 36 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb: 14 destroyed
Hurricane IIc: 5 destroyed, 9 damaged
I-153c: 2 destroyed
I-16c: 17 destroyed
IL-4c: 1 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
56 casualties reported

Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 27

Aircraft Attacking:
19 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 16000 feet

and here comes the follow on strike and hey, our strike got endlessly bounced again and again and again...

another nice feature of the Allied radar sets, as you can see, we have destroyed... nothing on the ground... means the Allied launched 100% of their fighters... I love it, we are stuck with 50% in the best cases... [8|]

one more of those attacks and the presence of Allied fighters in China is history... [:@]



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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 52
G4M1 Betty x 9
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 194

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 99

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Bulla , at 40,75

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 34
Ki-49 Helen x 81
Ki-46-II Dinah x 1

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
11 casualties reported

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 74

Aircraft Attacking:
20 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 35

No Japanese losses

Runway hits 5

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-45 KAIa Nick bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Koumac , at 67,111


Allied aircraft
Seafire x 14
P-40B Tomahawk x 40
P-40E Warhawk x 48


No Allied losses

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 12

Aircraft Attacking:
36 x P-40B Tomahawk bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 13
P-40E Warhawk x 35


Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 2 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 2 damaged

Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 14

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x P-40E Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet

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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16040 troops, 200 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3526

Defending force 203067 troops, 345 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5561



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Ground combat at Manila

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 150 troops, 5 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 11

Defending force 4815 troops, 33 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 149


nearly 30 cruisers, the KB and another carrier TF (CV Junyo, Hiyo, CVLs and CVEs) popped up 6 hexes North of Broome today! Two cruiser TFs are tasked to bombard Broome and one Derby. KB and the other TF are ordered to provide air cover. Broome is full of ac and Derby has some 100 ac. I expect to see PTs popping up immediately and all ac being moved to the two bases on further West. I´ve also used Miller´s tactic of having a dozen float planes flying recon today, perhaps this enables us to do nukes tomorrow...

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/08/43

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Naval bombardment of Broome, at 21,85

Japanese Ships
CL Isuzu
CL Nagara
CA Nachi
CA Haguro
CA Maya
CA Atago
CA Tone


Allied ground losses:
396 casualties reported
Guns lost 8
Vehicles lost 9

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 11

the bombardments go in, Miller moved out his aircraft... result is a joke...

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Naval bombardment of Broome, at 21,85


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
PBY Catalina: 1 destroyed
Catalina I: 2 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CL Kuma
CL Kinu
CA Mikuma
CA Mogami
CA Ashigara
CA Chokai
CA Takao
CA Chikuma


Allied ground losses:
1068 casualties reported
Guns lost 15
Vehicles lost 14

Airbase hits 16
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 57
Port hits 2

second bombardment on Broome with better results... there´s no counter fire from the beaches...

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Naval bombardment of Derby, at 24,85


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
Beaufighter VIF: 1 destroyed
PB2Y Coronado: 1 destroyed
PBY Catalina: 2 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CL Kiso
CL Tama
CA Kako
CA Furutaka
CA Kinugasa
CA Aoba
CA Kumano
CA Suzuya


Allied ground losses:
3412 casualties reported
Guns lost 10
Vehicles lost 31

Airbase hits 21
Airbase supply hits 6
Runway hits 94

Derby is hit hard, this can be considered a nuke... but just like at Broome, most of the aircraft were moved out... those attacks serve only one purpose: to make Miller nervous... [;)]

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 7
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 158

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 63

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 10000 feet
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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 54
Ki-49 Helen x 150
Ki-46-II Dinah x 5

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported

Runway hits 10

Aircraft Attacking:
20 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 26000 feet

this is what you get when you attack above effective flak range... nothing... two Allied units already arrived at Lautern from their march from Dili and they must have a lot of engineers as the base´s damage goes down rapidly now. And we won´t ever be able to keep it closed again... [:(]

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Day Air attack on Koumac , at 67,111


Allied aircraft
Seafire x 15
P-40B Tomahawk x 42
P-40E Warhawk x 71


No Allied losses

Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 18

Aircraft Attacking:
38 x P-40B Tomahawk bombing at 2000 feet


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Day Air attack on 1st Parachute Regiment, at 67,111


Allied aircraft
SBD Dauntless x 14


No Allied losses

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x SBD Dauntless bombing at 2000 feet

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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16040 troops, 200 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3526

Defending force 202615 troops, 339 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5552



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Ground combat at Manila

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 150 troops, 5 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 11

Defending force 4835 troops, 33 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 149

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/09/43

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 53
G4M1 Betty x 9
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 68
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 203

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 81

Aircraft Attacking:
31 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Bulla , at 40,75

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 36
Ki-49 Helen x 74
Ki-46-II Dinah x 1

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
22 casualties reported

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 24

Aircraft Attacking:
19 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 35

No Japanese losses

Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 22

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-45 KAIa Nick bombing at 2000 feet

Clark field´s training school hasn´t many aircraft left, nearly all my aircraft are at the frontline now... also those attacking Pamakasan are near the front as it only takes one turn to send them from Soerabaja to Timor...

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Day Air attack on Koumac , at 67,111


Allied aircraft
Seafire x 19
SBD Dauntless x 16
P-40B Tomahawk x 48
P-40E Warhawk x 90


No Allied losses

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 27

Aircraft Attacking:
44 x P-40B Tomahawk bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 14
P-40E Warhawk x 39


Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 2 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 5 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
4 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 17

Aircraft Attacking:
17 x P-40E Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet

the enemy now also has hundreds of fighters doing training runs...

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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16000 troops, 200 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3524

Defending force 202140 troops, 326 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5548



Allied ground losses:
11 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Manila

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 150 troops, 5 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 11

Defending force 4856 troops, 32 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 148



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Ground combat at Suva

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 61875 troops, 813 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1455

Defending force 8176 troops, 1 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 85

Allied max assault: 1478 - adjusted assault: 1662

Japanese max defense: 70 - adjusted defense: 29

Allied assault odds: 57 to 1


Japanese ground losses:
615 casualties reported

Allied ground losses:
245 casualties reported
Guns lost 17

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/10/43

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 15
P-40E Warhawk x 33


Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 3 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
10 casualties reported

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 4

Aircraft Attacking:
13 x P-40E Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on 27th Special Base Force, at 86,114


Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 48
A-20B Boston x 74


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
184 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
44 x P-40E Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet

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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15997 troops, 199 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3522

Defending force 201606 troops, 319 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5546



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Ground combat at Suva

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 61729 troops, 805 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1440

Defending force 6831 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 32

Allied max assault: 1480 - adjusted assault: 1057

Japanese max defense: 23 - adjusted defense: 9

Allied assault odds: 117 to 1


Japanese ground losses:
545 casualties reported

Allied ground losses:
43 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

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Maizuru 2nd SNLF Wiped Out at Suva by attrition!!!

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27th Special Base Force Wiped Out at Suva by attrition!!!


Japanese Unit(s) surrounded at Suva

all my remaining units were wiped out today, we were able to fly out big parts of each unit and they will all be rebuilt...

Miller moved 200+ fighters to Lautern today!! And also the Northern Australian bases are now full of bombers again... Miller stated that he´s sure that KB is at Koepang, which is correct, not hard to figure out if you see 150 additional Zeroes flying Cap there. It´s not just the KB at Koepang, I have nearly the whole IJN in the Timor area now and Miller isn´t sure yet what I´m up to, at least that´s what he told me. He will find out soon...

A turn that just completely pisses me off... [:@] from idiocy to ridicoulosness...


AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/11/43

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TF 68 encounters mine field at Lautem (33,78)

Japanese Ships
CL Yura, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

Cruiser is dead! Allied mines kill cruisers, Japanese mines don´t even sink a sub... am not saying a mine couldn´t kill a cruiser but the discrepancy between an Allied mine killing a cruiser and a Japanese mine not killing a sub is a joke so to say... [:@]

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TF 76 encounters mine field at Lautem (33,78)

Japanese Ships
DD Arare, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

8 out of ten times we enter this hex we hit a mine, this has long become a joke... there aren´t even a lot of mines but hey, at least there aren´t any of our mines that we could hit like we already did a dozen times... I just could second dead ship...

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Lautem at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CA Chikuma
CA Takao
CA Chokai
CA Ashigara
CA Mogami
CA Mikuma
CL Kinu
CL Kuma
DD Amatsukaze
DD Tokitsukaze, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
DD Urakaze
DD Nowaki, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
DD Hagikaze
DD Tanikaze

Allied Ships
PT PT-176
PT PT-179
PT PT-186

hey ho! AFB says: Allied PTs in WITP are underrated!!! Two more Japanese DDs killed...

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Lautem at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CA Chikuma
CA Takao
CA Chokai
CA Ashigara
CA Mogami
CA Mikuma
CL Kinu
CL Kuma
DD Amatsukaze
DD Tokitsukaze, Shell hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD Urakaze, Shell hits 1
DD Nowaki, on fire
DD Hagikaze
DD Tanikaze

Allied Ships
PT PT-169, Shell hits 7, and is sunk
PT PT-181
PT PT-196, Shell hits 5, and is sunk

two 20mm Oerlikon hits are like hits by 250lb bombs...

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Lautem at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CA Chikuma
CA Takao
CA Chokai
CA Ashigara
CA Mogami
CA Mikuma
CL Kinu
CL Kuma
DD Amatsukaze
DD Tokitsukaze, on fire, heavy damage
DD Urakaze
DD Nowaki, on fire
DD Hagikaze
DD Tanikaze

Allied Ships
PT PT-176, Shell hits 5, and is sunk
PT PT-179, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
PT PT-186

[8|]

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Lautem at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CA Chikuma
CA Takao
CA Chokai
CA Ashigara
CA Mogami
CA Mikuma
CL Kinu
CL Kuma
DD Amatsukaze, Shell hits 1
DD Tokitsukaze, on fire, heavy damage
DD Urakaze
DD Nowaki, on fire
DD Hagikaze
DD Tanikaze

Allied Ships
PT PT-181

[8|]

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Lautem at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CA Chikuma
CA Takao
CA Chokai
CA Ashigara
CA Mogami
CA Mikuma
CL Kinu
CL Kuma
DD Amatsukaze
DD Tokitsukaze, on fire, heavy damage
DD Urakaze
DD Nowaki, on fire
DD Hagikaze
DD Tanikaze

Allied Ships
PT PT-186

[8|]

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Lautem at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CA Chikuma
CA Takao
CA Chokai
CA Ashigara
CA Mogami
CA Mikuma
CL Kinu
CL Kuma
DD Amatsukaze
DD Tokitsukaze, on fire, heavy damage
DD Urakaze
DD Nowaki, on fire, heavy damage
DD Hagikaze
DD Tanikaze

Allied Ships
PT PT-181, Shell hits 10, and is sunk

[8|] one thing that is absolutely bad about those engagements on and on is the fact that during engagements that pop up in the replay the damage increases and increases and increases and if there are enough engagements back to back then the ship sinks... when there are more replays, the damage is ALWAYS far higher than if there´s only one engagement. Mentioned it often enough but I´m sure it was never even looked at.

I once lost a BB to one 14" shell hit. No, not a mag explosion. First it was only "on fire", next engagement "on fire" .... four engagements later "on fire, heavy damage"... what the heck? More and more and more engagements, BB "sunk"...

If your ships are hit, just hope there are no more engagements because otherwise the damage routine always goes crazy...

5 PTs sunk today, we have probably lost three DDs and one CL... HEY HO!

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Naval bombardment of Lautem, at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CL Kuma
CL Kinu
CA Mikuma
CA Mogami
CA Ashigara
CA Chokai
CA Takao
CA Chikuma


Allied ground losses:
148 casualties reported
Guns lost 14
Vehicles lost 3

f*cking sh*t bombardment routine... why on earth can´t we hit a base that we have reconned with DinahIIs for months??? [:@][:@][:@]

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Naval bombardment of Lautem, at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CL Kiso
CL Tama
CA Kako
CA Furutaka
CA Kinugasa
CA Aoba
CA Kumano
CA Suzuya


Allied ground losses:
58 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

REPEAT: f*cking sh*t bombardment routine... why on earth can´t we hit a base that we have reconned with DinahIIs for months??? [:@][:@][:@]

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 23
G4M1 Betty x 7
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 119

No Japanese losses

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 53

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 10000 feet
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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77 [:@][:@][:@]

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 30

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 115
Spitfire Vb x 29

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 22 destroyed [>:][>:][>:]

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 27 damaged
Spitfire Vb: 2 destroyed, 7 damaged [8|][8|][8|]

anything else that totally goes wrong this turn? Turns like this and I would love to just throw the game out of the window... Wth? 82 and 84 exp Tojo sentais against what? Probably 60-65 exp Allied squadrons, we lose 11:1 today!!!!!!!! And no, I did not save 50% of the pilots! We lost 19 pilots today! But hey, could have been worse, I could have lost 22 pilots. It´s funny to have a WITP special edition. Other players have been telling me for 4 years now that they lose 50 PTs for one hit on a Japanese DD (LOL) and they save most of their pilots (LOL). Oh well, I´m a newb. Only did some 5000 turns or more...

Hey, don´t bring up the Corsair please... [8|]



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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 35

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
10 casualties reported

Runway hits 38

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-45 KAIa Nick bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Koumac , at 67,111


Allied aircraft
Seafire x 22
SBD Dauntless x 16
P-40B Tomahawk x 50
P-40E Warhawk x 96


No Allied losses

Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 38

Aircraft Attacking:
45 x P-40B Tomahawk bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 14
P-40E Warhawk x 32


Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed

Runway hits 14

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x P-40E Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet

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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15976 troops, 198 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3522

Defending force 201225 troops, 316 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5534



Allied ground losses:
10 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Suva

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 62061 troops, 807 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1448

Defending force 953 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2

Allied max assault: 1497 - adjusted assault: 1276

Japanese max defense: 1 - adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 1276 to 1


Japanese ground losses:
1268 casualties reported

the last unit died. I was wrong last turn! I wasn´t able to save all my units! Two of them turned into GHOSTS!!! F*ck those damned bugs in this game![8|]

anything else to say about this turn?

And here we have the three dying DDs! All are heading to Koepang, a level 3 port. This means they will live on for another two weeks in port there and then they will sink one after another. If we would save one of them it would be a miracle as the fires will make sure that the flt damage will go up. Next "big" port is Kendari, level 5 but that´s just too far away...

hey ho, trade 3 DDs for 5 PTs and a mine destroyed...

and to complete the report of this turns idiocy, here is CL Yura that hit a VH2... thank god it wasn´t a MK6, because then the CL would have sunk before I would have had a chance to take a screenshot. Well, the three or four times an Allied sub hit one of my mines - no matter if Type 4, Type 93 or Type 88, not once the sub sunk. Not once...

Yura is also heading towards Koepang, with one hex a movement phase... [8|] But! The ship at least accounted for another mine destroyed! BANZAI!

Miller stated that he just loves his PTs! Well, I don´t wonder... And... "click" another PT boat squadron popped up at Lautern today! [8|]


AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/12/43

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 35

No Japanese losses

Runway hits 37

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-45 KAIa Nick bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Broome , at 21,85

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 25
G3M Nell x 26
G4M1 Betty x 78

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M Nell: 7 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 3 destroyed, 31 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-26B Marauder: 16 destroyed
Catalina I: 1 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
120 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
Vehicles lost 1

Airbase hits 24
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 63

Aircraft Attacking:
18 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 11000 feet

Miller has hundreds of fighters in Northern Australia and on Timor but obviously not enough to guard all his bases with reasonable Cap levels. Well, Broome has never had Cap since he moved his bombers back and the last three turns those damned Marauders hit two of my subs in this area (one is dead, the other one might make it).

The only good thing for me is that Miller always takes time until he learns... [;)] He does learn, but it takes time. He didn´t Cap his carriers in port, he then didn´t Cap the cruisers in Darwin. He had four CVs damaged and only with total, unbelievable luck on his part 300 of my bombers didn´t sink a single carrier. He lost four heavy cruisers due to not enough Cap at Darwin afterwards. He came back with lots of fighters, just to swap them out with bombers again. Then we withdrew our long range bombers to strike his airfields again. He came back with fighters. We withdrew, he came back with bombers, again without Cap, he pays again. I guess at this point he has to realize that he can´t put only bombers into a base, even though his flak is deadly as usual.

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Day Air attack on Broome , at 21,85

Japanese aircraft
G3M Nell x 36
G4M1 Betty x 59
H8K Emily x 4

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M Nell: 5 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed, 16 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-26B Marauder: 14 destroyed
PBY Catalina: 1 destroyed
Catalina I: 1 destroyed
Wellington III: 1 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
50 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 1

Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 79

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 11000 feet

also the full second strike found it´s target and we achieve 142 hits on the runways and 32 on the base facilities. Guess the airbase is out of action for two days. The loss of nearly 60 Marauders is the replacement rate of two months but Miller shouldn´t be in low supply of Marauders. It´s been quite a time since we´ve seen the 4Es and big numbers of Mitchells again. I guess Miller thinks I will invade Australia in the next days and when he will spot transport TFs he will move 600 4Es and Mitchells back into his bases in Northern Australia.

We paid this small success with 13 lost crews. Even though only 4 bombers were shot down by flak immediately a dozen more crashed on the way home. So out of 4 damaged bombers, more than one is lost and 1 crew is lost for sure. I remember the last big 4E attack when 1 out of 79 damaged B-17 crashed. And no, I´m not saying a Betty should be comparable to a B-17 but yet again the discrepancy seems to high for me, as this means the B-17 has a 20 times higher chance to survive. Guess 10 times higher would be high enough but perhaps an aircraft buff can come up with a study about the loss ratios of B-17s and Betties.

And we haven´t really encountered a super flak stack so far, all those bases are only "lightly" defended by some base forces.



note again! FOW in WITP means that ac destroyed on the ground are doubled... always doubled... glad that FOW in AE will be more FOW than this laughable feature...

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Day Air attack on Koumac , at 67,111


Allied aircraft
Seafire x 19
SBD Dauntless x 16
P-40B Tomahawk x 50
P-40E Warhawk x 97


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 20

Aircraft Attacking:
45 x P-40B Tomahawk bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 12
P-40E Warhawk x 29


Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 1 damaged

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 14

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x P-40E Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on TF at 90,114

Japanese aircraft
G3M Nell x 13

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M Nell: 2 damaged

Allied Ships
AVD Thornton
AK William E. Channing, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AVD William B. Preston, Torpedo hits 6, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x G3M Nell launching torpedoes at 200 feet

we have spotted TFs moving to Tongatapu (South West of Pago Pago) on and on, coming from Suva and never have our bombers attacked. Today a small group of Nells attack and achieved a hit rate that´s pretty high, too high so to say. Four ships are reported in this TF, heading towards Tongatapu.


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Sub attack at 109,107

Japanese Ships
SS I-10

Allied Ships
TK Mobilube, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
PG Moncton
PG Vancouver
TK Kekoskee
DD Gilmer
PG Tui
PG Moa

I-10 hits a fuel loaden tanker in the shipping lanes East of Canton island. Miller is really having his TFs closely passing my atolls in the South Pacific. He´s only lucky that N O N E of them has been attacked by long range IJN bombers so far. We had chances to attack en masse! [8|] Guess with the succesful raid of mini KB against his big TK convoy there is not that much fuel for his Navy in Australia and every tanker full of fuel is precious. One out of six torps hit but doesn´t even do heavy damage. At least all the fuel will be lost...

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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15992 troops, 199 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3526

Defending force 200891 troops, 300 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5521


Kweiyang is losing a dozen assault points on average per day, means 400-500 troops. [8D] China´s army will be starved to death, when the dozens of units that were destroyed at Sian return at Chungking, the supply drain will be even higher.

Miller got a lot of intel about my troops prepping for Russian bases and as we don´t have a hr, he asked me if I will give him time to move his troops after I will (if I will...) attack Russia. I´ve told him that I will activate them (if I will attack... [;)]) and then my troops will stay in place for two or three weeks. I will keep my airforce active though as he can move his aircraft.

Let´s keep the sh*t going on...

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/13/43

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TF 40 encounters mine field at Lautem (33,78)

Japanese Ships
CVL Ryujo, Mine hits 1, on fire

Surprised? Well, I was dumb enough to set my carriers to escort my BBs and therefor they also entered the hex. What did CVL Ryujo hit???

A Type 88 MINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Nice damage for a single mine hit on a carrier... this even more so makes me wondering why my mines can´t sink an Allied sub when two mines would sink an IJN carrier...



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Night Time Surface Combat, near Lautem at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CA Tone
CA Atago
CA Maya, Shell hits 3
CA Haguro
CA Nachi
CL Nagara
CL Isuzu
DD Kagero
DD Kuroshio
DD Natsushio
DD Hayashio
DD Maikaze
DD Hamakaze

Allied Ships
PT PT-184, Shell hits 31, and is sunk
PT PT-185, Shell hits 6, and is sunk

"Click"... PT pop up routine...

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Lautem at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CA Tone
CA Atago
CA Maya
CA Haguro
CA Nachi
CL Nagara
CL Isuzu
DD Kagero, Torpedo hits 1 [&o]
DD Kuroshio
DD Natsushio
DD Hayashio
DD Maikaze
DD Hamakaze

Allied Ships
PT PT-175
PT PT-182, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
PT PT-187, Shell hits 12, and is sunk

WE surprised THEM!

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Lautem at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CA Tone
CA Atago
CA Maya
CA Haguro
CA Nachi
CL Nagara
CL Isuzu
DD Kagero, Shell hits 2, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk [&o] [&o] [&o] [&o]
DD Kuroshio, Shell hits 1
DD Natsushio
DD Hayashio
DD Maikaze
DD Hamakaze

Allied Ships
PT PT-175

single PT then surprised US...

I couldn´t take a screenshot because the DD sunk after three torp hits!!! AFB says: PTs are not overrated! You will lose 50 PTs for one hit on an IJN DD!

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Lautem at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CA Suzuya
CA Kumano
CA Aoba
CA Kinugasa
CA Furutaka
CA Kako
CL Tama
CL Kiso
DD Yamagumo
DD Asagumo
DD Kasumi
DD Shiratsuyu
DD Shigure

Allied Ships
PT PT-175, Shell hits 1, and is sunk

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let the joke begin...

Naval bombardment of Lautem, at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CL Isuzu
CL Nagara
CA Nachi
CA Haguro
CA Maya
CA Atago
CA Tone


Allied ground losses:
213 casualties reported [8|]
Guns lost 5
Vehicles lost 1

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Naval bombardment of Lautem, at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CL Kuma
CL Kinu
CA Mikuma
CA Mogami
CA Ashigara
CA Chokai
CA Takao
CA Chikuma


Allied ground losses:
400 casualties reported [8|]
Guns lost 12
Vehicles lost 3

Airbase hits 2[8|]
Runway hits 1[8|]
Port hits 1[8|]
Port supply hits 3[8|]

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Naval bombardment of Lautem, at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CL Kiso
CL Tama
CA Kako
CA Furutaka
CA Kinugasa
CA Aoba
CA Kumano
CA Suzuya


Allied ground losses:
237 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

Runway hits 5[8|]
Port hits 1[8|]
Port supply hits 3[8|]

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Naval bombardment of Lautem, at 33,78

Japanese Ships
BB Mutsu
BB Nagato


Allied ground losses:
1252 casualties reported
Guns lost 29
Vehicles lost 1

Airbase hits 3[8|]
Runway hits 6[8|]
Port hits 3[8|]
Port supply hits 5[8|]

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Naval bombardment of Lautem, at 33,78

Japanese Ships
BB Ise
BB Yamashiro
BB Fuso


Allied ground losses:
222 casualties reported[8|][8|][8|]
Guns lost 9
Vehicles lost 1

it won´t take long and I will send my ships on a suicide run to Pearl Harbour to hand over my surrender afterwards... nearly the whole IJN is here doing bombardments and it´s not possible to get a couple of hits on the base... Miller just has to laugh about my attacks... seems like he can rely on the fact that the IJN only works in early and mid 42 but from late 42 on it´s impossible to do damage it seems...

but hey, another DD lost to PTs today, another mine hit... it only was a CVL... who cares... [8|]

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Sub attack at 93,114

Japanese Ships
SS I-23

Allied Ships
AK William Williams, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AK Zachary Taylor
AVD Thornton

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 3
A6M3a Zero x 2
G4M1 Betty x 6
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 20

No Japanese losses

Runway hits 5

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 35

No Japanese losses

Runway hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-45 KAIa Nick bombing at 2000 feet


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15978 troops, 200 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3522

Defending force 200666 troops, 290 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5522

My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.

guess the happenings in the coming year would kill me if I would drink a beer for everything that goes wrong... [;)]

ORIGINAL: castor troy

guess the happenings in the coming year would kill me if I would drink a beer for everything that goes wrong... [;)]

Dude, you're spreading the bad vibes [:D]

Change the way of thinking, imagine ... a nickle every time something goes wrong. This time, next year, you are going to be a millionare!

Or you can stick with beer, never too much beer [:D]

ORIGINAL: Zond

ORIGINAL: castor troy

guess the happenings in the coming year would kill me if I would drink a beer for everything that goes wrong... [;)]

Dude, you're spreading the bad vibes [:D]

Change the way of thinking, imagine ... a nickle every time something goes wrong. This time, next year, you are going to be a millionare!

Or you can stick with beer, never too much beer [:D]

when I think about the effects of Allied radar then I´m better off with drinking beer I guess... [;)] Allied radar will be the major factor, but hey, in 1/44 I will start to get 30 Type 13 radar sets a month. [:D]

absolutely bloody day...

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/14/43

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Sub attack near Koepang at 28,77

Japanese Ships
AK Nanman Maru

Allied Ships
SS Shark

got 3x6 DD ASW TFs undocked in the hex, 72 Helen are flying ASW patrol out of Maumere (3 hexes away), the sub was spotted yesterday and the days before... well, at least the two MK14 torps missed...

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Sub attack near Koepang at 28,77

Japanese Ships
AR Aden Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire [:@][:@][:@]

Allied Ships
SS Shark

god damn! Can´t change luck the side again? The AR will live on but it was the only chance for my damaged ships in Koepang... [:(]

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Day Air attack on Chungking , at 43,32

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 36
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 36
Ki-46-II Dinah x 1

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 28
Hurricane IIc x 41
I-153c x 1
I-16c x 19

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 14 destroyed, 8 damaged
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 7 destroyed, 8 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb: 3 destroyed, 14 damaged
Hurricane IIc: 8 destroyed, 25 damaged
I-153c: 1 destroyed
I-16c: 10 destroyed

Miller once again gets a huge Cap, means surely something like 80-90% in the air. He of course also gets the never ever ending bounce and once again the Hurricanes shred my sweeping fighters. Those two sentais are now out of the war for the next three months.

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Day Air attack on Chungking , at 43,32

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35 [:@][:@]
Ki-49 Helen x 167

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 21
Hurricane IIc x 25
I-16c x 5

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 2 destroyed, 37 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb: 11 destroyed
Hurricane IIc: 7 destroyed, 11 damaged
I-16c: 3 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
101 casualties reported

Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 33

Aircraft Attacking:
19 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 16000 feet

one f*cking Oscar sentai just stayed at home, didn´t even take off, reason for this is unknown. The enemy did NOT get the bounce and was shredded. [8|] Been looking at thousands of air combats in the last years and I´ve never stopped thinking that either the testers of this product were blind or the developers didn´t want to listen to the testers. The results are in at least 3 out of 5 cases totally off. And all is about the BOUNCE! And the bounce is related to radar... [8|]

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 54
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 35

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 38

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 35

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 10

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-45 KAIa Nick bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Koumac , at 67,111


Allied aircraft
Seafire x 19
SBD Dauntless x 14
P-40B Tomahawk x 53
P-40E Warhawk x 91


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 17

Aircraft Attacking:
53 x P-40B Tomahawk bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 2
P-40E Warhawk x 31


Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 4 damaged

Runway hits 13

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x P-40E Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on TF, near Tongatapu Island at 94,114

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 45
Ki-49 Helen x 20 [8|]

Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 37

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 2 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 18 destroyed, 1 damaged

Allied Ships
AVD Thornton, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
AK Zachary Taylor, Bomb hits 3, on fire

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 3000 feet

why 90% of my bombers stay at home all the time is beyond me, seems like I have to be happy about the fact if there are even a couple of them flying. Why 9 of the Zeroes stayed home is also another question. But hey, it doesn´t matter. We get another totally off result IMO, the 45 Zeroes achieve a 18:1 kill rate... being on escort, the bounce for a short time in the beginning on the Allied side. As soon as the bounce was over, the Warhawks got shot up. Totally off... [:-]

The AVD should be dead, the medium sized AK isn´t impressed after being hit by 3 x 250kg bombs...


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Day Air attack on TF, near Dili at 31,77

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 61

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 15
Spitfire Vb x 9
Beaufort I x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 4 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 7 destroyed, 1 damaged
Spitfire Vb: 4 destroyed, 1 damaged
Beaufort I: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
AP Osaka Maru

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x Beaufort I launching torpedoes at 200 feet

Miller has moved his aircraft back to Lautern, it´s easy for him to move out before my bombardments and in again when the ships have left. We don´t do any damage with nearly the whole IJN so he can use the airfield immediately again. We get our ridicoulos 40% Cap rate as usual and as usual WE get BOUNCED. We get bounced over our own base from escorting fighters. Nice. It absolutely didn´t pay off in kills for the Allied this time but what you should not forget is the fact that if you have the bounce your losses are also far smaller. In this case we achieved a clear victory though.

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Day Air attack on TF, near Dili at 31,77

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 61

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 31
Spitfire Vb x 34
Beaufort I x 6

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 18 destroyed, 23 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 8 destroyed, 15 damaged
Spitfire Vb: 8 destroyed, 18 damaged

Japanese Ships
AP Hokumyo Maru, Torpedo hits 1
AP Michiyu Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x Beaufort I launching torpedoes at 200 feet

but there´s a second strike and unfortunately the second strike gets the bigger escort. Miller doesn´t have a single figther on Cap over Lautern. [X(] All his bombers and fighters are set to offensive missions - the airfield at Lautern is totally stacked, there are some 300 aircraft. We again had to fight the bounce and due to the fact that the second strike is most always deadly, our Cap was shredded. You may not forget that we still have an exp advantage of surely 15 points but that doesn´t help us anymore... due to Allied radar coverage nearly everywhere. In a month, those Wildcats will be Corsairs, this means game over for every airbase in range of Corsairs and Allied radar. Once AP was scuttled, the other one has a 30% chance to make it...

At the end of the day, the enemy has lost nearly twice the number of aircraft we did but this kind of attrition is something we can´t withstand long. My 80+ exp pilots die like flies at the moment and the fact that we even get bounced over our own bases makes it more than problematic. One day of fighting and I have to withdraw the involved daitais for at least 3 months of training. So in an all out fight against Allied fighter squadrons I could probably hold out for 14 days, afterwards there wouldn´t be a combat ready fighter daitai left. Hopefully I´m not forced to fight a prolonged fighter vs fighter battle over one of my bases in the near future.



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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15963 troops, 201 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3515

Defending force 200190 troops, 282 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5511



Allied ground losses:
26 casualties reported

A rather quiet day...

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/15/43

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 53
G4M1 Betty x 9
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 238

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 107

Aircraft Attacking:
17 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet

As you can see here, I have 7 Tojo sentais in training mode, 2 of them are combat ready, four are at best semi combat ready while one is absolutely full of rookies... I guess I have something like 1000 IJA fighters so 25% are in training mode at the moment. And we haven´t seen extensive combat so far... biggest problem stays the fact that I always get a crappy Cap percentage and therefore have to use masses of fighters to see perhaps 140+ in the air... depressing...

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 14
P-40E Warhawk x 23


Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 2 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 2 destroyed, 5 damaged

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 5

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x P-40E Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet

Koumac (Northern tip of New Caledonia) auto switched sides today so Miller just lost one of his training targets! Nice! [:D]

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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 27
Spitfire Vb x 40


No Allied losses

He tried another sweep to take out some Tojos but all of them were LRCAPing one of my troop transports that left the base. Again there was no Cap over Lautern... I guess the day when I will decide to bomb the base we will see a hundred fighters in the air again... no negative thoughts... [:-] no negative thoughts... [:-] no negative thoughts... [;)]

would be nice to have radar and 140 Tojos in the air bouncing such a sweep...

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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15963 troops, 201 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3517

Defending force 199912 troops, 277 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5502


another screenshot that might be of interest...

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/16/43

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Day Air attack on Chungking , at 43,32

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 69
Ki-49 Helen x 160

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 25
Hurricane IIc x 28
I-16c x 12

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 14 destroyed, 17 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 8 destroyed, 37 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb: 11 destroyed, 3 damaged
Hurricane IIc: 11 destroyed, 6 damaged
I-16c: 5 destroyed, 2 damaged
SB-2c: 1 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
74 casualties reported

Airbase hits 9
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 38

Aircraft Attacking:
24 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 16000 feet

it´s not a smart decision to fly those attacks. Once again I´m not listening to my own words. Seeing only 2 dozen fighters in total on Cap the last two days I decided to finish them off once and for all, just to find out that the day we attack the damned Allied radar once again gets 100% of the fighters to scramble... [>:] Only 2 were destroyed on the ground... [:o]

The Hurricanes down more of my aircraft than we destroy and I´m once again asking myself why I´m even flying those attacks as the enemy squadrons can´t do anything in China anyway. All those attacks that have been flown in the last two weeks were a stupid idea. Absolutely stupid. The IJAAF has been ordered to withdraw from the China theatre as there´s no need for them to be there anymore.

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 9
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 5
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 198

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 69

Aircraft Attacking:
19 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77


Allied aircraft
F-5A Lightning x 1


Allied aircraft losses
F-5A Lightning: 1 damaged

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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 54
A6M3a Zero x 100 [X(][X(][:@][:@]
Ki-49 Helen x 194
Ki-46-II Dinah x 6

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 27
Spitfire Vb x 36

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 12 destroyed, 10 damaged
A6M3a Zero: 9 destroyed, 10 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 2 destroyed, 21 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 21 destroyed
Spitfire Vb: 39 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
156 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 28
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 119

Aircraft Attacking:
19 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 11000 feet

it´s just like I´ve mentioned the last turns, while there was NEVER a Cap the last days, exactly the day we attack there is Cap again! [:@] It´s crazy, no idea how often I have already wondered about Miller´s timing. It´s nearly like he would know about my attacks before I know it...

what get´s me once again totally upset is the fact that KB is sitting at Kendari and launched 100 carrier based fighters even though it is set to 90% Cap so with something like 180-200 fighters aboard, so why on earth is the stupid game sending 100 of them to escort a land based strike? I want to preserve my carrier based fighter pilots but if you can´t rely on the settings you did that becomes hard then.

In the end the enemy is shredded but what if they would have shot down 50 of my carrier based fighter pilots? This could have made my upcoming operations impossible. [:@] Once again take a look at the ground losses... It´s ridicoulos. Guess 100% of the undamaged fighters were airborne once again. Radar is working 100% of the time. Needless to say that we got bounced all the time. The only thing that helped us in this case was the fact that we have sent ELITE fighter pilots and the Zero is an excellent dogfighter when going in against Wildcats or Spitfires. Every turn I see all enemy fighters scramble and bounce my strikes for 100% of the time I get more and more pissed off. Should say still pissed off, as it has been like this for over four years now.

But I even seem to have had luck as we´ve spotted Spitfires and Wildcats flying LRCAP over Dili so in fact there could have been far more Allied fighters on Cap over Lautern. No idea why Miller is flying LRCAP but it serves me good. With the game engine working as it does in regards of Allied radar it seems that it does not make any sense to send in bombers as they always hit an empty airfield anyway so if you only want to kill enemy fighters, you´re better off sending only sweeps. But with the hardcoded bounce and new Allied fighters soon this will then reverse in slaughters of the sweeper.


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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 23
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 27
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 35

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 19

Aircraft Attacking:
20 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 9
P-40B Tomahawk x 55
P-40E Warhawk x 44


Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed
P-40B Tomahawk: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 3 damaged

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 24

Aircraft Attacking:
49 x P-40B Tomahawk bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77


Allied aircraft
F-5A Lightning x 1


Allied aircraft losses
F-5A Lightning: 1 damaged

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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 122

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 13
Spitfire Vb x 15

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 6 destroyed, 12 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 12 destroyed
Spitfire Vb: 14 destroyed

This sweep was ordered to go in first but even though weather forecast said overcast, Dili was clouded in in the morning. So our sweep goes in in the afternoon to kill off the remaining Cap. We got bounced for 80% of the engagement and achieve most of our kills at the end. During the bounce it was at best a 1:1. Without the bounce it was a 12:1+ in our favour... Lol, funny to see a difference of 10:1+ in kills with and without the bounce. It´s just too powerful.

Good thing today was that we killed Spitfire replacements of more than two months but the RAAF sqadrons can also upgrade to Kittyhawks and there are surely enough F4F-4 for the Marines (and they will get Corsairs in three weeks anyway).

Miller stated that it´s obvious that I don´t want to have him aircraft on Timor. What makes him thinking like that? [;)]

As you can see, 350+ Japanese medium bombers were able to kill the laughable number of 10 Allied aircraft on the ground. Attacking airfields with 200+ aircraft there in total... Allied radar should be an advantage, but it´s ridicoulos how it works in WITP as it works 100% of the time to have all fighters scrambled and in position to bounce the incoming strike, no matter what alt it goes in...




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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15978 troops, 200 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3518

Defending force 199789 troops, 265 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5494



Allied ground losses:
10 casualties reported

I'm sure the Manchukuo garrison is only there for defensive purposes. [;)]