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Hi Castor
 
Why bother with the shock attack?  Three more deliberate attacks will surely see the job done.  You are doing more casualties than you are receiving so the longer the fight goes ont he better the chances of an exploit (unless enemy reinforcements are in the area) and a shock attack doubles your casualties which may hamper following operations.

a damned bloody day and a very good one for Miller... [:@]


AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/31/43

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Sub attack at 89,117

Japanese Ships
SS I-5

Allied Ships
AK Morrison R. Waite, Torpedo hits 1
AP George Clymer
MSW Strive
MSW Sheldrake
DM Breese
DM Ramsay
DM Montgomery
DM Gamble
DMS Southard


Allied ground losses:
25 casualties reported

a troop convoy on it´s way to the Fidjis. 6 subs have been shadowing it for days already, today the first sub attacks. The AK is hit but isn´t on fire, nor really damaged... lol...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 35

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 13

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78 [:@][:@][:@]

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 54
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 36
Ki-49 Helen x 233
Ki-46-III Dinah x 1

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 105
Kittyhawk I x 67
P-40E Warhawk x 16
F4U-1 Corsair x 6

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 39 destroyed
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 24 destroyed
Ki-49 Helen: 20 destroyed, 62 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 14 destroyed, 77 damaged
Kittyhawk I: 27 destroyed, 13 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 2 destroyed, 9 damaged
F4U-1 Corsair: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged


Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Runway hits 5

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

Well, I could bitch about what I´m bitching about all the time. Everything went perfectly once again for Miller. He may not be the best commander when it comes down to ground warfare but he definetely is when it comes down to timing. Has he ever shown bad timing? Well, the last airfield attack didn´t go in but hey, of course it does today when he´s able to fly Cap again. Pure luck probably as the airfield is still heavily damaged, but who cares, the enemy shot our strike to pieces today... [:(] Unfortunately I don´t have the super ability to see his air transfers before they even take place in the game, so the Allied always have the ability to surprise the Japanese, doesn´t work the other way around though. What else? Well, of course the enemy had the bounce for 100% of the engagement, the fact that ten thousand of bomber sorties weren´t able to harm the defending Allied base forces at this base is another fact.

Oh, I´ve lost around 85 pilots, so much about the fact how well it works for me to save pilots...

but in fact this was a bad idea of Miller as he now has more than a hundred damaged fighters at the base and the service facilities at the base are still 100% damaged. We will send the navy and then the airforce again. If he can´t again magically transfer all his damaged fighters out of the base, in the end he will lose two times the aircraft I have lost today... only a small moral boost for the Allied, but I´m sure it was nice to watch for Miller. Unfortunately, in Nikmod it´s not possible for the Japanese to keep one airfield suppressed, even when you use more than 300 bombers. Not because they wouldn´t do damage, but because Allied flak prevents you from going in at an altitude you can do damage... Whatever he brings to Lautern, it will die, no matter how much damage he can inflict to my forces. He should focus on defending Northern Australia and not sending 200 fighters to Lautern, an airfield that has 100% damaged service facilities.

The only thing we were lucky today was the fact that our bombers had very low morale due to constantly flying against his flak base and therefor most of them turned back... note that he already has Corsairs available... That´s nice, as they shouldn´t arrive before 2/43... [8|]




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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 36
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 35
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 68
Ki-49 Helen x 103

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 104
Port hits 2
Port fuel hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 15000 feet
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Sub attack near Truk at 63,78

Japanese Ships
AK Kusuyama Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Sunfish

the usual BS... Allied sub sitting at a port, has been spotted and there are ASW TFs... does it help?

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15858 troops, 184 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1537

Defending force 283504 troops, 1713 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6874



Allied ground losses:
12 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16047 troops, 201 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3151

Defending force 194069 troops, 179 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5400



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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 90693 troops, 776 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 2465

Defending force 71723 troops, 882 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 1467


Japanese ground losses:
119 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Allied ground losses:
69 casualties reported
Guns lost 6


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Ground combat at Darwin

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 11198 troops, 113 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 463

Defending force 215475 troops, 1513 guns, 2557 vehicles, Assault Value = 4415


Japanese ground losses:
25 casualties reported

have ordered the next deliberate attack for tomorrow... if it goes as expected we will then order a shock attack two days later... I don´t need the Navy near Darwin anymore, so we can focus on Lautern again... but if we do the same damage as we always did there then it won´t make much sense...

ORIGINAL: Yakface

Hi Castor

Why bother with the shock attack?  Three more deliberate attacks will surely see the job done.  You are doing more casualties than you are receiving so the longer the fight goes ont he better the chances of an exploit (unless enemy reinforcements are in the area) and a shock attack doubles your casualties which may hamper following operations.

The shock attack will enable me to bring down the rest of the forts and the most important thing: will see all my tank units following the enemy troops retreating towards Wyndham. Then they will really suffer from two or three back to back shock attacks and there won´t be much left of the 2nd USMC division and Co. If they have to retreat only once, then they will arrive at Derby with more than 75% of their strenght and that´s definetely not what I want to see.

It will take weeks to march to Wyndham and my troops will have time to recover, I guess they will bring at least 10% of their troops back to strenght by then. With the 100% combat ready troops to be landed after Darwin falls I will have a clear superiority in troops in this region so I want to end that adventure asap.

Sorry, I thought Miller had lost 3-4 US CVs.
 
Waiting for the next report.

ORIGINAL: Ambassador

Sorry, I thought Miller had lost 3-4 US CVs.

Waiting for the next report.

Unfortunately not, the four Brit CVs all took a couple of 800kg AP bombs and IIRC it was Lexington that was hit by three torps and had to travel a thousand miles to the next port but still made it. In total numbers of carrier based ac we have superiority but as you know we have that hr about not more than 450 carrier based ac in a hex. So a carrier clash would be 1:1 at the moment and that´s not what I really want to do, not without LBA support. I guess the Allied would come out far better when we would go 1:1 against their CVs. They have better fighters, better bombers, better flak and better damage control.

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/01/43

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Sub attack at 87,116

Japanese Ships
SS I-2

Allied Ships
AD Dixie
AK Lyman Beecher
MSW Strive
MSW Sheldrake
DM Breese
DM Ramsay
DM Montgomery
DM Gamble
DMS Southard

4 torps missed the AD... [:(] as expected, the TF is heading to the Fidjis...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 32
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 30

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 12

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
A6M3a Zero x 35
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 35
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 69
Ki-49 Helen x 80

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
12 casualties reported

Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 101

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
Kittyhawk I x 63
P-40E Warhawk x 100


Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 3 damaged

Airbase hits 3
Runway hits 49

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Kittyhawk I bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Pago Pago , at 98,110

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
PBY Catalina x 3
P-40B Tomahawk x 35
B-25C Mitchell x 8 [8|]

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 2 destroyed
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed
Ki-49 Helen: 1 destroyed
G3M Nell: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
PBY Catalina: 1 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 3 damaged

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 7

Aircraft Attacking:
5 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet

boy, 8 Mitchells can´t do much more damage I gues... [8|]



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Sub attack at 86,115

Japanese Ships
SS I-23

Allied Ships
AK Morrison R. Waite, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage


Allied ground losses:
100 casualties reported

we finished the already damaged medium sized AK. Don´t know which troops went down with the ships, the rest of the convoy was two hexes ahead already...

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Ground combat at Darwin

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 207277 troops, 1512 guns, 2602 vehicles, Assault Value = 4486

Defending force 27566 troops, 142 guns, 75 vehicles, Assault Value = 484

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 6

Japanese max assault: 4204 - adjusted assault: 3622

Allied max defense: 491 - adjusted defense: 852

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

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 6


Japanese ground losses:
1936 casualties reported
Guns lost 26
Vehicles lost 43

Allied ground losses:
2486 casualties reported
Guns lost 33
Vehicles lost 13

when looking at the combat replay then I still can see the 2nd USMC division being nearly at full combat strenght and that is becoming shocking for me. All the casualties we inflict seem to be within the couple of units in the lead and the USMC division is only the 7th or 8th unit in the stack. Not good, not good. Our troops aren´t dirupted at all, they will deliberate attack again tomorrow. Then I will again think about the shock attack.

Miller is curious how my Australia adventure will play out and I´ve told him that I will conquer Australia. [;)] His reply was that I´m surely aware of that he has far more assault value on the continent than me, just spread out. Well, I know I can´t conquer the whole continent and that´s of course not what I want, target was and still is the bases in Northern Australia.

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15875 troops, 184 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1539

Defending force 282950 troops, 1704 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6859



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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16047 troops, 201 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3150

Defending force 193520 troops, 166 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5389



Allied ground losses:
25 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 90570 troops, 768 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 2465

Defending force 71477 troops, 880 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 1457


Japanese ground losses:
57 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Allied ground losses:
25 casualties reported
Guns lost 2


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Ground combat at Darwin

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 10473 troops, 94 guns, 10 vehicles, Assault Value = 406

Defending force 214398 troops, 1481 guns, 2548 vehicles, Assault Value = 4324

the deliberate attack today only cost the Allied some 60 assault points. That´s because only the already wrecked units in the lead more or less took losses.

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/02/43

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Sub attack near Suva at 86,114

Japanese Ships
SS I-2, hits 1, on fire

Allied Ships
AR Prometheus, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DMS Perry
DMS Dorsey
DMS Lamberton

The AR is hit hard but I doubt it will sink as it will be disbanded in port today...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 240

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 70

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 41
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 35
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 70
Ki-49 Helen x 80

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 98
Port hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Pago Pago , at 98,110


Allied aircraft
P-40B Tomahawk x 40
B-25C Mitchell x 6


Allied aircraft losses
P-40B Tomahawk: 7 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 2 damaged

Runway hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
36 x P-40B Tomahawk bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Koepang at 28,77 [:D]

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 74
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 221

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 23

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 10 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 4 destroyed, 15 damaged

Miller forgot to reset his 4Es and they flew a naval attack from Derby today. They tried to attack shipping that was heavily capped by land and CV based fighters. Unfortunately the B-17s turned back due to low morale, otherwise I´m sure they would have all been shot down... this time we saw a surprising high loss rate of B-17s crashing after the replay...

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Day Air attack on TF, near Koepang at 28,77

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 70
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 225

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 24

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 5 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 10 damaged

this is the afternoon strike already, they turned back in no time...

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Day Air attack on TF, near Koepang at 28,77

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 70
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 225

Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 22

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 25 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-24D Liberator: 21 destroyed

then also some Liberators showed up and got mauled badly. That was a nice oversight of Paul and we killed 4E replacements of 2 weeks...

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Sub attack at 91,114

Japanese Ships
SS I-3

Allied Ships
APD Colhoun, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
APD Dent
APD McKean

APD gets sunk between Suva and Tongatapu...

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Ground combat at Darwin

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 195146 troops, 1435 guns, 2585 vehicles, Assault Value = 4411

Defending force 24882 troops, 119 guns, 63 vehicles, Assault Value = 427

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 5

Japanese max assault: 4046 - adjusted assault: 3156 [X(]

Allied max defense: 382 - adjusted defense: 307 [X(]

Japanese assault odds: 10 to 1 (fort level 5) [X(]

Japanese forces CAPTURE Darwin base !!!


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
PBY Catalina: 1 destroyed

Japanese ground losses:
1600 casualties reported
Guns lost 36
Vehicles lost 35

Allied ground losses:
3081 casualties reported
Guns lost 17
Vehicles lost 5

to my surprise, the enemy defenses at Darwin collapsed today. This means my tanks now have to pursue the retreating troops and hopefully they will be fast enough. I guess they should as the enemy is non motorized but moves on the railway south. Of course it´s strange anyway that motorized troops on rails should be faster... [:D] but that´s how WITP ground movement works... [;)]

we scored 248 points for ground losses today, now at 17.706! [:D][:D]

this is the first step to a big success. We take the first base and doing this for nearly no costs when we think about what we have lost. Guess there were not more than 6 ships sunk (merchants) and perhaps one and a half damaged (merchants). Aircraft losses were light (except one attack on Lautern) and my combat ships didn´t take any combat damage. They accumulated insane sys damage from the high speed runs though. Many of my cruisers and destroyers are between 10 and 20 sys points. The BBs are all around 10 too, only KB is still in good shape. If there isn´t something really going wrong we will have time to get our ships repaired anyway.

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15855 troops, 184 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1538

Defending force 282535 troops, 1688 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6854



Allied ground losses:
31 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16042 troops, 200 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3152

Defending force 193132 troops, 162 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5387



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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 90582 troops, 767 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 2467

Defending force 71429 troops, 880 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 1454


Japanese ground losses:
78 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Allied ground losses:
55 casualties reported
Guns lost 9

can you post a picture showing how all the aircraft in total were lost?

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/03/43

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Sub attack near Buru Island at 38,72

Japanese Ships
AK Tekkai Maru, Shell hits 5, on fire

Allied Ships
SS Triton

one hex NW of Amboina, there´s lot of shipping around and Triton attacks an unescorted convoy on the surface. Torps failed to detonate and 5 shell hits didn´t do more than 25 sys and some flt... the small AK will live on...

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Lautem at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CA Tone
CA Chikuma
CA Atago
CA Maya
CA Haguro
CA Suzuya
CA Kumano
CA Furutaka
DD Isonami
DD Shirayuki
DD Hatsuyuki
DD Uranami
DD Yugiri
DD Kisaragi

Allied Ships
PT PT-186, Shell hits 14, and is sunk

the whole IJN will go in to bombard Lautern today, the first TF tangles with a PT that launched it´s torps against one of the DDs but missed...

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Naval bombardment of Lautem, at 33,78


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
Kittyhawk I: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Furutaka
CA Kumano
CA Suzuya
CA Haguro
CA Maya
CA Atago
CA Chikuma
CA Tone


Allied ground losses:
2291 casualties reported
Guns lost 55
Vehicles lost 2

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 5
Port hits 4
Port supply hits 2

a nuke when we look at the ground losses but only the dice god knows why I seem not to be able to hit enemy airfields like I´m used to it normally... [&:]

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Naval bombardment of Lautem, at 33,78


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
Kittyhawk I: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Kinugasa
CA Mikuma
CA Mogami
CA Chokai


Allied ground losses:
848 casualties reported
Guns lost 18

Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 13
Port hits 2
Port supply hits 2

there are surely more than 100 damaged fighters at Lautern and the base is reconned daily (by 3 Dinah chutais). We can´t take out the airfield...

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Naval bombardment of Lautem, at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CA Kako
CA Aoba
CA Nachi


Allied ground losses:
136 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

no result at all...

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Naval bombardment of Lautem, at 33,78


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed
Kittyhawk I: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Ashigara
CA Takao
BB Mutsu
BB Nagato


Allied ground losses:
2399 casualties reported
Guns lost 49

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 14
Port hits 2
Port supply hits 4

another nuke when looking at the ground losses but only 14 runway hits... at least all those ground losses will make it easier for our airforce in future as flak fire will go down remarkable I guess...

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Naval bombardment of Lautem, at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CA Myoko
BB Ise
BB Yamashiro
BB Fuso


Allied ground losses:
211 casualties reported
Guns lost 10

and another one without any damage...

it was clear that Miller would withdraw all his fighters from Lautern again as soon as he spotted my TFs going into position. He spotted only one of them but that was enough already... oh well, chance missed to destroy 250 Allied fighters on the ground...


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Sub attack near Canton Island at 98,99

Japanese Ships
AP Choko Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
AP Daihachikyo Maru
MSW Shonan Maru #8
MSW Shonan Maru #7
MSW Seki Maru #3
MSW Noshiro Maru #2
MSW Mejima Maru
MSW Kaiyo Maru #1

Allied Ships
SS Seal

another time when a sub that is sitting in a port hex (spotted daily) hits a ship. The MSW did nothing but if we´re lucky the small AP will make it...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 247

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 73

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Bulla , at 40,75

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 159
G3M Nell x 72
G4M1 Betty x 188

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 2 damaged


Allied ground losses:
38 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 74

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 6000 feet

Bulla has been 100% damaged but it seems there are PBYs flying nav search out of this base...

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 51
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 104
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 35
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 69
Ki-49 Helen x 77

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 121
Port hits 4

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
Kittyhawk I x 53
P-40E Warhawk x 107


Allied aircraft losses
Kittyhawk I: 4 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 8 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
8 casualties reported

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 75

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Kittyhawk I bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Pago Pago , at 98,110


Allied aircraft
P-40B Tomahawk x 29
B-25C Mitchell x 5


Allied aircraft losses
P-40B Tomahawk: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 1 damaged

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 1

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

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15852 troops, 184 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1539

Defending force 281544 troops, 1678 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6830



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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16059 troops, 200 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3155

Defending force 192755 troops, 159 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5369



Allied ground losses:
12 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 90465 troops, 754 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 2465

Defending force 71385 troops, 878 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 1453


Japanese ground losses:
11 casualties reported

Allied ground losses:
41 casualties reported
Guns lost 6

I´m at work now (that´s where I usually do the AAR during the week [;)]) so I can´t provide one immediately but if I don´t forget it, I will take screenies when I come home.

congratulation on your victorious air and land battles of the last days. and finaly, your CAP was something that realy earny this name.[:D] i imagnine what 300 japs fighters could do in a MOD with a better air combat engine or even in stocks!

you surely plan to conquer the entire N aussie coast and eliminate the surrounded enemy at timor, or?

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/04/43

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TF 37 encounters mine field at Lautem (33,78)

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

mmm.... the DD has a good chance to make it...

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Naval bombardment of Lautem, at 33,78


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
Spitfire Vb: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CL Yubari
CL Tatsuta
CL Tenryu
CL Kiso
CL Tama
CL Kuma
CL Abukuma
CL Kinu
CL Isuzu
CL Nagara


Allied ground losses:
253 casualties reported
Guns lost 5

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 22

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Naval bombardment of Lautem, at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CA Kinugasa
CA Mikuma
CA Mogami
CA Chokai


Allied ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

doesn´t make any sense to send in cruisers twice as they can´t do any damage as they don´t use their secondary armament for bombardments...

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Naval bombardment of Lautem, at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CA Kako
CA Aoba
CA Nachi

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TF 33 encounters mine field at Truk (63,78)

Japanese Ships
MSW Tamozono Maru #1
MSW Tokuho Maru #5
MSW Takashima Maru
MSW Tama Maru #5
MSW Tama Maru #2
MSW Kyo Maru #1
MSW Kongo Maru #2
MSW Hinode Maru #20

sub laid mines...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 75

No Japanese losses

Runway hits 17

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 54
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 36
Ki-49 Helen x 331 [:D]
Ki-46-III Dinah x 6

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 1
Spitfire Vb x 1
Kittyhawk I x 2
P-40E Warhawk x 1
P-38G Lightning x 1

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 2 destroyed, 1 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 8 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 8 destroyed
Spitfire Vb: 2 destroyed
Kittyhawk I: 7 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 2 destroyed
P-38G Lightning: 1 destroyed
F4U-1 Corsair: 1 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
44 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Airbase hits 9
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 89

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

it of course was a gamble to set my bombers to attack today as Miller could have flown 200 fighters back to Lautern but as he spotted my TFs near Lautern he couldn´t been sure if not one would have enough ammo to do another bombardment, so there was no real Cap. The Cap knocked down two of my Oscar IIs (first combat of this aircraft type and I´m not really excited about it) but then the 331 Helen do enough damage to destroy a good number of enemy fighters on the ground. Not a great hit rate but ok as...

I made a BIG mistake this turn again as instead of setting my fighters from Dili to sweep I clicked on LRCAP... stupid me, could have turned out to be a disaster, but I was lucky...

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... there are more bomber coming in, those are coming in from New Guinea...

Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 81
G3M Nell x 36
G4M1 Betty x 109

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 4 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 12 destroyed
Kittyhawk I: 2 destroyed
F4U-1 Corsair: 3 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
10 casualties reported

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 78

Aircraft Attacking:
20 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 10000 feet

nice result for the Betties. Note that flak fire is nearly not existing...

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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 81
G3M Nell x 36
G4M1 Betty x 70
Ki-46-III Dinah x 5

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M Nell: 1 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 3 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 6 destroyed
Kittyhawk I: 1 destroyed
Spitfire Vb: 1 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
23 casualties reported

Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 48

Aircraft Attacking:
5 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 10000 feet

and another one from New Guinea... this should finish most of the rest of the damaged fighters on the airfield...

with this attack, the enemy has lost some 140-150 fighters on Lautern, we lost some 100 fighters/bombers due to his ambush and together with today´s attacks... I can hardly live with it but I can´t change it. What hurts are the pilot losses (aircraft are no problem). Miller ranted about his low fighter replacements but I´ve told him that from my Allied experience he will have more than enough of them soon and with the upcoming 5:1 kill rates of his fighters I would have to produce 3000 fighters each month (and I would still lack the pilots).




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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 61
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 102
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 35
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 70
Ki-49 Helen x 79

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 74
Port hits 1
Port supply hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
Kittyhawk I x 58
P-40E Warhawk x 114


Allied aircraft losses
Kittyhawk I: 5 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 5 damaged

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 76

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x Kittyhawk I bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
Ki-46-III Dinah x 1

No Japanese losses

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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
Ki-46-III Dinah x 1

No Japanese losses

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Sub attack at 92,115

Japanese Ships
SS I-5

Allied Ships
TK Empire Airman, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
TK W.H. Berg
SC SC-741
SC SC-739
SC SC-709
PG Tui
PG Moa
PG Kiwi

We hit a big TK but one torp on an emtpy TK does nothing...

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15852 troops, 184 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1539

Defending force 280899 troops, 1668 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6813



Allied ground losses:
20 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16061 troops, 201 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3151

Defending force 192448 troops, 152 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5364



Allied ground losses:
10 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 87589 troops, 741 guns, 8 vehicles, Assault Value = 2466

Defending force 71473 troops, 878 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 1454


Japanese ground losses:
8 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Allied ground losses:
33 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

ORIGINAL: bigbaba

congratulation on your victorious air and land battles of the last days. and finaly, your CAP was something that realy earny this name.[:D] i imagnine what 300 japs fighters could do in a MOD with a better air combat engine or even in stocks!

you surely plan to conquer the entire N aussie coast and eliminate the surrounded enemy at timor, or?

thanks. The Cap over Koepang was enough to be unpenetrable by the 4 dozen 4Es in two attacks but as soon as real number show up again...

in stock such a Japanese Cap level would take down 200 4Es so while I´m not 100% happy with the mod (you will never be 100% happy, that´s not possible IMO) it works far better than stock. Fighter vs bomber looks good, also fighter vs fighter, you only have the problem that you now can´t defend your airfields at all as so many bombers will get through and you don´t get your fighters into the air (as the Japanese, the Allied gets them all into the air).

yeah, plan is to take all four bases in Northern Australia and then starve the 22 units on Timor. After building up the defenses in Northern Australia will then attack Lautern. The question will be if we will be able to take all four bases and if I will have the time to first starve and then finish off the Allied on Timor. If both things will work then this will be one of my biggest victories in my personal history of playing WITP.

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/05/43

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Sub attack at 90,114

Japanese Ships
SS I-23

Allied Ships
TK Empire Airman, Torpedo hits 1, on fire

As expected Empire Airman was moving back to Suva after bein hit by one torp yesterday, a sub was placed in it´s way and puts another torp into the big TK (out of a salvo of 6). Two torp hits, the damned ship is still not even heavily damaged... [8|] The sub has to retire without having torps left...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 68

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 6

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 72
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 35
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 69
Ki-49 Helen x 80

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported

Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 97

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

as you can see, the number of aircraft doing training runs goes down... we need the units at the front... and at the moment, there´s only O N E front... insane number of aircraft around Timor and New Guinea...

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Day Air attack on Pago Pago , at 98,110

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
P-40B Tomahawk x 29
B-25C Mitchell x 8

Japanese aircraft losses
H8K Emily: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-40B Tomahawk: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 5 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
6 casualties reported

Airbase hits 3
Runway hits 7

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


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Ground combat at 35,85 [:D]

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 138443 troops, 1175 guns, 2528 vehicles, Assault Value = 3684

Defending force 10669 troops, 13 guns, 23 vehicles, Assault Value = 65

Japanese max assault: 4727 - adjusted assault: 3314

Allied max defense: 46 - adjusted defense: 2

Japanese assault odds: 1657 to 1


Japanese ground losses:
180 casualties reported
Guns lost 5
Vehicles lost 2

Allied ground losses:
2856 casualties reported
Guns lost 7
Vehicles lost 18


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

my tank units (and some divs) were fast enough to get after the retreating units from Darwin. The shock attack of the tanks (the inf units deliberate attacked) had no problems to force the enemy to retreat again. The only downside is the fact that ALL but one unit that retreated from Darwin were caught today. The damned 2nd USMC division moved out of the hex already. Seems like the unit is moving at 60 miles per day... [X(] damn it, I have to catch the damned unit... the other dozen units are toast now anyway...


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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15835 troops, 184 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1539

Defending force 280299 troops, 1657 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6804



Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16069 troops, 202 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3149

Defending force 192210 troops, 147 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5360



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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 87493 troops, 741 guns, 8 vehicles, Assault Value = 2464

Defending force 71499 troops, 880 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 1456


Japanese ground losses:
59 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Allied ground losses:
9 casualties reported

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/06/43

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 75

No Japanese losses

Runway hits 15

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

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 62
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 35
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 70
Ki-49 Helen x 24

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 95

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Darwin , at 36,84 [:(]

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 90 [:(][:(]

Allied aircraft
PBY Catalina x 2
Wellington III x 29
Liberator VI x 18
P-38G Lightning x 23
B-25C Mitchell x 89
B-25J Mitchell x 13
B-26B Marauder x 78
B-24D Liberator x 39

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 23 destroyed, 45 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
PBY Catalina: 1 damaged
Wellington III: 5 destroyed, 19 damaged
Liberator VI: 2 destroyed, 14 damaged
P-38G Lightning: 5 destroyed, 13 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 12 destroyed, 65 damaged
B-25J Mitchell: 4 destroyed, 5 damaged
B-26B Marauder: 2 destroyed, 48 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 1 destroyed, 32 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
572 casualties reported
Guns lost 16

Airbase hits 38
Airbase supply hits 8
Runway hits 149

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet
4 x B-25J Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet
4 x Wellington III bombing at 6000 feet
2 x Liberator VI bombing at 6000 feet
1 x Wellington III bombing at 6000 feet
8 x Liberator VI bombing at 6000 feet

this isn´t really surprising... Miller moved hundreds of bombers to Wyndham to launch a big strike on Darwin. Out of 160 Tojos set to 90% Cap we see 90 in the air. More than 50% so hey, that´s a huge success... [8|]

The Lightnings proved to be extremely hard to down, even if being shot from behind it takes four or more times to finally see one going down. What helped us is the fact that the Allied bounce (yeah, of course the escorts got the bounce again) was over soon and we even got the bounce against the P-38 later on. The bombers of course were unstoppable and in the end we trade nearly one fighter destroyed on the ground for one bomber shot down. The only good thing is the fact that we only lost 8 pilots today so my sentais stay quite experienced. The P-38 squadrons turned back soon due to low morale, non of the bomber turned back but this attack with so many damaged and shot down bomber should have put a dent into the enemy´s morale. We were lucky as first we got a message of a bomber squadron missing Darwin, so in fact I guess there were far more bomber ordered to attack. What was shocking was the attack alt. This is a good example that even in Nikmod the Allied still can do the usual 6000ft attack as we´re used to from stock. There´s a LOT of flak at Darwin. At the end of the day the airfield is 70% and the base 55% damaged. I gambled and moved in more Tojos (hundreds!) to Darwin and set them to fly Cap. We have 384 aircraft at Darwin now, except 9 DinahIII all are Tojos. If the airfield is operational (I guess so as it´s a level 8 airfield so 70% shouldn´t be enough to close it) and the bomber will show up again tomorrow then they will get trashed - hopefully. If the airfield is closed and the bomber show up, I will lose nearly 400 Tojos! [X(]



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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
Kittyhawk I x 61
P-36A Mohawk x 4


Allied aircraft losses
Kittyhawk I: 6 damaged
P-36A Mohawk: 1 damaged

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 24

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Kittyhawk I bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Pago Pago at 98,110

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 21
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 18

Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 3 damaged
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 2 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
AK Risen Maru

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet

once again you can see what HUGE difference it makes when the Allied player can see the Japanese air transfers... [:@] It´s not just that you get an airfield symbol he can also immediately see "fighter/bomber/aux" and the numbers for each type. So in this case he yesterday saw only my 27 patrols at the base, then I ordered to fly in fighters... and hurrey, he can immediately see them (even if he only gives orders for the NEXT day when my fighters will fly in). Result is that his Tomahawks and Mitchells are not flying training runs anymore... S T U P I D.... no, TOTALLY STUPID... AE will change that.... thanks...[&o] Cap level was something like 40% [8|]

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Day Air attack on TF at 97,119

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 3
G4M1 Betty x 18
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 12

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 5 damaged

Allied Ships
TK Hadnot
TK Empire Onyx, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
TK W.H. Berg
TK Gulfbird, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
TK W.S. Miller, Torpedo hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet

afternoon phase. No attack from Pago Pago on the TK South of Tongatapu in the morning, the Nells also staid home in the afternoon. One TK should be finished hopefully, the other two will surely survive... unfortunately that´s a TF returning to the West Coast, so they are empty...

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Ground combat at 36,86

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 47791 troops, 122 guns, 2685 vehicles, Assault Value = 1622

Defending force 5372 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 12

Japanese max assault: 3046 - adjusted assault: 1843

Allied max defense: 2 - adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 1843 to 1


Japanese ground losses:
7 casualties reported

Allied ground losses:
1130 casualties reported


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

we pursued the enemy troop stack yesterday and guess what! To my total shock, the 2nd USMC divisions again moved 60!!!! miles today. With the shock/pursue of my tank units we can move 60 miles a day, but the 2nd USMC division is still moving faster. Never seen that but WITP is always up for a surprise. That´s bad news, if we don´t catch that div it will really strenghten the defense of Wyndham. The tanks are now 2 hexes in front of my inf units, I told Miller I won´t move further away than 4 hexes so we will see if we can catch the Marines...

interesting recon: a US Army division is moving North on the rail. Only one div spotted, now some 700 miles South of Darwin. Moving in one div would be great, I could kill it off with my tanks on the rail...

what also will be interesting is what will he be able to bring North that is coming from Perth. Are there British troops evacuated from India?

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15855 troops, 184 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1538

Defending force 279367 troops, 1646 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6785



Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16069 troops, 202 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3153

Defending force 191750 troops, 143 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5346



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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 87507 troops, 745 guns, 8 vehicles, Assault Value = 2460

Defending force 71433 troops, 878 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 1457


Japanese ground losses:
22 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Allied ground losses:
36 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

I hope you'll catch the 2nd USMC, but I'm doubtful.  Stupid ground war engine indeed.[:(]

ORIGINAL: Ambassador

I hope you'll catch the 2nd USMC, but I'm doubtful.  Stupid ground war engine indeed.[:(]

I´ve never seen a unit moving that fast. And that´s even more amazing as the unit was forced to retreat from Darwin so fatigue and disruption must have been high. And it still moves faster or as fast as 60 miles a day... [X(]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/07/43

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Naval bombardment of Lautem, at 33,78


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
Kittyhawk I: 1 destroyed
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Furutaka
CA Kumano
CA Suzuya
CA Haguro
CA Maya
CA Atago
CA Chikuma
CA Tone


Allied ground losses:
1765 casualties reported
Guns lost 15
Vehicles lost 1

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 14
Port hits 2
Port supply hits 1

the whole IJN goes in to do bombardments again... the number of bombardments I´ve done in the last weeks is insane. And my ships are in pretty bad shape already... nice number of ground losses but the usual low number of airfield hits...

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Naval bombardment of Lautem, at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CL Yubari
CL Tatsuta
CL Tenryu
CL Kiso
CL Tama
CL Kuma
CL Abukuma
CL Kinu
CL Isuzu
CL Nagara


Allied ground losses:
168 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

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Naval bombardment of Lautem, at 33,78


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed
Kittyhawk I: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Myoko
CA Takao
CA Ashigara
CA Kinugasa
CA Mikuma
CA Mogami
CA Chokai


Allied ground losses:
492 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 18
Port hits 3
Port supply hits 1

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Naval bombardment of Lautem, at 33,78

Japanese Ships
CA Kako
CA Aoba
CA Nachi


Allied ground losses:
116 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

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Naval bombardment of Lautem, at 33,78

Japanese Ships
BB Mutsu
BB Nagato


Allied ground losses:
473 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

Airbase supply hits 1
Port hits 2

not very good results anymore... if I just could get more supply hits at least...

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Naval bombardment of Lautem, at 33,78

Japanese Ships
BB Ise
BB Yamashiro
BB Fuso


Allied ground losses:
340 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

the two BB TFs will head down to Darwin. There´s only 6000 tons of fuel but the ships are nearly topped off anyway so they will replenish their ammo and hold position there. I just want some heavy naval assets in the area as long as we bring in TFs full of troops. Two divs, eng rgts, base forces, etc. are being moved in in the next couple of days...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 75

No Japanese losses

Runway hits 26

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 30
Ki-49 Helen x 79

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49 Helen: 8 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Kittyhawk I: 2 destroyed
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported

Airbase hits 3
Runway hits 68

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet

flak fire isn´t that effective anymore...

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Day Air attack on Darwin , at 36,84 [X(]

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 165

Allied aircraft
PBY Catalina x 4
Blenheim IV x 65
Wellington III x 30
Liberator VI x 18
P-38G Lightning x 12
B-25C Mitchell x 98
B-25J Mitchell x 18
B-26B Marauder x 47
B-17E Fortress x 61
B-24D Liberator x 41

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 55 destroyed, 56 damaged
Ki-46-III Dinah: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Blenheim IV: 34 destroyed
Wellington III: 7 destroyed, 16 damaged
Liberator VI: 1 destroyed, 16 damaged
P-38G Lightning: 6 destroyed
B-25C Mitchell: 23 destroyed, 52 damaged
B-25J Mitchell: 4 destroyed, 10 damaged
B-26B Marauder: 4 destroyed, 27 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed, 31 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 3 destroyed, 35 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
233 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 21
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 123

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x B-25J Mitchell bombing at 10000 feet
2 x Liberator VI bombing at 10000 feet
1 x Wellington III bombing at 10000 feet
2 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 10000 feet
2 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 10000 feet

OMG! Yesterday there were nearly 60 bombers shot down with another 160 or so damaged, today we see a 378 bomber strike. Adding the 12 Lightnings and the 4 Catalinas we see 394 aircraft coming in from Wyndham, a level 8 airfield. [X(] I expected to see something like 200 bombers max today but obviously Miller must have swapped out a couple of squadrons with the damaged bomber moved out via rail or he really overstacked the airfield (and I seriously doubt that as we have the stacking hr and I trust him not to break it).

Anyway, our Cap levels were pathetic so to say (when thinking about the total number of fighters here). We were far below 50% again, Cap levels were set to 90%, 15.000ft. Morale wasn´t really a factor for the Allied agressors, most of the escorts turned back though. In total we have seen perhaps 70 bomber turn back but more than 200 dropped their bombs, this times from 10.000ft and not 6.000ft like yesterday. I proved to be stupid though as I moved out most of my AA units by accident. My fighters didn´t even do bad but we can´t stop such a strike. In the end my fighter force is hit hard but so are the bombers. We take advantage of the fact that Miller still [X(] uses his obsolete Blenheim bombers. They are easier to down then the Lightnings. The 4Es are of course nearly not to down at all when coming in mixed with other types. Note that there are also British Liberators in this attack already. But Miller can´t have enough Wellington and Libs at all as otherwise he wouldn´t use those useless Blenheims. I wouldn´t use them, doesn´t make sense, either use US Mitchells or Marauders but not British Blens. Not using them in this attack would surely have meant to lose 15-20 bomber less.

At the end of the turn the airfield is 73% and the base 88% damaged. Yesterday it was 70%/55% and my fighters took off. So I guess the field will be operational also tomorrow and we have crated a lot of Tojo sentais onto AKs that were at Darwin, leaving for Amboina. The empty field was filled with some Tojos (don´t have many operational sentais left... [:(]), more than 100 Zeroes, a sentai Oscar II (that can´t do much against the bomber with a gun value of 4 [8|]) and KB will take position two hexes off Darwin to fly LRCAP with A6M3a. In total I hope to see more than 200 fighters in the air tomorrow. Using KB´s daitais to fly LRCAP is a big risk though as Miller could have yet again super timing and set his bombers to nav attack tomorrow. Today, my TFs around Darwin weren´t spotted as there aren´t a lot of Allied patrols around in this area anymore but who knows. It will be risky tomorrow. With the damage done to the Allied bomber fleet today I hope to turn them back tomorrow - if they decide to attack again. We have over 600 eng at the base, more to come. Darwin is a level 8 airfield so it´s hard to knock out but once it is heavily damaged it also takes a long time to being repaired again. The only reason I´m even defending it against air attacks is the fact that I have to cap my TFs when unloading at the base. If my defenses will collapse tomorrow then we will have to withdraw my TFs out of LBA range.

The only good thing in this situation at the moment is the fact that Darwin is 7 hexes from Wyndham. This means that there won´t be "short" legged (5 hexes) Allied escorts and the medium bombers will drop "only" their reduced load. We´re in perfect striking range of the 4E monsters though.


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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
Kittyhawk I x 55
P-36A Mohawk x 58


Allied aircraft losses
Kittyhawk I: 3 damaged
P-36A Mohawk: 9 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
29 casualties reported

Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 48

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x Kittyhawk I bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Pago Pago , at 98,110

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 18
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 21

Allied aircraft
PV-1 Ventura x 12
B-25C Mitchell x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
PV-1 Ventura: 4 destroyed, 4 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 3 damaged

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet
7 x PV-1 Ventura bombing at 6000 feet

I´m amazed to see this airfiled attack. Even when there are only small numbers of unescorted bombers they still achieve nearly a 1:1 kill rate...

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Day Air attack on 104th Division, at 21,3 [X(][X(]


Allied aircraft
Swordfish x 14
Hurricane IIb x 108


Allied aircraft losses
Swordfish: 2 destroyed, 5 damaged
Hurricane IIb: 8 destroyed, 52 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
161 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet
12 x Swordfish bombing at 10000 feet

this is at Karachi! What can that mean? Guess there´s only one reason to order all those aircraft to fly a ground attack... they paid for it though as there are three flak units...



Tojo losses are getting severe...

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Ground combat at 36,87

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 48393 troops, 125 guns, 2725 vehicles, Assault Value = 1647

Defending force 2851 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 11

Japanese max assault: 3094 - adjusted assault: 2392

Allied max defense: 1 - adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 2392 to 1


Japanese ground losses:
31 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Allied ground losses:
361 casualties reported


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

as you can see there´s not much left of the 10 Allied units. We end up one hex further South and are now at the crossroads South of Darwin. The 2nd USMC division vanished today! [X(] Recon tells us about 10 units in the same hex with our tanks but only very few guns and vehicles. So if the 2nd USMC div is now in this hex also, there should be more guns... and more troops. This also would mean one unit was destroyed today, didn´t get any info on that though. Tried to give a recon chutai order to recon the rail to the West and South but within four hexes there´s no Allied unit. [&:] If the 2nd USMC div isn´t in the same hex tomorrow then it moved 4 or 5 hexes today which isn´t possible. Or it just vanished, which I doubt also. Hmmm... Of course it could also move out of the hex tomorrow again, just before we attack again - then we should be in the same hex in two days again... The enemy US Army div coming from the South is moving quite fast also, we should soon clash with this unit. If he really moves it in, then we will kill it off, would be a rather pityful move.

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15888 troops, 183 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1538

Defending force 278111 troops, 1634 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6760



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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16027 troops, 201 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3153

Defending force 191393 troops, 139 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5347



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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Deliberate attack [X(]

Attacking force 102224 troops, 798 guns, 127 vehicles, Assault Value = 2461

Defending force 71204 troops, 868 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 1450

Allied max assault: 2615 - adjusted assault: 1761 [:(]

Japanese max defense: 1181 - adjusted defense: 4501

Allied assault odds: 0 to 1


Japanese ground losses:
1447 casualties reported [:(][:(]
Guns lost 31
Vehicles lost 1

Allied ground losses:
2649 casualties reported
Guns lost 64

that´s why Miller ordered his fighter bombers to fly a ground attack today. One of my divs is 80% disrupted so without those ground attacks we would have had a far higher adjusted av. Nevertheless it looks like we´re in a safe position here, the losses we took were mostly within our two leading AA units. I have a reserve div at Malir one hex SE of Karachi. The Allied troops here are not strong enough to dislodge us but we will have to do something to further secure our position in India. Problem is that this will take something like 7000 assault points to really be "strong" and make an Allied amphibious attempt a blood bath. Needless to say I don´t have 7000 av in India at the moment. Guess there are 3.500 there. We need more some more base forces and something 10 inf divs/bgds more to garisson the coastal bases and have reaction forces on hand. This is of course not possible at the moment. It would be possible if we could knock out the Russian. A possible attack on Russia can not happen within the next three months (this is what I estimate the time to finish off the Northern Australian bases - or when I will know that I have failed to do so). Finishing Russia would take another 6 months, marching from there to India another 3 months so we wouldn´t have "enough" troops in India before early 44. [:D] And all this is everything goes well... [;)]

Now this is interesting also, Miller is obviously evacuating troop fragments from Wyndham already. Those subs were at Wyndham last turn and are now heading West... Looks like he´s not really confident about holding his positions in Northern Australia! That´s great news!

Here are the total aircraft losses historiker has asked for. The Zero is in the lead but followed closely by the B-25C. Guess 95% of those Mitchells were lost over Timor or Northern Australia. Quite a lot lost if you think about a replacement rate of something liek 75/month from 1/42 on. But hey, there are also 30 Marauders, 50 or 60 4Es, Venturas, Wellingtons, etc. And of course the B-25J also entered production now. So there are more than enough Allied bomber, he just has to use different types instead of using only three or four models. I´m sure that the Tojo will soon be the number one on this list when we will lose hundreds of them on the ground and it will our fighter that will be used the most until the Tony shows up (earliest mid 43, now still at 9/43).

What´s interesting also is the ratio of the total number lost and op losses of each type, which clearly reflects my feeling that Allied aircraft rarely suffer op losses even if dozens of them are damaged during their operations. My aircraft fall out of the sky just from two hex transfers, which is extremly obvious when you look at the Sally and Helen.