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I've got yet another "historic" scenario 15 going with me playing the Allies and the AI playing Japan (I'm waiting for the next patch before going PBEM) and the usual sorts of things have been happening until the following rather entertaining occurances:

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 12/24/41

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(clipping out some of the boring stuff along the way)

Night Time Surface Combat, near Rabaul at 61,88

Japanese Ships
PG Shoei Maru, Shell hits 7, on fire, heavy damage
PG Shotoku Maru
PC Sonan Maru #6, Shell hits 2, on fire
PC Ch 24, Shell hits 6, and is sunk
AP Tafuku Maru, Shell hits 6, on fire, heavy damage
AK Venice Maru

Allied Ships
CA Northampton
CA Salt Lake City

(Who says that surface combat can't be effective?)

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Rabaul at 61,88

Japanese Ships
AP Chichibu Maru, on fire
AP Daijukyo Maru
AP Haruna Maru, on fire, heavy damage
AK Hokkai Maru, Shell hits 15, and is sunk
AP Kaijo Maru #2
AP Katsuragisan Maru, Shell hits 11, on fire, heavy damage
AP Koshu Maru #2
AP Kunimitsu Maru, on fire
AP Tateyama Maru, Shell hits 11, and is sunk

Allied Ships
CA Northampton, Shell hits 1
CA Salt Lake City

(more of the same - those two boys are doing quite well)

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Kuching at 28,56 (!!!!! Go Dutch!)

Japanese Ships
CA Maya
CA Ashigara
CA Mogami
CA Mikuma, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 1
CA Suzuya, Shell hits 1
CL Kuma
DD Nowaki
DD Arashi, Shell hits 1
DD Hagikaze
DD Asakaze
DD Matsukaze

Allied Ships
PT TM-4
PT TM-5
PT TM-6
PT TM-7
PT TM-8
PT TM-9

(Man, are those killer PT boats or what. Maybe they are actually Gundams in disguise...[;)] )

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(clipping more boring stuff)

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Naval bombardment of Bataan, at 42,51 - Coastal Guns Fire Back! (AND HOW!)

70 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
BB Fuso
BB Nagato, Shell hits 7, on fire
DD Hatakaze
DD Nagatsuki, Shell hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
DD Harusame, Shell hits 10, on fire, heavy damage
DD Murasame, Shell hits 13, on fire, heavy damage
DD Asagumo, Shell hits 8, on fire, heavy damage
DD Minegumo
DD Natsugumo
CL Naka, Shell hits 1


Allied ground losses:
215 casualties reported
Guns lost 10

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 2
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 1

(Three of those DDs sunk at the end of the turn and there was no damage to the CD force, so "You all come on back now!" [:D] )

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Naval bombardment of Rabaul, at 61,88

Allied Ships
CA Salt Lake City
CA Northampton

Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 3
Port hits 5
Port supply hits 2

(Wow - they not only blasted those two TFs but were still able to do a bombardment!)

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(Lots more fun naval action)

Sub attack at 66,44

Japanese Ships
MSW Tamaura Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
MSW Kaiyo Maru #3

Allied Ships
SS Argonaut

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Sub attack near Rabaul at 61,88

Japanese Ships
AP Daijukyo Maru, Shell hits 6, on fire

Allied Ships
SS Narwhal

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TF 84 encounters mine field at Makin (85,89)

Japanese Ships
PG Hirotama Maru, on fire, heavy damage

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Sub attack at 47,101

Japanese Ships
SS I-155

Allied Ships
TK Iris, Shell hits 4, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

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Sub attack near Rabaul at 61,88

Japanese Ships
AP Koshu Maru #2, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire

Allied Ships
SS Narwhal, hits 6

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Sub attack at 64,44

Japanese Ships
MSW Kaiyo Maru #3

Allied Ships
SS Trout

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Day Air attack on Wuchow , at 42,39 (The Chinese aren't so bad after all.)

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 8
Ki-51 Sonia x 17
Ki-15 Babs x 1

Allied aircraft
I-153c x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-51 Sonia: 7 destroyed, 9 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
I-153c: 2 destroyed, 1 damaged

Runway hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Moulmein , at 29,35 (I've moved the B-17s to India)

Japanese aircraft
Ki-27 Nate x 5

Allied aircraft
B-17C Fortress x 12

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-27 Nate: 2 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-17C Fortress: 3 damaged

Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-17C Fortress bombing at 6000 feet
3 x B-17C Fortress bombing at 6000 feet
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(clipping the rest of the ordinary stuff)

So the two lessons to be learned from this are: watch out for forts and Dutch PT boats.

Dave Baranyi

Very amusing! Those two US CAs are going to win the war by themselves.