ORIGINAL: Gridley380
Thanks for your comments, folks!
FYI to those asking, I was doing a 'recon in force' to see what would happen when my carrier force encountered kamikazes. NE of the Marianas, mid-44.
Next time will, I hope, be different.
A long time ago in an AI game I decided to do a little "experiment" of my own. Here are some of the results, posted in the forum at the time:
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"In my on-going experimentation with my late-war game, "just to see", I decided to challenge the HI kami force with three CV TFs, all in the same hex, CAP at 60, late-war fighters with pilots at 70-80 for the most part.
Below is an edited/chopped down combat report, all from 7 July 1945. For all you guys still in the early war, this is just to give an idea of the carnage possible, even in mid-summer 1945, with the AI losing several divisions a week ashore, all of Indo-China, Malaysia gone, Hong Kong and the PI 100% taken, the merchant marine reduced to under 20 hulls, etc.
Again, I did this as an experiment, but it still is useful learning. The AI NEVER gives up. I haven't totaled up the exchanges, but I think I shot down at least 500-700 planes. They kept on coming. On some attacks I had EIGHT of those red vector lines back to their bases, all coming for my precious carriers.
I thought of rolling back to an earlier save, but didn't. The Russians activate in three weeks, and I want to see how I do with no carriers.
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Morning Air attack on TF, near Aogashima at 113,66
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 160 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 53 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 75
A6M3 Zero x 32
A6M3a Zero x 9
A6M5b Zero x 47
A6M5c Zero x 171
A7M2 Sam x 30
B6N1 Jill x 36
B6N2a Jill x 25
B7A2 Grace x 23
D3A2 Val x 21
D4Y2 Judy x 17
D4Y3 Judy x 21
D4Y4 Judy x 78
N1K1-J George x 16
N1K2-J George x 32
P1Y2 Frances x 13
Q1W1 Lorna x 3
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 5
Ki-27b Nate x 54
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 61
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 23
Ki-43-IIIa Oscar x 8
Ki-43-IV Oscar x 32
Ki-45 KAIc Nick x 3
Ki-84a Frank x 55
Ki-84b Frank x 33
Ki-84r Frank x 30
Ki-93-Ia x 3
Ki-100-I Tony x 41
Allied aircraft
F4U-1D Corsair x 230
F6F-5 Hellcat x 247
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 45 destroyed
A6M3 Zero: 15 destroyed
A6M3a Zero: 1 destroyed
A6M5b Zero: 18 destroyed
A6M5c Zero: 17 destroyed
B6N1 Jill: 24 destroyed
B6N2a Jill: 17 destroyed
B7A2 Grace: 14 destroyed
D3A2 Val: 10 destroyed
D4Y2 Judy: 11 destroyed
D4Y3 Judy: 15 destroyed
D4Y4 Judy: 26 destroyed, 1 damaged
N1K1-J George: 2 destroyed
N1K2-J George: 1 destroyed
P1Y2 Frances: 3 destroyed, 1 damaged
Q1W1 Lorna: 1 destroyed
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
Ki-27b Nate: 4 destroyed
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 19 destroyed
Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 7 destroyed
Ki-43-IV Oscar: 8 destroyed
Ki-45 KAIc Nick: 1 destroyed
Ki-84a Frank: 8 destroyed
Ki-84r Frank: 11 destroyed
Ki-100-I Tony: 1 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
F6F-5 Hellcat: 3 destroyed
Allied Ships
CV Lake Champlain, Kamikaze hits 19, and is sunk
CV Randolph, Kamikaze hits 23, and is sunk
CV Intrepid, Kamikaze hits 10, heavy fires, heavy damage
CV Bunker Hill, Kamikaze hits 6, on fire
CV Bon Homme Richard, Kamikaze hits 21, and is sunk
DD Talbot, Kamikaze hits 2, and is sunk
DE Spangler, Kamikaze hits 1, and is sunk
DE Willmarth, Kamikaze hits 3, and is sunk
DD McCook, Kamikaze hits 4, and is sunk
DE Gunason, Kamikaze hits 4, and is sunk
DE Lawrence C. Taylor, Kamikaze hits 2, and is sunk
DE Dennis, Kamikaze hits 7, and is sunk
DE Lamons, Kamikaze hits 1, and is sunk
DE Connolly, Kamikaze hits 2, and is sunk
DE Leslie L. B. Knox, Kamikaze hits 2, and is sunk
DE Jobb, Kamikaze hits 5, and is sunk
DE Charles J. Kimmel, Kamikaze hits 2, and is sunk
DE Cecil J. Doyle, Kamikaze hits 4, and is sunk
DE Eisele, Kamikaze hits 4, and is sunk
DD Ross "
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if you want to see the follow-on attacks.
