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RE: it goes on...

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ORIGINAL: Q-Ball

I never thought of parking radar-equipped ships in a base hex to improve the CAP. Obviously it worked. Can the ships be disbanded, or do they have to be an active (but docked) TF?

You learn something every day, but those Yugumos make a difference! They are more valuable for the Radar then anything else!


I´ve never tried it to disband them, also in this case I had them as separate TF in the hex. And yes, they DO work... [:)]
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Here comes KB...


Day Air attack on TF at 37,82

Japanese aircraft
D3A Val x 89
A6M3a Zero x 42
B5N Kate x 130

Allied aircraft
Seafire x 2
F4F-4 Wildcat x 17

Japanese aircraft losses
D3A Val: 1 destroyed, 28 damaged
A6M3a Zero: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
B5N Kate: 6 destroyed, 44 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Seafire: 6 destroyed
F4F-4 Wildcat: 31 destroyed

Allied Ships
CVE Copahee, Bomb hits 7, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
CVE Sangamon, Bomb hits 3, on fire
CV Illustrious, Bomb hits 3, Torpedo hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
CVE Nassau, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 2, on fire
CV Victorious, Bomb hits 4, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
CVE Chenango, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
CVE Altamaha, Bomb hits 5, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
CVE Suwannee, Torpedo hits 3, on fire
CVL Hermes, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 5, on fire, heavy damage
CLAA Caradoc
CV Indomitable, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet
3 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet

as you can see, KB moved exactly as far as I wanted it to move and reacted one hex. In the end we end up one hex closer than we thought we would end up, but that´s only because the enemy CVs moved one hex further North than expected. The enemy did NOT react. As you can see I´ve still got KB´s Cap set up really defensively because it´s still my primary objective to keep it save. Therefore I have a 80% Cap setting, leaving us with 42 Zeros for escort duty. I was amazed to see that many fighters still being airborne. But with the previous attack from Darwin the enemy Cap was totally out of position and disrupted, means WE got the bounce and we got it for a looong time, which meant we took down the Allied figthers at will. As mentioned a couple of times, KB´s pilots are surely the best on the map and the Zeros are still working perfectly to take on Allied carrier based fighters as long as we speak about Seafires or Wildcats. The enemy Cap is shot to pieces, our Zeros achieve a 37:1 kill rate. [8|] No, I don´t like it, even if it´s in my favour. 37:1 is just way off...

Nevertheless of the kill rate, the enemy Cap had no chance to really harm this strike and my bombers started to dive down on the enemy carriers. The first 250kg AP bombs started to bounce off the British carriers but there were also the US CVEs in this TF and this made my Vals not totally useless in this strike. If you ask me, Miller would have been better off having one CV TF with the Brit carriers and one with the US CVEs. Perhaps at least one would have survived then. This strike was devastating already and we´ve just started into the morning with perfect weather all around. The weather god is on our side today... CVL Hermes was already sunk after this attack, more of the carriers were already in sinking condition after just this strike...


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Day Air attack on TF at 37,82

Japanese aircraft
D3A Val x 17
A6M3a Zero x 4
B5N Kate x 17

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 1

Japanese aircraft losses
D3A Val: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
B5N Kate: 3 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 2 destroyed

Allied Ships
CV Indomitable, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
CVE Altamaha, on fire, heavy damage
CVE Nassau, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
CV Victorious, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
CVE Chenango, on fire
CVE Suwannee, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet
1 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet

KB did not launch one full strike against the enemy CVs it seems, we were hit by a small coordination penalty. I´m using one TF for my full complement of carriers, means a little more than 450 carrier based ac (453 at the beginning of this turn to be precise). 34 more bombers attack the already helpless and burning Allied carriers and while the bombers achieve a very disappointing hit rate, we still do some more damage... the bomb hits on the Brit CVs did no damage... but it´s not over yet...

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then more of the Betties show up that are based at Darwin, going after the British BB TF in the hex...

Day Air attack on TF at 37,82

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 57
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 8

Allied aircraft
Seafire x 2
F4F-4 Wildcat x 4

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 7 destroyed, 43 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Seafire: 1 damaged
F4F-4 Wildcat: 3 destroyed

Allied Ships
BB Warspite, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
BB Valiant, Torpedo hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
CL Mauritius
CL Leander
DD Norman

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

those Betties are all around 80 exp but they really have trouble to hit not that fast moving British BBs. This is due to their high fatigue, all are around 20 fat and that´s just too much to really see devastating results. But this is not the time to complain, Valiant seems to be doomed after this attack. As you can see, flak fire again was murderous, none of those daitais is still in good shape to fly further attacks tomorrow. Will have to swap them out. I´ve got all my daitais near the front set to "do not accept replacements", so this at least means I don´t draw more damaged planes that just use up the room at the airfield as this would be a problem due to our stacking limit.

The TF three hexes East of Darwin is BB Revenge I guess which was hit by three torps earlier. Don´t know if it even moved one hex, seems like Miller has placed it there and hoped to draw a big strike on a more or less doomed BB anyway. Not one strike was flown against this target today.


As you can see in this screenshot, the US TFs all move far towards Wyndham. Amazingly if you think about Essex and Lexington both taking three torps...[:(]


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God, this is a massacre... Poor Miller...
Adieu Ô Dieu odieux... signé Adam
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Day Air attack on TF at 37,82

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 104
G3M Nell x 13
G4M1 Betty x 28
Ki-49 Helen x 15

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M Nell: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 4 destroyed, 14 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 2 destroyed, 6 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Seafire: 2 destroyed
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
BB Valiant, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
BB Warspite, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
CA Australia, Bomb hits 2, on fire

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 3000 feet
2 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet

then the LBA from Dili joined the party again... [:D] no need to have 100+ fighters on escort it seems but we like it to be on the safe side... [;)] not that much torp bombers join this attack but enough to finish off BB Valiant and put two more torps into Warspite. Good to see at least a couple of Helens targetting something else than bomb prove BBs.

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Day Air attack on TF at 37,82

Japanese aircraft
G3M Nell x 2
Ki-49 Helen x 25

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M Nell: 2 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 20 damaged

Allied Ships
DD Balch
AO Tappahanock
DD Gridley
AO Suamico
AO Tallulah, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AO Guadalupe
DD Clark

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 3000 feet
2 x G3M Nell launching torpedoes at 200 feet

another strike from Dili that achieves nothing. I´m not surprised that we don´t hit the agile DDs but would have thought that the fuel loaden AOs wouldn´t be that hard to hit... just look at all my damaged bombers. Flak fire is really heavy, even from a TF like this one... bomb hits on the AOs would at least mean most if not all fuel will burn...

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Day Air attack on TF at 37,82

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 85
G4M1 Betty x 40

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 5 destroyed, 30 damaged

Allied Ships
DD Clark, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
DD McCalla
DD Lardner
DD Henley, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
AO Suamico, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AO Kankakee
DD Mugford
DD Craven, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Bagley, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Ralph Talbot

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

this one comes from Sorong on New Guinea. A strike at nearly max escort range and my Betties had a lot fatigue already from yesterday´s attack when they failed to locate the enemy. Nevertheless they achieve some hits on the DDs. I´m not really happy about my Betties targetting DDs, probably the worst target to attack. Nearly 90% of my bombers are either shot down or damaged again for perhaps one DD sunk if we are lucky. There are more important targets in this hex but again, it´s not the time to rant. [;)]

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Day Air attack on TF, near Derby at 24,85 [8|]

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 75
Ki-49 Helen x 32

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
AD Mormacdove, Bomb hits 7, on fire, heavy damage

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

I didn´t like that one at all... This one is coming from Koepang and goes to Derby where Miller used this already damaged AD as feint to draw a strike. Amazing to see he didn´t put up Cap though. The AD is sunk of course...

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Day Air attack on TF at 37,82

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged

Allied Ships
BB Ramilles

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

small strike against the (probably) only undamaged British BB left North of Darwin...

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Day Air attack on TF at 30,85

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 9
G3M Nell x 15
Ki-49 Helen x 26

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M Nell: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 3 destroyed, 20 damaged

Allied Ships
CV Essex, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
DD Russell

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 3000 feet
3 x G3M Nell launching torpedoes at 200 feet

that´s the reason I didn´t like it that my Koepang bombers attacked the AD at Derby with a big Cap as we´ve spotted TFs just one hex North of Wyndham, which means that´s exactly 8 hexes from Koepang and all my bombers are set to 8 hexes max as I don´t want them to attack a TF at Wyndham when there are 100+ Allied fighters in the air (including 50+ Corsairs). 8 hexes is the max range of the Helen anyway. Poor CV Essex ends up just one hex short from the port that would save her. Seeing this strike and seeing the first dozen of Helens missing the already damaged CV (3 torp hits yesterday) I feared to see the big CV escaping. But then a Nell put a torp into the burning ship, quickly followed by two more. The CV went down like a stone and the rest of the bombers failed to locate it. Took 6 torps to sink the best Allied CV on the map. Amazingly enough, the damned CV moved 6!!! hexes after being hit by three torps yesterday which brought her out of range of my bombers at Darwin (due to having them set to 5 hexes to stay in Tojo escort range). Without the bombers on Timor, the CV would have survived.

It didn´t!! BANZAI! BANZAI! BANZAI!


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Day Air attack on TF at 37,82

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 9
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 80

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 3 damaged

Allied Ships
CV Indomitable, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
CV Illustrious, on fire, heavy damage
CVE Suwannee, on fire, heavy damage

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

we get more attacks in the afternoon, Darwin is again launching a strike. Indomitable wasn´t hit that hard before but takes another torp now... [&o]

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Here comes KB again!


Day Air attack on TF at 37,82

Japanese aircraft
D3A Val x 72
A6M3a Zero x 40
B5N Kate x 81

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N Kate: 1 damaged

Allied Ships
CVE Suwannee, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
CVE Altamaha, on fire, heavy damage
CV Illustrious, Bomb hits 3, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
CVL Hermes, on fire, heavy damage
CV Victorious, Bomb hits 4, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
CVE Copahee, on fire, heavy damage
CV Indomitable, Bomb hits 5, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
CVE Nassau, Torpedo hits 6, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet
3 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet

weather is also perfectly in the afternoon, KB strikes to really finish off the Brit/US CV TF North of Darwin... forgot to take a screenshot but it´s now always the same anyway. Was fun to watch though! [;)] One of the best turns for me in playing years of WITP PBEMs. Not just this one but also the previous three days as it really seems that everything more or less exactly worked as planned.

At this stage, all three Brit CVs were already dead, either sunk or in sinking condition with no chance to survive. Not sure if there would be a US CV left that would survive without being hit again...


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Day Air attack on TF at 37,82

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 4
B5N Kate x 12

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N Kate: 1 damaged

Allied Ships
CV Indomitable, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
CV Victorious, on fire, heavy damage
CVE Suwannee, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet

again a small strike from KB that was uncoordinated, now doing in Indomitable for sure. Those other two carriers were already sunk and the Kates failed to locate them...

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Day Air attack on TF at 37,82

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 3

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
BB Valiant, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet
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Day Air attack on TF at 30,85

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 34
G4M1 Betty x 11
Ki-49 Helen x 8

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 6 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged

Allied Ships
BB South Dakota, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet
3 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 3000 feet

and Koepang again launches a strike! BB South Dakota which was hit by two aerial torps yesterday moved also six hexes towards Wyndham, was hit by a Type 95 sub torpedo and is now finished off by another two Type 91 aerial torps. The ship is confirmed sunk, the first modern US BB sunk!

BANZAI! BANZAI! BANZAI!


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Sub attack near Koepang at 28,77

Japanese Ships
AK Tsuneshima Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire

Allied Ships
SS KXIV

and the Allied strike back!! [;)] A supply loaden small AK is hit at Koepang but can be disbanded in port and will survive 100% sure.

And that was it for the day!!!

Can you imagine that you have not seen a single strike on KB? I couldn´t and it really took me a couple of seconds to really realize this! Miller must have set his bombers on his British CVs and US CVEs to stand down as he probably didn´t want them to attack my BB TFs at Darwin again just to get shot down in droves by my Tojos there. And today he surely has set all his remaining fighters on Cap. While I think he expected KB to join the fight yesterday (when he moved the US CVs in at full speed and when I moved KB back out of danger), I guess he didn´t expect KB to show up in that position this turn. Can´t explain it otherwise that I haven´t seen his carriers launching at least a small strike. Doubt it would really have had a chance to achieve much (if anything) but this way, all those bombers are lost also due to their ships being sunk. If they launch and the ships are sunk the surviving bombers in the air would at least fly out to Wyndham or Lautern.

And there was also not a single attempt to bomb KB or the BBs at Darwin by LBA from Wyndham. Can´t imagine why to be honest. If not now throwing in EVERYTHING, when doing it then? I really feared 200 B-25 or (even worse) 4Es that would attack KB. Something like 150 Zeros on Cap would not have been able to stop them at all, not to talk about the possibility that they would be escorted by 100 fighters (Boomerangs and Lightnings). I would surely have shot down the escorts in high numbers but I would estimate 80% of the bombers making it through Cap. All that would have stopped them would be low morale. If a big strike would have attacked KB, this would have meant damaged if not sunk IJN CVs. There was no such strike, perhaps Miller feared that his bombers would attack my bombers at Darwin.


What a turn, what a victory! But it´s not the decisive victory, the Allied will still win the war... but my odds to resist longer just went up...



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Ground combat at Derby

Japanese Shock attack [:D][:D]

Attacking force 53827 troops, 121 guns, 2956 vehicles, Assault Value = 1641

Defending force 31117 troops, 214 guns, 52 vehicles, Assault Value = 669

Japanese max assault: 2638 - adjusted assault: 1859

Allied max defense: 655 - adjusted defense: 575

Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0) [&o]

Japanese forces CAPTURE Derby base !!! [&o]



Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
Kittyhawk I: 8 destroyed
Boomerang II: 3 destroyed
Spitfire Vb: 5 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 10 destroyed
SBD Dauntless: 12 destroyed
F4F-4 Wildcat: 3 destroyed
F4F-3 Wildcat: 2 destroyed
Dakota I: 1 destroyed
Beaufort I: 2 destroyed

Japanese ground losses:
742 casualties reported
Guns lost 11
Vehicles lost 120

Allied ground losses:
2773 casualties reported
Guns lost 12
Vehicles lost 15

and now let´s make this turn perfect! As expected my tanks took Derby now, there´s nothing that will stop them to take Broome also. 14 units were forced to retreat, the CD unit surrendered. Nice to see this full Australian div retreating also, it will be destroyed with the three bgds and the regiment of the 3rd Australian division when we will take Broome. The majority of my tank units were set to pursue the enemy, can´t see a chance that those Allied troops will survive.

The enemy lost nearly 260 points for ground losses today...



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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15821 troops, 179 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1867

Defending force 271139 troops, 1446 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 6415



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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22707 troops, 268 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2823

Defending force 179407 troops, 11 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5121



Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported


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Ground combat at 36,88

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 52881 troops, 621 guns, 9 vehicles, Assault Value = 2089

Defending force 83206 troops, 957 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2053



Allied ground losses:
34 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8349 troops, 283 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4374

Defending force 137337 troops, 1024 guns, 353 vehicles, Assault Value = 2993



Allied ground losses:
91 casualties reported
Guns lost 2


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Ground combat at Thursday Island

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 6694 troops, 30 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 150

Defending force 640 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 15



Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported


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Ground combat at 36,88

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14315 troops, 186 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2046

Defending force 96179 troops, 1032 guns, 32 vehicles, Assault Value = 2089


Japanese ground losses:
26 casualties reported
Guns lost 8



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As you can expect, the enemy losses in aircraft were huge today. Several enemy carriers sunk, dozens of enemy ac destroyed on the ground at Derby. In the last couple of days we have destroyed 786 Allied aircraft, mostly carrier based ac. We have lost 253 in the same timeframe, but mostly land based aircraft with a lot of our pilots survived. Well, not really a lot but it wasn´t nearly as bad as expected. Expected was to have nearly all my land based Zero and Betty daitais being completely shredded but the land based IJNAF is still in good shape, so we still can strike hard if needed. And we don´t have to train up every single daitai.



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2 words:

game over![;)]

great preformance, chris.

congratulation for another victory.
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DAMN..

Now thats one hell of a well executed trap!!


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What next?
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ORIGINAL: bigbaba

2 words:

game over![;)]

great preformance, chris.

congratulation for another victory.


thx

nah, game over would be when the Allied have lost three dozen carriers on 1/45 but that won´t happen. I must admit it seems to turn out as a big victory and a serious punch into the Allied commander´s stomache but hey, it´s only 3/43 afterall.

Paul was a little frustrated (who wouldn´t) after watching last turn´s replay and he sent me an email back it would be time to wave the wite flag and he would quit, as it would take another year until his Navy would be competitive again and it also would give me the needed time to care about my gf. [;)]

I answered that while I can´t keep up the insane pace of the game, I would still be able to do more than one turn/day on average and I don´t see the last days that decisive that the Allied have to surrender. I hope the game goes on and Miller sent me a turn yesterday (which I couldn´t run due to not returning home from work before 9:30pm) telling me he ows me to play on at least until I could take Wyndham, then it would be time to surrender. Hopefully the game will go on longer, AE is out of sight it seems (not to talk about the first three patches) and with the recent victory I should stay competitive a couple of months longer. Don´t forget I have only sunk one US CV in this battle, the CVEs get replaced in the dozens, the three Brit CVs aren´t more than 1,3 US Essex class CVs. We will see...
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ORIGINAL: Xxzard

What next?


we will keep hunting ships for the next one or two turns... [;)]
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DAMN..

Now thats one hell of a well executed trap!!


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Here´s the intelligence screen. I will take a screeny of the ship losses also, there have been a lot of enemy carriers and battlewaggons confirmed sunk this turn.

So far everything has worked very well. But you may not forget that while we have shot up the enemy carrier TFs there´s a reason why they were coming into this area: escorting supply convoys to Wyndham. And have I sunk a single supply carrying AK? NO! [:-] The initial reason for my invasion of Northern Australia was the enemy´s invasion of Timor with half a dozen divisions and me having no chance to really react against it on Timor itself. Therefore the risky operation against Northern Australia. I was shocked to see that many enemy troops there, it was a lucky decision to go in against Darwin as this was the base that had the least garisson while Broome and Derby was bristling with enemy divisions due to Allied intel indentifying my plan to land there with massive force. But then I got bogged down at Wyndham against 3000 assault points. Another six Allied divs are now sitting 4 hexes South of Darwin also, stalemated by my troops (that I would need for the assault on Wyndham). If Wyndham receives a couple of tenthousand tons of supply then there is no hope to take the base at any time, in fact the enemy there will regain strenght (as if the troops there would be worns down [:(]) and bombers could fly massive strikes out of it again.

One big step was the capture of Derby last turn, I´m sure Broome will fall also. Means we will destroy two dozen enemy troops, including a full Australian div, couple of bgds and lots of base forces. Not the huge victory we could achieve at Wyndham with destroying nearly 40 units there but a nice consolation price. And this will enable us to do an organized retreat from Northern Australia if it will become necessary. I still don´t have given up the plan to knock out the divisions on Timor though, but I would need at least 6 divs to do that (by marching East from Dili, just like the Allied marched in over the trails from Lautern). 6 Divs which I don´t have, marching 120 miles over the trails takes time - which I don´t have. Looks hard to achieve at the moment. I´m sure I can hold out quite some time in Northern Australia though and while the chances to take out Wyndham are only something like 2%, at least our siege there forced the enemy Navy out of it´s holes and gave us the chance to strike hard. So if we will be forced to retreat from Australia in the end, it was still more than worth it. We sunk a lot of precious Allied shipping, destroyed hundreds of enemy aircraft (guess nearly 1500 were lost in the last weeks) and we probably will have destroyed two dozen units at Broome. Not to forget that I stopped the Allied offensive out of there for probably more than 6 months. Without the enemy carriers, it will be hard to supply Timor and as long as the enemy starves there I don´t have to fear anything coming from Lautern.

There is one big question at the moment: what happened to CV Lexington? Lexington took 3 torps, just like Essex but suffered a follow on explosion. Essex moved 6 hexes last turn, I haven´t spotted Lexington!!! So either Lexington was able to move 7 hexes and is now at Wyndham (could that really happen with such a damage?) or it was sunk (no confirmation about that but 59 Dauntless and 26 TBF Avenger were lost on the ground today and they can´t all have been on Essex alone when the ship carries 36 F4F-4), or it wasn´t spotted (which I seriously doubt with all the search aircraft I have nearby. With the losses of SBDs and TBFs a turn ago and the losses on the ground today it could be that Lexington sunk. But at least 12 Dauntless were destroyed on the ground at Derby today. I don´t know, Lexington sunk? I doubt it to be honest. Lexington at Wyndham? Can´t be. So the only thing would be our search aircraft missed out... [&:] What I know for sure that CV Yorktown, Hornet and Wasp are now at Wyndham, all undamaged.

The next turn will be very interesting also...


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if paul stops to play i would like to take over the game chris...again.[;)]

i have my own hard fight against "historiker" but there is room for another game and your onw against miller is very intresting one. it would be a great challenge to take over the allied.
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ORIGINAL: bigbaba

if paul stops to play i would like to take over the game chris...again.[;)]

i have my own hard fight against "historiker" but there is room for another game and your onw against miller is very intresting one. it would be a great challenge to take over the allied.


good to know, but be aware that you are then not allowed to read the AAR anymore... [;)]
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aye..i know that this time. after all, reading the AAR would be frustrating as the allied CIC.[:)]

just let me know ehen miller says that he stops, chris.
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Congratulations Castor, nice destruction you got there. [;)]

What was Miller thinking?? Timing and tactics were awful.

Nevertheless, you deserve it. And to spice things up, i'll throw a rather nice martial art video [&o]

Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxkr4wS7XqY
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