Alpha77 (IJ) vs. Allied player (A) PBM scen2

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Alpha77 (IJ) vs. Allied player (A) PBM scen2

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1st player had quit but a another came to the rescue...I EDITED THE TITLE TO NOT SHOW THE OTHER PLAYERS NAME, I REALIZED THAT I DID NOT ASK HIM THAT I WRITE THIS AAR)

I named this fools edition because the CEO and also some of his commanders seem prone to foolish actions. The Allied player is a guy from Hessen in fact a neighbouring region. I am mostly a fool in nav/air actions it seems while the land combat is ok.

Maybe this helps me to manage my stuff better. I played 2 AI campaigns before and "won" both easily - I quit the Japanese game in the mid of 43 because it seemed the AI was kind of broken at this point (not to mention it lost too many major ships), the Allied game is over 3 years ago I quit this one in mid 44 (landed in North Japan, Hokaido etc. only problem seemed to be Kamikazes at this stage to the Allied war effort).

HR´s are quite usual ones, sweeps are 20k in 42, 25 in 43 etc., no nav bombing by 4e under 10k, pay PPs for restricted units, no 1 ship bait fleets of AKLs... (THE SWEEP RULE IS DELETED)

CH: When I asked the Allied why I see not much movement at this front he told me, one can not do much there this early anyway. So it seems he mostly put quite a lot of troops in the bigger cities and also just left ones in better terrain as speed bumps. But did not do the recommended tactic in pulling back and build a line in the good terrain. Wenchow was quite a problem to take, but it fell 2 weeks ago. Chinese surrendered. We besiege Kweiyang and Changsa right now, have moved north, took Sian and then west as you can see on the pic. Other areas will be shown later as well some info regarding the foolish nav/air battles.

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RE: WITP: FE (fools edition) PBM Scen2 stock Japan AAR starts in May42

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This is a "historical" first turn game btw. So the PH stike and most landing at the beginning follow the normal timeline. So called "Intel" said 3 BBs and 1 CL sunk at PH, I guess I am lucky if one of the BBs sank at all. California was just reported as "still in action" - after almost 5 months [>:] So no fancy, bold alternative strikes to report here like most other games seem to have [:'(]

Phils: Pretty much historical except that we were a bit faster, so no need to post a pic of the area. The Allies sent out all their subs and PTs to hunt down our invasion fleets but I was prepared (for once) and had severall smaller ASW fleets on patrol. Otherwise all bigger shipping and most of the planes were evacuated by the Allies. I only remember CA Houston and a couple small DDs sunk in this area and time, ecxept 20 or so smaller ships, aux and cargos. So nothing that really did hurt the Allies there. However when we landed in the area of Manadao and Ternate pretty quick and were once able to surpriise the Allied who lost ca. the half of the evacuated fighters from the Phils there - overrun on the ground. Ca. 25-30 planes or so reported lost "on the ground". This seemed the only bigger blow we were able to deal out there (except the CA and one bigger TK). But part of the reason was ofc that the Allied brought a lot of his ships and planes to safety.

Oil fields: Most oilfields in the vicinity (Miri etc.) were also occupied pretty fast, except Tarakan which held out longer (we had to send a bigger unit there).

Sumatra, Malaya: Except that we landed directly at Palembang (in the AI game I landed at Osthafen and walked to Palembang) and at Mersing (later than the so called Mersing gap described in the forum) no change big change to history. Palembang was only marginaly re-inforced by the Allies so we got that pretty fast. Some Allies were cut off from Singapore due to landing at Mersing, so this worked also pretty good. Then the usual assembling of forces at Johore and re-combining of fragments, shock attack to Singer and siege and bomb it. Our fighters were still good vs. the early British and Dutch, but already later ran in more serious opposition in form of RAF Hurries and the AVG and then it already showed that the IJA airforce is not really that good. The oil was only a bit damaged and is now at 100% the refineries suffered more, but they are not as important.

Both big boys from Force Z were sunk also as per reality:

So no real surprises on this pics:



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RE: WITP: FE (fools edition) PBM Scen2 stock Japan AAR starts in May42

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Burma,India: So we send guys (mostly the vaunted Thai army) north and west to Burma and turned out the Allies were much stronger there - they made a forward defense around Rangoon, Pegu... so more stuff had to got there. This is scen 2 so the IJA gets some more troops incl. 2 or 3 "guards" divisions, 1 para brigade, 1 amphib brig and a tank brig. And even now I got a tank div (!). However the divs are quite "meh" they have only 50 exp and 50 mor!. And it seems the morale does not get higher for a reason so far. So also these troops were not enough, after I send a good "normal" div to Pegu however we got better results and lowered the forts. Pegu is clear terrain so even the huge enemy force there now had probs to hold and also a supply malus. He has 3-4 Indian and also 3 Auusie BRIGADES there along with some art and the leftovers from the Malaya campaign he could salvage (as you know mostly only battalions etc.).

Pegu given up by Allies and they make Rangoon a stronghold: So when our assaults got a bit better results and lowered the fort, he send all his stuff back to Rangoon andf we took Pegu without a fight. It would have been better if we were able to damage that troops a bit more before they get in the better terrain and forts of Rangoon. After some resting days we followed and are besieging Rangoon to this very day (I judge his troops there still too strong, we have 2 weak scen2 divs, 1 soso regiment and only 1 good regular IJA div there and now fill in some more stuff eg. a div from China was bought out, as well the scen2 tank brig will try to get better force ratio there. The rest are Thais and only 2 arty units not enough I guess.....Meanwhile the IJA airforce gets bloodied by the AVG and RAF.

Oscars savaged by RAF,AVG Sure we need also to bomb and supress Rangoon from the air, so we first tried fighter sweeps. Very bad, RAF,AVG is much better and we lost up to 50 planes. The worst was I forgot to change order for 2 units of old Oscar1b and the 2nd day brought down 20 or so more of them. While the first wave at least got some of the enemy shot down and later shown in ops report we got perhaps even a 3-1 in their favour for lost planes as the Oscar weapons were to weak to outright shoot them down, but at least damaged a lot it seems.

So we needed a blockade and the navy - they bombarded Rangoon with DDs and CAs and finally it looked like the CAP and airfields were weakened enough so we could send in bombers. Only at higher alt, some good AA. So a long process. Right now he is trying to fly supplies in there. We intercepted some of these flights. This is still ongoing, we also send infiltrators north to take Magwe etc. Also a weak CVL fleet or ours sunk a lot of cargo ships trying to bring more stuff and supply to Rangoon. Not to mention our surface forces which were on the way north to protect our landings also caught a lot of shipping. Only a Brits DD caused serious trouble who was very tough to sink but he also hit with a torp on our CL (made it to port).

Invasion India For the trouble in Burma ofc the what do you do you can bang your head or try to outflank right ? Which worked we landed at Coxs Bazar. Akyab below is also defended still by the Allies, 1 Indian div and smaller stuff, here also only a siege was possible for only 1 soso div of ours there, we now send a 2nd one. Perhaps that will do the trick. Otherwise the operation worked fine - as I said it seems I am better at ground combat - just check the pic. Chittgong was ofc the trouble spot, if we were stopped there this would delay the breakout to the better terrain, but turned out our 2 GOOD div plus much arty and tanks got the place with a 3-1 ratio - we then tried to hunt down some Allied survivors from this fight and managed to catch 1 Indian brigade and destroy it. But then we needed to turn to main objective Calcutta. We also let our tanks run wild and cut rail lines as you can see here:


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RE: WITP: FE (fools edition) PBM Scen2 stock Japan AAR starts in May42

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Java, Timor, North Australia, Horn Is.: The Java conquest went ok, and it is now completly in our hands with Soerabaya now being a main base P7 and A6 already, We lost some good ships to some lucky Dutch bombing and dumb errors of mine regarding minefields, eg. a very good AMC was sunk along with 2 TBs (those are weak at the beginning but make good escorts later, so a pity to lose these!) Timor also went good, we did not bother with Ambon as most will land there I saw in the forum. But it seems now isolated and perhaps we later go there, small detachements also took the 2 small oil bases there, but their ports or too small to be of much value. Finally Wyndham, Broome, Derby. As the Allied had combined ALL or MOST fleets of any nation with the US in the south not much shipping there. We only sunk some aux and minesweepers, at Dawin was some bomber presence butonly Hudson 1 and Wirraway. And we got Koepnang to AF4 and a HQ there, so in theory Netties should be able to interdict any shipping there with torps provided they are detected and no CV CAP. But they did not detect anything big trying to interfere with our landings there. We send some Nells and a weak carrier group to Darwin, but as I said not much to get there. I believe Darwin was also out of supplies because no plane would sortie from there I am aware of, Hudsons could do some damage, but they did not fly. Our troops are 1 GOOD div, 1 TK reg and 3-4 smaller SNLF, guards etc. turned out the div was overkill. Katherine fell easily and Daly Water taken by Para jump. Darwin taken 2 days ago.

But HORN was another matter he even flew in re-inforecements of one AUS brigade there, we had to pull back the initial landing forces they were savaged (HORN is an atoll I realized) and a SNLF totally wiped out, later come back with a complete div and even this had trouble due to many disabled squads and NOT HEALING (!). This was not worth it for a small island however the Allies can easily sneak supply and planes there and be a dangerous nuisance, not to mention the troops there are worth to destroy to weaken the Aussie army. The enemy even counter attacked our div and got a 1:1, it took land bombing and bombardements to take this tiny island - never again :) This leads to most active and dangerous combat zone where the IJN lost quite a bit, the south pacific and guadalcanal and the area around PM - Cooktown. Later more about the disasters [:(]

No pic needed of North Aus I guess but here is the combat report from Darwin (2 days ago), as you can see supply minus:

Ground combat at Darwin (76,124)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 18931 troops, 183 guns, 181 vehicles, Assault Value = 723

Defending force 6006 troops, 55 guns, 53 vehicles, Assault Value = 93

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Japanese adjusted assault: 1110

Allied adjusted defense: 52

Japanese assault odds: 21 to 1 (fort level 2)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Darwin !!!

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
Hudson I: 8 destroyed
Wirraway: 4 destroyed
DH-84 Dragon: 1 destroyed

Combat modifiers
Defender: leaders(+), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
301 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 14 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
2670 casualties reported
Squads: 26 destroyed, 13 disabled
Non Combat: 273 destroyed, 16 disabled
Engineers: 23 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 54 (52 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 55 (55 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 7
Units destroyed 2

Assaulting units:
Yokosuka 4th SNLF
8th Tank Regiment
2nd Division
Sasebo 3rd SNLF
81st Naval Guard Unit

Defending units:
2nd Recce Battalion
19th Australian Battalion
Emery Point Fortress
2nd RAN Base Force
Darwin RAAF Base Force
Katherine RAAF Base Force
Northern Territory
1st Fgtr RAAF Wing
A/B Battery Heavy Coastal Artillery Regiment
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RE: WITP: FE (fools edition) PBM Scen2 stock Japan AAR starts in May42

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South:Ok, Wake Is. invasion was called off, as our unit landing there was annihilated. We wanted to come back later with more, but the nav, air catastrophes in the area and the battles of PM and Horn Is. prevented this. From the AI games I know PM is quite important so we went there, but brought not enough stuff. We had to bring a complete div to take the place, the enemy would also feed more stuff per air to the place. Finally we got it and the remains of the Allies wandered to Terapo - 1 hex before they could reach it we landed there too to deny the stranded troops a resting place. They now still sit near Terapo but could not take it.. I will not describe in detail what I have where also no pics of the area - the Allied player was found in this forum and perhaps he still reads here and maybe also this AAR. He would bomb PM from Townsville with 4e and we were not able quickly to build it up and repair, but finally also with LR CAP from Buna, we managed to get enough losses on his bombers (mostly to ops) so that he rebased them to Luganville and Ndeni, there they trashed my base at Lunga (was not fully build) and our fighters had huge trouble there, in short the total destruction of Lunga could not be prevented. He also used B26s and now B25s. Before that we were going south a bit to Ndeni but only with weaker forces (even in scen 2 we do not have enough ofc to cover a wider area) - also I judged PM more important. He had so much stuff already at Luganville and in March already took Ndeni with our weak lft over forces destroyed there. You just can not stop massive Allied bomber raids on a small isolated base like this.

The Allies are already quick to build bases so his bombers would fly from there to Lunga (we still have Tassafaronga and Tulagi) other wise a good base at Shortland and a smaller one at Munda. We could also not prevent the bombarding runs of the Allied fleets (remember he has there the Brits, Aussies and Kiwis too). Our subs are useless sometimes they will shoot but only on a DD and then in turn plastered (esp. the RN ships are dangerous with their better exp). Mines did not work too. Only option would be bigger surface fleet and CVs to catch the bombardement fleets - we tried this and it worked ok with the surface fleets (but we lost cruisers) and the 2 CVLs we posted near Tassafaronga were surprised by 3-4 Allied CVs and sunk. 1 would have made it but a weak raid from dive bombers got 4-5 of them through and hit the already crippled ship, ammo explosion and gone. I can admit these 2 losses here as they were reported already. Also we lost a CVE at Shortlands harbour due to surprise 4e raid. CAP was only 1 weaker unit as the base was still building up. Most of my other ships and CVs and the region were also damaged and/or sunk.

Refer to these 2 threads - there you find also combat reports of my surface fleet bombed and the borked CV battle before (had to retire even if 1 CV was only hit by 1 bomb the damage was bad):

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Later another borked battle, with 4 CVs and 2 CVLs in seperate fleets. The CVL one was following the CV one, but then only the CVs reacted to the enemy but the CVLs DID NOT and also did not follow. So they were now seperated by a hex. And worse the main CAP Zero (36!) unit was on one of the CVLs at range 0. So no CAP from the CVLs for the CVs. Both TFs were on react ZERO, but the CV commander seemed to have overidden this order... he was responsible that the 2 fleets seperated and left the CV one with a weak CAP not to mention the Kates on the CVLs would fly seperatly ofc. We managed to hit their ships pretty good anyway, but from all these battles and our huge losses only 1 British and 1 US CV are confirmed sunk. We had another 2 in sunk reports but one was quitely removed - the other is false too I guess. The Allied could strike our 2 CVLs near Tassafaronga with 3-4 CVs so it seems even the damage was not as bad as thought (I was thinking he could use max 2 CVs for a while, but did not take into account how fast the Allies can repair and the other British one that was - is? - there)...but the best is yet to come. In the afternoon our planes sortied again, BUT NOT AGAINST THE ENEMY CV fleet but against TANKERS in Townsville harbour.

Will post some combat reports later, but in short the Allies now sit at a good base at Lunga, already repaired most of the field and 80 fighters reported there. Also he seems to have 3 - 4 CVs ready for action - Hornet however was hit by some bombs from Kates on low alt flying from Tulagi. Guess not much damage, just as an earlier torp hit by Betties on another CV in the PM, Cooktown area. He sortied to interfere with our landings at Horn, but luckily only got a 4 ship amphib fleet sunk. Then our Netties would finally sortie against the CVs as PM had reached AF4 and more air support and fighters there. Over 50 or so with some escort. Most were shot down (30 or so), for only 1 single torp hit, and this hit seemed to have caused not much damage. They enemy also has maxed out bases at Ndeni and Luganville. As said before I can not tell the actual true ship losses here because I hope that the Allies get also some false reports :)


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RE: WITP: FE (fools edition) PBM Scen2 stock Japan AAR starts in May42

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Here some sample combat report from March:

Night Time Surface Combat, near Port Blair at 47,53, Range 2,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CL Naka
DD Shirakumo
DD Isonami

Allied Ships
xAK City of Hankow, Shell hits 17, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
xAK Mendoza, Shell hits 7, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk

Allied ground losses:
893 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 275 destroyed, 96 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 123 (121 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 220 (208 destroyed, 12 disabled)

Day Time Surface Combat, near Port Blair at 47,52, Range 4,000 Yards

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
Fulmar II: 3 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CL Naka, Shell hits 11, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
DD Shirakumo, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Isonami, Shell hits 3

Allied Ships
DD Decoy, Shell hits 18, and is sunk
xAKL Memphis City, Shell hits 6, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAKL Selma City, Shell hits 1, on fire
xAKL Jalatarang, Shell hits 6, and is sunk
xAKL Kalgan, Shell hits 6, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAP Nordhval, Shell hits 12, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAKL Mabella, Shell hits 5, and is sunk
xAP Sarpen, Shell hits 17, and is sunk

Allied ground losses:
184 casualties reported
Squads: 16 destroyed, 23 disabled
Non Combat: 29 destroyed, 39 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 36 (9 destroyed, 27 disabled)
Vehicles lost 94 (65 destroyed, 29 disabled)

Day Time Surface Combat, near Bassein at 50,52, Range 6,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
BB Kongo
BB Haruna
CA Kumano
CL Sendai
CL Kinu
DD Kuroshio
DD Shiranui
DD Usugumo
DD Uranami

Allied Ships
xAK Nirvana, Shell hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAK Appleleaf, Shell hits 10, and is sunk
xAP Esperance, Shell hits 4, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
xAK Hadleigh, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk

Allied ground losses:
1786 casualties reported
Squads: 113 destroyed, 37 disabled
Non Combat: 148 destroyed, 42 disabled
Engineers: 9 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 123 (82 destroyed, 41 disabled)
Vehicles lost 73 (69 destroyed, 4 disabled)

.... and some more of the same, subs would pick some wounded ships (the only thing they hit) and later Jakes from Port Blair and Kates from a CVL would sink some more...

Raid gone wrong to Wake, not a single torp hit on the enemy, wonder if had intel we went there;

Night Time Surface Combat, near Wake Island at 136,98, Range 12,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CL Kiso
CL Oi, Shell hits 4, on fire
DD Kazegumo
DD Sanae, Shell hits 1, on fire
TB Hato, Shell hits 1
TB Kamo

Allied Ships
CL Helena
DD Bagley
DD Blue
DD Mugford
DD Maury
DD Benham

Totally borked landing at Horn (the 1st one):

Ground combat at Horn Island (91,128)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 1227 troops, 11 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 46

Defending force 4367 troops, 47 guns, 33 vehicles, Assault Value = 164

Japanese adjusted assault: 0

Allied adjusted defense: 59

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 99 (fort level 3)

Combat modifiers
Defender: preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
815 casualties reported
Squads: 75 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 20 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 9 (9 destroyed, 0 disabled)

Assaulting units:
Maizuru 1st SNLF
52nd Naval Guard Unit
4th Indpt SNLF Coy

Defending units:
2/2nd Ind Coy
Thurday Island Det. Battalion
2/4 MG Battalion
Torres Strait Battalion
Sparrow Battalion
Gull Battalion
Horn Isl Det.


Chittagong taken - either he forgot to move all the planes or seriously underestiminated our forces....

Ground combat at Chittagong (55,41)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 43447 troops, 527 guns, 483 vehicles, Assault Value = 1558

Defending force 28371 troops, 351 guns, 579 vehicles, Assault Value = 773

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 1340

Allied adjusted defense: 218

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

Japanese forces CAPTURE Chittagong !!!

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
H81-A3: 20 destroyed
Blenheim IV: 10 destroyed
Blenheim IF: 4 destroyed
Hurricane I Trop: 21 destroyed

Combat modifiers
Defender: preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
1471 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 205 disabled
Non Combat: 11 destroyed, 24 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 31 disabled
Guns lost 16 (2 destroyed, 14 disabled)
Vehicles lost 76 (11 destroyed, 65 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
13264 casualties reported
Squads: 248 destroyed, 80 disabled
Non Combat: 1151 destroyed, 66 disabled
Engineers: 321 destroyed, 17 disabled
Guns lost 241 (227 destroyed, 14 disabled)
Vehicles lost 438 (431 destroyed, 7 disabled)
Units retreated 18
Units destroyed 6

Assaulting units:
Imperial Guards Division
14th Tank Regiment
18th Division
5th Division
4th Tank Regiment
6th Tank Regiment
5th Mortar Battalion
25th Army
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
25th Air Defense AA Regiment
3rd Mortar Battalion
3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Mortar Regiment
21st Ind.AA Gun Co
1st JAAF Base Force

Defending units:
6th Aus Div Cav Regiment
2nd Assam Rifles Battalion
84th Indian Brigade
2/1 AIF Pioneer Battalion
3rd Carabiniers Regiment
Chittagong Fortress
19th Indian Division
7th Aus Div Cav Regiment
2/2 AIF Pioneer Battalion
42nd Cavalry Regiment
I Aus Corps Engineer Battalion
44th Cavalry Regiment
1st Patiala Lancers Regiment
21st Australian Bde /2
2/9th Field Regiment
1/2 Central Detach.
3rd Indian Coastal Artillery Regiment
1st Bombay Construction Battalion
25th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
1st Bengal Construction Battalion
RAF 222 Group Base Force /1
RAF 221 Group Base Force /2
RAF 224 Group Base Force /2
17th Australian Bde /6


He sends B17s against our CVs on severall raids, to weaken the CAP and perhaps a lucky hit (in fact the CAP IS weakened and he got 1 hit)

Morning Air attack on TF, near Port Moresby at 98,130

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 38 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 44
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 14

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 6

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 3 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 2 destroyed by flak

Japanese Ships
CV Soryu

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 8 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
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RE: WITP: FE (fools edition) PBM Scen2 stock Japan AAR starts in May42

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His campaign to Lunga started with massive 4e raids and bombardements - however some of these would go wrong. Eg. it seems the old BBs were too slow to get fast enough out of our plane range after the bombardement (we still had functioning fields at Lunga and Tulagi also an air HQ with torps!).

Night Naval bombardment of Lunga at 114,138

Allied Ships
BB Mississippi
BB New Mexico

Japanese ground losses:
66 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 4
Port hits 7

Morning Air attack on TF, near Kirakira at 115,139

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 32 NM, estimated altitude 3,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
H6K4 Mavis x 3

Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 7

Japanese aircraft losses
H6K4 Mavis: 1 damaged

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
BB Colorado, Torpedo hits 3, on fire

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x H6K4 Mavis launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 18in Type 91 Torpedo

Morning Air attack on TF, near Kirakira at 115,139

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 5 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 1 minutes

Japanese aircraft
B5N2 Kate x 16

Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 6

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 4 damaged
B5N2 Kate: 1 destroyed by flak

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
BB Colorado, Bomb hits 9, on fire
CA New Orleans, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x B5N2 Kate bombing from 1000 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Kirakira at 115,139

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 21 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
H6K4 Mavis x 3

Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 7

Japanese aircraft losses
H6K4 Mavis: 1 damaged

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
BB Colorado, Torpedo hits 4, and is sunk

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x H6K4 Mavis launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 18in Type 91 Torpedo

( we also lost many planes to LR CAP but as you can see some got through, I post only the more dramatic reports, not the ones 4-5 planes shot down and hit nothing)

What.......he already lands at Lunga at beginning of April....

Pre-Invasion action off Lunga (114,138)
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

87 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
DD Thanet
DD John D. Edwards
DD Edsall
AMC Westralia
DD Voyager

DD Thanet firing at 4th JNAF AF Unit
DD John D. Edwards firing at 6th JNAF AF Unit
DD Edsall firing at 82nd Naval Guard Unit
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 5,000 yards
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 2,000 yards


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Amphibious Assault at Lunga (114,138)

TF 195 troops unloading over beach at Lunga, 114,138

Allied ground losses:
301 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 170 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 158 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 79 (0 destroyed, 79 disabled)
Vehicles lost 24 (0 destroyed, 24 disabled)
(example many more landing)

We hit back:

Morning Air attack on TF, near Lunga at 114,138

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 28 NM, estimated altitude 5,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 13

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 2 damaged

Allied Ships
APD Alden
APD Fox, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAP Tabinta, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage
AK Alchiba

Allied ground losses:
54 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Aircraft Attacking:
13 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Type 91 Torpedo

Carrier support unable to supply air cover.. (probably because Hornet was hit by 2 x 250kg...)

And much more of the same air, sea battles there, we sunk a good number of transports, some APDs and 2 BBs later some cruisers (but lost/heavy damged CAs and 2 CVLs). Gonna not post every action, and it was a lot of ACTION you bet...

Here the one Betty raid that got through, I do now believe that only 1 torp hit (IF ANY!!)

Morning Air attack on TF, near Cooktown at 95,138

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 2,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 6

Allied aircraft
Fulmar II x 9
Sea Hurricane Ib x 1
P-40E Warhawk x 1
F4F-3A Wildcat x 22
F4F-3 Wildcat x 21

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed by flak

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
CV Enterprise, Torpedo hits 2, on fire

Small surface TF tried to interdict, later ran into a small cruiser fleet which probably was short of ammo from bombardement and both forces survived:

Night Time Surface Combat, near Lunga at 114,138, Range 8,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CL Abukuma, Shell hits 1
CL Tama, Shell hits 1
DD Yugure
DD Ariake
DD Matsukaze, Shell hits 2

Allied Ships
APD Alden
DD Edsall
DD John D. Edwards, Shell hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Voyager
DD Thanet, Shell hits 1
APD Manley
APD Gregory
APD McKean
APD Stringham
APD King
APD Hatfield
APD Kane
APD Rathburne
AVD Childs
AVD Williamson
AM Launceton
AP Hugh L. Scott
AP President Hayes
AP President Monroe, heavy damage
AP President Polk, Shell hits 2
AP Crescent City
AK Alchiba
xAK Peter Kerr
xAK Ruth Alexander
AMC Corfu, Shell hits 14, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
xAP Klipfontein
xAP Poelau Laut
xAP Tabinta, heavy damage
xAP Kedah, Shell hits 1
AMC Kanimbla
AMC Westralia, Shell hits 5, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAP Mataroa
xAP Macdhui, heavy damage
KV Chilliwack
KV Dawson, Shell hits 5, heavy fires, heavy damage

Another slower TF was caught with the 2nd wave of landings:

Morning Air attack on TF, near Stewart Island at 117,138

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 37 NM, estimated altitude 5,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 18 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 18
H6K4 Mavis x 10

Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 6

Japanese aircraft losses
H6K4 Mavis: 10 damaged
H6K4 Mavis: 1 destroyed by flak

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
CL Detroit, Torpedo hits 1
BB New Mexico, Torpedo hits 3, heavy damage



Morning Air attack on TF, near Stewart Island at 117,138

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 71 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 26 minutes

Japanese aircraft
D3A1 Val x 15

Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 2

Japanese aircraft losses
D3A1 Val: 2 destroyed, 7 damaged
D3A1 Val: 1 destroyed by flak

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
BB Mississippi, Bomb hits 1
BB New Mexico, Bomb hits 1, heavy damage
CL Honolulu

Morning Air attack on TF, near Stewart Island at 117,138

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 30 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
B5N2 Kate x 2

Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 1

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
BB Mississippi, Torpedo hits 1

.....etc... he later managed better LR cap and lots of our flyboys were shot down...
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RE: WITP: FE (fools edition) PBM Scen2 stock Japan AAR starts in May42

Post by Alpha77 »

April42 the account of the 2nd borked CV Battle (the 1st one I have no combat reports anymore but some are in the link above also my BBs and CAs pulverized as they failed a night battle vs. the enemy CVs and were later caught in the open [:(])

Morning Air attack on TF, near Palm Island at 93,143

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 30 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 54
B5N2 Kate x 81
D3A1 Val x 56

Allied aircraft
Fulmar II x 8
Sea Hurricane Ib x 6
Kittyhawk IA x 6
P-40E Warhawk x 2
F4F-3A Wildcat x 26
F4F-3 Wildcat x 27

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 6 destroyed
B5N2 Kate: 6 destroyed, 4 damaged
B5N2 Kate: 2 destroyed by flak
D3A1 Val: 4 destroyed, 16 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Fulmar II: 1 destroyed
F4F-3A Wildcat: 4 destroyed
F4F-3 Wildcat: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
CV Indomitable, Bomb hits 4, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
BB Royal Sovereign, Bomb hits 7, Torpedo hits 7, and is sunk
DD Perkins
CV Yorktown, Bomb hits 6, heavy fires, heavy damage
CV Enterprise, Torpedo hits 4, and is sunk
CA Dorsetshire, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
CA Salt Lake City
CA Pensacola, Bomb hits 2, on fire
CA Minneapolis
CA Portland, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
CL Emerald, Bomb hits 2, on fire
CA Astoria, Torpedo hits 1

Morning Air attack on TF, near Palm Island at 93,143

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 1,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 17 minutes

Japanese aircraft (THESE MUST be the Kates from the CVLs that were on the seperated CVLs by commander reaction from CV fleet)

B5N1 Kate x 51

Allied aircraft
Fulmar II x 4
Sea Hurricane Ib x 3
Kittyhawk IA x 4
P-40E Warhawk x 1
F4F-3A Wildcat x 17
F4F-3 Wildcat x 19

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N1 Kate: 16 destroyed, 8 damaged
B5N1 Kate: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied aircraft losses
Fulmar II: 1 destroyed
Sea Hurricane Ib: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
CL Colombo
CL Glasgow, Bomb hits 1, on fire
CL Hobart
CV Yorktown, heavy fires, heavy damage
CL Leander
CLAA Van Heemskerck
DD MacDonough
CA Salt Lake City, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
CV Indomitable, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
CA Indianapolis

Counterstrike (we lack CAP from the CVLs!![:(]):

Morning Air attack on TF, near Palm Island at 98,143

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 37 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 36
F1M2 Pete x 4

Allied aircraft
SBD-2 Dauntless x 18
SBD-3 Dauntless x 36
TBD-1 Devastator x 14

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
SBD-2 Dauntless: 3 destroyed, 1 damaged
SBD-3 Dauntless: 4 destroyed, 15 damaged
SBD-3 Dauntless: 1 destroyed by flak
TBD-1 Devastator: 9 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CV Kaga
CV Zuikaku
CV Soryu, Bomb hits 1, on fire
CV Akagi, Bomb hits 2, on fire
(both heavy damage, 2 more fragmented strikes come in but luckily no more hits)...

GREAT in the AFTERNOON KATES LAUNCH AGAIN !!! [:)]


.....BUT WHAT DO THEY HIT, Tankers !!!! [:(][:@][X(]

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Townsville at 92,144

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 72 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 30 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 33
B5N2 Kate x 72

Allied aircraft
Fulmar II x 4
Sea Hurricane Ib x 1
F4F-3A Wildcat x 10
F4F-3 Wildcat x 11

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed
B5N2 Kate: 4 destroyed, 3 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Fulmar II: 1 destroyed
F4F-3A Wildcat: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
DD Piet Hein
TK British Unity, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires
TK Capsa, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires
PG Herald, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DD Van Ghent
AM Colac, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk

and...not even a TK sunk [:(][>:]


We had to break off as 2 of our CVs heavy damaged/sunk... and the others lots of plane losses. However we sent the 2 CVL fleet to perhaps hit the enemy CVs for change instead of tankers, but they found nothing more - guess all enemy ships were save in Townsville then....[>:]

Same turn:

Morning Air attack on Shortlands , at 109,131

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 10

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 15
LB-30 Liberator x 3

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 8 damaged

Japanese Ships
CVE Taiyo, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage

Port hits 5
Port fuel hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 5000 feet *
Port Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x LB-30 Liberator bombing from 5000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 5000 feet *
Port Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 5000 feet *
Port Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 5000 feet *
Port Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
264th Sentai/B with Ki-45 KAIa Nick (1 airborne, 3 on standby, 6 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes

Ammo storage explosion on CVE Taiyo
Ammo storage explosion on CVE Taiyo
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RE: WITP: FE (fools edition) PBM Scen2 stock Japan AAR starts in May42

Post by Alpha77 »

April 42 still...

We sent some ships to interdict amphib fleets but they found a cruiser force (bombardement mission): Achieved not much....
Night Time Surface Combat, near Lunga at 114,138, Range 4,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CA Haguro, Shell hits 9, on fire
CA Kako, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Tokitsukaze
DD Tanikaze
DD Shigure
DD Fumizuki
DD Yugao
DD Karii
Allied Ships
CA Canberra, Shell hits 1, on fire
CA Cornwall, Shell hits 3
CA Exeter
CL Raleigh
CL Trenton, Shell hits 1
CL Concord
CL Boise
CL Honolulu
DD Grayson
DD Sims
DD Hughes, Shell hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Anderson
DD Hammann
DD Walke
DD Clark

This is even worse, what was I thinking to send these lambs to the slaughter (probably depended on luck to hit some transports with troops??)

Day Time Surface Combat, near Lunga at 114,139, Range 14,000 Yards

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
E7K2 Alf: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CL Katori, Shell hits 12, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
TB Sagi, Shell hits 6, and is sunk
DMS W-19, Shell hits 7, and is sunk

Allied Ships
CA Cornwall, Shell hits 2
CA Exeter
CL Raleigh
CL Trenton
CL Concord
CL Boise
CL Honolulu
DD Grayson
DD Sims
DD Anderson
DD Hammann
DD Walke


Our subs finally hit warships (but only because these were damaged before):

Submarine attack near Ndeni at 119,141

Japanese Ships
SS I-9

Allied Ships
CL Perth, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

CL Perth is sighted by SS I-9
SS I-9 launches 6 torpedoes at CL Perth


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Sub attack near Ndeni at 119,141

Japanese Ships
SS I-9

Allied Ships
CL Detroit, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage

CL Detroit is sighted by SS I-9
SS I-9 launches 6 torpedoes

Example of Allied raid, our CAP already very weak and airfield almost taken out:

orning Air attack on Lunga , at 114,138

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 9

Allied aircraft
A-29 Hudson x 6
B-17E Fortress x 4
B-26 Marauder x 15

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-46-I Dinah: 1 destroyed on ground
D3A1 Val: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
A-29 Hudson: 1 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 3 damaged
B-26 Marauder: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged


Change of location, we raided Calcutta and hit ships in the harbour (some already damaged) Allies tried to bring ships to safety, but 1 sub and 1 DD interfere:

Day Time Surface Combat, near Cuttack at 48,39, Range 10,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DD Hakaze, Shell hits 1

Allied Ships
xAP Largs Bay, Shell hits 16, and is sunk
xAP Dilwara, Shell hits 2, and is sunk
AMc Lahore, Shell hits 9, heavy fires, heavy damage
AMc Chandbali, Shell hits 11, and is sunk
AKV Engadine, Shell hits 27, and is sunk
HDML 1101, Shell hits 3, and is sunk
HDML 1103, Shell hits 1, and is sunk

We met the Brits-Indian at Comilla again that retreated from Chittgong:

Ground combat at Comilla (56,39)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 56240 troops, 679 guns, 507 vehicles, Assault Value = 1927

Defending force 33732 troops, 406 guns, 356 vehicles, Assault Value = 790

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 1027

Allied adjusted defense: 250

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

Japanese forces CAPTURE Comilla !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
2771 casualties reported
Squads: 10 destroyed, 258 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 36 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Guns lost 27 (1 destroyed, 26 disabled)
Vehicles lost 18 (2 destroyed, 16 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
11583 casualties reported
Squads: 303 destroyed, 104 disabled
Non Combat: 544 destroyed, 132 disabled
Engineers: 241 destroyed, 13 disabled
Guns lost 150 (111 destroyed, 39 disabled)
Vehicles lost 181 (165 destroyed, 16 disabled)
Units retreated 24
Units destroyed 2

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
5th Division
Imperial Guards Division
6th Tank Regiment
18th Division
4th Tank Regiment
6th Guards Division
3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
3rd Mortar Battalion
5th Mortar Battalion
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
5th RF Gun Battalion
51st Field AA Battalion
21st Ind.AA Gun Co
25th Army
1st Mortar Regiment
1st JAAF Base Force

Defending units:
2/2 AIF Pioneer Battalion
75th Indian Brigade
1st Somerset LI Battalion
2nd Assam Rifles Battalion
84th Indian Brigade
1st Patiala Lancers Regiment
7th Indian Division
I Aus Corps Engineer Battalion
7th Aus Div Cav Regiment
2/1 AIF Pioneer Battalion
19th Indian Division
21st Australian Bde /2
1/2nd Det Hyderabad
1/2 Central Detach.
RAF 221 Group Base Force
25th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
RAF 221 Group Wing
1st Bombay Construction Battalion
IV Indian Corps
AHQ Bengal
2/9th Field Regiment
RAF 224 Group Base Force
1st Bengal Construction Battalion
1/2 Det. South Ind
95th Heavy AA Regiment
RAF 222 Group Base Force

We threw even obsolete trainer planes in the fire at Lunga [:-] But the end is near there...

Morning Air attack on Lunga , at 114,138

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A5M4 Claude x 15
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 8

Allied aircraft
A-29 Hudson x 3
B-17D Fortress x 7
B-17E Fortress x 13
B-26 Marauder x 31

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed on ground
D3A1 Val: 2 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
A-29 Hudson: 1 destroyed by flak
B-17D Fortress: 5 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 3 damaged
B-26 Marauder: 1 destroyed, 12 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 11
Runway hits 28


In turn we hit Calcutta again this time airfields, and destroy some obsolete trainer planes [:-]

Morning Air attack on Calcutta , at 52,37

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 76 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 22 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 14

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 4 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
DC-2: 1 damaged
DC-2: 2 destroyed on ground
Blenheim IV: 8 damaged
Blenheim IV: 1 destroyed on ground
Audax I: 1 damaged
Audax I: 1 destroyed on ground

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 1

Even with a better part of a div and reg we fail again at Horn [8|]

Ground combat at Horn Island (91,128)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 7167 troops, 134 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 120

Defending force 4248 troops, 55 guns, 33 vehicles, Assault Value = 140

Japanese adjusted assault: 20

Allied adjusted defense: 77

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 3 (fort level 2)

Combat modifiers
Defender: leaders(-), preparation(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
885 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 71 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled

Allied ground losses:
117 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


One of the countless bombardements at Lunga, this is one quite effective:

ight Naval bombardment of Lunga at 114,138

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
D3A1 Val: 3 damaged

Allied Ships
CA Exeter
CL Caledon
CL Honolulu
CL Boise
CL Nashville
CL St. Louis
CL Concord
CL Trenton
CL Raleigh
CL Enterprise

Japanese ground losses:
75 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled)

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 11
Port hits 13
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 8

Our subs are plastered in the region meanwhile and we hit nothing anymore - only a single xAK [>:]

After Rangoon was "softened" by sea bombardements and seems also short on supplies we could fly heavier attacks there (not good results much flak still shooting)

Morning Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 19
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 46
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 4
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 33

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-Ic Sally: 5 damaged
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 10 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb Trop: 2 damaged
Hurricane IIb Trop: 1 destroyed on ground
Hurricane IIa Trop: 4 damaged
Hurricane IIa Trop: 1 destroyed on ground

Runway hits 2
Port hits 3
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 1

The cunning Allies sent Dutch minelayers to the Lunga area , I hope they were caught before they laid the mines:

orning Air attack on TF, near Stewart Island at 117,139

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 4,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
E13A1 Jake x 8

Japanese aircraft losses
E13A1 Jake: 1 damaged

Allied Ships
CM Prins van Oranje, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires
CM Willem v d Zaan, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires
CM Gouden Leeuw, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires


The Allies now switch to land bombing we manage to get some LR CAP from the 2 neighbour bases again:

Morning Air attack on 1st Ind. Engineer Regiment, at 114,138 (Lunga)

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A5M4 Claude x 14
A6M2 Zero x 9
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 8

Allied aircraft
A-29 Hudson x 3
B-17D Fortress x 3
B-17E Fortress x 20
B-26 Marauder x 16

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
A-29 Hudson: 2 destroyed
B-17D Fortress: 1 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 5 damaged
B-26 Marauder: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
24 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Meanwhile in CHINA a sigh of relief as Wenchow finally yields the pressure and falls on 13th April:

Ground combat at Wenchow (89,58)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 33737 troops, 356 guns, 323 vehicles, Assault Value = 668

Defending force 33759 troops, 174 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 585

Japanese adjusted assault: 1058

Allied adjusted defense: 463

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Wenchow !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
1743 casualties reported
Squads: 50 destroyed, 38 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 34 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 16 disabled
Vehicles lost 37 (1 destroyed, 36 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
48275 casualties reported
Squads: 1997 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2554 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 163 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 257 (257 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 11


And as predicted the 1st US attack at Lunga after we were softened up by air and sea:

Ground combat at Lunga (114,138)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 12459 troops, 221 guns, 119 vehicles, Assault Value = 269

Defending force 7253 troops, 126 guns, 8 vehicles, Assault Value = 153

Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 1

Allied adjusted assault: 132

Japanese adjusted defense: 103

Allied assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 1)

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
762 casualties reported
Squads: 7 destroyed, 65 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled
Guns lost 8 (5 destroyed, 3 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
587 casualties reported
Squads: 13 destroyed, 50 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 10 destroyed, 2 disabled

The Allies even SHOCK attack at HORN ! [X(] We were really sucky there:

Ground combat at Horn Island (91,128)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 4578 troops, 55 guns, 33 vehicles, Assault Value = 146

Defending force 6738 troops, 134 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 87

Allied adjusted assault: 87

Japanese adjusted defense: 45

Allied assault odds: 1 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender:
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
228 casualties reported
Squads: 8 destroyed, 12 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled

Allied ground losses:
124 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

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RE: WITP: FE (fools edition) PBM Scen2 stock Japan AAR starts in May42

Post by Alpha77 »

Still April42

Seems the minelayers from above succeeded in planting their eggs [:(]

TF 262 encounters mine field at Lunga (114,138)

Japanese Ships
CL Kitakami, Mine hits 1

,,,,but the wounded by 60kb Jake bombs did not survive the cowardly mine warfare:[:@]

Submarine attack near Ndeni at 119,140

Japanese Ships
SS I-160

Allied Ships
CM Prins van Oranje, Torpedo hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage

CM Prins van Oranje is sighted by SS I-160
SS I-160 launches 4 torpedoes at CM Prins van Oranje


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Submarine attack near Ndeni at 119,140

Japanese Ships
SS I-160

Allied Ships
CM Willem v d Zaan, Torpedo hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage

Meanwhile the Allied unleashed his subs (mostly Dutch ones) they prey on our fast transports and cargo ships we need to send to Guadalcanal (they hit mostly the 10 points worth Ansyu PBs - the smaller ones not so much):

sub attack near Tulagi at 114,137

Japanese Ships
PB Nanpo Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
PB Ikuta Maru

Allied Ships
SS KXVIII, hits 2


Next 2 Allied shock attacks one went good at Lunga, the other at Horn then was a bit over the top:

round combat at Lunga (114,138)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 12126 troops, 221 guns, 119 vehicles, Assault Value = 225

Defending force 6760 troops, 122 guns, 8 vehicles, Assault Value = 102

Allied adjusted assault: 111

Japanese adjusted defense: 99

Allied assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 1)

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 0

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
638 casualties reported
Squads: 30 destroyed, 15 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Guns lost 7 (2 destroyed, 5 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1160 casualties reported
Squads: 85 destroyed, 18 disabled
Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 5 destroyed, 1 disabled

Assaulting units:
1st Marine Raider Battalion
138th(Sep) Infantry Regiment
159th Mot Infantry Regiment
2nd USMC Engr Rgt /8
8th Marine Regiment
34th Combat Engr Rgt /3
135th USA Base Force
255th USN Base Force
136th USA Base Force
134th USA Base Force
3rd Marine Defense Battalion

Defending units:
Kure 3rd SNLF /1
62nd Naval Guard Unit
1st Ind. Engineer Regiment
82nd Naval Guard Unit
83rd Nav Gd /1
47th Field AA Battalion
23rd Air Flotilla
6th JNAF AF Unit
23rd Ind.AA Gun Co
4th JNAF AF Unit
4th Mortar Battalion
7th Naval Const Bn /1

round combat at Horn Island (91,128)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 4531 troops, 55 guns, 33 vehicles, Assault Value = 143

Defending force 6618 troops, 135 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 77

Allied adjusted assault: 67

Japanese adjusted defense: 44

Allied assault odds: 1 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
348 casualties reported
Squads: 8 destroyed, 26 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled

Allied ground losses:
314 casualties reported
Squads: 16 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
2/2nd Ind Coy
Gull Battalion
Sparrow Battalion
Torres Strait Battalion
Thurday Island Det. Battalion
1st Australian Bde /2
Horn Isl Det.
2/4 MG Battalion

Defending units:
124th Infantry Regiment
4th Div /7


The Brits in India finally tried to hit our troops by air with obsolete trainer planes [:-]

Morning Air attack on 41st Infantry Regiment, at 56,38 (Dacca)

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 31 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 14

Allied aircraft
Audax I x 7
Blenheim IV x 12
Hurricane IIb Trop x 2

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Audax I: 3 destroyed
Blenheim IV: 2 destroyed, 2 damaged

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x Audax I bombing from 10000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 20 lb GP Bomb
2 x Audax I bombing from 10000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 20 lb GP Bomb
9 x Blenheim IV bombing from 10000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 lb GP Bomb


Everyone throws all his air stuff in, even Catalinas now fly to Lunga and drop bombs on the fields [X(]

Morning Air attack on Lunga , at 114,138

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 1 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 0 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 11
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 6

Allied aircraft
PBY-5A Catalina x 6

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
PBY-5A Catalina: 2 damaged

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x PBY-5A Catalina bombing from 7000 feet
Airfield Attack: 2 x 500 lb GP Bomb


Finally we get a better bombing result at Horn from 5k and together with nav bombardements (but only by the few CLs and DDs I had there)....

fternoon Air attack on 1st Australian Brigade, at 91,128 (Horn Island)

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 26 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G3M2 Nell x 13
G4M1 Betty x 15

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged

Allied ground losses:
127 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 13 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled


We try some counter air raids on US troops at Lunga, but results are bad (before that also Netties did not better):

Afternoon Air attack on 3rd Marine Defense Battalion, at 114,138 (Lunga)

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 85 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 31 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 9
B5N2 Kate x 18
D3A1 Val x 9
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 1

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 3 damaged
D3A1 Val: 3 damaged
D3A1 Val: 2 destroyed by flak

Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Much better in India - a already weakened brigade from the Burma refugees destroyed:

Ground combat at 57,39 (near Comilla)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 28124 troops, 394 guns, 297 vehicles, Assault Value = 890

Defending force 1949 troops, 6 guns, 20 vehicles, Assault Value = 70

Japanese adjusted assault: 1454

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 1454 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender:
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
183 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 17 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled

Allied ground losses:
2391 casualties reported
Squads: 101 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 121 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 8 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 8 (8 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 13 (13 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
18th Division
Imperial Guards Division
6th Tank Regiment
25th Army
3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Mortar Regiment
5th RF Gun Battalion
3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
75th Indian Brigade


At Pegu our attack only "soso" but look at the stuff he has there, not to mentioned the others in Rangoon:

Ground combat at Pegu (55,53)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 35050 troops, 452 guns, 211 vehicles, Assault Value = 996

Defending force 31804 troops, 355 guns, 458 vehicles, Assault Value = 901

Japanese adjusted assault: 192

Allied adjusted defense: 225

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 0)

Combat modifiers
Defender: preparation(-), fatigue(-), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
1407 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 54 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 25 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 15 disabled
Guns lost 23 (2 destroyed, 21 disabled)
Vehicles lost 47 (39 destroyed, 8 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
594 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 83 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 14 disabled
Guns lost 12 (5 destroyed, 7 disabled)

Assaulting units:
3rd RTA Division
17th Indpt Guards Regiment
1st RTA Division
33rd Division
2nd RTA/B Division
7th Tank Regiment
5th Guards Division
6th RTA Division
2nd RTA/A Division
4th Guards Division
11th Garrison Unit /2
1st RF Gun Battalion
3rd Provisional Base Force
22nd JAAF AF Bn
4th Naval Construction Battalion
15th Army
20th AA Regiment
21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion
9th Base Force
9th Field AF Construction Battalion
21st Army

Defending units:
17th Australian Brigade
63rd Indian Brigade
16th Australian Brigade
46th Indian Brigade
44th Indian Brigade
19th Australian Brigade
2nd King Own YLI Battalion
16th Indian Brigade
45th Indian Brigade
9/11th Sikh Battalion
18th Australian Brigade
48th Gurkha Brigade
4/8th Gurkha Battalion
21st Australian Brigade
27th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
4/14th Punjab Battalion


At Horn the enemy shocks again (I thought the Japanese are the fanatics with Banzei attack before the end???) [;)]

Ground combat at Horn Island (91,128)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 4390 troops, 55 guns, 33 vehicles, Assault Value = 140

Defending force 6439 troops, 135 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 66

Allied adjusted assault: 62

Japanese adjusted defense: 46

Allied assault odds: 1 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: preparation(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
200 casualties reported
Squads: 7 destroyed, 16 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
397 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 31 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled

Assaulting units:
Gull Battalion
Torres Strait Battalion
Sparrow Battalion
Thurday Island Det. Battalion
1st Australian Bde /2
Horn Isl Det.
2/4 MG Battalion

Defending units:
124th Infantry Regiment
4th Div /7


We sent DMS and DDs to Lunga to clear mines and also got some hits on a Dutchie:

ASW attack near Munda at 111,134

Japanese Ships
DD Shiratsuyu
DD Fubuki

Allied Ships
SS KXIV, hits 7


And after that another cruiser force which met what seems to be a fast transport fleet (that sank 2 of our minesweepers before [:@])

Night Time Surface Combat, near Lunga at 114,138, Range 6,000 Yards

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
SOC-1 Seagull: 3 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Maya
CA Myoko, Shell hits 4, on fire
CA Kinugasa, Shell hits 3
CL Kuma
CL Yubari
DD Yugumo
DD Makigumo
DD Yukikaze
DD Hagikaze
DD Samidare
DD Yugure
DD Inazuma
DD Amagiri, Shell hits 1
DD Oboro
DD Katsutade, Shell hits 1, on fire

Allied Ships
CA Exeter, Shell hits 16, Torpedo hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
CL Enterprise
CL Raleigh
CL Trenton, Shell hits 2, on fire
CL Concord, Shell hits 1, on fire
CL Nashville, Shell hits 3, on fire
CL Boise, Shell hits 1, and is sunk (Magazine explodes on CL Boise - sometimes we also have luck)
CL Honolulu
DD Hammann, Shell hits 1
DD Walke
DD Lamson
DD Smith
DD Reid, Shell hits 3, on fire
DD Clark, Shell hits 2
APD Alden
DD Stuart
DD Voyager
DD Vampire
DD Thanet
PG Isabel
APD Little
APD Talbot
APD Dent
APD Kane
AVD Childs

And again:

Night Time Surface Combat, near Lunga at 114,138, Range 2,000 Yards

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
SOC-1 Seagull: 3 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Maya
CA Myoko, Shell hits 2, on fire
CA Kinugasa, Shell hits 1
CL Kuma
CL Yubari, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Yugumo
DD Makigumo
DD Yukikaze, Shell hits 1
DD Hagikaze
DD Samidare, Shell hits 9, on fire
DD Yugure, Shell hits 1
DD Inazuma
DD Amagiri
DD Oboro
DD Katsutade, Shell hits 1, and is sunk

Allied Ships
CL Enterprise
CL Raleigh
CL Trenton, Shell hits 3
CL Concord
CL Nashville, Shell hits 3, on fire
CL Honolulu, Shell hits 16, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DD Hammann
DD Walke, Shell hits 3
DD Lamson
DD Smith
DD Reid, Shell hits 1
DD Clark, Shell hits 1, on fire
APD Alden
DD Stuart
DD Voyager
DD Vampire, Shell hits 5, heavy fires
DD Thanet
PG Isabel, Shell hits 1
APD Little, Shell hits 3, on fire
APD Talbot, Shell hits 1
APD Dent
APD Kane
AVD Childs


Again this time 2 lone DDs :(

ay Time Surface Combat, near Lunga at 114,139, Range 14,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DD Akigumo
DD Oyashio, Shell hits 24, and is sunk

Allied Ships
CL Enterprise
CL Raleigh
CL Trenton, Shell hits 1
CL Concord, Shell hits 5
CL Nashville, Shell hits 8
DD Hammann
DD Walke
DD Lamson
DD Smith
DD Reid, Shell hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Clark
APD Alden
DD Stuart
DD Voyager
DD Vampire, on fire
DD Thanet
PG Isabel
APD Little, Shell hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
APD Talbot, Shell hits 1
APD Dent
APD Kane
AVD Childs


and again:

ay Time Surface Combat, near Lunga at 114,139, Range 14,000 Yards

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
SOC-1 Seagull: 5 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Tone, Shell hits 12, heavy fires, heavy damage
CA Chikuma, Shell hits 5, on fire
CA Mikuma, Shell hits 1
CA Suzuya, Shell hits 17, on fire
DD Maikaze, Shell hits 6, heavy fires
DD Tokitsukaze, Shell hits 2
DD Arashi, Shell hits 2
DD Ayanami, Shell hits 3
DD Fumizuki
DD Yugao, Shell hits 2, on fire

Allied Ships
CL Enterprise, Shell hits 7, heavy fires, heavy damage
CL Raleigh, Shell hits 4, on fire
CL Trenton, Shell hits 17, heavy fires, heavy damage
CL Concord, Shell hits 9, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
CL Nashville, Shell hits 16, and is sunk
DD Hammann
DD Walke, Shell hits 4, heavy fires
DD Lamson, Shell hits 3, heavy fires
DD Smith, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Reid, Shell hits 9, and is sunk
DD Clark, Shell hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
APD Alden
DD Stuart, Shell hits 5, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Voyager, Shell hits 30, and is sunk
DD Vampire, Shell hits 13, and is sunk
DD Thanet, Shell hits 5, heavy fires
PG Isabel, Shell hits 3, and is sunk
APD Little, Shell hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
APD Talbot, Shell hits 6, heavy fires, heavy damage
APD Dent, Shell hits 4, heavy fires
APD Kane, Shell hits 1, on fire
AVD Childs, Shell hits 3, on fire


again, but sub misses:

ub attack near Lunga at 114,139

Japanese Ships
SS I-170

Allied Ships
DD Thanet, heavy fires
CL Trenton, heavy fires, heavy damage
CL Raleigh, on fire
CL Enterprise, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Stuart, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Lamson, heavy fires
DD Walke, heavy fires
AVD Childs, on fire
APD Dent, heavy fires
APD Talbot, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Smith, on fire
DD Hammann
APD Kane, on fire
APD Alden


In the morning our planes pick up some cripples:

Morning Air attack on TF, near Lunga at 114,139

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 17 minutes

Japanese aircraft
B5N2 Kate x 18

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 6 damaged
B5N2 Kate: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied Ships
APD Dent, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
CL Raleigh, on fire
DD Stuart, heavy fires, heavy damage
APD Talbot, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
DD Smith, on fire

Allied ground losses:
220 casualties reported
Squads: 7 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 18 destroyed, 13 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Morning Air attack on TF, near Lunga at 114,139

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 45 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 22 minutes

Japanese aircraft
H6K4 Mavis x 7

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
H6K4 Mavis: 1 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
SOC-1 Seagull: 2 destroyed

Allied Ships
CL Trenton, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
APD Alden


Morning Air attack on TF, near Lunga at 114,139

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 5,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 20 minutes

Japanese aircraft
B5N1 Kate x 22

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N1 Kate: 3 damaged

Allied Ships
APD Alden, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
DD Smith, on fire
APD Kane, on fire
CL Enterprise, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
CL Raleigh, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage

Allied ground losses:
138 casualties reported
Squads: 12 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled


Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Lunga at 114,139

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
D3A1 Val x 6

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
DD Smith, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
AVD Childs, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage


Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Lunga at 114,139

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 18 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
B5N2 Kate x 14

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 2 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Walrus II: 1 destroyed
SOC-1 Seagull: 2 destroyed

Allied Ships
CL Enterprise, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
DD Hammann
APD Kane, on fire
CL Raleigh, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk


Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Lunga at 114,139

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 29 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
B5N1 Kate x 22
E13A1 Jake x 5

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N1 Kate: 3 damaged
E13A1 Jake: 1 damaged

Allied Ships
APD Kane, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
AVD Childs, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk
DD Hammann
DD Smith, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DD Thanet, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage


Allies shock a 3rd time at Horn (but only 20 losses to both)

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RE: WITP: FE (fools edition) PBM Scen2 stock Japan AAR starts in May42

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Oscars savaged by RAF,AVG

As the Allies against the AI it was the opposite for me in the same area.

Ive been doing Night bombing of the airfields where the enemy fighters are, will really help the fighter sweeps.






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RE: WITP: FE (fools edition) PBM Scen2 stock Japan AAR starts in May42

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Still April....

We send ASW forces and more minesweepers:

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TF 190 encounters mine field at Lunga (114,138)

Japanese Ships
AMc Nichi Maru #1
AMc Seki Maru #3

10 mines cleared


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ASW attack near Tassafaronga at 113,137

Japanese Ships
DD Akigumo
DD Tadeshiwa
DD Nenohi

Allied Ships
SS O20, hits 5

SS O20 is sighted by escort
DD Tadeshiwa attacking submerged sub ....
DD Nenohi fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Tadeshiwa fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tadeshiwa fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tadeshiwa fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tadeshiwa fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tadeshiwa attacking submerged sub ....
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Tulagi at 114,137

Japanese Ships
PB Menado Maru

Allied Ships
SS KXVIII, hits 4


But then some of these ran into ANOTHER allied surface fleet, Allied ships sank 2 AMc, 1 CM a PB and an ACM (to tend to mines at Lunga but plan did not work) poor buggers send to suicide by me....

Then another bombardement to good effect:

ight Naval bombardment of Lunga at 114,138

Allied Ships
CA San Francisco
CA Minneapolis
CA Louisville
CA Indianapolis
CL Colombo
CL Hobart
CL Leander
CLAA Van Heemskerck

Japanese ground losses:
187 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 31 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 37 (3 destroyed, 34 disabled)

Airbase hits 4
Runway hits 26
Port hits 28
Port supply hits 7


Then his fleet encounters a re-inforcement convoy of ours and all ships, troops gone [:(]

Night Time Surface Combat, near Lunga at 114,138, Range 2,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DMS W-18, Shell hits 18, and is sunk
xAK Anyo Maru, Shell hits 35, and is sunk
xAK Myoko Maru, Shell hits 13, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
AMC Saigon Maru, Shell hits 24, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAP Taizan Maru, Shell hits 9, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAP Keihuku Maru, Shell hits 12, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk

Allied Ships
CA Indianapolis, Shell hits 1
CA Louisville
CA Minneapolis, Shell hits 1
CA San Francisco
CL Leander
CL Hobart
CL Colombo, Shell hits 3
CLAA Van Heemskerck
DD Conyngham
DD Perkins
DD Preston
DD Tucker
DD Cassin
DD MacDonough
DD Piet Hein, Shell hits 1
DD Van Ghent

Japanese ground losses:
3045 casualties reported
Squads: 70 destroyed, 81 disabled
Non Combat: 207 destroyed, 115 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 39 (32 destroyed, 7 disabled)
Vehicles lost 84 (53 destroyed, 31 disabled)

...again, this time they hit our 3 DD ASW fleet:

ay Time Surface Combat, near Lunga at 114,139, Range 17,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DD Shiratsuyu, Shell hits 4, on fire
DD Fubuki, Shell hits 14, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Asagao, Shell hits 2, heavy fires

Allied Ships
CA Indianapolis, Shell hits 2
CA Louisville
CA Minneapolis
CA San Francisco
CL Leander
CL Hobart, Shell hits 1
CL Colombo
CLAA Van Heemskerck
DD Conyngham, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Perkins
DD Preston
DD Tucker
DD Cassin, Shell hits 1
DD MacDonough
DD Piet Hein
DD Van Ghent, Shell hits 1


Then the next air assault, we managed to bring in some more Zero LR CAP but they failed:

Morning Air attack on Lunga , at 114,138

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 34
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 8

Allied aircraft
A-29 Hudson x 2
B-17D Fortress x 6
B-17E Fortress x 17
B-26 Marauder x 27

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
A-29 Hudson: 1 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 3 damaged
B-26 Marauder: 1 destroyed

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 30

...more raids on this day, our CAP does badly 4Es just too mighty....


In China we tried a DA at Changsa but fail:

Ground combat at Changsha (82,52)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 49445 troops, 507 guns, 105 vehicles, Assault Value = 1673

Defending force 62239 troops, 327 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1481

Japanese adjusted assault: 1600

Allied adjusted defense: 3107

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 3)

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), leaders(+), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
7448 casualties reported
Squads: 43 destroyed, 360 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 36 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 45 disabled
Guns lost 53 (3 destroyed, 50 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
2095 casualties reported
Squads: 10 destroyed, 170 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 60 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 15 disabled
Guns lost 10 (2 destroyed, 8 disabled)

Assaulting units:
40th Division
1st Ind.Mixed Brigade
62nd Infantry Brigade
13th Division
12th RGC Temp. Division
60th Division
12th Ind.Mixed Brigade
11th RGC Temp. Division
13th Tank Regiment
13th RGC Temp. Division
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
52nd Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
8th Ind. Engineer Regiment
22nd AA Regiment
15th Ind.Medium Field Artillery Regiment
52nd Const Co
1st Mortar Battalion
11th Army
54th JAAF AF Bn

Defending units:
26th Chinese Corps
74th Chinese Corps
20th Chinese Corps
73rd Chinese Corps
78th Chinese Corps
99th Chinese Corps
72nd Chinese Corps
10th Chinese Corps
5th Construction Regiment
19th Group Army
9th War Area
37th Chinese Corps
30th Group Army
29th Group Army
27th Group Army
17th Chinese Base Force


In Burma we took Pegu finally but all enemy troops sliped out to Rangoon:

round combat at Pegu (55,53)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 39015 troops, 522 guns, 188 vehicles, Assault Value = 985

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

Japanese adjusted assault: 814

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 814 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Pegu !!!


We send a raid to the Aleutians but it fails miserably, in the first action we took a torp hit by old US DDs:


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Night Time Surface Combat, near Attu Island at 153,49, Range 1,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CL Yura, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
DD Hamakaze
DD Wakaba
DD Uruyuke
DD Tachekaze

Allied Ships
DD Litchfield, Shell hits 1
DD Kilty
DD Humphreys, Shell hits 1
AVD Ballard
PG Charleston, Shell hits 3
AM Quatsino
AM Chignecto
YP-72
YP-73
YP-74
YP-92
YP-95
YP-98
YP-133
YP-197
YP-250
YP-251
YP-401, Shell hits 1, heavy fires


PHEW [X(]

ub attack near Attu Island at 153,49

Japanese Ships
CL Yura, on fire
DD Tachekaze

Allied Ships
SS Sargo

SS Sargo launches 4 torpedoes at CL Yura


Then we lose some 2 supply ships for Guadalcanal in the south to DUTCH subs there...

The Allied cruiser fleet from Lunga above was still fast and no planes sortie they escape without much damage after sinking a lot of ours and giving Lunga the final blow to the airfields......

An air attack in the south brings BAD news - CARRIER AIR [X(]

orning Air attack on TF, near Ndeni at 118,141

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 6 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 1 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 18
D3A1 Val x 11

Allied aircraft
Martlet II x 5
F2A-3 Buffalo x 26
F4F-3 Wildcat x 7

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 3 destroyed
D3A1 Val: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
F2A-3 Buffalo: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
xAK Koomilya, Bomb hits 1, on fire
xAK Time, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires
DMS Wasmuth
PG Clive, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage


And then we get a message "CVs reacting to enemy carrier fleet" WHAT CVS ? He can only have 2 or so there.... we totally failed to get the danger and relied on leaking CAP to much for our CVL fleet, but this CAP was already not able to prevent all the bomber raids and is weakened.....ok get over with it:

orning Air attack on TF, near Lunga at 113,138

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 33 NM, estimated altitude 21,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 24
F1M2 Pete x 4

Allied aircraft
SBD-2 Dauntless x 18
SBD-3 Dauntless x 36

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
SBD-2 Dauntless: 3 destroyed, 5 damaged
SBD-2 Dauntless: 1 destroyed by flak
SBD-3 Dauntless: 3 destroyed, 18 damaged
SBD-3 Dauntless: 1 destroyed by flak

Japanese Ships
CVL Shoho, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
CVL Ryujo
CS Mizuho, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Karukaya
CA Nachi, Bomb hits 1, on fire
CA Ashigara

..some Kates sortie but all shot down......
.. then Devastators miss .......
...afternoon seals our fate...

fternoon Air attack on TF, near Lunga at 113,138

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 32
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 4

Allied aircraft
SBD-2 Dauntless x 11
SBD-3 Dauntless x 41
TBD-1 Devastator x 6

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
SBD-2 Dauntless: 5 destroyed, 2 damaged
SBD-3 Dauntless: 19 destroyed, 4 damaged
SBD-3 Dauntless: 1 destroyed by flak
TBD-1 Devastator: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged

Japanese Ships
CVL Ryujo, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
CA Nachi, Bomb hits 2, on fire
CVL Shoho, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Arashio

..obsolete aircraft deal the final blow:

fternoon Air attack on TF, near Lunga at 113,138

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 37 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 16 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 16
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 1

Allied aircraft
SB2U-3 Vindicator x 17

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
SB2U-3 Vindicator: 5 destroyed, 4 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Ashigara
CVL Ryujo, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
CVL Shoho, heavy fires, heavy damage


...Allies shock a 4th time at Horn this time one of their units destroyed....

..our subs miss everything and do also not find any CVs....

Then Allied BBs:

Night Naval bombardment of Lunga at 114,138

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied Ships
BB Resolution
BB Ramillies
BB Revenge
CL Danae

Japanese ground losses:
102 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 9 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 15 (2 destroyed, 13 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 14
Port hits 11
Port supply hits 5


CAs on our side do the same to Rangoon:

ight Naval bombardment of Rangoon at 54,53 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIa Trop: 5 damaged
Hurricane IIa Trop: 1 destroyed on ground
Hurricane IIb Trop: 6 damaged
H81-A3: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Chokai
CA Atago
CA Takao

Allied Ships
xAP Empress ' Australia, Shell hits 1
xAP Empress ' Asia, Shell hits 1

Allied ground losses:
143 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 29 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Manpower hits 1
Fires 299
Airbase hits 11
Runway hits 37
Port hits 1
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 1


We sent the rest of the div to Horn:

re-Invasion action off Horn Island (91,128)
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

77 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
CL Natori
CL Nagara
DD Kawakaze
DD Harusame
PB Kyo Maru #6
SC Ch 20
xAP Buenos Aires Maru
DD Sazanami

Japanese ground losses:
40 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

...a sub finds a CV BUT I believe they LIE that they hit, just like the pilots LIE [:@]

Sub attack near Rennell Island at 114,140

Japanese Ships
SS I-172

Allied Ships
CV Lexington, Torpedo hits 1
CA Louisville
CA Indianapolis
CL Durban
CL Hobart
CL De Ruyter
CLAA Van Heemskerck
DD Farragut
DD Preston
DD Encounter


...the Allies are determined to push the Guadalcanal op and their carriers even stear to Lunga - Mavis sortie but many losses and no hits.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Lunga at 114,138

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 35 NM, estimated altitude 4,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 17 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 13
H6K4 Mavis x 8
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 12

Allied aircraft
Martlet II x 19
F2A-3 Buffalo x 27
F4F-3 Wildcat x 53

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed
H6K4 Mavis: 4 destroyed
Ki-45 KAIa Nick: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-3 Wildcat: 1 destroyed


And he sends more troops we only hit one xAK but many shot down by the carrier air which now protects the landings....

Morning Air attack on TF, near Lunga at 114,138

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 5,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 17 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 10
B5N2 Kate x 16
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 6

Allied aircraft
Martlet II x 8
F2A-3 Buffalo x 22
F4F-3 Wildcat x 46

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed
B5N2 Kate: 7 destroyed
Ki-45 KAIa Nick: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Martlet II: 2 destroyed

Allied Ships
xAK Mangola, Bomb hits 2, on fire


...next wave of air assaults now protected by CV planes:

fternoon Air attack on 83rd Naval Guard Unit, at 114,138 (Lunga)

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 12
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 4

Allied aircraft
Martlet II x 4
Beaufighter Ic x 6
B-17E Fortress x 6
B-26 Marauder x 14
F2A-3 Buffalo x 16
F4F-3 Wildcat x 32

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Martlet II: 1 destroyed
Beaufighter Ic: 2 destroyed
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged
B-26 Marauder: 1 damaged


..they land, this time bring in also 2 marine tank bats [X(]

mphibious Assault at Lunga (114,138)

TF 150 troops unloading over beach at Lunga, 114,138

Allied ground losses:
134 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 46 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 17 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 8 (0 destroyed, 8 disabled)
Vehicles lost 55 (1 destroyed, 54 disabled)

13 troops of a USMC Rifle Squad accidentally lost during unload of 8th Marine Rgt /2
10 troops of a US Cmbt Eng Sqd lost in surf during unload of 102nd Combat Engr Rgt /3
M3 Stuart Light Tank damaged beyond repair during unload of 754th Tank Bn /5

...we clean up North-AU:

Ground combat at Katherine (76,128)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 2478 troops, 19 guns, 137 vehicles, Assault Value = 259

Defending force 2958 troops, 85 guns, 18 vehicles, Assault Value = 50

Japanese adjusted assault: 210

Allied adjusted defense: 30

Japanese assault odds: 7 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Katherine !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: preparation(-), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
119 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 17 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
1138 casualties reported
Squads: 16 destroyed, 12 disabled
Non Combat: 95 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 33 destroyed, 5 disabled
Guns lost 73 (62 destroyed, 11 disabled)
Vehicles lost 18 (18 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 2

...our automatic bombardement at Lunga brings bad news, this is too much, this must be the end.....

..but we FINALLY take Horn (what an affair this was):

Ground combat at Horn Island (91,128)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 7878 troops, 113 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 217

Defending force 4129 troops, 57 guns, 33 vehicles, Assault Value = 118

Japanese adjusted assault: 238

Allied adjusted defense: 32

Japanese assault odds: 7 to 1 (fort level 2)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Horn Island !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: disruption(-), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
710 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 64 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled

Allied ground losses:
5510 casualties reported
Squads: 230 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 451 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 34 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 74 (74 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 27 (27 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 6

..and easily Derby....

..next day more landings at Lunga....

..subs find the enemy but hit nothing, but are sunk themselves instead:

SW attack near Lunga at 114,138

Japanese Ships
SS RO-68, hits 17, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
CA Cornwall
CL Colombo
CL Capetown
CL Caledon
DD Van Ghent
DD Vendetta
DD MacDonough
DD Cassin
DD Craven
DD Anderson
DD Norman
DD Nizam
DD Jupiter
DD Isis

... whow a hit on a small cargo ship...that is all for 2 subs lost and 2 more damaged.


ub attack near Lunga at 114,139

Japanese Ships
SS I-173

Allied Ships
xAK Mangola, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage

... next bombardement this time Brits.....
...and more landings....

My subs launch only at DDs and hit no big boys:

ub attack near Kirakira at 117,141

Japanese Ships
SS I-4, hits 7

Allied Ships
DD Sims
CA Cornwall
CL Colombo
CL Caledon
DD Kortenaer
DD Vendetta
DD MacDonough
DD Cassin
DD Fanning
DD Hammann
DD Nizam
DD Jupiter
DD Isis
DD Van Ghent

.. at Rangoon some Hurricans fly again and take 5 Betties and 2 Oscars away for 1 of their number damaged [:(]
.. ah and then 7-8 Sallys without escort too
..and we lose 3 more to FLAK ... he got supply there...

..4 Nells sortie vs. the CVs near Lunga:

orning Air attack on TF, near Lunga at 114,138

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 36 NM, estimated altitude 5,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 41
G3M2 Nell x 4
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 2

Allied aircraft
Martlet II x 11
F2A-3 Buffalo x 22
F4F-3 Wildcat x 25

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 4 destroyed
G3M2 Nell: 2 destroyed
G3M2 Nell: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied aircraft losses
Martlet II: 1 destroyed
F2A-3 Buffalo: 2 destroyed

Allied Ships
CV Lexington


..then Kates which hit with bombs only:

orning Air attack on TF, near Lunga at 114,138

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 38 NM, estimated altitude 1,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 16 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 13
B5N2 Kate x 20
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 5

Allied aircraft
Martlet II x 7
F2A-3 Buffalo x 17
F4F-3 Wildcat x 21

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 10 destroyed, 1 damaged
B5N2 Kate: 4 destroyed by flak

Allied aircraft losses
Martlet II: 1 destroyed
F2A-3 Buffalo: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
CV Formidable, Bomb hits 2
CV Saratoga
CV Lexington, Bomb hits 1, on fire
CA Chicago, Bomb hits 1
CL Hobart
CA San Francisco, Bomb hits 2

12 Betties next:

fternoon Air attack on TF, near Lunga at 114,138

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 35 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 43
G4M1 Betty x 12

Allied aircraft
Martlet II x 5
F2A-3 Buffalo x 2
F4F-3 Wildcat x 17

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 4 destroyed
G4M1 Betty: 10 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied aircraft losses
Martlet II: 2 destroyed
F4F-3 Wildcat: 2 destroyed

Allied Ships
CV Saratoga
CA Minneapolis
CV Formidable

3 Kates, 4 Jakes......

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Lunga at 114,138

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 4,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 20 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 7
B5N2 Kate x 3
E13A1 Jake x 4

Allied aircraft
F2A-3 Buffalo x 1
F4F-3 Wildcat x 4

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 3 damaged
E13A1 Jake: 2 damaged
E13A1 Jake: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-3 Wildcat: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
CV Formidable
CV Lexington, Bomb hits 2, on fire

...3 Nell:

fternoon Air attack on TF, near Lunga at 114,138

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 39 NM, estimated altitude 4,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 26
G3M2 Nell x 3
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 7

Allied aircraft
F2A-3 Buffalo x 1
F4F-3 Wildcat x 1

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M2 Nell: 2 damaged
G3M2 Nell: 1 destroyed by flak

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
CV Saratoga

...and more landings....

..more air assaults this time again troop bombings...

.. weather is bad no air action in the area vs. ships ...

.. Allied troops bombard only this day...


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RE: WITP: FE (fools edition) PBM Scen2 stock Japan AAR starts in May42

Post by Alpha77 »

Still April, next day our sub misses AMs near Lunga....

Then we see a small force what is this.........PTs where did they come from they should not have the range! [X(] Nicks try strafing but are not really trained and hit with 1 MG shell [:@]

Morning Air attack on TF, near Lunga at 114,138

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 20 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 18
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 3
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 8

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-45 KAIa Nick: 1 damaged

Allied Ships
PT-61, Shell hits 1

..they try again but this time no hit....
..SS Drum misses our PBs
..we fail to dislogde isolated Chinese near Sian and lose a lot of disabled ? Will they ever heal, many units in Burma and China have so many disabled squads. Also most troops at Lunga are not able to fight anymore...
..we also fail at Kweiyang with up to 200 disabled...
..otherwise a quiet day for a change...

Next day... for a change a clever sub capt:

ASW attack near Ndeni at 118,142

Japanese Ships
SS I-19

Allied Ships
AM Rail
AM Kingfisher
AM Warrnambool
xAKL Iowan
AM Turkey

Captain of SS I-19 elects not to launch torpedoes at this target [:)]

..but these AMs clear some mines we left in a shallow hex near Lunga. Our mines so far hit NOTHING total failure Japanese mines...(except an old DD, which was reported as sunk, but it was NOT [>:] )
.. Dutch sub dispatches a minelayer of ours...
..another bombing of Rangoon by CAs as the Hurries were flying there...to soso effect...
..bombing of Akyab to bad effect of Nagato, CLs and some DDs (we managed to bring 2 AKEs in the area so we can reload BB guns now but only slooooow). Otherwise they needed to reload at Singers everytime which is too far away, not to mention the fuel that these BBs burn....
..Jakes hit one of the above AMs with 2x 60 kg...
..next Jake raid hits another AM with 3...

..then Jakes hit PTs that are out of FUEL I guess (dead in the water!):

fternoon Air attack on TF, near Kirakira at 118,140

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 3 NM, estimated altitude 2,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 1 minutes

Japanese aircraft
E13A1 Jake x 16

Japanese aircraft losses
E13A1 Jake: 2 damaged

Allied Ships
PT-61, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
PT-20, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
PT-59, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
PT-60

Aircraft Attacking:
16 x E13A1 Jake bombing from 1000 feet
Naval Attack: 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb

PT-61 dead in the water ...
PT-20 dead in the water ...
PT-59 dead in the water ...
PT-60 dead in the water ..

.. next failure against isolated Chinese.. in good terrain they can hold for years it seems...
.. we take Sabang with the scen2 tank brigade...(goes back to Medan then to ship over to Pegu)

.. Allies finally DA at Lunga:

round combat at Lunga (114,138)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 17539 troops, 259 guns, 382 vehicles, Assault Value = 471

Defending force 10014 troops, 201 guns, 10 vehicles, Assault Value = 244

Allied adjusted assault: 182

Japanese adjusted defense: 171

Allied assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 0)

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 0

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
1288 casualties reported
Squads: 47 destroyed, 85 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 19 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 10 disabled
Guns lost 41 (9 destroyed, 32 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

Allied ground losses:
961 casualties reported
Squads: 25 destroyed, 67 disabled
Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 20 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 15 disabled
Vehicles lost 18 (1 destroyed, 17 disabled)

Assaulting units:
1st Marine Raider Battalion
754th Tank Battalion
159th Mot Infantry Regiment
30th NZ Battalion
110th Combat Engineer Battalion
2nd USMC Engr Rgt /8
8th Marine Regiment
102nd Combat Engineer Regiment
29th NZ Battalion
193rd Tank Battalion
138th(Sep) Infantry Regiment
34th Combat Engr Rgt /3
134th USA Base Force
255th USN Base Force
136th USA Base Force
135th USA Base Force
3rd Marine Defense Battalion

Defending units:
41st Naval Guard Unit
63rd Naval Guard Unit
2nd Raiding Regiment
82nd Naval Guard Unit
83rd Naval Guard Unit
1st Ind. Engineer Regiment
62nd Naval Guard Unit
Kure 3rd SNLF /1
23rd Air Flotilla
11th RF Gun Battalion
47th Field AA Battalion
4th Mortar Battalion
4th JNAF AF Unit
23rd Ind.AA Gun Co
6th JNAF AF Unit
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
7th Naval Const Bn /1

..next day... Nells sortie in the south but hit only a tiny AKL [8|]...but enemy CV CAP is gone, guess all the attacks and the small bomb hits made them uncomfortable...mabye we caused also some more serious damage on 1 or 2 CVs (none sunk and none found by subs as usual)
..we now daily hit Rangoon if weather allows....

.....troops bombing at Lunga (our LR CAP still flies but is exhausted now):

orning Air attack on 6th JNAF AF Unit , at 114,138 (Lunga)

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 37 NM, estimated altitude 5,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 19
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 1
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 4

Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 10
B-17D Fortress x 3
B-17E Fortress x 15
B-26 Marauder x 29

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 1 destroyed
B-17D Fortress: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 5 damaged
B-26 Marauder: 3 damaged
B-26 Marauder: 1 destroyed by flak

Japanese ground losses:
141 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 19 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled

..only an example - there were countless more fragmented 4E coming, some damaged, rarely shot down, but ops must take their toll by now...

...hero Jakes dispatch the remains of the small AM, AKL fleet:

fternoon Air attack on TF, near Kirakira at 116,140

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
E13A1 Jake x 18

Japanese aircraft losses
E13A1 Jake: 2 damaged

Allied Ships
AM Warrnambool, Bomb hits 6, and is sunk
AM Rail, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk
xAKL Iowan, Bomb hits 9, and is sunk









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RE: WITP: FE (fools edition) PBM Scen2 stock Japan AAR starts in May42

Post by Alpha77 »

April 24th

Another total fail at Kweiyang, it seems they are not isolated and have supply: 330 disabled squads OMG, we then divided these divs and put some on reserve to get some combat power back, this will be a longer affair, just like Changsa is and Wenchow was....

Ground combat at Kweiyang (74,49)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 33880 troops, 343 guns, 92 vehicles, Assault Value = 933

Defending force 24050 troops, 119 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 711

Japanese adjusted assault: 1006

Allied adjusted defense: 1989

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 2)

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
4114 casualties reported
Squads: 21 destroyed, 324 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 32 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 31 disabled

Allied ground losses:
807 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 87 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 29 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled

..all the time we siege Changsa too and bomb it ofc. The Chinese are still strong, meanwhile we took Sian and swing west to the Chinese plains..see pic in 1st post.
..and our tanks made sightseeing in India.. during which they also take Darjeeling and drank a tea there...(in Jamshedpur they got coffee, much better!)
..next DA at Lunga, we are finished only hold on a thread still...

Next day, another Allied cruiser force near Lunga, they damaged 2 subs from us and we hit nothing this day or week or month (re. warships I mean)

ASW attack near Lunga at 114,138

Japanese Ships
SS I-123, hits 4

Allied Ships
CA Cornwall
CA Louisville
CA Indianapolis
CL Ceres
CL Dragon
CLAA Van Heemskerck
DD Encounter
DD Sims
DD Paladin
DD Norman
DD Nizam
DD Jupiter

... Another ASW 2xDD force of ours hits O19 3 times ..not much.. but it seems meanwhile the subs are thinned out there guess most or all send back and not sunk [>:]

Predictably the cruiser force hits Lunga AGAIN LOL.......but ....NOT YET KAMERADEN: Over 40 Bettys with light cloud should have been able to hit some more..but ok this CA is a quite good one so better than nothing, right`?

orning Air attack on TF, near Lunga at 114,138

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 96 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 33 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 15
G4M1 Betty x 43

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 6 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
SOC-1 Seagull: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
CA Minneapolis, Torpedo hits 4, and is sunk
CL Durban
CL Ceres
CA Cornwall
DD Helm
CA Chicago
CA Louisville, Torpedo hits 1
CL Hobart

..next Jakes and 9 Nells try at the same target but NO hit...
..correction some others hit with some 60 kg ..[:D]

orning Air attack on TF, near Lunga at 114,138

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 33 NM, estimated altitude 4,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 16 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 11
E13A1 Jake x 16
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 2

Japanese aircraft losses
E13A1 Jake: 5 damaged
E13A1 Jake: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied Ships
CA Louisville, Bomb hits 2
CL De Ruyter, Bomb hits 3
CA Indianapolis
CL Capetown

..afternoon 16 Betties fly again and HIT.......nothing......and then 6 Nells the same (all with torps)

..only the Jakes hit again, seems the best weapon we have at all: CA Indianapolis, Bomb hits 1
.. I was wrong some more Betties (28!!) sortie again - it seems they are relieved the enemy fighters are gone and are eager to fly..they say they hit 2 small CLs with 1 torp..wonder if they are honest [:-]
.. mistake from my side with 2 units shock at Kweiyang....2 divs out of action for a while...
..and finally the US with NZ help take LUNGA

round combat at Lunga (114,138)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 16685 troops, 259 guns, 379 vehicles, Assault Value = 376

Defending force 7459 troops, 178 guns, 6 vehicles, Assault Value = 55

Allied adjusted assault: 276

Japanese adjusted defense: 35

Allied assault odds: 7 to 1 (fort level 0)

Allied forces CAPTURE Lunga !!!

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 3 destroyed

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), fatigue(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), fatigue(-)

Japanese ground losses:
3476 casualties reported
Squads: 120 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 164 destroyed, 26 disabled
Engineers: 84 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 65 (63 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 7 (7 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 13

Allied ground losses:
339 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 27 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 9 disabled

Assaulting units:
193rd Tank Battalion
29th NZ Battalion
8th Marine Regiment
159th Mot Infantry Regiment
2nd USMC Engr Rgt /8
754th Tank Battalion
138th(Sep) Infantry Regiment
110th Combat Engineer Battalion
30th NZ Battalion
102nd Combat Engineer Regiment
34th Combat Engr Rgt /3
3rd Marine Defense Battalion
134th USA Base Force
255th USN Base Force
136th USA Base Force
135th USA Base Force
1st Marine Raider Bn /3

Defending units:
83rd Naval Guard Unit
2nd Raiding Regiment
1st Ind. Engineer Regiment
62nd Naval Guard Unit
63rd Naval Guard Unit
47th Field AA Battalion
11th RF Gun Battalion
4th Mortar Battalion
4th JNAF AF Unit
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
6th JNAF AF Unit
7th Naval Const Bn /1
23rd Air Flotilla
82nd Naval Guard Unit
Kure 3rd SNLF /1
















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RE: WITP: FE (fools edition) PBM Scen2 stock Japan AAR starts in May42

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Next day all ourt subs fail to hit the remains of the cruiser fleet..

For this small force a good result imho:

Night Naval bombardment of Rangoon at 54,53

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb Trop: 7 damaged

Japanese Ships
DD Yugiri
DD Asagiri
DD Ikazuchi

Allied Ships
xAP Empress ' Australia, Shell hits 1

Manpower hits 2
Fires 126
Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 17
Port hits 3
Port fuel hits 2

...we also hit Akyab now if weather allows we have now a bigger AF in Burma so they can bring 4 bombs [:)]
..28 Oscar weep Calcutta (big risk knowing the RAF is better) but find (luckily?) no CAP even if 18-20 fighters are reported.
..we lose another PB to O21 near Tassafaronga (we must bring in supplies there!)
..next day our sub can not aquire a firing solution on a PT (what luck)
.. and 3x hit at SS Drum by a PB...and 6x hit at O23 by a PB
..otherwise another failed failed attack at Chinese in the countryside (rough terrain)

But this attack clear the road to the CH plains:

round combat at 80,40 (near Kienko)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 34584 troops, 284 guns, 101 vehicles, Assault Value = 1131

Defending force 7226 troops, 95 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 165

Japanese adjusted assault: 760

Allied adjusted defense: 277

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
583 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 47 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled

Allied ground losses:
1286 casualties reported
Squads: 135 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 120 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 6 disabled
Guns lost 30 (14 destroyed, 16 disabled)
Units retreated 2

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
63rd Division
35th Division
37th Division
North China Area Army

Defending units:
56th Chinese Corps
59th Chinese Corps

.. air drop on Lashio fails a Chinese unit is there too....the paras are destroyed after that by Allied SA.

..next day we lose 2 x PB and 1x AK from supply missions -> Tassa to Dutch subs (I thought they were gone and/or damaged, seems the hits reported on them were also made up by our guys! [:@] )

.. Thunderstorm over Burma and India - we fly but hit not much... weather is quite terrible for a longer while already...
..Brits bomb with Blenheims and trainer planes our troops in India...

Here is the troop count at Rangoon for all to see, quite a lot:

Ground combat at Rangoon (54,53)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 645 troops, 58 guns, 43 vehicles, Assault Value = 1216

Defending force 49887 troops, 524 guns, 745 vehicles, Assault Value = 1410

Allied ground losses:
8 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
33rd Division
4th Guards Division
6th RTA Division
3rd RTA Division
7th Tank Regiment
2nd RTA Division
1st RTA Division
5th Guards Division
3rd Provisional Base Force
1st RF Gun Battalion
15th Army
21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion
23rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
21st Army

Defending units:
2nd Burma Brigade
17th Australian Brigade
45th Indian Brigade
11th Burma Rifles Battalion
63rd Indian Brigade
6th Burma Rifles Battalion
2nd Royal Tank Regiment
19th Australian Brigade
4th Burma Rifles Battalion
16th Australian Brigade
18th Australian Brigade
12th Burma Rifles Battalion
16th Indian Brigade
50th Tank Brigade
Railway BAF Battalion
Rangoon BAF Battalion
46th Indian Brigade
254th Armoured Brigade
9/11th Sikh Battalion
2nd King Own YLI Battalion
44th Indian Brigade
B Sqn 3rd Hussars Regiment
1st Gloucestershire Battalion
48th Gurkha Brigade
21st Australian Brigade
21st Light AA Regiment
10th Burma Rifles Battalion
Eastern Fleet
3rd Burma Rifles Battalion
4/8th Gurkha Battalion
221 Group RAF
27th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
103rd RN Base Force
2nd Indian Coastal Artillery Regiment
107th RAF Base Force
77th Heavy AA Regiment
108th RAF Base Force
4/14th Punjab Battalion

..and the same for Changsa:

round combat at Changsha (82,52)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 54357 troops, 313 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1347

Defending force 53032 troops, 546 guns, 177 vehicles, Assault Value = 1560

Japanese ground losses:
19 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
9 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
78th Chinese Corps
26th Chinese Corps
20th Chinese Corps
73rd Chinese Corps
74th Chinese Corps
10th Chinese Corps
72nd Chinese Corps
99th Chinese Corps
37th Chinese Corps
27th Group Army
29th Group Army
19th Group Army
9th War Area
17th Chinese Base Force
30th Group Army
5th Construction Regiment

Defending units:
60th/B Division
13th RGC Temp. Division
60th/A Division
40th/B Division
11th RGC Temp. Division
40th/A Division
12th Ind.Mixed Brigade
40th/C Division
62nd Infantry Brigade
12th RGC Temp. Division
13th Division
13th Tank Regiment
1st Ind.Mixed Brigade
60th/C Division
52nd Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
22nd AA Regiment
11th Army
15th Ind.Medium Field Artillery Regiment
52nd Const Co
1st Mortar Battalion
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
8th Ind. Engineer Regiment
54th JAAF AF Bn

..next day I6 is hit badly near Palmyra (this must be the first time after weeks that we find a convoy on the sea lanes , granted I had lots of subs near Guadalcanal ofc but also at the typical supply lines I would use as Allies to send stuff to OZ, Fiji, Luganville etc. either the Allies are ultra sneaky or our subs are failures...

Whow 60 (!!) Sallies sortie together with ok results but from high alt (17k): But I believe their should be some escorts (or I set LR CAP - to also interdict supply transports flying to Rangoon?) I belive the LR CAP does not show in the CR if no enemy fighters are there....

orning Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 60

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 12 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb Trop: 10 damaged
Hurricane IIb Trop: 2 destroyed on ground
Hurricane IIa Trop: 5 damaged
Hurricane IIa Trop: 1 destroyed on ground
H81-A3: 2 damaged
H81-A3: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied Ships
xAP Empress ' Australia, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage

Airbase hits 11
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 24
Port hits 4
Port fuel hits 1

... Oscars shoot down 2 trainer biplanes in India (they are good for that! [:D])

..next day... MANY asw attacks to no effect on DUTCH subs, I see most of the reported hits were BS or do the Dutch have a secret force there ?

Oh Oscars can shoot down also Blenheims:

orning Air attack on 18th Division, at 56,37 , near Dacca

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 8 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 2 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 14

Allied aircraft
Audax I x 3
Blenheim IV x 8

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Audax I: 2 destroyed
Blenheim IV: 3 destroyed

Next ASW action:
ASW attack near Tassafaronga at 113,137

Japanese Ships
DD Tachikaze

Allied Ships
SS O16, hits 2 (LIEEEES!!!) [>:]

.. we take Darwin easily....
.. and attack the stranded Aussies at Terapo: (these retreated from PM)

Ground combat at Terapo (96,127)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 1785 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 99

Defending force 4372 troops, 2 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 58

Japanese adjusted assault: 57

Allied adjusted defense: 39

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
85 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
1st Indpt SNLF Coy
66th Naval Guard Unit
5th Indpt SNLF Coy
39th JNAF AF Unit

Defending units:
1st Australian Brigade
5th Australian Brigade
41st Australian Battalion
7th Australian Bde /1
Lark Battalion
49th Australian Battalion
15th RAAF Base Force

Whow what a wall of text, but this was it for April 42. We say "Alles neu macht der Mai" (proverb)....so lets see what this month brings....

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RE: WITP: FE (fools edition) PBM Scen2 stock Japan AAR starts in May42

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Happy spring to everyone [;)]
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RE: WITP: FE (fools edition) PBM Scen2 stock Japan AAR starts in May42

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ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn
Oscars savaged by RAF,AVG

As the Allies against the AI it was the opposite for me in the same area.

Ive been doing Night bombing of the airfields where the enemy fighters are, will really help the fighter sweeps.

I was trying to limit any night bombing in this game by only allowing historical night bombers (like eg. Wellington and later B24s, Lancasters, Mosquitos etc.) and I avoid it up to now in this PBM. Even of the Allies had send B17 at night to PM (at 2 days) but the attacks were totally uneffective. So I did not bring it up that B17s normally after the rule were not allowed at night...after that he left the night bombing alone, so this is ok (it also adds more micromanagement this early, I agree from mid 43 on or so night bombing should be more common). Guess your Oscar pilots were elite and the others not the best then :) Also 4Es do not need night bombing the early IJ planes are not much danger to them.
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RE: WITP: FE (fools edition) PBM Scen2 stock Japan AAR starts in May42

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The 1st of May42 . some small units action around Guadalcanal, incl. his PTs attack an ASW force, and our SC scores a hit with 8 cm on PT:)

... but is then sunk by a bombardement force (which destroys 2 fighers and damages 10 or so more at Tassa):

Day Time Surface Combat, near Tassafaronga at 113,137, Range 20,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
SC Ch 26, Shell hits 6, and is sunk [:(]

Allied Ships
CL Hobart
CL Dragon
CL Durban
CL Colombo
CLAA Van Heemskerck
DD Sims
DD Vendetta
DD Encounter
DD Nizam
DD Norman

..as usual 2 of our subs fail again to hit anything from this TF, but plaster an xAKL with shells at Lunga
...can they not hit something worthy [:@] Not saying these small ships are totally worthless...but 4 torps for an AKL or AM is really over the top. Also there were 2 events earlier in the war, when 2 of our subs missed US CVs - one of them was a 6 torp spread all missed !!)

..bad sweep of ours at Lunga - we lose as much as them!!) and the 2nd unit did not fly I set the 1st one the 15k and the 2nd to 20k - only the 15k flew. Not good results - first they did ok, then it seemed more F4 and P39s arrived and many Zeros shot down.... no chance to counter their base building and airpower there it seems. Also with over 80 fighters at Lunga our Netties can not fly long range mission anymore. What if they sortie to attack some small ships there and get slaughtered. Any hint perhaps what to do?)

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Afternoon Air attack on Lunga , at 114,138

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 48 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 24
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 5

Allied aircraft
P-36A Mohawk x 17
P-39D Airacobra x 40
F4F-3 Wildcat x 18

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 5 destroyed
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 destroyed (this was an LR CAP and in fact they lose 3 planes!)

Allied aircraft losses
P-36A Mohawk: 3 destroyed
P-39D Airacobra: 2 destroyed
F4F-3 Wildcat: 1 destroyed

..trying to push out this huge Chinese army in zero defense hex fails ( I planned to damage them enough and are no danger to our bases, rail lines and roads and then send these troops north to the CH plains, also the art units were already bought out these should go to India or an crisis spot later)

Ground combat at 85,46 (near Nanyang)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 48298 troops, 424 guns, 253 vehicles, Assault Value = 1759

Defending force 58327 troops, 412 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1483

Japanese adjusted assault: 884

Allied adjusted defense: 1038

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2

Combat modifiers
Defender: supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
5751 casualties reported
Squads: 74 destroyed, 440 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 65 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 11 disabled
Guns lost 30 (5 destroyed, 25 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
2686 casualties reported
Squads: 112 destroyed, 113 disabled
Non Combat: 59 destroyed, 133 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Guns lost 53 (3 destroyed, 50 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
3rd Ind.Mixed Brigade
12th RGC Ind. Brigade
12th Tank Regiment
110th Division
69th Division
26th Division
11th RGC Ind. Brigade
138th Infantry Regiment
14th RGC Temp. Division
52nd Road Const Co
7th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
7th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
20th Medium Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
39th Chinese Corps
55th Chinese Corps
13th Chinese Corps
85th Chinese Corps
84th Chinese Corps
90th Chinese Corps
29th Chinese Corps
12th Chinese Corps
92nd Chinese Corps
41st Chinese Corps
77th Chinese Corps
30th Chinese Corps
7th New Chinese Corps
2nd Group Army
33rd Group Army
5th War Area
3rd Group Army
22nd Group Army
31st Group Army
4th Construction Regiment

2nd May.......

We send DDs to Lunga perhaps to intercept something worthwile and bombard:

FTER ACTION REPORTS FOR May 02, 42
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Tulagi at 114,137, Range 11,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DD Shirakumo
DD Yayoi
DD Kikuzuki
DD Mochizuki

Allied Ships
PT-22, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
PT-23, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
PT-29, Shell hits 5, and is sunk
PT-42, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
(they get 7-8 planes damaged and some good hits on facilies, but this does nothing, the damage is almost gone there [:(])

.. 2 CAs bombard Rangoon for soso effect...

...we step up ground bombing at Kweiyang and Akyab because for each city siege another div will arrive and later turn should be an assault there...

...stranded Aussies at Terapo do not show a supply minus anymore (did he drop some???) we base a Zero fragment there for CAP

.... Allied sortie from Calcutta ! Perhaps they overlooked there is a river ? Also we had only 1 TK reg there before, but on this day some others arrived:

Ground combat at Jessore (53,37)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 11236 troops, 301 guns, 214 vehicles, Assault Value = 295

Defending force 34143 troops, 423 guns, 316 vehicles, Assault Value = 1132

Allied adjusted assault: 60

Japanese adjusted defense: 617

Allied assault odds: 1 to 10 (fort level 0)

Combat modifiers
Defender: preparation(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
323 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 32 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Vehicles lost 9 (2 destroyed, 7 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
2597 casualties reported
Squads: 120 destroyed, 49 disabled
Non Combat: 19 destroyed, 52 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Guns lost 27 (1 destroyed, 26 disabled)
Vehicles lost 32 (7 destroyed, 25 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
6/6th Rajputna Battalion
255th Armoured Brigade
16/5th Mahratta Battalion
9/10 Baluch Battalion
70th British Division
1st Peshawar Base Force
4/2nd Det. NW Front
1/4 Central Detach.
4/1st Det. NW Front
1st NW Frontier Base Force
20th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment

Defending units:
41st Infantry Regiment
6th Tank Regiment
5th Division
4th Ind. Engineer Regiment
6th Guards Division
2nd RF Gun Battalion
2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
5th Mortar Battalion
14th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
51st Field AA Battalion

May3rd 42

..I 23 launches at an DD and misses ofc in the south...... it get more than annoying now. And I see so many AAR where IJN subs do good. I have ok commanders already. What I am doing wrong or is it just still bad luck (over 2 months?)

...we attack the strange guys at Jessore that sortied from Calcutta for whatever reason, but the escort Oscars do not fly - even id at the same base, same height and a set target. Only some LR Oscar show up, we lose ca. 10 Sallies.

Morning Air attack on 20th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment, at 53,37 (Jessore)

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 34 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 29
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 5

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 10

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 5 destroyed, 2 damaged
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb Trop: 2 destroyed

Allied ground losses:
41 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

... air attacks on Rangon ongoing also now ground targets as perhaps a 1st try at a DA in 3-4 days when some small reeinforcements arrive, another mortar unit and the quite weak Garrison unit from Singers arrives at Pegu. But more is on the way....

..Surprise in China, Kweiyang is NO LONG affair [;)] But also shows that the IJ is competent in land combat, while it lacks in the other important areas [8|]

Ground combat at Kweiyang (74,49)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 52242 troops, 640 guns, 83 vehicles, Assault Value = 1306

Defending force 22956 troops, 119 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 588

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 2686

Allied adjusted defense: 563

Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Kweiyang !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
1806 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 75 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 23 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 14 disabled

Allied ground losses:
9226 casualties reported
Squads: 184 destroyed, 62 disabled
Non Combat: 366 destroyed, 69 disabled
Engineers: 40 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 21 (14 destroyed, 7 disabled)
Units retreated 11

And ofc we shock the guys at Jessore back to Calcutta:

Ground combat at Jessore (53,37)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 32376 troops, 395 guns, 306 vehicles, Assault Value = 1153

Defending force 9438 troops, 301 guns, 208 vehicles, Assault Value = 125

Japanese adjusted assault: 563

Allied adjusted defense: 56

Japanese assault odds: 10 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: disruption(-), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
613 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 54 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled

Allied ground losses:
2363 casualties reported
Squads: 41 destroyed, 14 disabled
Non Combat: 212 destroyed, 56 disabled
Engineers: 15 destroyed, 19 disabled
Guns lost 66 (33 destroyed, 33 disabled)
Vehicles lost 100 (83 destroyed, 17 disabled)
Units retreated 9


Any advise how to deal with the south, Lunga will be 100% repaired the next turn, over 80 fighters there and US has giant bases at Ndeni, Luganville, Noumea...we have no CVs left (sunk, in repair, upgrader next month) and only a few surface ships not sunk or in repair there. We now send some from Singer and Soerabaya (because there was zero naval action in the area). Also our subs ALSO do find and/or hit anything around India, Ceylon. I wonder if I should set subs to computer use, as my micromanagment for them is for almost zero effect....But ships can not do much (except at night if the others have so much air cover, we sunk also lots of their combat ships there, but they just keep coming!). Thanks...
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RE: WITP: FE (fools edition) PBM Scen2 stock Japan AAR starts in May42

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4th May42

.. Allies are cowards do not want to fight, but lay mines (1 sub sunk [:@])


TF 251 encounters mine field at Lunga (114,138)

Japanese Ships
SS I-123, Mine hits 1, heavy damage

This is strange another sub claims a hit, but only on a Brith CV andno damage shown:

Sub attack near Kirakira at 115,139

Japanese Ships
SS I-25, hits 3

Allied Ships
CV Formidable, Torpedo hits 1
CL Durban
DD Stronghold
DD Van Ghent
DD Witte de With
DD Banckert
DD Perkins
DD Paladin
DD Norman
DD Nizam
DD Encounter

So I checked this sub and expected to find a super captn (if the hit was real), but this is one of the worst we have (so why bother changing commander if the good ones do not hit, but the bad ones?). The only thing I could find on this sub is that night exp is better than usual for subs (so exp most important?)...

Otherwise in China only bombardements from air and troops. But Allied cruiser fleet sinks another 2 PBs from us at Tassa, it remained there till day and ca. 8-9 Nells (other planes from same base DO NOT FLY?) attack, first with only bombs (why?) and same unit in afternoon this time with torps (why not 1st also torps?) but they hit nothing. But our CAP, escort at Tassa does quite good for a change we only lose 1 Nell + 1 Zero for 6 - 7 enemy fighters downed. He upgraded one of his CV groups to F4F4 - this is good so he ran out of F3s (these are actually better than F4 - 4 HMG are enough vs. Japanese planes)...

Our 2nd regular good div arrived at Akyab and the DA went superb (as I said our arty and the upper 1/3 of divs can be counted on, I hope Brits, Indians and Aussies have enough losses so they can not upgrade so fast to better squads, while the US has almost lost nothing on the ground so far)...

Ground combat at Akyab (54,45)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 28460 troops, 267 guns, 71 vehicles, Assault Value = 934

Defending force 13630 troops, 168 guns, 216 vehicles, Assault Value = 313

Japanese adjusted assault: 770

Allied adjusted defense: 107

Japanese assault odds: 7 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Akyab !!!

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
Hudson IIIa: 2 destroyed
Blenheim IV: 4 destroyed

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), fatigue(-), experience(-)
supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
630 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 62 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled

Allied ground losses:
4000 casualties reported
Squads: 108 destroyed, 15 disabled
Non Combat: 442 destroyed, 24 disabled
Engineers: 93 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 97 (97 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 168 (168 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 15
Units destroyed 1



Btw: I send some LR subs to the region around Perth and Karachi, they find nothing. As well the lone sub in the Aleutians does not. How can I improve this ? I read other AARs were IJN subs sink lots of TKs etc.
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RE: WITP: FE (fools edition) PBM Scen2 stock Japan AAR starts in May42

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Here an earlier pic of the shocking damage caused by only 1 bomb to 1 CV and 2 to the other one:

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