|
   The Northhampton bombards our troops and does no damage.  The shore guns at Julait do some damage.  Guess who we found!  We confirm the kills in the afternoon.  Our counter battery fire at Julait does amazingly well today.   Allied bombers have a go at one of my anti sub patrols.   That's the kind of start to a month I like!   Brace yourselves for the graphs.  I think I just gave someone a geekasm. Yep, I've finally gotten my act into gear and sorted my graphs! Another good month sees the our score just below the AI, but the Allies are well behind.  By this point in the last game, I'd started to chip away at the Japanese, but here I'm holding steady.  My conquests are worth a hell of a lot more for some reason.  Air losses have remained stable.  My own losses have stayed low, while in the last game I'd started punishing the Japanese by now.  The AI has now managed to loose more ships than I did! My own losses show how much I've improved over the last two games!  I've not been able to catch up on sheer value of points lost, but you can see the spike in the old data that shows I took out several Japanese carriers around this time. All I all, while I'm not advancing, I'm holding my own although I'm always fearful of the arrival of a fleet of US carriers. They should have enough now to completely reverse this war in one battle, and I know I'm living on borrowed time!
|
#
?
Nov 2, 2017 18:48
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 19, 2024 12:52 |
|
|
  The shore guns get another hit.  Come dawn, they set a ship on fire.  Boom! That's what I like to see.  We can't kill the bombers, but we can take out the escorts!  Heavy flak prevents us from getting a hit and costs us a plane.  We take some more losses attacking the enemy ships at Efatte.  These guys got separated, and then become easy targets.  That's more like it!  The flak is heavy around Luganville as well.  Concentrate your blood strikes!   Not good. Effective ASW means I've abandoned my siege of Pearl. It did a good job, but I just found ten subs at Wake who had aborted their patrols to there. Once they are refuelled, I can make more of a nuisance in the invasion area.   Night fighters better than nothing?  Look at this, Bettys go in with fighter support, take out the CAP and then sink a ship. This is how it should be done.  That was a busy and bloody day. It started well with the air kill,s then swung back to the Allies in the afternoon.  It's worth it for the damage done though.
|
|
#
?
Nov 2, 2017 18:48
|
|
|
Reuben Sandwich posted:That's all I've been able to find is sections here and there. So little about something so remarkable. There is an absolute shitload of documentation on the things in the bibliography and further reading sections of this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity_fuze#VT
|
|
#
?
Nov 2, 2017 18:52
|
|
|
Im not sure thered be anything left of Dempsey after taking a pair of torpedos. Like, not even enough to be sure it sank. It may have just disappeared.
|
|
#
?
Nov 2, 2017 18:58
|
|
|
Love the new graphs. 
|
|
#
?
Nov 2, 2017 19:00
|
|
|
So what's the plan after retreating from New Caledonia? Harden up defenses in the Solomons? Hit and run on Midway/Pearl? Aleutians, round 2? It seems that we're at the point where we can't expand anymore without unstoppable resistance. We've still got naval supremacy (as long as the Kido Butai doesn't get shanked in the coming months), so the most logical course would just be to hold out as long possible and keep grinding US ships. Also, great work on the new graphs.
|
|
#
?
Nov 2, 2017 19:08
|
|
|
 Jimmy4400nav
|
|
#
?
Nov 2, 2017 19:09
|
|
|
Great graphs, GH. Now you just need to rename "Allied AI" to "AI Allied" to match the other three entries.
|
|
#
?
Nov 2, 2017 19:10
|
|
|
Jobbo_Fett posted:
Did you sign me up for the Drum? Now that New Mexico is officially down that means Alabama was truly sank that day.
|
|
#
?
Nov 2, 2017 20:52
|
|
|
CannonFodder posted:Did you sign me up for the Drum? Now that New Mexico is officially down that means Alabama was truly sank that day. Yup, its all on the spreadsheet
|
|
#
?
Nov 2, 2017 21:16
|
|
|
New graphs are much easier to read!
|
|
#
?
Nov 2, 2017 22:38
|
|
|
Graphs are great GH. Good work with those BBs
|
|
#
?
Nov 2, 2017 23:48
|
|
|
Air losses are hard, but not a bad start of the month. Two BB's down, one heavy cruiser, some mauled transports. Good luck wtih keeping air production and pilot training up and dealing with the USN Subs.
|
|
#
?
Nov 3, 2017 04:13
|
|
|
Good graphs, and good sinkings!
|
|
#
?
Nov 3, 2017 04:17
|
|
|
boo new graphs it feels like work now
|
|
#
?
Nov 3, 2017 04:51
|
|
|
1 November 1943 US destroyer Borie, sank in a gale following damage sustained ramming and sinking U-405. 2 November 1943 The Battle of Empress Augusta Bay: Following the American invasion of Bougainville on 1 November, a Japanese striking force consisting of the heavy cruisers Haguro and Myoko, light cruisers Agano and Sendai, and six destroyers sortied to attack the beachhead. Thanks to good intelligence and skillful use of radar, the American covering forcelight cruiser Cleveland and her sisters Columbia, Denver, and Montpelier with eight destroyerswas able to get the drop on the Japanese flotilla. Neither side's torpedo attacks scored any hits, but radar-guided gunfire from the US cruisers quickly told, sinking Sendai and the destroyer Hatsukaze. Both heavy cruisers sustained significant damage along with two Japanese destroyers, while on the American side only the destroyer Foote suffered serious damage. Later in the day, the Japanese minesweeper W-26 was put out of action at Rabaul by land-based aircraft.
|
|
#
?
Nov 3, 2017 05:14
|
|
|
Jobbo_Fett posted:Yup, its all on the spreadsheet Also, Grey, dude, it's the 3rd even in Hawaii.
|
|
#
?
Nov 4, 2017 02:29
|
|
|
CannonFodder posted:Thanks, I was phone posting and not about to mess with the spreadsheet. I don't mess with it on my laptop either. Nobody can mess with the spreadsheet, so nothing to worry about
|
|
#
?
Nov 4, 2017 07:16
|
|
|
  Another quick sally causes the Allies some issues.  This is definitely outside of your set attack range. I counted.  Your just doing this to annoy me.  We lose another night fighter.  I wish there were more days like that.  I start crushing the next failed invasion of Luganville.  Not a bad day we killed more planes than we lost, which is rare.  We kill or confirm a good number of ships today. CannonFodder posted:Also, Grey, dude, it's the 3rd even in Hawaii. Yeah the kid is hammering my puncutality, it was a late finish and a 4:00am start today, so I've not had any time to get on and post! He's finally down for a nap though!
|
|
#
?
Nov 4, 2017 09:45
|
|
|
Grey's kid actually remembers to rest between shock attacks once fatigue gets too high
|
|
#
?
Nov 4, 2017 09:49
|
|
|
Wait im confused Airpower... Is good now?????
|
|
#
?
Nov 4, 2017 10:20
|
|
|
  We lose a bomber on a strike but at least they are attacking something.  We lose a plane on the ground, but hopefully we see one of those damaged planes crash on the way home.  We continue to grind down the Kiwis on Luganville. (It's always the Kiwi's.)  The returning carriers pick off a small ship.  This is a unexpected windfall, but I have to wonder what they are doing here. [img]http://lpix.org/2294190/India Burma.jpg[/im  These have to be some of my best pilots by now.  Two days in a row where we killed more than we lost!  Another good day of kills as well we're closing in on 50,000 points, and I'd like to be there soon!
|
|
#
?
Nov 4, 2017 17:02
|
|
|
gradenko_2000 posted:Grey's kid actually remembers to rest between shock attacks once fatigue gets too high 
|
|
#
?
Nov 4, 2017 19:55
|
|
|
gradenko_2000 posted:Grey's kid actually remembers to rest between shock attacks once fatigue gets too high Oh my god ahahahahaha
|
|
#
?
Nov 4, 2017 20:08
|
|
|
gradenko_2000 posted:Grey's kid actually remembers to rest between shock attacks once fatigue gets too high This is the next Soviet Response
|
|
#
?
Nov 4, 2017 20:14
|
|
|
gradenko_2000 posted:Grey's kid actually remembers to rest between shock attacks once fatigue gets too high 
|
|
#
?
Nov 5, 2017 00:23
|
|
|
gradenko_2000 posted:Grey's kid actually remembers to rest between shock attacks once fatigue gets too high Close the thread
|
|
#
?
Nov 5, 2017 01:34
|
|
|
Sorta curious but on Luganville how when you have 10:1 superiority in men and have cut them off are you taking several times the Allied casualties?
|
|
#
?
Nov 5, 2017 05:21
|
|
|
Nth Doctor posted:Great graphs, GH. Now you just need to rename "Allied AI" to "AI Allied" to match the other three entries. So close to perfection.
|
|
#
?
Nov 5, 2017 06:51
|
|
|
wedgekree posted:Sorta curious but on Luganville how when you have 10:1 superiority in men and have cut them off are you taking several times the Allied casualties? From what I've been able to absorb the "terrain" defensive bonus is huge in this game.
|
|
#
?
Nov 5, 2017 07:28
|
|
|
So by that logic Iwo Jima should be compltley impossible for the Allies to take given the historical level of fortification on the island?
|
|
#
?
Nov 5, 2017 08:00
|
|
|
wedgekree posted:So by that logic Iwo Jima should be compltley impossible for the Allies to take given the historical level of fortification on the island? Nah, this is what's gonna happen Allies land -> shock attack grey -> shock attack allies -> bombardment grey -> shock attack allies -> bombardment grey -> shock attack allies -> bombarment grey -> shock attack allies -> deliberate attack ALLIES CAPTURE IWO JIMA
|
|
#
?
Nov 5, 2017 08:04
|
|
|
wedgekree posted:Sorta curious but on Luganville how when you have 10:1 superiority in men and have cut them off are you taking several times the Allied casualties? Shock attacks make your troops more vulnerable to enemy firepower in exchange for a boost to final AV for whatever makes it past that firepower. In this case, most of the japanese casualties are disabled (light wounds, out of ammo, fatigued, etc) and will recover relatively quickly in the field via supplies and non-combat support troops, while all the allies losses are destroyed (they're dead, Jim) and won't be back until at the very least the unit isn't in combat and can draw replacements from the resource pool. Deliberate attacks should be used for mopping up enemies since you don't need the AV boost if you already have control of the base.
|
|
#
?
Nov 5, 2017 08:48
|
|
|
Cool, thanks! Nice to hear moreon the system.
|
|
#
?
Nov 5, 2017 08:51
|
|
|
Grey Hunter posted:
What exactly is an "SC"? I'm guessing that it's something small since it has a number instead of a name. Also shouldn't the allies have more carriers than us by now? PPS: wedgekree posted:Cool, thanks! Nice to hear the moreon system. There now it's more accurate.
|
|
#
?
Nov 5, 2017 09:30
|
|
|
Dangeresque posted:What exactly is an "SC"? A SubChaser. Small escort/Patrol with poo poo for anti-surface armament.
|
|
#
?
Nov 5, 2017 09:45
|
|
|
wedgekree posted:Cool, thanks! Nice to hear moreon the system. Just looking at raw AV can sometimes be misleading. Artillery units have low AV values - they get their work done in the shooting phase, but can't really hold or capture territory on their own. Looking again at the enemy composition in the Luganville report, there's lot of vehicles for the number of troops in the allied formation, which could mean an armor or mechanized units. Given that they didn't lose any I suspect it's probably just tanks left, and that the attacking units might not have a lot of effective anti-armor equipment in their OOB. So the last 100 troops outside got cut down, and now it's 100 tanks each with a 4-man crew. Given they're Kiwis, probably Valentine and/or Stuart tanks, as I don't think they get Shermans in their OOB until 1944.
|
|
#
?
Nov 5, 2017 10:01
|
|
|
  Running won't help you.   Oh look, China. We cross the river and they flee before us.  This attack doesn't do as well.  We gun down two more search aircraft, giving us another good day.  We continue to make a mess on the seas as well.
|
|
#
?
Nov 5, 2017 21:47
|
|
|
Another thing to keep in mind is as the war goes on US ground forces get more and more powerful as they get re-equiped with more powerful weapons. The Japanese, not so much.
|
|
#
?
Nov 6, 2017 04:52
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 19, 2024 12:52 |
|
|
pthighs posted:Another thing to keep in mind is as the war goes on US ground forces get more and more powerful as they get re-equiped with more powerful weapons. The Japanese, not so much. Unless they also get equipped with gills, it shouldn't matter too much.
|
|
#
?
Nov 6, 2017 05:53
|
|
