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It’s over. We are back. April 6, 1943 .png) Decent number of hits for a night strike! .png) Morning breaks. Tojos sweep over the 41st US Infantry (and two other units attempting to escape). .png) Further north, we do the same over Nagpur with a squad of Hurricanes. I want to knock Nagpur airfield out of action now that he’s seized it. .png) The American Warhawks go in for more dogfights with the Tojos and Zeroes northwest of Benares. A very good engagement. The Tojos are still patrolling at 15K! .png) Another squadron of P-40Ks sweeps in and brings down more enemies. Today is great so far. .png) He’s bombing the 41st US Inf Div with impunity. The loss of Nagpur (and those Beaufighters) means I don’t have the ability to protect them with long-range CAP anymore. It seems unlikely they’ll escape south-central India… .png) Northern Australia - Groote Eyelandt. I’ve set a CAP trap here, but I was expecting fighter sweeps, not unescorted bombers. As such, my fighters are largely patrolling at 25,000 feet, and his Nells come in underneath, drop their bombs, and escape almost unmolested. The Aussie Kittyhawks, patrolling at 15K, damage one. .png) Over to the Gilberts. A badly-escorted Avenger strike flies off towards Tarawa and thankfully encounters no enemy CAP. Too many of them bring bombs! Am I running out of torpedoes at the Tabiteuea air HQ? .png) Back to India. Some of the few remaining Dutch DB-7s attack the retreating IJA tanks, with Spitfire escort. This is actually the combat debut of the Mark VIII Spit in India. They do very well, all things considered, but sheer enemy numbers ensure the Dutch are savaged. .png) Beauforts miss in thunderstorms over 47,22. .png) A sweep over Nagpur to maintain superiority here while I destroy the airfield. .png) Cooktown Mitchells keep grinding away at Milne. Just waiting for some APAs finish refitting, the invasion force is ready… .png) A nice coordinated bomber attack on 47,22 is tarnished by continued nasty weather. .png) Another sweep in the north, another good trade. The Hurricanes and Warhawks wisely bug out as a cloud of enemy reinforcements appears. .png) More Delhi Wellingtons into 47,22… I’m not liking how all the bombers seem to be targeting a naval construction battalion, but hopefully the damage is more spread around than is apparent.. .png) More RAF bombers trickle in, doing little damage. .png) Two wings of 13 Vengeances do a bit better. .png) This engagement goes very poorly. The Hurricanes are escorting at low altitude (instead of sweeping at high altitude) and suffer from enemy diving attacks. .png) Four Mitchells accomplish little in bad weather. .png) 14 Blenheims at least manage to kill something. Maybe just someone. .png) Delhi Wellingtons get in on it. Lots of flights from the Allied bomber force in India today - shame about the lovely weather. .png) A couple of late Hurricanes sweep in west of Allahabad, nail a Tojo and leave before the enemy can respond and swarm them. Very smooth. .png) More American bombers in India. These Liberators will hopefully deter him from turning Nagpur into a serious airbase for a while. .png) .png) .png) A flurry of American bombers based in Australia hit Milne Bay. .png) Surprisingly successful attack here! I was hoping to catch a ship in Tulagi’s harbor, but supply hits work too. .png) Back to India. Good hits. I need to keep his forward airfields suppressed. .png) We catch unescorted Nells over Groote! They destroy one P-40 on the ground, but we rack up quite a few kills. Makes up for some of the losses today. .png) Continuing to control the airspace over Nagpur. .png) Despite suffering horrendous losses in the past few days, we scrounge up another dozen Corsairs and Avengers to make a run at the Japanese carrier force, still believed to be Shokaku, Zuikaku, and 4 or more CVLs. Numbers tell, and our aircraft are badly chewed up. We can’t be sending in strikes like this that just feed the enemy CAP… .png) .png) Mildly effective Wirraway strikes on Milne Bay. This is good training, at least, and these pilots can be put into more effective aircraft as they become available. .png) USS Jack flubs a difficult shot. .png) We’re in the ground combat phase! The turn is almost over! Typical bombardment here at Bangalore. The siege grinds on. .png) I don’t quite have the force to push them out of the hex here at Bhopal. Here comes the shock attack just up the road at 47,22! .png) Ouch! Obviously premature. Thankfully more squads disabled than destroyed. We’ll have to soften them up before trying again. .png) Some outlying base upgrades today. Summary & Orders .png) Oh, a collision! I didn’t notice that in the replay. .png) Ouch. Well, neither will sink, but some Seabees and Marines will have to kick sand on Christmas Island until their transport can be replaced. .png) Losing a squadron of Avengers a day doesn’t seem sustainable. But a 53:51 loss ratio is disastrous from Japan’s perspective. Good day. code:
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Pharnakes and I have picked this up again and are at April 10, 1943. Hooray! I'll be cleaning up and updating this thread.SIGSEGV posted:Your twitter account appears to not to display tweets to non logged in users. Seeing as Twitter has entered full collapse since I last posted, I've backed up the Tweeted portions of this LP. Will figure out a good way to repost them (probably just as screenshots of the thread, linked in the OP? idk).
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Yay! Good to see this going again! Will Pharnakes be doing his own thread?
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I was just debating like yesterday whether or not to unbookmark this. Hooray, procrastination!
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It breathes still!Alikchi posted:Seeing as Twitter has entered full collapse since I last posted, I've backed up the Tweeted portions of this LP. Will figure out a good way to repost them (probably just as screenshots of the thread, linked in the OP? idk). Tweeter backups are awful pains in the rear end to use and reuse from experience, take the least pain option when possible.
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Glad this is back!
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That shock attack wasn't completely wasted. You took out half of his vehicles in one go.
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I love WitP screenshot LPs and am glad to see this active again!
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wedgekree posted:Yay! Good to see this going again! Will Pharnakes be doing his own thread? I don't think so. He may resurrect his old one? I imagine he'll wait to see if we actually build up any sustained momentum, which is reasonable. quote:I was just debating like yesterday whether or not to unbookmark this. Hooray, procrastination! My own procrastination (along with a new job, etc) was what made this ripe for unbookmarking, so it all evens out. quote:That shock attack wasn't completely wasted. You took out half of his vehicles in one go. This is very true. If I can grind down his armored units I'll feel a lot safer. Pharnakes is straight up better at ground warfare in this engine than me, and his good use of tank maneuvers is a big part of that. April 7, 1943 .png) I-5 is severely handled by destroyer USS Grayson. I’m counting this as a probable kill, that’s heavy damage and she’s far from home. .png) USS Lapon and a few others have been kicking around the Tsushima Strait area for a little while, taking potshots. Not much luck yet. .png) The Shinkyo Maru briefly spots Lapon and drives her under before moving on. .png) Actually a very busy search phase, here in and around the Gilberts. The Japanese carrier gang is obviously still kicking around.  An American P-40 squadron sweeps the skies over Bhopal and finds nothing. Shame to waste a sortie, but our bombers should have free reign and decent weather. .png) Another decent little engagement from a sweeping American squadron. This P-50E gang is based on Horn Island in the Torres Strait and trades evenly. .png) The next wave runs into an alert and angry swarm of Tojos and gets mauled. .png) These Zeroes are continually sweeping to keep me from flying in fighters overnight and pulling a CAP trap on his bombers here. .png) The Japanese carriers go straight for the port at Tabiteuea! There’s heavy rain. Radar warns Allied fighters. Based on the numbers and messages during the combat, I believe this is a heavy swipe from Shokaku and Zuikaku. .png) The Zeroes are shockingly handled by the Corsairs of VMF-111. A6M3a pilot “Sakai, S.” gets blasted out of the air - RIP Saburo. The Wildcats, P-400s and Skyrockets get among the Judies and bring down at least a dozen. Almost everyone gets away clean and the enemy bombs hit nothing. There wasn’t even much to hit! Beautiful. .png) Back from the epic to the personal. The Zero piloted by Kamihara N., flying from Gove, nails a P-40K and a Kittyhawk III and flies home victorious, having cleared the sky over Groote Eyelandt. .png) My turn to fly into a woodchipper. Leaving the Mitchells on cruise control bombing Milne Bay doesn’t work out. These are Junyo and Hiyo’s fighters. Are the ships in the hex? I think they are, probably covering the resupply effort necessary to repair the airfield. .png) Another day of 500-pound rain at 47,22. .png) And more good hits here. Nagpur must stay out of action for me to win these land battles in eastern India.  Two more waves of Vengeances, one escorted, hit 47,22. .png) Getting successfully bombed by Blenheims is a real “now Martin’s scoring off me!” situation. .png) More unopposed strikes in India. These Blenheims don’t hit anything at 47,22, but we get a few more hits on Nagpur airbase. .png) Back over New Guinea, the B-24s shoulder their way through the thunderstorms and CAP to actually drop a few bombs on Milne Bay runway. It’s not worth it. .png) In the last act of the AM air phase, Shokaku and Zuikaku (I think) north of Tabiteuea send out a sweep. I suspect Pharnakes intended this to come before he lost a bunch of well-trained dive bomber pilots. Ahh, WitP. .png) Bad weather over India cancels a lot of missions in the PM phase. But in the Pacific, Zuiho and the other CVL(s?) tagging along with Shokaku and Zuikaku launch their own escorted port strike at Tabiteuea. Our afternoon CAP is weaker, but their escort is smaller, and the Kates are particularly easy pickings. An xAK and a minesweeper eat 250kg bombs. Good exchange. .png) Oooh! Port Moresby gets into the action over Milne with a well-escorted torpedo bomber strike! If I ran Junyo and Hiyo’s CAP down with all those fruitless bomber attacks and actually score a hit now, I’ll seem like a genius. The escorts take losses but mostly protect the Beauforts. Eight break through to make runs.. .png) =All of the torpedoes miss and I do not seem like a genius. .png) Here’s Junyo and Hiyo’s layered CAP. Interesting altitude choices. .png) Now the Wirraway milk run turns deadly. Their P-39 escort is shot down and only 7 of the 10 Aussies back it back. .png) The Siege of Bangalore continues. .png) Bad effect at Bhopal. .png) Look at all these juicy armored units that have outrun their infantry support. Hmm… .png) Things are looking great at 47,22. The 4th Guards is dropping AV rapidly. Summary & Orders Nothing super interesting in the Operational Report today, but I can’t screenshot it because it’s pages and pages of this: .png) .png) Here’s a more normal selection. The RAAF and USAAF pull replacement aircraft into the squadrons that took losses today. Port Hedland gains another airfield level. .png) Another very bloody day. Even worse than yesterday. Is it gonna be like this until 1946? Still, we came out ahead. Again. Thank you, 1943. As for tomorrow, I’m going to stand down in New Guinea and the Gilberts and let my squadrons replenish. Allied bombers will continue pummeling the IJA in India though. code:
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Well that was a pretty good day for you all things considered. Those carrier groups are probably the biggest and punchiest tool in his shop. Even though he can probably replace the planes, and the new pilots won't be too bad with the changes you made in the mod, taking down his swarm of aces from the 1942 massacres will likely go a long way towards levelling the playing field.
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Watching enemy carriers emerge unscathed from a torpedo attack is a peculiar pain that you don't really get to feel elsewhere.
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I've been informed that Pharnakes is posting again so I need to get off my rear end and catch up with the game. Onwards! I may cut down on the meticulous screenshot-cropping and subject you to big lazy JPEGs for a few updates. Not yet, though. April 8, 1943 .png) A pack of Wellingtons get lost in the night trying to bomb Ahmedabad airbase. .png) USS Herring dives after being spotted by the escort Ishigaki in a faintly horrifying coincidence. .png) Jack, which has been prowling around the same area as Lapon, is unfortunately not as lucky as Herring today. Two hits inflicted by a determined subchaser. I’ll have to wait until the turn ends to see how serious the damage actually is. .png) Scouting reports start coming in. Looks to me like he’s pulling his carriers out of the Gilberts. .png) A wing of Zeroes from Gove contests the skies over Groote Eyelandt. Our guys do fine? I expect a little better from the Lightnings. (Those are Aussie and Kiwi brands of Kittyhawk III. They’ve been putting in sterling service but they deserve to upgrade ASAP.) .png) Daily Bangalore sweep… .png) Two Gove Zeroes arrive late, realize they’re heavily outnumbered and run. .png) A couple decent waves (27 and 9) of Helens hit my troops near Ahmedabad. Maybe I can arrange some CAP here. .png) The poor poor 41st. I’m building a level 1 airfield at that little dot hex. Maybe I can march there and fly some of them out? I’ve had decent success with airlifts in this campaign, even if it has absolutely wrecked my transport and bomber pools. .png) These Zeroes ensure that I can’t thoughtlessly send fighters down for cover. .png) Our first wave of bombers to hit 47,22 today. The weather isn’t great. .png) Good, good. .png) Well-escorted Lucknow Blenheims take a turn. .png) More. .png) More! .png) More!! .png) … .png) Alright, Nagpur. A daylight raid. Lots of bombers turn back when they see the huge enemy CAP, but not enough. .png) Still unopposed over Ahmedabad. .png) Ditto. .png) Stragglers! .png) Speaking of stragglers. These retreating troops of ours are transforming into a refugee column, aided by the IJAAS. .png) Surprise! More 47,22! .png) A PM sweep over Nagpur gets mauled. 1943 is just not the year to be using Hurricanes as fighters, but beggars can’t be choosers. .png) As the day ends, USS Jack once again gets caught screwing around. .png) Bangalore siege continues. .png) I’m considering pulling a division out of here to defend Cawnpore/Lucknow. Or cut off the enemy retreat from 47,22, whichever seems most expedient. .png) Ahmedabad, continued. Yes, this is another typo on the map. Dutch Habor… .png) We go for a Deliberate at 47,22. It’s a failure, but not a horrible one. Look at all those destroyed vehicles - the Indian 31st Armoured continues to wreak havoc on the poor little Japanese clunkers. Summary & Orders .png) Minor base improvements in backwaters of Northern Oz and NORPAC today. .png) 1941-rear end loss ratio. Whoof. Bad day to be a Hurricane pilot. I need to keep them on the defensive and leave the sweeping to better fighters unless I can be sure of a numbers advantage. Hurris are still the majority of my Indian fighters, though… In the background, I am revamping my fuel transport operations to Australia. I need to get decent stockpiles built up in weird places like Townsville and Port Hedland to move forward in SWPAC. code:Alikchi fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Nov 3, 2023 |
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How is that assault not a victory? You fed the Japanese troops into a woodchipper and then blew up their tanks for good measure.
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That wasn’t a victory on the day but it might set up a victory down the line now that there are so many fewer tanks on the other side. What is the 31st even equipped with? Are those Stuarts that did that?
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Plek posted:How is that assault not a victory? You fed the Japanese troops into a woodchipper and then blew up their tanks for good measure. Yeah I'll always count a battle where enemy elements are destroyed and yours are only disrupted as a win. Destroyed stuff is gone forever and needs a big supply dump to pull from the reserve pool, damaged stuff needs far fewer supplies, a few days of rest and some leadership rolls to be back in the fight.
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Alchenar posted:Yeah I'll always count a battle where enemy elements are destroyed and yours are only disrupted as a win. Destroyed stuff is gone forever and needs a big supply dump to pull from the reserve pool, damaged stuff needs far fewer supplies, a few days of rest and some leadership rolls to be back in the fight. The flip side of this is that destroyed squads were often already disabled (and thus not contributing to AV) whereas disabled squads were necessarily previously active. This means that disablements cause relatively more decline in AV than destructions, which is important if your priority in a battle is to cause or prevent a retreat or base capture in a short time frame.
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Plek posted:How is that assault not a victory? You fed the Japanese troops into a woodchipper and then blew up their tanks for good measure. Alchenar posted:Yeah I'll always count a battle where enemy elements are destroyed and yours are only disrupted as a win. Destroyed stuff is gone forever and needs a big supply dump to pull from the reserve pool, damaged stuff needs far fewer supplies, a few days of rest and some leadership rolls to be back in the fight. Yeah, I can't call it a defeat, exactly, but I'm really hoping to push him out of this tough hex and into clear terrain where my bombers can properly work. And every day I fail to do that - and all my forces are tied down at 47,22 or the various sieges - he advances in the north, near the Nepalese border. Really hoping I didn't spread the emergency reinforcements too thin! That's the strategic dilemma in India right now. Pirate Radar posted:That wasn’t a victory on the day but it might set up a victory down the line now that there are so many fewer tanks on the other side. Here's the 31st as of April 15th: .png) So, a decent number of Stuarts, but more Valentines. Catch up posts coming shortly...
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April 9, 1943.png) One hit. I’ll take it! .png) None for this wave. I hope I don’t have too many ops losses in these storms. .png) Daybreak. USS Pompon takes a shot at a subchaser way up north of Hokkaido. Playing cat & mouse with ASW.. not too productive. Time to move? .png) !!!! .png) God drat it. .png) I swear this has happened to Shokaku and Zuikaku more than once. Misses, duds.. These would have been solid Mark 10 hits too. Shame. .png) Can’t start the morning without a Bangalore Zero sweep. .png) Bombay-based Helens absolutely plastering the poor guys contesting Ahmedabad. Nasty hit despite the weather. I’m building an airbase up at Jodhpur to contest this more easily. Maybe there’s something I can do? .png) We’re still more focused on denying the airbase at Ahmedabad and destroying what supplies he can bring forward. Bombing night and day with Wellies now. .png) And Mitchells. Yes, Japanese troops are roughly a dozen hexes from Karachi. Ha ha, I’m in danger, etc. .png) We’re really trickling in today. Weather, I guess. .png) A Spit sweep. This is a good trade, but not worth it in the long run. I should’ve flown this squadron back. The IJA is about to storm their airfield. .png) Jubbulpore.. Sitting pretty here, supplies are high. .png) Ditto Bangalore. .png) We’re keeping the 35th pinned here at Bhopal. Need relief to push them out. .png) .png) We close out the turn with another fort level at Bhopal and some miscellaneous reinforcements. Summary & Orders .png) Decent, if relatively quiet, day in the air. Iffy weather limits both sides. .png) A few interesting things here. .png) Poor West Virginia has been patching up at Sydney for months, limped to Noumea for final tweaks, and is finally ready for the long, slow trip to the West Coast shipyards for extensive work. .png) At Pearl, USS Scourge is less than a month from being fully operational as a carrier (she was previously a half-baked hybrid). VF-2 prepares by ditching their Wildcats for brand-new Hellcats. .png) Shokaku, Zuikaku and friends continue fading off west towards Truk, their airgroups decently depleted. We continue. Alikchi fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Nov 10, 2023 |
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April 10, 1943.png) USS Spearfish is briefly spotted in the night, south of the Philippines. .png) The RAF’s first wave of Wellingtons gets lost in the darkness, but at least one Blenheim manages a supply hit on Benares. .png) These Wellingtons both find and hit their target at night, a rare feat. .png) This is impressive bombing for 39% moonlight. It’s a clear sky and they’re flying low with no opposition, but still. .png) Off Hokkaido, USS Pompon spots a convoy with at least one tanker in it. Unfortunately, she fires on an escort and dives prematurely. .png) Lapon continues blueballing various Japanese patrol boats. .png) Time to clear the skies over 47,22. The Nicks do surprisingly well against my sweeping Warhawks.. .png) P-38s duel with Tojos over Gove. A thunderstorm limits losses on both sides. .png) The daily Bangalore Zero sweep. .png) Groote Eyelandt and Gove are just trading fighter patrols today. Three national brands of Warhawk go up, a Kiwi and an Aussie come down involuntarily. .png) I finally find a use for my radar-equipped night-fighter Beaufighters. They’re flying from Hyderabad, which a single-engined fighter couldn’t accomplish. Most of the Helens get through, but it’s still a nice little fight. They’ll be escorted tomorrow, if they come at all, so I can’t repeat this. .png) Picking off one or two more. .png) These poor guys - an American infantry division cut off in central India - are in serious trouble. .png) Another wave. .png) The Scythes do a bit better than P-38s against Gove’s Tojo contingent. .png) The Vengeances go in escorted to 47,22. We lose in fighters, but the bombers get through unscathed. .png) This wave is NOT escorted and suffers accordingly. .png) Once again. Concentrating on 47,22. .png) More! .png) Trio of Lucknow-based Blenheims miss some IJA tanks at Bhopal. .png) A diversity of British bomber types are plastering various IJA units at 47,22 today. Nice to see. .png) Must remember to point enough recon planes at Nagpur to track the damage we’re doing here. I want the airbase 100% knocked out and I want to keep up with his repairs. .png) We sprinkle Ahmedabad runway as well. .png) Three Mitchells with a very strong escort hit 47,22 again.. If there had been any enemy LRCAP left, this would have dealt with them. .png) Really a solid day for our bombers in India. .png) Lapon hits another target with another non-dud torpedo! 1943 is really a wondrous time. .png) Japan continues to bombard at Jubbulpore. They’ll need a lot more time or a lot more artillery to make any real progress. .png) Ah, he’s finally made it over the river into Allahabad.. And there’s the mandatory shock attack, and he’s got more than enough to blow through all my forts before I can rail in reinforcements. Not that I have anything to reinforce with beyond a shattered brigade or two. I need to fly my planes out. Unfortunately, this is right around when we set down the game for most of a year… I do not end up remembering to fly all the planes out. Spoiler alert. .png) The Bangalore siege continues… .png) The 41st US Infantry Div tries a desperate shock attack to push through the encircling Japanese. They catch the enemy still disembarking from their trains, but terrain and supply problems limit us. It looks bad. .png) We still have a big artillery advantage at Bhopal, so the bombardments continue. .png) The 47,22 grind. .png) Summary & Orders Today’s aerial losses are tilted our way. Thumbs up. .png) We’re still frantically building forts and airfields in western India. Pujab and Uttar Pradesh states today. Meanwhile, our stranglehold on the North Pacific is very tight, and tightening. .jpg) Here’s a map of almost all of the India theater. Alikchi fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Nov 10, 2023 |
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Good luck holding India! And 1943 means competence in your subs and equal ground in the air!
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ChaosDragon posted:CV Scourge? The modded scenario gave the US a pair of hypothetical hybrid battleship-carriers. They’re currently being converted to full carriers.
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Pirate Radar posted:The modded scenario gave the US a pair of hypothetical hybrid battleship-carriers. They’re currently being converted to full carriers. IIRC they'll basically be CVL's with better armor and not quite as high speed.
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Pirate Radar posted:The modded scenario gave the US a pair of hypothetical hybrid battleship-carriers. They’re currently being converted to full carriers. wedgekree posted:IIRC they'll basically be CVL's with better armor and not quite as high speed. .png) They are loosely based on CanisD's old "Flightdeck battlecruiser Bunker Hill" design, but yes, I pushed the full-conversion button after losing most of our proper CVs. They're both ~three weeks from being fully operational! They'll be one of the stranger parts of a very hodgepodge carrier force that will include three British CVs and the new Essexes. Essex herself is due in 38 days, the next in 79. ThatBasqueGuy posted:Close shot on the Carrier! How are we feeling about holding onto a chunk of india atm? Actually feeling pretty good in India, despite being absolutely rolled up to this point. I don't think he can make it to Karachi. wedgekree posted:Good luck holding India! And 1943 means competence in your subs and equal ground in the air! God, the lowered dud rate on Mk. 14s is already amazing. The Corsair and Hellcat are here, I just need more modern Army fighters. I believe I start getting P-47s in July... Alikchi fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Nov 12, 2023 |
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Gonna try and catch up with the actual game date (April 16 43) during my break for the next day or so. Then things should flow much more easily! April 11, 1943 .png) Let’s start with some night bombing. I’ve had a minor epiphany and realized that I can make use of Blenheims and other especially vulnerable bombers at night. He has too many bases in India to provide night CAP for. .png) Way off between Truk and Guam, USS Drum misses a damaged Fubuki-class, Tatsuyuke. This destroyer hit an American mine off Luganville just before Yamato, Musashi, & friends’ bombardment of the airfield there on March 28. Looks like she’s still slowly making her way back to the home islands for serious work. Would have been a nice kill for Drum - ah well. There’s more torpedo fodder where that came from. .png) Sunrise, and our dawn sweep of Hurricanes finds clear skies over the 47,22 battleground. Overcast, though. .png) Empty over Milne Bay too. Again, weather will probably limit our ability to take advantage. .png) A three-base attack! Very impressive coordination and escort. Not particularly impressive results. What’re ya gonna do. .png) Days and days and weeks and weeks of this.. Adds up. Will continue to add up. .png) Plink. .png) Plonk! .png) Really an impressive showing by the RAF today. .png) I keep pulling these Blenheims out of the backfield and into the frontline. It is tempting to hoard their decent pilots until the pools for the new Wellington models fill up a bit.. but I’m so desperate for every aircraft here. At least I’m not using the Westland Wapitis at Karachi for ground support. Hopefully that never becomes necessary… .png) It’s going to take a few more lessons before I learn to stop flying into the flyswatter of his Bhopal CAP. Those Nicks are deadly bomber hunters. .png) Thunderstorm hits! .png) The Delhi airfields must be absolutely buzzing with half-trained bomber pilots today. Air traffic controller nightmare material. .png) Stragglers to the 47,22 show. Plink, again. .png) Ahmedabad. .png) Broome: still clear. .png) I have gotten a lot of American infantrymen needlessly killed in stupid places (northern Australia, central India) but at least the rain protects them from IJAAS bombs today. .png) .png) Still nothing to fight over Milne or Broome, of course. I really want him to divert fighters (from Gove or Darwin?) to defend Broome. Time to start bombing. .png) .png) Nine Zeroes sweeping from Gove run into my beefed-up Groote defense. They flee after losing two. .png) This isn’t a good exchange. Might be best to switch to night bombing here until/unless I reorient the heavy bomber force in Australia towards the Solomons. .png) Onto the ground phase. Jubbulpore is still favorable to us. Look at all that artillery - and two prime Guards divisions - we’re tying up. I’ve been playing with the idea of pulling back from here and trying to join the fight at Bhopal, but leaving the forts would be insane. Gotta stay. Stick with the original plan: encircle and crush at 47,22, then relieve Bhopal and Jubbulpore in succession. .png) Major screw up here. The 32nd Div crosses the river from Benares to Allahabad and does the auto shock attack that river crossings require. It’s enough to overcome the forts and defenders. A forward-deployed squad of precious new Spitfires is caught on the ground. Time to start scrounging for reinforcements up here. Cawnpore is the next defense point. .png) Same old at Bangalore. He really has so much artillery tied up in these sieges! .png) Bhopal. It really feels like both of us are stretched to the absolute limit. But he can still advance in the north, up by the Nepalese border. That’s not good. .png) 47,22 proper. That 4th Guards Div of theirs is not looking healthy. .png) They’re running. Hope they get away. .png) Base upgrades! Socotra is the final fallback position if India falls completely. Summary & Orders .png) Ugh. Losing those Spits was a stupid bungle. .png) Busy operational report today. Gonna see a lot more of those VP losses to missing garrisons as I strip India even more bare. I lost the VP war a long time ago, what’s a few more to stave off the IJA? code:Alikchi fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Nov 16, 2023 |
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Good seeing you still at this! And 1 VP is what, like one fighter? You can take it!
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Doing a quick catchup with a three-day summary, then back to full writeups. April 12th-14th, 1943 April 12th combat report / air losses April 13th combat report / air losses April 14th combat report / air losses In India: Three bloody days in the air. On the 12th, Hurricanes LRCAP-ambush a big wave of Helens and take them down. Simultaneously we dispatch our long range bombers into a daylight attack on Nagpur and a vicious Zero/Tojo/Nick CAP of 90+ aircraft. Pharnakes calls this ‘symmetrical incompetence’. His losses in Helens almost cancel out my Wellington losses, but I’m desperate for British/Commonwealth bombers and can’t afford to lose airframes in this theater like he can. Bad day in the air, on balance. Thunderstorms on the 13th preclude most combat. The 14th is a solid day, though, with our Spitfires outperforming Tojos and more Helens bagged. We do lose another set of Vengeance bombers, unfortunately. Ground combat is the usual bombardments, mostly, over these three days. In Australia & SWPAC: Our fighters continue sweeping over Milne Bay and Broome, keeping them clear while I shuffle bomber squadrons around. On the 14th, we recommence aggressively sweeping over Gove and discover that our P-40s and P-39s can do shockingly well against modern Tojos and Zeroes. The naval war is uneventful, the ground war grinds on indecisively, and we receive no notable reinforcements. Onto the 15th. April 15, 1943 .png) The hero of the story, USS Lapon, scores a hit! One torp is a dud, the other does massive damage to Nitti Maru. Kamitsu Maru fails to find the culprit. .png) Oh this isn’t good. Cawnpore airbase is very crowded right now. .png) Another 7. No hits.. If this is it, I’ll consider myself lucky. .png) We get a little back before the sun rises. .png) Ope, four more Helens. .png) Lapon finishes off her target. .png) I’ve been alarmed by reports of Japanese floatplanes from various merchants operating off Canada in the past couple weeks. Here’s one of the culprits, an extremely modern sub carrying a Glen, lurking off the Salish Sea. USS Radford (a Fletcher-class) reports multiple direct depth charge hits before losing contact. Maybe I-38 will have to be scuttled? .png) 6,100-ish nautical miles away from Vancouver, USS Herring wriggles out from under a much less accurate depth charging. .png) The daily sweeps of the sky over Milne Bay begin. I’m almost ready to take this place. Few more weeks to get the last pieces in place, maybe. .png) We keep the heat on at Gove, too. Even Airacobras do their part. It’s time to pull back the better fighters from here in prep for some serious LRCAP of the Milne invasion force. .png) Tojoes keep the sky over my flanking Stuarts clear. Will he bomb them? .png) Our Level 2 airfield at Jodhpur (look, another typo on the map!!) is already proving useful. .png) Aussies and Kiwis continue patrolling over Milne. .png) I’ve got some Wirraways doing escorted bombing of the unused enemy field at Salamaua. If it draws in enemy fighters within range of the Port Moresby LRCAP Death Star, great. If not, I’ll get to knock out a potential field, waste enemy supplies and train my pilots. Win-win for me. .png) This wave targets the garrison, a Naval Guard unit. .png) Cooktown boys pitch in on the field. .png) If it’s only a construction battalion holding this hex.. Maybe I can vaporize it with bombers? I have tank brigades coming down from the north to isolate 47,22 as well.. .png) Oh dear. 47,22 has LRCAP today. A small escort of older-model Kittyhawks is totally insufficient. No Vengeance makes it through, few of our aircraft make it home. .png) The poor bastard construction battalion at 46,22 gets further mashed by Vengeances - the ones lucky not to be hitting the main front at 47,22 today. .png) Yes, very glad to have slightly shifted our focus today. Those Blenheims would have been Nick meat. .png) These poor guys.. Well, they slowed down an enemy division, maybe. I need all the time I can get up here by Nepal. I’m scrounging every last lovely garrison scrap and rebuilding, shattered unit to send to Cawnpore in an attempt to stem the tide. .png) Ah poo poo. Wellingtons in daylight at 47,22. Unescorted, they’re perfect Nick targets. A dozen make it through to drop their bombs. Pretty horrid. .png) These guys are only mildly scathed. .png) Oops, that’s too high. .png) Continuing to season Milne in preparation for the big cook. .png) These guys are based at Portland Roads. .png) Coastwatchers reported ships docked here. Knew it was probably BS, but I appreciate the port supply hit. .png) Another nine Libs for the port. .png) More dead guys in India. .png) Sprinkling Salamaua a bit more.. I’m beginning to take the offensive in New Guinea. .png) And another drab of bombs for 47,22. All misses. .png) What a juicy little fight! Seven Warhawks breeze into Gove, pick off three enemy fighters, and make it out with a few scratches. .png) But we’re still sweeping empty skies over here. I wonder what he thinks I’m doing? .png) A pair of Airacobras show up late over Gove and confront a fully alerted and staffed CAP. They’re lucky to escape alive. .png) In the Marshalls, Trigger drives off a patrolling Nell with her AA. Another shows up and misses Trigger. .png) No change at Jubbulpore. .png) Or Bangalore. .png) Can I break through here? Should I leave a holding force and use a division to close the trap behind 47,22? .png) The Indian Armoured div is already breaking contact in the hex itself. .png) An AO and an APA on the same day? Lovely, very nice. Summary & Orders .png) I really can't be bleeding Wellington and Vengeance airframes like this. Literally unsustainable. At least new Wellington variants (the B.X among others) are beginning to crop up and supplement our stock. Moonlight is projected to be 89% tonight. I lay in a bunch of night bombing orders across the Pacific. Alikchi fucked around with this message at 11:09 on Nov 21, 2023 |
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Good luck! The air is bloody but it looks like it's starting to stabilize - you seem to be holding your own ratio-wise for now!
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Shouldn't the RAF do flying thing instead of infantry stuff in Bhopal?
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April 16, 1943.png) Moving my sub bases forward to Adak and Midway has enabled us to hug the Japanese coastline for even longer. It’s paying off, lately. .png) Annoying little RO-boat. .png) It’s good to have a sub or two patrolling the route between Truk and Rabaul. Helps keep an eye on his fleet movements, occasionally bequeaths a potshot on something juicy. Today Pollack misses and earns a depth charging for her trouble. .png) Cmon guys. They’re gonna come in in dribs and drabs and this will take forever to screenshot. .png) This scares the hell out of me - Lucknow airfield is crowded and he knows it. Seems like the weather is the only thing that saved us from serious damage here. .png) He has way too much AA at Lunga to make bombing below ~6,000 feet or so viable. Even at night! .png) These three Libs miss too. .png) Late arrivals. .png) Still no night CAP over Rabaul. If I really concentrate my Australia-based heavy bombers I can do some damage there… .png) These tiny little strikes are making zero impact. .png) More damaging than all of the above is a quick little bombardment by the three fastest destroyers in the South Pacific: Fletcher and the two Frenchmen. Those Le Fantasque class destroyers have 5.5 inch guns and 37-knot speeds. They’re perfect for this and will have scurried far away by morning. .png) Morning comes with another failed Japanese sub attack (east of Brisbane this time). Sicard scores a near-miss. .png) Our three destroyers are well on their way to safety. .png) A few scrubbed bombing missions over New Guinea today. .png) Broome. .png) Thunderstorms can’t keep the weight of numbers from telling here. .png) Another wave of Hurricanes, this time against a slightly less sleepy CAP, still pulls out a win. .png) Snooze! He’s not biting, is he. I might fly these guys east to support the Milne operation. .png) This is why he wanted to clear out the airfield at Lucknow. It’s the launchpad for the ongoing Allied Tojo murder spree. .png) The guys being bombed, Gardner’s Horse Regiment, amount to a few dozen Stuarts behind enemy lines. They’re probably doomed - it was clever of me to cut the enemy rail line with them, but I went too deep. Now they’re making a hail-mary run for Patna. .png) Why did I do this?? Well, that’s today’s slaughter. .png) Cold comfort, but a good run. .png) Boomerangs are still too high. .png) When this flock appears with only a single Kittyhawk escorted I brace for another Vengeance massacre. Maybe it’s the weather, but the only losses are to flak, and a Vengeance even nails a Zero with its .30 cal tailgunner - something I don’t think I’ve seen happen before. .png) There’s the second massacre. I really thought I would have cleared out this hex, but six Tojos are enough to nearly wipe this strike out. .png) ChaosDragon posted:Shouldn't the RAF do flying thing instead of infantry stuff in Bhopal? Wellingtons in the continued bad weather vs the enemy dug in around Bhopal. Not very productive, even down at 7000 feet. I think Chaosdragon is right. .png) Blenheims at 6000? Also no effect. .png) The Hurricane lucky day ends at 52,25. .png) This makes me feel marginally better about all the dead Vengeances. .png) Can I stop sending my guys to their deaths over Indore and Nagpur now please? .png) That’s more like it. The Zero is more of a threat than the Tojo today, one brings down our only loss. The bombers get an unobstructed run. .png) A good rule for aerial combat is the same as my bad rule for classroom attendance: “If you’re going to show up late, don’t show up at all.” .png) These two do the smart thing and bug out immediately. .png) A combination of good luck and bad weather avoids casualties here. .png)  Our focus on these hexes - and the enemy’s failure to knock out either Cawnpore or Lucknow - is contributing to these really lopsided kill ratios today. .png) Yes… ha ha ha… yes! .png) PM air phase time. .png) A good start. I haven’t forgotten about 47,22, although I’ve given up on trying to annihilate the IJA troops there by air. The terrain makes it not worth it. At least until they’re surrounded…  … and that’s it in the air. Everyone’s exhausted from their morning effort, I guess. On to the ground combat. .png) Same old grind at Jubbulpore.. I’ve decided my withdrawal here is feigned, not real. But I’ll keep up the feint for a bit longer. I just can’t justify leaving good terrain and forts outside of LRCAP range under any circumstances. Not after what is happening to the poor Americans in central India. .png) It’d be very funny if the Bangalore force survived long enough to be rescued. A pipe dream, but this siege feels like it could go on forever. .png) Great casualties at 47,22 today, despite the failure of my CAS efforts. .png) Yes, I have scratched an airfield out of a dot hex in central India with some fleeing base forces and laborers.  I think I’ll use it to more efficiently evacuate via C-47 and maybe pull off some CAP traps..png) Yes, she’s arrived well ahead of historically scheduled, what of it? Let’s hope I don’t get her sunk in deep water like I did poor Oklahoma.  Summary & Orders .png) Okay. Shooting down all those frontline fighters feels fantastic, and yet. Those Vengeances might have been pieces of poo poo, but they were my ONLY dive bombers in India. I keep talking about how fragile the Commonwealth bomber force is and continue feeding it into the CAP woodchipper. Very frustrating! wedgekree posted:Good luck! The air is bloody but it looks like it's starting to stabilize - you seem to be holding your own ratio-wise for now! But I do come back to this. We're really picking up the pace. code:
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It really doesn't seem right for the allied planes to be so well against Zeros and Tojos...
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Jobbo_Fett posted:It really doesn't seem right for the allied planes to be so well against Zeros and Tojos... These particular Tojo and Zero airgroups are really ground down, I think. Probably both fatigued pilots and airframes. .png) .png) This is one of the most successful airgroups I have at Lucknow right now, the pilots themselves aren't that tired (though they are more tired than I suspect his are), but the planes themselves are just worn out. His aircraft are in similar shape, I'm sure. Add in being outnumbered, fighting near an enemy base, and facing a real threat in the Spit Mk VIII and we have a streak of good days going.
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April 17, 1943.png) Conway and Cony, along with the CL Montpelier, are escorting a couple of tankers (technically, an AO and a TK) to Tabiteuea. .png) With 92% moonlight, that is.. pretty bad. Here comes a big wave of night bombers anyhow! .png) Still no night CAP over Rabaul? Let’s keep poking at him here. That port and airfield are stuffed. .png) These guys at least score a few hits at Guadalcanal. Gonna have to raise their altitude though. .png) Indore and Ahmedabad airfields will be incredibly dangerous to me. Difficult to decide between working on them and bombing the IJA. .png) This trio flies from Portland Roads.. Again, gonna need to up the altitude to avoid getting mauled by flak, even at night. .png) Nice! .png) Six more B-24s… .png) Daylight, finally. That kind of hurts (Trento is carrying supplies). Need to set up a dedicated long-range ASW force for NORPAC and the Canadian west coast. He’s got his big subs with Glens around here. .png) More nothing here. .png) No CAP over Gove?? Is he ditching the place? I am alert. .png) Those Tojos are gonna kill a lot of our bomber pilots if we don’t clear these skies. This Hurricane squadron does poorly. .png) I really thought he’d have more fighters for me to kill about Gove today… .png) I’m surprised none of the Tojo CAP from one hex over leaks into this one. .png) A shame. We’re clawing at a lot of empty air today.. .png) That’s more like it. .png) Our Airacobras have been doing shockingly well lately. .png) Really, really thought I’d score a bunch of kills over Gove today. Blueballs. .png) It’s 1943 and I’m still using Wirraways? On the front line? .png) This is the main reason for all the seemingly fruitless sweeping over Broome. The bombers will grind the garrison down. .png) The next wave is escorted. .png) These fellas are flying too high, actually. .png) Meh. Maybe I’ll put these guys on Indore night bombing duty. .png) Heroes. .png) Nothing still. .png) He’s trying to cut off my theoretical retreat from Ahmedabad with this recon regiment.. Can’t allow that. .png) Nice, but I’m gonna focus on the enemy troops approaching Lucknow next turn. I hope he diverts some fighters to CAP these guys. .png) Ouch. Yeah, I absolutely can’t afford to get my medium bombers slaughtered like I lost all the Vengeances. Gotta be more methodical, more focused. .png) One last Broome sweep. .png) Surprise CAP trap! That will even today’s score a bit. .png) A long flight for one hit. .png) More. I’m starting to think I can work my way into, up and through New Guinea - and avoid the Solomons and New Britain altogether. .png) He gets a smidgen of revenge for those Helens. .png) I wonder when he’ll actually push at Jubbulpore? .png) Bangalore. .png) He’s using mobile units around here to chase down and clean up fragmented units, mostly base forces. .png) 47,22 proper. My AV drops as I push units through and around to encircle the place. .png) More buildup in NW Oz. Port Hedland needs that bigger airstrip! Summary & Orders .png) Hell yeah. I think I’m finally getting a grip on whittling down his fighter force. Lots of dead Tojos lately… code:Alikchi fucked around with this message at 07:53 on Nov 26, 2023 |
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Nov 26, 2023 07:49
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What was the timeline on the Milne Bay invasion? Taking that really gonna strangle his sealanes between the eastern and western theaters
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mercenarynuker posted:What was the timeline on the Milne Bay invasion? Taking that really gonna strangle his sealanes between the eastern and western theaters I can't be precise but it's maybe 2-3 weeks away. I want to concentrate the modern APAs and LST/LCI/LSI(L)s.. all the freshly built 1943 amphibious assault ships, essentially - at Cooktown and the other launch points. The troops and aircraft are all well-prepared.
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How is the overall balance looking as far as CV strength? You’re at a point where the tide is certainly turning in land based air, at least in India, it seems. My impression from other AARs has been that mid ‘43 and beyond Japan starts to really suffer from a lack of armor and marines (and landing craft) such that invasions once they’re ashore are almost impossible to dislodge, even if the naval control can’t be maintained; is that what you’re counting on?
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Velius posted:How is the overall balance looking as far as CV strength? You’re at a point where the tide is certainly turning in land based air, at least in India, it seems. My impression from other AARs has been that mid ‘43 and beyond Japan starts to really suffer from a lack of armor and marines (and landing craft) such that invasions once they’re ashore are almost impossible to dislodge, even if the naval control can’t be maintained; is that what you’re counting on? I'm in a holding pattern until I receive at least a couple of Essexes in the next few months. To be specific, I currently have Enterprise, Hamilton and Scourge for the Americans, and Victorious, Illustrious and Formidable from the RN. Also CVL Hermes, which is literally the only one I've listed that is undamaged and operational. (I am not counting the CVEs Sangamon and Prince William as good for much.) I want to advance as far as I can until land-based cover and only push the naval side under the best circumstances. I've lost too many carriers to gently caress around! April 18, 1943 .png) I’m being very brazen, sending the subs in hugging the Japanese coast like this. It is costly. Sunfish will have to return for repairs, probably. .png) Let the night bombing begin! .png) We just can’t hit Rabaul. Maybe it’s the flak. .png) One hit! .png) Rabaul: no hits. .png) Ever Tojo Counts (™). .png) !!! .png) Well, that makes this a good day. Hake fires four Mark 14s. One is a dud, one misses, but the other two strike home. Ryuho was almost all the way home. A TBF torpedoed her off Lunga on March 30th. After nearly three weeks of limping back, she (probably?) sinks within a day of safety. .png) One silver lining of having most of our surviving carriers in drydock is the number of fleet destroyers freed up for long-range ASW and escort work. .png) Stingray almost makes today a two-blessing day, but BuOrd rips it away. What is Myoko doing down here, anyways? A heavy cruiser in this theater makes me nervous about bombardments. I’ve lost more than enough aircraft that way this year. .png) Sweep arrives first, but there’s nothing to sweep out of the way. The Beaufighters are long gone. .png) Our carefully-husbanded Scythes lead today’s attack on the enemy fighters covering the Guards Tank Div. They do poorly. Starting to think we may have overcorrected in nerfing this fighter. Incidentally, Rex’s Hangar released a good video about this never-built fighter recently (the Scythe is based on the Type 325). .png) No news is good news at Broome. .png) And Milne. .png) Maybe the Scythes softened them up or something? Loosened the Tojos up so the Hurricanes could come over and pop them open? Great result. .png) Predictably, if Hurricanes do great, Spits absolutely slaughter. We’re cooking now. .png) A tentative poke at Gove airspace reveals nothing. Recon is reporting fighters on the ground, though? Weird vibes all around northern Australia lately. .png) I’ve pulled back the P-38s, the RAAF Scythes and Kittyhawks, and other fighters from Groote. More useful elsewhere. .png) Still no Beaufighters for them to kill. .png) !!! I just pulled those fighters from Groote back to get them bombed on the ground here “safe and behind the lines.”  The damage isn’t as bad as it looks. Shocking losses to flak and balloons among the Nells. There are enough engineers in Normanton to fix the place in about fifteen minutes. Let’s see how many frames we actually lost at the end of the turn.. If those damaged numbers are accurate, losing the Lightnings and Liberators for a while will hurt. .png) Missing Gardner’s Horse. .png) Oh that hurts and slows me down. This is much more concerning to me than that Nell Normanton hit. Gotta rejigger the CAP. .png) Back to absolutely killing them over the Guards tankers. Lost one P-40 in this engagement. .png) This really is a good day. No hits, but he’s on notice. More Beauforts are coming. When I have Milne, I’ll have three great airbases for more torpedo bombers and whatnot. .png) Nice casualties here, but I should have had them dropping torpedoes off New Guinea with the others. .png) I brace for a Beaufort massacre but the Nicks just let us breeze on through. Cool! .png) Daylight + 5,000 feet = finally getting results out of the Boomerang. Mediocre results, but still. .png) Good of the Vengeance squadron to wait until the coast was well and truly clear before launching their strike. .png) It’s nice to not lose a pile of them. .png) Yes, good! .png) I cannot wait to replace these guys with Wellingtons. .png) Gotta keep Milne fully suppressed and eating up supplies on repairs. .png) He hits right back with yet another massed Nell raid, this time to Cooktown. But there’s not much there to blow up. Great damage to the airfield, and supplying Cooktown is somewhat annoying, it being off the railroad network. But again.. Let’s see how much damage there actually is. .png) Another wave. If they’d sent a squadron or two on port attack, they could have done my Milne plans serious harm. I get off easy today. For the rest of the day, sweeps over Gove and the Guards Tank div approaching Lucknow all find nothing to engage. .png) Protagonist of reality USS Lapon continues her frolicking. This time no duds, honest misses. .png) Poor Trento fails to limp back to Vancouver and goes down. .png) Jubbulpore. .png) Sucks. This was a decent unit with a fair number of Stuarts and I frittered them away on an end-run to nowhere. .png) Bangalore. .png) Kinda funny watching tank regiments chase these useless little fragments around. .png) 47,22. Summary & Orders .png) .png) Friendly little haul of ships today. .png) Normanton is fine! .png) Cooktown will take longer than 2 days to repair. code:
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I don't know how to properly describe how I feel about the plane the scythe is based on being designed as a twin engine fighter with guns entirely in the wingtips instead of the centerline. It's just doing things I don't like inside my skull.
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