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[Sheb]

Just read your last post. You're going to invade Australia? Yes, awesome, do it!

[Erkki]

April 20th


East Indies: 3rd day now the attack achieves 6:1 odds but the Dutch wont retreat... They have retreat path open to 3 hexes, one of them being a base(Bandoeng). Why dont they retreat?

South Pacific: 70 Netties hit Townville's airfield - they score 7 runway hits and damage an SBD... lol. PO2 Nishiura P did not fly.


kickingbottom: Takenaka V. in 54th Sentai Detachment A, squadron (12) strong IJAAF fighter unit. This unit has been in China but has not seen any real action yet... Takenaka and 2 other pilots are on their way to the unit that transfers to Bangkok in Burma today. They are ordered to to do training until their next orders arrive within 3 weeks... The same airfield has also 11th Sentai, a full group of Zeroes, 30 transport planes and over 70 bombers.

[Erkki]

Just read your last post. You're going to invade Australia? Yes, awesome, do it!

Preparations will need some time.. Darwin is protected by many DC guns and while the garrison is small, unprepared troops will take lots of losses in the landing... And we need a BB or 2 for shell sponges. I'd say 2 months and we have both the actual attack units as well as the operational "basis"(Java, Timor, Celebes) ready, prepared and built up.


April 21st


A very silent day.

East Indies: That small Dutch airfield support battalion just wont retreat... I'm giving up and ordering attack at Bandoeng tomorrow. I hope them to not retreat but to hold until the next, shock, attack, in hopes of mounting as many casualties as possible.

South Pacific: Tulagi hits AF size 4. 36 G4Ms of Kanoya Ku K-1(with PO2 Nishiura P, Burnt Pies) are flown in. We now have the whole area under torpedo-Netty deterrent...

Tomorrow we'll test the Allied air defenses in Burma with a raid of 150+ Hayabusas and 60 bombers to Dacca.

[Erkki]

And the war continues

April 22nd


Burma: Weather grounds Japanese bombers.

East Indies: Bandoeng falls! 38,500 Allied troops die or surrender. Dili on Timor is also invaded, no garrison so will fall tomorrow.

South Pacific: I-123 attacks, hits and sinks an Allied APD near Sydney. This must have been the same convoy of converted Clemson DDs that already lost one of its number near Los Angeles. 

Home Islands:

R&D advanced A6M3, 4 factories move on to A6M3a(5 ready ones now) while the last one will become a production plant early May.

Also, I decided to move more troops to Kuriles. Paramushiro-Jima now has 225 AV, a Fortress, an aviation support unit and some ships(including 2 battleships). Onnekotan Jima is the next one to Hokkaido, and has now 2 Marine units worth 75 raw AW - we're moving 75 more and an aviation support unit to build fortifications and the field. Paramushiro is forts level 2,95 and I think we will soon be able to withstand almost any sneaky Allied attack that might come up there.

[Erkki]

April 23rd

A fine day.


Burma: IJAAF and IJNAF bombers hit Dacca's AF hard. No planes reported hit on the ground. We will now move the bombers back and increase number of fighters... We have 30 Zeros and 120 Ki-43s protecting Magwe's oil wells and another 50 Ki-43s protecting Rangoon's port.

East Indies: Dili falls and Dutchmen retreated on Java. There cant be more than 50 AV's worth of Allied troops on the whole island any more vs. 3,000 Japanese. I'll have to find our troops better things to do, but first they'll rest.

Submarines:

I-153 reports floatation repairs failing... But it wasnt damaged or hit before today? Its near Timor now and while the damage isnt heavy, its heading home.

Near Hawaii, the submarine screen finally achieves something when I-169 finds a convoy with a single escort destroyer, a huge tanker and lots of probably fuel-carrying xAKs. The TK is hit, its fuel cargo burns and the ship sinks. They're heading towards Pearl and will have to pass the second line of submarines next night phase - I hope the very good detection level will help and we get at least one more hit in.

[Anvilfolk]

Exactly what happens when you hit the airfield/runway/etc? Does the level simply go down, or is there a separate damage rating?

Also, HAH, take that, tankers! My hope is that the same thing won't happen to mine

[Erkki]

Exactly what happens when you hit the airfield/runway/etc? Does the level simply go down, or is there a separate damage rating?

Also, HAH, take that, tankers! My hope is that the same thing won't happen to mine

When attacking an airfield, its possible to hit the runway, airbase, supply depots, parked aircraft as well as troops in the base. Once the runway damage gets high enough, planes cant fly(damage depends on number of hits, what bombs, how big field(s) and how quickly the engineers can repair - field thats closed on AM phase might be operational by PM phase). Base hits result in "service damage" which effects maintenance and repair rates. Supply depot hits destroy 1% of the base supply... Each hit 1% of whats remaining after previous hits, that. Hits on planes depend on the size of field and how many planes there are, and may destroy or damage(up to write-off damage) planes, even kill or wound pilots and effect air groups' morale and fatigue. Hits and damage depend on a lot of stuff, including attack altitude, amount and type of AAA, bomber skill, were they intercepted before bombing runs etc. just about anything one can think that would effect it.

[Erkki]

April 24th


Burma: Nothing happens. Within a week we'll have the 3rd wave of support unit reinforcements unloaded from ships and railed to their stations. Magwe and nearby bases have almost 200 fighters and some more within a week + Rangoon area another 60 fighters. As soon as we'll get some Ki-44s and Ki-45s there. I say, let 'em come.

East Indies: Japanese troops advance towards Djokjarta and Meiktila. Half of Java is now in Japanese control.

South Pacific: I-10's E14Y has sighted some Allied warships at Suva, Fiji, yesterday and today. I-10 and RO-61(Kicior) on station nearby.

Home Islands: Kawasaki Ha-60 R&D advances this engine to August 1942. We'll get to produce the engine well before the planes they go into(Ki-61s) become available.

Now, let me introduce the IJNAF's Crash Squadron. These guys have flown from day one, well behind the lines too, their F1M mere 3 hex missions, and have crashed a LOT considering its just 6 plane squadron, no enemy contact, ever, and the fatigue is low with a reasonably good leader.



10 crashes in 140 turns makes crash every 2 weeks... If they fly, say, 4 sorties a day(3*2 minus those canceled by weather, sortie numbers of surviving pilots seem to support that approx figure), that means these guys(pilots are fairly skilled too BTW, no fresh replacements in my search and patrol units any more!) are able to crash their plane once in every 56 sorties. With 4 KIA guys and 1 WIA it means every time these guys take off they have about 1% chance to die or get seriously injured... Would you buy a ticket? []

[Sheb]

Why did you black out some stuff?

[Erkki]

Why did you black out some stuff?

Because I used the same image on the WitPAE forums...

[Zrk2]

...So?

[Anvilfolk]

It would be an intelligence leak of untold magnitude!

I am starting to doubt your devotion to the Emperor. Please do your best!

[Sheb]

No, I mean, if he used it on his thread on the WiTP:AE forum, it doesn't matter, since almost all of his move are there already. I guess he used it on another thread.

[Erkki]

No, I mean, if he used it on his thread on the WiTP:AE forum, it doesn't matter, since almost all of his move are there already. I guess he used it on another thread.

Yeah, that was the intention. Everything regarding this game outside the AAR threads gets the classified information scissored out. Including where the naval search units are based at...

[Erkki]

April 25th

Not much to report. Paramushiro-Jima in the Kuriles hit forts level 3. For now I'll send some 450 AV worth of troops + 2 aviation support battalions in the Kuriles, on Paramushiro and Onnekotan islands.

First day for over a month when not a single aircraft is lost, not even as an operational loss which we typically suffer about 4 every day...