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[Zrk2]

Wait wait wait. Assuming standard operating procedure is the same that I am familiar with, that is:
1. Start on a striaght east heading
2. Rotate counter clockwise until you reach the desired angle.

Then you are sailing into Korea? Wat?

[Erkki]

Wait wait wait. Assuming standard operating procedure is the same that I am familiar with, that is:
1. Start on a striaght east heading
2. Rotate counter clockwise until you reach the desired angle.

Then you are sailing into Korea? Wat?

In navigation, 0 is north, 360 degrees is full circle, rotated clockwise.

Not the same as unit circle... 

[Anvilfolk]

Ooooooh, anticipation anticipation!

[Zrk2]

So south-east. Are we invading Australia early, or is there some sort of convoy we are crushing?

[Erkki]

May 4th


DEI: Soerekaja falls, infantry advances...

Other news:

Allies admit to have lost AP William Ward Burrows on December 12th 1941 some 500nm South of Oahu. Reported cause is said to be a 250kg SAP bomb. That report shouldnt have any FOW in it, but it doesnt make any sense - KB was not there that day(or the day before) and I have no reports of that ship or ships of the same class attacked at all, let alone by Japanese carrier aircraft! And if it was attacked and hit by a naval search plane and I wasn't reported, how come a single 250kg bomb, if it even was that big and not a 60kg one from an E14A or some other float plane, sunk a 4,000 ton ship, presuming it wasnt carrying, if they even can, fuel as cargo?

CV Junyo arrives to Combined Fleet's OOB tomorrow. Who had her captain?

[Sheb]

I did.

[Hanzoku]

Could she have run into a mine and had the resulting damage be misreported? Can your opponent release false information or is the news entirely game-driven?

[Erkki]

Could she have run into a mine and had the resulting damage be misreported? Can your opponent release false information or is the news entirely game-driven?

They're game driven...


April 5th

Another silent day, only losses to either side are some poor Chinese infantrymen to a Japanese bombers near Nanning.

Home Islands: CV Junyo arrives! Her airgroups come with fully trained pilots, average experiences are randomized pretty high at 77(Zeros), 83(D3As) and 79(B5N). CVE Unyo will meet Junyo tomorrow near Nagasaki and they'll then receive some escorts and head to Singapore. Captain CPT Shizue Ishii(Sheb) is a very experienced and aggressive naval commander but commanding a carrier and its air wings is new to him(leadership 59, inpiration 54, naval 70, air 51, aggressiveness 69). Hes the best free man available for the job, though.

SigInt: CL Durban is confirmed not sunk but is still in service. I didnt think she was down, not an Allied cruiser after just 3 250kg bomb hits...

[Erkki]

Merry xmas, everyone!


April 6th


Another fairly silent day.

Kido Butai: starts looking for prey tomorrow...

Home Islands: the Allied submarines in the area are staying out of the South China Sea's shallow water hexes and south of all the Japanese traffic, I'm satisfied with the naval search as they sighted multiple Allied submarines today. No attacks on them though. All air search and AASW units in the area have received well trained ASW aircrew by yesterday, and I'd like to have some results. Not expecting to kill more than a handful or less submarines with air attacks over the course of the game, but I hope they can make the Allies afraid of losses and move their submarines away.

[Erkki]

April 7th

Once again, another silent day.


Burma: The forward-deployed bombers at Chittacong are Westland Lysanders... Lol.

DEI: Madioen falls on Java and another base tomorrow. Allies are evacuating the last of their aircraft... Dunno where, they have few to no bases in range and they are not flying via at least Ambon, Denpasar or Mataram. Maybe the units are being disbanded?

Kido Butai: KB is still unsighted by the enemy and now looking for fresh prey. I dont expect contacts tomorrow but the day after anything is possible and enemy contact is almost guaranteed in 4 days. CV Junyo and CVE Unyo will leave Nagasaki in 2 days.

[Sheb]

What kind of ennemy contact?

[Zrk2]

What kind of ennemy contact?

The plot thickens...

[Erkki]

April 8th

Japanese troops advance on Java. Japanese submarine RO-66 sights a force of 4 destroyers near Brisbane and is damaged by depth charge attack.


April 9th


Kido Butai: American Catalina flying boat violates the airspace over the fleet and is shot down by PO2. Shiga V. from CV Hiryu, making it his 3rd victory. Kido Butai's position unfortunately is now revealed, right between Hawaii and Palmyra, 440 nautical miles from the closest island. I hate how good the Allied air search is compared to Japanese... KB will now keep sailing East in hopes of catching some slower convoys on route from San Francisco/LA/Hawaii to Palmyra, Baker, Fiji/Pago Pago and Australia/NZ, but I'm not holding my breath. Quite a lot of fuel burned to kill a Catalina.

Other than that, nothing...

[Hanzoku]

Awwww, too bad. Still, Smulders may be forgetful and leave a nice fat target unprotected!

If nothing else, you can try an air raid on Hawaii on the way back.

[Erkki]

Awwww, too bad. Still, Smulders may be forgetful and leave a nice fat target unprotected!

If nothing else, you can try an air raid on Hawaii on the way back.

Yep. If KB achieves nothing else I might be able to trigger a mass-exodus to North and North East over the submarine screen and get in a hit or 2... And with some luck he decides to attack KB and we get to attrit Allied strike aircraft and bombers without receiving hits. He SHOULD be aware that the fleet hes now looking at cannot be the full KB(which it isnt, Kaga, Ryujo, Junyo and Unyo are elsewhere, but still we have 500+ aircraft....).