SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - View Single Post - War in the Pacific AAR Thread: ML (Japan) vs. Leo (Allies)

Molon Labe · 11-11-23, 09:20 PM

6 March 1942
Heavy losses over Australia

Java and Banda Sea
We lost another AKL to a sub, this time off Koepang. That ship was intended to pick up some SNLF troops to land on Dili.

We got even, picking off an AKL off Darwin.

SOPAC
The American destroyer Porter shelled Ndeni. We really don't have anything there anymore.

Now for the bad news. I divided my attacks up again between Melbourne and Geelong. The Geelong mission was cancelled. I had one squadron of Zeroes escorting each strike, so the Melbourne strike flew with just one squadron of escorts, and the enemy CAP only had to deal with the one package. So that was a 12 Zeroes vs 17 P-40 fight when is should have been something more like two 12 v 8 fights. We shot down 2 P-40s but several made it to the bombers. We lost 12 Kates. We did a second sortie, this time with even numbers between the Zeroes and P-40s, still enough to let a couple P-40s through; 4 more Kates went down.

The strikes hit 5 more ships, with a confirmed sinking of a transport, two other merchants likely to have sunk. Overall I think I sank about a dozen ships between all these strikes. It might be significantly more because there were several loaded tankers that we ignited on day 1 that didn't seem very damaged, but we didn't see them there for the second day.

These losses mean it's time to go, though. I'm also pretty sure the enemy is forming up a wall of subs to greet me on my way out, and the longer I stay the thicker that wall is going to be. I'm heading south around Tasmania while sending the Zeroes back to sweep Melbourne. This should help reduce their numbers a bit so I can hit Sydney on the way out.

China
Another attack on the Nanyang stack, and although we didn't break through this time, we did get the most disproportionate loss ratio so far, with just 7 devices destroyed for us, but 282 of his, and adjusted assault ratio of 1.35 to 1, which is really close to an overrun. The next one might finally do it. On paper, this force is down to 56,000. I think it used to be something like 130k!

11-11-23, 09:20 PM	#35
Molon Labe Silent Hunter Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Along the Watchtower Posts: 3,810 Downloads: 27 Uploads: 5	6 March 1942 Heavy losses over Australia Java and Banda Sea We lost another AKL to a sub, this time off Koepang. That ship was intended to pick up some SNLF troops to land on Dili. We got even, picking off an AKL off Darwin. SOPAC The American destroyer Porter shelled Ndeni. We really don't have anything there anymore. Now for the bad news. I divided my attacks up again between Melbourne and Geelong. The Geelong mission was cancelled. I had one squadron of Zeroes escorting each strike, so the Melbourne strike flew with just one squadron of escorts, and the enemy CAP only had to deal with the one package. So that was a 12 Zeroes vs 17 P-40 fight when is should have been something more like two 12 v 8 fights. We shot down 2 P-40s but several made it to the bombers. We lost 12 Kates. We did a second sortie, this time with even numbers between the Zeroes and P-40s, still enough to let a couple P-40s through; 4 more Kates went down. The strikes hit 5 more ships, with a confirmed sinking of a transport, two other merchants likely to have sunk. Overall I think I sank about a dozen ships between all these strikes. It might be significantly more because there were several loaded tankers that we ignited on day 1 that didn't seem very damaged, but we didn't see them there for the second day. These losses mean it's time to go, though. I'm also pretty sure the enemy is forming up a wall of subs to greet me on my way out, and the longer I stay the thicker that wall is going to be. I'm heading south around Tasmania while sending the Zeroes back to sweep Melbourne. This should help reduce their numbers a bit so I can hit Sydney on the way out. China Another attack on the Nanyang stack, and although we didn't break through this time, we did get the most disproportionate loss ratio so far, with just 7 devices destroyed for us, but 282 of his, and adjusted assault ratio of 1.35 to 1, which is really close to an overrun. The next one might finally do it. On paper, this force is down to 56,000. I think it used to be something like 130k! __________________