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Molon Labe · 06-23-22, 01:10 PM

2 February 1943

Burma
The night fighters at Lashio had their hands full as bad weather fragmented waves of Nicks and medium bombers. Fortunately the weather also hampered the accuracy of the bombers, the base was essentially undamaged. One Nick was shot down by flak, the Beaufighters shot down one Sally.

During the day there was an ongoing fight for air superiority over our base. It look place mostly at high altitude, to my advantage, and it appears to me that his pilots here still aren't up to the task. We lost 1 P-40 that was baited into engaging away from the base--it got into a 2-on-1 but still shot down one of those Oscars. But overall, we got 9 Oscars and 6 Zeroes for just that single loss.

My opponent contacted me after the turn to discuss an altitude restriction house rule to try to stop these lopsided losses. I'd really rather not do this--at the Matrix forums, altitude restrictions are popular with many players, but the really experienced ones all say they're unnecessary because players that just put their planes as high as they'll go are likely to just send their planes against an enemy with superior performance at altitude, and likewise if your planes are better lower, you can keep them low and bait the enemy down. So I responded with a graphic of the altitude matchup between the Oscar and Hurricane, which clearly shows the Oscar at a greater advantage the lower the altitude--then asked him why he was sweeping at 38,000ft per the combat reports. We'll see where that goes.

Indian Ocean
A destroyer escorting reinforcements to Columbo spotted an enemy sub; the sub fired 6 torpedoes at the destroyer and missed; the destroyer inflicted moderate depth charge damage on the sub before it lost contact.

Solomons
There's a convoy of at least 4 ships, unclassified, approaching the Solomons from the north. I'm moving some somewhat-well-trained Beaufort squadrons to Milne and Rossel Island--if they approach Shortlands or Guadalcanal either them, or Avengers and Beaufighters, might get a shot at them, especially with the enemy fighters in the area under severe pressure from my P-38 sweeps.

After taking a few days off to reduce the enemy fighter presence at Guadalcanal, I've ordered bombing to resume starting tomorrow. No enemy fighters came up to greet my P-38s today.

06-23-22, 01:10 PM	#577
Molon Labe Silent Hunter Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Along the Watchtower Posts: 3,810 Downloads: 27 Uploads: 5	2 February 1943 Burma The night fighters at Lashio had their hands full as bad weather fragmented waves of Nicks and medium bombers. Fortunately the weather also hampered the accuracy of the bombers, the base was essentially undamaged. One Nick was shot down by flak, the Beaufighters shot down one Sally. During the day there was an ongoing fight for air superiority over our base. It look place mostly at high altitude, to my advantage, and it appears to me that his pilots here still aren't up to the task. We lost 1 P-40 that was baited into engaging away from the base--it got into a 2-on-1 but still shot down one of those Oscars. But overall, we got 9 Oscars and 6 Zeroes for just that single loss. My opponent contacted me after the turn to discuss an altitude restriction house rule to try to stop these lopsided losses. I'd really rather not do this--at the Matrix forums, altitude restrictions are popular with many players, but the really experienced ones all say they're unnecessary because players that just put their planes as high as they'll go are likely to just send their planes against an enemy with superior performance at altitude, and likewise if your planes are better lower, you can keep them low and bait the enemy down. So I responded with a graphic of the altitude matchup between the Oscar and Hurricane, which clearly shows the Oscar at a greater advantage the lower the altitude--then asked him why he was sweeping at 38,000ft per the combat reports. We'll see where that goes. Indian Ocean A destroyer escorting reinforcements to Columbo spotted an enemy sub; the sub fired 6 torpedoes at the destroyer and missed; the destroyer inflicted moderate depth charge damage on the sub before it lost contact. Solomons There's a convoy of at least 4 ships, unclassified, approaching the Solomons from the north. I'm moving some somewhat-well-trained Beaufort squadrons to Milne and Rossel Island--if they approach Shortlands or Guadalcanal either them, or Avengers and Beaufighters, might get a shot at them, especially with the enemy fighters in the area under severe pressure from my P-38 sweeps. After taking a few days off to reduce the enemy fighter presence at Guadalcanal, I've ordered bombing to resume starting tomorrow. No enemy fighters came up to greet my P-38s today. __________________