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Originally Posted by Ostfriese
And it starts with numbering the year 
Sorry, couldn't resist. Hope you can solve your technical problems soon. |
Ha. Thanks for calling me out on that.
We're still super inconsistent. And my reporting's been slow...wow, April 10th since I was last here. Yeah, my life got a little crazy the last 2 weeks.
3-4 January 194
3 has been pretty uneventful. What is noteworthy is that he's got carriers back near Babar again but it doesn't look like the whole KB anymore (confirmed: Hiryu, Zuikaku, Hiyo). They supported the landing of additional troops, the "A" 1/3 of the 14th Division. Despite the air protection, my Beaufighters got at that troopship and hit it pretty hard. It hit the beach burning and probably sank after delivering its troops, minus however many died on board. The extra troops have started attacking and have taken my forts down from level 3 to level 2. And the carriers are preventing resupply.
Oh, and my SBDs tried to hit their CVBG, and this time the Wildcats didn't bother flying escorts. Had some help from P-38s on patrol over Babar, but I ended up losing 23 SBDs--completely unsustainable losses that, added up with prior losses are going to deplete my reserves. Fighter losses in that fight were 18 to 7 in my favor, so at least I had that going for me--and against his best pilots.