An Idiots Guide To Losing Your CV's Before 1942: WiTP:AE KyzBP vs UCG

[JasonPratt]

Seals and snow apes.

The horror of their splatting created a morale drop in the island between, so they surrendered to avoid the coming horror.



>:D

[KyzBP]

Damn KyzBP. You bombed Hokkaido so hard Etorofu surrendered! What the hell did you drop on them? I think I would've had to claim that was my plan all along.  ^-^

Maybe by bombing Japan, Hokkaido will surrender as well. ;)

Seals and snow apes.

The horror of their splatting created a morale drop in the island between, so they surrendered to avoid the coming horror.

>:D

As good an explaination as any.

[Sir Slash]

I'm thinking poor Geekamoto will get a migraine trying to figure out how your Stealth Marines captured one of his islands.  ;D

[KyzBP]

I'm thinking poor Geekamoto will get a migraine trying to figure out how your Stealth Marines captured one of his islands.  ;D

My "Leaflet" squadron can be very persuasive.  ;)

[Excroat3]

Is there some sort of option that shows the total losses during the war for you, KyzBP?

[KyzBP]

Is there some sort of option that shows the total losses during the war for you, KyzBP?

Welcome, Excroat3!  Yes there is.  In the upcoming days I'll post some of the losses for both UCG and I.  Any losses in particular you want to see?

[Excroat3]

Nope, just curious!

[FarAway Sooner]

Geek has a lost a bunch of airplanes.  KyzBP has lost a bunch of islands.

Is Australia an island?

[KyzBP]

Geek has a lost a bunch of airplanes.  KyzBP has lost a bunch of islands.

Is Australia an island?

I'm hoping to take a couple of REALLY big islands from Geek. 

[KyzBP]

April 16th, 1942

Transports at Rockhampton.

No surprise that they were all empty.  But the DD's cleared the way for these guys:

I wish I knew to what extent "damaged" was, well, damaged.  Are those planes going to be out for a day, a week?
Will they be cannibalized?  Will Some of them never be repaired.  Initially the damage looks great.  It just doesn't
seem to stick.

Minor surface engagement at Sorong.

When I thought Darwin might be the target I sent every ship in port in every direction.  Some of the AK's took supplies
and escorts with them.  The already beaten-up DD Piet Hein was sent to Sorong along with an AKL to resupply Sorong
and then to proceed to Pearl.  Geek's random tanker escort just happened upon the Piet Hein.  If she stays afloat, I'll try
to get her to either Canton or Pearl.  I don't think any of the hits Geeks ships took are life threatening.

Bombing Bundberg.


Huh? No CAP today? Weird.  Maybe Geek's CAP is based at Rockham. ;)

This is the current match up at Bundaberg.

I'd love to send him fleeing from here except he has higher Attack Values.  I'm better off just letting him crash into my
troops for awhile.  As long as I don't lose Bunda I'll be alright here.

Transports sunk near Sumatra.

$$%^@#!&^$% >:( >:(

Bombing Kushiro.

I want to make sure the airfields are unusable and then we're going to start hitting the troops.

Nanning falls.

Remember, I have China under control.

Geek's transports are beginning their decent into Australia.

It looks like they may be angling towards Geraldton.  I won't know for sure until tomorrow.  My bombers should be in
range as well.  Hang on.  This is about to get real interesting.

[KyzBP]

April 17th, 1942

AK battles a sub.

This is one of the random ships I sent away from Darwin.  She manages to get some hit's on the sub but she ultimately
slips beneath the waves.  It looks like Geek has/had the narrow waters around Horn Is. covered.  Early in the war I put
subs in the exact same location and I don't remember them attacking a single Geekanese vessel.

Dive bombers at AM intercepted.

I got complacent thinking Geek had given up on the air war at AM.  That mistake cost me about half of my carrier
based dive bombers. Since Geek threw almost 90 fighters at me, I'm going to up my air efforts and also begin a campaign
to clear the airfields on Hokkaido.  That's going to take some time because, well, he has 90(+) fighters now and I don't
have the range (yet) to escort my bombers over his airfields.  I do have a few surface ships floating around though...

B-25's attack a tanker.

I have my few remaining aircraft around Siberoet set to Naval Attack.  They've been randomly attacking targets of
opportunity all around Sumatra and Singapore.  They just weren't hitting anything.  The B-25's that I sent over
from Tjilatjap on Java immediately went to work.  I need more of these guys.

Bombing Bundagrad

We flew another 6 to 8 missions over and around Bundaberg.  There has been little to no CAP present and we seem
to take out about 150-200 troops each day.  I'm sure Geek is waiting for his reinforcements before attempting to
retake Bundaberg.  I think I'm renaming it Bundagrad before some Russian city starts copyrighting the whole
"Grad" fad.

Another sub is hit at Canton.

The subs at Canton are the Bards of this game.  The Bard reference if from The Gamers: Dorkness Rising.  If you've
never seen it you owe it to yourself to watch it.  These subs just won't go away.  I hit one, kill one and another pops
right back up.  I'm going to bring in some better ASW ships and see if we can't just clear Canton once and for all.

4E's attack transports off Geraldton.

And miss.  This is the first attack on Geek's transports.  There was no CAP, I guess he didn't really need any.  These
ships should be much closer next turn.  I figure I have 2 more turns before they land somewhere so I desperately need
to score some hits.  Perth is as ready as she's going to get.  I can't fit another plane at Perth.  In 2 days we'll have some answers.

As requested, here are 2 screens showing some of the aircraft and ship losses.


What's kind of funny is Operational Losses for the Zero are higher than Combat Losses.  Maybe it does model the
attitude of the Japanese ground crew after all.

[JasonPratt]

Zounds! (For Easter...  8) ) If he throws 55 Oscars at you, I guess it doesn't matter that they're like monowing Sopwith Camels, huh.

[KyzBP]

Zounds! (For Easter...  8) ) If he throws 55 Oscars at you, I guess it doesn't matter that they're like monowing Sopwith Camels, huh.

Enough ants can take down any animal. :(

[Airborne Rifles]

Geek has lost a lot of DDs! But then, you already knew that  ;D

[KyzBP]

April 18th, 1942

Bihoro bombarded.

So much for revenge.  He's apparently not using Bihoro to launch attacks.  We'll try another field next turn and keep
bombarding fields until we find the right one.  If he has to keep moving his fighters around then he can't launch attacks
with them.  I haven't seen any bombers but I know he has a crap ton of them.  He's been hitting Wuchow with about 200
a day so they're not too far away.

Bombarding Attu.

Nothing more than harassment/recon by fire.  The game lets me know which unit I'm bombarding so it helps knowing
what I'm dealing with should I decide to retake Attu.  That doesn't seem like a priority right now.

Dutch sub at Japan.

He managed to hit an "E" boat/ship.  I have no idea what that is.  I'd rather he take aim at tankers and AP's.

Geek planes over Bundagrad.


Looks like a pretty even exchange.  I sent my best fighters to Perth so this could get a little sketchy for awhile.

We retort.



We have to find a way to take bigger bites out of his troops before they collect themselves a take the "B".  We won't
get a back for awhile if he pushes us out.  My best troops also headed to Perth.  I figure my troops can consolidate once
Geek pushes me back to Melbourne.

Chinese take Kweiyang.

I told you guys I have this China thing under control.  Here's the bigger picture:

The Geek unit NW of Kunming is Geek's super stack.  There's about 500K troops in that stack.  My 400k stack at
Chungking just sent 200k to retake Kweiyang, effectively cutting off Geek's super stack from it's supplies.  That's
A LOT of mouths to feed by living off the land.  If he keeps the stack intact, then I'll continue to follow him and retake
everything he just took.  His stack will continue to weaken until it turns to dust.  If he splits his stack to keep me from
following then I'll just bombard the bejesus out of his troops until they are weak and supply-less.  Then we just roll through
him.  India and Burma should be ok.

Butuan reoccupied.

The remnant troops begin their reconquest of the rear areas.  It doesn't appear Geek left anything behind so I'll try
to grab as many "free" points as I can.  Every little bit may help.

Hudsons hit transports.

Day 2.  Now we're getting somewhere.  It wasn't much in the way of units lost but it shows we can hit them.

4E's go after the carriers.

Damn it.  That would have been spectacular.  Trying to hit a ship from 10,000 feet though, is a lot to ask.  All we have
to do is get lucky once.  I know Geek has to sweating bullets.  Invasions are incredibly tense for both sides, especially
when so much is on the line.

SBD's go after some Battleships.

No luck here either.  Here's where I really wish I could manually prioritize targets.  I'd much rather be wasting ordinance
on transports.

New development:  Perth may not be the target!

That image doesn't look like an invasion force descending into Perth.  It looks more like he's trying to skirt Perth!
F me!  I'm going to stay at it for another turn but if he's not landing troops on this side then the wheels are about to come off
Australia.