You should see the Sen Toku. It can carry three planes and travel around the world 1 and a half times!

Do you get access to the I-400 class in this campaign?

They go into service long after it ends, I believe.

Ah, alright thank you Raptor1!

Also, I'm surprised at how long the campaign is. Reading this AAR I was under the assumption it was almost over :haha: Now that my worries that the action will not stop anytime soon means I can sit back and stop trying to find other AARs similar to this :D

:haha:....Yeah, when I started my GC as the Allies, I was freaking out because I was getting reports of Japanses aircraft here - there - everywhere. It took me a little while to figure out that even the IJN didn't have THAT many carriers.

My subs provide very little intel. It seems they have to stumble accross fleets at sea; no special recon missions. Advantage Japan. :-?

I'd hope in any AE2 we'd get Allied subs able to carry out harbour recon as one of it's mission types. Heck, if they can code it so that a sub in the same hex as an enemy base that your bombning can act as lifeguard and pick up shot down pilots, I'm sure they could do this.

Is there anything suckier than being back at work after Christmas? :nope:

Being back in school :haha:

Like you'd find anyone else willing to write so much inept, paranoid gibberish. Got that market covered. :DL

I'm looking forward to readinig CCIP's thread when we're finished. I expect far higher production standards than sticking up a picture of A Glaswegian Yamamoto twice in a row and hoping no one asks me for a royalty.

9th Oct

Very quiet today. weather continues to affect KB1. I'll leave her out one more day and then bring her back.


Some aircraft totals for you:

http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/3780/totalsi.jpg

I'm quite amazed by the amount of carrier based aircraft CCIP appears to have lost. A pile of the ground losses for both would have been because of the Yamato strike, but it's the A2A figures that strike me. I'm also slightly surprised that he seems to have lost more Wildcats than I've lost Zeroes in dogfights. I also notice the very high figure for Ops losses for the Wildcats. Also worth noting is that I haven't seen any P39s for a while. All their losses came early. has he upgraded them to something else?

Subs

Turns out I only have one C1 class sub, the I-16. She's back at Rabaul and will take in a mini sub with a view for sea trials. I have two prospective targets...

According to the stockpile figures, I have about 140 of the Sub carried type 88 mines but, try as I can, I can't seem to get any subs to carry them. When I create a Sub Minelaying task force it tells me the sub already has mines loaded, but when I then check, it shows as empty. I'm doing something wrong but I don't know what. The manual hasn't been much help. I have more than enough Naval support at Rabaul, and the port size is good enough to rearm Yamato so I don't know what the problem is. Wrong type of subs? Are they only specific classes again? Or do I need a sub tender (which I don't have available)? I'm wondering whether it's a bug? I never seemed to have this problem with Allied subs.

I have other problems too. I am running into a wall with regards to fuel. I just can't get enough to the fleet to keep things going. it's not a question of shipping either, I have plenty of fleet oilers and tankers. It's simply that I cannot produce enough to keep up with demand. By the time tankers get back to Truk and reload, Rabaul is empty again and getting a chain of them working is proving hard as there is rarely enough fuel to load up more than one or two medium sized convoys at a time. The Battleships drain fuel like a Japanese soldier goes through cheese sandwiches. I'm going to have to cut back on any ops lasting more than a day or so. It's too costly just now and I need a stockpile for amphibious ops.

In case anyone's interested in how the above method works in practice, the silence ended with a big bang :D

According to intel the AI came with four CVs and CVE. Sara, Wasp and Enterprise, operating in the configuration described above, performed extremely well. I messed up my movement calculations and entered combat earlier than expected, with CAPs at only 30, but they still repulsed enemy strikes with damage done only to Enterprise. All three then responded with big strikes of their own, resulting in Shokaku, Zuikaku, two covering CAs and a DD received extremely heavy damage. Attempts to pursue them and confirm the sinkings were unsuccessful, but the reported damage was heavy enough for them to be effectively out of the scenario, if not sunk. On my side Big E will probably be out for a month or so, while the other CVs are undamaged.

Nice! Taking out carriers is the most satisfying feeling in the game.

I would recommend to strike Tulagi and Guadalcanal with the mini-subs first then moving on to bigger targets like Sydney or Fremantle.

:haha: That's probably why I enjoy reading your AAR so much. Makes me realize how many different possibilities are open.

Well, i don't have much intel of anything worthwhile at either Tulagi or Lunga just now. At best there might be one of the ships I hit with the carriers at anchor but, to be honest, I don't think it's worth the hassle to waste a minisub on it.

Sydney is definately a possible target. Freemantle, unfortunately, is off-map in this scenario (being a west Oz base,) but Brisbane and Townsville are both a decent size, and I did have some sightings of capital ships at Townsville a few days ago.

Of course, they are not the only possible targets.

I'm interested to see what you can achieve with the midgets, since the usual AI midgets around Guadalcanal don't usually achieve much at all.

As for targets, how about Noumea? It's guaranteed to contain ships, but then again the surrounding waters are also usually infested with ASW forces. At least it'd provide some entertainment for the AAR :)