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Originally Posted by Arclight
Hope you feel better soon. Nice game you two got going there, very interesting read.  |
Cheers. Getting there slowly. We've relocated north to my parents home - and my dad's fine, fine whiskey collection - in the Highlands for the next ten days or so. Things may become a bit more irregular.
Anyway, sum total of the last two days was the Moresby raid by TF Yamato. which did about 100 casualties, battered the airfield and thumped some aircraft. More usfully in the long term it revealed that sneaky CCIP is basing divebombers and wildcats there (Marine, I assume,) and has at least one Ossie base force present.
Earlier on, one of my subs (I-11) sank an Australian AM near the Oz coast. It was a long day of otherwise useless sub attacks that mostly annoyed US escorts. Several of my boats received light damage.
9th Sep
Havocs and Beaus came after TF Unyo which had been covering the Yamato raid. Although they missed the escort carrier herself, they got a solitary bomb hit on one of the cruisers. Very little damage was done, but it served as a useful reminder of how dangerous Land Based Bombers can be, and why so many players insist on houseruling their use in naval situations. Several hits were scored by cannon shells which tells me, IIRC, that they were strafing at very low altitude, 100ft I think. I'm a bit annoyed that flak didn't cut them up more but can't complain about the lack of any real damage done.
Elsewhere, The fast transports close in on Tass. KB1 should be in position before they make their final run.
TF Yamato has rearmed and is hungry for more action. Maybe it's time to visit hell upon the Slot.
One last note: My Betties had a mission to bomb the airfield at Milne Bay but failed because - yup, you guessed it - the weather was wrong. It's driving me totally spare. I estimate well over half of their mission are being scrubbed because of the weather. Their morale and other factors are OK but does anyone know how much of an influence these factors have in flying when combined with bad weather? are they less likely to go up if they're all emo that day?