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Egan · 02-04-12, 03:42 PM

28th Nov

Today was a day of what felt like endless airstrikes against the carriers and the Yamato group but, at the end of it, we came out unscathed and lost only a handful of fighters. CCIP lost a lot of dive bombers and fighters - about 60 in total. I lost a few Betties as well, when they flew ground attack missions and found CAP over PNG but, all in all, not too bad. Even better is the fact that the last few days of operations have seen a rise in the skills and experience of pilots across the board. A lot of them are still, well, awful, but at least they're going in the right direction.

Operation November Rain is over and all ships are withdrawing to friendly ports. The exception is the Yamato group who will conduct a bombardment run against Moresby before heading home. Now, this could turn out to be a mistake but I feel reasonably confident that any losses will be offset by the psychological impact of my big bruiser turning up in his back yard. I toyed very briefly with the idea of raiding one of the Australian ports but intel suggested that there might be up to 100 bombers around Townsville and I feared that a good proportion of them were dive and torpedo bombers.

Now I can concentrate on closing down Morseby. It looks like CCIP might have actually doubled the garrison there (intel says the better part of 30000 men - I have no way of knowing how many are auxiliary troops - so denying them more supply and reinforcement becomes the priority. fighters are already operating out of Milne and my next move will be to get dive bombers in there too. I actually have an acute shortage of aviation support so I'm not sure where I'm going to scrounge enough from to load enough up. Perhaps Shortlands, now that the focus has shifted.

02-04-12, 03:42 PM	#273
Egan Admiral Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 2,020 Downloads: 15 Uploads: 0	28th Nov Today was a day of what felt like endless airstrikes against the carriers and the Yamato group but, at the end of it, we came out unscathed and lost only a handful of fighters. CCIP lost a lot of dive bombers and fighters - about 60 in total. I lost a few Betties as well, when they flew ground attack missions and found CAP over PNG but, all in all, not too bad. Even better is the fact that the last few days of operations have seen a rise in the skills and experience of pilots across the board. A lot of them are still, well, awful, but at least they're going in the right direction. Operation November Rain is over and all ships are withdrawing to friendly ports. The exception is the Yamato group who will conduct a bombardment run against Moresby before heading home. Now, this could turn out to be a mistake but I feel reasonably confident that any losses will be offset by the psychological impact of my big bruiser turning up in his back yard. I toyed very briefly with the idea of raiding one of the Australian ports but intel suggested that there might be up to 100 bombers around Townsville and I feared that a good proportion of them were dive and torpedo bombers. Now I can concentrate on closing down Morseby. It looks like CCIP might have actually doubled the garrison there (intel says the better part of 30000 men - I have no way of knowing how many are auxiliary troops - so denying them more supply and reinforcement becomes the priority. fighters are already operating out of Milne and my next move will be to get dive bombers in there too. I actually have an acute shortage of aviation support so I'm not sure where I'm going to scrounge enough from to load enough up. Perhaps Shortlands, now that the focus has shifted.