War in the Pacific AAR Thread: ML (Japan) vs. Leo (Allies)

Molon Labe · 11-09-23, 04:56 PM

2 March 1942
Yorktown turns north to avoid ambush, raid on southeastern Australia begins

China
That pesky I-15 took advantage of some bad coordination and got to my bombers near Nanyang, shooting down a Sally.

Java
He tried to hit my troops at Bandoeng with Falcons again, we shot down 1, the rest ran. A pair of 139WHs followed that up, we splashed them both. A raid on our forces on the east side cost them a Buffalo.

SOPAC
The KB took station off the southeast corner of Australia and launched sweeps of Melbourne and Sydney. We had no joy at Melbourne, while encountering 23 P-40s protecting Sydney. We shot down 10 of them while losing 1 Zero. The enemy also sent waves of B-26s and B-17s after me, losing 3 B-17s and 7 B-26s to our CAP and another 3 B-26s to flak. This took a toll on our fighters though, with no shootdowns in combat but 4 Zeroes not making it back to the carriers or being scrapped due to battle damage.

CENTPAC
Yorktown was spotted again, but well north of its reported east trajectory to Pearl. Apparently he took notice that his CVBG had a detection level and responded. This puts about half my subs out of position for an intercept, making adjustments for the rest. But he now has a smaller amount of space to sanitize.

Reinforcements
10th Garrison Unit arrives at Nagoya
The Marshalls' fighter squadron has converted from Claudes to Zeroes at Guadalcanal. They'll fly back to their home base in about 3 days.

11-09-23, 04:56 PM	#11
Molon Labe Silent Hunter Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Along the Watchtower Posts: 3,810 Downloads: 27 Uploads: 5	2 March 1942 Yorktown turns north to avoid ambush, raid on southeastern Australia begins China That pesky I-15 took advantage of some bad coordination and got to my bombers near Nanyang, shooting down a Sally. Java He tried to hit my troops at Bandoeng with Falcons again, we shot down 1, the rest ran. A pair of 139WHs followed that up, we splashed them both. A raid on our forces on the east side cost them a Buffalo. SOPAC The KB took station off the southeast corner of Australia and launched sweeps of Melbourne and Sydney. We had no joy at Melbourne, while encountering 23 P-40s protecting Sydney. We shot down 10 of them while losing 1 Zero. The enemy also sent waves of B-26s and B-17s after me, losing 3 B-17s and 7 B-26s to our CAP and another 3 B-26s to flak. This took a toll on our fighters though, with no shootdowns in combat but 4 Zeroes not making it back to the carriers or being scrapped due to battle damage. CENTPAC Yorktown was spotted again, but well north of its reported east trajectory to Pearl. Apparently he took notice that his CVBG had a detection level and responded. This puts about half my subs out of position for an intercept, making adjustments for the rest. But he now has a smaller amount of space to sanitize. Reinforcements 10th Garrison Unit arrives at Nagoya The Marshalls' fighter squadron has converted from Claudes to Zeroes at Guadalcanal. They'll fly back to their home base in about 3 days. __________________ Last edited by Molon Labe; 11-09-23 at 09:21 PM.