FSO: Pacific Pinsalamanders - Frame 3 Scores

[ghostdancer]

Gentlemen,

Sorry for the delay for the frame 3 results and final results. The Japanese soundly defeated the allies in Frame 3 and as a result of it took the series. Basically this happened because the Japanese were successful in sinking 3 CVs and 1 CA while the USN did not sink any ships.

For all three frame the Allies dominated the air war but were unable to prevent the Japanese from successfully hitting their ground targets and sinking ships. Conversely the Allies were not successful in matching the Japanese on getting bombs on target and did not shoot down enough planes to make up for the lack of success on ground pounding.

FRAME 3

615 = Allied Air Kills   615
000 = Allied Ground Attack   0
600 = Allied Ground Defense   600

FR3 Total  =

1215


0445 = Axis Air Kills
0750 = Axis Ground Attacks
1350 = Axis Ground Defense

FR3 Total  = 2545
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I think the allied lack of success sinking ships might be do to the fact that the allies had 3 squads barely show up for the event (seriously under their minimum numbers). I don’t know the allied plan but this could have definitely affect the strike packages by either not having JABO / Torp planes or escorts to protect those planes.

The overall FSO goes to the Japanese who scored 5785 points in three frames versus the allies 4233.

[Sketch]

Thanks GD... been waiting for the final death toll!! Yeah Rising Sun Country!!

[ghostdancer]

Well been working on a final death toll .. number of planes killed, ships sunk, damages to bases .. just haven't finish compiling it and formating yet.

I think it will show that the Japanese really took it on the nose in the air. However, either their bombers and attack planes got hit after hitting to target or their escorts were very effective at keeping them alive to target. Overall, the Japanese were able to penetrate to their targets every frame and do damage. They just took a beating doing it. So in a war of attrition the Japanese definitely are running out of pilots and planes.

However, on the other side the USN lost 5 CVs and multiple CAs and DDs. The CVs take a few years to replace so while the Japanese airforce would have been decimated the USN suffered a much worst defeat 5 out of 6 active carriers of the time period sunk.

As said will finish tallying up the list and post it.

Last word is you need solid ground attack work to really win an FSO frame. Air war alone won't carry it. USN won frame 1 based on doing massively well in the air war, but they just barely won the frame. 2nd frame Japanese barely won the frame even though USN beat them up in the air. Third frame USN still won air war but not massively so and they completely lost the ground attack part. Although this could be do to several squads not turning at all.