February 1st, 1942.
Sigh....I'm a neophyte to scenario 1 (which da big babes is based on) and it's limitations and da big babes reduces evern further. I'm really starting to feel my lack of experience. I got the KB dinged because I didn't realize how little ASW the japs start with. As of right now, I don't enough enough AV in any one area. What works in scen 2 doesn't work in this scen, as I'm finding out.
There's 5 major battles going on.
Wenchow
South of Changsha
Clark
Singapore
Batvia
This is Wenchow:
Japanese adjusted assault: 471
Allied adjusted defense: 1714
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 3 (fort level 1)
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
584 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 33 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 59 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Allied ground losses:
455 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 39 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 26 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Assaulting units:
1st RGC Route Brigade
15th Division
26th RGC Temp. Division
2nd Ind.Mixed Brigade
102nd Infantry Regiment
138th Infantry Regiment
Defending units:
88th Chinese Corps
100th Chinese Corps
25th Group Army
14th Chinese Base Force
Yuk...though 1-3, I'm inflicting about even casualties. But it's slow going and there isn't much more I can commit to this right now. I have 3 depleted units, so I'm going to move them to the west and hope to cut off the majority of his supply lines. If needed, I'll free up smaller units to completely surround. I'm leaving around 500 AV in the hex.
This is the combat to the south of Changsha
Japanese adjusted assault: 807
Allied adjusted defense: 673
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
2527 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 180 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 178 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 19 disabled
Vehicles lost 6 (1 destroyed, 5 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
1113 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 52 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 95 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Assaulting units:
17th Division
39th Division
22nd Division
104th Division
13th Army
4th Mortar Battalion
Defending units:
28th Chinese Corps
65th Chinese Corps
46th Chinese Corps
50th Chinese Corps
63rd Chinese Corps
5th Chinese Cavalry Corps
7th War Area
10th Group Army
12th Group Army
Once again, double yuk. For this one, I'll attempt to spread his units by pulling out 2 depleted divisions and moving them toward Wuchow. 700 AV will remain.
This is the battle in Clark
Japanese adjusted assault: 1274
Allied adjusted defense: 1927
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 0)
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
4660 casualties reported
Squads: 13 destroyed, 296 disabled
Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 307 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 18 disabled
Vehicles lost 53 (5 destroyed, 48 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
1016 casualties reported
Squads: 31 destroyed, 36 disabled
Non Combat: 21 destroyed, 109 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Vehicles lost 14 (1 destroyed, 13 disabled)
Assaulting units:
65th Brigade
48th Division
33rd Division
2nd Tank Regiment
38th Division
4th Division
7th Tank Regiment
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
47th Field AA Battalion
48th Field AA Battalion
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
20th Ind. Mtn Gun Battalion
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
45th Field AA Battalion
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
14th Army
2nd Mortar Battalion
1st Ship Engineer Regiment
Defending units:
1st PA Constabulary Regiment
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
41st PA Infantry Division
102nd PA Infantry Division
2nd PA Constabulary Regiment
21st PA Infantry Division
57th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team
4th PA Constabulary Regiment
51st PA Infantry Division
1st/45th PS Inf Battalion
Subic Bay Defenses
11th PA Infantry Division
71st PA Infantry Division
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
31st PA Infantry Division
31st Infantry Regiment
3rd/45th PS Inf Battalion
3rd/12th PA Inf Battalion
91st PA Infantry Division
4th Marine Regiment
192nd Tank Battalion
14th PS Engineer Regiment
1st PA Infantry Division
2nd PA Constblry HW Regiment
Provisional GMC Grp
PAF Aviation
USAFFE
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
301st Construction Battalion
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
II Philippine Corps
Clark Field AAF Base Force
I Philippine Corps
1st USMC AA Battalion
Nichols Field AAF Base Force
Far East USAAF
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
I'm doing these probes to speed up his supply depletion. I have two divisions in route to clark. Should at least get me to 1 to 1.
This is batvia:
Japanese adjusted assault: 220
Allied adjusted defense: 125
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), leaders(-), disruption(-)
experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
668 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 47 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 35 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
780 casualties reported
Squads: 50 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 43 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Vehicles lost 17 (7 destroyed, 10 disabled)
Assaulting units:
143rd Infantry Regiment
124th Infantry Regiment
33rd Infantry Regiment
146th Infantry Regiment
2nd Division
16th Army
Defending units:
1st Regt Cavalerie
1st KNIL Regiment
1st KNIL Landstorm Battalion
4th KNIL Landstorm Battalion
2nd KNIL Regiment
Batavia Defenses
1st KNIL AA Battalion
KNIL Army Command
ABDA
3rd KNIL AA Battalion
Batavia KM Base Force
Batvia is being subjected to daily air attacks and naval bombardments. I have to expect them to fall soon. When they do, I can transfer a couple of regiments up to Singapore to form another div.
Scen 2 Overconfidence
I've approached this game like a scen 2 game and it's really bit me in the....I have my troops too dispursed to be effective anywhere. I'm taking higher losses as a result and the units are rebuilding more slowly because of the lack of ground support. To make it worse, the losses are causing my experience levels to go down accross the board.
At this point, I'm hoping to unquagmire this situations through the 2 divs in route to clark and hopefully taking batvia. If I can dislodge clark, I'll pull 3-4 divisions out of luzon for singapore and/or another theatre. At this point, SOPAC hasn't even been touched. It will be soon as the KB repairs up which should be mid-Feb.
All in all, the beginning of this war has gone quite poorly. Expected blitz attacks into areas never materialized, the KB got dinged twice I need to get something moving but I don't have much more to work with. My ships losses aren't too bad and air losses are higher than they should be. The AVG nailed a unit of nates yesterday and show down 23 of them! I've transferred 3 Oscars squads to hangkow to take down the AVG.
For China, there's 2 brigades that arrived as reinforcements in Shanghai. They will meet up with their counterparts to form 2 new divisions:
South China:
