Off to the races - A journeyman's assault of the Marianas

[Mike McCreery]

July 4, 1944 Turn 44


Regular air and naval attacks.

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Allied shock attack at Guam

Attacking force 37059 troops, 940 guns, 1449 vehicles AV 1347
Defending force 18510 troops, 186 guns, 36 vehicles AV 498

Allied assault odds 1-1 (fort lvl 3)

Japanese ground losses 3821 90/269,33/82,5/37,12/41,39/10

Units destroyed 1

Allied losses 1351 casualties 5/147,5/28,1/15,3/27,5/49

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I finally killed off all the SSX at Guam... There must have been over 30 of them.

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Score Japanese 2190, Allied 5152

[Mike McCreery]

July 5, 1944 Turn 45

Setting troops on Guam to defend for a turn.

Port attack on Guam.

Land based Japanese bombers are now bombing Ulithi which is fine by me...

Daytime Liberator attacks on Ponape & Truck are fairly effective at suppressing aircraft.

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Port attack at Guam

2 Sen baku defending

151 hellcat, 15 avenger, 17 helldiver, 19 helldiver, 27 daunless, 43 Avenger

3 SSX hit and sunk in port

Japanese ground losses 5

Port hits 11, port fuel hits 2, port supply hits 1

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Japanese bombardment at Guam

Japanese AV 171

Allied AV 1253

Japanese ground lossess 45

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Score Japanese 2190, Allied 5163

[Mike McCreery]

July 6, 1944 Turn 46

Set all troops on Guam to shock attack.

Set port attack for Saipan

Hopefully I take the base today.

Port attack on Saipan

SS BH 7 - Sunk

Japanese ground losses 11

Port hits 31, Port fuel hits 7, Port supply hits 1

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Japanese bombardment attack at Guam

13243 troops, 156 guns 0 vehicles AV 173
38981 troops, 943 guns, 1453 vehicles AV 1303

Japanese losses 111 9/2,0/0,0/0,2/0

Allied losses 2 vehicles

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Allied shock attack at guam

37656 troops, 943 guns, 1451 vehicles AV 1301
14372 troops, 173 guns 8 vehicles AV 168

Allied assault odds 11 to 1

Allied forces CAPTURE Guam!!!

Japanese losses 4071

Allied losses 286

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Score Japanese 1778, Allied 5551

[Mike McCreery]

July 7, 1944 turn 47

Allied attack on Guam

2127 japanese casualties of 10691

179 allied ground losses

2 units surrounded at Guam

[Mike McCreery]

July 8, 1944 Turn 48

Air assault on Saipan

152 hellcat, 31 avenger, 45 helldiver, 58 helldiver, 27 dauntless, 96 avenger

1 sen baku

Airbase hits 14, Airbase supply hits 4, Runway hits 54

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Air assault on Saipan

47 hellcat, 21 wildcat, 55 ventura, 27 liberator

no effect

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Ground attack on Guam

Allied odds 79 to 1

Japanese losses 1064 of 6865

Allied losses 41

Japanese units wiped out at Guam

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Score Japanese 1787, Allies 5610

[Mike McCreery]

July 9 - 13...

Pounding on Saipan with all my airpower

Sent an air TF to Ulithi and killed alot of Japanese inbound bombers

Preparing for an assault on Saipan

77th infantry division is 2 days from Guam.

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[Mike McCreery]

July 14 - 18, 1944

CA bombardment of Saipan @ 15 KM killed 252 troops and only 2 shells hit my fleet.

Score - Japanese 1804, Allied 5857

[Mike McCreery]

July 18, 1944

Loading forces at Guam for ampibious attack at Saipan.

Sending 2 small mine sweeping fleets to Saipan.

[Mike McCreery]

July 21, 1944

Launching assault from Guam to Saipan.

Pre-invasion off Saipan

BB New Mexico
BB Idaho
Transports

361 coastal gun shots fired in defense - no hits

Allied ground losses 78 casualties (0/4,1/7,0/1,1/2,1/1)

Troops unloading over beach 212 casualties 2/30,2/29,0/0,0/11,2/38

Invasion support off Saipan - 251 coastal guns

BB Idaho SH 14
LST, SH 8 HF/HD
LST, SH 2, HF/HD
LST, SH 2

Allied ground losses 80 0/0,0/14,0/0

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Invasion support

LST 207, SH 6, HF/HD
LST 202, SH 6, HF/HD

Allied ground losses

86 casualties (0/0,0/15,0/0)

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Japanese Bombardment at Saipan

Attacking 25,342 troops, 243 guns, 44 vehicles, AV 991

Defending force 21,068 troops, 422 guns, 924 vehicles AV 1000

Japanese losses 21

Allied losses 3

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Japanese Score 1808, Allied Score 5874

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Wargmr

July 14 - 18, 1944

CA bombardment of Saipan @ 15 KM killed 252 troops and only 2 shells hit my fleet.

Score - Japanese 1804, Allied 5857

For some reason bombing troops with a high level of fortification often gives a blank result, but bombardments by naval or land artillery will get some casualties. I sent hundreds or Russian aircraft against the Japanese fort at Heiho [level6] for zilch result, but on the same turn my massed artillery [something like 2500 guns] wiped them out! [:D]

Obviously, I am not playing this one with stacking limits! [;)] I want to find out things like the above difference between air bombardment and artillery attacks.

[Mike McCreery]

July 22, 1944

2 LST's sunk

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Japanese deliberate attack at Saipan

Attacking Force 23,449 troops, 221 guns, 44 vehicles AV 988
Defending force 21,306 troops, 422 guns, 925 vehicles, AV 1014

Adjusted 496/1507

Japanese odds 1 to 3

Japanese Ground Losses 6390

Squads 95/561
Non Combat 4/45
Engineers 4/28
Guns 3/64
Vehicles 2/6

Allied Ground Losses 90

Squads 1/5
Non Combat 0/6
Engineers 0/3
Vehicles 4/31

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Allied Shock Attack at Saipan

Attacking force 21197 troops, 422 guns, 921 vehicles AV 980
Defending force 29497 troops, 302 guns, 235 vehicles AV 462

Adjusted assault 757/1461

Assault odds 1 to 2 (fort lvl 6)

Japanese Ground Losses 674 (5/37,16/13,1/4,8/12,47/3)
Units destroyed 1

Allied Ground Losses 2003 (5/78,1/61,31/47,4/63,28/172)

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Score - Japanese 1792, Allied 5938

[Mike McCreery]

July 23, 1944

Setting troops on Saipan to defend.

Amphib TF returning to Guam for more troops.

[Mike McCreery]

July 24, 1944

Japanese Bombardment at Saipan

Attacking force 17505 troops, 213 guns, 42 vehicles AV 439

Defending force 19921 troops, 420 guns, 902 vehicles AV 720

Japanese Ground losses 17

Allied Ground losses 20

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[Mike McCreery]

July 25, 1944

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 51165 troops, 81 guns, 1 vehicles AV 471

Defending force 20,259 troops, 420 guns, 904 vehicles AV 755

Assault odds 1 to 99

Japanese Ground Losses

3853 casualties 110/21,13/40,12/0,39/8

Allied ground losses

12 casualties 0/0,0/2,0/0,1/2

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[Mike McCreery]

July 26, 1944

Japanese bombardment of Saipan

Japanese AV 358
Allied AV 785

No losses

[Mike McCreery]

July 27, 1944

Japanese Direct attack at Saipan

Attack AV 393, Defend AV 814

Adjusted assault 1 to 60

Japanese ground losses

3312 casualties (129/48,2/31,1/18,1/2)

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Score Japanese 1825, Allied 6016

[Mike McCreery]

July 28, 1944

Amphibious TF pre-invasion of Guam

BB South Dakota SH 6
BB Washington SH 2
BB NC

Japanese ground losses 57

Allied ground losses 112

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Troops unloading over beath

Allied Ground losses 1621 (2/355,1/78,0/0,0/81,0/210)

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Invasion support 231 coastal guns

BB south dakota SH2
BB washington SH 0
BB NC SH 20
LCI-21 SH 4, HF/HD
LCI-24 SH 1, OF

Japanese losses 4 guns (2/2)
Allied Losses 86 casualties

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Betty attack


BB Washington TH 2, OF, HD

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Invasion support 161 coastal guns

LCI 22 - SH 3, HV/HD

Allied losses 31 casualties

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Japanese Bombardment at Saipan

Attacking Force 15,367 troops, 202 guns, 41 vehicles, AV 257

Defending Force 49,180 troops, 1158 guns, 1627 vehicles AV 1677

Japanese losses 34

Allied losses 32

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Allied Shock Attack at Saipan

Fortifications reduced to 5

Odds 1-1

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[Mike McCreery]

July 29, 1944

CV wasp hits mine at Saipan

APA hits mine at Saipan

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Pre-invasion off saipan

329 coastal guns

BB NJ SH 1
BB Pennsylvania SH 5
AKA almaack SH 3
AKA Alshain SH 4, OF/HD

Japanese Ground Losses 291 (3/5,11/20,0/5,2/9)

Allied ground losses 89 (1/3,2/13,0/2,2/0)

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Troops unloading over beach

1166 casualties (1/275,1/397,0/0,0/232,2/143)

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Japanese Bombardment

14622 troops 194 guns, 41 vehicles, AV 205
68107 troops, 1685 guns, 2012 vehicles AV 2217

Japanese ground losses 95

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Allied deliberate attack at Saipan

AV 2217
DF AV 197

Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 4

Adjusted odds 1 to 1 (fort lvl 4)

Japanese Losses

2594 casualties (137/25,13/112,16/19,16/58,6/15)

Allied ground losses 441 (13/30,1/21,25/7,1/70)

[Mike McCreery]

July 30, 1944

Set troops on Saipan to defend for a turn

Loading other troops for assaults on Woleai, Yap & Babeldaob

[Mike McCreery]

July 31, 1944

Allied shock attack at Saipan

AF 66,320 troops 1686 guns, 2017 vehicles = 2249

DF 21,059 troops, 238 guns, 190 vehicles = 150

Adjusted odds 6 to 1 (fort 3)

Alied forces CAPTURE Saipan!!

5860 Casualties (197/8,59/226,139/1,113/17,147)

Allied ground losses
559 casualties (7/111,11/63,1/11,1/31,75/29)

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Score Japanese 1283, Allied Score 6630