ORIGINAL: JocMeister
Burma
The attack went and didn´t go as well as we had hoped. No disasters though. Damaged is spread very evenly among the troops with only 20-30 disablements per unit. Was a bit surprised to find that two of the US IDs really took a beating though. They will have to be pulled out.
Ground combat at Pegu (55,53)
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 200677 troops, 3681 guns, 3825 vehicles, Assault Value = 13734
Defending force 184231 troops, 2361 guns, 2798 vehicles, Assault Value = 5765
Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 5
Allied adjusted assault: 1711
Japanese adjusted defense: 7294
Allied assault odds: 1 to 4 (fort level 5)
Combat modifiers
Defender: forts(+), preparation(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
6017 casualties reported
Squads: 13 destroyed, 517 disabled
Non Combat: 11 destroyed, 163 disabled
Engineers: 8 destroyed, 50 disabled
Guns lost 332 (56 destroyed, 276 disabled)
Vehicles lost 141 (10 destroyed, 131 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
14892 casualties reported
Squads: 98 destroyed, 1145 disabled
Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 161 disabled
Engineers: 49 destroyed, 274 disabled
Guns lost 298 (14 destroyed, 284 disabled)
Vehicles lost 111 (5 destroyed, 106 disabled)
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Allied AV numbers are off as the second stack entered the hex the same turn. The are in move mode and did not participate in the attack. Stupid or not. I will attack again next turn with all units that arn´t disrupted and/or too damaged.
My thinking here is simple. I have a gazillion fully built up bases including Rangoon and 800.000 supply. My units will be sitting in comfy bases with plenty of supply. Erik will be stuck in the Jungle with hopefully bad supply and Malaria. I´m thinking I will recover a lot faster then him. And I have endless supply while each recovered squad will cost him precious supply ! [8D]
So tomorrow we go again. Its a good chance he will have left the hex by then though. Sadly I will have to stand the bombers down now. Fatigue is just too high now and its starting to show as I have over 200 4Es stuck on the ground repairing. AA is vicious but is luckily causing very little destroyed planes.
I have also decided to make the crossing. I will rest off the fatigue in Pegu and then make the crossing ASAP. Once most is across I can reinforce without triggering another shock attack.