Zuluhour vs Zigurat666: 1943

[DOCUP]

Id watch for a bombardment and maybe another air attack. Remember it has to be bombs and not TTs. So that's a good thing. I hope all your planes are off the CVs and on dry land to help defend the ships. Set up a strike but I doubt he will come into strike range of your AC.

[zuluhour]

September 28, 1942

Ceylon: RN HQ: The IJN spotted SSW of Ceylon at 320nm, heading SSW. No raid today. The review of the shipyards to follow in several days.

Burma: Prome and Lashio are hit by the RAF. Four Blenheim’s are shot down over Prome. Some IJA units are moving west from the Chinese positions in the mountains.

China: Our surrounded army SSE of Chungking is attacked hard from the air but USAF and Chinese fighter squadrons disperse and down enough aircraft to temper the results some. The 26th AG is ordered to attack on the 29th.

SwPac: It looks as though two Naval Guards units and another to be identified are marching on Terapo. B17s are ordered to hit them again tomorrow. Terapo is supplied, behind forts, and well led. IJAF hits Day Waters again. We will reply tomorrow in kind.

CenPac: The IJN TF has disappeared to the west south of Tabitueua.

NorPac: The Japanese have received replacement aircraft on Adak. F4s keep watch here.

[zuluhour]

September 29, 1942

NorPac:CenPac: quiet

SoPac: Small sub skirmish off Pago Pago.

SwPac: I wonder how close the IJA troops are to Terapo. B17s do little damage today in clear weather.

Burma: Rangoon hit by B17s and P38s. We lose two heavies in the raid. The field is proving difficult to close. Prome is hit by the RAF. The Flak here is heavy, but the fields stay closed.

Ceylon: CATS spot the KB SSE of the island heading east.

China: The surrounded army SE of Chungking holds one more day to determined Japanese efforts to annihilate the pocket. 20th Group Army liberates Kienko. The IJA is pissed and spreading out across the plains. To gamey to go after them with B17s across the Himalayas
Ground combat at Kienko (78,41)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 55898 troops, 212 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1562

Defending force 13208 troops, 112 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 248

Allied adjusted assault: 1940

Japanese adjusted defense: 187

Allied assault odds: 10 to 1 (fort level 2)

Allied forces CAPTURE Kienko !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
5428 casualties reported
Squads: 104 destroyed, 14 disabled
Non Combat: 117 destroyed, 48 disabled
Engineers: 39 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 51 (37 destroyed, 14 disabled)
Vehicles lost 9 (9 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 1

Allied ground losses:
2031 casualties reported
Squads: 10 destroyed, 232 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 29 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 20 disabled

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
73rd Chinese Corps
8th Chinese Corps
53rd Chinese Corps
87th Chinese Corps
94th Chinese Corps

Defending units:
13th Division
15th AA Regiment

Ground combat at 76,47 (near Chungking)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 176576 troops, 2153 guns, 1334 vehicles, Assault Value = 2080

Defending force 64501 troops, 232 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 879

Japanese adjusted assault: 1056

Allied adjusted defense: 553

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-), supply(-)
Attacker: shock(+), disruption(-)

Japanese ground losses:
5099 casualties reported
Squads: 130 destroyed, 195 disabled
Non Combat: 17 destroyed, 59 disabled
Engineers: 19 destroyed, 73 disabled
Guns lost 73 (22 destroyed, 51 disabled)
Vehicles lost 23 (4 destroyed, 19 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
2534 casualties reported
Squads: 42 destroyed, 147 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 88 disabled
Engineers: 7 destroyed, 19 disabled
Guns lost 12 (3 destroyed, 9 disabled)

[Quixote]

Zulu, how many points in ground losses has your opponent taken so far this game? In seemingly every other post you manage to inflict massive casualties to the IJA (or he manages to inflict them on himself.) Just curious what the point differential is here.

[zuluhour]

as requested

[zuluhour]

is that a lot or a little?

[Quixote]

Sorry for taking a couple of days to respond, but to answer your question, that's a lot of Japanese ground losses.
Perspective - against Cannon I had less than 500 points in total land losses when our game ended. PBEM before that (where I played the Chinese theater poorly as Japan) I still had less than half of the losses your opponent has suffered at this stage in the game. Carrier battles aside, you are doing very well in the ground game here.

[zuluhour]

That is good to hear. As I am about to open the replay for October 6th, I can feel the trapped Chinese army slipping away. They withstood another two shock attacks since my last post, but alas, the writing long on the wall, is inevitable soon. I have felt that I have really decimated some IJA divisions since being pushed out of Changsha. Pity none have been destroyed. The vast majority of IJA losses are from China though as I only roughed up one division in CenPac and I do not recall heavy losses for them in the PI or Malaya.

[zuluhour]

October 6, 1942

NorPac: The Japanese have refurbished their air groups and small escort and Maru’s are spotted at Adak. Dutch Harbor finally reaches AF2 as winter approaches.

United States: Operation Wingfoot continues in full swing. The new AKA’s are desperately needed as operations will have to be of the “swift” variety.

CenPac: Nightly raids over Baker Island is ominous. The Japanese consolidate their CenPac victory.

SoPac: The Hornet and Lexington repair quickly. I hope to have the Hornet at sea by months end and Lexington before X-mas. They will both need yard work, but not so many weeks.

SwPac: The 27th Infantry Division arrives along with support. They rest while I contemplate more on the situation. The 40th Division will arrive soon as well. Marines relieve the Americal Division which will join the 27th and 40th before long.

Burma: Air power building. Larger support units arrive. The USAF has a large presence in China now trying to stave off the IJAF over the clear terrain on the Chungking plains. We lost the Australian MG Bn today in action east of Lashio. I do not have enough strength in the jungle for a push.

China: The fighting is heavy and widespread. The IJ want to eliminate China from the war. Perhaps the last gasp of our surrounded friends south on Chungking was heard today




A view of the besieging horde SE of Chungking today.

Ground combat at 76,47 (near Chungking)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 174090 troops, 2146 guns, 1332 vehicles, Assault Value = 2152

Defending force 53778 troops, 117 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 440

Japanese adjusted assault: 853

Allied adjusted defense: 37

Japanese assault odds: 23 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-), supply(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
3198 casualties reported
Squads: 84 destroyed, 158 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 89 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 20 disabled
Guns lost 53 (13 destroyed, 40 disabled)
Vehicles lost 18 (1 destroyed, 17 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
4573 casualties reported
Squads: 237 destroyed, 126 disabled
Non Combat: 9 destroyed, 255 disabled
Engineers: 21 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 17 (8 destroyed, 9 disabled)

Assaulting units:
40th Division
41st Division
56th Infantry Brigade
17th Division
19th Ind.Mixed Brigade
55th Infantry Brigade
32nd Division
7th Ind.Tank Brigade
54th Infantry Brigade
34th Division
Guards Tank Division
3rd Division
6th Division
37th Division
15th Division
4th Ind.Mixed Brigade
38th Division
104th Division
52nd Infantry Brigade
4th Ind.Mixed Regiment
22nd Division
51st Infantry Brigade
39th Division
15th Tank Regiment
1st Militia Regiment
20th Ind. Mtn Gun Battalion
2nd Ind. Engineer Regiment
2nd RF Gun Battalion
15th Ind.Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
19th Ind. Engineer Regiment
China Expeditionary Army
2nd Ind.Mixed Regiment
52nd Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
14th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
1st Mortar Battalion
21st Mortar Battalion
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
23rd Army
22nd AA Regiment
5th RF Gun Battalion
3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
2nd Mortar Battalion
21st Ind.Mixed Brigade
11th Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
92nd Chinese Corps
59th Chinese Corps
99th Chinese Corps
5th Chinese Cavalry Corps
37th Chinese Corps
78th Chinese Corps
22nd Group Army
41st Chinese Corps
27th Group Army
56th Chinese Corps
71st Chinese Corps
29th Group Army
4th Heavy Mortar Regiment

[DOCUP]

Nice job with roughing up all those Jap LCUs. I count 11 IDs, and 6 Bdes that need a lot of RR. I would like to think that at some point this stack is going to break if he keeps attacking you.

[zuluhour]

October 8, 1942

Joe: I sure hope those units can’t help much with an assault on Chungking! I have well over 4000av holed up there now. I am contemplating a limited counter offensive from Chungking just to see how strong he really is.

China: The pocket holds another day, although losses are now very heavy with all units showing zero av. To the south, the 26th Army group brushes aside an IJA tank unit and retakes Chihkiang. I am trying to surround an IJA formation to the north as well. China is fluid and bloody. I will not go quietly. B17s brave the Himalayas and strike IJA units in the plains. RAF Liberators have arrived and will participate as well. USAF Liberators are due in Karachi in days.

Burma: Large combo airstrike planned for the 9th. Reinforcements are close to reaching the 6th Aussies deep in the northern jungles while Chinese formations arrive from the east.

SwPac: I may have a plan.

CenPac: Impotent. Supplies in fuel and supply well over 1,ooo,ooo pts each. Three divisions await deployment.

NorPac: Some sparring.

[zuluhour]

Something is wrong with my posting. I can't use any tools?!

[Alfred]

Could you be a teensy weenie bit more explicit?[:)]
 
Read this thread to see if it is the same problem you are experiencing.
 
http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3475940
 
Alfred

[DOCUP]

Nice to see you posting Alfred.

I had the same problem Bullwinkle helped me fix it.

I had that problem and did a thread on it about two weeks ago. You need to go into Compatibility View Settings under toolbar Tools and add the site in the white box. Fixes everything except, for me, the right-click cut & paste menu. I have to use keyboard shortcuts now.

It is due to the IE11 upgrade so far as I could tell. Copy and pasted from another thread by Bullwinkle.

[zuluhour]

That worked. I have not tried cut and paste yet. I don't remember the short cut keys so I hope it works as well.

[zuluhour]

October 10, 1942

China: There are troops of both sides spread from the Yangtze to the Himalayas. Maps soon.

CBI: USAF B24s arrive in Karachi. This is perfect timing. Air strikes ordered over Prome and Lashio on the 11th.

SwPac: Darwin survivors press on through relentless bombing while IJA troops arrive on the perimeter of Terapo.

SoPac: Hornet is almost ready to sail.  

[zuluhour]

Good to see you around Alfred! I resolved the email issue by logging into Verizon and manually allowing his new email address to send to me. Gmail, Hotmail, .CA some of these seem to be auto blocked by Verizon.

[zuluhour]

[font=calibri]October 13, 1942[/font]

[font=calibri]China: The surrounded Chinese succumb to the relentless shock attacks and air bombardments. Only a cadre of one corp remains in their foxholes. This position has cost the Imperial Japanese dearly and I hope a counter stroke by 20th Army group will counter the massive Chinese losses there. I would like to get into some detail about what the plan is here but I’m just going to post the map tonight leaving a little wonder or as here at Zulu HQ, the TWITs refer to as WTF.[/font]

[font=calibri]CenPac: Is quiet because the IJN owns it. USN patrol aircraft have a great screen up, but I can only watch.[/font]

[font=calibri]SoPac: Bases being shut down and support units moved up.[/font]

[font=calibri]SwPac: Maps to be posted in a week or two as I would like some input on what I have planned here.[/font]

Burma: The Prom raid is a bust. Nothing flies against the base. Lashio is hit unopposed by small squadron of single engine types. In the mountains east of Lashio the IJA has strong units moving back toward the Chinese lines. They are hit by a landslide of B25s today and punished.




ps. I hope to have some new visuals soon from the "art team" !

[zuluhour]

[font=calibri]October 15, 1942[/font]

[font=calibri]Game: I can’t wait to load the new art work! It’s been stupid busy lately and I would like to enjoy it. I will be sharing with this AAR soon. Thank you Halsey and the art guys. Merry X-Mas.[/font]

[font=calibri]Burma: While recon indicates a good deal of damage at Prome, two days ago the IJAF reoccupied the fields. Recon photos show over 70 fighters on the ground. I order the USAF in this time and everyone flies and the co-ordination is perfect. Two squadrons of P38s sweep ahead of two squadrons of Fortresses. It’s a good day for us in the air over Prome, downing close to 40 Zeros and getting some more on the ground. RAF Liberators join four squadrons of Mitchells and hit IJA positions in the mountains on the Chinese perimeter. Results are ok. I hope to keep him disrupted as I prepare another effort to cut him off east of Lashio.[/font]

[font=calibri]China: The IJA seems to be getting used to the Chungking plains. Another strong force of Japanese are blitzing there way west north of Sian. I may reinforce the fighters there with another squadron soon. The pocket is eliminated.[/font]

Operation Wingfoot: Base forces railhead in Australia as advance parties for the combat units assembling. 6,ooo pts of oil arrive at Melbourne today. I hope this eases the fuel situation somewhat. IJN BBs are sighted by Sub and air assets closing on Milne Bay. They are heading for Terapo, I’m sure. Two companies of New Zealand pioneers railhead to transports for deployment in French held areas to build fields. The 43rd, 38th, and 30th bomb groups load for SwPac. CVE Copahee puts to sea with Marine aviators. The 76th AA, 178th UAAF BF, 57th CD also load for SwPac and SoPac.

[zuluhour]

Sometimes posting is easy: