August 13th 1942
Air Losses: 2 Japanese, 7 Allied, 0 Pilots
Japanese occupy:
Allies occupy: Mare' (auto)
Japanese land at:
Allies land at:
250 Turns completed!
Sub Wars
Quiet
China
Some poor attacks and some poor planning have left some of my troops potentially vulnerable near Chungking.
Elsewhere, attacks continue to weaken the Chinese.
Noticed that where I trapped 11 units near Tienshui there are now only 9. Isolation is very effective.
See map and legend below.
Burma
Quiet
Australia
B-17 hit Fenton.
Australian troops have entered the Fenton hex in force.
Pacific
Quiet
Engineering
IChang to 8, don't really need it now as the front has moved on! It does free up some aviation support to redeploy. Kweiyang to 5, will keep pushing this.
R&D
Ki-44-IIc to 5/43.
China Map
The white numbers are the number of Allied units present.
At "A" I attacked and drove the defense back. I had 3 Recon regiments and an infantry brigade on reserve
(pursuit). I expected the defense to fall back to "X" and to be able to pursue across the river. If,
instead, they fell back East I expected my armour would not be able to pursue them the full hex and I could then redirect them across the river. What has happened is the recon units are now stuck in hex "B" and the infantry is half way there and will take 6 more days to arrive. Recon reports 50000 Chinese in the hex so, even without supplies, he probably will attack and smash my recon regiments. Most, if not all, of the Chinese are units that have been defeated and retreated at least once so are probably not in the best of shape.
At "C" I attacked hoping to drive the defense back and open the road to "B", but the defense turned out to be 3 strong corps and the air strikes had done little damage.
Ground combat at 75,47 (near Chungking)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 12427 troops, 140 guns, 402 vehicles, Assault Value = 449
Defending force 30215 troops, 137 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 750
Japanese adjusted assault: 126
Allied adjusted defense: 922
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 7
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
1156 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 114 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Vehicles lost 36 (1 destroyed, 35 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
268 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 38 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Assaulting units:
9th Ind.Mixed Brigade
1st Tank Division
8th Armored Car Co
5th Armored Car Co
Defending units:
8th Chinese Corps
28th Chinese Corps
79th Chinese Corps
At "D" I have been bombarding retreating forces and inflicting heavy losses on the Chinese each turn
Allied ground losses:
1219 casualties reported
Squads: 62 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 13 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 5 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 4 (4 destroyed, 0 disabled)
At "E" I have moved two weak units and a HQ into the hex. If they had arrived before the Chinese they could move up to "D" and then a division be set back from "D" to block the 10 units retreating. However, they entered at the same time as the Chinese. If the Chinese attack my troops will not do well, but he doesn't have recce so may not realise how weak they are. Depending what he does, it is still possible I can trap the 10 units.
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