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13th of April -42 [/font]
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Well, finally found a use for those fuel guzzling BBs...
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CENTPAC
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I did manage to intercept about half the AMC TF. It was a once sided affair...
Day Time Surface Combat, near Lihue at 182,93, Range 23,000 Yards
Japanese aircraft
no flights
Japanese aircraft losses
E13A1 Jake: 1 destroyed
Japanese Ships
AMC Kinryu Maru, Shell hits 4, and is sunk
AMC Awata Maru, Shell hits 21, and is sunk
AMC Kongo Maru, Shell hits 8, heavy fires, heavy damage
Allied Ships
BB West Virginia
BB Arizona
DD Meredith
DD Gwin
DD Grayson, Shell hits 1
DD Monssen
DD O'Brien
DD Walke
Day Time Surface Combat, near Lihue at 182,92, Range 22,000 Yards
Japanese aircraft
no flights
Japanese aircraft losses
E13A1 Jake: 2 destroyed
Japanese Ships
AMC Kongo Maru, Shell hits 11, and is sunk
Allied Ships
BB West Virginia
BB Arizona
DD Meredith
DD Gwin
DD Grayson
DD Monssen
DD O'Brien
DD Walke
I´ll continue to hunt the others but I´m sure they took a completely different route. For now I´ll use the old BBs for escort between PH and the WC. I´ll also use two BBs to escort TFs to and from the WC for a while.
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China
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Ouch.
Ground combat at 82,43 (near Ankang)
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 43295 troops, 919 guns, 573 vehicles, Assault Value = 992
Defending force 26801 troops, 180 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 409
Japanese adjusted assault: 740
Allied adjusted defense: 286
Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), disruption(-), experience(-)
supply(-)
Attacker: shock(+)
Japanese ground losses:
1490 casualties reported
Squads: 20 destroyed, 92 disabled
Non Combat: 9 destroyed, 23 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 18 (8 destroyed, 10 disabled)
Vehicles lost 31 (3 destroyed, 28 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
9505 casualties reported
Squads: 393 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 315 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 15 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 30 (20 destroyed, 10 disabled)
Units retreated 6
Tom did launch the first attack at the overstacked hex. While it did a little better then expected I don´t think I will last another attack. So it seems any hope of getting to the mountains before the entire army in the woods is surrounded is gone.
Getting 300.000 men cut off and surrounded is going to suck.
Ground combat at 80,40 (near Kienko)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 37497 troops, 429 guns, 435 vehicles, Assault Value = 997
Defending force 41185 troops, 176 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 966
Japanese adjusted assault: 634
Allied adjusted defense: 481
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
642 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 52 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Vehicles lost 13 (5 destroyed, 8 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
1465 casualties reported
Squads: 21 destroyed, 179 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 25 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 10 disabled
Guns lost 22 (4 destroyed, 18 disabled)
Assaulting units:
8th Armored Car Co
37th Division
15th Division
1st Recon Regiment
Defending units:
2nd Chinese Corps
74th Chinese Corps
17th Chinese Corps
100th Chinese Corps
2nd War Area
15th Group Army
39th Group Army
Probably should use the restricted Chinese units to cover the retreat of the ones you can buy out and get them out ASAP. It sucks not getting the respawn but at least you'll have the production to fill out the handful of corps you pull out. Each of them alone takes 3 months of production to get to full strength so you can make good use of the production even with just a few corps.
