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Still plodding along
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China
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Tom is pounding Changsha. Soon it will fall.
Ground combat at Chungking (76,45)
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 9006 troops, 754 guns, 759 vehicles, Assault Value = 1425
Defending force 75223 troops, 159 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1768
Allied ground losses:
379 casualties reported
Squads: 8 destroyed, 26 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
In southern China I´m trying to delay the inevitable. Lack of supply making this very hard though as Tom just pushed anything in front of him out of the way. Even 2 well rested 400 AV Corps dug in in 3x terrain is just brushed aside when their adjusted AV is reduced to 300.
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Burma
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The Nick makes its combat debut doing very well.
Morning Air attack on Chittagong , at 55,41
Weather in hex: Heavy cloud
Raid detected at 13 NM, estimated altitude 35,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 27
Allied aircraft
H81-A3 x 38
Hurricane IIb Trop x 39
No Japanese losses
Allied aircraft losses
H81-A3: 3 destroyed
Aircraft Attacking:
13 x Ki-45 KAIa Nick sweeping at 31000 feet
9 Allied planes are shot down for only 3 Japanese.
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SOPAC
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Tom is pounding Nadi with pretty much everything.
Night Naval bombardment of Nadi at 131,160
Japanese Ships
BB Hyuga
BB Ise
BB Fuso
CA Kako
CA Furutaka
CA Kinugasa
CA Aoba
CA Ashigara
CA Nachi
CA Haguro
CA Myoko
DD Numakaze
DD Namikaze
DD Nokaze
DD Tachikaze
DD Hokaze
Allied ground losses:
268 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 29 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 13 disabled
Guns lost 12 (2 destroyed, 10 disabled)
Vehicles lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled)
Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 11
Port hits 7
Port supply hits 2
I´m not very worried. Seems the 21st MAG is taking most of the hits. The 32nd ID is hovering around 15-20 DIS while the 8th NZ and 24th RGT is completely uneffected. Forts are building up nicely and should reach 4 in 3-4 days. I can always rotate troops between Nadi and Suva.
On the seas we now have a completely ridiculous situation where Tom is using the KB to hunt for my subs while I try to run away with them. [8|] Problem is that KB is faster then my subs. Its not like they can just hide under the water or anything...
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OZ
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Another push towards Brisbane. I don´t have enough to capture it but I have a crapload of artillery. Perhaps I can burn some supply and generally be a PITA. Might even force Tom to pull some CAs/BBs from Fiji.
I´ve started bombing Brisbane at night. Tom countered this with Oscars on Night CAP. Thats nice because I´m shooting down more Oscars each night then I ever destroyed on the ground.
Not too proud of doing stuff like this but its working so I´ll use it for now.
