For your consideration. This is an example of something we've seen before in this PBM and I know it's been seen in others. The defending Japanese on Iwo Jima are hard up against it to be sure. They get bombed by clouds of bombers all day after being bombarded from the sea all night. Under cover of the bombing two fresh Allied divisions land. Allied troops ashore deliberate attack in support of the auto-shock attack. None of that is remarkable. What stands out is that the Japanese forces made an auto-bombardment, which is also normal, but the Allied counter-battery fire disabled or destroyed almost two hundred Japanese squads. The guns lost makes sense, but the squads lost makes this seem like a "nuclear" counter-bombardment! [:D]
I'm attaching a save game (prior to turn resolution) just in case there is something amiss with the counter-battery routine.
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Ground combat at Iwo-jima (108,77)
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 11723 troops, 71 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 322
Defending force 47524 troops, 883 guns, 617 vehicles, Assault Value = 1083
Japanese ground losses:
1152 casualties reported
Squads: 34 destroyed, 143 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 21 (2 destroyed, 19 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
11 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Assaulting units:
65th Brigade
7th Ind.Mixed Brigade
Iwo-jima Naval Guard Unit
71st Field AA Battalion
69th Field AA Battalion
7th Air Division
26th Special Base Force
Defending units:
33rd Infantry Division
3rd Marine Division
1st Marine Division
24th Infantry Division
763rd Tank Battalion
XI US Corps
225th Field Artillery Battalion
198th Field Artillery Battalion
33rd Medium Regiment
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Ground combat at Iwo-jima (108,77)
Allied Shock attack
Attacking force 44809 troops, 883 guns, 617 vehicles, Assault Value = 1083
Defending force 14415 troops, 215 guns, 35 vehicles, Assault Value = 165
Allied adjusted assault: 1315
Japanese adjusted defense: 91
Allied assault odds: 14 to 1 (fort level 5)
Allied forces CAPTURE Iwo-jima !!!
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), disruption(-)
Attacker: shock(+), disruption(-)
Japanese ground losses:
1523 casualties reported
Squads: 60 destroyed, 59 disabled
Non Combat: 38 destroyed, 24 disabled
Engineers: 31 destroyed, 5 disabled
Guns lost 101 (90 destroyed, 11 disabled)
Vehicles lost 33 (33 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 1
Allied ground losses:
4094 casualties reported
Squads: 171 destroyed, 70 disabled
Non Combat: 29 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 9 destroyed, 11 disabled
Guns lost 50 (28 destroyed, 22 disabled)
Vehicles lost 22 (13 destroyed, 9 disabled)
Assaulting units:
1st Marine Division
33rd Infantry Division
3rd Marine Division
24th Infantry Division
763rd Tank Battalion
XI US Corps
198th Field Artillery Battalion
225th Field Artillery Battalion
33rd Medium Regiment
Defending units:
7th Ind.Mixed Brigade
65th Brigade
Iwo-jima Naval Guard Unit
69th Field AA Battalion
71st Field AA Battalion
7th Air Division
26th Special Base Force
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