Rumble in the Southwest witpqs-A vs Andav-J 2011-11-29 to 2017-02-08

[witpqs]

Home Islands west.

[witpqs]

Home Islands east.

[witpqs]

Most of the Iowas are in tough shape as far as system damage goes. I think New Jersey will be used to bombard and head straight for Pearl Harbor afterward.

[BBfanboy]

Why send NJ to PH instead of HK or Singapore? Upgrade?

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Why send NJ to PH instead of HK or Singapore? Upgrade?

Singapore is farther. But I thought more after I wrote that, and it would be better to send her to the West Coast to speed repairs.

The Iowas will also be due upgrades in March, and she certainly would not finish repairs before the upgrade kicks in.

[witpqs]

...also, Pearl Harbor is 100k tons shipyard, Hong Kong and Singapore are each 50k tons. Any will hold the ship, but Pearl should repair it faster (although some West Coast ports will be faster still).

[Drakanel]

Well, I think you will be detected next turn. If so, Andav will have a 3 days warning, which is small enough. He should not be able to reinforce much with that, except from kamikaze of course.

If instead he does not, he will only have 2 days. That would be great.


Of course he could also have lucked out on sigint. And you may find over 5000 angry kamikazes waiting for you! [:D]

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Drakanel

Well, I think you will be detected next turn. If so, Andav will have a 3 days warning, which is small enough. He should not be able to reinforce much with that, except from kamikaze of course.

If instead he does not, he will only have 2 days. That would be great.


Of course he could also have lucked out on sigint. And you may find over 5000 angry kamikazes waiting for you! [:D]

Only 5,000 - you're an optimist! [:D]

I'm wondering if Walter is working on the turn, has seen the invasion and thought "Right where I figured it would be. Unleash the dogs of war!"

I'm hoping for "Didn't see that coming. Oh crap!"

Something tells me it will be closer to the first option. [:'(]

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Drakanel

Well, I think you will be detected next turn. If so, Andav will have a 3 days warning, which is small enough. He should not be able to reinforce much with that, except from kamikaze of course.

If instead he does not, he will only have 2 days. That would be great.


Of course he could also have lucked out on sigint. And you may find over 5000 angry kamikazes waiting for you! [:D]

Only 5,000 - you're an optimist! [:D]

I'm wondering if Walter is working on the turn, has seen the invasion and thought "Right where I figured it would be. Unleash the dogs of war!"

I'm hoping for "Didn't see that coming. Oh crap!"

Something tells me it will be closer to the first option. [:'(]

Estimating what the Allies are capable of doing month to month would require keeping tabs on the entire Allied LCU OOB, and the key ships to support an amphib landing. A daunting task for Japan's poor SIGINT resources. You have kept him off balance with your whirlwind attacks, but he knows that a lot of Divisions that were active a few months ago have been off the radar for a while he may know that you are planning something big, and Hokkaido is the most likely target.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Estimating what the Allies are capable of doing month to month would require keeping tabs on the entire Allied LCU OOB, and the key ships to support an amphib landing. A daunting task for Japan's poor SIGINT resources. You have kept him off balance with your whirlwind attacks, but he knows that a lot of Divisions that were active a few months ago have been off the radar for a while he may know that you are planning something big, and Hokkaido is the most likely target.

Yup. And I've got a bunch now that are awaiting target orders.

I've tried to achieve at least some tiny level of tactical surprise by running no recon missions at all over Hokkaido (I have a group of the B-29 recon model that could reach) and by not deploying subs ahead of the invasion. Since the subs will be deploying from Nago (right through air patrolled waters) they still have not sortied, except for the decoy effort mentioned earlier.

I'm hoping that the LCU carnage inflicted on the IJA has reduced the number of experienced units available for deployment by DAW HQ. On the air-anti ship front I am not so hopeful since they can redeploy so quickly. Heck, Kushiro is only 13 hexes from Tokyo itself. When the fleet moves on to Hakodate, only 9 hexes! There is a slim chance that a kamikaze whirlwind will require a pause due to replenishing aircraft and we might get in that Hakodate follow on invasion then.

[witpqs]

Spotted!

[witpqs]

1945 February 07

The Empire captured:


The Allies captured:
Pagai-eilanden is occupied by the Allies
Allied forces CAPTURE Wuchang !!!

There were Imperial amphibious or airborne operations at:


There were Allied amphibious or airborne operations at:
Sepandjang

Imperial Naval Bombardments


Allied Naval Bombardments:



Our subs are conducting secret activities.

Good day on the ground in China, with major casualties inflicted!

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Ground combat at 89,54 (near Wuhu)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 12162 troops, 311 guns, 1533 vehicles, Assault Value = 1099

Defending force 29034 troops, 207 guns, 14 vehicles, Assault Value = 862

Allied adjusted assault: 532

Japanese adjusted defense: 1189

Allied assault odds: 1 to 2

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), op mode(-), leaders(+), disruption(-)
fatigue(-), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
3083 casualties reported
Squads: 15 destroyed, 242 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 15 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 29 disabled
Guns lost 33 (2 destroyed, 31 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
203 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 38 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled
Guns lost 6 (1 destroyed, 5 disabled)
Vehicles lost 113 (17 destroyed, 96 disabled)

Assaulting units:
640th Tank Destroyer Battalion
711th Tank Battalion
2/4th Armoured Regiment
192nd Tank Battalion
II Aus Corps Engineer Battalion
1st Army Tank Regiment
706th Tank Battalion
632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion
775th Tank Battalion
Provisionl Tank Brigade
2/6th Armoured Regiment
637th Tank Destroyer Battalion
2nd Australian Division
85th Medium Regiment
2/11th Field Regiment
87th Medium Regiment
2/9th Field Regiment
251st Field Artillery Battalion
2nd Medium Regiment
18th SP Field Artillery Regiment
1st Medium Regiment
134th (East Ang) Regiment
56th Australian Lt AA Regiment
57th Australian Lt AA Regiment
2nd Australian Hvy AA Regiment
2/1st Med Regiment
208th Coast AA Regiment
X US Corps
134th Medium Regiment

Defending units:
111th Division
1st Ind.Infantry Brigade
25th Division


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Ground combat at Wuchang (84,51)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 34445 troops, 441 guns, 167 vehicles, Assault Value = 895

Defending force 5313 troops, 69 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 148

Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 1

Allied adjusted assault: 1042

Japanese adjusted defense: 113

Allied assault odds: 9 to 1 (fort level 1)

Allied forces CAPTURE Wuchang !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
1975 casualties reported
Squads: 60 destroyed, 25 disabled
Non Combat: 57 destroyed, 16 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 48 (42 destroyed, 6 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 5
Units destroyed 1

Allied ground losses:
332 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 42 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
6th New Chinese Corps
9th Australian Division
544th Field Artillery Battalion
14th Indian Light AA Regiment
II Australian Corps
517th Field Artillery Battalion
101st Heavy AA Regiment
8th Mahratta AT Gun Regiment
208th Field Regiment

Defending units:
64th Inf Group Brigade
3rd South Seas Det.
9th Ind. Field Artillery Battalion
22nd Ind.Mixed Brigade
26th AA Regiment
10th Ind. Field Artillery Battalion


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Ground combat at 85,61 (near Foochow)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 4335 troops, 74 guns, 25 vehicles, Assault Value = 133

Defending force 2195 troops, 17 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 21

Allied adjusted assault: 63

Japanese adjusted defense: 13

Allied assault odds: 4 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
640 casualties reported
Squads: 11 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 18 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units retreated 3

Allied ground losses:
36 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
22nd Australian Brigade

Defending units:
2nd RGC Route Brigade
Amoy Special Base Force
1st JAAF AF Coy


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Our spearhead attacked just as a second division arrived from the east and I presume they took a large share of the casualties. Some of our armored units have disruption in the teens so all units could attack again, but they will wait. Tomorrow two more Australian divisions arrive to greatly boost an attack that will be made the following day. The high casualties among the defenders knocked out pretty near a division's worth of AV.

Many of the Imperial units south of our main spearhead are making a beeline for Shanghai. After the spearhead clears the current hex, one armored unit will break off to interrupt potential strategic movement to Nanking or beyond.

Fighter sweeps of Nagasaki/Sasebo tomorrow. Unless there is disaster, the next day will be night bombing (B-29-1 groups)/sweeps/day bombing (B-29-25 groups) as laid out in some previous posts.

Next attack at Batangas tomorrow.

The invasion fleet has been spotted! About 1/4 to 1/3 of the TFs/convoys were spotted to some degree, which of course is plenty for the Japanese to get the idea. Rain tomorrow, hopefully good for fleet defense but always a roll of the dice.

In other news, Fresno has built level 9 fortifications. We're safe.

China west.

[witpqs]

China east.

[witpqs]

Philippines.

[witpqs]

Home Islands west.

[witpqs]

Home Islands east.

[witpqs]

Fleet.

[jwolf]

In other news, Fresno has built level 9 fortifications. We're safe.

[:D] I know you get points for developing your bases, but I thought it was for ports and airfields only. Do forts count?

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: jwolf

In other news, Fresno has built level 9 fortifications. We're safe.

[:D] I know you get points for developing your bases, but I thought it was for ports and airfields only. Do forts count?

No points for forts, but I keep my engineers working to build their experience. I don't know if that is witpqs' rationale or if he has another one.

[Drakanel]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: jwolf

In other news, Fresno has built level 9 fortifications. We're safe.

[:D] I know you get points for developing your bases, but I thought it was for ports and airfields only. Do forts count?

No points for forts, but I keep my engineers working to build their experience. I don't know if that is witpqs' rationale or if he has another one.

A very valid reason can also be: I have the supply and it does not cost me anything, and they are units I can't / won't buy. So why not?

Just because turning every single little village in an impregnable fortress capable of withstanding a full assault of the Axis is cool! [:D]