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

[witpqs]

Tokyo. The highest Fires value seen during the replay was 191,700. Damage is accruing, whether enough results are obtained will be a matter of interpretation.

[Drakanel]

Victory!

Nah not really, there's still a lot of red dots on the map...

Still, quite a nice progression. I look forward to the next landings on Shikoku.

Also, once you take Chingking you will have a lot of free troops. Will they march towards the Hankow - Hangchow - Shangai enclave? Or move north, towards Korea? Or, prepare for another maritime invasion perhaps?

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Drakanel

Victory!

Nah not really, there's still a lot of red dots on the map...

Still, quite a nice progression. I look forward to the next landings on Shikoku.

Also, once you take Chingking you will have a lot of free troops. Will they march towards the Hankow - Hangchow - Shangai enclave? Or move north, towards Korea? Or, prepare for another maritime invasion perhaps?

It will be great to get the other Allies freed from operations in China, but very few Chinese Army units can leave China. Lots of units are already marching out of the Chungking plain as they have upgraded to '45 squads. Supply on the plain has become slightly scarce, perhaps due to combat in Chungking, so maybe I should send out more with '43 squads and upgrade them closer to the coast.

Certainly Chinese Army units can move into Manchuria (I think they can, I had better check with Walter to be sure), so they'll provide a nice second front (so to speak) when the Soviets invade.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Tokyo. The highest Fires value seen during the replay was 191,700. Damage is accruing, whether enough results are obtained will be a matter of interpretation.

No damage to resources there - do you think you could put just one incendiary bomb down the coal mine shaft? That otta do it! [8D]

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

No damage to resources there - do you think you could put just one incendiary bomb down the coal mine shaft? That otta do it! [8D]

Does that ever bother you about all the alien invasion movies (and of course the various iterations of the Death Star technology in Star Wars movies)? The aliens travel across 50 billion light years and have technology where their toothpicks must make our entire planets look lame, and they always leave themselves open to one Hail-Mary type play that a sixth grader could design a defense against.

Nah, I'll bet all the coal mine entrances in Tokyo are camouflaged, defended, protected by multiple layers of decoys (mallards), etc. Even a Gorn couldn't sniff his way in.

[Rafid]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

A surprise!

Please don't tell us, Andav considers this over! [:-] Would be a real shame - there seems so much left to do.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Rafid

ORIGINAL: witpqs

A surprise!

Please don't tell us, Andav considers this over! [:-] Would be a real shame - there seems so much left to do.

Not quite. He says the Empire is in horrible shape. We'll see how far into the HI invasions we continue.

[witpqs]

1945 April 11

The Empire captured:


The Allies captured:
Allied forces CAPTURE Tsinan !!!

There were Imperial amphibious or airborne operations at:


There were Allied amphibious or airborne operations at:


Imperial Naval Bombardments


Allied Naval Bombardments:



Our subs are conducting secret activities.

Tsinan falls hard.

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Ground combat at Tsinan (93,44)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 2868 troops, 3 guns, 536 vehicles, Assault Value = 547

Defending force 3169 troops, 38 guns, 50 vehicles, Assault Value = 30

Allied adjusted assault: 146

Japanese adjusted defense: 11

Allied assault odds: 13 to 1 (fort level 3)

Allied forces CAPTURE Tsinan !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
1361 casualties reported
Squads: 88 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 84 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 33 (33 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 38 (38 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 5

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
2/4th Armoured Regiment
Provisionl Tank Brigade
192nd Tank Battalion
1st Army Tank Regiment
96th Chinese Division

Defending units:
17th RGC Temp. Division
4th Cavalry Brigade
8th NCPC Infantry Brigade
3rd Ching An Tui Brigade
5th NCPC Infantry Brigade


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The 4th Cavalry Brigade just arrived and did not attack. They will remain as garrison while the armor pursues the reteated foes. They should get one attack in before another armored unit arrives at Weihsien to cut off further retreat toward that city. Now without fortifications the Imperials will have a very hard time of it.

The ghost convoy stayed under heavy weather but finally was paid off anyway.

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Okha at 132,30

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Allied aircraft
F4U-1D Corsair x 40
F6F-5 Hellcat x 21
SBD-5 Dauntless x 20
TBM-3 Avenger x 21

Allied aircraft losses
SBD-5 Dauntless: 4 damaged

Japanese Ships
xAK Nanman Maru, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Eiwa Maru, Bomb hits 3, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAK Sanko Maru, Bomb hits 4, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAK Onoe Maru, Bomb hits 5, heavy fires, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x SBD-5 Dauntless releasing from 3000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
15 x TBM-3 Avenger bombing from 5000 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb GP Bomb
4 x SBD-5 Dauntless releasing from 4000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
6 x TBM-3 Avenger launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 22.4in Mk 13 Torp.
6 x SBD-5 Dauntless releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
4 x SBD-5 Dauntless releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb

Nanman Maru dead in the water ...
Eiwa Maru dead in the water ...
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Nanman Maru
Sanko Maru dead in the water ...
Onoe Maru dead in the water ...
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Eiwa Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Onoe Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Sanko Maru


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China west.

[witpqs]

China east.

[witpqs]

Philippines.

[witpqs]

Home Islands west.

[witpqs]

Home Islands east.

[witpqs]

Tokyo. Our night B-29 groups made a number of hits despite heavy night fighter presence and brought Fires up to 90,000. Only 3 Superfortresses were lost. Increases in damage to a number of industrial facilities are evident from recon with hopefully more to come.

[witpqs]

1945 April 12

The Empire captured:


The Allies captured:
Allied forces CAPTURE Paoting !!!

There were Imperial amphibious or airborne operations at:


There were Allied amphibious or airborne operations at:


Imperial Naval Bombardments


Allied Naval Bombardments:



Our subs are conducting secret activities.

More pressure in northern China.

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Ground combat at Paoting (94,40)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3132 troops, 18 guns, 386 vehicles, Assault Value = 271

Defending force 975 troops, 9 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 37

Allied adjusted assault: 244

Japanese adjusted defense: 13

Allied assault odds: 18 to 1 (fort level 1)

Allied forces CAPTURE Paoting !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: forts(+), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
517 casualties reported
Squads: 22 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 10 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 10 (9 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Units retreated 2

Allied ground losses:
24 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
254th Armoured Brigade
150th RAC Regiment
17th Indian Light AA Regiment

Defending units:
21st RGC Temp./A Division
21st RGC Temp./B Division


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Ground combat at Taiyuan (91,40)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 6391 troops, 77 guns, 441 vehicles, Assault Value = 344

Defending force 1224 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 53

Allied adjusted assault: 317

Japanese adjusted defense: 67

Allied assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 3)

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 2

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

Japanese ground losses:
82 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
20 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
50th Tank Brigade
268th Motorised Brigade

Defending units:
3rd NCPC Infantry Brigade


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Our forces at Paoting must wait for garrison and additional assault forces before moving forward. Taiyuan will fall tomorrow; it would have fallen today had engineers been available to reduce the fortification level before the final assault phase.

China west. Attach at Lanchow tomorrow, and at Chungking.

[witpqs]

China east. The Imperials have been caught in the open near Tsinan and will suffer armored overrun.

[witpqs]

Philippines. We have large forces on the move.

[witpqs]

Home Islands west.

[witpqs]

Home Islands east. Sweeps over Tokyo tomorrow. The bombers are still keeping the hangers warm.

[witpqs]

Air losses. The Empire's sweeps of our fighters operatins out of Chengting swung in our favor today.

[witpqs]

Tokyo. The Fires continue.