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

[BBfanboy]

witpqs: Another two divisions will arrive tomorrow but too late to participate.

Perhaps those two divisions arriving late to Kurume could be in Reserve (Pursuit) mode? Following his cripples to the next hex would be a coup!

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

witpqs: Another two divisions will arrive tomorrow but too late to participate.

Perhaps those two divisions arriving late to Kurume could be in Reserve (Pursuit) mode? Following his cripples to the next hex would be a coup!

Well, the attack is ordered so will take place next turn, but those two divisions are still in Kumamoto moving to Kurume. They have enough miles accumulated so far that I know they will arrive, but of course I won't be able to give them orders until I get the turn back, after the attack has taken place.

With fortifications still at 3 I don't know if the attack will take the place. So maybe the next attack? But also there are Imperials moving toward Kurume from Nagasaki/Sasebo and I don't know when they will arrive. Maybe those were in strat mode and got cut off, now changing back to move mode? That would be a best case.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

witpqs: Five battleship TF with combined 17 battleships will bombard tonight followed by additional air strikes tomorrow in support of the ground assault.

17 BBs!!! Five more than the entire IJN had through the war![X(] If that doesn't make their heads spin, nothing will!

Some of the assaults at Kumamoto had more BBs in support but I didn't think to count them up and post it!

[witpqs]

1945 June 13

The Empire captured:


The Allies captured:


There were Imperial amphibious or airborne operations at:


There were Allied amphibious or airborne operations at:


Imperial Naval Bombardments


Allied Naval Bombardments:
Allied Ships Bombarding Shanghai
Allied Ships Bombarding Shanghai
Allied Ships Bombarding Shanghai
Allied Ships Bombarding Shanghai
Allied Ships Bombarding Shanghai


Our subs are conducting secret activities.

China Outback.

[witpqs]

China east. 2385 Imperial AV yesterday.

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Ground combat at Shanghai (92,55)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 240276 troops, 296 guns, 175 vehicles, Assault Value = 6883

Defending force 100011 troops, 619 guns, 181 vehicles, Assault Value = 2266

Allied adjusted assault: 6496

Japanese adjusted defense: 1877

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

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 3

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

Japanese ground losses:
8086 casualties reported
Squads: 85 destroyed, 588 disabled
Non Combat: 30 destroyed, 119 disabled
Engineers: 11 destroyed, 11 disabled
Guns lost 53 (11 destroyed, 42 disabled)
Vehicles lost 26 (12 destroyed, 14 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
18283 casualties reported
Squads: 466 destroyed, 1186 disabled
Non Combat: 43 destroyed, 126 disabled
Engineers: 30 destroyed, 105 disabled
Guns lost 8 (3 destroyed, 5 disabled)

Assaulting units:
34th Chinese Corps
10th Chinese Corps
96th Chinese Corps
44th Chinese Corps
40th Chinese Corps
29th Chinese Corps
24th Chinese Corps
70th Chinese Corps
42nd Chinese Corps
52nd Chinese Corps
27th Chinese Corps
26th Chinese Corps
65th Chinese Corps
47th Chinese Corps
60th Chinese Corps
11th Chinese Corps
41st Chinese Corps
77th Chinese Corps
28th Chinese Corps
95th Chinese Corps
45th Chinese Corps
2nd Prov Chinese Corps
53rd Chinese Corps
59th Chinese Corps
85th Chinese Corps
19th Chinese Corps
63rd Chinese Corps
2nd New Chinese Corps
9th Group Army
20th Group Army
9th War Area
3rd War Area
134th Medium Regiment
2/1st Med Regiment
19th Group Army
134th (East Ang) Regiment
85th Medium Regiment
X' Force
Lusu War Area
6th War Area
Z' Force
1st Front
87th Medium Regiment
21st Group Army
35th Group Army
1st Medium Regiment
16th Group Army
25th Group Army
18th SP Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Medium Regiment
22nd Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
133rd Division
6th Ind.Infantry Brigade
24th/A Division
90th Ind.Mixed Brigade
58th Ind.Mixed Brigade
63rd Infantry Brigade
8th Ind Engineer Regiment
72nd Infantry Brigade
132nd Division
7th Ind.Infantry Brigade
77th Infantry Regiment
17th/C Division
24th/C Division
161st Division
56th Infantry Brigade
62nd Infantry Brigade
89th Ind.Mixed Brigade
3rd Mixed Brigade
23rd Division
25th Division
41st/B Division
28th RF Gun Battalion
184th JAAF AF Bn
Shanghai Special Base Force
11th Field Artillery Regiment
Tonei Hvy Gun Regiment
57th JAAF AF Bn
13th Air Division
47th JAAF AF Bn
37th JAAF AF Bn
220th JAAF AF Bn
56th JAAF AF Bn
22nd AA Regiment
41st Ind Engineer Regiment
4th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
5th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion
11th Army
30th JAAF AF Bn
129th JAAF AF Bn
60th JAAF AF Bn
104th JAAF AF Bn
185th JAAF AF Bn
Shanghai SNLF
219th JAAF AF Bn
56th JNAF AF Unit
China Area Fleet
Chugoku JNAF Base Force


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These results are much better than last time, with much lower casualties for us and a pretty good batch of disabled squads for the enemy. I'm making the Allied battleships available for at least one omre round of bombardments but I am not certain when the ground troops will have recovered adequate disruption for the next assault. No battleships are close enough to bombard tonight.

[witpqs]

China frontier.

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Ground combat at Tientsin (95,41)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 79281 troops, 15 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2665

Defending force 8578 troops, 45 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 246

Allied adjusted assault: 1698

Japanese adjusted defense: 785

Allied assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 4)

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 3

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

Japanese ground losses:
1964 casualties reported
Squads: 43 destroyed, 44 disabled
Non Combat: 48 destroyed, 30 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 13 (8 destroyed, 5 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
879 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 61 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled

Assaulting units:
92nd Chinese Corps
88th Chinese Corps
71st Chinese Corps
36th Chinese Corps
82nd Chinese Corps
84th Chinese Corps
61st Chinese Corps
18th Chinese Corps
48th Chinese Corps
94th Chinese Corps
32nd Group Army

Defending units:
RGC Tax Police Regiment
5th Ind.Mixed Brigade
5th Mongol Cavalry Division
7th NCPC Infantry Brigade


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Ground combat at 100,39 (near Chihfeng)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 14064 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 524

Defending force 1537 troops, 1 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 25

Allied adjusted assault: 234

Japanese adjusted defense: 5

Allied assault odds: 46 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
1007 casualties reported
Squads: 86 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 14 destroyed, 22 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units retreated 2

Allied ground losses:
83 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
13th Chinese Corps
38th Chinese Corps

Defending units:
3rd Manchukuo Cav Brigade
7th Manchukuo Cav Brigade


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The two pursuits in this area are now running into each other (see map). At Tientin our troops are not even breathing hard and will continue attacking.

[witpqs]

Philippines. 936 Imperial AV yesterday.

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Ground combat at Manila (79,77)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 1887 troops, 150 guns, 140 vehicles, Assault Value = 1324

Defending force 47127 troops, 315 guns, 157 vehicles, Assault Value = 933

Japanese ground losses:
298 casualties reported
Squads: 7 destroyed, 15 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
2nd Regiment
7th Indian Division
1st Regiment
24th (Sep) Infantry Regiment
8th NZ Brigade
14th NZ Brigade
15th NZ Brigade
81st (West African) Division
462nd Airborn Field Artillery Battalion
2nd RAA Jungle Regiment
148th Field Artillery Battalion
134th Field Artillery Battalion
131st Field Artillery Battalion
147th Field Artillery Battalion
205th Field Artillery Battalion
260th Field Artillery Battalion
Provisional GMC Grp

Defending units:
13th Ind.Mixed Regiment
77th Infantry Brigade
1st Ind.Mixed Regiment
18th Tank Regiment
6th Division
79th Brigade
39th/A Division
19th Naval Guard Unit
102nd Infantry Regiment
66th Infantry Regiment
39th/B Division
I./4th Infantry Battalion
53rd Infantry Brigade
14th Naval Construction Battalion
7th Ship Engineer Regiment
2nd Army
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Field Artillery Regiment
41st Army
30th JNAF AF Unit
14th Area Army
48th Field Artillery Regiment
2nd South Seas Det.
48th Field AA Battalion
9th RF Gun Battalion
180th JAAF AF Bn


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We are up to 2,327 AV for the next assault, compared to 2,307 AV yesterday. The heavy casuakties from today's bombardment are encouraging! Tomorrow we'll figure out which unit was destroyed today.

[witpqs]

Home Islands west.

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Ground combat at Kurume (103,58)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 17584 troops, 600 guns, 1002 vehicles, Assault Value = 1219

Defending force 14738 troops, 339 guns, 708 vehicles, Assault Value = 328

Allied adjusted assault: 282

Japanese adjusted defense: 57

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

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 2

Combat modifiers
Defender: disruption(-), preparation(-), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
609 casualties reported
Squads: 26 destroyed, 33 disabled
Non Combat: 17 destroyed, 23 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Guns lost 24 (3 destroyed, 21 disabled)
Vehicles lost 135 (97 destroyed, 38 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
41 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 19 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 4 (2 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 47 (10 destroyed, 37 disabled)

Assaulting units:
2nd USMC Tank Battalion
24th Infantry Division
670th Tank Destroyer Battalion
710th Tank Battalion
41st Infantry Division
1st USMC Tank Battalion
766th Tank Battalion
193rd Tank Battalion
38th Infantry Division
767th Tank Battalion
82nd Mortar Battalion
226th Field Artillery Battalion
7th USMC Field Artillery Battalion
4th USMC Field Artillery Battalion
223rd Field Artillery Battalion
2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion
1st USMC Field Artillery Battalion
10th USMC Field Artillery Battalion
11th USMC Field Artillery Battalion

Defending units:
4th Tank Division
212th Division
206th Division
13th Tank Regiment
15th Tank Regiment
11th Tank Regiment
1st Tank Regiment
312th Division
3rd Tank Regiment
14th Tank Regiment
56th Depot Division
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
2nd RF Gun Battalion
107th Ind.Mixed Brigade
67th Field AA Battalion
3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
9th Ind. Field Artillery Regiment
23rd AA Regiment
36th Field AA Battalion


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We missed 5 to 1 and siezing the base by only 3 adjusted AV! Tomorrow all units present will attack, minus one armored unit and the division which attacked today as both will recover disruption. Of course there still might be Imperials arriving from Nagasaki/Sasebo that change the equation for tomorrow's attack - we shall see.

Kumamoto has fully repaired, landed more support units and large elements of two divisions. Those parital divisions will provide garrison and defense until other units arrive, and the USA 6th ID now moves on Kurume to join the others. The 5th USMC Div should complete the move to Kagoshima tomorrow. The airfield built to 30% toward size 3. The goal is to get local CAP up quickly so the carriers can leave to replenish for the Tsu invasion.

Yesterday Kagoshima recon showed 17 units, 76,380 troops, 385 guns, and 36 AFV. Today shows 17 units, 74,820 troops, 434 guns, and 39 AFV.

[witpqs]

Home Islands east. One more day for the Tsu invaders to transition to combat mode and many attack transports are already on site.

[witpqs]

Air losses. We had many dive bombers going after targets that had already left Kurume. Doh!

[witpqs]

Kurume. It looks like the 48th Tank Rgt was the unit destroyed yesterday in the first assault.

[witpqs]

The complete combat report, for combat junkies.

[witpqs]

This is a test of alignment with the Kurume information presented above. The forum makes aligning text in columns a major pain.

06___06___
_12___13__
_X____X___ 107th Ind.Mixed Brigade
_X____X___ 11th Tank Regiment
_X____X___ 13th Tank Regiment
_X____X___ 14th Tank Regiment
_X____X___ 15th Tank Regiment
_X____X___ 1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
_X____X___ 1st Tank Regiment
_X____X___ 206th Division
_X____X___ 212th Division
_X____X___ 23rd AA Regiment
_X____X___ 2nd RF Gun Battalion
_X____X___ 312th Division
_X____X___ 36th Field AA Battalion
_X____X___ 3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
_X____X___ 3rd Tank Regiment
_X________ 48th Tank Regiment
_X____X___ 4th Tank Division
_X____X___ 56th Depot Division
_X____X___ 67th Field AA Battalion
_X____X___ 9th Ind. Field Artillery Regiment

[BBfanboy]

You lowered the forts a level at Shanghai, Tientsin and Kurume. Lookin' good for the next round of attacks. [:)]

[adarbrauner]

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Well that's at the very end, but there's all the AAR to learn

You're very funny, pleasure to read;
Also your deployment and conductin at the begginijng of the campaign is terribly interesting.

BTW, all the consideration for Opponent for holding the struggle.

does he have an AAR too?

[RogerJNeilson]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Kurume. It looks like the 48th Tank Rgt was the unit destroyed yesterday in the first assault.

How are you pulling this out of Intel Monkey? The last version I looked at didn't give anything like this without having to do a whole load of cut and paste....is there a new version?

Roger

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Roger Neilson 3

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Kurume. It looks like the 48th Tank Rgt was the unit destroyed yesterday in the first assault.

How are you pulling this out of Intel Monkey? The last version I looked at didn't give anything like this without having to do a whole load of cut and paste....is there a new version?

Roger

It's not from Intel Monkey, it's custom but I will be able to paste that code into Intel Monkey for that and similar uses.

One problem is presentation in an AAR, because 1) the forum strips out leading white space, 2) compresses white space within lines, and 3) does not have any proportional spaced fonts. The "code" markup is no good because it only works for small snippets. The .jpg you are looking at is the output text file shown in Notepad, where I took a screen pic. When I tried to post the text itself it was not lining up correctly. The version changed to _ instead of . seems to work, because _ is the same width as X and as numerals.

If you want to try it out let's take this to email.

At the moment (until it's a part of Intel Monkey) you have to take a few steps (but they are easy), including copying the section from the combat report into a file. Look at the attached screen pic. When I did that running list for Kumamoto, each day I would create an input file from that day and update the list of files to include that new file, run the program to create the new output.



EDIT to add: Although I am at the moment just copying the needed section direct from the combat reports, (because I open all the reports in an editor to look at them and write the AAR posts every turn anyway) you can also copy the sections out of Intel Monkey which does allow copying in the display windows.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

You lowered the forts a level at Shanghai, Tientsin and Kurume. Lookin' good for the next round of attacks. [:)]

Yes! Tientsin was hardly even any bother for the attacking troops so they will likely plow through one attack after another nad take the place in a couple of days. At Kurume the only uncertainty is what arrives when from Nagasaki/Sasebo as they try to escape becoming trapped. Shanghai will take more because of needed recovery pauses. [:)]

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: adarbrauner

Subscribed;

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Well that's at the very end, but there's all the AAR to learn

You're very funny, pleasure to read;
Also your deployment and conductin at the begginijng of the campaign is terribly interesting.

BTW, all the consideration for Opponent for holding the struggle.

does he have an AAR too?

Welcome and thanks! Walter did have an AAR but he didn't have time to keep it up. IIRC it was called "A Southwestern Rumble" and you might find it via search, it started around the same time as mine. BTW from going back and doing spot checks recently I've cleared it for Walter to read up to page 100 of this AAR and this morning he told me he is up to page 65.A lot of Allied pain and frustration in those early pages! [:D]

[RangerJoe]

Him reading about your pain, suffering and anguish is probably comforting to him now and maybe keeping his interest in the game.