The Accidental War Obvert vs Lowpe

[Lowpe]

721 repair points needed to fix 1 point of system damage on the Haruna. There is quite a bit of Naval Squads here contributing to the repair, but here you can see what adding one AR can do. Imagine, having 10 here....those 10 would repair approximately 1.1 system damage a day.

[Lowpe]

April 7th, 1942

Conflict Palembang...

Clear weather, this will be bad....but it probably will be bad no matter what.

[Lowpe]

Tone nailed twice with 8 inch penetrating hits on the opening salvo at 10K. Downhill from there.

[Lowpe]

Allies now will pursue their advantage...I expect the kitchen sink here.

[Lowpe]

A little ray of sunshine, but the cost is too high.

[Lowpe]

The light cruisers

[Lowpe]

We are still fighting, and losing.[;)]

[Lowpe]

There is no hope for any of the cruisers to escape...

[Lowpe]

Really? Swamp terrain, forts, not over-stacked.

[Lowpe]

At sea the carnage continues...

[Lowpe]

Trying to escape, but there is no hope of it...not shown are the horde of PT, MTL fights that occur.

[Lowpe]

We are giving it the college try...

[Lowpe]

Can't buy a hit.

[Lowpe]

And now come the sub attacks...there are probably a dozen.

[Lowpe]

More good news.[;)]

[Lowpe]

Even more ships bombard Palembang during the day.

[Lowpe]

Palembang finally gets attacked.

[Lowpe]

Palembang will fall tomorrow.

Ground combat at Palembang (48,91)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 33717 troops, 474 guns, 529 vehicles, Assault Value = 1549

Defending force 15794 troops, 218 guns, 85 vehicles, Assault Value = 395

Allied adjusted assault: 910

Japanese adjusted defense: 433

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

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 0

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

Japanese ground losses:
2718 casualties reported
Squads: 44 destroyed, 71 disabled
Non Combat: 13 destroyed, 60 disabled
Engineers: 17 destroyed, 24 disabled
Guns lost 53 (16 destroyed, 37 disabled)
Vehicles lost 7 (1 destroyed, 6 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1155 casualties reported
Squads: 13 destroyed, 345 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 43 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 36 disabled
Guns lost 23 (6 destroyed, 17 disabled)
Vehicles lost 38 (1 destroyed, 37 disabled)

Assaulting units:
25th Australian Brigade
255th Armoured Brigade
10th LH Cav Regiment
16th Light Cavalry Regiment
17th Australian Brigade
45th Indian Brigade
182nd Infantry Regiment
754th Tank Battalion
21st Australian Brigade
16th Australian Brigade
13th Australian Brigade
17th Indian Division
1st RAA Med Arty Regiment
21/22 Field Arty Regiment
2nd RAA Med Arty Regiment
2nd Indian Coastal Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
43rd Nav Gd /1
4th/A Div /2
41st Nav Gd /1
4th Ind Engineer Regiment
23rd Ind Engineer Regiment
11th Garrison Unit /1
15th Ind Engineer Regiment
4th/C Division
4th/B Div /1
Yokosuka 4th SNLF
Sasebo 8th SNLF /1
2nd Ship Engineer Regiment
7th Field Construction Battalion
26th Fld AA Gun Co
34th Field AA Battalion
47th Const Co
31st Field AA Battalion
43rd Const Co
15th Const Co
9th JAAF AF Coy
33rd Field Const Co
34th Field Const Co
102nd Ship Eng Coy
302nd Ship Eng Coy
3rd Air Division
202nd Ship Eng Coy
33rd JAAF AF Coy

[Lowpe]

Plane losses for the day.

[Lowpe]

A good day, not.[:)]