Cont. - Victory by both Land and Sea
I was most worried about the situation at Horn Island itself, because the previous day's attacks had been terrible and were STILL showing level 6 forts for Japan. I was very worried: it had 6 forts, the landings and attacks had devastated our assault units, and John's attack on the 4th had thrown my plans into chaos and disrupted potential reinforcements. Here was the combat from the 4th.
Ground combat at Horn Island (91,128)
Allied Shock attack
Attacking force 17367 troops, 518 guns, 396 vehicles, Assault Value = 906
Defending force 22089 troops, 278 guns, 144 vehicles, Assault Value = 706
Allied adjusted assault: 144
Japanese adjusted defense: 431
Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 6)
Combat modifiers
Defender: forts(+), disruption(-), supply(-)
Attacker: shock(+)
Japanese ground losses:
1651 casualties reported
Squads: 9 destroyed, 118 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 25 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 25 disabled
Guns lost 40 (4 destroyed, 36 disabled)
Vehicles lost 15 (2 destroyed, 13 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
3822 casualties reported
Squads: 33 destroyed, 210 disabled
Non Combat: 89 destroyed, 59 disabled
Engineers: 40 destroyed, 30 disabled
Guns lost 73 (9 destroyed, 64 disabled)
Vehicles lost 164 (70 destroyed, 94 disabled)
Units destroyed 2
But here's the fun part. In desperation, on the 5th we launched numerous bombardments in the night as well as large-scale bombing runs in the day. This apparently had some sort of effect, much more than I was expecting. In the shock attack of the day (someone explain atolls to me cuz I'm not setting them to shock, in what conditions is this automated beyond the initial landings?) somehow, someway the forts were down to 0 and in a very nice shock attack we took the base outright. That was a quick 3-day victory for an atoll with a 28k garrison and 700+AV.
This was my favorite part of the turn, far more enjoyable than the carrier air battle.
" - BBfanboy
; Julia Child
