Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (Allies)

[seydlitz_slith]

Meanwhile, storms at Okha cancelled the airstrikes of the KB. That means that I have to hang around for another turn to pound his units with my carrier based airpower.

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Here is what the northern front looks like. I will be moving additional units up to Hailor to hold there should he attack:

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More bloody skies over Vladivostok

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Meanwhile, over in North China I captured Chengchow and my opponent counterattacked unsuccessfully at Tsiaotso.
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Ground combat at 83,52

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 28810 troops, 224 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 850

Defending force 17528 troops, 116 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 389

Japanese adjusted assault: 1376

Allied adjusted defense: 119

Japanese assault odds: 11 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
602 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 38 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 19 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
7402 casualties reported
Squads: 101 destroyed, 14 disabled
Non Combat: 220 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 12 destroyed, 10 disabled
Guns lost 4 (4 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 3


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
3rd Division
6th Division

Defending units:
37th Chinese Corps
20th Chinese Corps
58th Chinese Corps

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Ground combat at Chengchow (88,44)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 29350 troops, 208 guns, 32 vehicles, Assault Value = 757

Defending force 15482 troops, 97 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 218

Japanese adjusted assault: 421

Allied adjusted defense: 64

Japanese assault odds: 6 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Chengchow !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
1335 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 99 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 38 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Vehicles lost 3 (0 destroyed, 3 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
9198 casualties reported
Squads: 83 destroyed, 8 disabled
Non Combat: 302 destroyed, 44 disabled
Engineers: 64 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 21 (21 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 9


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
35th Division
8th Ind.Mixed Brigade
7th Ind.Mixed Brigade
3rd Ind.Mixed Brigade

Defending units:
40th Chinese Corps
98th Chinese Corps
15th Chinese Corps
7th Construction Regiment
10th Chinese Base Force
24th Group Army
39th Group Army
1st War Area
3rd Construction Regiment


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Ground combat at Tsiaotso (88,42)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 16317 troops, 115 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 389

Defending force 18971 troops, 144 guns, 42 vehicles, Assault Value = 487

Allied adjusted assault: 74

Japanese adjusted defense: 850

Allied assault odds: 1 to 11

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

Japanese ground losses:
67 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
1940 casualties reported
Squads: 18 destroyed, 102 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 107 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled


Assaulting units:
27th Chinese Corps
33rd Chinese Corps
34th Chinese Corps
5th New Chinese Corps
7th Group Army

Defending units:
27th Division
16th Ind.Mixed Brigade

[seydlitz_slith]

Meanwhile in Southern China I got my head handed to me at Pucheng and was sent packing towards Foochow:
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Ground combat at Pucheng (86,57)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 4142 troops, 40 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 127

Defending force 20752 troops, 76 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 642

Japanese adjusted assault: 0

Allied adjusted defense: 471

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 99 (fort level 2)

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

Japanese ground losses:
2174 casualties reported
Squads: 9 destroyed, 149 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 73 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
78 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Assaulting units:
115th Infantry Regiment

Defending units:
70th Chinese Corps
86th Chinese Corps
32nd Group Army

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Ground combat at Pucheng (86,57)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 19434 troops, 76 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 636

Defending force 1989 troops, 40 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1

Allied adjusted assault: 652

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 652 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), disruption(-), preparation(-)
fatigue(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
799 casualties reported
Squads: 55 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 45 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 4 (3 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Units retreated 1



Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
70th Chinese Corps
86th Chinese Corps
32nd Group Army

Defending units:
115th Infantry Regiment

[seydlitz_slith]

Meanwhile, over on Luzon he tried to kick me out of Lucena in the south and failed. Now his unit is trapped and cut off. Up north, I further solidified my advance...
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Ground combat at Lucena (79,79)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 1148 troops, 4 guns, 42 vehicles, Assault Value = 358

Defending force 3656 troops, 52 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 126

Japanese adjusted assault: 28

Allied adjusted defense: 22

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0

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

Japanese ground losses:
26 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 3 (0 destroyed, 3 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
110 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Assaulting units:
9th Infantry Regiment
48th Recon Regiment
16th Recon Regiment
20th Infantry Regiment
16th Engineer Regiment

Defending units:
51st PA Infantry Division

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Ground combat at 81,76

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 1080 troops, 0 guns, 102 vehicles, Assault Value = 58

Defending force 9 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 53

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 53 to 1

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


Allied ground losses:
9 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 14 (14 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 1


Assaulting units:
2nd Tank Regiment

Defending units:
3rd/12th PA Inf Battalion
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Ground combat at Lucena (79,79)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3580 troops, 52 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 120

Defending force 12624 troops, 90 guns, 84 vehicles, Assault Value = 354

Allied adjusted assault: 38

Japanese adjusted defense: 154

Allied assault odds: 1 to 4

Combat modifiers
Defender: op mode(-), preparation(-)
Attacker: leaders(+), leaders(-)

Japanese ground losses:
35 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled


Allied ground losses:
596 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 51 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 35 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Assaulting units:
51st PA Infantry Division

Defending units:
9th Infantry Regiment
16th Recon Regiment
20th Infantry Regiment
48th Recon Regiment
16th Engineer Regiment

[aztez]

Those air raids seems to inflict very low numbers on actually downed fighters and bombers.

I would assume the op losses were the main losses here so far. I see that your opponent is keeping significant numbers of aircraft on south. I wonder whether he is overstacking here quite a bit.

Another suprise was to see port hits on those submarines. Those guys really need to be out on the sea as much as possible. I doubt they were out of fuel just yet since the campaign go started. Good for you though since few sunken submarines is valuable.

Nice going here.

[seydlitz_slith]

I captured Tulagi unopposed this turn.

At Tarakan we continue to hold on. In Malaya I am still waiting on my troops to move from Singora to Alor Star.
Ground combat at Tarakan (67,91)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 1057 troops, 30 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 21

Defending force 978 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 29



Assaulting units:
VII KNIL Battalion
Tarakan Coastal Gun Battalion
Tarakan Base Force

Defending units:
I/81st Naval Guard Unit
III/81st Naval Guard Unit

[seydlitz_slith]

On to economics and information.....
I have several screens to show this turn in hopes that it will provoke discussion.

First off look at my supply usage from witpstaff. I am going to have to turn off some repairs or I will be out of supply in 83 days. Even R&D factories consume supply as they repair, and I can see now that this was a mistake to convert all of these early as they are now sucking down supply.

[seydlitz_slith]

My biggest consumer of HI is now armaments. I expanded the armament and vehicle industries (also costing me supplies as they repair up) but Japan needs both to be able to replace losses and fill out the TOE on arriving units.

I will also run through the industry/troops/resources pool to show you what is being built by these, what is in pool, and how important it is to expand in this area.

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final itr pool screen

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Here is my current aircraft pool. First fighters and bombers