Variants - Allied side - Xargun welcome

[RangerJoe]

That is good training for the Chinese . . . [&o]

[Nomad]

Feb 17, 1942

Oops, CL Sumtra found something it couldn't overcome

Day Time Surface Combat, near Watampone at 67,106, Range 15,000 Yards

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
C.XI-W: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Aoba
CA Kinugasa, Shell hits 1
DD Yukikaze
DD Hayashio
DD Akatsuki
DD Hibiki
DD Oboro

Allied Ships
CL Sumatra, Shell hits 12, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
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Singapore still holding:
Ground combat at Singapore (50,84)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 110909 troops, 1291 guns, 535 vehicles, Assault Value = 3333

Defending force 54523 troops, 725 guns, 518 vehicles, Assault Value = 771

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Japanese adjusted assault: 2384

Allied adjusted defense: 3063

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

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

Japanese ground losses:
5133 casualties reported
Squads: 100 destroyed, 354 disabled
Non Combat: 23 destroyed, 52 disabled
Engineers: 5 destroyed, 88 disabled
Guns lost 45 (14 destroyed, 31 disabled)
Vehicles lost 36 (1 destroyed, 35 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

Allied ground losses:
2921 casualties reported
Squads: 63 destroyed, 86 disabled
Non Combat: 61 destroyed, 115 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 57 disabled
Guns lost 85 (12 destroyed, 73 disabled)
Vehicles lost 29 (7 destroyed, 22 disabled)
Units destroyed 1
The 2nd Gordons Bn was the destroyed unit.

[Mark VII]

And just as Sumatra gets some nice night experience..........

ORIGINAL: Nomad
Feb 17, 1942

Japanese Ships
CA Aoba
CA Kinugasa, Shell hits 1
DD Yukikaze
DD Hayashio
DD Akatsuki
DD Hibiki
DD Oboro

Allied Ships
CL Sumatra, Shell hits 12, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk

[Nomad]

It was bound to happen sometime. I had directed her to an amphibious landing site, but she was intercepted on the way in.
To be honest, the lose of CL Sumatra is not that big of a thing. She has no upgrades, fair main gunnery, weak AA, no ASW, and
very little endurance. She is suited for raids in the DEI, but not much else.

[Nomad]

Feb 18, 1942

Bombardments at Changsha and Singapore. Both will
fall sometime in the future, how long that will be
is the question.

[Nomad]

Feb 19, 1942

More mayhem from my opponent.

Cagayan fell today.

Ground combat at Cagayan (79,89)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 9107 troops, 62 guns, 161 vehicles, Assault Value = 343

Defending force 6886 troops, 27 guns, 47 vehicles, Assault Value = 163

Japanese adjusted assault: 299

Allied adjusted defense: 37

Japanese assault odds: 8 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Cagayan !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
777 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 80 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Vehicles lost 14 (1 destroyed, 13 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1850 casualties reported
Squads: 109 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 152 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 10 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 20 (20 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 4
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A DA at Pingyao

Ground combat at Pingyao (87,41)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 68437 troops, 616 guns, 525 vehicles, Assault Value = 1976

Defending force 57937 troops, 313 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1550

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 1199

Allied adjusted defense: 1555

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 0)

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

Japanese ground losses:
4727 casualties reported
Squads: 9 destroyed, 447 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 50 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 58 disabled
Vehicles lost 24 (1 destroyed, 23 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
2362 casualties reported
Squads: 13 destroyed, 227 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 17 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 15 disabled
Guns lost 23 (2 destroyed, 21 disabled)
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Bombardments at Changsha and Singapore.

The Barbarians are at the gates and soon will breach the gates. [8D]

[Nomad]

Here is an intelligence screen for Feb 20, 1942

[Nomad]

Feb 20, 1942

Bombardments at Singapore and Changsha.

[Nomad]

Feb 21, 1942

Bombardment at Changsha

[Nomad]

Feb 22, 1942

The end is near at Singapore:
Ground combat at Singapore (50,84)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 100874 troops, 1199 guns, 531 vehicles, Assault Value = 3238

Defending force 52737 troops, 712 guns, 511 vehicles, Assault Value = 660

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Japanese adjusted assault: 2501

Allied adjusted defense: 4967

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

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

Japanese ground losses:
3315 casualties reported
Squads: 9 destroyed, 509 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 54 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 131 disabled
Vehicles lost 35 (2 destroyed, 33 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
2605 casualties reported
Squads: 149 destroyed, 60 disabled
Non Combat: 23 destroyed, 206 disabled
Engineers: 17 destroyed, 77 disabled
Guns lost 100 (15 destroyed, 85 disabled)
Vehicles lost 53 (4 destroyed, 49 disabled)

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Bombardments continue at Changsha
Ground combat at Changsha (82,52)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 46235 troops, 892 guns, 476 vehicles, Assault Value = 1474

Defending force 117705 troops, 640 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3033

Japanese ground losses:
108 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 18 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled

Allied ground losses:
264 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 29 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
==========================================
Pingyao, East of Sian will fall in the near future

Ground combat at Pingyao (87,41)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 65948 troops, 616 guns, 525 vehicles, Assault Value = 1690

Defending force 56482 troops, 311 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1377

Japanese adjusted assault: 768

Allied adjusted defense: 1462

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 0)

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

Japanese ground losses:
1722 casualties reported
Squads: 25 destroyed, 245 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 25 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 51 disabled
Vehicles lost 57 (2 destroyed, 55 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1276 casualties reported
Squads: 82 destroyed, 133 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 22 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 11 disabled
Guns lost 15 (1 destroyed, 14 disabled)

As always, I do not have the supply in China to make up
losses, and the stocks of heavy weapons is minimal.

[Nomad]

Feb 23, 1942

Interesting turn. No attacks at Changsha or Singapore.

A bombardment attack at Bataan:

Ground combat at Bataan (78,77)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15720 troops, 255 guns, 93 vehicles, Assault Value = 760

Defending force 30775 troops, 443 guns, 393 vehicles, Assault Value = 818

Japanese ground losses:
583 casualties reported
Squads: 11 destroyed, 46 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 21 (7 destroyed, 14 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
41 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)

Assaulting units:
48th Recon Regiment
Kure 1st SNLF
2nd Tank Regiment
16th Recon Regiment
7th Tank Regiment
48th Engineer Regiment
65th Brigade
9th Infantry Regiment
4th Tank Regiment
Sasebo 1st SNLF
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
48th Field Artillery Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
14th Army
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
4th Marine Regiment
21st PA Infantry Division
11th PA Infantry Division
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
31st Infantry Regiment
45th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team
91st PA Infantry Division
Manila Bay Defenses
14th PS Engineer Regiment
2nd PA Constabulary Division
Bataan USN Base Force
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
Asiatic Fleet
201st PA Construction Battalion
202nd PA Construction Battalion
I Philippine Corps
Subic Bay Defenses
1st USMC AA Battalion
301st Construction Battalion
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
Far East USAAF
Provisional GMC Grp
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment

Bataan is out of supply and most of the units are also, so
I don't expect it to hold out too long.

Changsha did build level 6 forts today. And Singapore went back up to level 3 forts.

[RangerJoe]

For China, I would stockpile everything except support squads. Even then, most units have enough but they are disabled. I would only start filling out units when they get over 50 experience - unless they are in India.

[Nomad]

The problem is that it takes supply to repair the disabled devices and I don't have enough in many places, and not where I am taking large losses.
I have most units set to not take reinforcements anyway.

[RangerJoe]

The disablments will repair whether or not you want to to repair as long as the supplies are there. But it is still more efficient to get those devices repaired before giving them anything new unless it is the artillery units.

[RangerJoe]

double post

[RangerJoe]

triple post

[RangerJoe]

quadruple post

[RangerJoe]

Quintuple post due to ASP 500.100 errors during the day!

[Nomad]

Feb 24, 1942

Spam much Joe? [:D]

Makassar fell today, that is all the bases on Celebes.

No attacks at Singapore or Changsha.

[RangerJoe]

Sorry, a lot of ASP 500 errors which is why so many posts stating the same thing!