December 7, 1942
The day sees me continue my attacks on Chittagong, where I I successfully degrade the CAP enough to get my 4Es through, destroying a number of Tojos and A6M5's on the ground. Meanwhile, I set up LRCAP at various points, such as above Silchar, and succeed in either degrading his bombing runs or bringing down some bombers for the day. The totals are ~60 Japanese planes lost and ~30 allied planes lost; the Japanese losses include ~12-13 4E Liz's knocked down as they attempt to hit some of my exposed forces in the south.
We attack Silchar (though I think the majority of my troops were set to Bombard) and find ~170 AV to my 420AV already there. Another 300 allied AV is only one hex away. There is only one fort.
Ground combat at Silchar (59,39)
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 8017 troops, 65 guns, 752 vehicles, Assault Value = 421
Defending force 3713 troops, 72 guns, 6 vehicles, Assault Value = 171
Allied adjusted assault: 38
Japanese adjusted defense: 95
Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 1)
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), op mode(-), preparation(-)
experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
78 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 8 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Assaulting units:
44th Cavalry Regiment
50th Tank Brigade
637th Tank Destroyer Battalion
254th Armoured Brigade
632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion
7th Armoured Brigade
Defending units:
1st Para Assault Division
37th Const Co
Meanwhile, John inexplicably crosses the river again at Calcutta, we think seeking to attack and destroy unsuspecting Allied forces across the river. Perhaps he though the forces here were small. Sadly, my forces were in "move" mode as they were crossing the river to join up with allied forces east of Calcutta. However, John finds 2 Indian divisions and 1 American division there and comes off much worse for wear and we will bomb this hex massively tomorrow while also attacking (it is a clear terrain hex). The only bad part about this is a good amount of American troops were disabled and that division is now operating at around 2/3rds AV capacity.
Ground combat at 53,36 (near Calcutta)
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 23186 troops, 83 guns, 54 vehicles, Assault Value = 616
Defending force 34049 troops, 452 guns, 367 vehicles, Assault Value = 1039
Japanese adjusted assault: 442
Allied adjusted defense: 381
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: op mode(-), leaders(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), disruption(-)
Japanese ground losses:
3849 casualties reported
Squads: 53 destroyed, 328 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 32 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 13 disabled
Allied ground losses:
1230 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 175 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 14 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 15 disabled
Guns lost 38 (3 destroyed, 35 disabled)
Assaulting units:
4th Division
5th Division
Defending units:
41st Infantry Division
14th Indian Division
26th Indian Division
In the South Pacific, a submarine actually manages to strike a Japanese ship, which appears to be some sort of larger minelayer-class. The commander reported it to be a cruiser/minelayer hybrid Tenryu-class ship.
(Side note: This is some sort of ship in the mod and looking at it in game, it seems to be pretty much a Tenryu-class light cruiser with additional minelaying capabilities John gets two of these in addition to two Kuma-class minelayers)
ub attack near Lunga at 114,138
Japanese Ships
CM Tatsuta, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
Allied Ships
SS Swordfish
SS Swordfish launches 4 torpedoes
Sub escapes detection
" - BBfanboy
