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RE: Too much Iron in my Diet - Mundy vs Cannonfodder
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 5:17 pm
by Mike McCreery
This is not directed at you but when I have really slow repair/build times I check to make sure all the units with engineers are in combat mode. They will not contribute otherwise.
RE: Too much Iron in my Diet - Mundy vs Cannonfodder
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 5:31 pm
by Richard III
ORIGINAL: Mundy
07 March 1942
Trying to get stuff in order.
I'm re-aligning my sub ops as well. the 6-8 subs I've constantly kept on station off the Japanese coast have netted few encounters, besides ASW groups.
Ed-
Welcome to my Allied PBEM Game.....[:(]
RE: Too much Iron in my Diet - Mundy vs Cannonfodder
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 5:40 pm
by Mundy
Yeah, I know... The oil has to go somewhere.
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RE: Too much Iron in my Diet - Mundy vs Cannonfodder
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 5:48 pm
by Richard III
ORIGINAL: Wargmr
This is not directed at you but when I have really slow repair/build times I check to make sure all the units with engineers are in combat mode. They will not contribute otherwise.
Maybe self fulfilling Prophecy, but when I upgrade the Eng. unit low grade Leaders I think I see a faster build time...
RE: Too much Iron in my Diet - Mundy vs Cannonfodder
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 10:39 pm
by Mundy
08 March 1942
Diego Garcia is invaded and falls quickly.
On the other side, I drive his tanks out of Daly Waters.
Ground combat at Daly Waters (76,131)
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 7490 troops, 73 guns, 1 vehicles, Assault Value = 234
Defending force 384 troops, 0 guns, 71 vehicles, Assault Value = 40
Allied adjusted assault: 193
Japanese adjusted defense: 23
Allied assault odds: 8 to 1 (fort level 0)
Allied forces CAPTURE Daly Waters !!!
Combat modifiers
Defender: preparation(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
Vehicles lost 53 (51 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Units retreated 1
Allied ground losses:
84 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
2nd Australian Division
Defending units:
8th Tank Regiment
At this point, I'm not sure if I should send them to Tennant Creek or Normanton. The supplies here just aren't enough.
Apart from this, he's polishing off stragglers on Sumatra and Celebes. The survivors from Calcutta are just about extinct, saving me from excessive waiting on the replay.
Two Hurricane squadrons are departing Aden for India.
Quite otherwise.
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RE: Too much Iron in my Diet - Mundy vs Cannonfodder
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 4:43 pm
by Mundy
09 March 1942
Small stuff.
3 DMs from Suva which still had mines got hit at Noumea by a bombardment force. Figures... A week of inactivity, and when they sail in to lay a minefield, it happens to be the very day. I forgot to check to see if they dropped them or not. One got sunk, another took one hit and the last was untouched.
Looks like a weak CVE force is off the Koumac coast.
My first troops arrive at Mangalore. Empty. Either they're on foot somewhere, or they withdrew. My guess this was a feint to cover the Calcutta deal. My tanks, bodies and guns are moving next door to Vizagapatnam. I have a feeling that will be a ruse also. If that's the case, I may task an Oz division towards the Calcutta area, to maybe at least take some of the surrounding bases. The mob from Mandalay are enroute to India proper, but they'll take forever to get back across.
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RE: Too much Iron in my Diet - Mundy vs Cannonfodder
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 10:08 pm
by Mundy
10 March 1942
Another quiet-ish day.
I forgot to mention that Milne Bay fell about three days ago. Doesn't appear to be a base presence there yet. My newly replenished B-17s at Townsville are paying any troops there a visit.
His first assault on Bataan:
Ground combat at Bataan (78,77)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 29473 troops, 367 guns, 262 vehicles, Assault Value = 774
Defending force 29558 troops, 482 guns, 215 vehicles, Assault Value = 929
Japanese adjusted assault: 402
Allied adjusted defense: 641
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 3)
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
2456 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 100 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 37 disabled
Engineers: 20 destroyed, 64 disabled
Guns lost 15 (1 destroyed, 14 disabled)
Vehicles lost 10 (4 destroyed, 6 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
439 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 14 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 16 disabled
Engineers: 21 destroyed, 16 disabled
Guns lost 15 (4 destroyed, 11 disabled)
Vehicles lost 17 (5 destroyed, 12 disabled)
Assaulting units:
3rd Ind Engineer Regiment
21st Ind Engineer Regiment
16th Division
19th Ind Engineer Regiment
48th/A Division
20th Ind Engineer Regiment
48th/B Division
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
14th Army
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
2nd Mortar Battalion
3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
Defending units:
14th PS Engineer Regiment
194th Tank Battalion
3rd/12th PA Inf Battalion
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
41st PA Infantry Division
31st PA Infantry Division
192nd Tank Battalion
Manila Bay Defenses
45th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team
2nd PA Constabulary Division
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
Bataan USN Base Force
301st Construction Battalion
202nd PA Construction Battalion
Provisional GMC Grp
I Philippine Corps
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
Far East USAAF
201st PA Construction Battalion
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
Not bad for being at zero supplies.
The last stragglers at Timor fall at Dili.
Kashgar falls. The north is basically cleansed of Chinese.
Loewoek also falls. That may be the last base at Celebes.
My large group of troops at Sian are driven out. The supply situation there was pretty miserable. I'm pulling them across to the east. I'll probably have 15+ corps there once everyone arrives.
I have two SBD squadrons, one of F2A-3, and one of P-39s assembled at Noumea. Hopefully they'll strike the ships six hexes to the north that continue to lurk. If all I'm dealing with are a few CVEs, I may do some damage. I had CAP up at Port Moresby which didn't contest the sweep. I think the base damage level is too high. I can transfer to/from, but not fly missions, it appears.
Stuff's on the way to Koumac, according to the Monkey...
1942-02-28 10/33rd Division is loaded on a Aden Cargo class xAK moving to Koumac
1942-03-02 33rd Division is loaded on a Japanese xAK moving to Koumac
1942-03-08 4/33rd Division is loaded on a Yusen N Cargo class xAK moving to Koumac
1942-03-09 9/8th Division is loaded on xAK Chile Maru moving to Koumac
A xAKL convoy is about 3 days to the SW of Noumea to boost supplies a bit. I'm sitting at about 30,000 right now.
More air at Cape Town and Aden is packing up for Karachi.
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RE: Too much Iron in my Diet - Mundy vs Cannonfodder
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 6:15 pm
by Mundy
11 March 1942
Nothing much this turn.
There were two bombardments on his end.
Mutsu and
Nagato hit Port Moresby, destroying a handful of planes, damaging many others, and roughing up the non-combat troops a bit.
The second was
Fuso and
Yamashiro at Cocanada. He must have noted my troop movement there. The armor, infantry and guns there are heading towards Vizagapatnam, and will reach next turn. It looks like that base has been abandoned already like Mangalore was. Calcutta was the real target. I'll see if I can get an effective siege going.
My SBDs at Noumea went after the "CVEs" off of Koumac. It looks like it's really still KB sitting there. I lost about 4 dive bombers, mostly the dash 1s. My F2As which were set to escort were actually set to sweep instead, botching that up. My Airacobras also stayed put. This result came up:
Ground combat at La Foa (114,159)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 7861 troops, 33 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 249
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese adjusted assault: 223
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 223 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE La Foa !!!
Combat modifiers
Attacker:
Assaulting units:
65th Brigade
I hadn't seen them coming down the road. If he plans to simply walk them into Noumea, he'll definitely regret it. Two squadrons of Airacobras (1 of P-400, the other P-39D) are hitting them, along with one SBD squadron. I withdrew the dash 1 squadron. The dash 2s are substandard as it is, but they have the numbers yet. One Cobra squadron is coming in at 5,000' while the other is at 100'.
I hope it hurts.
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RE: Too much Iron in my Diet - Mundy vs Cannonfodder
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 7:01 pm
by Mundy
14 March 1942
More of the same.
I has a couple "test runs" using some throwaway xAKLs to Noumea and Port Moresby. KB wound up taking that group. I don't know how long they plan to stay parked off of Koumac. The Moresby group got away with minimal hits from Rabaul. The next day, however, a cruiser force visited PM and pretty much finished them.
New Mexico's currently in Auckland. I'm moving her to Townsville, along with any other CA/CLs in the area. If he want's to keep surface forces in that area, I'll start darting them in and out, avoiding his air to maybe catch one. It could get interesting here. I'm a bit concerned about PM's supply situation, as they're currently at 15.8k. Noumea's about 30-ish.
All my CVs assembled at Pearl. There's about two week's worth of yard time to get them up to snuff. SARA may also start her February upgrade, which may delay things. Hornet arrived in Panama a day ago and she's enroute to Pearl. I have a CL and two DDs waiting at the map edge for her, which will be about a week. Her air situation isn't very good, with the VB/VS squadrons still equipped with SBCs. TBDs and F4Fs are also understrength. Once everyone's repaired, I'll probably relocate to Suva and play it by ear. With 5 CVs, I should outnumber his air slightly.
Ed-
RE: Too much Iron in my Diet - Mundy vs Cannonfodder
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 9:26 pm
by Mundy
15 March 1942
Moving along...
In about 6 days, I'll be able to buy out the 27 Division at Cape Town. Off to India with 'em.
This crap is starting to get annoying:
Morning Air attack on 42nd Chinese Corps, at 88,37 (Yenan)
Weather in hex: Light cloud
Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 66
Ki-49-Ia Helen x 36
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-Ic Sally: 1 damaged
Allied ground losses:
345 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 12 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Am I supposed to hide the entire Chines army in the forest?
New from Intel Ape:
1942-03-14 9th Division is planning for an attack on Auckland
1942-03-14 20th Recon Regiment is planning for an attack on Suva
His lone brigade finally arrived at Noumea
Ground combat at Noumea (115,160)
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 7877 troops, 33 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 250
Defending force 21184 troops, 364 guns, 216 vehicles, Assault Value = 394
Japanese ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Assaulting units:
65th Brigade
Defending units:
Fanning Island Det.
2nd Marine Regiment
34th Cmbt Engineer Regiment
8th Marine Regiment
New Caledonia Det
97th Coast AA Regiment
35th Base Group
3rd Port Maint Engineer Battalion
98th Coast AA Regiment
19th Base Group
168th Field Artillery Battalion
142nd USN Stn Base Force
43rd Base Group
4th Marine Defense Battalion
64th Coast AA Regiment
21st NZ Pioneer Coy
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Ground combat at Noumea (115,160)
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 10212 troops, 152 guns, 44 vehicles, Assault Value = 394
Defending force 7868 troops, 33 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 249
Allied adjusted assault: 154
Japanese adjusted defense: 334
Allied assault odds: 1 to 2
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
572 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 39 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
117 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 16 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Assaulting units:
34th Cmbt Engineer Regiment
8th Marine Regiment
Fanning Island Det.
2nd Marine Regiment
New Caledonia Det
19th Base Group
4th Marine Defense Battalion
168th Field Artillery Battalion
43rd Base Group
97th Coast AA Regiment
142nd USN Stn Base Force
3rd Port Maint Engineer Battalion
98th Coast AA Regiment
64th Coast AA Regiment
35th Base Group
21st NZ Pioneer Coy
Defending units:
65th Brigade
I thought I had enough to drive him out, but I guess not. There's most likely more on the way, I would think.
I have two CVs at Pearl which will be out of the yard within a week. SARA started the upgrade and will take 20 days. YORK's VF is equipped with -3A Wildcats, which doesn't thrill me. I think I read somewhere that the -As had old engines stripped out from C-47s. Don't know how true that is.
If Noumea can hold on a month, I may confront his carriers there. I really, really don't want him to spring onwards to New Zealand or Suva. Either one, is worth a stand for me.
I have 2 RN battleships at Karachi, with a third only days away. A CV (
Illustrious?) is on the way, with DDS and CAs also trickling in. Recon indicates lots of ships docked at Colombo with a possible battleship, and I'm entertaining the thought of a bombardment, if his CVLs are gone. I'd keep them near the coast to LRCAP them. My fighter strength in India is picking up. I have Blenheims and Hudsons hitting the port to see if his fighters are napping.
Cloncurry is already at level 4, so when my B-17s are refreshed, I'll be moving them there. I had to stop the Horn Island raids, due to Nicks showing up. I was averaging 100+ casualties for several days.
Unmak is already level 1. It only took about a week. Dutch is about 87% there. A squadron of P-40s is now there CAPping, and once it's up to 4, the bombers will move in. I'll be letting Adak have it.
Ed-
RE: Too much Iron in my Diet - Mundy vs Cannonfodder
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 11:53 am
by Mundy
16 March 1942
I'm enduring bombardments at Cochin and Port Moresby. Figures... Cochin gets hit when I plan to strike Colombo. I think I'll be moving the air away from the coast at this point.
The 7th Australian, 43drd Cav Armored and the 23rd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment are now at Ranchi. At least one base force is on the way, so I'll be introducing air there too. Ranchi and Patna are where I intend to set up more air.
I've pulled in more fighters from Suva to Noumea, so the Cobras and Dauntlesses there will hit the Japanese brigade sitting there. I've got four squadrons of CAP there now.
I've noticed some of the Australian xAKLs can be converted to PCs, amongst other things. I'll take the escorts at this point. A USN xAK at Brisbane is converting to an AKE for use at Townsville, where New Mexico will live.
Ed-
RE: Too much Iron in my Diet - Mundy vs Cannonfodder
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 2:01 pm
by Mundy
17 March 1943
I've lost Ramillies. She was enroute to Bombay from Cape Town. She got caught about half way over roughly even with Ahmedabad. His CVLs are starting to rove north a bit. I'm hoping he doesn't interfere with my Aden route.
He's got Noumea CAPped, sucking the effectiveness from my strike. My F2A-3 CAP roved over Koumac, bagging a Zeke for no loss. All the Cobras are converting to CAP for now. I've lost S-34 near Koumac. She got badly depth charged and sub RO-67 finished her off next turn. KXV bags DMS W-9 to the east.
The 1st Burma Division and 16th Indian Brigade are out of Burma and at Akyab. They're off to Chittagong to help deal with the Calcutta Front.
Other than that, he's been preoccupied taking small bases. All the little islands between Timor and Celebes, the Central Philippines and even the islands off of Milne Bay.
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RE: Too much Iron in my Diet - Mundy vs Cannonfodder
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 8:30 pm
by Mundy
19 March 1942
Landing at Efate. It's awful nice of him to build up all these bases for me before I retake them.
His assault at Noumea didn't go too well:
Ground combat at Noumea (115,160)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 19843 troops, 131 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 603
Defending force 21416 troops, 365 guns, 217 vehicles, Assault Value = 397
Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1
Japanese adjusted assault: 179
Allied adjusted defense: 1267
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 7 (fort level 1)
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
2597 casualties reported
Squads: 7 destroyed, 297 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 14 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 11 disabled
Allied ground losses:
373 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 27 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Assaulting units:
65th Brigade
33rd Division
Defending units:
Fanning Island Det.
2nd Marine Regiment
8th Marine Regiment
34th Cmbt Engineer Regiment
New Caledonia Det
168th Field Artillery Battalion
4th Marine Defense Battalion
43rd Base Group
19th Base Group
98th Coast AA Regiment
97th Coast AA Regiment
64th Coast AA Regiment
35th Base Group
3rd Port Maint Engineer Battalion
142nd USN Stn Base Force
21st NZ Pioneer Coy
USMC morale is pretty high. I'm not sure he'll be able to take it without more help. There's probably more on the way. KB's slowly orbiting Noumea, currently two hexes to the SW.
I'm still shoveling more troops of various types to Suva, so whatever Noumea is, I'll make Suva worse.
He assaulted Soerbaja the previous day.
Ground combat at Soerabaja (56,104)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 9230 troops, 89 guns, 71 vehicles, Assault Value = 295
Defending force 17010 troops, 112 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 160
Japanese adjusted assault: 155
Allied adjusted defense: 64
Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 2)
Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
822 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 44 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 13 (2 destroyed, 11 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
635 casualties reported
Squads: 33 destroyed, 65 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Guns lost 26 (5 destroyed, 21 disabled)
Assaulting units:
4th Infantry Regiment
24th Infantry Regiment
7th Tank Regiment
2nd Field Artillery Regiment
Defending units:
Marinier Battalion
1st KNIL Regiment
3rd KNIL Landstorm Battalion
2nd KNIL Landstorm Battalion
Roodenburg Battalion
Madoeng Defenses
NI-MLD
Soerabaja KM Base Force
4th Avn Sup Groep
6th Avn Sup Afd
KNI Zeemacht
2nd Avn Sup Groep
KNI Leger
Soerbaja Defenses
7th Avn Sup Afd
I doubt they'll last much longer.
Bataan, has been only bombardments. I'm not sure he'll summon the courage to hit them yet. Once he reaches the tipping point, they'll probably fall quickly.
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RE: Too much Iron in my Diet - Mundy vs Cannonfodder
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 9:19 pm
by witpqs
ORIGINAL: Mundy
19 March 1942
Landing at Efate. It's awful nice of him to build up all these bases for me before I retake them.
His assault at Noumea didn't go too well:
Ground combat at Noumea (115,160)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 19843 troops, 131 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 603
Defending force 21416 troops, 365 guns, 217 vehicles, Assault Value = 397
Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1
Japanese adjusted assault: 179
Allied adjusted defense: 1267
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 7 (fort level 1)
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
2597 casualties reported
Squads: 7 destroyed, 297 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 14 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 11 disabled
Allied ground losses:
373 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 27 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Assaulting units:
65th Brigade
33rd Division
Defending units:
Fanning Island Det.
2nd Marine Regiment
8th Marine Regiment
34th Cmbt Engineer Regiment
New Caledonia Det
168th Field Artillery Battalion
4th Marine Defense Battalion
43rd Base Group
19th Base Group
98th Coast AA Regiment
97th Coast AA Regiment
64th Coast AA Regiment
35th Base Group
3rd Port Maint Engineer Battalion
142nd USN Stn Base Force
21st NZ Pioneer Coy
USMC morale is pretty high.
I'm not sure he'll be able to take it without more help. There's probably more on the way. KB's slowly orbiting Noumea, currently two hexes to the SW.
I'm still shoveling more troops of various types to Suva, so whatever Noumea is, I'll make Suva worse.
That's the understatement of the day! Looking at the casualties, that battle reversed the AV equation and now defender probably has more than attacker.
RE: Too much Iron in my Diet - Mundy vs Cannonfodder
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 11:42 pm
by Mundy
The Marines are giving me some hope I haven't had up 'til now. I've been burned on counterattack before, but I may give this a go.
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RE: Too much Iron in my Diet - Mundy vs Cannonfodder
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 1:10 am
by Sangeli
I'd definitely go for the counterattack. Anytime you lose 1/2 your squads as disabled you're going to have extremely high disruption. And subsequent attacks are far more likely to cause destroyed squads in his units while yours are going to be mostly disables.
RE: Too much Iron in my Diet - Mundy vs Cannonfodder
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 11:10 am
by Mundy
Thanks, guys. I tend to have problems reading the ground war -- especially estimating real strength sole from air recon.
20 March 1944
Lots of Japanese landings this turn.
Rossel Island
Tanna
Molu
Mangole
Baker Island
Tockangbesi-eilanden
Efate also falls.
My lead armor crossed the river to Cuttack, and got thrust into a shock attack.
Ground combat at Cuttack (48,37)
Allied Shock attack
Attacking force 2954 troops, 26 guns, 310 vehicles, Assault Value = 206
Defending force 4386 troops, 34 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 140
Allied adjusted assault: 186
Japanese adjusted defense: 90
Allied assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 0)
Allied forces CAPTURE Cuttack !!!
Combat modifiers
Defender: leaders(+), preparation(-)
Attacker: shock(+)
Japanese ground losses:
1486 casualties reported
Squads: 24 destroyed, 55 disabled
Non Combat: 28 destroyed, 16 disabled
Engineers: 10 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 27 (17 destroyed, 10 disabled)
Vehicles lost 4 (4 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 1
Allied ground losses:
33 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 14 (1 destroyed, 13 disabled)
Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
3rd Carabiniers Regiment
44th Cavalry Regiment
7th Armoured Brigade
Defending units:
4th/B Division
The 4th/B must be a fairly weakling division. These were just the lead element of my guys, with a few others a day or two behind. I'll probably camp them here for now. I don't think anything serious will make it up the delta to bombard them.
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RE: Too much Iron in my Diet - Mundy vs Cannonfodder
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 12:45 pm
by JocMeister
Watch is so he doesn´t simply bypass Noumea and land behind you at Suva/Nadi. He can then deal with Noumea at his leisure. Personally I wouldn´t defend Noumea at this stage as he can just land on Koumac and walk south and you can´t cover both places. Once the 8th and the rest of the 33rd arrives your forces will be lost.
I would not counter attack. He lost about 300 AV to disablements. His RAW AV will still be around 300 and he will benefit from the terrain bonus (x2?). Instead I would be looking at pulling out before he can reinforce and use the troops in less exposed position. Those Marines will be worth 10 times as much when you can recombine them into the 2nd Marines behind solid forts and good terrain. I´m a cautious guy though. [:)]
RE: Too much Iron in my Diet - Mundy vs Cannonfodder
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 12:57 pm
by Mundy
21 March 1942
Joc's on the money with this one. The attack didn't do much.
Ground combat at Noumea (115,160)
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 11609 troops, 162 guns, 68 vehicles, Assault Value = 384
Defending force 17828 troops, 131 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 392
Allied adjusted assault: 138
Japanese adjusted defense: 1687
Allied assault odds: 1 to 12
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
227 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 22 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Allied ground losses:
577 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 33 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Engineers: 6 destroyed, 41 disabled
Vehicles lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Assaulting units:
34th Cmbt Engineer Regiment
2nd Marine Regiment
8th Marine Regiment
Fanning Island Det.
New Caledonia Det
43rd Base Group
35th Base Group
3rd Port Maint Engineer Battalion
97th Coast AA Regiment
142nd USN Stn Base Force
4th Marine Defense Battalion
168th Field Artillery Battalion
98th Coast AA Regiment
19th Base Group
64th Coast AA Regiment
21st NZ Pioneer Coy
Defending units:
65th Brigade
33rd Division
At this point, I have no choice but to defend Noumea, since there's no way of getting them out. We're stalemated right now, and I think he'll have to bring a
lot to get the job done. Long term supplies are my main concern. I'm at about 20,000 right now. I have APDs enroute to Suva now, but with KB two hexes from Noumea, that would be dangerous. Sub supply probably isn't worth the effort.
Suva's probably a little lighter on infantry, but has lots of artillery and two USMC armored battalions. Lots of air search out of there and lots of planes for defense. I don't know what KB's sortie level is at right now, but I'm not sure they can support a second invasion without resupply.
I have a squadron of B-26s at Umnak set to hit Adak. Being level one, they'd be at reduced load. Weather hasn't been cooperating.
About 5 days, and I can flip the USA division at Cape Town. That should put some backbone in the defenses in India.
Hornet is now on-map, and combined with an escort for Pearl. Probably a 5.5 day trip, just in time as most of the others get out of drydock.
New Mexico's about a day from Townsville. An AKE should arrive within a week.
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RE: Too much Iron in my Diet - Mundy vs Cannonfodder
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 2:01 pm
by Richard III
ORIGINAL: JocMeister
. I´m a cautious guy though. [:)]
LOL ! That must be why Boise & Houston are prowling around after innocent Japanese Cruise Ships filled with friendly tourists..[:-]