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Apr 25, 1942

Nothing to talk about

Apr 26, 1942, nothing important to report

Apr 27, 1942
A DA at Bataan

Ground combat at Bataan (78,77)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 44121 troops, 454 guns, 495 vehicles, Assault Value = 1584

Defending force 26175 troops, 322 guns, 371 vehicles, Assault Value = 653

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 3

Japanese adjusted assault: 1777

Allied adjusted defense: 373

Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 3)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 3

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

Japanese ground losses:
2865 casualties reported
Squads: 13 destroyed, 203 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Vehicles lost 23 (4 destroyed, 19 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1778 casualties reported
Squads: 47 destroyed, 74 disabled
Non Combat: 35 destroyed, 56 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 34 disabled
Guns lost 29 (14 destroyed, 15 disabled)
Vehicles lost 32 (28 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Units destroyed 1
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And a DA at Lashio

Ground combat at Lashio (62,46)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 35003 troops, 300 guns, 74 vehicles, Assault Value = 1218

Defending force 47877 troops, 262 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1568

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 3

Japanese adjusted assault: 410

Allied adjusted defense: 1333

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 3 (fort level 3)

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

Japanese ground losses:
4974 casualties reported
Squads: 112 destroyed, 203 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 43 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 52 disabled
Guns lost 34 (1 destroyed, 33 disabled)
Vehicles lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
248 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 40 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
11th Garrison Unit
Imperial Guards Division
33rd Division
17th Indpt Guards Regiment

Defending units:
60th Chinese Corps
59th Chinese Corps
24th Chinese Corps
39th Chinese Corps
49th Chinese Corps
71st Chinese Corps
33rd Group Army
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Apr 28, 1942

A DA at Bataan

Ground combat at Bataan (78,77)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 42313 troops, 454 guns, 493 vehicles, Assault Value = 1388

Defending force 24336 troops, 301 guns, 344 vehicles, Assault Value = 543

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Japanese adjusted assault: 1194

Allied adjusted defense: 2113

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

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

Japanese ground losses:
1534 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 167 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 20 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 39 disabled
Guns lost 29 (1 destroyed, 28 disabled)
Vehicles lost 38 (4 destroyed, 34 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1037 casualties reported
Squads: 14 destroyed, 67 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 65 disabled
Engineers: 34 destroyed, 10 disabled
Guns lost 29 (4 destroyed, 25 disabled)
Vehicles lost 12 (5 destroyed, 7 disabled)
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Apr 29, 1942

Nothing

Apr 30, 1942

Nothing

May 1, 1942

And with a DA at Bataan, it falls.

Ground combat at Bataan (78,77)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 42235 troops, 454 guns, 492 vehicles, Assault Value = 1367

Defending force 22926 troops, 281 guns, 337 vehicles, Assault Value = 465

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 1066

Allied adjusted defense: 159

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

Japanese forces CAPTURE Bataan !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
1333 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 128 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 20 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Guns lost 15 (1 destroyed, 14 disabled)
Vehicles lost 52 (2 destroyed, 50 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
18808 casualties reported
Squads: 681 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2021 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 170 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 334 (334 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 471 (471 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 23
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Luzon and Mindanao are now completely in Japans hands.

May 2, 1942

Nothing to report

May 3, 1942

He tried to run a FT into Lae. It didn't work out as he planned.
He did land troops there in the night phase, but he paid for it.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Lae at 99,126

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 5 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 1 minutes

Allied aircraft
A-24 Banshee x 13

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
CL Abukuma, Bomb hits 5, heavy fires, heavy damage
CL Tatsuta, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x A-24 Banshee releasing from 3000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
6 x A-24 Banshee releasing from 4000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
6 x A-24 Banshee releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb

Heavy smoke from fires obscuring CL Abukuma


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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Lae at 99,126

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Allied aircraft
A-24 Banshee x 12

Allied aircraft losses
A-24 Banshee: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
DD Tokitsukaze
CL Tatsuta, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Amatsukaze

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A-24 Banshee releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
2 x A-24 Banshee releasing from 3000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
4 x A-24 Banshee releasing from 4000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb

Heavy smoke from fires obscuring CL Tatsuta

Neither ship is listed on my sunk ship list, but I heard sinking sounds after both attacks.
There was 1 Jake listed as destroyed on the ground for the turn.

The darned DDs are hard to hit.

May 4, 1942

My A-24s flew to Gasmata today
Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Gasmata at 103,127

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 2

Allied aircraft
A-24 Banshee x 13

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
A-24 Banshee: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged

Japanese Ships
xAK Kazan Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Heian Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A-24 Banshee releasing from 4000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
2 x A-24 Banshee releasing from 3000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
4 x A-24 Banshee releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb

Unfortunately, I do not have any fighters that can fly far enough to escort.

May 5, 1942

Nothing of great interest happened today.

But I did overlook that I had a sub doing emergency repairs at Lae

SS Tautog scuttled at Lae to prevent capture!

Well done with the Banshees. What kind of NAV skill do you have with those pilots? I never seem to get much out of them early on due to lack of skill, and then later they get shredded by CAP.

Cheers,
CB

Mostly in the 60s for NavB. I started training them in NavB from the start.

May 6, 1942

151st day of the war and as expected A7M2 Sams and Ki-84r Franks have advanced to 6/45, three months.
I have not detected any other aircraft that have advanced, there might be some, but it is
hard to detect.

It looks like the last mine at Bataan took out an E ship
TF 43 encounters mine field at Bataan (78,77)

Japanese Ships
DMS W-14
DMS W-13
E Tomozuru, Mine hits 1, heavy damage

48 mines cleared
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May 7, 1942

Nothing to report

May 8, 1942

Nothing

May 9, 1942

Nothing

May 10, 1942

Nothing

May 11, 1942

Nothing

May 12, 1942

Nothing

ORIGINAL: Nomad

May 12, 1942

Nothing

I've heard of the Allied player playing "good Sir Robin" before, but you are really, really good at it! [:D]