Did You Know I Used to Drive a Rollercoaster?: Apbarog(A) vs OPilot(J)

[apbarog]

24 May 44

Submarine Sand Lance was lost north of Toyama. It was engaged by 3 E-boats. E-boat No.14 forced it to the surface with depth charges and it was finished off with guns. It was in deep water. The level of enemy air ASW has increased dramatically in the past several months. US subs are finding few sizable targets, and going home regularly with battle damage. It would almost be worth moving them away from the coast, but with the upcoming move towards Hiroshima, I want them in the Sea of Japan in case the enemy battleships show up.

The enemy has reinforced Shimonoseki. Now there's over 60000 men and more tanks. The daily bombardment caused 1056 casualties overnight, with devices being destroyed. US Marines and support have covered 30 of the 45 miles in the crossing to Shimonoseki.

I'm preparing for the next landing. APAs and LSTs are moving to Nagasaki. US carriers are near Okinawa and will escort the transports to Nagasaki. Other US carriers are leaving Manila for Japan. The carries aren't needed for the crossing, or the nearby landing, but the enemy doesn't know that.

A US sub got a 3/3 detection level in the middle of nowhere northwest of Marcus Island. I suspect enemy carriers there, moving to investigate the Marcus area after US destroyers visited and left without finding anything a couple of days ago.

[BBfanboy]

When Japan's coast gets too hot, most players seem to set up sub patrol zones that zig zag in vertically to a point close to shore and depart immediately after. If the enemy Air ASW detects them the DL is usually not high enough for them to attack and when the sub leaves the enemy Surface ASW goes to the hex and finds nothing. You need a lot of subs to cover the same strip of water, but you send less to port with damage or to their doom.

[apbarog]

25 May 44

Destroyer Charrette hit a mine escorting battleships on the daily run to Shimonoseki. It would be a bigger concern if the huge port of Nagasaki wasn't so close. Charrette is SYS 18/FLOT 33-33/ENG 29-27/FIRE 0.

US destroyers sprint towards Toyama, looking for sub chasers, and finding them.

Night Time Surface Combat, near Toyama at 113,56, Range 2,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
E No.2, Shell hits 9, and is sunk
E No.4, Shell hits 12, and is sunk
E No.14, Shell hits 6, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
E No.20, Shell hits 12, and is sunk

Allied Ships
DD Haggard
DD Hailey
DD McCord
DD Twining

Low visibility due to Thunderstorms with 10% moonlight
Maximum visibility in Thunderstorms and 10% moonlight: 2,000 yards

The daily bombardment of Shimonoseki.

Night Naval bombardment of Shimonoseki at 104,57

Allied Ships
BB New Mexico
BB Tennessee
BB California
BB Arizona
BB Oklahoma
BB Nevada
CA Cranberry
CA Dorsetshire
CA Wichita
DD Mertz
DD Hunt
DD Cowell
DD Abbot

Japanese ground losses:
1206 casualties reported
Squads: 14 destroyed, 8 disabled
Non Combat: 27 destroyed, 33 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 44 (20 destroyed, 24 disabled)
Vehicles lost 10 (4 destroyed, 6 disabled)

Light Industry hits 3
Resources hits 2
Repair Shipyard hits 2
Refinery hits 1
Manpower hits 2
Fires 2589
Airbase hits 10
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 12
Port hits 18

The planned sweeps of Hiroshima did not take place. Trying again today.

[apbarog]

26 May 44

I got SigInt the other day about an SST heading for Singkawang on Borneo. I moved some DEs and DDs to the area from nearby Singapore. Destroyers McKee and Radford engaged SST Yu-8 just north of Singkawang, getting a depth charge hit and near misses. This sub will probably get away.

48 Franks swept Tanegashima, just south of Kyushu. Tanegashima is a size 6 airfield, but it is the long hanging fruit in the area. I base recon and some Catalinas there. I had about 28 Hellcats on CAP. It was a slaughter, with 21 Hellcats lost and just one Frank lost to an ops loss. The Hellcats will recover in place, and some P-51s are moved in to help with defense. The other big bases on Kyushu have strong fighter defenses. OPilot has tested them, and doesn't go back to them. With Tanegashima, it's just a case that you can't defend everything heavily every day.

The US fighter sweep of Hiroshima didn't take place, again.

The Marine stack is now 40 miles towards moving to Shimonoseki, moving 5 miles a day. They won't quite make it there with the next turn, but in 2 days. The enemy keeps getting pounded by battleships and bombers. APAs will start to load for the first flanking invasion tomorrow.

[apbarog]

27 May 44

[apbarog]

28 May 44

Peggys and Helens bombed Fukuoka's port at night. 5 night-fighting Corsairs were on patrol but a bomb hit submarine Perch II, which was in the shipyard repairing 15 SYS damage. Now it has SYS 46 and FLOT 9.

22 P-51B Mustangs swept Sian, finding 21 Franks. One Mustang lost. The Mustangs aren't as good in the game as they really were, nor as good as the P-47s in the game. Not a big deal. I don't get that many of them, until a better variant later in the war.

British bombers hit Chichi-jima, causing minor airbase damage. Just a nuisance raid.

120 Hellcats from the carriers swept Hiroshima. Despite seeing over 50 enemy fighters there, there was no CAP. 61 B-29s hit Hiroshima during the day, enjoying the lack of enemy fighters. Some fires were started. Some B-24s hit the airbase and the port.

3 US DEs sank I-44 near Daito Shoto.

Shimonoseki got the daily battleship bombardment. Over 700 casualties. 4 US divisions plus support crossed into Shimonoseki, triggering a shock attack.

Ground combat at Shimonoseki (104,57)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 54982 troops, 745 guns, 948 vehicles, Assault Value = 1849

Defending force 50319 troops, 534 guns, 276 vehicles, Assault Value = 1310

Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Allied adjusted assault: 980

Japanese adjusted defense: 498

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

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 2

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

Japanese ground losses:
3981 casualties reported
Squads: 93 destroyed, 355 disabled
Non Combat: 43 destroyed, 198 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 31 disabled
Guns lost 139 (59 destroyed, 80 disabled)
Vehicles lost 92 (53 destroyed, 39 disabled)
Units destroyed 3

Allied ground losses:
3227 casualties reported
Squads: 20 destroyed, 164 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 88 disabled
Engineers: 29 destroyed, 41 disabled
Guns lost 50 (7 destroyed, 43 disabled)
Vehicles lost 176 (24 destroyed, 152 disabled)

Assaulting units:
637th Tank Destroyer Battalion
34th Cmbt Engineer Regiment
193rd Tank Battalion
2nd Marine Division
3rd Marine Division
1st Marine Division
1st (Spec) Cavalry Division
754th Tank Battalion
110th Cmbt Engineer Battalion
627th Tank Destroyer Battalion
Sixth US Army
145th Field Artillery Battalion
223rd Field Artillery Battalion
147th Field Artillery Battalion
249th Field Artillery Battalion
225th Field Artillery Battalion

Defending units:
1st Amph.Bde Tank Battalion
35th Ind.Mixed Brigade
86th Division
12th Division
19th Ind.Mixed Brigade
58th Infantry Regiment
138th Infantry Regiment
124th Infantry Regiment
1st Ind.Tank Co
Shimonoseki Fortress
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
101st AA Regiment
7th Area Army
32nd Army
79th Field AA Battalion
16th AA Regiment
80th Field AA Battalion
Oita JNAF Base Force

Lots of casualties. I feared worse though. The artillery will continue bombarding while the rest recover from high disruption. Now we'll see if OPilot reinforces here. He may not have time to do so, really, with my next landing in 2 days. But those first two attacks are just the jabs. The roundhouse knockout blow will be at Tottori afterwards.

[BBfanboy]

I'd say that crossing did rather well! Looking at the squads/devices destroyed and disabled, it looks like his squads were about half strength - for a similar casualty count he had twice as many squads destroyed or disabled. That means at least some of his units are probably newly formed and still filling out - I don't think the few bombardments would have knocked out half his troops already. You shouldn't have much trouble taking the base - he has no arty units and only one small battered tank company , unless that is one of the destroyed units.

[apbarog]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

I'd say that crossing did rather well! Looking at the squads/devices destroyed and disabled, it looks like his squads were about half strength - for a similar casualty count he had twice as many squads destroyed or disabled. That means at least some of his units are probably newly formed and still filling out - I don't think the few bombardments would have knocked out half his troops already. You shouldn't have much trouble taking the base - he has no arty units and only one small battered tank company , unless that is one of the destroyed units.

I think it went well. It looks like I could have used a more direct strategy of doing this attack and having more units crossing directly to reinforce and push further. We'll see if OPilot reinforces.

I see now that my attack just missed 2 to 1 odds.

Today I was impressed that I loaded all of the Nagasaki troops for the Tokuyama invasion in one day. 5 divisions plus lots of support. Nagasaki, of course, is a huge port, and I have one of the biggest port support units there to help.

[apbarog]

29 May 44

A few days ago, I stopped worrying about the range of my carrier naval bombers every turn. Each day, my carriers dance around Japan, with the range to a big enemy base, usually Hiroshima, changing. I have to go into every carrier task force, then every carrier, then every bomber unit, and change the range to one less than the range to that big base. It's a pain and I got tired of it. I was ok for a few days, but my laziness hurt me today.

Carrier bombers and a fair number of fighters flew to Kobe to attack a single sub chaser. There were 122 Franks and 41 Tojos on CAP. Losses were heavy:

33 Hellcats
31 Helldivers
14 FM-2s
12 Corsair IIs

They shot down just 3 Tojos and a Frank. 4 US aces were KIA. The sub chaser was sunk, despite just 4 dive bombers getting through to drop. This late in the war, there's a lot of carriers to deal with, and I got tired. But the need for attention to detail does not go away.

[CaptBeefheart]

Can't you click "Set All Dive Bombers in Hex?" With that and the button for TBs I don't find it hard to adjust naval attack range.

Also, well done at Shimonoseki. I was expecting your guys to get a bit more shredded. And good luck with the next two invasions.

Cheers,
CB

[apbarog]

ORIGINAL: CaptBeefheart

Can't you click "Set All Dive Bombers in Hex?" With that and the button for TBs I don't find it hard to adjust naval attack range.

Also, well done at Shimonoseki. I was expecting your guys to get a bit more shredded. And good luck with the next two invasions.

Cheers,
CB

I just loaded up the game to check, and yes, you can do that for all of the dive bombers in the hex. I've done the same for land-based units. It never occurred to me that it could be done for the carriers. And yet, the option is right there, same as for land-based units. Thank you for the info. Will save me time on every turn. And some planes too.

[CaptBeefheart]

Amazing how you can still learn new stuff with this game after years of play. Happy to help.

Cheers,
CB

[apbarog]

30 May 44

3 US DMS's led the way into Tokuyama. They cleared 8 mines, but were fired on by the 10th Special Base Force. Moderate damage to one DMS. At least it isn't a fortress unit. ALK FS-193, loaded with supply, and LCI-529, loaded with troops, hit mines. Both sank. AKA Betelgeuse, loaded with supply, hit a mine and has 30 FLOT damage. All assault units unloaded.

4 US destroyers sprinted to the straits south of Kobe, looking for E-boats. They found 2 that were with CM Okinoshima. In a series of 2 battles, all enemy ships were sunk. 2 enemy AMc's were then engaged and sunk.

Battleships Mississippi, Idaho and Pennsylvania bombarded Brunei. Rockwell Torrey is finally back in action on the Mississippi. 3 Indian para units unloaded at Brunei. This is a backwater. I suspect that the enemy is out of supply on Borneo, so I'd like to take Brunei and Miri. Miri is more heavily defended.

Sub Scamp sank small patrol boat Pa-1 near Akita. Gudgeon sank E-boat W-16 near Toyohara.

3 US destroyers moved just east of Oita to Matsuyama to cover a DMS sweeping mines there. Judys attacked in both the morning and afternoon. 50 P-47s were on range 1 CAP from adjacent Oita. They appeared in combat but did not intercept. Intercept times were all 8 minutes or less. They never got to the Judys. Patrol altitude may have played a part in that. They were patrolling at 35000 feet, protecting Oita from sweepers. The Judys came in at 15000 feet. DD Daly was hit by 2 bombs and is gravely damaged, with SYS 65/FLOT 31-15/FLOT 7-1/FIRE 89. It only has one hex to go to Oita, but it may burn up first. Plus, Oita is just a size 2 port. It may burn up regardless. The other DDs were hit one and twice and have moderate damage. They'll head towards Amami Oshima. 6 Judys were shot down by flak. With this result, I'll use more LRCAP instead of ranged CAP for Tokuyama.

Helens and Peggys attacked US troops at Shimonoseki. Plenty of fighters there, but most of the bombers got through, causing light damage to the troops. 6 Helens were shot down.

Here's what the fight looks like at Tokuyama.

Ground combat at Tokuyama (105,58)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 5439 troops, 119 guns, 28 vehicles, Assault Value = 400

Defending force 73790 troops, 1243 guns, 1430 vehicles, Assault Value = 2204

Japanese ground losses:
157 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

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

Assaulting units:
30th Ind.Mixed Brigade
54th Ind.Mixed Brigade
23rd Nav Gd Unit
6th Ind. Field Artillery Battalion
22nd Ind.AA Gun Co
14th Army
3rd Medium Mortar Battalion
48th JAAF AF Bn
17th Port Unit
56th Const Co
81st Field AA Battalion
10th Special Base Force
29th Army
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
84th JAAF AF Bn

Defending units:
1st USMC Tank Battalion
41st Infantry Division
5th Marine Division
31st Infantry Division
Americal Infantry Division
776th Amphib Tank Battalion
3rd Arm Amphib Battalion
Provisionl Tank Brigade
93rd Infantry Division
102nd Cmbt Engineer Regiment
766th Tank Battalion
819th Towed Tank Destroyer Battalion
XI US Corps
96th Coast AA Regiment
51st Marine Defense Battalion
601st Field Artillery Battalion
5th US Naval Construction Battalion
602nd Field Artillery Battalion
1905th Aviation Engineer Battalion
536th AmphTrac Engineer Battalion
6th Medium Regiment
97th Field Artillery Battalion
18th Marine AA Battalion
5th USN Special Construction Battalion

And here's what Shimonoseki looks like:

Ground combat at Shimonoseki (104,57)

Allied Bombardment attack [Divisions not firing artillery]

Attacking force 834 troops, 90 guns, 70 vehicles, Assault Value = 1607

Defending force 43113 troops, 489 guns, 228 vehicles, Assault Value = 802

Japanese ground losses:
60 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
3rd Marine Division
637th Tank Destroyer Battalion
754th Tank Battalion
1st (Spec) Cavalry Division
34th Cmbt Engineer Regiment
1st Marine Division
193rd Tank Battalion
110th Cmbt Engineer Battalion
2nd Marine Division
627th Tank Destroyer Battalion
147th Field Artillery Battalion
Sixth US Army
223rd Field Artillery Battalion
145th Field Artillery Battalion
249th Field Artillery Battalion
225th Field Artillery Battalion

Defending units:
138th Infantry Regiment
86th Division
12th Division
35th Ind.Mixed Brigade
58th Infantry Regiment
124th Infantry Regiment
19th Ind.Mixed Brigade
Shimonoseki Fortress
32nd Army
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
16th AA Regiment
7th Area Army
80th Field AA Battalion
101st AA Regiment
Oita JNAF Base Force

North of Sian in China (yes, there's still a war going on in China), the Chinese win a fight and threaten Sian from the north-north east. One of the Chinese corps is one of the two corps that was formed from components moved out of China at the very beginning of the war. They built up to maximum strength in India and were instrumental in the amphibious landings in Burma at and near Rangoon. They temporarily pushed towards Thailand, and then were pulled out fairly recently for the long walk into China from Burma. The other corps is approaching the Sian area from the west and will be engaged soon.

Ground combat at 83,39 (near Sian)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 43694 troops, 240 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1917

Defending force 6975 troops, 50 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 222

Allied adjusted assault: 1264

Japanese adjusted defense: 117

Allied assault odds: 10 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
1389 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 119 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 34 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled

Allied ground losses:
1138 casualties reported
Squads: 11 destroyed, 82 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 15 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 6 disabled

Assaulting units:
2nd New Chinese Corps
7th Chinese Corps
16th Chinese Corps
5th Chinese Corps
3rd Group Army

Defending units:
1st Ind.Mixed Brigade

[apbarog]

31 May 44

Battleships bombarded Shimonoseki. An LCI was hit by a shell at the Tokuyama landing, but it will survive. Dive bombers targeted many midget subs at Hiroshima. That explains all of the 1 ship task forces that I've seen there.

2 big battles and 2 big victories.

Ground combat at Tokuyama (105,58)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 67385 troops, 1134 guns, 1249 vehicles, Assault Value = 2220

Defending force 19192 troops, 233 guns, 127 vehicles, Assault Value = 350

Allied adjusted assault: 3087

Japanese adjusted defense: 97

Allied assault odds: 31 to 1 (fort level 3)

Allied forces CAPTURE Tokuyama !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
10802 casualties reported
Squads: 123 destroyed, 66 disabled
Non Combat: 345 destroyed, 72 disabled
Engineers: 56 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 171 (129 destroyed, 42 disabled)
Vehicles lost 119 (114 destroyed, 5 disabled)
Units retreated 14

Allied ground losses:
966 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 109 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 26 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 22 disabled
Guns lost 36 (2 destroyed, 34 disabled)
Vehicles lost 73 (11 destroyed, 62 disabled)

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Ground combat at Shimonoseki (104,57)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 52736 troops, 738 guns, 854 vehicles, Assault Value = 1663

Defending force 42212 troops, 477 guns, 226 vehicles, Assault Value = 761

Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 1

Allied adjusted assault: 964

Japanese adjusted defense: 305

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

Allied forces CAPTURE Shimonoseki !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: disruption(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
13836 casualties reported
Squads: 266 destroyed, 19 disabled
Non Combat: 479 destroyed, 9 disabled
Engineers: 48 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 317 (315 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 183 (182 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Units retreated 12
Units destroyed 1

Allied ground losses:
756 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 86 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 22 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 15 disabled
Guns lost 20 (2 destroyed, 18 disabled)
Vehicles lost 40 (2 destroyed, 38 disabled)

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Burning destroyer Daly made it to Oita and disbanded into the size 2 port. Its FIRE went down to 2, although its SYS went up to 72. Looks like it will make it.

[apbarog]

1 Jun 44

Another month. I predict that the war will be over before the end of June. I think that the 3 to 1 points advantage will be achieved, and that OPilot will surrender at that point. Just a prediction though.

US ships sweep many mines at Shimonoseki.

The enemy made a major air effort at Tokuyama, sending 3 big Frank units on sweeps. A mixed defense of ranged CAP from Kyushu and some dedicated LRCAP worked well. The defenders used a staggered CAP. Intercepting at first were 53 P-38s and 49 P-47s. The Franks came in groups of around 48 each. Total air losses were 74 Franks, for the cost of 18 P-47s and 4 P-38s. This is the worst I've seen the Franks do while sweeping. Could finally be an indication that the very good pilots are gone.

The Chinese finish off a mixed brigade north of Sian. They'd won the fight for the two days prior, and finished off the enemy, who didn't retreat, today.

Ground combat at 83,39 (near Sian)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 55868 troops, 281 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1834

Defending force 3855 troops, 39 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 10

Allied adjusted assault: 1499

Japanese adjusted defense: 3

Allied assault odds: 499 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
5050 casualties reported
Squads: 91 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 160 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 17 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 45 (45 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 14 (14 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

Allied ground losses:
91 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 8 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
16th Chinese Corps
7th Chinese Corps
2nd New Chinese Corps
5th Chinese Corps
3rd Group Army

Defending units:
1st Ind.Mixed Brigade

[apbarog]

2 Jun 44

All enemy mines cleared from Shimonoseki and Tokuyama.

Near Shikuka, Finback hit light cruiser Noshiro with a torpedo, causing fire and heavy damage. Billfish hit Noshiro with a torpedo on 28 Mar 44 near Amami Oshima.

B-29s from Formosa hit Toyama.

Morning Air attack on Toyama , at 112,57

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Allied aircraft
B-29-1 Superfort x 65

No Allied losses

Manpower hits 148
Fires 33372

Remember, it's 1944. We have dozens of first-model B-29s, not the hundreds that arrive in 1945. These B-29s are the ones that appear in Aden and were historically used in China, going to the Mariannas later.

[BBfanboy]

I see you are applying appropriate priority to how you use your holiday time! Well done at Shimonoseki and Tokuyama - I thought the resistance would last much longer.

[CaptBeefheart]

Can you post your VP screen? This could be over when you take Hiroshima. Still, would be great to see the Tottori landing.

Does he have any large concentrations of air? I'd expect one last kami attack.

Cheers,
CB

[apbarog]

3 Jun 44

Indian troops continue to unload, slowly, at Brunei. 3 US battleships are bombarding a weak defense there. An attack will be ordered once everything is unloaded.

There was a major bombing effort by the enemy at Hiroshima. Many bomber types, with Franks and Georges escorting and on CAP. About a dozen P-38Js were on ranged CAP, and 12 were lost. Bombing damage to the US troops at Hiroshima was light to moderate. Artillery will attack today here, and just to the north. I don't want to rush things here. I'll attack once the Tottori invasion has cut the island east of Hiroshima.

Here's the order of battle at Hiroshima. The fort level could be very high here:

Ground combat at 105,57 (near Hiroshima/Kure)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 840 troops, 90 guns, 70 vehicles, Assault Value = 1273

Defending force 46022 troops, 417 guns, 119 vehicles, Assault Value = 942

Japanese ground losses:
107 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)

Assaulting units:
2nd Marine Division
193rd Tank Battalion
3rd Marine Division
754th Tank Battalion
1st (Spec) Cavalry Division
627th Tank Destroyer Battalion
223rd Field Artillery Battalion
Sixth US Army
145th Field Artillery Battalion
249th Field Artillery Battalion
147th Field Artillery Battalion
225th Field Artillery Battalion

Defending units:
86th Division
12th Division
35th Ind.Mixed Brigade
27th Ind.Mixed Brigade
19th Ind.Mixed Brigade
124th Infantry Regiment
109th Division
138th Infantry Regiment
42nd Ind Engineer Regiment
101st AA Regiment
32nd Army
16th AA Regiment
2nd RF Gun Battalion
6th Field Construction Battalion
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
7th Area Army
Oita JNAF Base Force

All of the B-29s on Formosa and all of the B-24s in the Japan area hit Toyama. (graphic is wrong, it's Toyama) Fires reported in the 20 and 30 thousands, with many manpower hits. Should be more industry damage today. No CAP there.

Tottori invasion armada to leave Fukuoka and move east, despite enemy battleships spotted in the Sea of Japan. Lots of things could happen today.

[apbarog]

ORIGINAL: CaptBeefheart

Can you post your VP screen? This could be over when you take Hiroshima. Still, would be great to see the Tottori landing.

Does he have any large concentrations of air? I'd expect one last kami attack.

Cheers,
CB

The enemy has large concentrations of fighters. 200+ at Kobe and Osaka. 700+ at Tokyo. Bombers fewer and have generally been ineffective. I've had more problems with the fighters. I think this is a result of how I fought the war. I never really got into an attritional air war with the enemy fighters. When he dominated, I avoided. When I dominated, he avoided.