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China (february 3rd and 4th 1942)

IJA conducted some ground offensive assaults here yet again and we got hammered once more.

This battle took place

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Ground combat at 81,49

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 22113 troops, 142 guns, 42 vehicles, Assault Value = 675

Defending force 15038 troops, 50 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 507

Japanese adjusted assault: 764

Allied adjusted defense: 77

Japanese assault odds: 9 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
231 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 21 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
7672 casualties reported
Squads: 169 destroyed, 170 disabled
Non Combat: 209 destroyed, 158 disabled
Engineers: 5 destroyed, 10 disabled
Guns lost 4 (2 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Units retreated 2


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
34th Division
57th Infantry Brigade

Defending units:
87th Chinese Corps
94th Chinese/C Corps


Hmmm. No penalties for the Japanese and I got downgraded by an experience and supply modificators. (I will post an pic from main unit in this battle).

I have actually changed the leader here and the commander is not half as bad. The unit exp level is 39. The support is a bit low along with the supply levels.

Than again my adjusted av value dropped from 507 --> 71! The gave me an terrain bonus of x3 and still this happened.

We managed to shoot down 231 enemy troops and none of the SHOCK assaulting units were destroyed. If you look at the losses we lost 7672 casualties and had 400 units destroyed.

Hmmm, I think the Chinese frontline might deserve another look from the developing team. This seems quite absurd to me.

...oh well the fight will continue for sure.

The unit I talked about above...

Malaya (february 3rd and 4th 1942)

This is the turn when the battle of Singapore will begin.

Japanese units have now entered the hex here.


Ground combat at Singapore (50,84)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 4526 troops, 133 guns, 41 vehicles, Assault Value = 1700

Defending force 53284 troops, 470 guns, 268 vehicles, Assault Value = 1023

Japanese adjusted assault: 0

Allied adjusted defense: 1082

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 99 (fort level 3)

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

Japanese ground losses:
2301 casualties reported
Squads: 64 destroyed, 50 disabled
Non Combat: 51 destroyed, 74 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 8 (7 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
97 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 3 (0 destroyed, 3 disabled)


Assaulting units:
2nd Engineer Regiment
41st Infantry Regiment
Imperial Guards Division
41st Guard Battalion
23rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
56th Infantry Regiment
II./143rd Infantry Battalion
14th Tank Regiment
12th Engineer Regiment
21st Infantry Regiment
15th Ind. Engineer Regiment
114th Infantry Regiment
11th Infantry Regiment
42nd Infantry Regiment
II./4th Infantry Battalion
5th Engineer Regiment
5th Recon Regiment
2nd Recon Regiment
1st Tank Regiment
4th Ind. Engineer Regiment
91st Naval Guard Unit
5th Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
35th Field AA Battalion
34th Field AA Battalion
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
Southern Army
25th Army
3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
51st Field AA Battalion

Defending units:
27th Australian Brigade
3rd Cavalry Regiment
SSVF Brigade
2/17 Dogra Battalion
1st Manchester Battalion
22nd Australian Brigade
8th Indian Brigade
2nd Argylls Battalion
2nd Malay Battalion
1st Malay Battalion
2nd Loyal Battalion
3/16th Punjab Battalion
2nd Gordons Battalion
5/14th Punjab Battalion
Singapore Fortress
11th Indian Division
5/2nd Punjab Battalion
III Indian Corps
3rd Heavy AA Regiment
Malayan Air Wing
272/273rd Bty 80th AT Gun Regiment
224 Group RAF
Singapore Base Force
24th NZ Pioneer Coy
110th RAF Base Force
Malaya Army
AHQ Far East
109th RAF Base Force
111th RAF Base Force
22nd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
223 Group RAF
1st Indian Heavy AA Regiment
109th RN Base Force
5th Field Regiment

It seems not all the units that entered were force to shock assault here since the combat shows around 5000 men participating from IJA.

This is one hell of an army they have here too.

It is going to be almost impossible predict how fast the defense here collapses.

The losses those units took must have hurt, though, at least these particular units.

Japan only starts with 3 full sized zero units. Tainain, Yamada, and one other that I can't remember. Two of the units satert in Takao, and the other one in Saigon. There are a couple of Claude units that can upgrade to zeroes, and then another one arrives in January I believe. So, 4-5 zero units is all that he has other than the ones on his carriers.

If I were him, I wouldn't risk my carriers around Java either if I thought that I could cover it with LBA. Too much risk of hitting a mine, running into a sub with working torpedoes, or of getting hit with a lucky air attack. Also, he can't afford aircraft losses from the carriers and using them in Java creates the risk of losing planes. By raiding in the central or southern pacific, he can try to knock off your merchants carrying fuel and supplies without worrying about losses since he knows he got two of your starting carriers.

That is just my two cents worth.

SireChaos: Definately. I would love to take out couple of his armoured units. These are real nuisance all over the map.

I guess we shall soon see some big ground offensives. Especially at Manila, Singapore and China.

seydlitz: That intresting since he has some zero units in China. Propably in training purposes.

I did come up with the same conclusion regardin KB. If so that is an risky move in his part or as said he has total confidence with his lba fighters and bombers.

He has started bombing Palempang so this will be decieded soon. Once the Manila falls US submarines will move towards Java. Eventhough these guys really haven't hit anything so far in the game.

Those 2 lost US carriers is the reason why I'am thinking of moving RN carriers into Pacific along with lba fighters. I just checked that CV Hornet will arrive within 10 days.

At the moment there are 5 battleships ready for action in west coast.

Thankfully those merchants had unloaded their cargo / troops few days earlier so he was not in time with this raid.

Singapore (february 5th and 6th 1942)
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The final assault begin againts Singapore too.

Not bad and I think the leader changes have really helped here and in Manila.

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Ground combat at Singapore (50,84)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 58324 troops, 438 guns, 401 vehicles, Assault Value = 1650

Defending force 53189 troops, 471 guns, 271 vehicles, Assault Value = 1011

Japanese adjusted assault: 928

Allied adjusted defense: 4645

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 5 (fort level 3)

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

Japanese ground losses:
5826 casualties reported
Squads: 16 destroyed, 257 disabled
Non Combat: 17 destroyed, 299 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 122 disabled
Vehicles lost 58 (1 destroyed, 57 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
5001 casualties reported
Squads: 71 destroyed, 174 disabled
Non Combat: 43 destroyed, 165 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 30 disabled
Guns lost 13 (5 destroyed, 8 disabled)
Vehicles lost 55 (23 destroyed, 32 disabled)


Assaulting units:
5th Engineer Regiment
21st Infantry Regiment
56th Infantry Regiment
41st Infantry Regiment
42nd Infantry Regiment
23rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
114th Infantry Regiment
5th Recon Regiment
14th Tank Regiment
II./4th Infantry Battalion
Imperial Guards Division
4th Ind. Engineer Regiment
1st Tank Regiment
15th Ind. Engineer Regiment
12th Engineer Regiment
II./143rd Infantry Battalion
11th Infantry Regiment
2nd Recon Regiment
2nd Engineer Regiment
91st Naval Guard Unit
34th Field AA Battalion
35th Field AA Battalion
5th Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
Southern Army
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
25th Army
3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
51st Field AA Battalion

Defending units:
1st Manchester Battalion
8th Indian Brigade
2nd Malay Battalion
2nd Argylls Battalion
1st Malay Battalion
2nd Loyal Battalion
3rd Cavalry Regiment
11th Indian Division
27th Australian Brigade
3/16th Punjab Battalion
SSVF Brigade
2/17 Dogra Battalion
22nd Australian Brigade
5/14th Punjab Battalion
Singapore Fortress
2nd Gordons Battalion
5/2nd Punjab Battalion
109th RN Base Force
111th RAF Base Force
22nd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
110th RAF Base Force
109th RAF Base Force
Malaya Army
24th NZ Pioneer Coy
AHQ Far East
272/273rd Bty 80th AT Gun Regiment
224 Group RAF
Singapore Base Force
III Indian Corps
3rd Heavy AA Regiment
1st Indian Heavy AA Regiment
223 Group RAF
Malayan Air Wing
5th Field Regiment

Here too most of the losses were to the secondary units and key elements are still in pretty good shape.

At least we are selling our skins with high cost.

Manila (february 5th and 6th 1942)

As expected the final assault on Luzon began this turn.

Now, had I not encountered the "supply bug" things might have been much better.

Here is the combat summary:

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Ground combat at Manila (79,77)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 116012 troops, 1138 guns, 699 vehicles, Assault Value = 3333

Defending force 48917 troops, 729 guns, 342 vehicles, Assault Value = 1124

Japanese adjusted assault: 1287

Allied adjusted defense: 1371

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 3)

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

Japanese ground losses:
6765 casualties reported
Squads: 22 destroyed, 412 disabled
Non Combat: 21 destroyed, 379 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 28 disabled
Vehicles lost 134 (4 destroyed, 130 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
6746 casualties reported
Squads: 176 destroyed, 120 disabled
Non Combat: 86 destroyed, 147 disabled
Engineers: 14 destroyed, 90 disabled
Guns lost 5 (0 destroyed, 5 disabled)
Vehicles lost 74 (20 destroyed, 54 disabled)


Assaulting units:
33rd Division
4th Tank Regiment
22nd Recon Regiment
148th Infantry Regiment
38th Division
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
1st Formosa Inf. Regiment
65th Brigade
48th Engineer Regiment
16th Infantry Regiment
Sasebo 3rd SNLF
Kanno Detachment
4th Division
47th Infantry Regiment
7th Tank Regiment
113th Infantry Regiment
Tanaka Detachment
Yokosuka 4th SNLF
24th Infantry Regiment
Sasebo 8th SNLF
2nd Tank Regiment
21st Division
48th Recon Regiment
56th Recon Regiment
I./4th Infantry Bn /4
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
2nd Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
18th Mountain Gun Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
26th Fld AA Gun Co
4th Field AF Construction Battalion
48th Field Artillery Regiment
56th Field Artillery Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Mortar Battalion
14th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
14th Army
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
3rd Mortar Battalion
1st RF Gun Battalion
5th Mortar Battalion
31st Fld AA Bn /1

Defending units:
51st PA Infantry Division
41st PA Infantry Division
57th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team
14th PS Engineer Regiment
21st PA Infantry Division
31st PA Infantry Division
91st PA Infantry Division
192nd Tank Battalion
71st PA Infantry Division
1st PA Infantry Division
31st Infantry Regiment
45th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team
4th Marine Regiment
3rd/12th PA Inf Battalion
11th PA Infantry Division
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
194th Tank Battalion
2nd PA Constabulary Division
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
Far East USAAF
202nd PA Construction Battalion
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
II Philippine Corps
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
Cavite USN Base Force
Manila USAAF Base Force
201st PA Construction Battalion
Provisional Field Artillery Regiment
USAFFE
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment


That is an massive force with +3000 av value in total.

Luckily for us he did not bring down any forts here. I checked the units and key units are still in pretty good shape. Most of those casualties were "secondary" infantry.

Not much to do here except wait and duel it out since the pinzer movement has now isolated the capital city.

I did launch couple of bombardment assaults too and these achieved some success.

China (february 5th and 6th 1942)

The enemy has now entered Loyang. I'am moving troops out with combat orders since I think this is waist of time to try to defend the base.

In total 11 enemy units are now assaulting the city,

I got knocked out near Nanyang too. These units are too low in experince to really contest IJA advance.

I'am withdrawing my units out of Nanyang. Reasons for this are quite obvious.

The base is an open terrain hex with no bonuses. It just has level 3 forts so that basically means crap with the new ground combat model.

I'am using kind of an variant of ideas seydlitz put ahead. We shall see how it will work out.

I do expect the first assault againts Loyang to begin immediately.

Good job in Manila and Singapore. If we had known about the supply bug before the fight at Clark I have no doubt that you could have made him pay even more dearly. As it is, try to tie up as many of his troops as you can for as long as possible.

In China, don't be afraid to click your units over to move mode. You will advance faster in that mode which will give you time to reposition. By staying in combat mode he might catch and fight you causing yet more casualties.

Even with your weak troops, you should be able to let the steam out of the steam roller over the next month by chosing where and when you fight.

seydlitz: Yeah. The leaders do play more important role with AE. That's why those troops did well as they did.
 
With the crap leaders british and philippines have it would have all over already.
 
I'am using movement orders all the time in the rear areas. Only way to gain any ground in this wast country.
 
You kind of read my mind! [:D] ...I have actually decieded what areas will be defended. I will start moving units out of Liuchkow area since it has plenty to spare. These guys are moving towards northern areas.
 
Lets hope that steam will vanish. I take your word for it since you have some devious plans ongoing in your PBEM in Russia.

Northern China defensive plans!

Southern China defensive plans!

Your defensive analysis looks sound. In southern China Japan is constrained by fewer units and lack of a good rail network. These things should work in your favor.

However, if he is serious about China, you might see more units arrive after he finishes off the Philippines.

I think you will be able to hold your key cities, they are in good terrain, and may even have forts. Moreover, in my first campaign, while I have found that the Chinese units need perhaps 10:1 AV to win over the japanese, if you are defending in a forest hex, and/or a rough hex you don't need nearly that much to defend successfully.

Don't let him surround you in your fortress cities though! Too many times that has been the downfall of old WITP allied players.

You are doing better tham I did against AI...in both Scen 6 campaigns AI took Singapore Jan 26....[:'(]

seydlitz: That is the most sensible defense I could come up with. Those 3 cities in the open terrain really was not worth of defending.

He has those +3000 av points in Philippines but he must move some of them to Malaya too since Singapore is not going to fall that easily. Another good thing is that his assaults failed this turn too.

Xxzard: Welcome aboard, I will defend the key cities such as Lanchow, Sian, Chungking, Kweiling and Liuchow. However defending Nanyang and Loyang would not made any operational sense since those were all deathtraps.

I'am using the terrain to my advantage and I think he really will have his handsfull if he continues to push forward.

Yeah, I know about those encirclements. Was the victim of few of them in the old witp.

Sardaukar: I think the sir Robin plus the leader changes helped out here. It didn't hurt either that the main focus for his offensives were definately Luzon.

It might take him a while to get things organized enough to capture the base at Singapore. My supply levels are in excellent shape,

China (february 7th and 8th 1942)

A couple of developments here.

First we agreed on a new houserule in this area. This was not brought up by me but instead Dave did this.

"How about no voluntary shock attacks in china/manchuria/russia? Other areas of the map still OK to shock attack.

Only exception being if enemy troops have entered a city and you're trying to throw them out."

I guess we pretty much feel the same that Chinese are really getting short end of the stick here with all those shock assaults which are absolutely brutal.

This is agreed and this ties up my Soviet campaign into this stipulation sooner or later. Actually by the sound of this we might just battle out sooner rather than later. That is ofcourse reading between the lines.

I also stated that Dave has the power to lift this HR if he feels it is bringing him down here. That is not my call though.

This just shows how we pretty much do flexible stuff both ways and we never have had any serious disagreements on any issue brought up. So, hats off to him with this new HR.

There were some action too. As expected he assaulted the city of Loyang.

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Ground combat at Loyang (87,43)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 73994 troops, 508 guns, 183 vehicles, Assault Value = 2471

Defending force 14311 troops, 120 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 216

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 2773

Allied adjusted defense: 67

Japanese assault odds: 41 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Loyang !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
570 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 33 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 24 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Vehicles lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
4712 casualties reported
Squads: 243 destroyed, 22 disabled
Non Combat: 390 destroyed, 63 disabled
Engineers: 19 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 10 (7 destroyed, 3 disabled)
Units retreated 9


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
26th Engineer Regiment
15th Ind.Mixed Brigade
8th Ind.Mixed Brigade
110th Division
16th RGC Temp. Division
37th Division
12th Indpt Infantry Regiment
35th/A Division
3rd Ind.Mixed Brigade
41st Division
35th/C Division
8th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
5th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion

Defending units:
98th Chinese Corps
2nd Chinese Cavalry Corps
40th Chinese Corps
15th Chinese Corps
5th New Chinese Corps
4th Group Army
15th Group Army
24th Group Army
39th Group Army

As you can see my army was out of the hex and just few units were left "defending" the city.

This retreat brought up intresting issue with ZOC. Those troops moved into hex 86,43! It had two enemy units in place. That is what the recon indicated and was to be true.

Now when I try to enter any orders for movement towards Sian I get an message telling me that movement not allowed! Hmmm, that is weird since this is the only hex I have had this problem, There were several other hexes with even worse situations and my troops were able to move out in combat formation.

I emailed about this to Dave since this kind of ruins the whole point of leaving Loyang. I will be posting this on technical support area.

Otherwise it was business as usual. The japanese launched minor skirmish assaults with shock orders and kicked the living crap out of the chinese units.

AVG was in action but didn't do much in the skies above Changhsa. I had moved some 20 fighters in but enemy zero fighters proved to be too stiff resistance.

Manila (february 8th and 9th 1942)

As expected the IJA launched another shock assault here supported by massive air raids!

The good thing is that the forts didn't get lowered and the offensive was repulsed.

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Ground combat at Manila (79,77)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 111316 troops, 1141 guns, 691 vehicles, Assault Value = 3103

Defending force 43921 troops, 729 guns, 321 vehicles, Assault Value = 941

Japanese adjusted assault: 891

Allied adjusted defense: 1487

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 3)

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

Japanese ground losses:
6345 casualties reported
Squads: 37 destroyed, 348 disabled
Non Combat: 66 destroyed, 296 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 24 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 103 (32 destroyed, 71 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
3497 casualties reported
Squads: 62 destroyed, 132 disabled
Non Combat: 106 destroyed, 140 disabled
Engineers: 26 destroyed, 28 disabled
Guns lost 21 (11 destroyed, 10 disabled)
Vehicles lost 65 (22 destroyed, 43 disabled)


Assaulting units:
48th Recon Regiment
21st Division
113th Infantry Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
Sasebo 3rd SNLF
4th Division
4th Tank Regiment
24th Infantry Regiment
7th Tank Regiment
148th Infantry Regiment
16th Infantry Regiment
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
22nd Recon Regiment
47th Infantry Regiment
Kanno Detachment
38th Division
Yokosuka 4th SNLF
33rd Division
Sasebo 8th SNLF
1st Formosa Inf. Regiment
III./124th Infantry Battalion
56th Recon Regiment
48th Engineer Regiment
Tanaka Detachment
65th Brigade
I./4th Infantry Bn /4
26th Fld AA Gun Co
14th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Field Artillery Regiment
18th Mountain Gun Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
14th Army
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
5th Mortar Battalion
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
48th Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Mortar Battalion
3rd Mortar Battalion
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
56th Field Artillery Regiment
1st RF Gun Battalion
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
4th Field AF Construction Battalion
31st Fld AA Bn /1

Defending units:
3rd/12th PA Inf Battalion
41st PA Infantry Division
14th PS Engineer Regiment
57th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team
1st PA Infantry Division
21st PA Infantry Division
194th Tank Battalion
11th PA Infantry Division
31st Infantry Regiment
31st PA Infantry Division
4th Marine Regiment
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
51st PA Infantry Division
71st PA Infantry Division
192nd Tank Battalion
45th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team
91st PA Infantry Division
2nd PA Constabulary Division
Cavite USN Base Force
Manila USAAF Base Force
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
201st PA Construction Battalion
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
202nd PA Construction Battalion
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
USAFFE
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
II Philippine Corps
Far East USAAF
Provisional Field Artillery Regiment
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment

That was good to see. As said switching leaders and giving proper rest can help out quite a bit.

I do not have any airpower in the area but I have been softening his troops with the big gun bombardments which has been somewhat effective.

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Ground combat at Manila (79,77)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 219 troops, 41 guns, 24 vehicles, Assault Value = 772

Defending force 110028 troops, 1154 guns, 742 vehicles, Assault Value = 2758

Japanese ground losses:
244 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 3 (2 destroyed, 1 disabled)tive here.

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Ground combat at Manila (79,77)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 235 troops, 41 guns, 24 vehicles, Assault Value = 772

Defending force 114153 troops, 1171 guns, 740 vehicles, Assault Value = 2824

Japanese ground losses:
412 casualties reported
Squads: 8 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 20 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 4 (4 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 14 (9 destroyed, 5 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
125 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 16 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 9 (3 destroyed, 6 disabled)

So Manila lives to see another day. You can only wonder how much harder it would have been without the bug at Clark Field which caused me 25 000 supply points and around 800av points.

Singapore (february 9th and 10th 1942)

It was an quiet turn all over the map.

The chinese "movement bug" was propably due to the misunderstanding regarding the new ZOC system. If I had known I would not have left Loyang or at least I would have kicked those 2 armoured units out of the hex. Oh well I need to do it now than.

Sometimes the good old language barrier hits you. My english is just decent not native standard.

Now back to the turn itself. The only real action was fought in Singapore.

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Ground combat at Singapore (50,84)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 63210 troops, 486 guns, 400 vehicles, Assault Value = 1764

Defending force 49077 troops, 467 guns, 244 vehicles, Assault Value = 843

Japanese adjusted assault: 1605

Allied adjusted defense: 1623

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 3)

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

Japanese ground losses:
6043 casualties reported
Squads: 32 destroyed, 285 disabled
Non Combat: 37 destroyed, 199 disabled
Engineers: 6 destroyed, 109 disabled
Guns lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 80 (0 destroyed, 80 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
4000 casualties reported
Squads: 51 destroyed, 194 disabled
Non Combat: 38 destroyed, 278 disabled
Engineers: 5 destroyed, 18 disabled
Guns lost 19 (4 destroyed, 15 disabled)
Vehicles lost 23 (5 destroyed, 18 disabled)


Assaulting units:
42nd Infantry Regiment
2nd Engineer Regiment
41st Infantry Regiment
2nd Recon Regiment
Imperial Guards Division
15th Ind. Engineer Regiment
11th Infantry Regiment
4th Ind. Engineer Regiment
12th Engineer Regiment
16th Naval Guard Unit
56th Infantry Regiment
1st Tank Regiment
114th Infantry Regiment
55th Infantry Regiment
21st Infantry Regiment
II./143rd Infantry Battalion
23rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
II./4th Infantry Battalion
5th Recon Regiment
5th Engineer Regiment
14th Tank Regiment
91st Naval Guard Unit
3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
5th Field Artillery Regiment
Southern Army
25th Army
34th Field AA Battalion
51st Field AA Battalion
35th Field AA Battalion
11th Special Base Force

Defending units:
27th Australian Brigade
5/14th Punjab Battalion
2nd Argylls Battalion
22nd Australian Brigade
2/17 Dogra Battalion
3/16th Punjab Battalion
11th Indian Division
1st Malay Battalion
8th Indian Brigade
2nd Malay Battalion
SSVF Brigade
3rd Cavalry Regiment
2nd Gordons Battalion
2nd Loyal Battalion
Singapore Fortress
5/2nd Punjab Battalion
22nd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
3rd Heavy AA Regiment
109th RAF Base Force
110th RAF Base Force
24th NZ Pioneer Coy
Malaya Army
272/273rd Bty 80th AT Gun Regiment
109th RN Base Force
224 Group RAF
Malayan Air Wing
223 Group RAF
1st Indian Heavy AA Regiment
Singapore Base Force
III Indian Corps
AHQ Far East
111th RAF Base Force
5th Field Regiment


Another assault repulsed but this time around it was an close call by looking at the adjusted av values. I do not have the turn yet but looks like the forts held up which is always good.

These offensives here and in Manila are far more vicious than those that were fought with old witp engine.

I put some of my units into reserve mode this time in order to gain some protection from lba bombardments. Now I will rotate them back to the combat mode.

Another +6000 enemy soldiers killed/wounded is not an bad result by any standards.