Rise of the Sheep! JocMeister(A) vs. Obvert(J)

[JocMeister]

[font="Verdana"]17th June -45 [/font]
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That little surprise worked well enough!

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Korea
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I stood down the bombers in favor of some powerful sweeps (can´t do both as I lack space). So 350 P47Ns hit Eriks LRCAP over Gunzan. And it was glorious! [:)]

Here are the first three sweeps.

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Morning Air attack on Gunzan , at 102,52

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 14 NM, estimated altitude 32,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A7M2 Sam x 15
J2M3 Jack x 9
Ki-43-IV Oscar x 12
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 14
Ki-83 x 10
Ki-84a Frank x 8
Ki-84r Frank x 57
Ki-102b Randy x 7

Allied aircraft
P-47N Thunderbolt x 22

Japanese aircraft losses
A7M2 Sam: 2 destroyed
Ki-43-IV Oscar: 4 destroyed
Ki-45 KAIa Nick: 2 destroyed
Ki-84a Frank: 2 destroyed
Ki-84r Frank: 4 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-47N Thunderbolt: 2 destroyed

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Morning Air attack on Gunzan , at 102,52

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 33 NM, estimated altitude 34,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A7M2 Sam x 12
J2M3 Jack x 9
Ki-43-IV Oscar x 4
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 8
Ki-83 x 7
Ki-84a Frank x 5
Ki-84r Frank x 47
Ki-102b Randy x 5

Allied aircraft
P-47N Thunderbolt x 25

Japanese aircraft losses
A7M2 Sam: 3 destroyed
J2M3 Jack: 4 destroyed
Ki-43-IV Oscar: 1 destroyed
Ki-45 KAIa Nick: 2 destroyed
Ki-84a Frank: 2 destroyed
Ki-84r Frank: 1 destroyed

No Allied losses

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Morning Air attack on Gunzan , at 102,52

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 29 NM, estimated altitude 36,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A7M2 Sam x 2
J2M3 Jack x 1
Ki-43-IV Oscar x 2
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 3
Ki-83 x 5
Ki-84r Frank x 41
Ki-102b Randy x 2

Allied aircraft
P-47N Thunderbolt x 21

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-IV Oscar: 1 destroyed
Ki-45 KAIa Nick: 1 destroyed
Ki-83: 1 destroyed
Ki-84r Frank: 8 destroyed
Ki-102b Randy: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-47N Thunderbolt: 2 destroyed

My sweeps wore down the CAP to nothing during the morning phase but a small CAP are again up in the afternoon. Only to get crushed again. Probably high FAT and low MRL by now.

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Afternoon Air attack on Gunzan , at 102,52

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 17 NM, estimated altitude 36,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A7M2 Sam x 7
J2M3 Jack x 6
Ki-43-IV Oscar x 6
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 9
Ki-83 x 6
Ki-84a Frank x 1
Ki-84r Frank x 30
Ki-102b Randy x 5

Allied aircraft
P-47N Thunderbolt x 25

Japanese aircraft losses
A7M2 Sam: 1 destroyed
Ki-43-IV Oscar: 1 destroyed
Ki-45 KAIa Nick: 1 destroyed
Ki-83: 2 destroyed
Ki-84r Frank: 11 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-47N Thunderbolt: 1 destroyed

After the sun sets we have shot down 172 Japanese fighters for only 19 own losses! [&o] The total for the day is 185 vs 33. LCT G.Gibbons claims his 29th kill over Gunzan! [:)]

I doubt the LRCAP will be up tomorrow but to prove a point another 300 plane Sweep will hit tomorrow. And for effect we will also sweep in a couple of other places.

Unexpectedly the Japanese try to strike at our troops at Gunzan again. The raid has no effect as the AA BDE scatters the bombers.

]Morning Air attack on 15th NZ AA Bde , at 102,52 (Gunzan)

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 112 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 30 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49-IIb Helen x 10
Ki-67-Ib Peggy x 19
Ki-67-Ia (T) Peggy x 4

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49-IIb Helen: 4 damaged
Ki-67-Ib Peggy: 10 damaged
Ki-67-Ib Peggy: 1 destroyed by flak
Ki-67-Ia (T) Peggy: 3 damaged

Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

The AA BDE claim 16 bombers during the day. These guys are absolutely GOLDEN. You only get 3 of them. 2 from NZ and one at Colombo. Buy them out as they are best AA units you get.

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China
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Not much to report here today. Bombers will shift target tomorrow to aid the Chinese superstack in capturing Hengyang. Not sure its needed but better safe then sorry. Defending the city are 20 units totaling 32.000 troops. Chinese forces are about half a million. [X(]

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Home Islands
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B29Bs/25s bomb the previously undetected Ki-83 factory. It was undefended with a lone NF showing up. Factory is completely destroyed.

The B29-1 attack the LI at Oita. Its heavily guarded by almost 50 NFs but the bombers manage to knock out the LI but suffer for it. 6 B29s are shot down.

Ki-83r Frank: 148
A7M2 Sam: 222
J2M5 Jack 145
Ki-83: 22 (-30)
Ki-44 Tojo: 111
N1K2-J George: 72
Ki-100-I Tony: 67
Ki-102c Randy: 73
Ki-43-IV Oscar: 153
J7W1-Shinden: 3
Ki-46-III KAI 18

[EHansen]

I think you should get 4 AA brigades, 15th, 16th, and 17th at New Zealand. And the 23rd at Colombo.

I doubt that the Canton/HK stack will attack, they have little or no supply. If they attack they
will get slaughtered.

[JocMeister]

ORIGINAL: EHansen

I think you should get 4 AA brigades, 15th, 16th, and 17th at New Zealand. And the 23rd at Colombo.

I doubt that the Canton/HK stack will attack, they have little or no supply. If they attack they
will get slaughtered.

You are quite right. I never bought out one of the NZ AA BDEs as I didn´t have nowhere near enough AA guns to fill it out. I then of course forgot about it... wish I would have remembered that a year ago or so! [:D]

[JocMeister]

Didn´t get a turn from Erik last night. He sent me an email telling me it should be up early this morning but none have shown up.

A little bit nervous about the turn as I let the armor attack at Gunzan.

[JocMeister]

[font="Verdana"]18th June -45 [/font]
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Only seen the replay. Doesn´t look like a good day though...

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Korea
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My sweeps never showed up. Perhaps bad weather over Gunzan. The attack went in though and its not looking very good.

Ground combat at Gunzan (102,52)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 112129 troops, 1839 guns, 4327 vehicles, Assault Value = 4879

Defending force 211398 troops, 2675 guns, 1246 vehicles, Assault Value = 7040

Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 0

Allied adjusted assault: 1065

Japanese adjusted defense: 4936

Allied assault odds: 1 to 4 (fort level 0)

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

Japanese ground losses:
3129 casualties reported
Squads: 46 destroyed, 310 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 31 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 19 disabled
Guns lost 54 (6 destroyed, 48 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1546 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 100 disabled
Non Combat: 102 destroyed, 379 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 14 disabled
Guns lost 136 (31 destroyed, 105 disabled)
Vehicles lost 983 (229 destroyed, 754 disabled)

Hopefully its only Motorized support but there is an awful lots of destroyed stuff nonetheless...will know when the turn arrives.

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China
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Better news here though. Hengyang is easily clear from enemy troops. I´ll divide up the Chinese superstack into 4-6 smaller stacks. Thats going to be a rotten amount of mouse clicks. Yuck. But it will allow me to cover 4-6 times as much ground. Besides Erik only have on Superstack left and the CMA can deal with that.

While my Chinese campaign was enhanced by some player errors on Eriks part I hope I have shown that this game is perfectly playable without resorting to giant mega super duper stacks. What won China for me was a small 1700 AV mobile force consisting of 2 motorized divisions backed up by some armor. They allowed me to quickly move around Eriks strongholds. Once I had moved around the "superstack areas" at Canton/HK and Liuchow China was won. With everything up on the frontline and nothing in deep reserve it was game over. I havn´t really checked but I think I advanced some 15-20 hexes in just 2 months.

I also did it completely without the Chinese forces. This is their first real contribution in the war. And its not a necessary one. The troops used to liberate Canton/HK could just as easily have done this part.

Ground combat at Hengyang (80,53)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 379473 troops, 2179 guns, 287 vehicles, Assault Value = 13696

Defending force 19000 troops, 146 guns, 193 vehicles, Assault Value = 328

Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 3

Allied adjusted assault: 7403

Japanese adjusted defense: 38

Allied assault odds: 194 to 1 (fort level 3)

Allied forces CAPTURE Hengyang !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: forts(+), disruption(-), preparation(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
6428 casualties reported
Squads: 373 destroyed, 50 disabled
Non Combat: 525 destroyed, 68 disabled
Engineers: 38 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 127 (83 destroyed, 44 disabled)
Vehicles lost 133 (133 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 17
Units destroyed 3

Allied ground losses:
2735 casualties reported
Squads: 15 destroyed, 439 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 34 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 26 disabled
Guns lost 30 (1 destroyed, 29 disabled)

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Home Islands
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Most of the Sweeps never showed up. Some did and they didn´t do very well...I would estimate I lost some 20 fighters for 10 Japanese. But its pure speculation before I see the turn!

[JocMeister]

[font="Verdana"]The "CMA" in China[/font]
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I feel pretty confident now to declare the China campaign as finished. Its mostly about mopping up right now. The only larger Japanese force currently in China is the new 150k Stack around Chushien. I think its most likely that stack is heading towards Korea though. Probably to bolster the Gunzan stack if it still holds.

This was actually a very fun campaign. Far cry from the Superstacks in Burma. If its one thing I learned in this campaign its that speed wins. Sadly the scale of AE makes it very hard to use Armor and Motorized units in a proper flanking move. Korea is a good example of this. If it was just 2-3 hexes wider Eriks two Mega stacks would already be outflanked and isolated. In fact China may be the only place on the map where you can truly use fast motorized units to outflank the enemy. There is simply not enough room anywhere else.

Erik has cleverly used this against me in Burma, the Philippines and now Korea by creating these massive stacks of anything between 3-10k AV. He makes sure they are in good defensive positions (Gunzan being the exception) are dug in and have plenty of artillery. This forces me into an attrition battle with massive stacks like the trench warfare of WWI. And defeating those stacks take time. Its SLOW.

It has been a good lesson though. This tactic can easily be defeated by either room to maneuver or landings behind the superstack. China was refreshing proof of that and so was Tavoy. I now know how to deal with this tactic if I encounter it in my next game.

Here is a map of the CMAs movement in China. [:)]

[JocMeister]

Went through the turn. Luckily it was mostly Motorized support that was toasted in the attack. Have to pull out one of the TD units though. Took a bad beating with every Jackson disabled.

Airlosses wasn´t that bad either. Got slightly lower then a 1:1.

[JocMeister]

[font="Verdana"]19th June -45 [/font]
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Lost another LONG post to the post eating forum monster... [8|]

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Korea
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The 4Es finally take off to good effect. About 1500 Japanese casualties inflicted on the day. The stack has grown to 360.000 troops though. Erik keeps on piling on. And I think more is to come...

The Masan stack suddenly dropped its AV to 3200. Knowing Erik he is going to pile that on the Gunzan stack. This leaves me with a good opportunity. I can shift from Gunzan to Masan a lot faster then he can. I have only 3 hexes of "gray roads". Erik has to move 6 hexes + 1 "yellow road". Plan is very simple. I shift as much as I dare to Masan once the Japanese troops from Masan arrives. Armor will need only 3 days to get there...

Moppo will reach level 9 tomorrow. Erik moved his SCTF a bit to the East. Probably not wanting to get too close to the Allied fleet. I´ll see if Moppo reaching level 9 tomorrow will trigger a reaction. I´ve set a trap for him and hopefully he takes the bait.

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China
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Just mopping up in the Changsha area. 1 base left. This one holds all the shattered troops from the area including the 3 wrecked IDs.

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Home Islands
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I´ve had a sneaking suspicion Erik have deployed his NFs to far West. The strike at Oito confirmed this so I used the opportunity. Only 8 NFs over the most important NF factory... [:)]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jun 19, 45
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Night Air attack on Maebashi , at 113,59

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 78 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 24 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M5d-S Zero x 1
Ki-46-III KAI Dinah x 8

Allied aircraft
B-29-25 Superfort x 25
B-29B Superfort x 39

No Japanese losses

No Allied losses

J1N1-Sa Irving factory hits 10

560 B29Bs/25s make sure there is nothing left when morning dawns! [&o] In the meantime the B29-1s take out the remaining LI at Sian.

This poses a very interesting question. How good are his NF pools...If allied recon is correct he now only have 18 Ki-46 NFs still in production. A Zero NF factory of 30 points is also in production. He also have a Denko factory of 30 but I don´t think its producing yet as I havn´t seen any operational ones. It isn´t due until 11/45.

Ki-83r Frank: 148
A7M2 Sam: 222
J2M5 Jack 145
Ki-83: 22
Ki-44 Tojo: 111
N1K2-J George: 72
Ki-100-I Tony: 67
Ki-102c Randy: 73
Ki-43-IV Oscar: 153
J7W1-Shinden: 3
Ki-46-III KAI 18
J1N1-Sa Irving 0 (-40)

[witpqs]

Lost another LONG post to the post eating forum monster...

Here is a pic of how I write my AAR posts. [8D]

[JocMeister]

I really should start doing it like that. This time I actually had a copy of the text though. But when I was to crtl+v I accidently hit ctrl+c and overwrote the "copy" with a copy of nothing.

I was banging my head against the keyboard after that... [:D]

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

I really should start doing it like that. This time I actually had a copy of the text though. But when I was to crtl+v I accidently hit ctrl+c and overwrote the "copy" with a copy of nothing.

I was banging my head against the keyboard after that... [:D]

So? In a text editor, you just then hit ctrl+z to undo the last change and get it all back. I've done that more than once with my AAR posts. Works in the forum's post editor box, too.

[Lokasenna]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

I really should start doing it like that. This time I actually had a copy of the text though. But when I was to crtl+v I accidently hit ctrl+c and overwrote the "copy" with a copy of nothing.

I was banging my head against the keyboard after that... [:D]

So? In a text editor, you just then hit ctrl+z to undo the last change and get it all back. I've done that more than once with my AAR posts. Works in the forum's post editor box, too.

In some browsers you can ctrl-z also .

[JocMeister]

Wouldn´t have worked in this instance. The forum ate the first post (which I ctrl+c before I sent it) so I opened a new "post reply" window. But when I was going to do a ctrl+v I missed and hit ctrl+c instead. So there was nothing to "undo". But if I had written the post in an external text editor I would of course still have had the post.

[JocMeister]

[font="Verdana"]20th June -45 [/font]
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Very quiet turn. Won´t be tomorrow though...

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Korea
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Nothing to report really. The Gunzan stack has grown to 7800 AV now. Have to be patient now until the troops from Masan arrives.

Ground combat at Gunzan (102,52)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 3532 troops, 291 guns, 262 vehicles, Assault Value = 4611

Defending force 242879 troops, 3029 guns, 1323 vehicles, Assault Value = 7883

Japanese ground losses:
412 casualties reported
Squads: 10 destroyed, 19 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 8 (4 destroyed, 4 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
Guns lost 29 (10 destroyed, 19 disabled)
Vehicles lost 6 (2 destroyed, 4 disabled)

Moppo reached level 9 this turn. This set in motion a few things. Firstly I moved in 600 fighters. Secondly I moved in all the Amphibs to unload during the night. Thirdly I sent forth some powerful naval forces to interdict any Japanese ships coming towards Moppo to bombard.

12 CAs, 8 CLs and about 100 DDs race towards Moppo and beyond at full speed. They are all set Moppo as their homeport. The plan is that they will crash into Eriks BB/CA TFs before Moppo protecting the Amphibs and then retire in under the CAP before daybreak.

I predict things to go completely bonkers though so I held back 4 Modern CAs and 12 Modern CLs together with the 6 Fast BBs for tomorrow as a reserve.

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China
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Not much to report. The CMA reaches parts of the new superstack. Erik has taken up position in defensive terrain. I ordered a bombardment to see whats there. If its too much to deal with I´ll have to wait for reinforcements.

[Crackaces]

Not much to report. The CMA reaches parts of the new superstack. Erik has taken up position in defensive terrain. I ordered a bombardment to see whats there. If its too much to deal with I´ll have to wait for reinforcements.

I suspect at this point you can 1/2 the estimated adjusted AV at this point. It has been my experience and thoughts
that those superstacks consume more supply than having the same forces in different stacks. One thing I am thinking
is that the roads and type are factors of how much supply goes to the units each pulse. So a huge stack has a demand
that is governed by the roads to supply. No supply and AV can be quartered .. in addition combat results are altered
plus unsupplied units do not reform disablements ...

The IJ movements in Korea I bet will have an interesting effect once the supply pulse is calculated and it starts
moving based on the demand in one hex ..

[Lokasenna]

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

Wouldn´t have worked in this instance. The forum ate the first post (which I ctrl+c before I sent it) so I opened a new "post reply" window. But when I was going to do a ctrl+v I missed and hit ctrl+c instead. So there was nothing to "undo". But if I had written the post in an external text editor I would of course still have had the post.

Can't "undo" in that first window, before opening the post reply?

I've never had a "forum ate the post problem" - if the connection times out, I simply hit 'back'. If I accidentally delete the post, I Ctrl-Z it back into existence. I can't be doing anything terribly different than you guys.

I just use Firefox (though I should switch to Chrome), and the only addons I use are NoScript and AdBlock.

[JocMeister]

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
Can't "undo" in that first window, before opening the post reply?

I've never had a "forum ate the post problem" - if the connection times out, I simply hit 'back'. If I accidentally delete the post, I Ctrl-Z it back into existence. I can't be doing anything terribly different than you guys.

I just use Firefox (though I should switch to Chrome), and the only addons I use are NoScript and AdBlock.

I get an error message and when I press back I only get blank screen. [:(] Undo doesn´t do anything.

[JocMeister]

[font="Verdana"]21th June -45 [/font]
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Anticlimactic...

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Korea
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The expected attack never comes. I manage to land 6 divisions, 3 Combat Engineer Regiments, 400 Shermans, 8 artillery units, 700.000 supply and 200.000 fuel completely undisturbed. With 1,2 million supply I guess I´m set for a month or two. [:)]

The Amphibs will withdraw back under the CV cover. I leave 3 CAs, 4 Clevelands, 60 Fletchers and about 200 PTs to ward off any bombardment. Even if Erik did try its very unlikely he would get through with any ammo left for an bombardment.

Last turn I started moving out 2 Corps HQs from Masan. Looks like Erik might think I´m shifting troops to Gunzan because I immediately spotted movement out from Masan this turn. [:)]

The 600 Fighters remain in place. Its highly unlikely Erik will try something from the air. If something is coming I think it will be from the sea. Then again Erik really likes to sink ships. So he might try turning all the LBA on to hit the ships at Moppo. Most likely I would be happy with that trade. He probably only have one shot left and if I can trigger that with a couple of CAs/CLs and DDs I should probably be happy about it.

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China
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Interesting day here. Some good and some bad. Here is the good.

Ground combat at Siangtan (81,52)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 204630 troops, 1304 guns, 162 vehicles, Assault Value = 11205

Defending force 25109 troops, 227 guns, 84 vehicles, Assault Value = 287

Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Allied adjusted assault: 4319

Japanese adjusted defense: 16

Allied assault odds: 269 to 1 (fort level 2)

Allied forces CAPTURE Siangtan !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: disruption(-), preparation(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
11460 casualties reported
Squads: 645 destroyed, 40 disabled
Non Combat: 1319 destroyed, 27 disabled
Engineers: 22 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 178 (169 destroyed, 9 disabled)
Vehicles lost 74 (74 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 18
Units destroyed 9

Allied ground losses:
918 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 193 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 14 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled

Although it lists almost 11k AV its only about 3500 that takes part in the attack. The rest were in move mode and just arrived from the West.

The CMA unfortunately ran into a road block.

Ground combat at 88,55 (near Chuhsien)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 2856 troops, 18 guns, 282 vehicles, Assault Value = 1658

Defending force 25255 troops, 187 guns, 40 vehicles, Assault Value = 907

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

Assaulting units:
Provisionl Tank Brigade
Gardner's Horse Regiment
19th Motorised Division
255th Indian Tank Brigade
Guides Cavalry Regiment
18th Cavalry Regiment
50th Tank Brigade
254th Armoured Brigade
17th Motorised Division

Defending units:
88th Infantry Brigade
13th Division
72nd Ind.Mixed Brigade
71st Ind.Mixed Brigade
43rd Army

Another 100k troops are moving to the hex and I´m unsure when it will shift so I don´t dare an attack for now. Most importantly it looks like Erik is trying to cut me off too. Not too worried though. I have a little surprise brewing. [:)]

He even set some bombers on the CMA. No effect noted though as flak seemed to deal with them.

Morning Air attack on 17th Motorised Division, at 88,55 , near Chuhsien

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 8 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. [X(]
Estimated time to target is 2 minutes

Japanese aircraft
B7A2 Grace x 33

Japanese aircraft losses
B7A2 Grace: 6 damaged
B7A2 Grace: 3 destroyed by flak

Allied ground losses:
62 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

[JocMeister]

[font="Verdana"]21th June -45 - Strategic Bombing [/font]
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Forgot to add this to the last update. Another good turn here as we hit Sam and Frank factories at Gifu. Heavy defense here though with 30NFs on patrol. While "only" 14 B29s are lost the high pace of operation are taking its toll. Of 611 B29s only 302 are currently operational. The rest are repairing damage.

Ki-83r Frank: 100 (-48)
A7M2 Sam: 202 (-20)
J2M5 Jack 145
Ki-83: 22
Ki-44 Tojo: 111
N1K2-J George: 72
Ki-100-I Tony: 67
Ki-102c Randy: 73
Ki-43-IV Oscar: 153
J7W1-Shinden: 3
Ki-46-III KAI 18
J1N1-Sa Irving 0

[JocMeister]

[font="Verdana"]22th June -45 [/font]
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Another fairly quiet turn.

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Korea
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Bombardments at Gunzan and Masan continue. No air missions flown. This will change tomorrow as 300 4Es and 110 2Es rebase to Moppo. Erik pulled back his BB/CAs even further. Still within bombardment range though. I hope with the bombers at Moppo and the fleet pulling back that I can entice him to try something here.

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China
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Yikes! Supply is starting to get low. I´ve burned throw 1,8 million supply here in the last month. Is that even possible?? Going to go through tracker and see if the supply has flown backwards into Thailand and Burma.

Erik indeed moved a unit up behind the CMA and more is coming. Its x3 terrain though so dislodging me should be very hard. Especially since he is conveniently within 4E range from Naha... [;)]

My little surprise is still a couple of days off.