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23rd-24th June -45 [/font]
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Nothing bad happened which was welcome!
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Korea
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Actually not too much to report. The rebased 4Es strike Gunzan on the 23rd. Some of them are set to attack the airfield to prevent fort building. We are causing around 1000 casualties per day but given there are 360.000 troops its only a scratch. Still we did manage to shave off almost 100 AV with ground and air bombardments.
On the 24th we shift target and strike the industry at Mukden. First the B29s go in during the night and do horrible. 550 B29s manages a stunning 1 LI hit. The daylight B24s do a lot better on knocks out 67 points of HI. No CAP was up. Very odd considering this is the biggest Japanese industry complex on mainland Asia. [&:] I´ll shift the bombers tomorrow but let the sweeps continue.
At Moppo a small 3 MTB TF shows up during the night. I think Erik is simply trying to gauge the opposition. He only got a look at a Fletcher TF and two PT TFs. His SCTF are on station. Still pulled back to the east. But still close enough that he could potentially bombard Moppo. It would be at max range though (9 hexes) and only the CAs and Yamatos could reach.
There is a slight problem with this setup though...its within strike range of the allied CVs. I´ll put a map up. Might be a very good opportunity here.
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China
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Small battles all over China. Big event is in the mountains where the ex defenders of Tsuyung are shattered outside Kunming.
Ground combat at 68,47 (near Kunming)
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 35460 troops, 810 guns, 524 vehicles, Assault Value = 718
Defending force 13576 troops, 84 guns, 19 vehicles, Assault Value = 231
Allied adjusted assault: 390
Japanese adjusted defense: 193
Allied assault odds: 2 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), morale(-), supply(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
5060 casualties reported
Squads: 131 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 115 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 10 (10 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 3 (3 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 5
Allied ground losses:
386 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 20 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 10 disabled
Guns lost 13 (1 destroyed, 12 disabled)
Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!
My troops are now shot though. I doubt they will recover before the game is up. They were only half strength to begin with though and thats why I chose to send them here in the first place. I´ve sent some Chinese units to guard Kunming while these troops will move onto the rail in China.
The CMA is out of the woods. We have a Tank division facing us in x3 terrain. Normally I would attack but despite flying in supply from Canton I can´t get these guys into supply. I have another 500k convoy on its way but its still 2-3 weeks out. Will have to halt offensive operations in China for now. I´ll mop up the Changsha and Canton/HK stack for now.
Map coming.
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