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Looks like being ornery is good training!
Problem with Magwe is the 300 oil wells only have a 100 refinery to make fuel - unless Japan expanded it as a gift to you ...
I looked in China and all their refineries seem to be matched with an equal amount of oil production in the same location - no excess capacity there!
Maybe you could sell the excess oil in Europe ...

Absolutely no reason for Japan to increase refinery at Magwe....

Kunming HI hasn't produced since the northern bases got taken. In this mod, the HI won't operate if enemy troops are present. LI keeps producing...but we are down to 80K resources in China. At one point we were down to 0 (turn 326), but Burma bases are now providing a nice bit (an no HI production helped too) but Chungking will run out (they are at 26K dropping about 2k a day).

I am not sure we can supply Kunming with enough resources to fuel constant HI production without more local resources...once Magwe is taken, we will see how the raw materials flow. Should be interesting.

I might end up sending the excess oil to Australia eventually if it ever flows to a safe port.

Feb 2, 1943

Good fight in China...one tank division left though...

Ground combat at Kweiyang (74,49)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 26306 troops, 242 guns, 117 vehicles, Assault Value = 1067

Defending force 38462 troops, 174 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 745

Japanese adjusted assault: 158

Allied adjusted defense: 589

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

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

Japanese ground losses:
1699 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 183 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 21 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Guns lost 17 (1 destroyed, 16 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
365 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 24 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 18 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
3rd Tank Regiment
15th Division
39th Division
110th Division

Defending units:
18th Chinese Corps
1st New Chinese Corps
17th Group Army
39th Group Army
8th Group Army
24th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
33rd Group Army
6th Group Army
5th Chinese Base Force

Heavy enemy LRCAP, bleeding cap...over our armor....

The IJ attack....we hold for now...

Attacking force 48736 troops, 595 guns, 155 vehicles, Assault Value = 1675

Defending force 9011 troops, 98 guns, 731 vehicles, Assault Value = 548

Japanese adjusted assault: 707

Allied adjusted defense: 506

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
1187 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 148 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 10 (1 destroyed, 9 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1790 casualties reported
Squads: 49 destroyed, 108 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 39 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 20 disabled
Guns lost 31 (13 destroyed, 18 disabled)
Vehicles lost 55 (14 destroyed, 41 disabled)

Assaulting units:
9th Infantry Regiment
6th Guards Div /7
7th Burma Militia Regiment
4th Guards Division
18th Division
25th Division
35th Div /3
25th Army
39th JNAF AF Unit
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion
26th Fld AA Gun Co
36th Field AA Battalion
41st Field AA Battalion
1st Air Defense AA Regiment
14th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
11th Air Flotilla
3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
21st Air Defense AA Regiment
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
85th JAAF AF Bn
3rd Provisional Base Force

Defending units:
268th Motorised Brigade
3rd Carabiniers Regiment
50th Tank Brigade
255th Armoured Brigade
3rd Cavalry Regiment

We probe the Japanese at Magwe....I am hoping to try and get Japan to fight forward for several more days....not sure they will fall for it though.

Ground combat at Magwe (57,47)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 26242 troops, 423 guns, 460 vehicles, Assault Value = 961

Defending force 14472 troops, 122 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 395

Allied adjusted assault: 122

Japanese adjusted defense: 584

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

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

Japanese ground losses:
640 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 63 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled

Allied ground losses:
1016 casualties reported
Squads: 15 destroyed, 68 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 33 disabled
Guns lost 36 (5 destroyed, 31 disabled)
Vehicles lost 24 (1 destroyed, 23 disabled)

Assaulting units:
2nd British Division
17th Indian Division
7th Armoured Brigade
18th British/C Division
2nd Ceylon H AA Regiment

Defending units:
11th Division

Feb 3, 1943

Night bombing destroys 16 Tojo fighters....

Supplies flow into the troops at Magwe....and our 2nd attack carries the base!
Ground combat at Magwe (57,47)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 29655 troops, 502 guns, 509 vehicles, Assault Value = 843

Defending force 14003 troops, 122 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 350

Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Allied adjusted assault: 378

Japanese adjusted defense: 89

Allied assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 2)

Allied forces CAPTURE Magwe !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
4900 casualties reported
Squads: 62 destroyed, 42 disabled
Non Combat: 89 destroyed, 30 disabled
Engineers: 27 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 29 (29 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 4 (4 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 1

Allied ground losses:
438 casualties reported
Squads: 11 destroyed, 29 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 18 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Vehicles lost 60 (11 destroyed, 49 disabled)

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Back home...managed to do a turn every few days while away...

First week of Feb, 1943

Still skirmishing off Akyab...bad job here!
A few others:

Night Time Surface Combat, near Akyab at 54,45, Range 1,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CL Isuzu, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Minegumo
DD Hatsuyuki, Shell hits 5, on fire
DD Shiokaze

Allied Ships
CL Caradoc, Shell hits 4
DD Jupiter, Shell hits 5, heavy fires

Night Time Surface Combat, near Akyab at 54,45, Range 1,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DD Tokitsukaze
DD Shirayuki
DD Hakaze, Shell hits 1, on fire

Allied Ships
CA Devonshire
DD Nepal

Poor visibility due to Thunderstorms with 0% moonlight
Maximum visibility in Thunderstorms and 0% moonlight: 2,000 yards

Jupiter left with heavy fires...

Ground situation in Burma...so we have routed two strong divisions recently (the one at Magwe and the 6th Guards) and a lot of Japanese troops are worn down while Allied troops are in relatively good shape. We have 2500 AV moving south to Toungoo and 1000 moving towards Prome which is a tank heavy. 9th Australian is moving on Akyab and attack will start there soon while Japan is still performing a naval evacuation.

China....we are being pounded by Japanese bombers daily. Shot down a dozen Sonias the other day in a cap trap near Chungking....but for the most part they are milk runs for Japan.

Feb 6th & 7th, 1943

Chinese troopers manage to hold on despite heavy attacks along the Kweiyang road on the 6th, and Devonshire raids the Akyab IJN task forces...

The commanders got new threat level orders and instead of raiding for one attack....they look for another task force and find it! However, poor Meredith collides with Nepal at the start of the fight and is damaged enough that she is pummeled and sunk.

Devonshire pumps 8" shells into the Suzuya, eventually triggering a magazine explosion. I think Devonshire took one superstructure hit from a smaller gun and the rest bounced off her belt armor.

But the IJN won't let the Devonshire escape....

And yet another IJN task force looks for vengance!

Daylight comes, and the thunderstorms prevent the Devonshire from standing off....The Devonshire tried to escape by heading south for some odd reason and ran into the IJN SAG SW of Akyab...bad choice.

Hmmm....another IJN heavy cruiser is gone.