Kane and Unable ;] - Game over 1945.

[Mike McCreery]

Allied paratroopers drop on a disrupted tank unit to take Taonan.

[Mike McCreery]

Tolun falls on August 9, 1945

[Mike McCreery]

Night bombardments go in on the coast at Port Arthur, Antung and Keijo. Several destroyers hit mines at Keijo and south at Moppo when those destroyers tried to raid Fusan.

[Mike McCreery]

What makes MrKane tough to play against for me is that he only needs somewhere between 100 & 200 fighters and he can pierce my CAP typically.

Here is a picture of a strike with only 4 bombers and his fighters. If I put up high CAP he will go low of course. No damage but still a heart stopper every time ;]

[Mike McCreery]

MrKane is bombing targets of opportunity in Russia, usually advance armor groups. He has had minor effect on movement and readiness.

[Mike McCreery]

The recon at Anshan was reporting low troop levels and numbers. So I decided to try to drop my paratroops here For some reason they never dropped which was a good thing. Here is a major bombardment by air. It's results were disappointing.

Instead of the 2 units I thought were there it turns out it was 2 divisons plus a whole lot more.

[Mike McCreery]

A few turns ago I had a nice catch of ships at Fusan that were not CAP'd. This turn it goes the other way with me forgetting to turn off the attack and not providing escorts.

I would be mad at myself but this happens regularly :/

[Mike McCreery]

Takao finally falls after massive bombardments by air and sea and ground attacks to reduce lvl 6 forts to 0. It also took quite a bit of diverted armor assets to expedite the process.

[Mike McCreery]

On the 11th Kiamusze falls

Ground combat at Kiamusze (113,40)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 5985 troops, 36 guns, 616 vehicles, Assault Value = 351

Defending force 1029 troops, 10 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 10

Allied adjusted assault: 349

Japanese adjusted defense: 3

Allied assault odds: 116 to 1 (fort level 3)

Allied forces CAPTURE Kiamusze !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: op mode(-), leaders(+), preparation(-), fatigue(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
439 casualties reported
Squads: 10 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 27 destroyed, 39 disabled
Engineers: 29 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 13 (12 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Units retreated 1

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
75th Tank Brigade
335th Guards SU Regiment
338th Guards SU Regiment
339th Guards SU Regiment
76th Tank Brigade

Defending units:
38th JAAF AF Bn


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[Mike McCreery]

Arshaan falls as well

Ground combat at Arshaan (105,33)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 20001 troops, 314 guns, 1256 vehicles, Assault Value = 770

Defending force 4454 troops, 44 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 70

Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 0

Allied adjusted assault: 370

Japanese adjusted defense: 109

Allied assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0)

Allied forces CAPTURE Arshaan !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
959 casualties reported
Squads: 21 destroyed, 29 disabled
Non Combat: 81 destroyed, 29 disabled
Engineers: 44 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 8 (4 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Units retreated 4

Allied ground losses:
12 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
7th Guards Mechanized Corps

Defending units:
4th Manchukuo Cav Brigade
52nd JNAF AF Unit
69th JNAF AF Unit
51st JAAF AF Bn

[Mike McCreery]

August 12, 1945. Troops try a sneak attack at Gunzan. It is almost successful.

[Mike McCreery]

The allies do a deliberate attack at Gunzan on August 13 and meet a wall of steel.

[Mike McCreery]

The 14th is mostly quiet. The only direct attack happened at Chihfeng and was at 1-1 although forts were dropped.

[Mike McCreery]

Chihfeng and Sunwu fall on the 15th.

[Mike McCreery]

On August 16, 1945 all available bombardment task forces hit Kaishu. This is followed by a large number of amphibious forces all with guns, mortars, rockets and other landing assault guns.

[Mike McCreery]

The death star assists in causing disruption.

[Mike McCreery]

MrKane shock attacks at Gunzan where a fragment of a parachute unit defends with predictable results.

[Mike McCreery]

Japanese bombardment goes in showing force strengths on the beach at Kaishu. 13 amphibious assault units delivered the troops which are for the most part prepped 100% for Kaishu. There is a command HQ at Tsingtao and the invasion was assisted by an amphibious HQ corps making sure the troops got on the beach in good condition.

[Mike McCreery]

Lihnsi falls on the 16th

[PaxMondo]

Sept 16?