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

Tolun falls on August 9, 1945

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.

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 ;]

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

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.

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 :/

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.

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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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

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

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

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

Chihfeng and Sunwu fall on the 15th.

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.

The death star assists in causing disruption.

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

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.

Lihnsi falls on the 16th

Sept 16?