well fortunately nik its not just the AI that likes shock attacks ! .. blindingly quiet turn apart from japanese movement into clarke and the first japanese attck on the outer singapore defencese.
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/12/42
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Ground combat at Johore Bahru
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 72161 troops, 786 guns, 9 vehicles
Defending force 45460 troops, 385 guns, 8 vehicles
Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 6)
Japanese ground losses:
5606 casualties reported OOPS ! 3 div assault.
Guns lost 127
Vehicles lost 6
Allied ground losses:
98 casualties reported
Guns lost 17
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Ground combat at Manila
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 46531 troops, 479 guns, 8 vehicles
Defending force 16680 troops, 150 guns, 4 vehicles
Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 1)
Japanese ground losses:
3045 casualties reported
Guns lost 71
Vehicles lost 6
Allied ground losses:
64 casualties reported
Guns lost 8
Vehicles lost 1
Ground combat at Clark Field
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 1524 troops, 0 guns, 100 vehicles
Defending force 37850 troops, 326 guns, 9 vehicles
Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 5)
Japanese ground losses:
417 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 32
Allied ground losses:
18 casualties reported
Ill set clarke to counterattack asap ..
mean while the allies almost evict the japanese from san marceliono
Ground combat at San Marcelino
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 29006 troops, 279 guns, 176 vehicles
Defending force 32568 troops, 216 guns, 137 vehicles
Allied assault odds: 1 to 1
Japanese ground losses:
291 casualties reported
Guns lost 14
Vehicles lost 2
Allied ground losses:
309 casualties reported
Guns lost 28
Vehicles lost 4
next day saw the following allied attacks
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Ground combat at San Marcelino
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 27983 troops, 245 guns, 169 vehicles
Defending force 32144 troops, 199 guns, 133 vehicles
Allied assault odds: 0 to 1
Japanese ground losses:
400 casualties reported
Guns lost 6
Vehicles lost 11
Allied ground losses:
390 casualties reported
Guns lost 28
Vehicles lost 8
Excellent japanese vehicle losses on both days .. one day rest , then onemore push .. elsa bring most back to bataan as a reserve.
the only naval engagement in 2 days was ! [:D]
[:D]
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Sub attack near Aparri at 46,49
Japanese Ships
AG AG-366, Shell hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
Allied Ships
SS S-38
Whoopee ! [;)]
Well the air cleared a bit around singapore and japanese attacks hit both the airfields and johore baru .. he was using fighters in ground attack mode here ?? most odd.. is he trying to make me use LR cap next turn ?? i dont know ?
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Day Air attack on Singapore , at 23,50
Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 35
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 11
Ki-48 Lily x 47
Ki-15 Babs x 4
Allied aircraft
Buffalo I x 6
P-40B Tomahawk x 4
Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 2 destroyed, 10 damaged
Ki-43-Ib Oscar: 1 damaged
Ki-48 Lily: 1 destroyed, 15 damaged
Ki-15 Babs: 1 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
Buffalo I: 1 destroyed
P-40B Tomahawk: 1 destroyed
C-47 Dakota: 1 destroyed
Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 3
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Day Air attack on 28th Indian Brigade, at 22,49
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 31
G3M Nell x 15
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 15
Ki-21 Sally x 35
Ki-49 Helen x 19
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 4 damaged
Ki-43-Ib Oscar: 4 damaged
Ki-21 Sally: 3 damaged
Allied ground losses:
38 casualties reported
OK discussion and otherwise more useless info ..
US west coast saw hundreds of AK's and TK's loading up at sanfrancisco for huge 80+ship convoys to PH,noumea, and brisbane.
PH will get sentral pac additions
Noumea (tentatively) will get a 270 size av/base force and the SW Pac fighters and medium bombers
Brisbane .. large AV 51st aviation unit. along with tons of fuel and supply. also the 5th air HQ diverted from the north pacific will see command in australia.
South Pacific
elements of the 163rd RCT and the 3rd USMC CD batallion will arrive tomorrow at baker island . no idea if this is a good idea or not to be honest.
First elements of the US 27th division also unloaded at canton. the rest of the unit and more engineers are 2 days out. also conton made a size 3 port today ! .. hurrah can now disband units into here. pririoty will now go to fortifying the defences then lastly the runway as no medium bombers are heading down this way just yet.
Suva in Fiji and Tonga both recieving needed supplies and are slowly building forts as a priority.
the 14th NZ brigade at Aukland is now combat ready and set to prepare for noumea. AP's diverted from brisbane i'll pick up the unit in 4-5 days time. additional DMS escorts are also sent to cover the loaded convoy.
DEI
Makassar in sulawesi was evacuated right under the nose of baby KB
.. fortunately she has retired to re arm i would guess and the BB fuso was last sighted east of borneo steaming NW .
A small base force is all thats left at kebdari. quite a lot of fuel and supply has been moved to timor and darwin. but without the CL raiders no semi-effective surface group remains here. force Z still inTimor but at least he now knows i'll pounce on any suspected 'unescorted' landing forces. may well slow the japanese advance.
Just noticed but the australian 13 brigade arrived at darwin and the large karachi-perth convoy which had been diverted here ariived simultaneously. with 20+ supply im hopeing the brigade can re-inforce before being caiied over the water to koepang. AP's idling at bali sent south for this purpose. .. also both Bali and Lombok evacuated for use in timor and North australia.
the Dutch minelayers have been grouped and sent in a roundabout way upto ceylon, soerbaja wont make a size 9 port anytime soon so priority will go on fortifications. Java is now organised. Batavia and sorbaja main defensive bases. Kragen garissoned to help prevent cutting the islnd in 2 and the west coast port of tilitjap is now the evacuation port for useless dutch a/c ( namely the FK51 recon units) all of which are now heading for karachi (2) Perth (2). much later worth upgrading to F5 recons. Heavy fleet units in batavia inc BB Revenge CA's corwall and Exeter. CVL hermes in Tjiljap for overland raiding of invasion groups.
Borneo has fallen for all intents and purposes .. only the western most bases still in dutch hands.
Sumatra .. well .. Palembang is chock full of everything i could scrape together. and the enginers set to recieve replcaments in an effort so cause maximum damage to the oil facilities when it falls. also a LOT of oil/fuel and supply has been moved out too. this will continue untill it becomes too expensive to do so. ( probably after singapore falls). Westeren sumatra has been stripped for troops for use in both the andaman is. and more for Timor.
Malaysia ..
Supply is very very good , also a 5k AK from karachi sneaked into singapore yesterday .. 43k in singers 24k in johore baru. wont run out anytime soon. bombers set to harass the japanese troops and all shipping has dried up of late. 70 more P40E's flown into Singapore via andaman/north sumatra. may provide a suprise, else heading to sumatra/java.
Burma/India
Pretty quiet. P40's and hurricanes patrol mandalay and Akyab forward airfields. the secondary line Jothat-imphal was initially evacuated so the base forces could reconstitute at anasol. now rebuilt they are marching back ( i would use air transport but all i have are some rubbish dutch units). Strategic decision will see dakotas used mainly in n.aus as a reinforce.evac option for Timor. china will have to run its own economy for now. but the burma road is open so not too bad and only limited flanking forces planned for Yenen. chinese a/f ( fighters only) will try for ground attack missions for recon as much as annoyance value.
well that concludes today round up, sorry its so long .. also screenie of PI included.
