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turn finally done....

will find out Shanghai's CD guns today....

going for Shaohing hard...

lots of chaos will ensue I am sure....

Jan 21, 1944

Burke has almost no ammo left...but this is his 2nd skirmish of the night. The first was with 2 IJN Destroyers...

In Shanghai Harbor...PT boats catch ships docked. Torpedoes and sinks one, leaves another with heavy fires.

Lots of single ship IJN task forces, Es, DDs, but here is one were we are fighting off the IJN pursuing the deathstar...

Two torpedo hits...

We got 2 torpedo launches off on the Nagato, but missed....might be in trouble here as the Queen Elizabeth is somewhere in the area.

PT boats race into the harbor....meaning no cd guns or mines.

Aoba takes a torpedo...

First bombardment finds Franks...

Heavy Cruisers nail Shanghai

Might have screwed up with a Desron and Queen Elizabeth....

Glad I reconned these guys by fire...

Fighting off the afternoon attacks...so far so good. No strikes over by Ningpo though.

Disappointing

Doesn't look good for our LRPs...none of our carrier bombers hit the base either.

Victory here...

Well, we landed...but opposition didn't get softened up by bombers and our bombardment was a bust.
Ground combat at Shaohing (91,56)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 1594 troops, 17 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 79

Defending force 5156 troops, 28 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 182

Allied adjusted assault: 15

Japanese adjusted defense: 73

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

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

Japanese ground losses:
227 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 34 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
99 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
14th LRP Bde /1

Defending units:
8th Mongol Cavalry Division
5th RGC Division
3rd RGC Division
5th NCPC Infantry Brigade

Too bad these loss numbers are subject to fog of war...found a Tank Regiment on Wotje nearby.


Ground combat at Majuro (136,119)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 444 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 28

Defending force 786 troops, 8 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3

Allied adjusted assault: 6

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 6 to 1 (fort level 1)

Allied forces CAPTURE Majuro !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
1029 casualties reported
Squads: 9 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 41 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 10 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 11 (11 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
2nd USMC Parachute Bn /1

Defending units:
Majuro Base Force

No recon, I think I was down to 1 plane on the Tennessee...Baltimore used their planes for something else. My bad.

Naval bombardment of Shaohing at 91,56

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M8 Zero: 2 damaged
A6M8 Zero: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied Ships
BB Tennessee
CA Baltimore
CA Louisville

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 13
Port hits 4
Port fuel hits 2
Port supply hits 1

BB Tennessee firing at Shaohing
CA Baltimore firing at Shaohing
CA Louisville firing at Shaohing

A good day...the Japanese struck from the air from Naha area towards Wenchow were our two Carrier Task Forces dealt with the attacks. After the initial night skirmishes, it was pretty peaceful at Ningpo area....more when I get the turn.

More bad weather and low moonlight...thunderstorms...I was really worried about the Queen Elizabeth. As soon as I sent the turn off, I thought why did I do that? Should have close to 40 PT boats at Ningpo now...plus AGP, AE, and AD.

Wasp hopefully made it to Foochow....and Hornet yesterday got struck by a torpedo from a searching aircraft!