Turnaround? Lowpe (J) vs Tiemanj (A) Stock

[Lowpe]

Dec 20, 1944

No major attacks on Honshu. Moving in and out troops -- they are really worn out.

Changsha attack again...huge attack probably won't hold for much longer.

Nanking holding...

[Lowpe]

Dec 21, 1944

Shanghai

[Lowpe]

I have drained Tokyo of almost all troops, and now I feel that he might risk an air drop on it...so now it will be receiving a ton of troops via train plus a heavy CAP of my remaining fighters.

Here is hoping!

[Lowpe]

One of about six to eight heavy night time bombardments.

Night Naval bombardment of Maizuru at 110,58

Allied Ships
BB Richelieu
BB Queen Elizabeth
BB Valiant
BC Renown
CA London
CA Baltimore
CA San Francisco
CA Minneapolis
CA Astoria
CA Salt Lake City
CA Chicago
CL Pasadena
DD Morris
DD Terry
DD Smalley
DD Prichett
DD Jenkins
DD John Hood
DD Harrison
DD Halligan
DD Franks
DD Brush
DD Allen M. Sumner
DE Fieberling
DE Damon M. Cummings

Japanese ground losses:
676 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 53 disabled
Non Combat: 19 destroyed, 93 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 9 disabled
Guns lost 94 (29 destroyed, 65 disabled)
Vehicles lost 33 (10 destroyed, 23 disabled)

Manpower hits 5
Fires 6250
Airbase hits 23
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 92
Port hits 5
Port supply hits 1

BB Richelieu firing at Maizuru
BB Queen Elizabeth firing at 19th Division
BB Valiant firing at 1st Guards Division
BC Renown firing at Maizuru
CA London firing at 93rd Division
CA Baltimore firing at Maizuru
CA San Francisco firing at Maizuru
CA Minneapolis firing at 3rd Tank Division
SOC-1 Seagull acting as spotter for CA Astoria
CA Astoria firing at 1st Guards Division
CA Salt Lake City firing at 19th Division
CA Chicago firing at 3rd Division
CL Pasadena firing at Maizuru
DD Morris firing at 3rd Tank Division
DD Terry firing at 3rd Tank Division
DD Smalley firing at Maizuru
DD Prichett firing at Maizuru
DD Jenkins firing at 7th Division
DD John Hood firing at 1st Guards Division
DD Harrison firing at 77th Division
DD Halligan firing at Maizuru
DD Franks firing at 52nd Division
DD Brush firing at 1st Guards Division
DD Allen M. Sumner firing at Maizuru
DE Fieberling firing at Maizuru
DE Damon M. Cummings firing at 93rd Division

[Lowpe]

Allies are hitting me with every plane in their arsenal.

Including carrier craft.
Morning Air attack on 46th Division, at 111,60 (Nagoya)

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 79 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 34 minutes

Allied aircraft
F4U-1A Corsair x 30
F6F-3 Hellcat x 65
SB2C-1C Helldiver x 12
SB2C-3 Helldiver x 43

Allied aircraft losses
SB2C-1C Helldiver: 2 damaged
SB2C-3 Helldiver: 23 damaged
SB2C-3 Helldiver: 1 destroyed by flak

Japanese ground losses:
48 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

[Lowpe]

Death in the Mountain Passes of China

Ground combat at 71,48 (near Kunming)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 153701 troops, 438 guns, 104 vehicles, Assault Value = 2581

Defending force 7596 troops, 50 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 12

Allied adjusted assault: 3672

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 3672 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
8507 casualties reported
Squads: 157 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 880 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 6 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 58 (58 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 2

Allied ground losses:
134 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

[Lowpe]

I am trying to retreat out of Hangchow...not sure I will be able to before being force out.

Ground combat at Hangchow (90,55)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 27792 troops, 229 guns, 159 vehicles, Assault Value = 1233

Defending force 23409 troops, 110 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 642

Allied adjusted assault: 455

Japanese adjusted defense: 773

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

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

Japanese ground losses:
850 casualties reported
Squads: 63 destroyed, 28 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 11 (3 destroyed, 8 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
258 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 46 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled

[Lowpe]

VP ratio 2.532 to 1...

[Lowpe]

Shanghai, Nagoya and Maizuru are at risk of being taken. If Maizuru falls then Osaka and Kobe are in grave danger too.

But there is only 9 days left...

To counter those possible VP losses I am resupply PM and Rabaul which will get me some VP.

I still have two BBs, several light cruisers, one fleet carrier and a dozen destroyers, but I am thinking now I shouldn't put them at risk. Boring, but there you have it...

[Wuffer]

Keep them.

Let survive as much as possible...

At least you will deny him cheap and dirty VPs.

[Lowpe]

Dec 22 `1944

Nates in action over Tokyo...

Huge battles in China, but I think I will preserve Shanghai...but troops are falling like flies.

[Lowpe]

Changsha is not long for the empire...

Ground combat at Changsha (82,52)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 95364 troops, 289 guns, 418 vehicles, Assault Value = 3333

Defending force 61470 troops, 637 guns, 376 vehicles, Assault Value = 1212

Allied adjusted assault: 1630

Japanese adjusted defense: 813

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

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 0

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

Japanese ground losses:
11897 casualties reported
Squads: 308 destroyed, 468 disabled
Non Combat: 28 destroyed, 225 disabled
Engineers: 7 destroyed, 101 disabled
Guns lost 160 (57 destroyed, 103 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

Allied ground losses:
3075 casualties reported
Squads: 10 destroyed, 428 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 56 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 35 disabled
Guns lost 12 (1 destroyed, 11 disabled)
Vehicles lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled)

[Lowpe]

vp 2.535 TO 1...

downed 30 planes for 2 lost yesterday...go Nates![:D]

Lots of turns flipped today...tomorrow will see us past Christmas hopefully and then the game will be wrapped up.

Get your posts in now as this game winds down...

[Drakanel]

It has been a very entertaining ride, that's for sure.

Quite violent too XD

It is nice to see a last ditch defense of the home islands, and even though the game was ultimately "lost", I still found it interesting

That said, good luck holding out for the last few days!

[Lowpe]

Dec 23, 1944

Nanking falls to a beefed up Allied force...but we still whittle them down.

Now the question is can Shanghai hold. Forts are only 3 with 750 AV, although I am flying in 50 points a day.

Wenchow is now besieged by Chinese, forts level 0 there. My bad.

Hankow will evacuate this day, and the troops will fight it out at Wuchang.

Still rotating troops on Honshu. A fair bit of supply at Kobe, but it refuses to ship out. My troops can be supplied with supplies but not in Maizuru and Nagoya which is a pain.

My hoped for ambush of paratroops at Tokyo failed...I thought he might be lured into a hail merry.

Port Moresby gets supply, and Raaul is unloading now. Making an effort to get supply to every base for the VP that I can.

[Lowpe]

7 days left, maybe we can finish the game this day! Wouldn't that be grand?[:)]

Turn is away, put up some Zekes over Shanghai very low....perhaps his bombers will come first.

[Anachro]

I would congratulate you on reaching 1945, but I don't want to jinx it. So keep up the good fight! Does the game go to AV on Jan 1st because of a point differential requirement change?

[BillBrown]

Yes, on 1/1/45 the Av is 2:1

[Lowpe]

Thanks Bill![:)]

I picked up 91 victory points yesterday by supplying PM despite the losses at Nanking; ratio is now at 2.526 to 1.

I will supply Rabaul today...and pick up more, but I doubt it will be enough to be positive again.

Here are the plane losses for the day...

Rufes, and KAI Dinah fighters down quite a few escorting P38 and Hellcats over the Yangtze...

[Lowpe]

Debacle at Nanking...

Ground combat at Nanking (91,52)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 44718 troops, 758 guns, 1155 vehicles, Assault Value = 1583

Defending force 40170 troops, 437 guns, 93 vehicles, Assault Value = 863

Allied adjusted assault: 957

Japanese adjusted defense: 409

Allied assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 0)

Allied forces CAPTURE Nanking !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
13393 casualties reported
Squads: 296 destroyed, 13 disabled
Non Combat: 527 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 167 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 217 (216 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 84 (84 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 13

Allied ground losses:
693 casualties reported
Squads: 7 destroyed, 72 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 22 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 23 disabled
Vehicles lost 25 (2 destroyed, 23 disabled)

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
3rd Carabiniers Regiment
255th Indian Tank Brigade
2nd British Division
254th Armoured Brigade
11th Indian Division
Guides Cavalry Regiment
36th British Division

Defending units:
2nd RGC Capital Division
22nd Division
29th/C Division
63rd Division
73rd Ind.Mixed Brigade
26th Ind.Mixed Regiment
57th/C Division
Gohoku JNAF Base Force
1st Base Force
30th JAAF AF Bn
68th JAAF AF Bn
15th JAAF Base Force
90th JAAF AF Bn