JeffroK
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I'll give you a rundown on my first try, played until mid February.
At first view, the Indian Army seems to be very brittle and spread out across Burma, just like IRL. Any reinforcements seemed doomed with having to hold Rangoon for so long to receive them. Some Chinese "Divisions" arrive after about 45 days at Imphal? and later at Lashio.
First turns are slow, the IJA is crossing the ranges into Burma, I began to evacuate Tavoy and decided to defend Moulemein, Pegu & Rangoon before deciding on a strategy for Upper Burma.
On 6/1/42 the IJA I/143 attacked my retreating Tavoy forces without success, but after a bit of bombarding on 12/1/42 a shock attack pushed back 2 Burma Bde .
Mergui fell 18/1/42 to 112 Rgt, only a base force defending the base.
In the meantime I had been finding Bns to send to Moulmein & Pegu and the first reinforcements had been arriving. The RAF & AVG had started well and caused heavy losses to the IJAAF, especially to Sally's over Rangoon but with limited AV pts they were slowly wearing down and victories were getting harder to achieve.
On 27/1/42 the IJA attacked Moulmein and despite heavy losses cleared the town on first try.
Ground combat at Moulmein (55,55)
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 9010 troops, 93 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 456
Defending force 4617 troops, 51 guns, 18 vehicles, Assault Value = 193
Japanese adjusted assault: 204
Allied adjusted defense: 51
Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 1)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Moulmein !!!
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)
Japanese ground losses:
1462 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 65 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 54 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 37 disabled
Allied ground losses:
1943 casualties reported
Squads: 70 destroyed, 35 disabled
Non Combat: 78 destroyed, 36 disabled
Engineers: 23 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 21 (21 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 16 (16 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 10
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
55th Engineer Regiment
55th Cavalry Regiment
143rd Infantry Regiment
214th Infantry Regiment
215th Infantry Regiment
55th Mountain Gun Regiment
15th Army
55th Division
33rd Division
Defending units:
2/7th Rajputs Battalion
5th Burma Rifles Battalion
1st Burma Rifles Battalion
11th Burma Rifles Battalion
5/1st Punjab Battalion
6th Burma Rifles Battalion
2nd Burma Brigade
27th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
108th RAF Base Force
56th Madras Coy
Sadly this continued with the next hex being cleared on 29/1/42 , Pegu on 4/2/42 after 2 days of battle
Ground combat at Pegu (55,53)
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 18434 troops, 203 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 619
Defending force 8924 troops, 96 guns, 48 vehicles, Assault Value = 344
Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0
Japanese adjusted assault: 793
Allied adjusted defense: 32
Japanese assault odds: 24 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Pegu !!!
Combat modifiers
Defender: preparation(-), fatigue(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)
Japanese ground losses:
856 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 59 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 41 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Allied ground losses:
4001 casualties reported
Squads: 134 destroyed, 46 disabled
Non Combat: 204 destroyed, 59 disabled
Engineers: 18 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 28 (27 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 39 (39 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 12
Units destroyed 1
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
214th Infantry Regiment
112th Infantry Regiment
55th Engineer Regiment
213th Infantry Regiment
215th Infantry Regiment
143rd Infantry Regiment
33rd Engineer Regiment
15th Army
33rd Division
55th Mountain Gun Regiment
55th Division
33rd Mountain Gun Regiment
Defending units:
1st Burma Rifles Battalion
2nd Burma Brigade
7/10th Baluch Battalion
1/18th Royal Garwal Battalion
1/9th Jat Battalion
4th Burma Rifles Battalion
2/BFF Brigade
2/7th Rajputs Battalion
1/BFF Brigade
46th Indian Brigade
11th Burma Rifles Battalion
1st West Yorkshire Battalion
27th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
and Rangoon entered and attacked on 7/2/42.
However the garrison of Rangoon held out, shock attacks came in at 1 to 99 or similar and very heavy losses incurred by the IJA.
Sadly for the AI, the entire IJA force moved into Rangoon, allowing a Gurkha Bde which was in Toungoo to slip back into Pegu and block the IJA supply.
I've played up to 21/2/42, the IJA is going nowhere, and the Allied mobile force is 1 understrength Bde so I am at a point where I dont see any use in continuing unless Andy says there isanother IJA Division coming.
Ground combat at Rangoon (54,53)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 9140 troops, 164 guns, 51 vehicles, Assault Value = 504
Defending force 18483 troops, 202 guns, 100 vehicles, Assault Value = 472
Japanese ground losses:
44 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Assaulting units:
Railway BAF Battalion
7/10th Baluch Battalion
1st West Yorkshire Battalion
1/9th Jat Battalion
1st Cameronians Battalion
2nd Burma Brigade
1st Iniskilling's Battalion
1/BFF Brigade
1st KOYLI Battalion
46th Indian Brigade
1st Gloucestershire Battalion
12th Burma Rifles Battalion
7th Hussars Regiment
RM Viper Force
Rangoon BAF Battalion
4th Burma Rifles Battalion
2/BFF Brigade
2nd Royal Tank Regiment
17th Indian Div
221 Group RAF
103rd RN Base Force
27th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
8th HAA Bty
2nd Anti-Tank Regiment
28th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
3rd LAA Bty
Defending units:
214th Infantry Regiment
143rd Infantry Regiment
213th Infantry Regiment
112th Infantry Regiment
215th Infantry Regiment
33rd Engineer Regiment
33rd Division
55th Division
15th Army
55th Mountain Gun Regiment
33rd Mountain Gun Regiment
I'll post some Victory pt and air loss figures tomorrow.
Andy, if you want a game save let me know.
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