Chickenboy
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Allies June 19 update:
Lots of action around Guam and Rota today.
Area waters: (see map below). Tojo moves ships to Yap, presumably for a run in to Guam in the morning. I respond by stopping the unloading process and ordering all TFs a few hexes away. I doubt he'll have enough movement points to react into the new location from Yap, even on full speed in one phase. In any case, I've ordered a stout surface force to the area to cover this rally point. BB New Mexico joins with the rest of Bull Halsey's old BBs (now at 4) in the SCTF running cover.
In the waters around Guam, another 3 Japanese RO-class submarines (no more midgets today) are messily dispatched. One of them got off a 6-torpedo spread on CV Yorktown before being pummeled.
By Marcus, a sub puts a tin fish into BB Mushashi. Looks like the Japanese are swinging wide around the expected exclusion zone and will then swing south. I've split off a few picket DDs and also ordered the fleet CVs to take a look see in the area.
It looks like he's trying a 1-2 split approach for an SCTF intercept of my ships in theatre. My hope is that my CV strike forces deal with the eastermost prong of that attack and let the western prong swing at nothingness around Guam.
Several TFs finish unloading from Guam or Rota and are ordered back-with waypoints-to Eniwetok. He has a few bombers at Truk now, so I may get a few long-distance naval attacks from there in the next couple days.
Guam: Unloading continues to go well. 2nd Marine Div and 4th Marine Regiment are both ashore, along with beaucoup support. There's plenty of supply there for a couple turns too. The unload of the 2nd Mar Div and company occured just in time. An ill-advised Banzai attack ended very badly for the Japanese:
Ground combat at Guam (106,95)
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 21201 troops, 192 guns, 36 vehicles, Assault Value = 827
Defending force 34179 troops, 661 guns, 834 vehicles, Assault Value = 1086
Japanese adjusted assault: 333
Allied adjusted defense: 2031
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 6
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)
Japanese ground losses:
4141 casualties reported
Squads: 184 destroyed, 129 disabled
Non Combat: 98 destroyed, 63 disabled
Engineers: 16 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 16 (14 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 45 (45 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 2
Allied ground losses:
473 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 76 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Vehicles lost 25 (1 destroyed, 24 disabled)
Assaulting units:
48th Ind.Mixed Brigade
52nd/B Division
II./9th Tank Regiment
I./9th Tank Regiment
29th Division
10th Infantry Brigade
54th Naval Guard Unit
10th Infantry Bde /2
61st Air Flotilla
60th Field AA Battalion
25th JAAF AF Bn
Defending units:
4th Marine Rgt /1
22nd Marine Rgt /1
708th Amphib Tank Battalion
2nd USMC Tank Battalion
706th Tank Battalion
305th Regimental Combat Team
2nd Marine Div /1
V US Amphib Corps /1
318th Fighter Group
III US Amphib Corps
98th Coast AA Regiment
112th USA Base Force
39th Aviation Base Force /
Rota: Rota falls to shock attack today. The base force and Seabees will try to get the airfield up ASAP.
Ground combat at Rota (107,95)
Allied Shock attack
Attacking force 10286 troops, 224 guns, 274 vehicles, Assault Value = 241
Defending force 1045 troops, 7 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 37
Allied adjusted assault: 214
Japanese adjusted defense: 17
Allied assault odds: 12 to 1 (fort level 1)
Allied forces CAPTURE Rota !!!
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)
Japanese ground losses:
266 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 18 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Assaulting units:
27th Infantry Division
101st USN Base Force
16th USN Naval Construction Battalion
Defending units:
I./10th Infantry Battalion
Not on the map: A small Japanese task force consisting of a separated AV and a couple of DDs is moving towards my outpost near Marcus (in the Admiralty islands) in the SW map corner. WTF? Alright, we're going to have a small scale war down here, I guess. I'll put my Fletcher DDs against whatever rustbucket he's got in theatre.
I order 3 DDs on an intercept course with large react orders.
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Allied June 10-11 Update - 
Hopefully they'll stick around in the hex another turn so's they can get mined or shot up by naval coastal guns. 
I think that oughta just about do it for RO-64. 
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