JocMeister
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9th-10th July -44 After the Turkey shoot over Rangoon things quiet down. Thrym As expected Waigeo falls instantly on the 9th! quote:
Ground combat at Waigeo (82,106) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 10102 troops, 176 guns, 171 vehicles, Assault Value = 416 Defending force 1868 troops, 23 guns, 20 vehicles, Assault Value = 55 Allied adjusted assault: 261 Japanese adjusted defense: 3 Allied assault odds: 87 to 1 (fort level 3) Allied forces CAPTURE Waigeo !!! Combat modifiers Defender: forts(+), fatigue(-), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 766 casualties reported Squads: 88 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 48 destroyed, 30 disabled Engineers: 13 destroyed, 4 disabled Guns lost 29 (28 destroyed, 1 disabled) Vehicles lost 21 (21 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units destroyed 1 Allied ground losses: 204 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 13 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled So this means that even if Sorong becomes a drawn out affair we can move forward. Due to the fact that KB was spotted again completely out of position between Wake and Marianas I decided to instantly reload one of the Amphibs with BFs and Engineers for Waigeo. I also have two LST TFs picking up more arty for Sorong and Noemfoor. This will be a small operation in itself. -Deliver BFs to Waigo -Deliver Arty to Sorong -More Naval bombardment of Sorong After that I will try the first deliberate attack of Sorong. Fingers crossed the Tanks and HQ prepp will make it quick work. Following a hunch I exchanged A. Noble of the 2nd Marine division. This was the result. quote:
Ground combat at Nabire (86,114) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 11367 troops, 226 guns, 139 vehicles, Assault Value = 378 Defending force 5460 troops, 50 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 146 Allied adjusted assault: 334 Japanese adjusted defense: 76 Allied assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 1) Allied forces CAPTURE Nabire !!! Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), preparation(-), experience(-) Attacker: leaders(+) This is a worse leader then Noble! Bug? Japanese ground losses: 1607 casualties reported Squads: 74 destroyed, 14 disabled Non Combat: 77 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 11 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 19 (15 destroyed, 4 disabled) Units retreated 5 Allied ground losses: 106 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 21 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Guns lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled) I´m starting to think something might be bugged with Noble? Should I post in the tech support? Now I only need to secure Noemfoor to complete phase 1 of Thrym! The 4Es will lend a hand here and I hope the extra arty will help out. Troops are recovering a lot better now that I landed more support. Fatigue is down under 20 and disruption is completely gone! New Guinea Frantic shipping of troops, supply and fuel. I have some 200 xAKs and xAPs hauling stuff forward. Aitape finally fell! quote:
Ground combat at Aitape (95,118) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 34530 troops, 703 guns, 760 vehicles, Assault Value = 1284 Defending force 10932 troops, 131 guns, 22 vehicles, Assault Value = 170 Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 1 Allied adjusted assault: 585 Japanese adjusted defense: 105 Allied assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 1) Allied forces CAPTURE Aitape !!! Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), fatigue(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 3692 casualties reported Squads: 147 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 191 destroyed, 29 disabled Engineers: 123 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 55 (54 destroyed, 1 disabled) Vehicles lost 23 (23 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units retreated 4 Allied ground losses: 192 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 19 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 10 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 50 disabled Just moving in a small BF with an infantry Battalion for protection. I thought Erik would sucide his troops but it looks like they are moving towards Vanimo. I have an ID at Wewak that will attack shortly. Hollandia and Vanimo will be completely bypassed. Burma Erik is moving a lot of troops South. Perhaps he has finally realised just how exposed he is in the DEI and Philippines. I don´t wan´t him to move out too much so I´m going to start shifting troops fast. I´ll leave 2000 AV at his blocking position while shifting the best troops East and firstly secure Toungoo and then start flanking east down towards Thailand. Hopefully supply won´t be a problem. This gives me a lot more room to maneuver and Erik will either have to withdraw into Thailand or risk getting everything around Rangoon cut off. I´ve started pumping up the Supply at Ramree again. I want to try and fill up central Burma with more supply. I currently have someting like 400.000 supply in Burma but most is at Ramree (100k) and Prome (200k). I will try and get some 500k into central Burma alone to help supply my main stack as it moves E/SE. KB I wonder what Erik saw here? I didn´t get any DL on any of my TFs but he moved deeper into the Pacific.
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