JocMeister
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July 7th 1942
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Some good, some bad!
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NORPAC
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Big sweeps hit Seattle on the 6th. My air force have withdrawn to the south to recover from the earlier sweeps. On the 7th everything hits Vancouver. They get almost 10k fires going but AA claims 16 planes shot down!
Ise bombards Prince Rupert but only 2 Bolos are destroyed.
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SOPAC
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47th US regiment unload at Luganville together with some OZ engineers. They are covered by a cruiser force. No detection on any of the TFs.
I´ll bump the forts a little (already at 3) before expanding the AF to 3. Don´t want to draw a lot of attention down here.
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India
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Lots of action here and two mistakes on my part. Japanese air force show up over Calcutta to show who is boss.
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Morning Air attack on Calcutta , at 52,37
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 38
Allied aircraft
Hurricane I Trop x 16
Hurricane IIb Trop x 8
P-40E Warhawk x 49
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 8 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane I Trop: 4 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 4 destroyed
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Morning Air attack on Calcutta , at 52,37
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid detected at 21 NM, estimated altitude 21,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 27
Allied aircraft
Hurricane I Trop x 2
Hurricane IIb Trop x 3
P-40E Warhawk x 26
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-45 KAIa Nick: 2 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane I Trop: 1 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 4 destroyed
This is followed by even more Zero sweeps ending in a huge 47 plane sweep. From a VP perspective its a good result with 1:1 losses during the day. But losing 32 fighters in a single day is not something I can do. Fighters are redeployed back to Madras.
32nd ID are now just one day from Calcutta. Some sloppy play on my part cost me some AFVs West of Calcutta.
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Ground combat at Rajshashi (55,35)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 14695 troops, 122 guns, 69 vehicles, Assault Value = 480
Defending force 3014 troops, 54 guns, 294 vehicles, Assault Value = 192
Japanese adjusted assault: 194
Allied adjusted defense: 86
Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Rajshashi !!!
Combat modifiers
Defender: preparation(-)
Attacker: leaders(-)
Japanese ground losses:
269 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Allied ground losses:
361 casualties reported
Squads: 12 destroyed, 17 disabled
Non Combat: 140 destroyed, 15 disabled
Engineers: 6 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 21 (11 destroyed, 10 disabled)
Vehicles lost 167 (142 destroyed, 25 disabled)
Units retreated 2
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
5th Division <--- Good intel!
Defending units:
254th Armoured Brigade
48th Light AA Regiment
Losses looks worse than they are. Mostly motorized support and some Improv. AFVs. What is REALLY interesting here is the 5th ID. This one was used in NORPAC (have to go back and double check but I´m fairly certain). A bit surprised I got no SIGINT on them moving to Burma. But my units should have been caught like that. I simply missed the Japanese units moving in.
Further up North I do the same thing and 3 units sitting in strat mode get caught in the open by a Japanese tank regiment.
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Ground combat at 53,25 (near Gorakhpur)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 384 troops, 0 guns, 93 vehicles, Assault Value = 62
Defending force 650 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 14
Japanese adjusted assault: 61
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 61 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: op mode(-), leaders(-), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker: leaders(+)
Allied ground losses:
721 casualties reported
Squads: 23 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 58 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 8 (8 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 3
Assaulting units:
14th Tank Regiment
Defending units:
16/5th Mahratta Battalion
4/2 NW Frontier Base Force
20th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
Jeffs units are approaching Lucknow where a surprise is waiting for them. Jeff have also moved down his big stack from Ranchi down to Asanol. I´ll see if I can lure him down even further by pulling back to Calcutta.
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WC Defense
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So after pondering this yesterday I´ve done some changes here. 3rd USMC and 5th Armored will move to Sacramento and sit there in Strat mode together with 2 tank BTLs.
Some engineers moving for EC and India are turned back. They will start boosting the forts at LA and Portland. Some US troops are pulled from Canada (got a slew of Canadian BDEs a couple of turns ago) and sent to Portland.
18 DDs and 4 DMs set sail from Balboa to SD.
But with the 5th ID showing up in India I think the threat is almost non existant. But the forces currently defending WC can be used in a NORPAC offensive in 43 so they are not completely wasted being on the WC.
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