Lokasenna
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February 1 - February 22, 1945
Indochina
The IJAAF sweeps from Kwangchowan and other bases in SW China, trying to clear our fighters in NE Indochina. I have been LRCAPping to protect the troops from excessive bombing - he has several hundred Peggy/Helen that bomb every now and again. A couple of times we catch him out with more LRCAP than expected. I suspect that he is trying to attrit my fighter pools with his sweeps, more than anything else, as he doesn't always try to bomb. For the most part, we trade positive with planes we can afford to lose plenty of (Corsairs, P-40s, P-51Ds). We also sweep his LRCAP/CAP with P-47s and P-51s, clearing out Hanoi, Nanning, etc.
We also catch a couple of IJA units, and on February 1 outside Hanoi we shocked. Full combat report for it to provide context on what units are present, what it's looking like, etc. Unfortunately we know that some combat-capable units already "escaped" to the east. The IJA had 11 divisions here. Not sure which units were destroyed, but I'd guess they were smaller ART units.
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Ground combat at 67,57 (near Haiphong)
Allied Shock attack
Attacking force 191547 troops, 930 guns, 318 vehicles, Assault Value = 6620
Defending force 117706 troops, 1487 guns, 800 vehicles, Assault Value = 2971
Allied adjusted assault: 1795
Japanese adjusted defense: 625
Allied assault odds: 2 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: disruption(-)
Attacker: shock(+)
Japanese ground losses:
52016 casualties reported
Squads: 1355 destroyed, 320 disabled
Non Combat: 1864 destroyed, 245 disabled
Engineers: 239 destroyed, 52 disabled
Guns lost 381 (289 destroyed, 92 disabled)
Vehicles lost 399 (350 destroyed, 49 disabled)
Units retreated 27
Units destroyed 5
Allied ground losses:
20914 casualties reported
Squads: 883 destroyed, 1330 disabled
Non Combat: 16 destroyed, 296 disabled
Engineers: 22 destroyed, 66 disabled
Guns lost 61 (20 destroyed, 41 disabled)
Vehicles lost 18 (2 destroyed, 16 disabled)
Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
54th Chinese Corps
71st Chinese Corps
21st Chinese Corps
72nd Chinese Corps
66th Chinese Corps Corps
4th Chinese Corps
Guides Cavalry Regiment
65th Chinese Corps
68th Chinese Corps
60th Chinese Corps
44th Chinese Corps
73rd Chinese Corps
94th Chinese Corps
4th Heavy Mortar Regiment
2nd Indian Field Regiment
1st Indian Medium Regiment
6th Mixed A/T Mtr Regiment
6th Medium Regiment
31st Group Army
11th Group Army
12th Group Army
10th Group Army
25th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
57th AT Gun Regiment
30th Group Army
32nd Group Army
8th Medium Regiment
26th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
IV Indian Corps
29th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
3rd Heavy Mortar Regiment
24th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
3rd NW Frontier Base Force
56th AT Gun Regiment
Defending units:
35th Division
70th Ind.Mixed Brigade
34th/B Division
33rd Division
31st Ind.Mixed Regiment
50th Division
16th Division
21st Division
55th Division
81st Division
72nd Division
15th Division
34th/A Division
1st Division
34th/C Division
Botanko Hvy Gun Regiment
20th Ind. Mtn Gun Battalion
6th Area Army
9th RF Gun Battalion
21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion
8th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd RF Gun Battalion
2nd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
North China Area Army
20th RF Gun Battalion
33rd Army
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
8th RF Gun Battalion
3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
10th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
10th RF Gun Battalion
12th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion
4th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
11th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion
7th JAAF Base Force
Hanoi is captured on February 8 with another few thousand IJA dead and another 100+ guns/vehicles each. Haiphong is captured on February 12. At this point, Franks are now being based at Tuyun (the NW end of the Chinese rail line). None of his airfields up this way are very large, so I'm going to bomb them all once I can use Vinh, Hanoi, and Lang Son safely. IJN E's periodically come to Vinh to harass the airfield and usually end up just damaging a few fighters. Despite the AF being level 9, so no stacking, I still don't want to shift my 1000's of planes here until it's completely safe.
We're also bombing some more industry in China, even though I may regret it as I take more territory. At Chungking, we focus on HI due to its fuel requirement. Also hitting bases farther back - Shanghai, Wuchang, and so forth. Enemy CAP is rare.
We're planning to use the 11th Airborne Division and a Chindit paratroop brigade to try to take some bases in SW China soon. Kweilin, Wuchow, and Kweiyang are all targets, given recon of the bases.
Philippines
We're just using paratroops to take the bases circled in the previous posts. Bombing at Iloilo is causing hundreds of casualties per turn and the IJA should be dead in short order. We'll land at Bacolod and Cebu eventually, but no rush.
On the 21st, we got too cocky about our ability to go where we please in the middle/southern Philippines. 3 CVEs are sunk by torpedoes with banzai attacks at Puerto Princesa while landing a few more troops. Another 5 CVEs need yard time, some quite a bit of it. Despite the loss, we got 400+ IJ planes in the air and another 75 or so from flak and ops.
Timor/Celebes/Java
Dili is captured on February 2. A few thousand IJA dead. We'll have it cleared on February 19, after another 10,000+ IJA casualties. Sidate is cleared on February 2, so the northern Celebes are now clear. We're going to shuttle most of them to Mindanao, staging for Luzon.
On February 5, we land at Kalidjati with a division and some AvSupp + engineers. Looking to keep the units at Batavia tied up with just my presence. Kalidjati itself is undefended.
SST Argonaut, our last SST (others dead in a single turn to 250kg bombs on ASW), hits a mine at Banjoewangi at the SE tip of Java on February 6. This was a routing mistake on my part.
On February 8, we captured Merak with paratroops from Singapore. The sole purpose of this is forts reduction - by using paratroops, instead of landing via SST and letting it auto-occupy, I am assured of dropping the forts. There is enough IJA with unknown levels of supply on Java (suspect it's low, but can't know for sure and it produces a small amount) that he could simply destroy any INFp's I landed. Just looking to get rid of any pre-built forts and will be doing this on every base on Java that has no garrison. Tjilatjap had forts 6 (as well as AF 9), so this was very useful in case of IJA retreats.
On February 12, landings begin at Banjoewangi. There is a mixed brigade here, but we're bringing enough (a few brigades and division parts from Timor) that it won't matter. Unfortunately, a few DEs and APAs hit mines there. 2 DEs are lost over 2 days.
Others
On February 20, strat bombing of Sapporo nets us a bunch of Resource hits. We gain 470 strat VPs over this time period.
Landings begin at Babeldaob on February 20 as well. The coastal guns tear up our ships - it's much stiffer than expected. I've landed here in another game, as well as Truk and Saipan with their fortresses, but I didn't reduce this base enough it seems. Our troops have been prepped for this location for a few months (from the New Guinea campaign).
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. A paratroops operation to bust the Japanese defenses around Padang and force them a bit farther back. 
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