Anachro
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Joined: 11/23/2015 From: The Coastal Elite Status: offline
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Next turn run. Unfortunately, CVE Liscome Bay is found by a sub and sunk. John's main KB and battleships flee northwest and are 9 hexes from my CVEs. This is probably diversionary to cover his fleeing transports and damaged CVL that based on the turn seem to have headed further south. We continue south towards these targets. In other news, the base of Prome falls. It looks like the Guard Division was destroyed in the process. Only a couple destroyers find enemy ships, running into 2 CAs. In a weird battle, the 2 Japanese CAs manage to plant a torpedo into the Allied DDs. quote:
Ground combat at Prome (55,50) Allied Shock attack Attacking force 48309 troops, 933 guns, 620 vehicles, Assault Value = 1335 Defending force 14739 troops, 203 guns, 80 vehicles, Assault Value = 133 Allied adjusted assault: 138 Japanese adjusted defense: 10 Allied assault odds: 13 to 1 (fort level 0) Allied forces CAPTURE Prome !!! Japanese aircraft no flights Japanese aircraft losses J1N1-C Irving: 7 destroyed Combat modifiers Defender: disruption(-), supply(-) Attacker: shock(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-), supply(-) Japanese ground losses: 4673 casualties reported Squads: 180 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 296 destroyed, 7 disabled Engineers: 22 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 93 (92 destroyed, 1 disabled) Vehicles lost 54 (54 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units retreated 6 Units destroyed 3 Allied ground losses: 378 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 21 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 12 disabled Assaulting units: 40th Infantry Division XXXIII Corps Engineer Battalion 43rd Infantry Division 5th Indian Division 9th Australian Division Defending units: 1st Raiding Regiment 2nd Guards Division 16th Garrison Unit 26th Fld AA Gun Co 23rd AA Regiment 1st Mortar Battalion 4th Air Defense AA Regiment 38th JNAF AF Unit 50th Field AA Battalion 33rd JAAF AF Coy
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