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seydlitz_slith -> RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (Allies) (10/29/2009 5:03:15 AM)
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Across the whole depth of the front I feel that I am stretched to the limit and despite significant forces, I have not been able to make headway like I had wanted. At Voroshilov, I realised that he significantly outnumbers me there. This means that at best, I am in for a very protracted bombardment war. The amount of artillery there for both sides is frankly obscene. The casualties from the bombardments are more severe than many large scale ground combats. Since many of my infantry units have extremely high disruption and fatigue (in the 80-90 range) I am going to gamble that he will not make anything other than a bombardment attack. Taking hits gamble, I am putting most of my disrupted infantry units (all but the two lowest experienced units) into reserve. According to the manual in section 8.2.1.1 (page 185 in the U.S. rulebook) units in reserve are not affected by bombardment attack. As such, these units will keep recovering strength, reduce disruption and fatigue while remaining in the hex but without taking more casualties during the massive artillery exchanges.
Again this turn I quite a few nates making strafing attacks. Next turn I will move them to 11000 foot ground attacks. Even though the actual air attack results are not showing that the attacks are being effective, they must be causing very heavy disruption. I say this because even though he has more troops and guns than I do, he is suffering far more squads destroyed during the bombardment phase.
Here is what the Voroshilov bombardments look like. The casualty numbers are staggering:
Ground combat at Voroshilov (112,45)
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 58270 troops, 849 guns, 596 vehicles, Assault Value = 2304
Defending force 94216 troops, 1893 guns, 1454 vehicles, Assault Value = 2558
Japanese ground losses:
103 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
1653 casualties reported
Squads: 61 destroyed, 87 disabled
Non Combat: 324 destroyed, 167 disabled
Engineers: 9 destroyed, 10 disabled
Guns lost 212 (101 destroyed, 111 disabled)
Vehicles lost 480 (365 destroyed, 115 disabled)
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Ground combat at Voroshilov (112,45)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 76187 troops, 1629 guns, 1099 vehicles, Assault Value = 2394
Defending force 112097 troops, 1223 guns, 1323 vehicles, Assault Value = 2303
Japanese ground losses:
1328 casualties reported
Squads: 13 destroyed, 18 disabled
Non Combat: 38 destroyed, 118 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 6 disabled
Guns lost 61 (8 destroyed, 53 disabled)
Vehicles lost 113 (32 destroyed, 81 disabled)
[image]local://upfiles/6829/BE0016A0D1404BC083D5F9E7146E5EFC.jpg[/image]
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