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Aurorus -> RE: March 13th, 1943 (9/19/2017 11:49:20 AM)
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Your AAR and the problems that you are having against armor in Burma came to mind the other day. Here is a copy of a combat report of an attack that I launched in Burma against a stack that was stronger than I anticipated. I did not expect British regulars.
Ground combat at Meiktila (58,47)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 16585 troops, 209 guns, 261 vehicles, Assault Value = 717
Defending force 15886 troops, 269 guns, 301 vehicles, Assault Value = 639
Japanese adjusted assault: 214
Allied adjusted defense: 241
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 2)
Combat modifiers
Defender: preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
1479 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 51 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 16 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Allied ground losses:
825 casualties reported
Squads: 10 destroyed, 47 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 28 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 22 (4 destroyed, 18 disabled)
Vehicles lost 101 (14 destroyed, 87 disabled)
Assaulting units:
5th Division
41st Infantry Regiment
14th Tank Regiment
6th Tank Regiment
5th Mortar Battalion
15th Army
3rd Mortar Battalion
21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion
Defending units:
7th Hussars Regiment
2nd Royal Tank Regiment
251st Recce Battalion
53rd British Brigade
9th Burma Rifles Battalion
RM Viper Force
54th British Brigade
17th Indian Division
13th Burma Rifles Battalion
Despite the presence of British regulars and an attack that came off poorer than I expected, note the heavy losses to British armor. Many of these vehicles were tanks. How was this possible? The 5th Division is composed, in stock and DBB-lite, of Japanese heavy infantry squads, which have an anti-armor of 25. Japanese heavy infantry is the equivalent of combat engineers. It is what makes the 5th division the single best unit in the entire Japanese force pool in stock and DBB-lite. I would rather lose 2 fleet CVs than lose the 5th division.
To stop that Armored attack in Burma, you need the 5th division, heavily fortified in good terrain, along with whatever other heavy infantry and combat engineers you can muster. That will put a suprise on Mr. Kane and stop that advance dead in its tracks.
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