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mind_messing -> RE: Rematch: Ragnarök - mind_messing (J) vs Lokasenna (A) (9/13/2018 2:17:10 PM)
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26th February, 1942
North Pacific
The first of my Jake squadrons cross trained in NavS and ASW moves up to Hokkaido to start blanketing the Japanese sea lanes with aircraft. The current IJ ASW strategy is to use Jakes, en masse, to drive up detection levels on Allied subs, then shuttle around a core cadre of high EXP/high ASW IJA 2E bomber squadrons to kill them. We'll see how that works out.
Central Pacific
The CL Detroit and a DD escort jump the IJN TF loading a naval guard from Tabiteuea.
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Tabiteuea at 137,134, Range 6,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
PB Shonon Maru #11, Shell hits 5, and is sunk
xAK Terushima Maru, Shell hits 7, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAK Yosyu Maru, Shell hits 26, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAK Tensyo Maru, Shell hits 21, and is sunk
Allied Ships
CL Detroit
DD Mugford
Japanese ground losses:
707 casualties reported
Squads: 42 destroyed, 37 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 12 (5 destroyed, 7 disabled)
The fault is mine for not escorting it, but I had expected most Allied ships to be further south or east. My bad!
I've still another Naval Guard en route to do sweep up in this region so perhaps I can bait a trap...
South-West Pacific
Jakes flying from one of the isladns off Fiji sights the battleship New Mexico and attempts to attack it with 60kg bombs. No hits, but the intel is more valuable - the USN is committing big surface assets here, and the only operational base they can use in the region is Auckland. Subs are vectored in, and hopefully we might get a hit on these big slow monsters.
Preparations for the second wave for Fiji are complete, with the bulk of the IJN transiting to Truk, and the first of the DEI fuel is moving to Rabual and Truk to support the operations.
Troops land at Lae to march overland to take Port Moresby.
DEI
The IJA continue to make inroads on Java, while the first resource convoys leave Singapore for Japan.
China
IJA attacks on Changsha and Wenchow are repulsed, but with a good exchange for the attacking side. Not long here now.
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Ground combat at Changsha (82,52)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 131830 troops, 1368 guns, 212 vehicles, Assault Value = 4144
Defending force 56295 troops, 326 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1252
Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2
Japanese adjusted assault: 2228
Allied adjusted defense: 1771
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 2)
Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 2
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
3991 casualties reported
Squads: 17 destroyed, 431 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 51 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 52 disabled
Guns lost 32 (5 destroyed, 27 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
3081 casualties reported
Squads: 28 destroyed, 336 disabled
Non Combat: 9 destroyed, 96 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 19 disabled
Guns lost 42 (5 destroyed, 37 disabled)
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Ground combat at Wenchow (89,58)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 66592 troops, 643 guns, 195 vehicles, Assault Value = 2114
Defending force 48356 troops, 195 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1407
Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1
Japanese adjusted assault: 1411
Allied adjusted defense: 4750
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 3 (fort level 1)
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
5778 casualties reported
Squads: 14 destroyed, 375 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 46 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 61 disabled
Allied ground losses:
750 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 88 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Wenchow is a bit bloodier than I'm comfortable with, so I'm debating rotating some more bombers in to blast the defenders even more, but with forts down to 1 and additional reinforcements inbound, I'm not sure what good it would do.
Burma
Nothing to report, still waiting on troops marching from Thailand to Burma before second stage operations resume.
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