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Miller -> RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) (2/26/2019 11:41:45 PM)
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21st-31st March 45
China: A couple of small victories during this period. Firstly the 6 divs being pounded to dust south east of Canton are attacked and retreat to a coastal hex. One is totally destroyed but I manage to lift the remnants of the other 5 by fast transport pick up back to Formosa. They will take months to rebuild but at least they keep their high exp ratings which they would have lost if they have been destroyed.
The second bit of good news is he decides to do deliberate attacks on my troops at Changhsa and Changteh only days before they were due to march out and retreat to Hankow, his mainly Chinese units take a battering and fail to reduce the 6 forts at each base:
Ground combat at Changsha (82,52)
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 210229 troops, 1057 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 8756
Defending force 110571 troops, 1017 guns, 895 vehicles, Assault Value = 3112
Allied adjusted assault: 2682
Japanese adjusted defense: 11375
Allied assault odds: 1 to 4 (fort level 6)
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), experience(-)
Attacker: disruption(-)
Japanese ground losses:
6785 casualties reported
Squads: 62 destroyed, 332 disabled
Non Combat: 9 destroyed, 179 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 56 disabled
Guns lost 164 (22 destroyed, 142 disabled)
Vehicles lost 92 (5 destroyed, 87 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
25821 casualties reported
Squads: 600 destroyed, 1951 disabled
Non Combat: 11 destroyed, 230 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 79 disabled
Guns lost 126 (4 destroyed, 122 disabled)
Ground combat at Changteh (81,50)
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 134427 troops, 971 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4242
Defending force 42350 troops, 385 guns, 156 vehicles, Assault Value = 1407
Allied adjusted assault: 4025
Japanese adjusted defense: 4833
Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 6)
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
1020 casualties reported
Squads: 7 destroyed, 147 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 32 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 18 disabled
Guns lost 44 (2 destroyed, 42 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
12422 casualties reported
Squads: 124 destroyed, 1005 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 89 disabled
Engineers: 10 destroyed, 86 disabled
Guns lost 73 (3 destroyed, 70 disabled)
So seeing these results I've decided to delay any retreat back to Hankow for the time being. Meanwhile his mega 40 unit 7k AV stack in the south east reaches Hangchow and takes it after I retreat everything there to Shanghai. I now have 2.5k AV there and another 1.5k AV at Nanking, both with 6 forts so he will have a hard time taking them anytime soon. He is sweeping Shanghai with his best P47 and P51 sqds and my fighters are contesting them in order to keep my supply convoys dropping off there covered. I'm losing 4:1 in numbers but I need to keep the airfield operational as long as possible. He is sweeping lots of other bases all over the map but I try to avoid combat if I can.
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