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Miller -> RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) (6/11/2019 3:30:41 PM)
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1st-15th Oct 45
First I will start with the only bit of good news. Kane has been bombing my fleeing grounds units all around China with B29s, however after they had obliterated a unit they had reverted to target as "commander discretion", an oversight we could all make. So anyway, the next turn about 300 decide to fly to Tokyo and bomb my troops there from 10000ft....
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It could have been worse for him, I had stood down a few fighter sqds there due to fatigue/morale reasons, even so he loses 113 (Kanes figures, not the inflated 162 shown in the image). Still, at this stage of the game you have to take these little bonuses to keep you going. That is the end of the good news.
In China at Shanghai he tries his first ground attack:
Ground combat at Shanghai (92,55)
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 226577 troops, 2767 guns, 3621 vehicles, Assault Value = 10188
Defending force 112222 troops, 1200 guns, 709 vehicles, Assault Value = 3790
Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 7
Allied adjusted assault: 7418
Japanese adjusted defense: 43421
Allied assault odds: 1 to 5 (fort level 7)
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), disruption(-), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
2835 casualties reported
Squads: 21 destroyed, 249 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 71 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 38 disabled
Guns lost 112 (6 destroyed, 106 disabled)
Vehicles lost 45 (6 destroyed, 39 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
17603 casualties reported
Squads: 176 destroyed, 1913 disabled
Non Combat: 17 destroyed, 462 disabled
Engineers: 38 destroyed, 215 disabled
Guns lost 273 (42 destroyed, 231 disabled)
Vehicles lost 520 (44 destroyed, 476 disabled)
A good defence but that attack burned away what supply I had left there. He has also been bombarding every night with two large cruiser forces, preventing any chance of resupply. To try and open the way for a FT supply TF I sent the bulk of my surface fleet to intercept his bombardment forces. The idea was for my ships to rush in, engage, then disband in port. However only 2 of the 5 TFs I sent in found any action, BBs Kongo and Kirishima taking on 6 British CAs and escorts. The CA London and 3 DDs are sunk but in turn one of my BBs takes a torpedo and 2 DDs are lost. The only other action sees a TF of DDs meet 4 US CAs and DDs. They achieve nothing and lose 2 of their number. Then during the day I find all the TFs that I had expected to disband in port still at sea and attacked by air the CA Suzuya and 6 DDs are sunk despite a small CAP trying its best to protect them. Needless to say I send everything fleeing back towards Nagaskai the next day, he sends a load of DDs in pursuit that sink a few more of my damaged DDs but my dive bombers sink 4 or 5 of his in return. So overall we each lose one CA and about 10 DDs, but Shanghai is pretty much doomed now and his bombardments continue every night.
Elsewhere in China the two year siege of Changteh (two hexes NW of Changsha) comes to an end as he manages to overcome my totally out of supply troops despite a fort level of 6. This took me by surprise but the big downer is rather than retreat SE towards Changsha they go SW into the woods[&:] and are basically out of the game now. That leaves just Wuchang and Changsha itself as my remaining bases in central China.
Over in Manchuria he continues to chip away at the troops of my main bases in the central area by air and some ground attacks have reduced fort levels with supply dwindling away. Meanwhile he also smashes through the north western bases in Korea and has a stack of troops who have reached Keijo, although he has not tried an attack there yet.
Even over in the backwater of Malaya the near year long siege of Singora has come to an end. With forts down to 2 and no supply flowing north from Singapore I decide to get out before I'm kicked out, with my stack leaving the hex on the 14th. Fortunately Palembang provides just enough supply to keep me going in Malaya for now.
And finally, he lands on the base at the southern tip of Formosa covered by his death star and has troops marching north towards Takao. I still have plenty of troops on Formosa but not a single point of supply. I'm going to risk one final FT TF under the nose of his CVs to get some in and at least allow my troops to put up some resistance. However, the time has basically come to write off everything left in China, Manchuria and Formosa and concentrate on home island defence. He continues to sweep in large numbers, including from Iwo Jima again. I'm losing about 3:1 in planes but most of my pilots survive and he takes op losses flying at extended ranges to reduce the gap to 2:1 in some encounters.....
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