aztez
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China (january 8th and 9th 1942)
Another bad day in the office here.
This can be divided into 2 separate issue. It really seems that chinese infantry units are pretty much useless and japanese can roam free and assault at will. Here are the latest combat summaries below.
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Ground combat at 89,31
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 1536 troops, 0 guns, 144 vehicles, Assault Value = 81
Defending force 4904 troops, 55 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 130
Japanese adjusted assault: 69
Allied adjusted defense: 21
Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: disruption(-), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), fatigue(-)
Japanese ground losses:
Vehicles lost 16 (1 destroyed, 15 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
1602 casualties reported
Squads: 58 destroyed, 11 disabled
Non Combat: 64 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 5 disabled
Guns lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 2
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
23rd Tank Regiment
Defending units:
11th Chinese Corps
81st Chinese/C Corps
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Ground combat at 92,36
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 39246 troops, 268 guns, 101 vehicles, Assault Value = 1236
Defending force 15410 troops, 87 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 388
Japanese adjusted assault: 1603
Allied adjusted defense: 67
Japanese assault odds: 23 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker: shock(+)
Japanese ground losses:
938 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 107 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 54 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Vehicles lost 3 (0 destroyed, 3 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
8901 casualties reported
Squads: 238 destroyed, 64 disabled
Non Combat: 247 destroyed, 115 disabled
Engineers: 5 destroyed, 7 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 5
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
41st Division
4th Ind.Mixed Brigade
37th Division
3rd NCPC Infantry Brigade
2nd NCPC Infantry Brigade
102nd NCPC Route Brigade
4th NCPC Infantry Brigade
Defending units:
35th Chinese/B Corps
3rd Prov Chinese Corps
35th Chinese/C Corps
22nd Chinese/B Corps
13th Group Army
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Ground combat at 84,48
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 2634 troops, 12 guns, 17 vehicles, Assault Value = 108
Defending force 3611 troops, 24 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 71
Japanese adjusted assault: 119
Allied adjusted defense: 83
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), disruption(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)
Japanese ground losses:
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
194 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 20 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Assaulting units:
9th Armored Car Co
11th RGC Temp. Division
Defending units:
30th Chinese/C Corps
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Ground combat at 84,48
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 2642 troops, 12 guns, 17 vehicles, Assault Value = 107
Defending force 3388 troops, 24 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 60
Japanese adjusted assault: 109
Allied adjusted defense: 13
Japanese assault odds: 8 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), disruption(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)
Japanese ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
1393 casualties reported
Squads: 36 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 80 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 1
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
9th Armored Car Co
11th RGC Temp. Division
Defending units:
30th Chinese/C Corps
...this is horrible indeed. If you look at the losses than it speaks volumes. Chinese have suffered losses worse than 10:1! I sure do hope these guys are using bullets since we seem unable to cause any damage at all. I mean shocking is the most likely word to describe this.
There was the thread started by someone on "how japanese didn't stand a chance and chinese would storm through this theatre"...well, really no comments!
Keep in mind that we are not allowing any resource bombings made here by either side. Just think when japanese start bombing the light industry! It pretty much is good day and good night!
The second problem is AVG. These guys have yet to down a single Zero after those sweeps started. This is from the last turn.
Morning Air attack on Changsha , at 82,52
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 28,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 14
Allied aircraft
H81-A3 x 8
No Japanese losses
Allied aircraft losses
H81-A3: 3 destroyed
Aircraft Attacking:
10 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 24000 feet
CAP engaged:
AVG/2nd Sqn with H81-A3 (0 airborne, 3 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters to 16000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 6 minutes
AVG/3rd Sqn with H81-A3 (0 airborne, 3 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters to 16000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 6 minutes
So, it seems he is sweeping at alltitude of 24,000. I have CAP at 16000 so I guess I need to up this to 25000 or such.
These are the elite pilots of AVG so I would expect a lot more from these. This is just one air battle of many that have occured. Oh, and there was the thread on how "poor and outdated the zeros are from the beginning".
All in all not good, not good at all!
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RE: IJN invasion TF spotted near Noumea! - 
) however providing air cover with Noumea taken over Sydney will now have to be a priority. In Jan/42 you get some US P40Es that were destined for the DEI that have a prety quick withdrawl time (mid March/42) but if you delay that withdrawl you can get a decent fighter force in OZ as long as you train them up first (thier starting XP is in the 30s and 40s) 
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