Speedysteve
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Joined: 9/11/2001 From: Reading, England Status: offline
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Hi all, Hi ckammp - makes sense what you say. The thing is it doesn't divert forces that are at the front merely some of the forces that are in the interior on Guard duty anyway. Makes no difference if 2 or 3 Rgt's of a Corps is at Chungking for example Either way i'm a little baffled as to what Faber thinks he will achieve by it. Afraid the airforce option is a no go. The AVG has been used exclusively in Burma and my units only have 13 x H81's between them left with no replacements left. At present I have the whole of the Chinese airforce in rear areas training with the FG's slowly upgrading to P43A's ---------------------------------- CBI - Very little action overall except the Japanese attempted to reinforce their position at Loyang, northern China presumably from the NE. Got a strange combat message though....never seen this before: Ground combat at Loyang (87,43) Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 1614 troops, 71 guns, 24 vehicles, Assault Value = 2046 Defending force 91073 troops, 567 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2356 Assault collapses, survivors seek cover Japanese ground losses: 1368 casualties reported Squads: 75 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 57 destroyed, 23 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 3 (3 destroyed, 0 disabled) Vehicles lost 28 (5 destroyed, 23 disabled) Allied ground losses: 42 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled On the 31st, with the arrival of 148th Infantry Rgt the Japanese tried at Paoshan again: Ground combat at Paoshan (65,45) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 8211 troops, 24 guns, 616 vehicles, Assault Value = 489 Defending force 12617 troops, 98 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 520 Japanese adjusted assault: 309 Allied adjusted defense: 1063 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 3 (fort level 3) Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 795 casualties reported Squads: 3 destroyed, 58 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 87 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 69 (0 destroyed, 69 disabled) Allied ground losses: 1263 casualties reported Squads: 33 destroyed, 102 disabled Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 59 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Assaulting units: 5th Tank Regiment 148th Infantry Regiment 56th Recon Regiment 14th Tank Regiment 10th Tank Regiment 1st Tank Regiment 11th Tank Regiment Defending units: 96th Chinese Division 56th Chinese Corps 36th Chinese Division 200th Chinese Division 88th Chinese Division Annoying that I took heavier casualties. Would presume this is due to the high amount of Japanese armour and my lack of defences against it? Anyhow I have the 2 x AT Rgt's in China trundling their way westwards over roads. Other than that southern China is, on hold, until the LCU glitch sorts itself out Little happening in Burma. ----------------------------------- Other stuff - Lots of nice toys and reinforcements starting to arrive now. 1st USMC Division is heading to Pearl to prepare for operations in the Pacific. There's so frequently convoys heading to and from Aus/USA/Cape Town/Aden/India etc that I don't list them unless something major is on board or happens. 32nd USA Division just arrived at Sydney along with several BF's, ART BN's etc. First B17 raid of the war in Australia occured on the 31st against Japanese held Tennant Creek - 14 x B17's. More to come. ------------------------------------ Submarine warfare - Quiet times continue with 3 missed/dud attacks. The only successful one was by SS KXVI against AK Kiyo Maru, heavily damaging her, outside of Rangoon - 3 subs had been tracking this convoy (38th IJA Division heading to Rangoon) but only 1 attacked On the flip side the Japanese had a rare success SW of Dutch Harbour. The plucky Row Boat 34 had the audacity to attack twice and sink AK Cold Brook who was carrying elements of 30th Cst AA Rgt.
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