CapAndGown
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Several turns have gone by since the last update.
Jan. 30, 1942
Aside from the usual airfield attacks on Clark Field and Singapore, I launched a ground attack at Nanyang that dropped the fort level to 2.
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Ground combat at Nanyang (85,45)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 84748 troops, 957 guns, 402 vehicles, Assault Value = 2909
Defending force 52797 troops, 334 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1445
Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2
Japanese adjusted assault: 1319
Allied adjusted defense: 1176
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 2)
Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 2
Combat modifiers
Defender: forts(+), leaders(+), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
3400 casualties reported
Squads: 7 destroyed, 104 disabled
Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 193 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 20 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 51 (2 destroyed, 49 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
4549 casualties reported
Squads: 140 destroyed, 77 disabled
Non Combat: 107 destroyed, 157 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Guns lost 5 (0 destroyed, 5 disabled)
It now looks like witpqs is bugging out.
Jan. 31, 1942
The action in Burma is taking place across a wide front. Bassien was captured today.
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Ground combat at Bassein (54,52)
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 675 troops, 0 guns, 102 vehicles, Assault Value = 185
Defending force 2560 troops, 29 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 79
Japanese adjusted assault: 82
Allied adjusted defense: 13
Japanese assault odds: 6 to 1 (fort level 2)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Bassein !!!
Combat modifiers
Defender: op mode(-), disruption(-), preparation(-), morale(-)
experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)
Allied ground losses:
741 casualties reported
Squads: 27 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 73 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 8 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 3 (3 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 3
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
112th Infantry Regiment
6th Tank Regiment
Defending units:
9/11th Sikh Battalion
16th Indian Brigade
100th RAF Base Force
Feb. 1, 1942
I was going to launch an attack at Pago-Pago today but put it off until tomorrow since two bombardment TFs have almost made it back after having rearmed at Suva. (AKEs rule!) Might as well try to disrupt the defenders as much as possible before the ground attack goes in. Plus KB1 will be back on station tomorrow after having rearmed, refueled and taken on replacement aircraft. KBs 1 & 2 will contribute to the attack tomorrow by having the Kates do a ground attack at 15000 feet. After tomorrow, KB2 will head back to Suva to do the rearm/refuel/refit thing.
Kaga finally made it to Hiroshima. It is the only ship in the shipyard. It has 29 major float damage. And yet the estimated time to repair is 111 days. 3 months! Yeesh. Well, at least I can be thankful she's still afloat. Now that I think about it, I wonder if maybe I should take the airgroups off, dump their pilots into the reserve pools, and start training a new batch? I haven't taken them off before because of all my bad experiences in UV with taking CV squadrons off their ships. Not sure how that works now.
Another attack at Nanyang. Forts are down to level one. But I can't attack because disruption is so high, even though this means I will probably miss out on spanking the Chinese pretty good: they appear to be bugging out.
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Ground combat at Nanyang (85,45)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 82623 troops, 957 guns, 400 vehicles, Assault Value = 2761
Defending force 49109 troops, 334 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1288
Japanese adjusted assault: 857
Allied adjusted defense: 483
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 2)
Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: leaders(+), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
1421 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 105 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 140 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 19 disabled
Vehicles lost 23 (0 destroyed, 23 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
2569 casualties reported
Squads: 108 destroyed, 392 disabled
Non Combat: 122 destroyed, 341 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 36 disabled
Guns lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Burma
As I mentioned, action in Burma is taking place across a wide front. I have three seperate thrusts going on up the Irrawady valley, soon to be four thrusts.
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Ground combat at 56,51
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 12805 troops, 120 guns, 32 vehicles, Assault Value = 444
Defending force 2976 troops, 22 guns, 8 vehicles, Assault Value = 130
Japanese adjusted assault: 371
Allied adjusted defense: 37
Japanese assault odds: 10 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
93 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
1442 casualties reported
Squads: 19 destroyed, 20 disabled
Non Combat: 56 destroyed, 29 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Vehicles lost 5 (4 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Units retreated 4
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
33rd Division
Defending units:
1st Gloucestershire Battalion
12th Burma Rifles Battalion
6th Burma Rifles Battalion
Rangoon BAF Battalion
4/8th Gurkha Battalion
Since one of the units here failed to retreat, this gives me a chance to attack it again. So I have split the 33rd division into 3 regiments. Only one regiment will attack while the other two are set to pursue toward Tongoo. The attacking regiment will then form the fourth column of my advance, bypassing Tongoo and heading up the road to Tuang Gyi.
Meanwhile, in the center of my advance:
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Ground combat at 55,52
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 5837 troops, 95 guns, 10 vehicles, Assault Value = 187
Defending force 1504 troops, 16 guns, 1 vehicles, Assault Value = 56
Japanese adjusted assault: 111
Allied adjusted defense: 25
Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), fatigue(-), morale(-)
experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
50 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
834 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 15 disabled
Non Combat: 38 destroyed, 29 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 3
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
144th Infantry Regiment
55th Engineer Regiment
55th Mountain Gun Regiment
21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion
Defending units:
4/14th Punjab Battalion
2nd King Own YLI Battalion
27th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
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Phase I Operations in DEI complete - 
I have three invasion fleets for the Pago-Pago invasion. One carries the 38th division, another the 2nd division, and the third carries the 65th brigade. They had assembled at Lakeba near Suva before heading together to Pago-Pago. I set two TFs to follow the third. I also decided to change from "do not unload" to "unload" to make sure I did not forget to change this later when they got to Pago-Pago and have them just sit there doing nothing. 
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