Saros
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10/12/41
More mopping up of civvies fleeing from the PI, A few Ak and AKL lost this turn to surface groups.
The HK DD's intercept my Miri invasion force which escapes into the night and then are caught by the CA's from kuching.
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Japanese Ships
CA Mogami
CA Suzuya
CA Kumano
DD Nowaki
DD Arashi
DD Hagikaze
Allied Ships
DD Scout
DD Thanet, Shell hits 3, on fire
DD Thracian, Shell hits 4, on fire
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Of course none are sunk,  My CA seem awfully bad at killing enemy surface combatants.
For subs SS KXIII is badly damaged at Khota Baru by ASW cover, she will provably live though.
Meanwhile north of Batavia:
Japanese Ships
SS I-165
Allied Ships
TK Augustina, Torpedo hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
My subs claim their first important target! 
Malaya sees a bunch of bombing to keep the allied units from withdrawing in strat mode.
First half a dozen Vildebeasts + 3 Swordfish break through CAP over Khota Baru and elevate my stress levels considerably by making a run on BB Haruna. Thankfully 2 are shot down by AA and the others miss.
Mini KB potters around between Celebes and Peleliu sinking a few more escaping civvies and I lose some more nates over the PI to warhawks. I'm losing them at what looks like a 3-1 ratio, better get some zeroes over quick!
The big air action of the day is every plane I can get my hands on in the PI strikes at Manilla port. Most of the army bombers decide to take a day off but the Betties and Nells get the job done.
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Morning Air attack on Manila , at 79,77
Weather in hex: Light rain
Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 25
G4M1 Betty x 46
No Japanese losses
Allied Ships
PT Q-113, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
AS Canopus, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AS Holland, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Yu Sang, Bomb hits 1, on fire
xAKL Princess of Negros, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
xAK Capillo, Bomb hits 2, on fire
xAK Tantalus, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AO Pecos, Bomb hits 1
xAKL Compagnia Filipinas, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
PT Q-112, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
TK Mindanao, Bomb hits 2, on fire
xAK Si Kiang, Bomb hits 1, on fire
Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Port hits 5
Port fuel hits 1
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Morning Air attack on Manila , at 79,77
Weather in hex: Light rain
Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 33
G4M1 Betty x 15
No Japanese losses
Allied Ships
xAK Yu Sang, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
PG Tulsa, Bomb hits 1, on fire
PG Asheville, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
Aircraft Attacking:
15 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 1 x 800 kg AP Bomb
Port hits 1
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Morning Air attack on Manila , at 79,77
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 19
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 22
Ki-27b Nate x 6
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-Ic Sally: 2 damaged
Allied Ships
xAK Ethel Edwards, Bomb hits 1, on fire
xAKL Sagoland, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
AS Otus, Bomb hits 2, on fire
PG Tulsa, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
TK Mindanao, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires
xAK Si Kiang, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAKL Paz, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
xAKL Corregidor, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Capillo, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAKL Compagnia Filipinas, and is sunk
Port hits 2
Pretty good results, most of those ships now have no chance of escaping the PI.
Sadly out of 33 betties carrying 800kg bombs only 15 attacked and only 3 of those hit. Still it's nice to see them carrying them.
On the ground Hong Kong falls on the second day of attacks!
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Ground combat at Hong Kong (77,61)
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 21236 troops, 321 guns, 218 vehicles, Assault Value = 623
Defending force 6087 troops, 132 guns, 80 vehicles, Assault Value = 191
Japanese adjusted assault: 620
Allied adjusted defense: 153
Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 2)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Hong Kong !!!
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)
Japanese ground losses:
756 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 41 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 28 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 12 disabled
Allied ground losses:
6792 casualties reported
Squads: 257 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 564 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 24 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 146 (146 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 84 (84 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 6
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and another Chineese Corps and and army HQ are trashed SE of Sinyang
Allied ground losses:
2688 casualties reported
Squads: 74 destroyed, 25 disabled
Non Combat: 119 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 6 disabled
Guns lost 4 (4 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 2
< Message edited by Saros -- 2/2/2011 10:00:34 AM >
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Trousers of the mind [No Unsplittableatom] - 
...... Or not. No flights, a few search vals lost to CAP, lots more anger. 
CL Boise avoids the CA cover force at Kuching and gets in amongst the transports. 
and a zer sweep over Clark goes 9-1 in my favor. 
The new smash hit from Gary Grigsby - 
More than 110K allied troops in north burma! 
April is when you start to run out of fuel/oil in the HI and you are right on track. 
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