Mike Solli
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Yep, I know. Now back to the war...
12 Dec 43
Sub War
The Muskallunge sank an Aden (carrying resources) a hex south of Kobe. I’m intensifying my aerial search and ASW there and sending as many ASW TFs in the area as I can spare from patrolling the Home Islands to sink or drive her off (as well as another sub in the hex to the west. Akagi and Soryu are scheduled to complete their repairs in 2 and 3 days and I want to send them out. I don’t want to send them into the Sea of Japan then out to the west if I don’t have to.
There was some other action, but it was part of a bigger action, so it will be chronicled later.
5 Fleet
Nothing to report.
4 Fleet
The US carrier TF (either 3 CVs or 2 CVs and 2-3 CVLs) reappeared in the Marshalls. I had a couple of xAKLs hauling supply to some of the fringe islands and they got caught by some carrier planes. Both were sunk, but at least 18 torpedoes were expended. (Gotta look on the bright side.)
Roi-Namur’s airfield is repairing enough that the damaged planes are repairing now. As they repair, I fly them to Truk. Ted is content with sweeping that hex and not bombing it.
SE Fleet
No Allied 4E bombers hit Truk today. Yay! Maybe the damage to them was greater than I thought. I still see ~185 bombers at Kavieng but they’re content with recovering from the previous day’s attack.
Truk’s damage is 0-54-85, so the airfield is still closed. Should the airfield recover, I'll post some IJAAF fighters there, for fun and experience. No more IJNAF fighters will be posted to Truk.
There’s an Allied BB TF tooling around 6-7 hexes SW of Truk. I had 4 DDs in the area trying to intercept, along with 4-5 subs. The big mistake I made was it was 100% moonlight. Still, I think it was worth it.
They caught the enemy TF 6 hexes SW of Truk:
Japanese Ships
DD Asashio, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Oshio
DD Michishio, Shell hits 14, and is sunk
DD Arashio, Shell hits 4, and is sunk
Allied Ships
BB Maryland, Shell hits 3, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
BB Arizona, Shell hits 4
BB Massachusetts, Shell hits 14
CA Chicago, Shell hits 1
CA Pensacola
CLAA San Juan, Shell hits 2
CL Raleigh, Shell hits 1
CL Trenton
DD Waller
DD Woodworth, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Flusser
The remaining DDs got away. That torpedo hit on Maryland slowed her enough for this:
Sub attack near Truk at 109,114
Japanese Ships
SS RO-104
Allied Ships
BB Maryland, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
CLAA San Juan
My sub got away without damage. Later in the day she ran into what was probably an ASW TF:
Sub attack near Truk at 109,114
Japanese Ships
SS RO-104, hits 5
Allied Ships
DD Kalk, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
DD Mahan
She had light damage but her forward tubes were damaged, so she’s headed home. I’m hoping the remaining subs will catch Maryland and put her out of her misery.
SRA
All quiet down here.
Burma
The only reaction to me was a single Hurricane IIb over Kalemyo, which was shot down. My bombers damaged the airfield a bit, so at least it not building this turn.
China
The air bombardment of Chungking killed 5 steps (all infantry) and disabled another 171.
Then, the vaunted deliberate assault went in with the entire army:
Ground combat at Chungking (76,45)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 308496 troops, 3102 guns, 1883 vehicles, Assault Value = 11232
Defending force 341011 troops, 558 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 9687
Japanese adjusted assault: 2850
Allied adjusted defense: 4819
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 0)
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), supply(-)
Attacker: disruption(-)
Japanese ground losses:
28908 casualties reported
Squads: 80 destroyed, 2592 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 154 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 251 disabled
Guns lost 152 (4 destroyed, 148 disabled)
Vehicles lost 24 (3 destroyed, 21 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
42507 casualties reported
Squads: 672 destroyed, 2258 disabled
Non Combat: 748 destroyed, 1395 disabled
Engineers: 9 destroyed, 24 disabled
Guns lost 115 (26 destroyed, 89 disabled)
Units destroyed 17
The Allied troops lost increased by 110, which coincides nicely with the assault. My troops lost increased by 14, so I lost about 42 squads. Nice! That also coincides with the attack results.
My divisions are in really nice shape, other than being disrupted and fatigued, both in the upper 80s to low 90s. We’ll see what they look like in a week. I’d love to attack again that soon but I suspect it’ll be 10-14 days to the next attack.
Only a few of the destroyed units were infantry, but the other infantry units have to be in bad shape with those kinds of losses.
I must have rolled poorly, because my adjusted AV was only 420 higher than the last attack with only 5k raw AV. The Chinese adjusted AV was down from 9081 to 4819 from the previous attack. The daily bombing and artillery are doing a number on the Chinese. Their days are numbered.
Total Chinese infantry squads destroyed this month is 881.
Other Stuff
Reinforcement: DD Hayashimo (Yugumo class), KB escort
The current Ki-102b Randy FB R&D is 2x30 and a third at 24(6). The current operational date is 10/44 with the 2 factories accelerating it to mid-April 44. That last factory will not help more than a few days, so I have converted it to my first J7W1 Shinden R&D factory.
I got confirmation that the SS Gato and an xAK sank in August and July 1943, respectively.
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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 
Losses are very light, maybe 2-3 AV destroyed per division. I need to check on disablements, but my raw AV decreased only 1796, primarily to disablements. I may keep them in divisions because the division commander usually reduces fatigue and disruption faster than the colonels and I'm more concerned about that than raw AV. Anyway, I'll see how much they recover next turn (since it's too late to change anything anyway).
Truk is really trashed now: 41-93-98. 
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