witpqs
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Home Islands east. Many, many night air strikes on our fleet but again no damage. The strikes came from airfields all over the place, as did the day strikes that came later. Night surface attacks too, and this time two CV each took a shell hit. See the combat report in a later post. Our own strikes on airfields and naval bombardments went well, as did air strikes on ground troops at Tsu. Those were costly to the low flying aircraft, again. I certainly wanted this result, but I did not think it would actually happen. quote:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Tsu (110,60) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 12887 troops, 185 guns, 40 vehicles, Assault Value = 825 Defending force 124863 troops, 2269 guns, 1467 vehicles, Assault Value = 3522 Japanese ground losses: 207 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 11 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 1 disabled Guns lost 24 (7 destroyed, 17 disabled) Allied ground losses: 16 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Assaulting units: 2nd Tank Regiment 17th Infantry Regiment 5th Infantry Regiment 7th Tank Regiment 52nd Division 4th Tank Regiment 31st Tank Battalion 43rd Tank Regiment Det. 3rd Special Base Force 11th Tank Regiment 36th/C Division 72nd Field AA Battalion 1st Machine Cannon AA Battalion 81st Field AA Battalion 1st Guards Field Artillery Regiment 1st Air Defense AA Battalion 3rd Rocket Gun Battalion Suzuka JNAF Base Force Defending units: 25th Indian Division 19th Motorised Division 26th Indian Division 14th Indian Division 82nd (West African) Division 2nd British Division 18th British Division 20th Indian Division 5th Indian Division 1st Indian Medium Regiment 8th Belfast Heavy Regiment 86th Medium Regiment 88th Medium Regiment 56th Heavy Regiment 14th Army 55th Heavy Regiment -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Tsu (110,60) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 121701 troops, 2268 guns, 1467 vehicles, Assault Value = 3520 Defending force 27853 troops, 351 guns, 436 vehicles, Assault Value = 813 Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 3 Allied adjusted assault: 3297 Japanese adjusted defense: 207 Allied assault odds: 15 to 1 (fort level 3) Allied forces CAPTURE Tsu !!! Combat modifiers Defender: forts(+), disruption(-), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 6033 casualties reported Squads: 274 destroyed, 75 disabled Non Combat: 467 destroyed, 39 disabled Engineers: 42 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 159 (140 destroyed, 19 disabled) Vehicles lost 313 (278 destroyed, 35 disabled) Units retreated 15 Units destroyed 1 Allied ground losses: 2678 casualties reported Squads: 30 destroyed, 200 disabled Non Combat: 12 destroyed, 36 disabled Engineers: 11 destroyed, 49 disabled Guns lost 97 (25 destroyed, 72 disabled) Vehicles lost 21 (1 destroyed, 20 disabled) Defeated Japanese Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 25th Indian Division 14th Indian Division 18th British Division 26th Indian Division 20th Indian Division 82nd (West African) Division 19th Motorised Division 2nd British Division 5th Indian Division 1st Indian Medium Regiment 86th Medium Regiment 88th Medium Regiment 8th Belfast Heavy Regiment 56th Heavy Regiment 14th Army 55th Heavy Regiment Defending units: 5th Infantry Regiment 17th Infantry Regiment 52nd Division 4th Tank Regiment 7th Tank Regiment 2nd Tank Regiment 43rd Tank Regiment 31st Tank Battalion Det. 3rd Special Base Force 11th Tank Regiment 36th/C Division 72nd Field AA Battalion 1st Machine Cannon AA Battalion 81st Field AA Battalion 1st Guards Field Artillery Regiment 3rd Rocket Gun Battalion 1st Air Defense AA Battalion Suzuka JNAF Base Force -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote:
Tsu Imperial LCUs Present 06___06___ _29___30__ ______X___ 11th Tank Regiment _X____X___ 17th Infantry Regiment _X____X___ 1st Air Defense AA Battalion _X____X___ 1st Guards Field Artillery Regiment _X____X___ 1st Machine Cannon AA Battalion ______X___ 2nd Tank Regiment ______X___ 31st Tank Battalion _X____X___ 36th/C Division _X____X___ 3rd Rocket Gun Battalion ______X___ 43rd Tank Regiment ______X___ 4th Tank Regiment _X____X___ 52nd Division ______X___ 5th Infantry Regiment _X____X___ 72nd Field AA Battalion ______X___ 7th Tank Regiment _X____X___ 81st Field AA Battalion _X____X___ Det. 3rd Special Base Force _X____X___ Suzuka JNAF Base Force Look at how many reinforcements came in! I did not see them moving, and since there was no ops mode penalty they did not arrive by rail. Our troops are well and truly knackered so will rest for at least two days before moving out. The base forces at sea have been ordered to head stright in, even before they reached their holding point. Repairing the port will keep the organic engineers busy until then.
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