JocMeister
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2nd-4th Jan -45
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So, things are turning very interesting all of a sudden.
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Luzon
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On the 2nd I sent in a bunch of 4 ship Fletcher TFs to rattle things up a bit. I included DMSs in the TFs but I probably should have change them from SCTF to MSW before sending them in. Lost a Fletcher to a mine. But in return we clear the sea.
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Manila at 79,77, Range 8,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
DD Kagero, Shell hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DD Hatsukaze, Shell hits 1
DD Maikaze, Shell hits 2, on fire
Allied Ships
DD Albert Grant
DD Hale
DD Halford
DD Hall
DMS Boggs
DMS Palmer
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Manila at 79,77, Range 8,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
E W-26, Shell hits 21, heavy fires, heavy damage
E Nasami, Shell hits 9, heavy fires, heavy damage
E Sarushima, Shell hits 10, and is sunk
Allied Ships
DD Albert Grant
DD Hale
DD Halford
DD Hall
DMS Boggs, Shell hits 2, on fire
DMS Palmer, Shell hits 1
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Manila at 79,77, Range 11,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
E W-26, Shell hits 11, and is sunk
E Nasami, Shell hits 5, and is sunk
Allied Ships
DD Albert Grant
DD Hale
DD Halford
DD Hall
DMS Boggs, on fire
DMS Palmer
Also managed to sink 4-5 SSXs. All allied ships except a Fletcher that hit a mine are safely back at Iloilo. This led to Erik evacuating the Manila airfield. Heh. During the night time bombing I found something very interesting.
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Night Air attack on Manila , at 79,77
Weather in hex: Light rain
Raid detected at 13 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes 
Allied aircraft
B-29-1 Superfort x 8
Allied aircraft losses
B-29-1 Superfort: 3 damaged
Manpower hits 7
Fires 17468
Tomorrow we are going to try a powerful sweep of Manila. If it really is empty I might catch some leaky CAP from Clark. The USN/USMC are sent in mainly using Hellcats. Don´t have any other planes to spare if things go south.
But the real highlight here is of course the attack on Manila....
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Ground combat at Manila (79,77)
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 139512 troops, 2682 guns, 5413 vehicles, Assault Value = 5885
Defending force 117133 troops, 1356 guns, 1640 vehicles, Assault Value = 3399
Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 6 
Allied adjusted assault: 2436
Japanese adjusted defense: 20691
Allied assault odds: 1 to 8 (fort level 6)
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), leaders(+), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
2798 casualties reported
Squads: 45 destroyed, 483 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 108 disabled
Engineers: 5 destroyed, 53 disabled
Guns lost 180 (9 destroyed, 171 disabled)
Vehicles lost 80 (15 destroyed, 65 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
3105 casualties reported
Squads: 39 destroyed, 743 disabled
Non Combat: 9 destroyed, 238 disabled
Engineers: 5 destroyed, 155 disabled
Guns lost 175 (33 destroyed, 142 disabled)
Vehicles lost 362 (23 destroyed, 339 disabled)
As I wrote before I´m very happy with the result. Knocking the forts down from 7 to 6 with that small losses are a good indicator of things to come. Fatigue and disruption are pretty high though and the troops will most likely need a week of rest. I had to pull out the 24th ID as they we reduced to only 120 AV.
The good news is that my expectations on the tanks were well founded. The tank BTLs are almost complete intact. The USMC BTLs have their light tanks pretty beat up but the Shermans are in good order. Even the Combat engineers made it in good order.
Now I have to decide on how to play the remainder of the assault. More on that in a separate post. Lots of options and unknowns.
Speaking of unknowns...
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South China Sea
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So, the KB reared its ugly head (see screen). Looks like Erik is willing to fight for the 3 Divisions trapped at Bangkok. Not sure that is worth risking the KB for...The screen is from the 2nd. On the 3rd both the Allied CVs and KB is unspotted. I continue the usual "dance" of moving around to try and avoid another of those silly 8 hex strikes. I won´t go looking for a fight as Erik will definitely stay close to LBA. He is outnumbered by 2:1 and he must know that. But if he tries to get the shipping out I will move in. With the BETA in effect Erik has little to no chance to penetrate using LBA. I have 70% of the fighters on 80% CAP.
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RE: 1945! - 
The first 5 attacks will be all about lowering the forts. Any attacking knocking down the forts is a good attack. 
I have 2300 AV prepped to land behind Manila. So I think what Erik does will decide my next move. If he moves more stuff into Manila I´ll land behind him but if he stays put I might scratch a risky landing and slug it out trading time for safety. 
Still I decided to have another go tomorrow. Erik is heavily reliant on the Frank. Lots of them took damage today and SR3 is nasty. The hope is that tomorrow CAP will be lighter. P51s will sweep tomorrow followed by 500 4Es to close the airfield at Manila. This can turn ugly though... 
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