Walker84
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January 12, 1942
During the night, Allied sub S-37 is spotted twice at Kendari by my escorts and suffers 7 hits in two separate ASW attacks. I also noticed a Dutch sub icon loitering near Wenchow so it looks like my opponent is trying to interdict the Wenchow bombardment express. Perhaps I will send an ASW TF in on its own next time.
More Allied sub action, and it's all getting a bit nerve-racking for Admiral Nagumo, i/c of the KB. First, SS Plunger launches 4 torpedoes at Akagi - and misses. Then....SS Plunger comes back to launch 4 torpedoes at the previously-damaged Shokaku. One hits, but it is a dud. Both times, the 9 escorting DDs completely fail to locate the sub. That's 16 ASW pts sitting around looking pretty and doing precisely squat to protect my carriers!!
After that scare, the rest of the day brings nothing but positive news. Lae and Buna are occupied and, as predicted by yesterday's results, the assaults on Manila and Kendari are successful, netting a good crop of points in terms of base values and Allied squads destroyed.
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Ground combat at Manila (79,77)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 31512 troops, 256 guns, 88 vehicles, Assault Value = 946
Defending force 10091 troops, 75 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 179
Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0
Japanese adjusted assault: 792
Allied adjusted defense: 173
Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Manila !!!
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
347 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 17 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 36 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
4196 casualties reported
Squads: 275 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 290 destroyed, 19 disabled
Engineers: 20 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 53 (49 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Units retreated 4
Units destroyed 3
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
16th Engineer Regiment
148th Infantry Regiment
21st Division
16th Recon Regiment
113th Infantry Regiment
9th Infantry Regiment
56th Recon Regiment
20th Infantry Regiment
56th Engineer Regiment
56th Field Artillery Regiment
Defending units:
71st PA Infantry Division
1st PA Infantry Division
2nd PA Infantry Regiment
27th Avn Sup
2nd Constabulary Regiment
Nichols Field AAF Base Force
Cavite USN Base Force
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Ground combat at Kendari (70,106)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 1902 troops, 8 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 52
Defending force 957 troops, 12 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 21
Japanese adjusted assault: 36
Allied adjusted defense: 7
Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Kendari !!!
Allied aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft losses
Do-24K-1: 1 destroyed
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
42 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Allied ground losses:
485 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 25 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 9 (8 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 5 (5 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 1
Units destroyed 1
Assaulting units:
Miura Det
44th Field Const Co
9th JNAF Coy
Defending units:
Kendari KNIL Cdo
Kendari ML Base Force
Netties and Zeroes will be deployed to Kendari in a few days time making it easier to control the approaches to Ambon, Balikpapan, Makassar and Koepang, our next primary objectives in the DEI before the assault on Java and Sumatra proper.
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