MichaelU
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Dec 22-23, 1941
Despite the shock to our morale of seeing the lovely new cruisers the Japanese get, we continue to soldier on. Now that I know for certain that the Haguro is a goner, I'm feeling a bit better about the recent exchange. What it has done though is leave us with a lot less firepower to take on the next invasion. While most of our ships survived, almost all took enough damage to take them out of the fight. The Renown remains in top fighting form, but two heavy cruisers and several light cruisers will be looking for a shipyard.
We did get more reinforcements sailing into Batavia, so we've added three more British light cruisers to our lineup. And lost two.
He is closing down our fun in north Borneo. The CL Durban, looking for transports around Singakawang/Kucking, instead finds the Nagato and Mutsu, and the end is swift.
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Singkawang at 56,87, Range 10,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
BB Nagato
BB Mutsu
CA Takao
CL Suzuya
CL Kumano
CL Tone
DD Nowaki
DD Arashi
DD Hagikaze
Allied Ships
CL Durban, Shell hits 8, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Van Nes, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
Poor old Van Nes, one hit was enough to send her to the bottom.
The SS Perch, after about ten tries, does finally manage to get a torpedo into the DMS clearing mines off Balipapan. The DMS had already been damaged by the coastal guns, so I don't give much chances for her survival. Hopefully this will slow down his mine clearing at yet another important oil centre. It is also the fourth DMS he has lost.
Other than this, there is some bombing of oilfields at Miri, Balipapan and Palembang. The only one with any fighter cover is Palembang, and our Hurricanes are smashing these guys no problem.
There is now a TF about 5 hexes out of Palembang, so I imagine there is some reinforcement coming -- either more air support, some AA guns, or both. I will do as much as I can to give these guys a warm welcome, given my rather grim lack of resources in the area.
KB continues to lurk north of Midway, not doing very much but ensuring we don't try anything as the transports inexorably creep forward. Brace yourselves lads, this is going to get ugly.
More bases fall, including Samarinda and a few spots in the Philippines. But Manila weathers another attack, with major damage to the attackers.
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Ground combat at Manila (79,77)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 32564 troops, 301 guns, 103 vehicles, Assault Value = 826
Defending force 43578 troops, 417 guns, 171 vehicles, Assault Value = 890
Japanese adjusted assault: 123
Allied adjusted defense: 745
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 6 (fort level 2)
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
3160 casualties reported
Squads: 49 destroyed, 139 disabled
Non Combat: 22 destroyed, 89 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 15 disabled
Guns lost 17 (3 destroyed, 14 disabled)
Vehicles lost 48 (23 destroyed, 25 disabled)
Units destroyed 1
Allied ground losses:
834 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 81 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 37 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 10 disabled
Guns lost 15 (2 destroyed, 13 disabled)
Vehicles lost 18 (2 destroyed, 16 disabled)
See the unit destroyed? Hopefully it's one of those tank regiments. Is there any good way to tell? Even if not destroyed, those guys must have been gutted.
We now have nearly 900 AV dug into level 2 forts with 33,000 supply. He is either going to have to bring a lot more troops, or starve us out. Hell, if things continue this way we might even start to lose that experience negative that has plagued us all game.
This is the really weird one though. If anyone can explain how the defenders of Bataan have managed to hold out for 2 of these attacks, I'd be very interested.
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Ground combat at Bataan (78,77)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 3794 troops, 25 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 122
Defending force 2296 troops, 110 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2
Japanese adjusted assault: 47
Allied adjusted defense: 35
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 1)
Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), experience(-)
Attacker: fatigue(-)
Japanese ground losses:
81 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
48 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Assaulting units:
42nd Infantry Regiment
Defending units:
Manila Bay Defenses
Bataan USN Base Force
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