MichaelU
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Dec 25-26, 1941
The Japanese give no pause for Christmas, and neither do we. Midway and Singakawang both see more landings and more shooting in support of the landings, putting them in a rather precarious position to survive. What a horrible Christmas present for the defenders, the start of many long years of captivity.
Our minefield at Singapore, being cleared by a whole host of DMS, claims a victim, the TB Manazura apparently. What's with these TBs and minefields? And why do our mines only hit these guys, and not the hordes of other ships that have been sailing in and out of them?
Our minefield at Bataan does score a real hit though. DMS W-19, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage. Yay, this is the best mine hit we've had all game.
The destruction of Sabang airfield is completed, a sub pops up and blows apart an xAP loading some troops there, and the place is now officially declared too hot to handle. Not bad though, we did manage to get quite a few troops out of Malaysia and loaded onto transports at Sabang. That little bit of fun is over for now though. The damaged planes are loaded onto xAKLs and at night and by the time the sun rises the ships are well clear, so at least we have saved some Catalinas.
The big shock of Dec 25 is when ground combat suddenly breaks out at Port Blair.
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Ground combat at Port Blair (46,58)
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 272 troops, 1 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 21
Defending force 872 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 15
Japanese adjusted assault: 12
Allied adjusted defense: 7
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(-)
Japanese ground losses:
28 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
81 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Assaulting units:
1st Raiding Rgt /1
Defending units:
11th Indian Div /1
Pt Blair Coastal Gun Battalion
Port Blair Adv Base Force
108th RAF Base Force /1
223 Group RAF /2
That was just too close. Losing Port Blair would have been a blow in itself, but we also had a couple of air groups there, including one of Catalinas recently escaped from the Philippines.
The fall of Singakawang does show us how important it has been that we have held onto the place, because just one turn later there is a major Betty raid on the airfield at Soerebaja. It could have been a whole lot worse, because we'd pulled the Indomitable and Hermes in there to stock up on planes and fuel, and if he had known they were around we could have been in big trouble. Seventeen Bettys made it through the CAP, and if they had been torpedo armed and hunting carriers, it could have got ugly. Needless to say the carriers are sailing out this turn to seek safer waters.
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Morning Air attack on Soerabaja , at 56,104
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid detected at 27 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes
Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 24
Allied aircraft
Fulmar II x 2
Sea Hurricane Ib x 2
B-339D x 5
Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 3 destroyed, 2 damaged
No Allied losses
Runway hits 3
The Japanese are making a push in China, but have run into a fairly well dug in group of Chinese units. Unfortunately there was some testing of the defenses using the incredibly scouting powers of artillery, so they'll know the defenders are too tough for them.
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Ground combat at 88,43 (near Kaifeng)
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 26811 troops, 190 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 796
Defending force 29323 troops, 119 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 755
Allied ground losses:
12 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Assaulting units:
101st NCPC Route Brigade
35th Division
16th Ind.Mixed Brigade
3rd Ind.Mixed Brigade
15th RGC Temp. Division
Defending units:
93rd Chinese Corps
27th Chinese Corps
98th Chinese Corps
5th New Chinese Corps
15th Group Army
39th Group Army
At Port Blair, it looks like the assault was an attempted coup de main, because there are no followup forces and a second attack is brutally repulsed, helped by a unit hastily air transported in from Rangoon.
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Ground combat at Port Blair (46,58)
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 379 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 26
Defending force 1088 troops, 15 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 34
Japanese adjusted assault: 2
Allied adjusted defense: 9
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 4 (fort level 0)
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(+), leaders(-), disruption(-), supply(-)
Japanese ground losses:
117 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Assaulting units:
1st Raiding Rgt /1
Defending units:
Rangoon BAF Bn /1
11th Indian Div /1
Pt Blair Coastal Gun Battalion
108th RAF Base Force /1
Port Blair Adv Base Force
223 Group RAF /2
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