Miller
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Joined: 9/14/2004 From: Ashington, England. Status: offline
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7th-10th Mar 42 BANZAI Ground combat at Changsha (82,52) Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 98269 troops, 982 guns, 808 vehicles, Assault Value = 2999 Defending force 77144 troops, 508 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1640 Japanese adjusted assault: 5795 Allied adjusted defense: 1421 Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Changsha !!! Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), experience(-) Attacker: shock(+) Japanese ground losses: 10586 casualties reported Squads: 112 destroyed, 381 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 91 disabled Engineers: 3 destroyed, 59 disabled Guns lost 61 (1 destroyed, 60 disabled) Vehicles lost 51 (1 destroyed, 50 disabled) Allied ground losses: 22967 casualties reported Squads: 1483 destroyed, 28 disabled Non Combat: 1185 destroyed, 146 disabled Engineers: 179 destroyed, 7 disabled Guns lost 111 (79 destroyed, 32 disabled) Units retreated 21 As an added bonus all his units retreat west into the clear hex of Siangtan rather than into the wood to the north west. My tanks are in pursuit and should cross the river next turn whilst his troops are hit from the air by 200 Sally's and Lilly's. This should also make his position untenable anywhere to the west and south and he will be forced to withdraw north. Meanwhile in the north at Sian the art unit crosses the river, does a bombardment that reveals an AV of 2600 there then retreats back out without a scratch! I have virtually the same AV in my stack to the NE so I think I will just wait it out for now and see how he reacts to the developments in the south. BANZAI(2) Ground combat at Bandoeng (50,100) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 65137 troops, 708 guns, 456 vehicles, Assault Value = 2093 Defending force 26874 troops, 333 guns, 164 vehicles, Assault Value = 440 Japanese adjusted assault: 2480 Allied adjusted defense: 787 Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Bandoeng !!! Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 1349 casualties reported Squads: 6 destroyed, 136 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 16 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 27 disabled Allied ground losses: 37841 casualties reported Squads: 553 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 2291 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 206 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 449 (449 destroyed, 0 disabled) Vehicles lost 239 (239 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units destroyed 20 Four divisions are marching back to Batavia and will be re-assigned to my Borneo/Celebes/Timor invasions. I'm also going to take Darwin as well simply to deny it to him for as long as possible. With a bit of luck I should accomplish all this just before the amphibious bonus expires at the end of March. Elsewhere in the PI my bombers are doing good work in keeping the airfield damaged at Clark and it looks like the 3 divs I have here already should be enough given time. I land another SNLF at Rabual to tip the balance and it falls. No sign of his navy or air force at all for a few weeks now.
< Message edited by Miller -- 4/17/2018 7:00:53 PM >
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