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8 Apr 44
3 US destroyers sank patrol boat Karimo Maru at Tanegashima. Lots of enemy minesweepers went to work on the mines dropped by the B=29s, and the mines south of Yokohama.
Haddock spotted a task force with Hiei and Kongo near Takamatsu. Battleships inbound to Oita! At Oita, Maryland, Colorado and West Virginia were ordered to bombard and leave. Of course, bombardment occurs at the end of the night phase, whether you needed to move to the target or were already there, as they were. All of the invasion shipping had been ordered to leave, and the covering carriers to the southwest were ordered to leave the area also. The battleships then sank a MGB.
But first, RO-106 spotted AGC Blue Ridge near Nagasaki. The all-important HQ ship was targeted after the sub was forced to surface by DE Bangust, but the ship wasn't hit, and the sub was sunk.
3 US battleships, Oklahoma, California and Tennessee, moved to Nagasaki and sank 2 patrol boats, and then a minesweeper. Destroyer Hickox then hit a mine there. 3 other US destroyers moved to Nagasaki and sank 2 more minesweepers.
Near Kochi, a big US destroyer TF sank a sub chaser.
Near Nagoya, sub Cero spotted a task force with 5 minelayers. More mines somewhere.
Then the fireworks. The 3 slow US battleships were still at Oita, waiting to bombard, when 3 enemy battleships appeared, escorted by a much larger number of ships. I feared for the slow battlewagons, seeing so many enemy destroyers. As it turned out, enemy destroyers launched torpedoes only at US destroyers, and all missed. In the early part of the fighting, damage was fairly even. However, once the enemy cruisers started firing torpedoes at the battleships, the US ships were in trouble. Once hit by torpedoes, the enemy focused fired on them, and many shells hits occured afterwards.
Night Time Surface Combat, near Oita at 104,59, Range 7,000 Yards
Allied aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft losses
OS2U-3 Kingfisher: 2 destroyed
Japanese Ships
BB Kongo, Shell hits 1
BB Hiei
BB Kirishima, Shell hits 29, heavy fires, heavy damage
CA Takao
CA Chokai, Shell hits 2
CA Mogami, Shell hits 1
CA Mikuma
CL Kiso
CL Yubari, Shell hits 3, and is sunk
DD Yugumo
DD Kazegumo
DD Takanami
DD Naganami
DD Tamanami
DD Suzunami, Shell hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Okinami
DD Hamanami
DD Asashimo
DD Kiyoshimo, Shell hits 1
DD Hayashimo, Shell hits 22, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DD Akishimo, Shell hits 2, heavy fires
DD Umigiri, Shell hits 2, on fire
Allied Ships
BB Maryland, Shell hits 63, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
BB Colorado, Shell hits 20, Torpedo hits 4, and is sunk
BB West Virginia, Shell hits 12, heavy fires, heavy damage
CA Portland, Shell hits 2
CA Pensacola, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 1
CA Astoria, Shell hits 3
DD Bullard
DD Fullam, Shell hits 1
DD Hazelwood, Shell hits 3, on fire
DD Murray
DD Owen, Shell hits 4
DD Porterfield, Shell hits 1
DD Pringle, Shell hits 5, on fire
DD Renshaw, Shell hits 1
Poor visibility due to Rain with 100% moonlight
Maximum visibility in Rain and 100% moonlight: 6,000 yards
It was a very entertaining and painful replay to watch. The US battleships were fairly effective. Yubari was sunk by a large shell, and a few other big shells hit the enemy battleships. Most interesting was noticing that multiple 8 inch shells from a US cruiser were penetrating Kirishima's armor at close range (the fight got down to 3000 yards) but not at 8000 yards. It was a slugfest, and a victory for the Japanese.
Later in the night, the lesser damaged enemy ships engaged badly damaged West Virginia, Pensacola and 2 DDs, but the US ships evaded combat. Then 3 enemy MTBs attacked, still at night. They closed the range quickly. The US ships barely fired, having depleted their ammo. A torpedo missed West Virginia, but 2 hit Pensacola, sinking the cruiser. Quite a show for the tiny torpedo boats. They don't make such an impact very often.
A small US cruiser force bombarded Kagoshima, hitting a lot of planes on the ground. Tennessee, California and Oklahoma bombarded Nagasaki, hitting a great number of planes on the ground.
Near Oita, 4 Allied minelayers had just dropped mines in the shallow water. 3 of the CMs were Dutch. They ran into Kongo and Hiei, headed east from Oita. All 4 CMs were sunk easily.
Near Fukue-jima, Cisco sank RO-41 with a torpedo.
US PT boats arrived at Oita and engaged an MGB to little effect, in 2 engagements. Silversides fired 6 torpedoes at battleship Hyuga but missed. More battleships!
Now during the day, the US PT boats at Oita engaged a 6 battleship TF: Nagato, Mutsu, Fuso, Yamashiro, Ise and Hyuga. There were 9 battleships at Oita tonight! One PT boat was lost. The PTs never got to within firing range. This big BB TF arrived too late to catch the survivors of the earlier fight at Oita.
Now for the air phases. 38 Hellcats from carriers swept Kurume, finding Oscars and Nicks and downing many of them. P-38s swept Kumamoto, finding nothing. B-24s hit Kumamoto and Kurume.
And then the ground combat. But wait! In the replay, I watched a very effective sweep of Oita clear the skies of the enemy, and then large carrier airstrikes on the enemy battleships at Oita! At least one enemy BB was sunk by multiple torpedo hits, and others sustained major damage.
But it didn't happen. Synch bug. I think this was the first time for the bug in this game. It's strange. The naval combat matches up with what I saw. It's just the air activity over Oita that is missing. Very discouraging. Now there's a 6 BB TF at Oita that isn't damaged, instead of a badly damaged TF that would probably have had to go home. I would have been more defensive around Amami Oshima had I seen the right results. And maybe not moved follow-up TFs to Kurume. His BBs are in range of that too. Very discouraging.
Well, Oita was captured.
Ground combat at Oita (104,59)
Allied Shock attack
Attacking force 36123 troops, 583 guns, 400 vehicles, Assault Value = 1088
Defending force 11201 troops, 86 guns, 3 vehicles, Assault Value = 147
Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 1
Allied adjusted assault: 1184
Japanese adjusted defense: 295
Allied assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 1)
Allied forces CAPTURE Oita !!!
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), disruption(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)
Japanese ground losses:
2186 casualties reported
Squads: 73 destroyed, 22 disabled
Non Combat: 52 destroyed, 30 disabled
Engineers: 37 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 56 (46 destroyed, 10 disabled)
Vehicles lost 3 (3 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 7
Allied ground losses:
934 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 88 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Guns lost 20 (2 destroyed, 18 disabled)
Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
25th Infantry Division
1st (Spec) Cavalry Division
38th Infantry Division
50th Cmbt Engineer Regiment
627th TD Bn /3
Eighth US Army
18th Marine Def Bn /5
15th Marine Def Bn /5
715th AmphTrac Engr Bn /4
3rd AmphTrac Engr Bn /5
86th Cst AA Rgt /6
Defending units:
42nd Naval Guard Unit
61st Naval Guard Unit
12th Air Flotilla
47th JNAF AF Unit
17th JNAF AF Unit
17th Port Unit
Hoyo Fortress
28th JNAF AF Unit
Oita JNAF Base Force
And Kurume was captured, and so very easily.
Ground combat at Kurume (103,58)
Allied Shock attack
Attacking force 28828 troops, 430 guns, 549 vehicles, Assault Value = 951
Defending force 5120 troops, 71 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 133
Allied adjusted assault: 1302
Japanese adjusted defense: 1
Allied assault odds: 1302 to 1 (fort level 0)
Allied forces CAPTURE Kurume !!!
Combat modifiers
Defender: disruption(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)
Japanese ground losses:
3430 casualties reported
Squads: 204 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 104 destroyed, 32 disabled
Engineers: 25 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 40 (40 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 1
Units destroyed 1
Allied ground losses:
47 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Vehicles lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
4th Marine Division
2nd Arm Amphib Battalion
34th Cmbt Engineer Regiment
3rd USMC Tank Battalion
37th Infantry Division
640th Tank Destroyer Battalion
57th Coastal Artillery Regiment
205th Coast AA Regiment
1/593rd Boat&Shore Engineer Battalion
2nd AmphTrac Engineer Battalion
Sixth US Army
10th Marine Defense Battalion
Defending units:
56th Depot Division
32nd Field AA Battalion
Total air losses were: (numbers in parentheses were destroyed on the ground or on sinking ships)
18 Oscars
16 Nicks (14)
12 Tojos (12)
7 Mavis (6)
6 Jacks (6)
5 Jakes (5)
4 Petes (3)
2 Dinahs (2)
8 OS2Us (8)
2 F6F-3s
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