HansBolter 
		  
		   
		   
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		 Round two at Nagoya comes earlier than round two at Osaka and takes a heavy toll on combat engineers.      Moving more tanks into the siege battles as previously I was using them to execute surrounds on the siege hexes.      I had loads of 1E and 2E bombers hitting Kanazawa (sp?) to clear the rail line linking the Western Allied and Soviet sectors and forgot to retarget them after clearing out the riff raff. They all targeted Tokyo, taking very heavy losses to flak, but putting extreme casualties on the heavily overstacked defenders. This is promising as ground attacks against heavy urban usually don't do much damage to defenders that are not overstacked. I have the potential to invest Tokyo by mid February, leaving about a month and a half to pound on it before the scenario ends.      Ground combat at Nagoya (111,60)       Allied Deliberate attack       Attacking force 168426 troops, 2784 guns, 4334 vehicles, Assault Value = 5316       Defending force 81764 troops, 944 guns, 443 vehicles, Assault Value = 1645       Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 7       Allied adjusted assault: 1658        Japanese adjusted defense: 9093        Allied assault odds: 1 to 5 (fort level 7)        Combat modifiers   Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), disruption(-), experience(-)   Attacker:        Japanese ground losses:         2071 casualties reported            Squads: 9 destroyed, 141 disabled            Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 29 disabled            Engineers: 3 destroyed, 18 disabled         Guns lost 68 (7 destroyed, 61 disabled)         Vehicles lost 27 (8 destroyed, 19 disabled)       Allied ground losses:         12307 casualties reported            Squads: 112 destroyed, 861 disabled            Non Combat: 101 destroyed, 324 disabled            Engineers: 176 destroyed, 260 disabled         Guns lost 288 (60 destroyed, 228 disabled)         Vehicles lost 564 (217 destroyed, 347 disabled)         Units destroyed 1       Assaulting units:       XVIII Corps Eng Grp        7th Armoured Brigade       VII Corps Engr Grp        779th Tank Battalion       XXXIII Corps Engineer Battalion       1st Regt de Cheval Regiment       2nd British Division       32nd Infantry Division       6th Infantry Division       267th Armoured Brigade       44th Infantry Division       719th Flame Tank Battalion       640th Tank Destroyer Battalion       13th Armored Division       7th Infantry Division       IV Corps Engineer Battalion       28th Infantry Division       632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion       8th KGV Light Cav Regiment       Groupement Massu Brigade       XIV Corps Engr Grp        18th British Division       Provisionl Tank Brigade       25th Indian Division       93rd Infantry Division       754th Tank Battalion       33rd Infantry Division       8th Indian Division       443rd Field Artillery Battalion       148th Field Artillery Battalion       III Corps Engr Grp        Defending units:       10th Garrison Division       100th Division       303rd Division       143rd Division       120th Ind.Mixed Brigade       8th Ind.Tank Brigade       119th Ind.Mixed Brigade       73rd Division       38th Ind.Mixed Brigade       19th JAAF AF Bn        38th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion       125th AA Regiment       98th Field AA Battalion       Nagoya Fortress       97th Field AA Battalion       51st Air Division       106th Machine Canno AA Battalion       Tokai JNAF Base Force       37th Ind. Hvy.Art. Battalion       13th Area Army       7th Imperial AA Division       12th Machine Canno AA Battalion       54th Army       Gifu JAAF Base Force    
			
								
			
			 
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