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An excellent victory and I must say, an excellent idea for an AAR! Well, I would suggest taking the Micronesia Islands but I think it would be better to review current American strength first, then attack. If it is too strong, attack south and into Australia. All in all, I remain undecided upon this better, so I leave that choice with you.

Banzai! Banzai! Banzai!
 
America may have been weaken, but they are not yet beaten, they still have far superior technology, and better numbers, the Samurai have a long way to go before the Americans are defeated. A stunning and great victory commander, but still many troubles abound. The British are still strong in burma, and pose a direct land route threat to Imperial holdings, and what of the Russians, what will happen when the Russians are done with the Germans, we must consider, as there army is the largest, and if the enter the war aginst us, victory will be nearly impossible, however, as admirial Kurita once said "There are such things as miricales" ;)
 
Plan 2, definately. Australia is not a major threat, and they'll take at least a year to get on their feet again if puppet'ed.

Whereas knocking America on its ass will help infinately more, especially if you can take Hawaii and the Panama Canal and split the two coasts.
 
Plan 2. :D

Nice reports, commander! And I like the style; creative stuff!

Now, would you allow me to give you some "visual" hints for the text? Just to make a better reading for your fans. :D

- Remember the background colour of the forum is grey, therefore try to avoid some colours you're using on the text (example: grey, green).

- Put an space after commas, dots and stuff, like everyone does. Helps a lot. :wacko:

- And please, don't put again a yellow text over a white background, like on that picture of the naval operations. ;)

Just some thoughts I think to be enjoyable. Now, could I ask you, perhaps, to build some submarines? Would probably do great damage to USA's shipping, but it's perhaps against the samurai code. Good luck!
 
Thank you all of you who answered and posted,every comment is appreciated, i will answer individually this time

Anonymous4401:I can tell you that watching those strength points on their and my carriers was one of the most stressing thing i ever did. Guess i was lucky. As for my TC, it is slightly overloaded, but im researching the last thing to raise your tc(forgot how its called).

Rapcw:Thank you for the comment on naval battle! Burma/India will be covered in the next episode, you will see my plans.

Kasakka:Thanks! It is true that theres a lot of land battle report, but i tend to never get tired of them! However, writing naval reports is much more exciting, at least thats my tought.

FlyingDutchman:They are pretty stubborn, but they always attack with good stacks, they never make stupid things like 10 capital ships and no screens.

markiep:Thx for posting your choice, but no i wont load up as usa,i find it kinda cheating, don't you think?

Ksim3000:LMAO, i don't know why, but those 3 banzaii cracked me up! Thx for posting!

elbasto:Burma will be covered in the next episode.

biffthewhite:Thx for the quote! Indeed,there are such things are miracles, and my 7 carrier ownage is one i can tell you that. You are quite right,they had(and still have probably) a lot of lvl 5 carriers, while my best was a lvl4(it was sunked, carrier zuikaku). As for the russians, i will see. I got 20 divisions in korea, but if the russians are as strong as you say, i will need more!!!Anyway, thx for posting.

therev:Thx for posting, love the comment, and i sooooo forgot about the bushido! Good thing you remind me! BTW, i still have wake island.

Klavohunter:thx for posting, i will take that in consideration.

Anibal:Thank you for the help. I appreciated that and i will use them(obviously!)if it can make this AAR better(and they will, obviously, again...). The IJN submarines will be covered in the next episode, so you will hear of them, however building them is another thing, i might leave that to the readers hehehe...

Thx for posting what plan you would like to happen everyone, cause without those i can't continue!!! (its not to late to post, i usully count the ''votes'' on Friday nights, so keep posting.)
 
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I'd say take out Australia in the south. Divide and conquer. It might also make life easier as one enemy nation is conquered. Australia is easier too than USA and can allow you to regroup with your damaged ships for a future fight against USA. India/Burma might be a good option too.
 
Beating down Australia would certainly help the effort, but as one can easily see it'll take quite a long time and stretch the supply line. Americans still have a huge navy, and securing that line would need sinking of the US navy. And that's what he should do. :D I'd call this a "circle proving" in lack of a decent English word :rolleyes:
 
You could see it from an historical point of view: ressources?
If your oil and rare supplies are sufficient it would probably a wiser move to work towards peace with the USA. Once Germany would be defeated and the SU would probably join the war and the UK would be free to operate mainly in the east that would be dark times. The question is how much influence Yamamoto would have after his victories. Would he be able to convince the army leaders that the war can not be won and a peace at best conditions should be sought?
 
If Hawaii is taken, the US war effort will be severly crippled, which gives you what you need; more time. Time to force a peace on the US and prepare for war with the Soviets. Banzai! :)
 
*casts Revive Thread*

....

*watches in horror as his sweater comes to life*

Crap, wrong thread.

*Dispells, then casts Revive Thread here*
 
Strike South- invade australia!

(which reminds me, if you ever, for some reason, land in the southeastern USA, i expect referendums for us to vote on CS independance :) )
 
Plan 1 definately if it's not to late. Historically Plan 2 would be the better option, but due to the fact that the A.I ignores range, taking out the islands + Hawaii isn't as effective as knocking out Australia.
 
Zhouvas said:
Plan 1 definately if it's not to late. Historically Plan 2 would be the better option, but due to the fact that the A.I ignores range, taking out the islands + Hawaii isn't as effective as knocking out Australia.

Ah, but then the US with infinate range would then focus on Hawaii for targetting and attacking... thus letting him put less of a garrison at home, and therefore more of an offensive force.
 
loaded up the scenario and played about a month in. I wanted to confirm in my mind that the voting populace of this thread is a bunch of european-socialist-traitor-to-the-state-types (tm) in regard to the chinese campaign. I attacked with the cavalry + armor + motorized corps in the area more or less like your plan, and encircled 23 chinese divisons, 1/5th their power, and about 1/2 their modernized forces. Why was the decision to peace china so hastily made? at the very least, wouldent peacing them after a smashing encirclement that was already planned and took only a couple weeks to execute yield more land from the grubby nationalists? (the warscore went from 45% to 52% after the encirclement..)

Then again, i'll probably get my teeth kicked in by the soviets if i cant bring the china war to some kind of close.

Tried to re-create saipan, but the US had 4 divisons there and i could not take it. Also, i got 3-6 carrier results, not 2-7..oh well -_-
 
Eclipse of the Rising Sun,a 1944 Japan AAR
Episode 4

'' Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future '' - L.Ron Hubbard


The Burma battles July-August 1944

The fighting who had the less attention since the beginning of the war was by far the region of Burma. With the Allies driving the Nazi's army off French soil and the furious pacific battles, Burma was last on the list. However, the fighting was as terrible as anywhere else, maybe even more; jungles, swamps and mountains was the terrain to fight on.


The British Advance

Since the beginning of 1944, the British had received heavy reinforcement from Africa, since Suez had been secured thanks to Operation Torch(invasion of Africa by American forces). These experienced troops helped greatly to stop the Japanese advance, and during early summer 1944, the Rising sun was slowly losing their grip at the Burma regions. Things looked grim, but peace with China revived all hopes. The divisions stationned in China were going to be transfered slowly but surely to fight the British. However, the process would be slow, as all transport ships were needed for the Pacific island's conquest.


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In yellow:the Japanese defensive line


The British Field Marshall Alanbrooke decided to give a strong blow to the Japanese army during the month of July, by attempting to cut off the 3 Japanese divisions guarding the north border. His operation did well, and it looked extremely bad for the Nippon troops stationned north. By the beginning of August, the british troops had almost cut off the army guarding north. Seeing this, the commander of the Burma troops, Field Marshall Kanin(writers note:theres no FM in the Japan army i believe, but whatever) decided to prevent the encirclement of those 3 divisions, by counter attacking Alexander's troops hoping to get them off guard and force them to fight in a double front war(north and south). This attack would be known has:The August Offensive.


The August Offensive

The 3rd August, every piece of artillery did an heavy barrage against enemy lines for a few hours, and it was followed by attacks from every troops available in the south. Fighting in marshes, jungles, mountains, or any kind of terrain possible, the brave Japanese soldier's slowly opened a breach trough the British lines. On the 10th of August, report's were made that some South troops were able to meet some soldiers of the north army. Kanin's plan had worked for now. However, Field Marshall Alanbrooke had something that Burma HQ commander Kanin hadn't expected. The 8th Armored british division, making its way in jungles and marshes, came to secure the breach that had been made in british lines. Anti-tank were weapons were no where to be found. Soldiers fought furiously, attempting their best to stop the metal monsters as they called them, but rifles and bayonnettes were no match for the power of armor. The armored division slowly closed the opening that had been made in the English line, and the 3 divisions in the north were trapped once again. Repulsing countless counter-attacks from Kanin's army south to relieve the divisions north, the british forces slowly shrinked the defensive ring of the 3 divisions in the north. On the 20th, Field Marshall Kanin and the newly arrived Inanba Satoru (Chief of Army), decided to meet to take some decisions on the situation.


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After hours of discussion, they both came to the same conclusions after noticing the degrading state of their army who tried countless attacks to liberate the northern pocket; the north army was doomed. At first,they both agreed that soldiers would just fight to the end trying to take out has many british soldiers they could. However, the Emperor himself had ordered that kamikaze's divisions had to be disbanded and that soldiers should be captured instead of dying to a lost cause. No one really knew why he had ordered such a thing, but rumors said the Emperor had gained a lot of compation for the soldiers since he was really in charge of the nation. Kanin, on the new orders from the emperor, sent this message to the high officers of the North army trapped:

- On new orders from the Emperor himself, soldiers are to surrender, instead of sacrificing themself for a lost cause. We have attempted all to break the encirclement of your forces, and we were not able. It is in shame and dishonor that we have to ask you to surrender to the United Kingdom forces of burma.

The officers first tought it was a joke, but after receiving a second similar message, it was clear.They would have to surrender.
On August 25th, it was over. After being totally cut off for almost two weeks, the soldiers surrended. Burma had suddenly re-appeared on the cover of newspapers. ''Japanese soldiers surrending;is it the Eclipse of the Rising sun?'' and ''The Indian/British army get their hand of something rarer then gold;Japanese pow's!'' and all sort of headlines similar. On the other side, the Japanese high command was divided; many agreed that human lives should not be sacrificed for a lost cause, while others believed that battling to the end was the way to fight. However, the emperor had took the decision, therefor no one could even attempt to counter the order. Japan had entered a new era of the war.


The Hunt for the Illustrious - August 1944

If there was one thing that the IJN could be blamed for, it was his submarines. Their submarines were powerful and fast, yet a lack of radar and awful commanding made them nearly useless. At the beginning of the war, Japanese submarines had sunked several ship, but mainly because of a total surprise effect, as british and american fleets were caught totally off guard. However,the Allies got their radar working and it was the beginning of the end for the IJN submarines. The problem laid in the doctrine used; making them ''shadowy capital ship killers''. Of course, this had become useless since 1942 with enemy destroyers being on alert at all times; submarines had a hard time getting close enough to hit the capital ship. Losing submarines after submarines,it was time for a change by summer 1944. New chief of Staff Akiro Shima, ordered all submarines captain's to employ a new doctrine; the ''u-boat'' warfare tactics. Submarine's main role was now to attack supply convoys, just like the Kriegsmarines U-boats. During the month of July, many convoys were caught off guard and sunk by the sensuikan's(writers note:japanese word for submarine). However, by the middle of July, the Royal Navy and the US Navy noticed the change of tactics and started protecting heavily its convoy's: Destroyers, Cruisers, Battlecruisers and even Aircraft Carriers were used to protect the vital convoy lines. Of course, this did not stop the IJN submarines from trying to do their mission...

At the beginning of August, submarines were to hunt for convoy's in the micronesian islands(marshall islands) to weaken the enemy for what was next; Yamamoto was going to hit once more. Carriers and Submarines would allie to strike the island of Enewetok. The sensuikan's would hit the supply lines, while the carriers would get the ships stationned at Enewetok.


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The newly formed Royal Pacific Navy, quickly formed to help the U.S. Navy who struggled in the past month, based itself at the island of Enewetok. This was perfect for Yamamoto, as he knew most of the officers on the british fleet had never fought Carrier fleets. Most of them only had experience against U-Boats in the Atlantic, so the Grand Admiral knew that their inexperience would be in his favor. On the 13th August, Yamamoto ordered his Carrier fleet to get moving towards the Royal Navy at Eniwetok. They were followed by the reformed 2nd light cruiser fleet and 1st Destroyer fleet. On the 14th, at the rise of the sun, it began.


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The entire carrier force of the Imperial Japanese Navy, or the ''Nihon Kaigun'' launched their planes in 2 waves. The British Navy, caught totally off guard suffered extremely during the first wave. The british commanders tried their best to resist the countless number of torpedos hitting their ships, however the situation was hopeless. At 7h30, the first wave was gone. Enewetok layed in ruins.


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The Pacific British Royal Navy and the sunked ship after the first wave.


English commanders knew that a second wave could arrive in any second, so they quickly reacted by ordering the abandon of the island. Ships were to rebase at Kwalajein(an island south east of Enewetok) where it would be covered by the American navy. The ships who had survived the first wave quickly got moving south east hoping to not be caught by the so-probable second wave. Every English ship covered Carrier Illustrious, who had suffered terrible damage but hadn't got enough damage to be sent at the bottom of the sea. Luck was on British side, as the Second wave had been delayed by terrible weather and by the time the planes arrived at the enewetok naval base, most English ships were gone. When the second wave came back to the Aircraft Carriers and reports were made, Yamamoto realised that he had just left a terrible chance to totally sink the Pacific Royal Navy Carrier Force. However, the IJN submarines patrolling for convoys would finish the job...

The sensukai's were ordered to look out for any large fleet between Kwalajein and Enewetok. After hours of patrolling, at 21h00pm Admiral Sakonji, commander of the Nippon submarine force, spotted a large fleet , who seemed to escort a damaged carrier. He ordered immediatly 4 submarines to launch torpedo's at the fleet, from a relativly long range. Other submarines quickly joined the battle, and torpedo's started moving around the british ships. The english sailor's, already exhausted by the carrier strike, where helpless versus the torpedo's. Confusion was total amongst them and by 23h00, after the british had already lost one Heavy Cruiser, a loud explosion was heard. A torpedo had made its way to the already badly damage Carrier Illustrious. Water infiltrated the carrier and by 1h00 AM, it was all over. The HMS Illustrious had been sunked.

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Shortly after this, the Japanese marines captured the island of enewetok. Chief of Staff Akiro Shima was relativly glad with this news, however Burma worried him extremely. Decisions had to be made for the Pacific first tho. Him and the Chief of Nihon Kaigun(IJN) Nagano Osami, looked at the pacific map .Enewetok back in Japanese hands, they had a base to launch operations nearly everywhere. What was next? It was obvious that the final objective was Hawaii,but when? As they were speaking, Inanba Satoru, chief of army, quickly arrived out of breath. ''Wake island ... the americans, they got it back!Akiro quickly turned is head back at the map, and then looked at Osami.What should be done?

What should Akiro do?

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Plan A:Quickly re-capture wake island then capture midway, wich gives us a naval base close enough to attempt an invasion of Hawaii.

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Plan B:Finish off the Micronesian islands and the Caroline Islands first.
 
Lettow77 said:
loaded up the scenario and played about a month in. I wanted to confirm in my mind that the voting populace of this thread is a bunch of european-socialist-traitor-to-the-state-types (tm) in regard to the chinese campaign. I attacked with the cavalry + armor + motorized corps in the area more or less like your plan, and encircled 23 chinese divisons, 1/5th their power, and about 1/2 their modernized forces. Why was the decision to peace china so hastily made? at the very least, wouldent peacing them after a smashing encirclement that was already planned and took only a couple weeks to execute yield more land from the grubby nationalists? (the warscore went from 45% to 52% after the encirclement..)


I kept saying "encircle and crush their army", but they refused to listen...

Anyways, excellent job against the British, I couldn't have even seen it coming.

My opinion on the next moves depends largely on where the US fleet and ground forces are. If they are poised to strike into your weak underbelly while you attack Wake and Midway, then by all means you must defeat them in the Carolines and Micronesia first.

But if the opportunnity allows for another Enewetok-type strike on a sleeping fleet at Wake and Midway... then by all means, keep the United States backpedaling, keep them on the defensive. If you take the pressure off of them, they will simply overwhelm you with numbers.