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That was incredible combat action, Porkman. I do have an question, though. In the picture showing the Hiryu sinking, is the caption on the bottom original or did you add it in?

Jambor said:
I think they mean Japan...

I am sure Helmold meant Japan, although it would be funny for China to puppet itself. :p
 
I love that the AI Italy is invading Spain. Great update action.

:cool:
 
Onlyhestands said:
If Japan is puppeted it still will declare war on America through event(I don't know about this mod though".

CCIP has properly excluded the normal event chain leading to war but there may still be some AI fluke making Japan go to war with America. Perhaps MIB or Duke of Boom can tell if they've done anything to the AI to exclude this. If you're still worried about this, just create a clone Japan (UPS tag???) and release it.
 
nomonhan said:
CCIP has properly excluded the normal event chain leading to war but there may still be some AI fluke making Japan go to war with America. Perhaps MIB or Duke of Boom can tell if they've done anything to the AI to exclude this. If you're still worried about this, just create a clone Japan (UPS tag???) and release it.
Puppets can't declare wars, or can they?
 
nomonhan said:
CCIP has properly excluded the normal event chain leading to war but there may still be some AI fluke making Japan go to war with America. Perhaps MIB or Duke of Boom can tell if they've done anything to the AI to exclude this. If you're still worried about this, just create a clone Japan (UPS tag???) and release it.
Honestly, I normally keep Japan.

The issue is the stock 'Surprise Attack' event. It doesn't include a {NOT = Puppet} tag.

elbasto said:
Puppets can't declare wars, or can they?
Via event, yes. :D
 
Thanks, everyone for reading. I'm stunned to have broken 10,000 page views, especially because only about 3,000 of those are my own.

Murmurandus - Alot more of that in this update!

Maj. von Mauser - Only skill 1 with like 60 some experience, I don't think I ever get him to skill two. And why didn't you like Flags of Our Fathers? I'd much rather have that movie than "the Valiant 101st Omaha Beach brothers of honor" movies that we usually get. I like Band of Brothers as much as the next person, but I have to ask, how many times do we need to go back to France in 1944? Give me a war movie about India, or China or Italy or Yugoslavia or Finland. Some part of the war that doesn't get as much exposure.

BigBird - I own IndoChina, so it's already sufficiently liberated. Whether I release them after the wolrd cools down a bit, I haven't decided.

As for Japan's Pacific holdings, I plan on puppeting them and only asking for Truk and Kwalle adsfojfos ofd- whatever that island is in the pacific. They can have the rest.

Helmold - This is my goal. Japan has great tech teams and I don't want to have to garrison 60 new beaches. They also still have a decent navy, if I don't manage to sink it all first.

Onlyhestands - They used to, but CCIP fixed it so no. It also makes it so a puppet Japan no longer refuses to trade with China. (and vice versa for a Chinese puppet.) I'm at June of 1943 in my current game with no pearl harbor so I think I'm safe.

Duke_of_BOOM! - You mean keep Japan as in annex or puppet. Having done both previously, puppeting is better IMHO. Thanks for reading.

Merlowe - Dyslexia FTW!

Jambor - It seemed to work out fine

intruder alert - I'm surprised. It actually means that the UK might lose Gibraltar. Stunning!

nomonhan - It all turns out fine, so no need to mess with tags.

elbasto
- see Duke of BOOM!

The Update!
 
29年 10月 5日

The attack north was continued. 60,000 troops, the remains of the Japanese regular army on Honshu, were trying to create a redoubt in the north. The Chinese attackers had advantage in numbers, but the Japanese had far more heavy equipment. Even with air support, the first wave would be thrown back with heavy casualties.

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A day later, newly arrived troops crashed into the defenses. The defenders had not had time to recover from the last attack and would be fighting at a disadvantage.

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Their lines broke almost immediately. The ROCAF had used the previous attack to pinpoint enemy troop concentrations and was putting the information to good use.

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29年 10月 7日

Akita held the last Japanese naval base on the Honshu and as such was a primary objective for the Republic of China Army. 36,000 elite Pabing soldiers faced 20,000 newly raised home defense troops. The mountains running towards Akita were the patch they had trained to follow.

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The defenders were brave, but also inexperienced. They were shamefully easy to trap and ambush in the mountainous terrain. The ROCAF also arrived to help and meaningful resistance evaporated as the inexperienced troops devolved into heavily armed mobs with no strategic direction.

The most heavily damaged ships of the First fleet were docked in Kanazawa to await repairs.

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29年 10月 9日

The 12th Juntuan arrived in Fukushima only to be immediately ordered north to chase after the city's fleeing defenders. The Japanese had been able to scrape together a single regular infantry division supplemented with a newly armed home guard unit.

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29年 10月 10日

The swift arrival of the air force would once again be the key to victory. The last enemy holdout on Honshu was about to fall.

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29年 10月 11日

The Japanese army wasn't done yet. The retreating divisions turned around and set up a new defensive line in good order. The IJA had always been famous for discipline in the face of overwhelming odds and they had earned that fame by making stands like this.

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Still, they were outnumbered more than two to one and the Chinese airforce still had air superiority. The defenders would be forced to disperse.

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29年 10月 13日

Japanese troops had made it across the channel and arrived in Hiroshima. This was exactly what the Chinese army had been hoping for.

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29年 10月 16日

The First Fleet would move to once again block the connection to Kyushu. The Army would attack in hopes of pocketing what remained of the IJA.

Unfortunately, what "remained" was 84,000 of Japan's best troops. The attackers were actually outnumbered and would need all the naval and air support they could get their hands on.

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29年 10月 20日

The first attack had failed but it had been a near thing. It was hoped that 36,000 fresh Chinese troops might be able to overcome a great deal more tired Japanese ones.

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It too would fail, but another Juntuan might just have some hopes of cracking the defenders who had been under round the clock air and naval bombardment for the better part of a week.

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29年 10月 21日

The loss of Hiroshima had opened up southern Kyushu, as the Chinese army hoped it would. Troops from the mainland were busy unloading onto Kagoshima when their transports were attacked by the IJN.

The one saving grace was that the IJN would stay at carrier range as their battleships were heavily damaged.

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The transports would immediately turn and run as fast as they could. Luckily, losses had been light as carrier based planes were only able to sink a few transports at a time. The trasnsports would try to link up with the First Fleet below Honshu.

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29年 10月 22日

The first pursuing ships to arrive were a few outdated destroyers and a Nagara class cruiser, Natori, that served as their flagship. (though the Chinese navy misidentified it as a Kuma class cruiser.)

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They were thoroughly outclassed by the ROCN and were all sunk with extreme prejudice.

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The next morning, the entire IJN fleet arrived to finish the job. Admiral Chen would immediately order his ships to close the gap.

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The battle was massive. Both fleets were looking for a chance to avenge themselves against the other.

As the fleets closed, the Chinese Zheng He class cruisers were first to get into range and they started extracting a murderous toll on the less advanced Japanese escorts. The Hai Shen was able to land a volley against the Kuma class cruiser, Kuma, that resulted in an ammunition explosion that sunk the ship.

Unfortunately, the Japanese battleships had also closed the range. Any direct hit from them would spell instant doom for the Chinese ships as the Zheng He class, Hai Shen, found out after receiving a direct hit from the Battleship Nagato. Casualties continued to mount as the Chinese cruisers were orders of magnitude more accurate than their Japanese counterparts.

The Chinese Ying Ching would sink the outdated Chikuma class light cruiser, Yahagi. The Japanese battleship Yamashiro would extract vengeance on the unfortunate Ying Ching. In the middle of the battle, the Nan Shin class heavy cruisers Yao Shishi and He Wenting along with two light cruisers, the Ning Hai and the Hai Yung, tried to make a dash for the Japanese carriers. The Japanese fleet would switch priorities to stopping this fleet and almost succeeded when the Mutsu sank the He Wenting and Yamashiro claimed a second kill in the Ning Hai.

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However, the other two ships made it within range and opened up on the unprotected carriers. The Hai Yung would claim the Amagi while the Yao Shishi easily destroyed the light carrier Ryujo.

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With the loss of the carriers and the terrible casualties among the ligher ships of the fleet the Japanese admiral gave the order to withdraw.

China had successfully driven the IJN from the seas. They had sunk two destroyer flotillas, four light cruisers, one fleet carrier and one light carrier while only losing three light cruisers, a heavy cruiser and some transports in return.

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29年 10月 24日

The complete failure of the IJN was showcased when 72,000 Chinese soldiers successfully landed on Kyushu.

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The Japanese counterattack was swift. They were well rested and had more heavy equipment, but the Chinese had more troops as well as shore support.

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They would acquit themselves well, even the secondary 国民 troops that had only been bought over for post war occupation duties.

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29年 10月 25日

The battered Chinese First Fleet would reengage the Japanese in the Tshushima strait. This place was where the Japanese Navy had destroyed the Russian fleet in 1905, marking the beginning of Japan's naval supremacy. Admiral Chen was hoping to write the closing chapter of that period in the same place it began.

Neither fleet had really recovered from the previous battle, but the Japanese had fared worse as the Zheng He's had been able to stay out of range of most of the Japanese escorts.

This would have dire consequences for the already heavily damaged Japanese battleships.

The Zheng He class Ying Swei would destroy the Mutsu in a lucky shot that punctured and ignited the fuel tank. The resulting explosion could be heard on the Chinese mainland.

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The Yamashiro was destroyed when ten light cruisers converged their fire on the Battleship, which had been trying to disengage.

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The Japanese escorts converged on the Battleship Hyuga. Despite taking immense casualties, the newly combined fleet made a bee line towards the scout carrier Yun Weilian. The Battleship's shells were able to punch strait through the unarmored flight deck and the Yun Weilian started to take on water. Facing annihilation from the irate Chinese fleet, the Hyuga would withdraw with the few surviving Japanese escorts.

This was a stunning victory for the Chinese, but it also marked the end of the First Fleet as an offensive force. The Yun Weilian had been the only remaining scout carrier and without those planes, there was no way for the Chinese fleet to successfully locate an enemy carrier fleet. Whether the Japanese knew that they had sunk the last scout carrier was another matter entirely.

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The war comes to its possibly thrilling conclusion. Up next!
 
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Some awesome naval battles! I'm pretty impressed by the Japanese, actually, they're really fighting to the last man :eek:

Great update! Are you going to have to seize worthless Pacific islands?
 
An action packed update!


Unlike Flags of Our Fathers, which was dull.

I had no qualms about it's setting in the Pacific, except that it really wasn't, It was set in America. I really feel the movie hardly followed the book in the first place. It just came out repeatedly dull and repetative to me.

I like it's sequel Letter from Iwo Jima much much better.

The first thing I really liked about it was that if was from the Japanese perspective. I think it showed alot of less educated people that the Japanese soldier wasn't the Banzai chage Ninja that he is often portrayed as. I also think it gave us more unique and relateable characters, and let you get to know them better than in Flags.


For people wanting a better American Iwo Jima experience I'd recommend Sands of Iwo Jima. Even with it's 1940's John Wayne heroics it gives a better American perspective than Flags (IMHO). Also Wayne plays his part extremely well (He was actually nominated for an Oscar I think), and that are alot of other more dynamic characters then in Flags. It also offers a more continous storyline, where Flags keeps jumping back and forth from 3 different timelines.
 
Without Honshū Japan is doomed...

Even if they manage to sink your entire fleet, every ship you sink, every division you capture any every plane you down are now, as a matter of fact, irreplaceable.

Just due to the fact that provinces not linked directly to your capital don't provide you with manpower, you can shoot them to smithereens before they can recover!

For the win!
 
Maj. von Mauser said:
An action packed update!


Unlike Flags of Our Fathers, which was dull.

I had no qualms about it's setting in the Pacific, except that it really wasn't, It was set in America. I really feel the movie hardly followed the book in the first place. It just came out repeatedly dull and repetative to me.

I like it's sequel Letter from Iwo Jima much much better.

The first thing I really liked about it was that if was from the Japanese perspective. I think it showed alot of less educated people that the Japanese soldier wasn't the Banzai chage Ninja that he is often portrayed as. I also think it gave us more unique and relateable characters, and let you get to know them better than in Flags.


For people wanting a better American Iwo Jima experience I'd recommend Sands of Iwo Jima. Even with it's 1940's John Wayne heroics it gives a better American perspective than Flags (IMHO). Also Wayne plays his part extremely well (He was actually nominated for an Oscar I think), and that are alot of other more dynamic characters then in Flags. It also offers a more continous storyline, where Flags keeps jumping back and forth from 3 different timelines.

On a side note, this is the second time I have seen Maj. von Mauser promote "Letters from Iwo Jima." I have seen it myself and it is good. Of course, at the rate the Chinese are going, this movie may not be necessary.
 
Nathan Madien said:
On a side note, this is the second time I have seen Maj. von Mauser promote "Letters from Iwo Jima." I have seen it myself and it is good. Of course, at the rate the Chinese are going, this movie may not be necessary.

Maybe Chinese Soldiers could be digitally inserted to take place of the Americans. :D
 
Maj. von Mauser said:
Maybe Chinese Soldiers could be digitally inserted to take place of the Americans. :D

Which would give Spike Lee something else to complain about. :rofl:
 
Ah, Victory is near it seems! :cool:
 
well it seems you are against germany's pro war stance but going against them would lead to a slow game, hitting russia to help the germans would be a good challenge. or taking over "decadent" america would be a challenge.