@salidas16: Not happening, at least not now. If the war starts to go very bad for Japan however, there could be a KR version of operation August storm....
@Kasakka: I think you are underestimating the amount of challenge I am facing. I am playing on hard mode, and do not have access to all of the IC i could be on Normal. My military is not the most powerful in the world, with my best divisions, the mechanized and armoured ones, being useless in the Pacific theatre, with only a few exceptions. (like australia) I am facing a numerically superior and technologically advanced IJN that has had almost 5 years to prepare for war, and is now in the process of pummeling the US navy. My airforce is also small and antiquated (with the exception of my jet fighters, but I do not have a huge amount of those.) It will take far more than a year to bring down the Japanese.
@thatguy, son of liberty: To tell you the truth I have no idea how some of the naval battle mechanics work. I have read somewhere that heavy cruisers were good for defending carriers, and have had no problem with using them in the past in my CTF's. I think part of it might have to do with the Japanese superiority in doctrines and carrier tech though.
@serutan: Well, the original plan was to have Japan DOW me while the war against the syndicalists was still raging, then I could have had a proper 2 front war. When their AI failed to do that, even after the syndies were beaten, I decided to import a modified version of the vanilla pearl harbour event, and programmed it to fire around April 7th, 1945, and start a big Pacific war.
@everyone else: thats for the comments!
Authors note: Small update today. I haven't been able to update this AAR very much recently due to RL priorities. I have tons of research to do and papers to write over the next month and a half, so updates will be pretty slow. However, expect things to pick up again around April.
American battleships continue to prowl around the seas near Australasia. On this occasion, they run into a small force of Japanese and ANZAC ships, easily sending most of them to the bottom of the sea.
Meanwhile, Spain installs a constitutional monarchy.
ANZAC naval bombers are intercepted over the central Pacific ocean by the USAAF. The advanced jet fighters rip through the enemy bombers, sending most of them into the ocean before the fighters are forced to withdraw to refuel.
American battleships scout out the coast of Australia, while sinking more enemy vessels. The ANZACS do not have very in depth beach defenses, at least for now. Before an invasion can be mounted however, the US will have to first clear out the multiple island bases that surround the Australia and New Zealand.
Nimitz's carrier task force runs into a Japanese surface fleet under the command of Admiral Yonai, and led by 2 Japanese battlecruisers. The American carriers soon make quick work of the elderly Japanese capital ships, bombarding them with multiple bombs and torpedoes, until both battlecruisers are destroyed and the Japanese retreat.
An aerial skirmish between interceptors of the USAAF and the Imperial Japanese Air Force in the skies near Iwo Jima. The battle is somewhat inconclusive, as both sides take similar casualties before withdrawing.
Chile, which had declared war on Japan, is finally convinced to join the allied powers, a very welcome boost to the alliance in the war against Japan.
@Kasakka: I think you are underestimating the amount of challenge I am facing. I am playing on hard mode, and do not have access to all of the IC i could be on Normal. My military is not the most powerful in the world, with my best divisions, the mechanized and armoured ones, being useless in the Pacific theatre, with only a few exceptions. (like australia) I am facing a numerically superior and technologically advanced IJN that has had almost 5 years to prepare for war, and is now in the process of pummeling the US navy. My airforce is also small and antiquated (with the exception of my jet fighters, but I do not have a huge amount of those.) It will take far more than a year to bring down the Japanese.
@thatguy, son of liberty: To tell you the truth I have no idea how some of the naval battle mechanics work. I have read somewhere that heavy cruisers were good for defending carriers, and have had no problem with using them in the past in my CTF's. I think part of it might have to do with the Japanese superiority in doctrines and carrier tech though.
@serutan: Well, the original plan was to have Japan DOW me while the war against the syndicalists was still raging, then I could have had a proper 2 front war. When their AI failed to do that, even after the syndies were beaten, I decided to import a modified version of the vanilla pearl harbour event, and programmed it to fire around April 7th, 1945, and start a big Pacific war.
@everyone else: thats for the comments!
Authors note: Small update today. I haven't been able to update this AAR very much recently due to RL priorities. I have tons of research to do and papers to write over the next month and a half, so updates will be pretty slow. However, expect things to pick up again around April.
American battleships continue to prowl around the seas near Australasia. On this occasion, they run into a small force of Japanese and ANZAC ships, easily sending most of them to the bottom of the sea.
Meanwhile, Spain installs a constitutional monarchy.
ANZAC naval bombers are intercepted over the central Pacific ocean by the USAAF. The advanced jet fighters rip through the enemy bombers, sending most of them into the ocean before the fighters are forced to withdraw to refuel.
American battleships scout out the coast of Australia, while sinking more enemy vessels. The ANZACS do not have very in depth beach defenses, at least for now. Before an invasion can be mounted however, the US will have to first clear out the multiple island bases that surround the Australia and New Zealand.
Nimitz's carrier task force runs into a Japanese surface fleet under the command of Admiral Yonai, and led by 2 Japanese battlecruisers. The American carriers soon make quick work of the elderly Japanese capital ships, bombarding them with multiple bombs and torpedoes, until both battlecruisers are destroyed and the Japanese retreat.
An aerial skirmish between interceptors of the USAAF and the Imperial Japanese Air Force in the skies near Iwo Jima. The battle is somewhat inconclusive, as both sides take similar casualties before withdrawing.
Chile, which had declared war on Japan, is finally convinced to join the allied powers, a very welcome boost to the alliance in the war against Japan.