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To the imperial general staff

No matter how we decide to use our production now we will regret it later, and while I very much would like to use all production right now for the army, the simple fact is that if we can't beat off the US navy there is no reason to have an army as it will just sit out of supplies in China waiting to die.
 
If we decide to make a major upgrade of our supply lines we must first know which way the largest draw happens. There are basically 2 ways the demand can flow from the south, either north along the front and then just north of the central lake go east or going east and then north-east, we can't tell from the map so I'd like the imperial clerk to make a report on the supply draw through Changsha for the northern route and the provinces to the south-east of Changsha that has the largest demands. (mouse-over and note the supply numbers
*Provinces south of Changsha - ~268/292 supplies, 0/17 fuel
*Provinces north of Changsha - ~202/243 supplies, 0/0 fuel
*Wuahn - 334 supplies, 0 fuel
 
Memorandum on emergency supply

As the supply demand is nearly evenly split we could chose to improve either route, but as the Changsha route already is partially buildup by the Chinese as opposed to the Wuahn route which goes through level 3-4 provinces I suggest we improve the Shanghai-Changsha route.
Using the Shanghai - Nanjing - Wuhan (via Huangpi(north east of Wuhan)) - Changsha, upgrading the lowest first and among them the closed to Shanghai.

Researching basing will also help the supply trouble by lessening the supply demand from the south.
 
Adm Yamamoto,
I widely agree with your suggestions. However, as much as I would like another battleship or two, I do not see how we can afford that currently. The army needs as much support as we can muster and a new battleship will lock down a lot of industrial capacity for a long time.

Memorandum:
It will take a portion of the IC freed up by not producing more air wings. But you saw via my calculation that we can both free up more IC for the army as well as afford the cost of a new battleship. What angers me more is pushing for the modern battleship technologies several months ago, but now us seeing them going to waste if no ship is laid in our ship yards. It is tantimount to a failure of oversight if we have wasted that critical leadership which in principle could have been used in modern doctrine for our armed forces. Thus let us not waste our investment, and in the time that it will take to build this ship we can be almost certain we will lose one of our other battleships at some point. We need a modern replacement.

The army has supply issues and lack of upper leadership. Given too much IC, I can forsee too many divisions sent to the Chinese front without enough command, and particularly if a retreat is undertaken then we shall end up over estimating our logistics capacity for these units due to shortened supply lines thus resigning us to a general stalemate in the most likely course of events as some of the Generals opinions.

If mountaineer divisions are raised after the current training of the general infantry, then the Army can raise that full corps of mountaineers, and a couple of other brigades, and have a good amount to invest in infrastructure.


Memorandum:
I did not suggest that the Army Group Center need join or begin any offensive. Please read my suggestions again. I believe they should dig in with a defesive stance on what they already hold. A lack of supplies only hinders a solid offensive in the center, which is not called for. We can put up a decent fighting defense in the center even with a lack of supplies. Indeed I advocate that we use our air transport to drop supplies into the area to help with this issue.

Futhermore, I retreat in the center means giving up defensible terrain those woods and forests will be all the more harder for the Chinese to take back, that if we abandon them and put ourselves on the undefensible eastern plains (see the terrain maps). Futhermore, when the tables have turned, we shal have to take back that defensible terrain from the Chinese, which will mean that we should need special assult engineer brigades to do well, partly why I advocate their construction incase the armies leadership decides to enact what I see as a potentially disasterous move of retreating from the center which is currently one of our more stable fronts.


The Army group in the South has in recent months fought back towards Bose, and the Indo-chine border. If we can get as far as the Pearl river our front is extended by a few provinces, but the terrian is uniquely favourable to us, rather than the Chinese, to hold defensively. If we aim to hold the current line, niether side has any defensive or offensive bonuses, meaning we shall need to keep more troops at the front to maintain the balence of power, meaning more supply drag on the region etc.

So it makes a lot of sense if we are changing to a defensive stance to try and mass some airpower operations* in this sector to help the ground commanders get to the river.


I am totally willing to sacrifice tens of thousands of our soldiers in a offensive against well entrenched enemy, because that single province is a major lynch pin for the enter communist army. Success here, even at great cost to us, strategically can cut the Communists industrial capacity by half, and may even be enough to force the communists out of the war. Which would reduce the combined chinese industrial strenght by 30% Surely a since province is potentially worth this?

Yan'an sits on a salient, making it vunerable, and I propose that to bring the engineer divisions from the south who are good at this form of urban and fort fighting to conduct this minor interim offensive. Thus we are stacking the odds in our favour, if doing that is a 'vain attempt' then surely wishing for any victory against the communists is in vain, and we should pull out of China all together if you are commiting to such defeatism. We have a good opertunity here, that we shouldn't waste.

If you want you can tell the field commanders to be careful and defensive in their pushes into the city, thus mitigating losses if you fear them that badly. Rather than try anything blitzkreig or frontal attack in nature.



*The Navies CAGs could be used here due to the proximity to the coast and without them being on the land supply net, not hamper supply issues here.
 
In regard to the situation of the Army Group Centre, it should be noted that while we are currently not losing ground there, the Chinese are doing hit&run attacks in several places. Due to our supply problems in this region, it is very hard to replenish the fighting capacity of our troops and reorganisation is especially hard. Transport planes can help, but we only have one wing of them and their range is quite limited, so it may be hard to find areas with good supply stocks to draw supplies from for air supply missions.

It should also be noted that the nationalists and the communists are not working together anymore, although obviously we are at war with both of them.
 
To General Surt:

I am in agreement with your proposition for upgrading Shanghai - Nanjing - Wuhan segments. As soon as we are done with it we should upgrade Shanghai - Nanchang segment, where supply bottleneck is currently noted. Taking slower approach and upgrading both at the same time is another option. Having two supply roads will benefit us more in the long run as our conquest will progress in the future.

To Admiral Yamamoto:

If I understood you correctly you want to conduct a single offensive, with only Army Group South? I will repeat myself once more - we were unable to gain ground even when Guangxi Clique was still standing, now that they're gone you hope to make progress there? I don't see how. Especially without the support of the southern part of Army Group Center. We can't suffer anymore manpower losses without significant gains and simply hope for breakthrough to reach the Pearl river.

As for retreat of the northern part of Army Group Center - if you look on my plan once more you'll see that I don't plan to give up all defensible ground. Only the most exposed and farthest from our supply network (also notice supplies in the proposed area of our new front and our current area at the existing front). While retreating isn't option I like I find is strategically unavoidable. If our supply network will collapse or if our troops will be pushed hard by the Chinese with multiple strikes by massive waves - which will happen - then they won't be able to reinforce their losses fast enough and fight efficient enough to repel the attackers. It's better to withdraw now and prevent unnecessary but unavoidable casualties rather than suffer loses and be unable to hold front, forcing us to throw in our reserves, making supply situation in middle-west China even more dramatical.

I am not against attacking the enemy. I am against assault that is most likely to fail. What chances o we have to achieve victory, even a very costly one, against a single fortress of the enemy? I will repeat my question: how many troops you wish to conduct to an offensive against the People's Republic of China? How many troops our enemies have to oppose us there? What about bonuses and penalties? How many units can attack at once? From how many provinces? Even surrounded the Communists would be hard to be defeated, with the Republicans hanging over our head I don't see how conducting operation would have end in success and only success would be enough to justify the possible costs. It requires not a minor offensive, but extensive preparations and big concentration of troops, putting strain on our supply capabilities in the north China.

About leaders - we can always reassign officers from our withdrawn (due to casualties) units or reserve troops to the frontline ones.
 
Memorandum:

You do not understand me correctly Gen. Holy.Death. If I'd meant Army Groups I'd have said Army Groups, which I didn't. Plus I believe you've got your geography mixed up on where the Pearl River is;

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My proposals are to retain that ground next to the Indochine border, to the Pearl River and to attack the communist salient in the North.


I do not believe we shall see any great collapse in the centre front. The terrain is very much on our side. We have good seats in the mountains on our flanks, and jungle in the very centre, some of the best terrain. You would have us give up this great terrain for woodland and plains? It's a terrible idea where you've drawn the retreat line, and I urge you not to enact that retreat which I believe will be disastrous as soon as we move off the best terrain, and the Chinese can mass their infantry along a shorter front, in less defensible terrain for us. Furthermore we'll be giving the Chinese a couple of their strategic victory point locales back, which they can use for propaganda purposes allowing the Nationalists to battle longer until this ground is retaken for which you've offered no discussion as to how this retreat would play into a long term new offensive...


It would be useful if the administration could comment on numbers of Chinese forces in Ya'an in the communist salient indicated. Since this Admiral doesn't know in detail. However if we can mass 7 divisions with engineers, plus the current forces in stand-off with the communists, we should be able to take Ya'an since we have a massive frontage and flanking bonus, even if there is a river to cross, and we shall be committing the specialist troops to this action.

Success here would immediately cut the Communists industrial strength by about 50%, and may even trigger their total collapse, reducing the entire Chinese industrial capacity by 30%.

These bonuses are well worth the conducting of the operation. I advocate massing our bombers in both areas of operation to aid in these minor offensives.




Memorandum:
The administration might note Jingan(?) is in good supply and relatively close for air supply missions into the general area.



Memorandum:
We may even consider setting up Mao as a Chinese puppet leader if we take the city, offering him limited independance like Pu yi in Manchuria. We might wish to give him the territories of the three Ma's since there is obvious ideological differences between us and he might not be as willing as Zongren was. Afterall the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
 
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The administration might note Jingan(?) is in good supply and relatively close for air supply missions into the general area.
Surely the Admiral meant Jinan?

It would be useful if the administration could comment on numbers of Chinese forces in Ya'an in the communist salient indicated. Since this Admiral doesn't know in detail. However if we can mass 7 divisions with engineers, plus the current forces in stand-off with the communists, we should be able to take Ya'an since we have a massive frontage and flanking bonus, even if there is a river to cross, and we shall be committing the specialist troops to this action.
The Administration believes that there are several division there and at least as many in near vicinity of the communist stronghold.

We may even consider setting up Mao as a Chinese puppet leader if we take the city, offering him limited independance like Pu yi in Manchuria. We might wish to give him the territories of the three Ma's since there is obvious ideological differences between us and he might not be as willing as Zongren was. Afterall the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
General Tojo is strictly opposed to making any sort of agreements with the communists.
 
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Memorandum regarding army manoeuvres and short term strategy.

Giving up ground that we fought so hard for is not easy, and there is no reason to give it up before we are force to.

While we wait for the infrastructure to be upgraded we should do the following.

We should set up the ATR in Peking, let it fly supplies to the most western of our forces, it should be able to supply around 8 division. The ATR should get its own supplies from the Korean ports. If we have more than 2 divisions per province in the central front we need to move some north.

We further need to lessen the supply needs in the south, which regrettably means we need to rebase our bombers to Peking too IF they have a range of 350km or more, else they can go to Nagasaki and hunt subs while waiting. The army would appreciate that the navy keep the skies free of enemy air units in the south from its carriers. Yes I know you worry about surprise attacks by the enemy but our radars in the area should help and posting some subs as pickets in any blind areas should give enough warning.

Withdrawing now is to give up the possibility to win this conflict, so we should delay in the central parts of the front, and look for opportunities at the flanks until supply is improved.

This leaves two options north against the Commies and south against the Kuomintang.

while I have long campaigned for the total destruction of the Commies the plan laid out by Admiral Yamamoto to take Jinan is a step in the right direction especially if we withdraw some units from the central front to lessen the supply demands there and with a bit of luck our planes might have the needed range from Peking to support the attack.

Further I don't see why we shouldn't attack in the south as long as we got supplies, Yamamoto's plan is not nearly ambitious enough, we should attack up the Pearl river, not up to. We could set Kunming as our target, but as I know our commanders will do this as a broad front attack it will bring us close to Guilin and maybe Chongqing too.

Regarding railways, we should only upgrade the Nanchang rail if we lose Changsha as it would not be used later.
The railway (along the red hatched provinces) Shanghai - Nanjing - Wuhan (via Huangpi(north east of Wuhan)) with a possible extension to Changsha is the most useful as it will be used for all of west china too if we ever gets there.
This rail have take roughly 10 provinces that needs to be upgraded, 4 of these can be delayed a little but the ~6 to Wuhan on the first part must be started with highest priority immediately, to pay for it I suggest we suspend the radar building until the supply situation is stabilised. Also the general upgrade of the west China rail line must not be stopped or we get the same problem later.

Regarding production, we will still need to produce 1 H-Ftr and as many inf/eng divisions as we possible can to safeguard us against a widening conflict. I still think producing any mnt is an error, it looks like they are only ~30% better in attacking and defending in mountains than normal infantry which means we pay the double cost to get 30% more, 100% vs. 30% is a very bad deal.
 
I very much agree with Gen Surts point if view. In particular I share his sentiment regarding giving up ground without the need to do so. It pains me to do this as we know already that we will have to fight over these pieces of land again in the near future.
 
To General Surt:

Very well. It should be noted that I was against plan to attack with the Army Group South as I think we may be going a river too far. I want an order to be given to the front line commanders of the Army Group South, to allow to cancel all offensive operations if there is no breakthrough within month or so and casualties are too extensive for too little gain.

I still stand by the opinion that producing Mountain Infantry is our top priority, especially with latest shortage of resources we encounter in middle of China. Infantry and Engineer corps will be useless without supplies, forcing us to reduce their number while Mountaineers will be able to fight better in similar conditions. We invested too much into it to not take an advantage of it now.

I don't know where you, General, find such an optimism that we can end this conflict so soon. My plan was projected with long, defensive war in mind, until we could recruit enough troops to be able to conduct successful offensive plan. Our outsupplied troops of Army Group Center serve no goal now and they won't be useful in strike you prepare. I'd warn against letting the enemy know - and strengthening his lines. With your attack it will now be impossible and strike will become much harder. It was supposed to be force of the combined might of two fronts: Army Group South and southern part of Army Group Center, with assistance of newly created Mountain Homegun. Army Group South could ensure the pressure on the enemy's flank, while Mountain Infantry - supported by the Army Group South - would attack the Changsha Bend.

The IJA just needs more time to prepare for the proper offensive against the Chinese.

To Admiral Yamamoto:

I don't think we look at the same map. The adjusted frontline is set near woods, hills and beyond rivers which are very defensible and are much closer to our railroads. Furthermore, the ground you propose to hold has no offensive value as further offensives will be conducted from the south (plus you can't order an attack to the people who's only thought is to find something to eat). I explained why it's more plausible to retreat. Now, to the target that I have in mind: the Changsha Bend. I'd involve three forces at the same time. It should be much more effective than single axis of advance and we can use more favorable terrain - the mountains.

I think you severely underestimate the Communists. We'll be forced to attack a fortress, through the river, into the city, with dug-in defenders, who'll be able to be reinforced by nearby units, who'll be also be able to attack our flanks, weakening the attack even further. I avoid mentioning bonuses like difficulty of this attack and tricks the enemy might have. I still think your proposal of attacking Mao's stronghold is unwise. I am against straight attack, enveloping the city from south-west is better option.
 
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Memorandum:

If you don't think we can attack the communists within a salient, with the specialist divisions needed, with air support. Then the IJA might as well pack its bags, and leave China for good. We should have as much as we possibly can stacked against them in this suggested operation.

The Communists cannot be staved out, they have been under seige mentality for years, and even surrounded by the Chinese they didn't give in. Every few months we delay, they will have built more forts, and more and better guns for their soliders. That is their only recourse; total war. Making that task you suggest is impossible, even more impossible. We might as well capitalise our current position in the North with a highly focused interim offensive on a single province, that if successful can do a lot of damage to the Chinese war effort.

If unsuccessful then you can call me wrong and strike my reputation.

Although it would have been nicer if the administration had made more specific intelligence comments, on the situation on number of enemy combatants and level of fortifications, since it is already known that there is 'several' in the province.

If the map you are refering to was one different to http://s7.postimage.org/j1a9lnfp7/aaa_Map_Terrain_China.jpg, then it has not been submitted for general purusal by the top brass. You would give up mountains and jungle, for hills and forest. A downgrade in defensibility. Futhermore you would allow the Chinese to consolodate their forces along a shorter front, giving them advantage. Thus giving them the opertunity for an offensive. Which if successful would push us off the less defensible terrain onto terrain with very little defensive quality, meanwhile letting them liberate key centers in the east.




Note: I do not propose any operational level offensives. Stop implying this is what I suggest.

The ground to be held does not need to be good for offensive purposes. Futhermore even if you do retreat to less favourable ground, you would still have to retake that unfavourable terrain in the future. It offers no benifit to give up good terrain. if we were on the defensive on the plains of Manchuria, then it would make sense to retreat to the mountains of North Korea. But we are not on the defensive on unfavourable ground, we are on the defensive on favourable ground. Therefore it makes sense to stay put.

I do not see central offensives as being war winning, since they are the futherest from supply routes anyhow. Strategically we currently hold the central hinterlands, making the Chinese possition for parrellel front redeployments difficult. That in itself is a boon.


Finally, if you do not believe that we can conduct small local offensives with massive support and resonable preperation over the next couple of months, then how do you believe that we can fight any operational level offensives? Or Even win the war? No war has ever been won by a department of defense. Not even the Great War.



Memorandum:
...I am against straight attack, enveloping the city from south-west is better option.

This I understand even less, since that means attacking right over all the large rivers? from ground not yet held, not against a salient, in a region of poor supply to begin with!

We cannot help having to cross rivers at some stage here, but at least from the north there isn't.
 
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I don't propose to attack the People's Republic of China directly, nor I want to attack the ground I advise to give up now.

1. Attack through the mountains of south-east China, led by Mountain Infantry to create a breach in the enemy lines.
2. As the enemy will try to respond and spread his units to close the gap the Army Group Center will attack from Changde and Changsha.
3. Army Group South will advance on the river Pearl and try to encircle all enemy units in Changsha Bend.

We'll be close to our supply line, enabling us to conduct such large scale offensive before we run out of supplies. We'll have specialized troops and possibilities to flank our enemies. Then we can either strike at the capital or move north to cut off and destroy enemy forces north-west of Changde. With those obstacles gone we should be able to launch strike against the Communists or the Republicans, as we'll be able to encircle them from the south-west, making it possible to break fortresses one by one, isolating the capital. Mountains will be of use for our specialized units and we will avoid attacking by the river. We must think big and bold. Defensive line is just a set-up to trap and destroy the Chinese, not plan for the rest of the war.
 
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Influence Levels

Air assets

IJA

10 H-FTRs
3 LBs

IJN
14 CAGs
1 NAV
1 MB

Common
4 L-FTRs
2 HBs
1 TRAN

One new H-FTR and two CAGs formed.

IJN Land Troops

1 SNLF Corps - 5 MAR divisions (15 brigades) - 3 in China, 2 on Paramushiro
27 GAR divs

IJA Reserve

The IJA has 4 infantry divisions and 1 TD brigade in reserve. One of the IJA's GARs has been transferred from Japan to Paramushiro.

Other
We lost 7 convoys and 2 convoy escorts. Our subs managed to sink 1 US convoy escorts. The Americans are playing hide-and-seek with us, their submarines change their targets often.

We lost one submarine flotilla.

2 new light cruisers and 1 new battlecruiser were finished. Finally...
 
Chapter Four, Part Eight: Sino-Japanese War / Japanese-American War
Jun 1942 - Aug 1942

Previously in the Influence Wars...

The Guangxi Clique collapsed and the Chinese made several counter-attacks. Supply problems greatly hamper any progress in China. In North Africa, the Italians gained the initiative.

And now, the conclusion...


War in China


June





In early June the Chinese managed to dislodge the Japanese defenders from Hanzhong and Xi'an. Due to critical shortage of ammunition, the Japanese soldiers often had to resort to bayonet charges. They had orders to give ground only as a last resort, as the idea of a general withdrawal from outermost outposts in Central China was generally frowned upon in the offensive-minded Imperial General Headquarters. Proper reorganisation of our forces was very difficult to conduct in low-supply conditions, so the only thing that really slowed the Chinese down was terrain.





In the South our armies have been more successful. The Canton HQ received orders to start a counter-offensive in Southern China as soon as possible, with the long-term goal being the conquest of Kunming. The first phase involved a push up to the Pearl River. Unlike in Central China, the Japanese troops did not lack supplies in coastal areas and could count on the support of the naval guns. Japanese cruisers pounded the enemy positions day and night. Eventually, the Chinese cracked down and despite huge enemy numerical superiority, our brave soldiers scored a victory at Naleung.


July-August





In July we managed to make some gains near Changsha, but the important province of Changde came close to being taken by the enemy when they managed to defeat the under-supplied Japanese. The province remained under Japanese control only because of the arrival of fresh reinforcements, which involved... one division. Fewer than 7000 men stopped the advance of ~30000 Chinese troops.





Xi'an changed hands several times during July. However, as of 1st of August the Japanese soldiers control the province, although the Chinese are harassing them. The Administration believes that logistics will be the deciding factor during the battle - if we manage to bring enough supplies to the area, we should be able to hold it.


Overviews








Taking everything into account, the last two months were inconclusive. It appears that the Chinese offensive potential is still limited, despite the fact that they managed to make some gains in Central and Southern China. The Administration believes there is no risk of the collapse of the whole frontline. However, after some initial successes our southern offensive stalled. In Central China the situation remains uncertain. Our supply situation remains poor in this region and as a result many of our divisions have little combat capability. In the North there is much potential for making progress. After several infantry divisions with additional engineer regiments and light bombers with modern drop tanks were transferred to Northern China, the local commanders were bold enough to start an offensive in Yulin. Yan'an remains outside of our reach for now, but considering that the communists are isolated now, it may change soon.



The Pacific Theatre


The Paramushiro Campaign






Much to our surprise, in the first half of June the Americans performed an attack on an island of Paramushiro and quickly overwhelmed the local garrison. The Administration believes that the enemy used various ports on the Aleutian Islands as forward bases and this allowed him to reach Paramushiro. The island itself is rather unimportant, but it is in close proximity to Japan itself, so if the Americans remained in control, they could potentially threaten our homeland. This could not be tolerated. Unfortunately, all of our battlefleets were performing escort and patrol duties on the other side of the Pacific and it took time to move them back to Japan. Marines had to be moved from Hawaii, too. All this meant that our counter-invasion could not begin until 3rd of July.

While the American attack looks dangerous on paper, few people in Japan were deeply worried about it. The civilian population was not informed of the American move in order to prevent any potential panic breakout from happening, while the officers knew that the Americans would not be able to supply more than a few divisions on Paramushiro, so their only real chance for making lasting gains was to perform a lightning quick attack on Hokkaido and it soon became apparent that they wasted that opportunity.





Surprisingly, the enemy did not oppose us at sea. Apart from a single insignificant and inconclusive clash with the American destroyers, no naval battles took place in the region and soon enough, the island was back in our hands. The Americans clearly did not want to repeat the mistake they made at Saipan,

It is possible that the whole affair was just a decoy. We were forced to move the bulk of our Navy back to our home waters and the American submarines could roam free for about a month. However, if the Americans have planned something bigger, then they yet have to reveal their true intentions. The Administration advocates caution - the Hawaiian islands are relatively poorly protected and it is possible that the Americans may strike there.

This invasion proved that as long as the Americans control the Aleutian Islands, they can reach islands that are close to our homeland. The conquest of the American outposts on the Aleutian Islands should be considered.


Clash with the American submarines





The only other event of note was the naval clash with the American submarines near the Mexican coast in June. Our SAG managed to destroy three submarine flotillas which were attacking our convoys in this region.

Unfortunately, our long trade and supply lines continue to be very vulnerable to the attacks of enemy submarines.


Other matters


Europe and North Africa





While the situation in Ukraine is still a stalemate, the Germans have managed to conduct the first major offensive in months in former Estonia. It appears that their main goal is the conquest of Leningrad, but it is uncertain whether they will be able to reach that far.





The British have opened a new front in Spain. While it is doubtful that they will be able to make considerable progress there, it seems that the Allied strategy is to force the Axis to spread their forces so that they will not be able to make long-lasting gains in Russia.





Instability in Africa has reached its zenith. The French authority is almost non-existent in the region and a bunch of rebels managed to create an entity which they even call a "state". Therefore, it can now be said without any doubt that a civil war is ongoing in Morocco.

The Italians continue to regain lost territory in Libya. The Administration believes that the main cause of the collapse of the British frontline was poor supply situation. It is possible that once the supply lines are shortened, the Commonwealth forces will regain the initiative.


Japanese economy and the state of the Japanese military






The collapse of the Guangxi Clique has forced us to invest more resources into the infrastructure development program in China. The first results should be visible in about a month.

The construction of 2 light cruisers and a battlecruiser was finished at last. Due to recent developments in China, we were forced to reduce the scope of our shipbuilding program and now only 2 light cruisers remain in construction. The budget reserved for aircraft production was decreased, too. The budget of the Imperial Japanese Army, on the other hand, was increased. Six new infantry divisions have been formed and some of them are already fighting in Southern China. The training of new special mountain divisions has begun and we expect to have 4 divisions by the end of the year. Moreover, the Army managed to form its first tank destroyer brigade - hopefully, the first of many which will make up the Japanese mechanised forces.


However, by far our biggest investment at the moment is the construction of the first Japanese rocket test site in Kochi. Although very costly and time-consuming, this secret project is somewhat of a necessity if Japan wants to remain competitive technologically-wise in the air.


List of researched techs:
Artillery Barrel and Ammunition, Amphibious Warfare Equipment, Light Cruiser Anti-Aircraft Armament, Rocket Tests, Bridging Equipment, Assault Weapons, Steel Production, Defensive Support Weapons, Man-portable Anti-Tank Weapons, Small Warship Radar, Industrial Production, Coal Processing Technologies.


Military intelligence



 
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China:
It is as I feared... The Chinese won ground and the efforts and sacrifices of our valiant soldiers has been in vain. As a result we lost valuable men for nothing. We have lost more ground than even I asked to leave behind. More importantly, now we are unable to conduct offensive against the People's Republic of China, because our forces are at risk of being attacked by the Chinese from behind while they'll attack the communists. We have to stop the enemy advance, but that depends on number of troops that we have, enemy divisions in the area and current supplies.
I must request for logistic and terrain maps in order to evaluate our possible moves.

Aleutian Islands:
We have troops in reserve as well as Marines. They can be of use against the Americans. I think we can lend these regular units to the IJN for the time of the offensive, should our Admirals decide this would be a wise move. Keeping pressure on the United States is the best defence for our homeland and ensures the bright and glorious future of Japan.
 
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