Eikoku no samurai (newbie HPP Japan AAR)

*this is a place-holder for future chapters, when i submit new posts i hope to link them to here*

Chapter 1: The First Week 1st January 1936 to 8th January

ok, considering I know nothing about this game I took the first week to prepare and try to wrap my head around the mechanics. I mean I'm not just playing HPP for the first time here. =>



The First action I took was to Align to the Comintern. (first time I've heard of it to be honest) Why? partly because I hope to switch from the American oil which will be lost in the highly likely embargo, but also because I'm curious as to where the alignment with The Communist International will take me, plus if im going to go to war with the number 2 and 3 navy in the world, I'd rather not also be at war with the number 1 ARMY too.
I also took the Formation of Mengkukuo (which spawned Mengjiang?) as having to deal with rebels, or partisans as I think they are called in this game, are far from my mind in this game.
The other events shown are what happened as a result, going from a major power to an intermediate one is a little saddening but hopefully I can get it back, also the other two flags showed up automatically, but i will change those later.


I've also rearranged the production queue to allow the most complete ships a primary focus, mostly to get out the way. also what's not pictured is the 3 series 9 parallel troop recruitment which will take place after the ships are built. apart as i wont be building anything ships thanks to a little thing called the Washington Naval Treaty. (doesn't it get ratified in 1936?)



and to finish off, my research screen. I'm going to do more focus on the IJA over the IJN as the size of me compared to china one thing is clear. I need more bullets
and I need to be more technological to counter the huge number of Chinese I will fight.

im sorry if this post seems lacking but I only carried on until 8th January to make sure it wouldn't CTD (it does if i take a steam screen-shot -_-) and i will try to make this interesting as i go.

@ikarses i have no idea why that happened, maybe its because my line of thinking is backward compared to others Thanks for the reply and encouragement
@SKOTy i might try that see if it works (it beats saving before every crash)

i am still doing this its just some university coursework was due so i had to sort that out first

i am currently playing now and will hopefully go to the next big event. (lets hope it isnt on the 9th january then ;P )

ive tried to fix that multiple times to no avail so ill create a new one when i can

i am as i speak writing up a new chapter. its a little difficult due to not knowing how much i should write and how detailed i should go. im going with the basic sentences for now but plan to open up when the wars start (also can i put isokoru yanamoto as head of state?)

Chapter 2: The 2-2-6 incident 8th January to 6th March

well that session went interesting



I mean it started normally enough. I got a trade agreement with denmark. logic behind this: i wanted the money, no idea if I got fleeced or not but hey, its money.



THIS is where it started. first the -what I assume to be- standard re-occupation of the Rhineland (insert the Barney "it begins" meme here)
I also got told that the IJN had more power over the IJA. I assume to mean that navy gets extra bonuses. considering the future against the big three, that's a good thing to me.
the storage problems I assume are standard for making sure I don't go nuts with resources

and here is the two important ones: doctrines. for infantry I went for infiltration. I don't have the guns for fire-power or the troops for shock, so I went for infiltration. as for the operational... I'm not big enough to do human wave, blitzkrieg with horses sounds ludicrous (but is now stuck in my head) and superior fire-power: see human wave.



also for tank doctrine I chose the one that relies on mechanized troops the least AKA infantry support. plus I've never heard of any Japanese tanks.

then of course, this happened



This had me in shock so much I looked it up, and then I got conflicted. on the one hand, this event I could use to go historical and go Nazi, gain rebel support and go for slight alternate history or say screw it and go for the Constitutional Monarchy. I took a long time to decide and did what I thought was right.

I went like my name



the English samurai went for an English solution

@ikarases the reason i want him is he got it. he got the situation in Japan perfectly. before the situation dissolved he was one of the ones in the Russo-Japanese war. (where America screwed over the Japanese with a treaty that favoured the losers, but that's another issue) he opposed machuria and china wars and the axis pact. yet despite this, still was unflinchingly loyal to his country. he was opposed to war with the US but when ordered, still went through with pearl harbour. hell, if the carriers were their it would've worked! then at midway his only downfall was the failure of intelligence. his fate that the Americans gave him (the "get yanamoto" statement rubs me the wrong way tbh) was undeserving to a man who i believed to be an equal to the Desert Fox. that and i think itd be a great middle finger to Hideki

@muha thanks for the advice man and for the follow, good luck with the AAR, BlackICE?

ok im planning three things in the next update:
1 fix the technology screen even if I have to take a new one.
2 one of the new ships just got built and I want a picture of the naval reorganisation
3 I'm going to force a re-election (and hope i don't get a nameless clerk)

also i cant use fraps etc. because if I do I cannot scroll down in full screen.

oh BTW I got a PM asking if I've re-organised my troops.

is that i thing i need to do

(btw im up to may and i am currently editing images for chapter 3)

Okay 2 things.

1) I'm Restarting this AAR in this thread, the reason being my brother decided to prank all my paradox games (merging the karling-makedon blobs against my Mali empire in CKII, getting my uesgui annex by japan in EUIV turning my threat to 100 then releasing nations as japan in Victoria 2 and overwriting my saves then having Soviet union steam-roll me in HOI3) in light of this my next post will be up to may 16th and cover everything already covered by the previous attempt. hopefully the experience will help me.

2) anyone know any counter-pranks for my brothers games?