Japan 1933 AAR, (vanilla, normal, Pearl Harbour)

[Kun10kr]

Australia attack continued


Landing in Port Lincoln, only minor resistance.

Won battle of Canberra, the capital is soon under Japanese control.

Success at Port Lincoln. Enemy annihalited (prob GAR division).

Reinforcing Brisbane. And rebasing my transport/landing fleets here, so I can do naval landing on west coast of Australia.

More naval landings.

More landings. This time under support from two divisions in Melbourne.

My MOT divisions are finished. I now have total of 12 of them.

Adding 18! DD's into production. They are the new 1941 model, and they are fast to produce. Their range is really good, and they produce fast. Not before Pearl Harbour, but they will come in good use.

Adding 5 parallells of transports into production. A bit boring to use 20 more IC on that, but I don't want to have a shortage at any point.

Adding ASW into production.

 

[Kun10kr]

Australia attack continued

Darwin is heavily defended.

But not Katherine, so I switch the attack to there instead.

Naval Victory.

The victory point provinces Australia have.

Doing naval landing in Collie.

Attacking Darwin (VP-province) from Katherine.

Being attack in Colombo. Sending fleets to take care of it.

Researching Central Planning Doctrine. There are two 1942 Land Doctrines to research right after each other.

Adding more divisions to attack with another landing fleet.

The MIL divisions from Kandy help repell the naval attack from UK.

Starting to research atomic stuff.

Victory. My fleet don't have to come back in support, but I am keeping a smaller fleet closer by in Rangoon from now on.

The start of Barbarossa!

 

[Kun10kr]

18th May 1941 - 16th July 1941


My new CV's have all got attachments; Carrier-Air-Groups (CAG), Anti-Air and Radar.

Doing shore bombardment at Collie.

Adding 4 new 1941 CV's into production.

Attack at Collie is dragging out.

Research overview;

Europe at 1st June 1941.

Researching newer Close-Air-Support (CAS) planes.

Landing at Collie still not succeded. Maybe because the divisions where at 70-90% Org when I attacked?

Doing attack on New Zealand. Victory-point-province map is on.

Counter attacked at Wagga Wagga.

 

[Kun10kr]

17th June 1941 - 1st July 1941


Landing in New Zealand;

Transporting troops from China to Wotje, to have them ready for Pearl Harbour.

Lucky it was not one of the BB's US disrupted.

New transport finished. These have quite good speed actually. Can make the ultimate stikeforce for my navy with something like 16 of these with some of the older CV's, BB's, BC's and screens.

End of Australia

Annexed!

Adding medium tank brigades into production. These are going to be used with my CAV divisions.

Two UK troops still in Austrlia. They have to be destroyed.

Success!

More naval landings in New Zealand.

 

[Kun10kr]

More landings.


Taking these UK islands north west of Australia. Last Allied land in the area.

Research update:

Helping the landing in New Zealand with shore bombardment.

Partisan map of Australia not looking good.

Resistance on one of the UK islands north west of Australia.

Attack on New Zealand.

Two divisions are not enough to take this UK island. So I have to make a bigger one.

Sending 4 divisions in my next landing.

Success!

 

[Kun10kr]

Attack on New Zealand

A UK fleet tried to intercept. One landing is succeded, and already attacking the VP province of Crhistechurch.

A New Zealand fleet tried to intrecept, but failed and a CL got sunk.

The other landing succeded.

Both victory-point-provinces under control.

And I annex New Zealand

 

[Kun10kr]

Mission complete!

7th August 1941 I am complete with the mission. All Allied land in the south east is under Japanese control.

Diplomatic map:

Putting all my transports into getting and transporting divisions. I am taking MIL divisions from China to Australia/New Zealand.

Adding two series of ARM-division into production!

Diplomatic map. I have a MIL division attacking that one province which is not under my control in Australia, that takes lot of time because of the big land.

 

[Kun10kr]

I have now catched up on the AAR from where I played. I ended up playing on friday after work. And I just wanted to finish off all the fcking islands. Now it is finally complete. And, I next fighting I am doing is Pearl Harbour! So I am going to be as fast as possible to get my forces ready for landing into Hawaii. Which will probably take some months, but I am aiming at december 1941 as my goal.

EDIT: I forgot to save! haha, thanks for the auto-save, but I am going to replay the last 17 days. I have done it a few times in the AAR because of random crashes (no warning, the process just shuts down).

 

[stnylan]

Looks like Australia didn't prove too troublesome.

 

[Kun10kr]

2nd September 1941 - 5th September 1941


Been doing a lot of just ship transportments to do everything ready for Barbarossa.


Since my money is good, I am increasing my intelligence level.

I have 54.4 manpower. Reinforcements are 62.04, shit!

Attacked! Iran has joined the Allies (I did not notice!), and they are attacking into former British Raj. I now have to deal with this also. Not super worried, but it will take like 4 divisions from my attack on USA.

 

[Kun10kr]

Looks like Australia didn't prove too troublesome.

No. Got lucky, with that one beach only being garrisoned with one division. Otherwise it actually looked quite bad. I knew naval landings near every VP was the only way doing it, as Australia is so huge. Went a lot faster than I anticipated actually.

 

[Kun10kr]

Technology and production. September 1941


Research. Getting better anti-air for my ships especially.

These I will stopp producing, as I don't need more of them (except maybe convoy transports), and I am preparing to produce other stuff when I mobilize.

These I abandon (just produced), as I have ARM or LARM on all CAV divisions. Added these last 4 ARM to INF divisions. ARM brigades are a lot better than tank destroyers I found out, so maybe I will produce ARM instead of TD for INF. But not now. I only have like 4 INF still needing ARM/TD though.

 

[Kun10kr]

25th September 1941 - 3rd October

I am doing a lot of troop movements. Getting the troops ready for Pearl Harbour by transporting them to Wotje, and also putting garrison on islands like Australia and New Zealand. I am not putting all the small islands, but on the ones to the west, and on all the beaches of the big ones.



Doing some trade to get more money, as I am producing lots of supplies.

Sending my main fleet on Naval Interdirection in the west, outside Middle East / East Africa.

Putting out anti-aircraft guns on different naval bases. Getting them up to like level 5 AA.

Naval success.

Sinking more UK ships.

Barbarossa currently


Germany is doing really really good, and has already taken Moscow as of 3rd October 1941.

 

[Kun10kr]

UK intelligence;

US intelligence;

More naval success in the west.

More UK transport sunk (I also sunk even more I have no screen shot of).

Reinforcing border. I have 4 INF divisions with artillery, and also some puppet INF. These will just hold Gwadar, and not do any attacks before I produce more units.

More naval success.

Won battle of Gwadar.

Research update

Producing more supplies, as I have almost upgraded everything. I also currently have enough manpower to reinforce everything, but I will wait with reinforcing a little bit more.

 

[Kun10kr]

Preparing for Pearl Harbour. 19th November 1941 - 13th January 1941

I am rebasing all my navies to Tokyo, except two that still are transporting troops. This is because I am going to re-organize it to get it like I want it for Pearl Harbour attack.

Border to Iran looks secure.

Sending my subs on convoy raiding outside Middle-East / East-Africa.

Did not see I reached full stockpile on supplies. But only wasted IC worth a week or something.

Trading supplies for money, even though price is crazy expensive.

Doing trade with Germany also, and other countries.

Researching 1942 Motorized Infantery Division. This is needed for getting Cavalry 1942.

And Advanced Computing Machine to get better research speed.

 

[Kun10kr]

Preparing for Pearl Harbour.

Turning 9 old transport ships (1931) into convoy transports, as they have bad range of 4500, and low speed also. And I have plenty of newer transports.

Also converting the oldest destroyers (DD) into convoy escorts, as their range is really bad with only 4000.

Just finished Central Planning (Land Doctrine), and now researching Infiltration Assault, this next one is really good from the looks of it.

Trading more supplies for money.

War games for fun.

Doing some (three) war games most for fun, but also to get up the skill level on some of my generals. Is it worth it doing war games in your opinion? Do they help the fighting signifigantly?

 

[Kun10kr]

Troops and navy ready for Pearl Harbour

Finally! And 1,5 month on overtime, my troops and navy is based at Wotje ready for Pearl Harbour. Also have 8 interceptors (INT) in two wings of 4 each ready for use, but my Air Doctrine is not researched so much.

Picture of garrison in Australia, and the UK islands I took west of Australia.

So, finally! It is time for the main event.

 

[Kun10kr]

My most important naval fleets

I have 5 naval fleets that will carry on the attack on the USA.

It is my main combat fleet, filled with 8 CV's, 8 CA's, 8 CL's and 8 DD's, based at Wotje. This fleet has a range of 9000 and a speed of 30.

My combined combat and landing fleet, based at Wotje. This has a range of 7500 and a speed of 20.

My backup combat fleet, based at Wotje. This one will help out repell out attacks, and defend my transport fleet. I will also use it at scouting. The fleet has range of 6500 and speed of 19 (the BB's have speed of 19).

A smaller combined combat and landing fleet. This one will be used with the 4 Marines at Peleliu, to take out US islands that are in "my territority". The fleet has a range of 7500 and a speed of 30.

And my 30 transport fleet, based at Wotje. It is made up of 30 transport ships of the 1936 type, with a range of 6000 and a speed of 18. This fleet will be defended with other fleets when being used.

I also have some really old ships and a few 1936 transports for moving garrison and repelling naval landings in home terrritority, and 5 fleets of 3 submarines, and one single heavy submarine, and a few CL's in backup.

 

[Kun10kr]

Getting my fleets in position


Turning on reinforcments.

Putting my air units on Air Scramble (infinite / both).

Scouting Hawaii.

Sending up my fleets. 30 divisions in one landing at Pearl Harbour, and then the other at Kual with around 10 divisions. I will send all CAV, MTN and MOT to Pearl Harbour, and I also have 4 MAR in the fleet attacking Pearl Harbour. The other landing will so land in Hawaii and Maui too, this with MAR and INF, as they are not going to be used on the inital attack on west coast USA.

4 MAR ready for landing on USA territority more west inbetween my islands.

 

[Kun10kr]

Mobilization and minister changes.

What mobilization does, except give me shitloads of manpower.

Let's do it.

New manpower. Nice!

Minister change;

Minister change;

Minister change;