Rise of the empire of the sun. A Japan hsr 2.07 AAR

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Hello people this is my first AAR so please bare with me here. I will be playing Japan with the hsr mod 2.07 for hoi2. Settings are normal/aggressive/normal (this might look easy but Hsr will make it alot more difficult )

This will be a mainly gameplay AAR so no faincy storyline and no gigantic pieces of text

Please feel free to commend on the AAR and on my english (hopefully not to much )

 

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good luck with your game and AAR..

 

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Chapter One
The road to glory begins ​

First we get some difficulty events. Hsr will hopefully make life a lot harder for me.



We start our epic battle for asian domination with a few minor adjustments to our government. Mainly to acquire more ic so remove the armaments minister for the 5% ic guy and the intel minister for the 5% ic guy.



We also direct our research to the development of more planes seeing as they are the way to go for any modern army. (and luckely get helped by some nice event)



Some more events fire which give our great navy some helpfull (and not so helpfull) bonusses



And we make our first steps to dominate the sea's effectively throwing away all those capitalist naval treaties.



The occupation of manchuko is finally paying off now that their indusrty is running at full capacity.


Yamashita returns from germany with advice which causes some very annoying dissent however regardless of this we will increase our relationship with germany.


We also start our own automotive industry to minimize american control over our important industries. (it also decreases the dissenthit i got from yamashita Yay )


In some pictures you can partially see what im building but i will somm it up here
2 Cv's (both type1 Soryu will be completed jan 30 1937, and Hiryu July 6 1939)
2 Cags
1 DD
3 Ca's
4*16 inf '36'

I also made a few trades with germany and the sovjet union to make sure our economy is able to keep running.




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Unfortunantly i didnt realise how terribly slow imageshack is so im sorry i cant complete my first post today i will finish it in the morning.

EDIT: my first update is now completed

 

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If there is one thing I like about HSR, it's all those extra events for ships and the like.

Anyways, good luck!

 

[GeneralHannibal]

Good luck, with HSR you'll probably need it.

 

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The first update is now completed i will try and play the first year today and see if i can post it this afternoon (probably not my work start at 1500)

Thanks for all the goodlucks and i will probably need it seeing as japan is alot more difficult in Hsr (which is fine seeing as i got bored with the easy hoi2)

@ TBLzombie Yea i think Hsr really allows you to build up your navy historically and whilst not be extremly limiting like the total realism mod.
And the ship events are great because they allow some ships to be build faster then you yourself would be able to build them. because in Hsr a cv takes 900days and a BB 860 days.

 

[Friedericus Rex]

Nice to see another HSR AAR, but, incase you missed it, HSR 2.08 is already out.

Edit: Unless of course you're not playing Doomsday, in which case never mind...

 

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I like HSR AAR`s because they are so different , Im still hoping somone will do an Italian HSR AAR

 

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Chapter two
Blueprint for victory
feb 1936 - jan 1937​

We start this update with a very important event some officers felt the current government isnt too their liking. Even though i get another nice free slider move from the other option i decide too crush the coup because i know from experience that it would really srew up my minsters and will thus create more dissent then im willing to take.



Diplomatics:
Apperantly negotiations with the germans are progressing quite nicely and for just 1000 rare materials i get the basic light tank blueprint (which will help in the future).



Unfortunatly 1936 was a rather uninterresting year we get the usual global stuff like nat spain declaring independance, germany moving into the rhineland, nat china annexing shaanxi (everyone is having fun except me ) and after months of grulling warfare against an army far superior to that of their own italy manages to annex ethiopia.

Production -units completed-
16 inf '36'
1 Ca type 4
1 DD type 3
3 Cl's type 4


Research completed 1936
Industrial: Basic machine tools,improved machine tools
Infantry: early marines, basic cavalry, semi motorized cavalry
Aircraft: Early fighter, early bomber, basic airtransport, basic cas, basic interceptor
Heavy weapons: Early field artillery, Early tank

Economical plan
1 year plan jan1937- jan1938.

For the upcoming year we will attempt a major expansion of our land based forces to be able to expand our glorious empire.
Estimated production of units
16 inf '36' (number will probably increase to 40 depending on chinees resistance)
3 Light tank divisions

start construction of IJN Yamato (SHBB)

 

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the yamato!!!! good luck!

 

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Chapter three
Blueprint for victory part two
jan 1937 - jun 1937​

Relations with germany keep improving and they suggest a pact to prevent the sovjet (comitern) sphere of influence from expanding. Logically we accept as increased violence at the manchuwko-sovjet border is cause for some concern.



Our army also keeps expanding 8 infantry and 1 light tank divisions are added to our soon to be victorious army.



On the first of june nationalist chinees forces kidnap a japanese borderguard in reaction japanese military forces attack the chinees garrisson and the second sino-japanese conflict is born.



Japanese high command immediatly creates a plan to eliminate the chinees army and occupy large arreas of China.

The Battleplan




The plan will consist of two main operations.
Operation Matador
Operation matadors primary objective is too advance towards Nanjing and eliminate the chinees government. Simultaniously forces will advance to Hankou in order to link up with the forces from operation Ichigo thus pocketing a (hopefully) large part of the chinees forces.
Too asist in the crossing of the river to the north of jinan a ampihbious landing will take place at Qingdao. After this the entire force will move west in an attempt to gain as much land as possible and to force the chinees to surrender.



Operation Ichigo
Approximitly 20 infantry divisions will land at xiamen, from there they will proceed to Guangzhou(primary objective) and will eleminate Guangxi Clique they will then head north in order to link up with the forces from operation Matador. After linking up the main body of the forces will head towards the west and secure as much land as is possible whilst a smaller force will clear out the pocket to the east
A possible landing in hainan is being looked into this in order to speed up the ellimination of Giangxi Clique.



This concludes all the peacetime boring part (yay )

 

[unmerged(51077)]

Good updates but I want war!

 

[unmerged(44118)]

Then there shall be WAR!!!! in about a day or so
Unfortunatly i dont have DD so im just using the 'old' Hsr version

 

[GeneralHannibal]

Are the Chinese buffed up in HSR?

 

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Im guessing china is better in HSr i must admit ive never played japan in Hsr before but the japanese ai always gets beaten by china so i guess its not going to be a walk in the park.

 

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good luck with your plans!

 

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Chapter four
The war begins​

The north
At 0700 1 june the japanes forces smash the chinees frontline in the north the chinese forces are in utter dissarray and immediatly withdraw. The japanese forces race to yucheng whilst forces more to the west surround beiping and in the following attack destroy 4 divisions. Following this attack the chinese move their industry inland.





The front is in stalemate chinese forces manage to keep the japanese behind the river so we start a small landing in Yantai 3divs supported by 4 others.
The landing is a major succes and the front is on the move again.



South front
In the south our amphibious forceas attempt a landing at xiamen however the chinese manage to inflict major casualties and the attack is stalled ending in a major defeat. Fearing the immediate failure of operation ichigo high command immediatly execute their emmergencie plan and land a large force in Hainan the defensive force puts up a major resistance and fearing a rerun of the xiamin landing 6 battlehips are called in to shell the chinees positions quikly dislodging the chinees. In the following days more divisions are landed and the forces manage to aquire a beachhead on the mainland. Operation ichigo is back on scheduale.






Shanghai is badly defended seeing an oppertunity to capture the capitol even faster then the original plan 3 divs are landed in shanghai and are eventually joined by another 9 divisions.



The war is still far from won as chinese forces are rapidly increasing and with every meter of chinese land taken comes more resistance.

Naval combat
The superior japanese fleet manages to kicks chinese ass (didnt expect anything else ) and sink around 5 ships the heaviest being a light cruiser.

Aerial combat
The airforce having been neglected in updating saw very little to no action. the only sizeble action was the bombing of xiamen in order to aid the landings their (which failed). For the rest the airforce remains at the home islands awaiting updateing.

 

[GeneralHannibal]

It looks like HSR makes China better, but will it be enough.

 

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So far the going is doable but more to the west thereis hilly terrain and alot of fortresses which could be a major soutrce of problems

 

[unmerged(51077)]

Good to see you are steadily advancing