Do you plan to enlarge those facilities so you can either use that base as a jump off point for the invasion of the North Americas or to make it your easternmost base for the IJN?
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I hope that level 10 port at Pearl Harbor will be sufficient to serve as staging area for attack on the US so hopefully no enlarging of facilities.
Maybe check out how much supply can be shipped to Pearl and compare with the usage of the invasion fleet and a couple of armies. I think you need more, but then again I would think attacking at the flanks would be better than head on.
I've checked and I can ship about 90 supplies per day via port (the 20% penalty from hard difficulty hurts
) I guess I will build some extra facilities to support the the invasion
Now that is crushing.
For anyone who wants the numbers without having to count them yourself, the total is 11 battleships, 6 carriers, 18 destroyer flotillas, 9 submarines, 14 heavy cruisers, 15 light cruisers, and 12 transports. Makes the real life attack on Pearl Harbor look like scratch damage.
For anyone who wants the numbers without having to count them yourself, the total is 11 battleships, 6 carriers, 18 destroyer flotillas, 9 submarines, 14 heavy cruisers, 15 light cruisers, and 12 transports. Makes the real life attack on Pearl Harbor look like scratch damage.
25. Preparations
Campaign on Philippines is going well without any American interference in their puppet. After initial set of battles has been fought, the biggest enemy here is the terrain which slows down the advance.
Looks like some US Navy ships weren't engaged at Pearl Harbour. I wonder how many remaining ships US Navy has.
Just like I've predicted - there was nothing that could stop IJA advance in Philippines. Now these 15 divisions are free for other duties. While these were busy conquering Philippines most of Siberian army finally arrived to Korean ports and is ready to disembark towards new duties (however some units are still redeploying 3 months after Barbarossa has ended).
Japanese researchers finally got to take a look at some secret techs. Now when majority of Imperial Japanese Navy rivals rest at the bottom of the ocean focus on naval techs has shifted towards more land oriented technologies.
Wait! I thought we're defending life, liberty, independence and those things...
Like a lightning from a clear sky Germany decided to execute operation Tannenbaum.
At the dawn of 19th April 1942 local time citizens of Los Angeles and other US coastal cities were able to see invasion fleet of Imperial Japanese Navy led by its pride IJN Yamato (on the picture). Many thought that this is only reconnaissance sail but this is the beginning of full scale invasion on the US.
At the first stage of invasion (marked yellow) 2 landings will be executed in Los Angeles and San Diego, these posses valuable high level ports which will be essential for the supply of invasion forces. Shortly after first landings are complete another landing will take place at San Francisco. There's an alternative to the landing in San Francisco as it is in reach of regular leg infantry and can be taken via land.
After these three ports are secured initial defense line in mountains and hill will be established as Americans will surely be infuriated.
Carrier task forces will provide air superiority so no rebasing of conventional aircraft will be needed, hopefully this will ease the supply situation.
1st set of invasion landings is meant to grab the focus of Allied armies and this will hopefully cause the cities of Vancouver and Seattle and their vicinity to be less defended than usual. Again there's a defense line in the mountains to be established if needed.
The overall plan counts with unifying first and second beachhead and grabbing majority of US west shore (red line). With shore secured constructions of additional ports and facilities to support the invasion forces will begin. Defense line in the mountains and hills which will be used as a staging area for further attacks counts approximately 30 provinces.
Campaign on Philippines is going well without any American interference in their puppet. After initial set of battles has been fought, the biggest enemy here is the terrain which slows down the advance.
Looks like some US Navy ships weren't engaged at Pearl Harbour. I wonder how many remaining ships US Navy has.
Just like I've predicted - there was nothing that could stop IJA advance in Philippines. Now these 15 divisions are free for other duties. While these were busy conquering Philippines most of Siberian army finally arrived to Korean ports and is ready to disembark towards new duties (however some units are still redeploying 3 months after Barbarossa has ended).
Japanese researchers finally got to take a look at some secret techs. Now when majority of Imperial Japanese Navy rivals rest at the bottom of the ocean focus on naval techs has shifted towards more land oriented technologies.
Wait! I thought we're defending life, liberty, independence and those things...
Like a lightning from a clear sky Germany decided to execute operation Tannenbaum.
At the dawn of 19th April 1942 local time citizens of Los Angeles and other US coastal cities were able to see invasion fleet of Imperial Japanese Navy led by its pride IJN Yamato (on the picture). Many thought that this is only reconnaissance sail but this is the beginning of full scale invasion on the US.
At the first stage of invasion (marked yellow) 2 landings will be executed in Los Angeles and San Diego, these posses valuable high level ports which will be essential for the supply of invasion forces. Shortly after first landings are complete another landing will take place at San Francisco. There's an alternative to the landing in San Francisco as it is in reach of regular leg infantry and can be taken via land.
After these three ports are secured initial defense line in mountains and hill will be established as Americans will surely be infuriated.
Carrier task forces will provide air superiority so no rebasing of conventional aircraft will be needed, hopefully this will ease the supply situation.
1st set of invasion landings is meant to grab the focus of Allied armies and this will hopefully cause the cities of Vancouver and Seattle and their vicinity to be less defended than usual. Again there's a defense line in the mountains to be established if needed.
The overall plan counts with unifying first and second beachhead and grabbing majority of US west shore (red line). With shore secured constructions of additional ports and facilities to support the invasion forces will begin. Defense line in the mountains and hills which will be used as a staging area for further attacks counts approximately 30 provinces.
Holy smoke you totally tore the USN apart! By comparison, what are your losses to them? It looks like those are very minor, which would mean the IJN now rules the waves, right?
And will you attempt to seize the Panama canal asap? That would seriously hinder their Atlantic Fleet in coming to the rescue and allow you to hit places like Florida. thinking aloud, that would be my first target.
Can't wait to see the battle of the United States unfold.
And will you attempt to seize the Panama canal asap? That would seriously hinder their Atlantic Fleet in coming to the rescue and allow you to hit places like Florida. thinking aloud, that would be my first target.
Can't wait to see the battle of the United States unfold.
Looking forward to seeing how you go with a full-on invasion of the United States. Should be fun!
IJN is now true ruler of the waves. I've lost one heavy cruiser at Pearl Harbour and one empty transport due to bombardment from USAAF in Philippines.
Panama canal is most likely to be next target. Draw their attention to the west and then strike unopposed from the east, one possible direction where the offensive may get.
26. The invasion, part 1
(17th April - 30th April 1942)
At 17:00 18th April 1942 first wave of invasions started. Main targets being Los Angeles and San Diego, but landing forces targeted every single beach accessible from gulf of Santa Catalina. However only the cities Los Angeles and San Diego were garrisoned.
13 hours after beginning of the invasion an US Navy fleet based in San Diego intercepted IJN fleet under command of admiral Yamamoto Isoroku. The battle lasted for 9 hours as Americans were desperately trying to intercept invasion progress but their effort proved unsuccessful. US fleet lost 8th Destroyer Division, 9th Destroyer Division, 39th Destoryer Division and 40th Destroyer Division during this naval battle, two remaining American battleships USS South Dakota and USS Washington started retreating to the port at 15 o'clock. At 17 o'clock retreating US Navy battleship USS South Dakota was sunk by IJN carrier aircraft during their CAG duty.
First USA attempt to stop the invasion at the sea was proved to be in vain.
At 16:00 20th April, first landing forces managed to arrive to the unguarded beaches of south California and they immediately reinforced attacks on San Diego and Los Angeles.
During late night of 21st April all landing forces managed to arrive to American soil. Defenders of San Diego surrendered first at 17 o'clock 20th April, just when they spotted another IJA forces marching on them from the land. During this attack 88 Japanese soldiers died while US Army lost 282 of their men. Guards of Los Angeles started their retreat 3 hours later at 20 o'clock. This battle was bloodier than the battle for San Diego as 276 Japanese souls were forever lost there and US army suffered 340 causalities.
As beachhead was secured, new chain of command was established. Lieutenant general Nishioeda Yutaka, former commander of SNLF corps, was promoted in the field to field marshal and took over the command of (soon to be) invasion army group. His superior leadership will reduce supply consumption of all invasion forces by incredible 30%.
At midnight (UTC, GMT or what timezone game use; in the minimap you can see that it's afternoon/evening local time) of 22nd April fleet of admiral Yamamoto Isoroku escorting empty transports back to Japan was intercepted by small US Navy fleet. Whole conflict lasted for three hours and ended in 3 US Navy ships being sunk: 2 transport flotillas, August Belmont Flotilla and William McKinley Flotilla, and battleship USS Indiana.
Hour later after fleet of admiral Yamamoto Isoroku was engaged in Santa Barbara channel another US Navy fleet made contact with our carrier task force stationed in gulf of Santa Catalina. During this battle which lasted 7 hours 2 US Navy ships were sunk: heavy cruiser USS Augusta and battleship USS California.
Escaping ships from gulf of Santa Catalina were intercepted by IJN Yamato and her associated ships in Santa Barbara channel at midnight of 23rd April. During this battle several IJN ships were damaged, but nothing that can not be repaired almost immediately while US Navy lost another ships: 21st Destroyer Division, 2 battleships USS Oklahoma and USS Tennessee and their carrier USS Saratoga.
On the land everything is going well and as planned. IJA is advancing a bit inlands but not to far to not overextend. Biggest slowdown is not caused by US military but by people taking up the arms (the militia divisions).
The recently formed militias are however no match for experienced Japanese soldiers which seen fighting in many various places like China, India, Burma, Caucasus or Siberia.
Few aerial combats can be seen as CAG pilots became a bit bored as they've run out of naval targets. Here you can see an intercepted bombing of Coalinga. The tide of battle has been quickly reverted and Japanese air forces won this combat. The CAGs proved to be not very effective at ground attacking so one medium bomber air fleet consisting of two bomber groups was ordered to rebase into Los Angeles.
The land battle for Coalinga has been also won few hours later as American cavalry could not match IJA infantry. 203 Japanese died and took 771 American soldiers with them.
Meanwhile in Europe Germans are progressing with operation Tannenbaum, they are fairly close to both important Swiss cities, Bern and Zürich so I am expecting Swiss surrender to happen soon.
2 American divisions were encircled in Pasadena, one regular infantry and one people's militia which immediately shattered after they've found themselves encircled. Now they're desperately trying to free themselves which I doubt.
During first few days of invasion total of 760 Japanese soldiers died while US lost 3177 men. That are 4 Yankees for one Imperial Japanese Army soldier.
On the sea US Navy lost another 15 ships while no IJN ships was even close to be heavily damaged.
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I hope you like this a bit detailed report. And for those interested even more I've created an Microsoft Excel 2007 sheet with detailed information about every battle. You can find it here on my dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/s/k1kgrxobajszuk0/Japan.xlsx?m=
(17th April - 30th April 1942)
At 17:00 18th April 1942 first wave of invasions started. Main targets being Los Angeles and San Diego, but landing forces targeted every single beach accessible from gulf of Santa Catalina. However only the cities Los Angeles and San Diego were garrisoned.
13 hours after beginning of the invasion an US Navy fleet based in San Diego intercepted IJN fleet under command of admiral Yamamoto Isoroku. The battle lasted for 9 hours as Americans were desperately trying to intercept invasion progress but their effort proved unsuccessful. US fleet lost 8th Destroyer Division, 9th Destroyer Division, 39th Destoryer Division and 40th Destroyer Division during this naval battle, two remaining American battleships USS South Dakota and USS Washington started retreating to the port at 15 o'clock. At 17 o'clock retreating US Navy battleship USS South Dakota was sunk by IJN carrier aircraft during their CAG duty.
First USA attempt to stop the invasion at the sea was proved to be in vain.
At 16:00 20th April, first landing forces managed to arrive to the unguarded beaches of south California and they immediately reinforced attacks on San Diego and Los Angeles.
During late night of 21st April all landing forces managed to arrive to American soil. Defenders of San Diego surrendered first at 17 o'clock 20th April, just when they spotted another IJA forces marching on them from the land. During this attack 88 Japanese soldiers died while US Army lost 282 of their men. Guards of Los Angeles started their retreat 3 hours later at 20 o'clock. This battle was bloodier than the battle for San Diego as 276 Japanese souls were forever lost there and US army suffered 340 causalities.
As beachhead was secured, new chain of command was established. Lieutenant general Nishioeda Yutaka, former commander of SNLF corps, was promoted in the field to field marshal and took over the command of (soon to be) invasion army group. His superior leadership will reduce supply consumption of all invasion forces by incredible 30%.
At midnight (UTC, GMT or what timezone game use; in the minimap you can see that it's afternoon/evening local time) of 22nd April fleet of admiral Yamamoto Isoroku escorting empty transports back to Japan was intercepted by small US Navy fleet. Whole conflict lasted for three hours and ended in 3 US Navy ships being sunk: 2 transport flotillas, August Belmont Flotilla and William McKinley Flotilla, and battleship USS Indiana.
Hour later after fleet of admiral Yamamoto Isoroku was engaged in Santa Barbara channel another US Navy fleet made contact with our carrier task force stationed in gulf of Santa Catalina. During this battle which lasted 7 hours 2 US Navy ships were sunk: heavy cruiser USS Augusta and battleship USS California.
Escaping ships from gulf of Santa Catalina were intercepted by IJN Yamato and her associated ships in Santa Barbara channel at midnight of 23rd April. During this battle several IJN ships were damaged, but nothing that can not be repaired almost immediately while US Navy lost another ships: 21st Destroyer Division, 2 battleships USS Oklahoma and USS Tennessee and their carrier USS Saratoga.
On the land everything is going well and as planned. IJA is advancing a bit inlands but not to far to not overextend. Biggest slowdown is not caused by US military but by people taking up the arms (the militia divisions).
The recently formed militias are however no match for experienced Japanese soldiers which seen fighting in many various places like China, India, Burma, Caucasus or Siberia.
Few aerial combats can be seen as CAG pilots became a bit bored as they've run out of naval targets. Here you can see an intercepted bombing of Coalinga. The tide of battle has been quickly reverted and Japanese air forces won this combat. The CAGs proved to be not very effective at ground attacking so one medium bomber air fleet consisting of two bomber groups was ordered to rebase into Los Angeles.
The land battle for Coalinga has been also won few hours later as American cavalry could not match IJA infantry. 203 Japanese died and took 771 American soldiers with them.
Meanwhile in Europe Germans are progressing with operation Tannenbaum, they are fairly close to both important Swiss cities, Bern and Zürich so I am expecting Swiss surrender to happen soon.
2 American divisions were encircled in Pasadena, one regular infantry and one people's militia which immediately shattered after they've found themselves encircled. Now they're desperately trying to free themselves which I doubt.
During first few days of invasion total of 760 Japanese soldiers died while US lost 3177 men. That are 4 Yankees for one Imperial Japanese Army soldier.
On the sea US Navy lost another 15 ships while no IJN ships was even close to be heavily damaged.
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I hope you like this a bit detailed report. And for those interested even more I've created an Microsoft Excel 2007 sheet with detailed information about every battle. You can find it here on my dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/s/k1kgrxobajszuk0/Japan.xlsx?m=
Doomstacking Washington DC, perhaps?
By the way, is it possible to seize the US western coast (California, Oregon, Washington,) and puppet the rest of the US? Seems like that'd be a good compromise to completely secure the Pacific for good, but without having to sit on an entire country of 300 million people forever.
By the way, is it possible to seize the US western coast (California, Oregon, Washington,) and puppet the rest of the US? Seems like that'd be a good compromise to completely secure the Pacific for good, but without having to sit on an entire country of 300 million people forever.
That's interesting idea, I will take a look (and I would also definitely like to keep Panama canal, Puerto Rico and US pacific holdings).
I'll be very interested to see how your invasion compares to my late 43 invasion from my last Japan HPP game.
With a nation like the USA, a year and a half can change things radically.
(I conquered Asia like you did, but then I decided to convert all my mobile units into Medium Armour divisions with Truck-towed Support and Motorised Infantry, which caused the delay.)
With a nation like the USA, a year and a half can change things radically.
(I conquered Asia like you did, but then I decided to convert all my mobile units into Medium Armour divisions with Truck-towed Support and Motorised Infantry, which caused the delay.)
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