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Good progress going there. I understand the war is a lot tougher than in the regular HOI, especially compared to TFH.
And I guess they just read the wikipedia on the war, since Japan threw landings all over the Chinese coast IRL , hehe.
Good luck, break their resistance and the first step of the Tanaka memorial is complete
And I guess they just read the wikipedia on the war, since Japan threw landings all over the Chinese coast IRL , hehe.
Good luck, break their resistance and the first step of the Tanaka memorial is complete
6. 2nd Sino-Japanese war, part 3
Now when Guanxi forces are on the front and their rear is weakly defended it's time for a cunning plan - land in weakly defended area and storm through their lands while their forces are elsewhere.
Xibei is one step away from surrendering. Division of cavalry is marching towards their capital and after its secured they will surrender and there will be one warlord less to fight.
Heavy fighters have been finally researched. These have bigger range than light ones and will provide useful in remote areas without any nearby airbases (which is nearly everywhere when you plan Japan) so Imperial Japanese Airforce is desperate need of this.
Xibei San Ma falls and Japan has now one less opponent to fight.
Mao's communists join the unified front but they are still waiting with declaring war on Japan.
Meanwhile in Europe Spanish civil war is still raging on. Few months ago provinces were changing owners on a daily basis but now it looks that nationalists have finally the upper hand and will win this war.
Hopefully Franco will rise in power and will help the Axis by taking Gibraltar after the war starts.
With those Guanxi divisions on front the advance has slowed but I am still managing to pull out some minor encirclements - in this one one militia division was trapped and condemned to be doomed.
Initial landings were the toughest parts of assault on Guanxi as IJA have only one marine division (I plan to build more before WW2 starts but now they weren't so high on my priority list so I omitted them for now).
Guanxi lands are nearly empty and guarded only by few militia divisions so IJA is going on rampage there and fall of Guanxi clique is only matter of time.
Overall situation - it looks like bigger part of China is already in the Japanese hands.
Situation in Guanxi, the day their surrender progress reached 100%.- you can see only few militia divisions which are no match for experienced Japanese soldiers (I've used two corps from the north there) and I've also put some mountaineers there to hasten Guanxi downfall.
Next day, another warlord succumb to Japanese power.
After territories flip owners it looks like I will manage to pull out similar encirclement as I did in Shanxi.
In the end only 2 militia divisions are trapped and the rest manages to escape as militias are 1,5 times faster than regular infantry.
In the north Imperial Japanese Army is now just one province from temporal Chinese capital. Looks like this capital moving only delayed the inevitable.
There you can see why I hate fighting in south China - mountains, mountains, mountains. This is the reason why in my German game the things were taking too long.
Overall situation in China - I am thinking about uniting north front with southern beachhead to cut Chinese off and trap them near the coast.
Now when Guanxi forces are on the front and their rear is weakly defended it's time for a cunning plan - land in weakly defended area and storm through their lands while their forces are elsewhere.
Xibei is one step away from surrendering. Division of cavalry is marching towards their capital and after its secured they will surrender and there will be one warlord less to fight.
Heavy fighters have been finally researched. These have bigger range than light ones and will provide useful in remote areas without any nearby airbases (which is nearly everywhere when you plan Japan) so Imperial Japanese Airforce is desperate need of this.
Xibei San Ma falls and Japan has now one less opponent to fight.
Mao's communists join the unified front but they are still waiting with declaring war on Japan.
Meanwhile in Europe Spanish civil war is still raging on. Few months ago provinces were changing owners on a daily basis but now it looks that nationalists have finally the upper hand and will win this war.
Hopefully Franco will rise in power and will help the Axis by taking Gibraltar after the war starts.
With those Guanxi divisions on front the advance has slowed but I am still managing to pull out some minor encirclements - in this one one militia division was trapped and condemned to be doomed.
Initial landings were the toughest parts of assault on Guanxi as IJA have only one marine division (I plan to build more before WW2 starts but now they weren't so high on my priority list so I omitted them for now).
Guanxi lands are nearly empty and guarded only by few militia divisions so IJA is going on rampage there and fall of Guanxi clique is only matter of time.
Overall situation - it looks like bigger part of China is already in the Japanese hands.
Situation in Guanxi, the day their surrender progress reached 100%.- you can see only few militia divisions which are no match for experienced Japanese soldiers (I've used two corps from the north there) and I've also put some mountaineers there to hasten Guanxi downfall.
Next day, another warlord succumb to Japanese power.
After territories flip owners it looks like I will manage to pull out similar encirclement as I did in Shanxi.
In the end only 2 militia divisions are trapped and the rest manages to escape as militias are 1,5 times faster than regular infantry.
In the north Imperial Japanese Army is now just one province from temporal Chinese capital. Looks like this capital moving only delayed the inevitable.
There you can see why I hate fighting in south China - mountains, mountains, mountains. This is the reason why in my German game the things were taking too long.
Overall situation in China - I am thinking about uniting north front with southern beachhead to cut Chinese off and trap them near the coast.
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It looks like you've got the Chinese between a rock and a hard place now, it's a matter of time.
Is 150% the HPP max officer ratio??
Is 150% the HPP max officer ratio??
it seems you are going to obtai victory in a good amount of time, what about the losses?
I think whole 2nd Sino-Japanese war will be finished (all warlords conquered) in less than a year.
Manpower is growing even while I am at war -this is mostly thanks to initial blitzes and attacking from multiple provinces to incur envelopment penalty and steady bombing effort - I was using even CAGs to inflict some damage to Chinese (and to gain valuable experience in the process).
I've never played as Japan, but it looks like you're making some good progress in the east. Maybe you'll even soon be taking the west by storm?
I, for one, would welcome our new Japanese Overlords.
Keep up the good work!
I, for one, would welcome our new Japanese Overlords.
Keep up the good work!
I've never played as Japan, but it looks like you're making some good progress in the east. Maybe you'll even soon be taking the west by storm?
I, for one, would welcome our new Japanese Overlords.
Keep up the good work!
I see what you did here, Kent Brockman... haha
I was surprised how easy the are going given the fact I've been stuck in China for over a year in my German AAR and in my previous game on normal the things were not going as smoothly as they are going now (however there was no landing in Guanxi and I wasn't using horses as extensive as I do now).
After China falls I will probably keep the things (quasi)historical and I Japan will sleep till 1940 when I will demand Indochina and Siam and I will start east Indies campaign.
I will also establish republic of China-Nanjing when I will pull out some forces out of China as I won't be able to ship supplies via ports controlled by them.
The game can't handle infra that's too low, so I could only lower infra in the region by 2 points.
Here's a topographical map of China showing not only the terrain, but the changed course of the Yellow River. The map is oriented with North to the right of it, so it might take some time to get used to the funny orientation. The names are in Wade-Gilles, so they won't correspond directly to the game's map, which uses Pinyin. Warning, the map's file size is HUGE, so it will take time to load: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/1941_China_from_the_East.jpg
I see. Still it has messed up wit my supply lines a bit so I would say the purpose of this decision has been fulfilled.
And no CTDs as it was in 3.3.0 or 3.2.9
7. 2nd Sino-Japanese war, part 4
This is how military production in Japan looks like. I am building some IC as I would like to have some day 200 IC which is requirement for great power international status. Also 1 marine and 1 mountaineer divisions are being built for obvious reasons.
Rest of IC is dedicated to Imperial Japanese Navy mainly for carriers and for Yamato which will be pride of the fleet.
Help for China, it's a shame that's too late for China as they're in situation where only miracle can save them.
Imperial Japan Army is now consists of veterans and experienced soldiers so land organization and organization regain rate have increased. This will compensate organization penalty from navy influence.
IJA has initiated series of pushes - you can see 8 undergoing attacks, which some of them are made in effort to unify main front with Guanxi beachhead.
Look who's in charge of defense against one of the attacks, Chiang himself.
Armies are now one province away from unifying the fronts.
Guangzhou has been captured and important high level port has been captured, this will help supply situation in south China a lot as there have been some supply shortages (you can see that the marine division in Guangzhou is suffering from supply shortage).
Yunnan clique has joined the fray but their armies consist of militias and I doubt they can do anything to save Republic of China just because of tremendous terrain they have to pass to enter the main battlefields.
Attack on Chinese capital has begun - should it fall and whole Republic of China will tremble and surrender.
Main front has united with Guanxi beachhead and majority of Chinese army has been trapped.
Defenders of Chongqing are nearly defeated - these "armoured horses" are extremely effective against Chinese militias as they lack of means how to penetrate armour of armoured cars which are accompanying cavalry.
Chongqing has been secured and Chiang Kai-shek signed unconditional surrender, next day lands of China joined Empire of Japan.
With Chinese lands finally secured another strait modifier is secured, extra supplied and money come handy.
This is how military production in Japan looks like. I am building some IC as I would like to have some day 200 IC which is requirement for great power international status. Also 1 marine and 1 mountaineer divisions are being built for obvious reasons.
Rest of IC is dedicated to Imperial Japanese Navy mainly for carriers and for Yamato which will be pride of the fleet.
Help for China, it's a shame that's too late for China as they're in situation where only miracle can save them.
Imperial Japan Army is now consists of veterans and experienced soldiers so land organization and organization regain rate have increased. This will compensate organization penalty from navy influence.
IJA has initiated series of pushes - you can see 8 undergoing attacks, which some of them are made in effort to unify main front with Guanxi beachhead.
Look who's in charge of defense against one of the attacks, Chiang himself.
Armies are now one province away from unifying the fronts.
Guangzhou has been captured and important high level port has been captured, this will help supply situation in south China a lot as there have been some supply shortages (you can see that the marine division in Guangzhou is suffering from supply shortage).
Yunnan clique has joined the fray but their armies consist of militias and I doubt they can do anything to save Republic of China just because of tremendous terrain they have to pass to enter the main battlefields.
Attack on Chinese capital has begun - should it fall and whole Republic of China will tremble and surrender.
Main front has united with Guanxi beachhead and majority of Chinese army has been trapped.
Defenders of Chongqing are nearly defeated - these "armoured horses" are extremely effective against Chinese militias as they lack of means how to penetrate armour of armoured cars which are accompanying cavalry.
Chongqing has been secured and Chiang Kai-shek signed unconditional surrender, next day lands of China joined Empire of Japan.
With Chinese lands finally secured another strait modifier is secured, extra supplied and money come handy.
So Nationalist China surrendered? That's great! More resources and manpower for Japan!
Those HPP text fonds keep confusing me I mean how they swapped the neutral and Allied fond.
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Wait: If that is correct, then what is wrong with Indochina? Are they not a French puppet?
Those HPP text fonds keep confusing me
I mean how they swapped the neutral and Allied fond.edit:
Wait: If that is correct, then what is wrong with Indochina? Are they not a French puppet?
So Nationalist China surrendered? That's great! More resources and manpower for Japan!
Those HPP text fonds keep confusing me
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Wait: If that is correct, then what is wrong with Indochina? Are they not a French puppet?
Yes, nat. China is dead and other warlord will follow now when the biggest obstacle has been overcome.
I am 100% sure that Indochina is French puppet (only fonts I can 100% sure recognize are the Axis and Comintern ones).
French puppets aren't part of the Allies for some reason (Britsh are). I'm not quite sure about that but I guess it won't mess up anything later on when they become Vichy's puppets after Fall of France. I'm not sure whether there's an event where puppets leave the faction when their master is no longer in it, so I guess HPP team decided this would be the best way (their capabilities wouldn't turn the tide anyway - Indochina gets Japanified usually right away after FoF and Syria and Lebanon have just a few divisions to guard their ports and capital).
British puppets historically joined the war, while the French mandates and protectorates did not until the Vichy regime was created and the UK attacked the French puppets.
