Anyway, holiday is over and I am gonna disappear again there will be no game but still keep think what the WITP 2.0 should be.

Oops - it appears you took my silly observation as a personal affront! My apologies!

While I have no interest in the IJA OOB details, I respect your efforts to get this information for those who are interested. I also like the pictures you provide - most of them do not seem to be in Western ...

BBfanboy wrote: Fri Jun 24, 2022 10:03 pm

jiajia1 wrote: Fri Jun 24, 2022 1:09 pm No worries.

Type 91 10cm howitzer + Type 97 Artillery Transport Trailer + Type 98 4-ton tractor.

Note the guy on the right with the Type 1 Field Table and Type 2 Campfire Tripod!

I feel like...

Here is the link of possible OOB of Tank Division from a Japanese website in English.

http://www3.plala.or.jp/takihome/formation.htm

Website: (English + Japanese)
http://www3.plala.or.jp/takihome/

If "1400+ tracked vehicles" is true, the "Motorized" should be changed to "Mobile".

No worries.

Type 91 10cm howitzer + Type 97 Artillery Transport Trailer + Type 98 4-ton tractor.

From Chinese docs, before Ichigo, the second commander of 3TKD was very anxious, old and new equipment were mixed together due to lack of new equipment, radio communication only got 10 percent. Shunroku Hata, Commander of China Expeditionary Army, said " The real combat strength of 3TKD is only 50 ...

Another table looks more accurate.

Some documents say armored vehicles are all tracked. After checking production of tracked vehicles between 1931 - 1942, apparently it is not possible. Paused.

btd64 wrote: Thu Jun 23, 2022 11:02 am Are you missing organic artillery?....GP

It is in the table (the fifth unit) and had been totally motorized.
I am working on the detail equipment but have not found yet. All the docs I found only mention number of tanks. None armored vehicles info. Frustrating...

Translated from: https://www.jacar.archives.go.jp/aj/met ... 2120999400 in Japanese.

On Dec 1942 when fully created.

Tenchu!

"War History Series" is the first choice for normal JFBs because it is very friendly to read. For hardcore JFBs they have better choices -- first hand original raw materials.

I bought one book last year when I was in China with English name could be translated into "Japanese war history of WW2 ...

Give up.
Apart from 3 columes by Dutch and 1 by Australian. The only possible place I found is Naval Historical Collection Archives and it is not for public. People were talking about Google translation with scanned original files but it has too many Chinese characters and were written from right to ...

I should have searched the forum for same topics before posting. Dili already posted in 2020.

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/view ... s#p4735207

Anyway, let's keep going.

For those who has great interest with war in the pacific history on Japan side, "War History Series" is a must reading (total 102 volumes). But the English version is hard to get from what I know.

The Corts Foundation opened their 3 volumes of English translation for public download:
The Invasion ...

This topic is too big. You have 2 choices.
1. Simply accept someone's opinion at your own risk then may find it has problem later soon and change to another.
2. Do a lot of read written by Americans, Japanese and Chinese (of course first hand official docs are best choices like Japan's War History ...

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4. Fight
Jul 1945, Commandos made 3 successful attacks. The No.2 was an airlanding on a Japan airfield. They captured it quickly and held for 3days until reinforcement came. 24 killed 25 wounded. Japanese casualty about 164. There were 2 American instructors got killed ...

I would like to give some details and corrections.

1. Australian major in KMT uniform.
The born of Chinese parachute regiment thanks to 2 people. Australian Shidianhua (sorry I can not find his English name) was the first one who made the suggestion and plan in 1943 right after invasion of Sicily ...

What were the reasons for japan to only achieve a stalemate?


Lack of a modern of a rail net and a horse drawn supply organization. Japanese troops had better equipment and greater combat power than the Chinese but were overextended logistically. The Chinese had more men than the Japanese had ...

ORIGINAL: Yaab

Look at the combat losses for KMT China in 1937-1945 period. KMT switched to defence after Dec 7,1941 knowing that is was now USA's turn to bleed themselves in the war.


Both Chang and the Communists realized that with the US entry into the war meant that the Japanese would ...