Allied Decisive Victory-Some Thoughts.

[hbrsvl]

Hi-Playing v1.6, scenario 15. At game time 00:00:01 hrs 1 Jan. 45 my WITP game flashed on the sceen "Decisive Allied Victory". The score was 80144 to 37524 foir a 2.1358 ratio.
Statistics: 2168 Japanese ships sunk, including 13 CV, 6 CVL, 5 CVE, 2
CS, 12 BB, 18CA, 22 CL & 146 DD, vs 317 Allied ships sunk.
25276 Japanese planes vs 17854 Allied lost.
Japan held 181 bases vs 269.
Army loss points-Japan 9685 vs 12790 Allied.
Strategic losses- Japan 5340 vs 0 Allied.

Holdings- Allies held:
Akyab, all of Timor & Bula. All of New Guiena except Babo.
Korea up to Taegu. All of Formosa & Kiungshan on Hainan.
Hong Kong, Canton & Swatow.
All of the Phillipines except Davao.
Okinawa, Osumi Iwo & Tori Shima.
All Pacific islands except Truk, Palau, Bonins, Kwajalein &
3 other smaller islands.
India & Australia.

How they got there. Pretty much followed historical strategy, except ops
executed ahead of historical schedule.

Mistakes: 1. Ignoring SEAC for almost all the game after stabalizing
Akyab-Imphal-Kohima line.
2. Completely ignoring China until the end, when I almost lost
my 2:1 ratioo due to Japanese conquests.
3. My handling SS. I could have done better.
4. More operation air losses than necessary due to not bring
bringing Eng units form US as they appeared. This was due
to hoarding shipping in SoWesPac & CentPac-not returning
to US.

Problems. Record keeping. AI did strange things such as fighting non e
existant Allied on Japan proper. I had a strange game- to
build port, air & forts I had tom set to "Do not Build."

Conclusions: 1. Air power is the key, but you need naval air to get the
troops to the islands to build air bases, i.e.a truly tri-
phibious effort.
2. The other key was supply- a constant flow.( I never
was able to make the Constant Supply or other auto-
matic supply devices work for me.)
3. A TERRIFIC game!!.

[Mistmatz]

He, this is about the shortest AAR I've ever seen. [:D][;)]

[hbrsvl]

Mistmatz-I was always told to keep reports brief, brief, brief. What more would you like me to say? Thanks for your comment. Also, this is the first AAR I've written. Thanks again. HB

[Rob Brennan UK]

Im suprised army points losses werent in your favour ? was that mostly the ex PI and singapore defenders ? or did the AI actually manage to kill off more [;)]

Well done playing it to a conclusion too. I've never had the patience vs the AI to go beyond early 43[:D]

[hbrsvl]

Rob- Re Army losses, you're right on. After PI & Singapore, I lost no LCUs. Thanks for the pat on the back re playing to the end-I just wanted to see how it would come out. Thanks again, HB

[hbrsvl]

Rob- A further clarification- Those losses also included DEI. Sorry I didn't get that in first. HB

[Rob Brennan UK]

Thanks for the clarification. I never seen an end game screen apart from auto jap victory in jan 43. Unfortunately that game was before the time we were allowed to continue after it. I would have liked to finish it off, then i discovered PBEM and never looked back[:D]

[Acme1970]

I also finished this scenario on Jan. 1 1945, The game was kinda anti-climactic at the from Jan 1 1944 to the end game, All the Japanese had was 2 Damaged CVE's, 2 Damaged BB's, 2 Damaged CL's, 1 SS & about 20 DD's, Everything else was PC's & PG's, All i lost was 1 CVE, 2 BB's, 1 CA & about 20 to 25 DD's + a few Dutch ships, Without a navy Japan couldn't do anything to stop me from taking their islands, I captured Guam & Tinian around fall of 42 & Iwo Jima & the Bonins in Fall of 44, Never got to Okinawa, I was also pushing on Singapore but never got there, The Phillipines all i took was Luzon & Leyte & Cayagan on Mindanao, I went for the big prizes, most of the small island & bases unless they were of air or port value were bypassed, Most of the Phillipines are of such little value that i didn't even bother to take them, I also left China proper & CBI theatre alone for too long, But managed to send enough troops that i would have recaptured Singapore if the game hadn't ended, As for China the Chinese troops are almost worthless I had over 210,000 troops attacking Canton & they couldn't beat 45,000 Japanese, Overall i'm happy with the result, After all 9 months ahead of history is pretty good