AE Historical Game Project. Cantona2 (allied) vs Fletcher (Jap)

[Fletcher]

Thank you very much Gilbert,
I am very pleased with your comments and visits.

Best of wishes
Ramón

[traskott]

suscribed.

 Remember: You must invade Australia, overrun China, and sink alls american CVs...[:D]

[Fletcher]

Thanks for comments, Traskott.
All these will be out of my scope... I will defend a hard perimeter trying to "sink alls american CVs" [;)]

[Fletcher]

Engine Production Policy:

Ha-5 will be halted at once. Enough engines at pool to build 57 Ki-57I in 8 months.
Ha-33 will be increased 1 engine/daily until get 200-210 engines/monthly.
Ha-32 will be increased 1 engine/daily until get 200 engines/monthly.
Hitachi Amakaze has been halted. Enough engines for 121 E14Y1 (next thirteen months producing).
Nakajima Kotobuki has been halted. Enough engines for 254 Ki-27b
Hitachi Early has been halted. Enough engines for 332 Ki-36
Ha-31 will be halted at once. With 245 engines at pool will mount Ki-51 (produccion halted for several months to save H.I) and Ki-46s.

[SuluSea]

Good luck , should be an interesting game..  [:)]

[Fletcher]

ORIGINAL: SuluSea

Good luck , should be an interesting game..  [:)]

Thank you very much for comment and visit ! Will try
Best of wishes
Ramón

[JeffroK]

After negotiating with my opponent to restart our game playing like japanese, we are both agree with a hard restricted home rules to avoid un-historicall situations.
Cantona2 is a reliable player with a large experience with WITP(Vanilla)/(AE), therefore I am very glad to test all these with him.
Any comment will be wellcomed.

Is an early landing of 4th Div at Pt Moresby, because you know the Allies cant defend this, within the intention stated at the start of the thread?

[Fletcher]

ORIGINAL: JeffK

After negotiating with my opponent to restart our game playing like japanese, we are both agree with a hard restricted home rules to avoid un-historicall situations.
Cantona2 is a reliable player with a large experience with WITP(Vanilla)/(AE), therefore I am very glad to test all these with him.
Any comment will be wellcomed.

Is an early landing of 4th Div at Pt Moresby, because you know the Allies cant defend this, within the intention stated at the start of the thread?

Hi JeffK


Shortly after the war began, Japan's Naval General Staff recommended an invasion of Northern Australia to prevent Australia from being used as a base to threaten Japan's perimeter defenses in the South Pacific. The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), however, rejected the recommendation, stating that it did not have the forces or shipping capacity available to conduct such an operation. At the same time, Vice Admiral Shigeyoshi Inoue, commander of the IJN's 4th Fleet (also called the South Seas Force) which consisted of most of the naval units in the South Pacific area, advocated the occupation of Tulagi in the southeastern Solomon Islands and Port Moresby in New Guinea, which would put northern Australia within range of Japanese land-based aircraft. Inoue believed the capture and control of these locations would provide greater security and defensive depth for the major Japanese base at Rabaul on New Britain. The navy's general staff and the IJA accepted Inoue's proposal and promoted further operations, using these locations as supporting bases, to seize New Caledonia, Fiji, and Samoa and thereby cut the supply and communication lines between Australia and the United States.

Obviusly, you are right... Port Moresby would not be easy to defend in starting stage, like Phillipine Islands or Malaya or D.E.I, of course. The matters is about is or not into Historical envirionment. IJA has no problem with New Guinea, I think no House Rules is needed for it... it´s an strategic option for JAPANESE PLAYER, potentially and real...very different that Australia or India at start stage of war.

Thank you for your comments
Best of wishes
Ramón

[CarnageINC]

I just realized that the house rules you posted before are in effect for this game.  It will be intresting to see the long term results [;)]  

[SqzMyLemon]

Good Luck Fletcher. Amazing detail on the opening stages of your game. I'll be watching your AAR closely, and it will be great to follow your production decisions and operations for Japan.

[Fletcher]

ORIGINAL: CarnageINC

I just realized that the house rules you posted before are in effect for this game.  It will be intresting to see the long term results [;)]  

Hello CarnageINC
Of course, all house rules posted before are in effect for this game. We will see long term results
Thanks for visit and posting.
Best of wishes
Ramón

[Fletcher]

ORIGINAL: SqzMyLemon

Good Luck Fletcher. Amazing detail on the opening stages of your game. I'll be watching your AAR closely, and it will be great to follow your production decisions and operations for Japan.

Hello SqzMyLemon,
Thank you very much, I´ll try to keep the level of details all game long.
Best wishes
Ramón

[Fletcher]

FROM: BOARD OF MARSHALLS & ADMIRALS, IGHQ, TOKYO.
TO: ADM. NAGANO. IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY, Chief of General Staff. Tokyo.
SUBJECT: Naval Building strategic decisions.
DATE: Dec 7th, 1941.

HIJMS Musashi will be cancelled tomorrow "sine-die". The H.I. high cost (542.890) is forbidden and Pearl Harbor raid have proved the mastery of carriers. Battleships era is dead.

HIJMS Taiho will be built at accelerated rate. Orders will be dispatched tomorrow. Total H.I. cost will be 159.135 H.I, but we get this High Value ship for Jan 22nd, 1943. She will join to 1st Air Fleet like Flag ship.

Another orders will be dispatched tomorrow to save H.I.s (Ha-31 & Ha-5 aircraft´s engines production will be stopped).

LONG LIVE TO THE EMPEROR !!
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[Fletcher]

Shipyard Workload
(Naval)
Date: Dec 7th 1941

[Fletcher]

Shipyard Workload
(Merchant & Aux)
Date: Dec 7th 1941

[Fletcher]

FROM: VADM Shimizu, Mitsuo. 6th Fleet C-inC. Kwajalein I. Marshalls.
TO: ADM Yamamoto, Isoroku. Combined Fleet HQ. Kure Naval Yard. Honshu.
SUBJECT: 6th Fleet Report.
DATE: Dec 8th, 1941.

LtCdr Hidejiro Utsuki reporting from I-122 at war patrol near Singapore his first sinking. Enemy ETC Type Tanker "HARPA" was identified near Tandjoengpinang (50,85) and sunk after launching 4 torpedoes with 1 hit. Enemy ship sunk without survivors.

I-18 spotted an enemy task force near Johnston Island, with 3 fast minesweepers and launched unsuccesfully 06 torpedoes against a enemy DMS.

I-19 launched unsuccesfully 04 torpedoes against an enemy AVD near Lahaina, at Hawaii Islands.

All submarines cruising to their war patrol areas. No more news.

LONG LIVE TO THE EMPEROR !!
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[Fishbed]

Very interesting reading and AAR, Fletcher, and very courageous set of rules for both of you!

I see you don't have a rule for the Monsoon in Burma - we're trying something in our own game with Miller, John & Ny59giants, so if you wanna try that too... [:)]

[Fletcher]

FROM: LGEN Homma, Masaharu. XIV Army HQ, aboard xAK Atlas Maru in route to North Luzon.
TO: GEN Terauchi, Hisaichi. Southern Area Army. Saigon. Indochina.
SUBJECT: North Luzon Report.
DATE: Dec 8th, 1941.

Sailing at cruise to Aparri, we will landing tomorrow with our two Amphibious Groups. NO enemy activities in our transit. DESRON 5 Detach two destroyers to ASW duties with Aparri our main TF (HIJMS HARUKAZE, HIJMS HATAKAZE), they are unsuccesfully searching enemy sub contacts. Two enemy destroyers were spotted off Takao and both hit mines. Survivors rescued reports enemy ships were HMS Scout & HMS Thracian (Admiralty Class). Probably one of this ship was the same that our G4M1s(6) have been attacked unsuccesfully this morning under Thunderstorm weather conditions.

Another ships were spotted by our naval search aircrafts and VADM Kondo, 2nd Fleet CINC have sent CRURON 16 (HK Blockade Force) to intercept them.

Fast Amphibious TF is ending to ship Sasebo 1st SNLF to capture minor islands between Batan and Aparri. We hope tomorrow begin landings.

DD Yudachi reports followed by Allied Recon near Laoag.

CM Shirataku have minelay Batan I. to avoid enemy sub activities in this base. She has been rendezvous with CM Tsubane and both are returning home.

DMS W-13 & DMS W-14 have been detached from Batan I. Amphibious Group to ASW duties with returning to Takao freighters from several TFs (Batan Inv Group & Batan Air Group).

Two PBs have been orderer to rendezvous with Mauban Amph Group to ASW cover.

RADM Teiji Nishimura, DESRON 4 CINC (Manila Blockade Force), reporting from CL Naka that her Floatplane is damaged and will need about 2 days for repairs. Destroyers HIJMS Samidare, HIJMS Harusame and HIJMS Murasame from DESRON 4 ping enemy sub (" S Class ") near Iba.

RADM Ryuzo Takenaka, 23rd Air Flotilla CINC, reports air sweeps over enemy Airfield at Clark:

a) An Afternoon air raid with 37 A6M2 from Tainan Ku S-1 at 23,000 feet. Enemy air patrol with 23 P-40B at 20.000 feet. Weather conditions: partial clouds. Our pilots reporting 05 enemy fighters were downed vs 1 A6M2 lost. P.O. Sakai from Tainan Ku S-1 was credited with kill number 2.

b) An Afternoon air raid with 8 A6M2 from Tainan Ku S-1 Det B at 23,000 feet. Enemy air patrol with 3 P40B at 20,000 feet. No less than 2 P40 were downed. Lt Maki, Y. was credited with his kill number 2. A damaged A6M2 from Tainan Ku S-1 was missing.

After spotted several ships near Bataan, an air raid was launched at once with 11 G4M1 escorted by 12 A6M2. Heavy enemy air cover with 32 P-40E, 2 P-26 and 12 P-35A under moderate rain over Batan skies. One enemy minesweeper was sunk after one torpedo hit (USS Bittern identified). 05 A6M2 were downed by enemy fighters like 4 G4M1 lost in the same air mision.

Total lost over Luzon skies were 7 A6M2 (5 A2A and 2 operationals) and 4 G4M1. Intel from 11st Air Fleet confirms 12 P-40B, 3 P-40E, 3 P-26A and 2 P-35 (21 enemy aircrafts destroyed).

LONG LIVE TO EMPEROR !!!
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[Fletcher]

ORIGINAL: Fishbed

Very interesting reading and AAR, Fletcher, and very courageous set of rules for both of you!

I see you don't have a rule for the Monsoon in Burma - we're trying something in our own game with Miller, John & Ny59giants, so if you wanna try that too... [:)]

Hello Fished, thank you very much for comments and visit!..
If neccesary any H.R. for monsoon will be implemented. We will try to close to actual envirionment as much as possible.

Best of wishes
Ramón

[Fletcher]

FROM: MAJ Suzuki, S. 77th Sentai Det-B, Samah. Hainan Island.
TO: LGEN Sugawara, Michio. 3rd Air Division C-in-C. Kompong Trach.
SUBJECT: Enemy air raid over Samah.
DATE: Dec 8th, 1941.

After been transfered to Samah, yesterday, our Chutai have been patrol AF skies awaiting any enemy raid. This morning, under partial clouds, enemy raid was spotted and all our available Ki-27b take off from AF to fight with enemy air "monsters". 10 four-engine bombers appears in the horizont at estimated altitud of 16,000 feet, our fighters flying at 15,000.

WO Daigo, R was credited to down one enemy bomber. He will be mentioned tomorrow during early morning flag-hoisting ceremony to pay homage to the Emperor.

All enemy aircrafts retired without any attack.

LONG LIVE TO THE EMPEROR !
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