Payback - jzanes (A) vs. Rader (J). A Rader-free zone.

[Jzanes]

(August 8, 1945 con’t)

Russian Theatre:

Rader has built up a strong line along the Korean border. I’m working on grabbing strongly held Mukden and Anshan north of the border. After that we’ll see if we can break thru into Korea but I suspect I’ll find it impossible to get 2:1 odds vs. big Japanese stacks in rough terrain. Rader has a huge army in the clear terrain hex of Antung but has brought in tons of AA units forcing my bombers to bomb from 20K+ feet. Even then, I’m able to inflict close to 1,000 casualties a day.

Once Shanghai and Hong Kong/Canton are secured, I plan to move in massive Chinese ground reinforcements. Perhaps, these hordes will allow me to breakthrough.

The Russian theatre is the one spot that Rader has committed any airpower over the last month. Every few turns, he sets up some CAP traps hoping to bloody my bombers. He usually rips up my Russian fighters but loses heavily to the American P47 and P51 sweeps. Bomber losses have been minimal.

[Jzanes]

(August 8, 1945 con’t)

China:

Shanghai is the only remaining Japanese strongpoint. It is currently being besieged by the Chinese. The rest of the Chinese army is either marching towards Shanghai or will be doing so as soon as they have captured their current target.

Hong Kong and Canton will act as the entry point for the western allies and their supply. American and British bombers have recently started bombing these bases from Hainan and Indochina.

[Jzanes]

(August 8, 1945 con’t)

Future Targets:

Once Hong Kong has been captured, the British will move on Formosa. I have been reconning Formosa and it is surprisingly very lightly held. Once Formosa is secure, the Americans will make their landings on Okinawa. I have yet to recon the Okinawan area.

[Jzanes]

(August 8, 1945 con’t)

South China Sea:

Over the last several weeks, I’ve been rapidly building up bases to the north and south of the South China Sea. In the north, the Americans are gathering their strength at Cam Ranh Bay, the British on Hainan, and a mixed US-ANZAC force on Borneo at Miri-Brunei. Each base is heavily protected by fighters and naval bombers.

As mentioned earlier, the northern US-British force will be attacking Formosa and Okinawa. The Borneo based force will act as a flank guard and grab bases on the minor philippine islands bordering on the south china sea. I don’t intend to make major moves vs. the big philippine islands unless they turn out to be very lightly held and Rader makes no moves to defend them.

No Japanese resistance in this area at all.

[Jzanes]

(August 8, 1945 con’t)

Pacific:

Kusaie Island was captured easily a couple weeks ago and is now the key allied hub in the central pacific. It turns out that Kusaie was big enough to allow me to land without being forced to do a shock attack. One of my upcoming targets, Ponape is the same size island. My current target of Nauru Island is an atoll and I will be forced to shock attack when I land next turn. I’ve brought a very large landing force with 70-100 prep points. Hopefully, I’ll be able to avoid the bloodbaths I suffered thru at Tarawa and Tabiteau.

No Japanese resistance in the Pacific for months now.

[Jzanes]

ORIGINAL: obvert

Is this game still going? Curious what the status is now.

Due to the demands of real life, we are only able to get out 2-3 turns a week and I anticipate the game will remain fairly quiet until we get to September 1945. By then I'll be in position to start my strategic bombing campaign and the invasion of Formosa/Okinawa.

[obvert]

It'll be interesting to contrast your patient approach and strategic bombing with the rader - Greyjoy game which has been so up and down and all or nothing. Look forward to update maps if you ever have a few spare moments.

[Jzanes]

ORIGINAL: obvert

It'll be interesting to contrast your patient approach and strategic bombing with the rader - Greyjoy game which has been so up and down and all or nothing. Look forward to update maps if you ever have a few spare moments.

Slow and steady committment of overwhelming force is my victory plan. To be bold like Greyjoy has it's upside as we saw in his surprise invasion of Hokkaido but it also has it's downside as we saw when his carriers were recently savaged. My read of Rader suggests that he is much like the historical japanese high command and hopes to win the war with one great roll of the dice. I plan to frustrate him by steadily beating him down without ever giving him a chance to cause any serious harm to the allied war machine.

[obvert]

ORIGINAL: Jzanes

ORIGINAL: obvert

It'll be interesting to contrast your patient approach and strategic bombing with the rader - Greyjoy game which has been so up and down and all or nothing. Look forward to update maps if you ever have a few spare moments.

Slow and steady committment of overwhelming force is my victory plan. To be bold like Greyjoy has it's upside as we saw in his surprise invasion of Hokkaido but it also has it's downside as we saw when his carriers were recently savaged. My read of Rader suggests that he is much like the historical japanese high command and hopes to win the war with one great roll of the dice. I plan to frustrate him by steadily beating him down without ever giving him a chance to cause any serious harm to the allied war machine.

I have always thought that he actually just wants to last until the absolute end with some fighting ability in tact. I'm sure he'd love the idea of 'one great roll of the dice' kind of victory, but I also think he might at least now realize that there is just too much stuff coming down the Allied industrial pipeline to really think of Japan actually winning in the endgame.

Your approach does seem to work though, even if it takes a while. I'm not sure I would have your patience, but it's admirable and good strategy in your game where you had so much to deal with early on.

[bigred]

Are u still playing?