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This has been my goal for the last two years. I realized very early that even securing the entire Okinawa chain would not be enough to bring the Japanese to their knees. There is simply not enough room there. Even maxed out there is only room for about 2000 engines. That might sound a lot but its not enough to maintain CAP, house the 4Es, provide escort, sweep, recon and search. The 4Es/2Es Fleet alone take up 3500-4000 engines. The B29s another 2000...
So I need at least one level 9 AF close to the HI. This left me with either the HI themselves, Hokkaido or Korea. Landing at the HI would mean fighting a lot of restricted troops and I lack the infrastructure to land on Hokkaido. So Korea was the only viable option. Especially considering I had already decided to secure the Philippines and Okinawa/Formosa.
The key was the battle last turn. I had to make it out of of that battle with enough so I could maintain a LOC to Korea and remove the KB and Japanese LBA as a threat. Done and done. The only thing that could have made me cancel the landing would have been if I had lost enough to be unable to to supply the troops in Korea or the loss of the Amphibs themselves. That is why I don´t consider last turn as a defeat. As long as I can land and secure a base on Korea last turn was the one that won the war.
We are landing at Moppo next turn with 5500 AV including ALL the allied armor and USMC divisions. This base has a level 5 AFs and I´m going to take a chance and not bombard as I want a CAP up ASAP. I´m confident once we are landed we can quickly secure the entire peninsula. Going by Eriks usual MO and SIGINT there isn´t much troops in Korea and he can´t bring in anything from Manchuria. His reserves would be whatever shattered unrestricted troops currently rebuilding on the HI (loads of SIGINT on those). He might try and ship those over but he simply doesn´t have the numbers anywhere to do anything ín Korea.
If we do happen to run into trouble we have the second wave of 4000 AV ready to be deployed. I think its highly unlikely they will be needed in Korea though. I have to focus on getting everything right tomorrow first of all.
So fingers crossed for tomorrow. Tomorrow is the one that really matters!
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