IdahoNYer vs LST (J AAR): GAME OVER!

[LargeSlowTarget]

The naval losses - capital ships only due to time and space considerations.

[LargeSlowTarget]

Wow, hard to believe it is over - after 6 years, 1 month and 15 days of playing sometimes just one, sometimes up to four 2-day-turns per week due to RL contraints on both sides.

What a long and often rough ride!

The Ambon Ambush, the Attu Battleship massacre, the siege battles in China crowned by the fall of Chungking, the Carnarvon Carnage, the pyrrhic victory in the battle for Barbar, the Alpha Strike of the Sabang carrier clash which could not prevent the masterful strategic operation against the Japanese jugular vein, the oil of Palembang, the long retreat from Burma to China while trying to stay ahead of the Allied Armies, the glorious 3-Days-Battle off Kanoya - a.k.a. "Black September" on the Allied side , the repeated savaging of the CVEs, the Death Ride of the IJN surface forces, the Pearl Harbor Anniversary strike, the sacrifice of the IJN flattops and the pin-pricks up to the very last day - and finally a well-deserved victory for my honorable opponent Ed aka IdahoNYer, a true gentleman.

I still have a couple of hundreds modern planes and a lot of crappy ones in the pools and ample good-enough pilots to man them, and the IJN could still field a sizeable battleship force, if permitted to finish repairs / refits and there is the iron reserve of fuel for one last sortie. The ground forces are a mixed lot, a sizeable number of divisions is still at full strength, but there are also a lot of shattered remnants. The supply situation is catastrophic in China, Manchukuo and Kora, precarious in the Home Islands - way too few supplies for a prolonged resistance.

But the war has been lost a long time ago when it became impossible to ship home the oil and fuel from Palembang. The stop of all but the most urgent production - modern fighters - and the trickle of oil from sources in the Home Islands and China just made it possible to prolong the agony.

Some die-hards in my Armed Forces demand to fight-on and defeat the Allies on the holy ground of the Home Islands - but that is unrealistic.

The world has suffered enough - let's make peace and be friends again. Of course Japan will need money from the former enemies to rebuild the country and they should prevent any new troubles by buying lots of the office and home entertainment electronics and the cars we are going to produce soon!

[Q-Ball]

Thank you gents, this was a great read!

[CV10]

Congratulations on finishing up and making it all the way to 1945! Props to the both of you and thank you for years of great reading.

This was the first AAR I followed from the first post (I lurked for years) to finish.

[RangerJoe]

Congratulations on the game! [&o]

Too bad your kamikazes could not have been that effective earlier against those CVE TFs.

[FeurerKrieg]

Great game! I've been following along for the last 3 years or so. Very nice to see some late war activity. Thank you for the AAR!

[Jorge_Stanbury]

[&o]
awesome game!

[LargeSlowTarget]

Thanks guys!

I'm reading Ed's excellent AAR and my own humble one in parallel to compare.

It is funny to rediscover the big plans made six years ago and to see how the game has actually evolved.

And again the old adage has been proven to be true - no battle plan survives contact with the enemy!

[MBF]

Nicely done to both of you !

[IdahoNYer]

Awesome Uwe!

Just finished going through the AAR. Very much enjoyed "seeing the other side", as well as your personal touches throughout. I'm still chuckling over the "P-38s sweeping, LST weeping" line!

But geeze….I'm asking myself if I really want to do this from the other side after going through the AAR! What you accomplished with major industry issues is simply phenomenal. The late game was the most challenging of all for me, and you consistently bettered me with MTBs, SSXs, and those damnable Kamikazes. I just hope I can do half as well as you while playing the dark side. I'm positive I'll glitch production even more...so you have that going for ya!

Again, for everyone's benefit on the forum - thanks for a great game and being such a fantastic opponent. A true gentleman as well...I really appreciated the mulligans when I jacked up some settings.

[GetAssista]

Congratulation on finishing the game! And keeping us entertained in the process [&o]

[offenseman]

Outstanding on all counts. Thanks for AAR!

[Bif1961]

Good to the last drop, of bombs. I am in early 44 now as the Japanese and I hope to do as well as you have done. I still have Chung King to go though. I hope you pick up the gauntlet again soon, after a well deserved respite. Awesome game guys.