Roosvelt's revenge - AAR Graham vs deVada

[deVada]

It is just an Emperor's dream and Roosvelt's nightmare ...
[:D]

[deVada]

Kamikaze attacks are being intensified.
Two modern US battleships hit badly south of Saigon headed for Takao.
Several troop transports and cargo ships sunk in all theatres.
American divisions took Truk in second wave, precedeed by severe bombardment, covered by Halsey. Imperial divisions counterattacked in next week, retaking the base and capturing numerous squadrons of P47 Thunderbolts. Anyway 3rd Marine Division is still present there and supply level is very low.
Okinawa has fallen. Enemy is at the gates of Japan. All available means of war are deployed in Japan.
Due to fall of many important bases on convoy routes, enemy submarine commanders won't beat U-Bootwaffe records as routine convoys stopped. Situation is serious.
IJNS Taiho has joined Yamaguchi's strike group, and now he is waiting for an occasion for a final decisive battle.
In Australia - Japanese troops have been withdrawn to Darwin, and stubborn defence in Solomons is still active.
Over 50 squadrons are on SA mission, so allies must plan their actions very carefully.
Bankgkok has fallen, Imperial divisions are moving to south China area thereby shortening the defence lines. 6th Army divisions joined the defense positions of CEA.
Tanaka with his battlegroup is also waiting for enemy in Japan.

Last time, enemy flak fire did miraculously good. Even a simple transport task force is able to defend itself only with AA fire. [X(]

Type XXI U-Boats already started the operation of evacuation national archives and military wunderwaffe projects to Argentina, althrough Emperor remains in his HQ aboard Taiho, commanding the carrier force personally. No allied soldier will lay his foot on Sacrificied Japanese soil !! [:-]

More reports to follow.

[Capt. Harlock]

If the routine convoys have stopped, that means the national oil reserve is going down. If it stays below 4000 for more than a few weeks, you should see falls in production levels of everything, planes, artillery, and shipyard points. And there's also the vital kill point multiplier. (Come to thaink of it, what are the actual point totals at the moment?)

[General Pacwar]

Captain, this is Roosevelt, surfacing under a new identity after some troubles with password.

It is now March of 1944, and the allies have successfully landed in Tokashima. The score is 87000 for the Japanese, and 170,000 for the Allies.

The best Japanese Divisions have been bypassed and left to wither in Bouganville, Rabaul, Truk, Saipan and Singapore. The defenders around Phillipines, Taiwan (Formaosa) and on the Japanese homeland appear to be second rate, low experience units.

It illustrates a basic dilemna for the Japanese player.....pull back units to defend the homeland or try to defend out of bomber range? Not an easy decision.

B29 production will kick in next week, but too late to have any influence on the outcome.

Since the demise of the Japanese superfighters just six game months ago (late 1943), the losses in air to air combat have slowly swung from almost two to one in favour of the Japanese, to better than 4 to 1 in favour of the allies. Presumably this is because most allied air units are now around of 90% experience, and the Japanese pilot expereince must be very low. Just a few Hein Squadrons are giving a good account of themselves. During the last two weeks of attacks on the Japanese homeland, the Japanese have lost more than 1500 aircraft each week, surely a new record,and totally unsustainable.
Once again Captain, thankyou !

[deVada]

Althrough some defetistical elements in Japanese High Command are suggesting a [&o] [surrender] Emperor has decided to wage the war further until the last Imperial flag waves.
Last two weeks shown, that enemy got no problems with badly equipped and poorly trained and not so numerous Imperial divisions in homeland, so every base west of Nagoya is now under enemy rule.
After a fierce aerial / carrier battles three weeks ago (all battles were held on 16th of march - just as a birthday gift for the emperor) enemy suffered dramatical looses.
At least 5 escort carriers were sunk, numerous big and several light carriers were flamed as well, both by land based divine winds and Yamaguchi's carriers raid south of Tokyo. So far Yamaguchi has 3 flattops, Zuikaku, Taiho and Akagi (the last one isn't even scrathed). He is operating in central Japan now, covering the strategical withdrawal of Imperial forces.
Admiral Tanaka has succesfully bombarded enemy outposts at Osaka, killing numerous soldiers, many planes, guns and tanks. Then he withdraw unattacked by naval forces seeing the fear in eyes of admiral Merril stationed there. He has several battleships and all cruisiers left, so he won't sell his skin cheaply.

RCS is stopped, so fuel problems are gone. The reserve is at 4500 barrels constantly. Emperor is doing his best to avoid temptation of using "secret fuel reserves", but it won't help anyway.
Fighter pools are OK as well, but some problems have occured with bombers. Experience level among the pilots is averagely 50. There is even no place to put new squadrons to, so many of them were disbanded.

New counteroffensive will push allies back to the sea soon ... !!
BANZAI !!

[deVada]

Japanese carriers are extinquished. Nagoya has fallen. Aomori held.
Tanaka still rolls. [:'(]

Tomorrow, the last Japanese carrier strike will be described.

[Capt. Harlock]

Stopping the Routine Convoy System helped you with your oil reserve?? Hmm...perhaps you were still getting some from Aomori and Sapporo.