Imperial Tide: DW (J) vs Nemo/Jansako (A)

[PaxMondo]

Sure. I can't fit it in one screenshot though:

SWEET!!!!

To be printed as a poster and put on a wall

+1

I'm just sitting and enjoying the view!!!

[DesertWolf101]

Fast forward to May 13, 1943

I've stopped updating for a while, but the war continued. The key highlights over the last few months are as follows:

Crossing the line in Australia

Having conquered India, I shifted some forces to Australia and crossed the emergency reinforcements line. Japanese forces rapidly pushed south, isolating Sydney and converging on Melbourne.

Australia

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Convoy Battles

Meanwhile, there were several large convoy battles near Antarctica as Jansako attempted to bring reinforcements and supplies to Australia. I largely suceeded in spoling this effort, sinking plenty of shipping and troops, but lost Kaga in a glaring mistake on my part. That is the first flattop lost by Japan so far.

Alaska

Finally, the fighting in and around Alaska has been very intense since the start of the year. The Allies lost heavily here, losing two BBs, 4 CAs, 4 CLs, and dozens of DDs and 30+ submarines. The Empire in turn lost a couple dozen DDs and a few submarines. This past turn Kodiak, which represented the first major Allied invasion, was retaken. The fight here will only get more difficult however, as the Allies pour in good quality aircraft like Corsairs, Thunderbolts, and Hellcats into the fight.

Alaska

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[DesertWolf101]

Here is the overall score

Score

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And the overall map

Map

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[CaptBeefheart]

I only see sadness on that map.

Is NZ next? CONUS?

Cheers,
CB

[DesertWolf101]

I only see sadness on that map.

Is NZ next? CONUS?

Cheers,
CB

Nope, the Japanese expansion is pretty much over. The Allied war machine is kicking into high gear now and I will be transitioning to the strategic defensive.

[DesertWolf101]

The War Continues - January 1944

This is a first - Japan has fully secured all of India and all of Australia. This however marks the full extent of the Japanese conquest and from now on it's all about keeping the Allies back as 1944 rolls on.

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[DesertWolf101]

The Overall Score

The allied LCU losses in particular have been horrific. Now Japan's LCU losses will start to skyrocket however as the Allies start taking out Japanese forces in their advance.

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[PaxMondo]

The War Continues - January 1944

This is a first - Japan has fully secured all of India and all of Australia. This however marks the full extent of the Japanese conquest and from now on it's all about keeping the Allies back as 1944 rolls on.


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That is a LOT of resources, supply, fuel, and oil if you are transporting it back to HI (I assume you have been). How big is your economy right now. If you use tracker, can you post a screenshot of the WitP Chart? Thanks!!!

[DesertWolf101]

The War Continues - January 1944

This is a first - Japan has fully secured all of India and all of Australia. This however marks the full extent of the Japanese conquest and from now on it's all about keeping the Allies back as 1944 rolls on.


Screenshot 2026-08-24 104047.png

That is a LOT of resources, supply, fuel, and oil if you are transporting it back to HI (I assume you have been). How big is your economy right now. If you use tracker, can you post a screenshot of the WitP Chart? Thanks!!!

Sure, here is the chart:

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The economy is doing very well. I don't think I will run out of anything really before the end of the game.

[DesertWolf101]

Aircraft R&D Program

A key factor behind the very successful campaign is a well organized aircraft research program. Here are some of the program's key milestones:

N1K1-J George - January 43 (excellent all around workhorse for the IJN)
D4Y4 Judy - February 43 (800kg a deadly threat to enemy BBs)
J1N1-S Irving - May 43 (Very helpful in countering early enemy 4E night strikes)
Ki-84r Frank - July 43 (Secures air superiority against the Allies into 1944)
Ki-67-Ia (T) Peggy - August 43 (Dramatically expands overall Japanese anti-ship capabilities)
B7A2 Grace - October 43 (Very versatile strike weapon for land and sea deployment)
A7M2 Sam - February 44 (Critical airframe required to compete with Allied carrier fighters into 1944)

A dozen late war airframes are also in development and making very good progress.

[PaxMondo]

Sure, here is the chart:

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The economy is doing very well. I don't think I will run out of anything really before the end of the game.

O M G !!!!

Over 35K supply produced/day!!!??! Over 7.7M supply!!?! 57 AC/day .... yikes!!!!

[PaxMondo]

Aircraft R&D Program

A key factor behind the very successful campaign is a well organized aircraft research program. Here are some of the program's key milestones:

N1K1-J George - January 43 (excellent all around workhorse for the IJN)
D4Y4 Judy - February 43 (800kg a deadly threat to enemy BBs)
J1N1-S Irving - May 43 (Very helpful in countering early enemy 4E night strikes)
Ki-84r Frank - July 43 (Secures air superiority against the Allies into 1944)
Ki-67-Ia (T) Peggy - August 43 (Dramatically expands overall Japanese anti-ship capabilities)
B7A2 Grace - October 43 (Very versatile strike weapon for land and sea deployment)
A7M2 Sam - February 44 (Critical airframe required to compete with Allied carrier fighters into 1944)

A dozen late war airframes are also in development and making very good progress.

Agree with all of these. George/Frank/Sam are always CRITICAL aircraft for me. Dates are consistent with what I get as well. I also work the Grace model as well.


Ki67T ... how do you train pilots in advance for this, or do you have to wait for the plane to arrive and then train the pilots?

[DesertWolf101]

Aircraft R&D Program

A key factor behind the very successful campaign is a well organized aircraft research program. Here are some of the program's key milestones:

N1K1-J George - January 43 (excellent all around workhorse for the IJN)
D4Y4 Judy - February 43 (800kg a deadly threat to enemy BBs)
J1N1-S Irving - May 43 (Very helpful in countering early enemy 4E night strikes)
Ki-84r Frank - July 43 (Secures air superiority against the Allies into 1944)
Ki-67-Ia (T) Peggy - August 43 (Dramatically expands overall Japanese anti-ship capabilities)
B7A2 Grace - October 43 (Very versatile strike weapon for land and sea deployment)
A7M2 Sam - February 44 (Critical airframe required to compete with Allied carrier fighters into 1944)

A dozen late war airframes are also in development and making very good progress.

Agree with all of these. George/Frank/Sam are always CRITICAL aircraft for me. Dates are consistent with what I get as well. I also work the Grace model as well.


Ki67T ... how do you train pilots in advance for this, or do you have to wait for the plane to arrive and then train the pilots?

What I do is I train IJA pilots on NavB as a secondary skill which also raises their experience, and so when the Ki-67 T arrives they transition to Torpedo training and are quicker to graduate with higher skill/experience.

[PaxMondo]

What I do is I train IJA pilots on NavB as a secondary skill which also raises their experience, and so when the Ki-67 T arrives they transition to Torpedo training and are quicker to graduate with higher skill/experience.

Yeah, not much else to do ....

[DesertWolf101]

Cargo ships - Are they turly limitless for the Allies?

With over 2,000 ships of the xAK type (and variants such as xAKL, AK, AKA, etc.) comming into service during the war, one would think that the Allies would effectively never be short of them. That is not entirely true however. In this campaign I've sunk approixamtely 800 of the type and it's just January 1944. In fact, the Allies currently have significnatly less operational cargo vessels than they have lost. All that to say, even the most common vessel type in the game can theoritically be made scarce under the right circumstances.

[PaxMondo]

Cargo ships - Are they turly limitless for the Allies?

With over 2,000 ships of the xAK type (and variants such as xAKL, AK, AKA, etc.) comming into service during the war, one would think that the Allies would effectively never be short of them. That is not entirely true however. In this campaign I've sunk approixamtely 800 of the type and it's just January 1944. In fact, the Allies currently have significnatly less operational cargo vessels than they have lost. All that to say, even the most common vessel type in the game can theoritically be made scarce under the right circumstances.

Well, I know I spend a lot of effort "hunting" allied convoys, and I kill all that I can. The main reason I do it is because they are permanent VP's. The second reason is that killing troops is easiest before they arrive.

So, I quite agree with you. In any case, you can certainly create a local shortage of shipping, even if you can't create a global shortage. And a local shortage can be very advantageous to your goals.

[hpalmer]

Keep the updates coming Desertwolf! Us forum lurkers treasure your adventures!!

[DesertWolf101]

Keep the updates coming Desertwolf! Us forum lurkers treasure your adventures!!

Thanks hpalmer, I don't have the time to post too frequently unfortunately but can give periodic updates.

[DesertWolf101]

Allied Invasion of Ceylon

Jansako saw that I was maintianing a minimal garrison in Ceylon and he sent an armada of ~300 ships to land a large invasion froce there. I saw him coming of course, and positioned LBA to counter. My air strikes inflicted significant damage, but he was able to land a very large force (unfortunately, no afternoon strikes due to weather).

Morning Air attack on TF, near Colombo at 29,48

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 47 minutes

Japanese aircraft
B5N2 Kate x 92
D4Y4 Judy x 23
G3M2 Nell x 66
G3M3 Nell x 31
N1K2-J George x 51
P1Y1 Frances x 23
P1Y2 Frances x 25
Ki-43-IIIa Oscar x 140
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 47
Ki-45 KAIc Nick x 18
Ki-48-IIb Lily x 11
Ki-67-Ia (T) Peggy x 196
Ki-84r Frank x 69

Allied aircraft
Corsair II x 6
Seafire IIC x 6
F4U-1A Corsair x 40
F6F-3 Hellcat x 168

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 10 destroyed, 2 damaged
B5N2 Kate: 1 destroyed by flak
D4Y4 Judy: 4 destroyed
G3M2 Nell: 12 destroyed, 3 damaged
G3M2 Nell: 1 destroyed by flak
G3M3 Nell: 2 destroyed, 3 damaged
N1K2-J George: 2 destroyed
P1Y1 Frances: 5 damaged
P1Y2 Frances: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged
Ki-43-IIIa Oscar: 2 destroyed
Ki-67-Ia (T) Peggy: 15 destroyed, 13 damaged
Ki-67-Ia (T) Peggy: 3 destroyed by flak
Ki-84r Frank: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Corsair II: 1 destroyed
F6F-3 Hellcat: 3 destroyed

Allied Ships
CVE Battler, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
CVE Santee, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
CVE Anzio
CVE Breton, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
CVL Princeton, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
xAP Arundel Castle
xAK Fort St Croix, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
LST 11
BB South Dakota, Torpedo hits 1
DD Queensborough
DD John Rodgers
DD McKee
CVL Independence
DD Charles Ausburne
CVE Prince William, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
CVE Corregidor, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
CVL Belleau Wood, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires
CLAA Juneau
xAP West Point
xAK David Dudley Field
LST-350
LST 280, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Quilliam
DD Daly
CVE Altamaha, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
CL Caradoc
LST 199
xAP Empress ' Scotland, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage
LST 208, Bomb hits 4, and is sunk
DD Quadrant
CLAA Atlanta
xAP Thomas Barry, Torpedo hits 1
xAK Benjamin Holt, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
LST 239, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Quickmatch
DD Fullam

Allied ground losses:
402 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 50 destroyed, 49 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 46 (40 destroyed, 6 disabled)
Vehicles lost 32 (28 destroyed, 4 disabled)

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Colombo at 29,48

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 119 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 35 minutes

Japanese aircraft
D4Y4 Judy x 63
G3M3 Nell x 44
Ki-43-IIIa Oscar x 23
Ki-43-IV Oscar x 85
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 20
Ki-45 KAIc Nick x 9
Ki-48-IIb Lily x 23
Ki-67-Ia (T) Peggy x 66
Ki-84r Frank x 84

Allied aircraft
Corsair II x 5
Seafire IIC x 6
F4U-1A Corsair x 36
F6F-3 Hellcat x 159

Japanese aircraft losses
D4Y4 Judy: 18 destroyed, 3 damaged
D4Y4 Judy: 1 destroyed by flak
G3M3 Nell: 9 destroyed, 1 damaged
G3M3 Nell: 1 destroyed by flak
Ki-43-IV Oscar: 1 destroyed
Ki-45 KAIa Nick: 1 destroyed
Ki-48-IIb Lily: 2 destroyed, 4 damaged
Ki-67-Ia (T) Peggy: 14 destroyed, 8 damaged
Ki-67-Ia (T) Peggy: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied aircraft losses
Seafire IIC: 1 destroyed
F6F-3 Hellcat: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
DE Baron
APA Du Page
xAP Speelman, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAP Van Rees
CL Leander
DD Kalk
CL Ceylon
CVL Independence, Torpedo hits 1
CVE Anzio, Bomb hits 1
APA George Clymer
AKA Procyon, Bomb hits 1, on fire
APA Feland
xAK Jalapalaka
xAP Camphuys
xAK West Nilus, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
xAK Aroona, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Dashiell
DD Hobby
CVL Princeton, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
APA President Monroe, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
AKA Arcturus
xAK Samvern, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Samois
APA Doyen, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
LSI(L) Glenorchy
DD Brownson
CVE Santee, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AKA Electra, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires

Allied ground losses:
466 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 36 destroyed, 28 disabled
Engineers: 48 destroyed, 16 disabled
Guns lost 6 (3 destroyed, 3 disabled)
Vehicles lost 13 (12 destroyed, 1 disabled)