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there will also be convincing evidence in his sigint that i am planning for anything but the west coast [:D]

i shall take all troops to Osaka, unload them, have them plan for India, perhaps australia, then once everythings in place they shall sail for America [:D]

You are NOT going to prep for the USA ???.
 
Then: [font=arial]YOU WILL FAIL.[/font]
 
Your troops are going to fight strong, fully supplied and extremely well dug in forces in a CITY HEX (most likely they WILL be prepped), without prepping, you will simply dont have a chance of rooting them out fast enough to take the USA. If you want to take the USA you must do it quickly.
 
US troops are NOT weak, badly led and supplied chinese troops, which you can steamroll out of their city hexes.
 
I hope you KNOW about the rule that will IMMEDIATELY provide the USA with ALL the troops it would get within 180 days once you cross a certain border ?.
 
You must realise that you will take significant troop/shipping losses once your aproach to the US coast is detected and airstrikes by B25-B26's and B17's/24's at 3000 feet come pouring in? Even if you manage to cover all your ships with the KB's uber CAP, you will slowly take zero attrition to the point that there simply will no longer be enough of them to provide effective cover. The nearest supply base where you can pick up new ones is what? johnston island ? 
 
Once your carriers have depleted their zero's, the invasion fleet will be bombed to pieces offshore. To provide aircover you must take an airbase quickly enough for you to provide CAP for the fleet. Problem, how to GET planes to that location?. If you ship them in, it will take forever for them to assemble, and the allies will bomb your AF to bits befor you even repair a single fighter. if you use a CV to transport them, it will give you even LESS aircover in the initial aproach and landing.
 
Your only chance will be to surprise the US with the KB and destroy a lot of planes on the ground befor they can attack your invasion fleet. Downside to this approach is that the KB will be almost out of fuel once you get there, so you will have to take a long supply train with you to refuell the KB (more ships equalls more chance of being detected)
 
The more chance you have of being detected, the smaller the chance for you to pull of a complete surprise.
 
If the remaining US CV's are near the west coast once you arrive and they knock out even 1-2 of your CV's then it's definitely game over...
 
You would have my deepest respect if you could pull this one off, but I think it will just provide us with 3-4 weeks of (highly exiting) AAR based on the MAD principle..
 
Good luck.
 
 

them,

unless he takes a little more time to capture the u.s....it's gonna depend on winning the decisive air and sea battles, then he can take as long as he likes once his massive army is ashore, and if he wins those he can pretty much send more reinforcements in at will, its not guaranteed at all that he will fail this way and that's a pretty ridiculous notion, it all depends on many factors and what happens once he approaches the coast, which we have yet to see

ORIGINAL: TeK

them,

unless he takes a little more time to capture the u.s....it's gonna depend on winning the decisive air and sea battles, then he can take as long as he likes once his massive army is ashore, and if he wins those he can pretty much send more reinforcements in at will, its not guaranteed at all that he will fail this way and that's a pretty ridiculous notion, it all depends on many factors and what happens once he approaches the coast, which we have yet to see

agreed

once san diego, seattle and the United states hex falls, americas defeat will be inevtitable

capturing the US hex will be easy, holding it harder, and seattle and san diego shouldnt be too hard either, by nature of the ENORMOUS support im dedicating to this operation

im literally sending almost every AP in the IJN, and as many big divs as i can, not to mention engineers and base support plus planes, ships, submarines

all the carriers, battleships, I-boats

hell be outnumbered in ships some 10 to 1 at least

and ill have vastly superior planes and hundreds of thousands of supplies and fuel

and my zero production is 200 +, bettys at nearly 100

judging by denns deployment of bombers, hell send everything he has to attack, which is where san diego comes in

no more san diego, no more bombers for denn

no more US hex, no more supplies, fuel

once seattle falls, hell be in a crossfire like he is in china

hell have no chance

all that has to be done is to get him in a negative position in america, and it shall fall

and the war will be unwinnable for him

cuz hell or high water, i will not withdraw without victory

I think you are doomed before you start. If you go after mainland US. Way too many units show up almost full strength and 100% prepped for the city they arrive in. Way, Way too many air units will appear and make a hash of your shipping. All it takes is a few lucky hits on your CV's and they have a real long way to go to a safe port.
 
You have roughly a month sailing time to get to the US from Japan. Because your slowest ships will be doing 8 knots or so from system damage by the time they get there. If I was the Allied player, you would find alot of airpower in the US, my CV's would be lurking near Alaska waiting to pounce and destroy anything that starts limping home. By now, the Allied player should have Catalinas on every rock island around. Going to be real hard to sneak up on him. Granted, I never leave the US unguarded until late 42. Until then, there is a slew of troops and aircraft on the West Coast. All prepping and awaiting shipping.
 
You really need to clear out the DEI and then move to the West Coast.......by then, his CV's will be forward deployed along with alot of his troops and airpower.

im not so sure, ive got some 400000 troops committed, a well thought out plan, all available carriers (theyre doing quite well) im determined to succeed at any costs, and i have superior ships planes and troops

itll be costly but i believe it can succeed

The China Situation

Blue indicates airbases fully operational and operating bombers
Green indicates the fighter field at Nanning, which will become a larger base
White indicates airbases which will be fully operational within a few weeks
Red indicates Kweiyang, which i intend to drive on and secure as a forward air base

wont be any turns for a while, mark is a dumbass who somehow went 6 straight years on his computer without learning how to maintain or preserve it (thats just the bottom line)

haha

bitch

[:D]

However in other news on the China front, Ichang is now fully operational as an airbase and hosts a number of bombers transferred from Nanchang, hence Nanchang shall most likely no longer serve as a forward air base for the CEF Air Force

The China Situation Now

Again

Blue indicates fully operational airbases
White indicates airbases which will be operating within 3 weeks
Green indicates the expanding fighter base at Nanning
Purple indicates the next target of the Japanese Army in China
Red indicates airbases no longer operating as frontline airbases

Le Frontline

The next phase of Operation Anaconda involves taking Kweiyang and Kunming thru siege warfare and heavy, and daily bombing of industrial and strategic targets in China, at Chungking, Chegtu, and Kunming

Ive gotten in touch with denn, and it SHALL be continued!!!! i have recieved last turn, and will be working on it soon!!!