RE: My first PBEM as Japan - advise needed
Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 3:53 am
ORIGINAL: Sarganto
Thank you for your advice with Manila, PH and Singapur, but we decided to play historical turn one, so PH already happended and I guess the SS will already flee out of Manila. I'm going to do a port-strike on turn two anyway at Manila, because maybe he's trying to load something or forgot to withdraw some of the ships.
In China, I will try a short advance to secure the supply route from Nanning to Hanoi. But the rest will advance from the north to cut off the main force from Chungking. First target is Yenen and I am thinking right now, how I could encircle them best. Should I advance into Yenen and then drive around them with my tank divisions? The problem is, that they will have to march through forest and so on, so I am not sure if they take too long.
The subs in Manila really arent a threat. Their torpedoes are so unreliable, the only things the allies can do with them is evac troops or lay mines. The S boats and the Dutch are the problem ones and I believe only 4 S boats are in Manila at start.
As for Nanning, dont bother. You are much better off taking those troops in northern Vietnam and heading into Burma or Malaya with them. If the allied player moves across the boarder into indo-China, you get up to 4 Viet Mihn divisions (at Hanoi, Haiphong, Hue, and that long name that starts with an "L" NW of Hanoi in this order) for every unit he moves across. And they are capable of stopping anything short of a major effort on his part.