ORIGINAL: jwolf
ORIGINAL: HansBolter
I've been merciless about destroying every Japanese unit so I likely have only myself to blame for that 753 LCU stack in Tokyo!
Ditto here, though I am not as advanced as Hans. My game is in Feb 45 with the front line at Beijing, Okinawa, and Iwo Jima. Every Jap unit south of this line has been wiped out. So I fear that I will run into exactly the same problem with a mega-stack at Tokyo and maybe also at a few other major bases within Japan itself. Ugh.
You get that mega stack in 1947/48 in my mod. Personally, I like to take everything on the map and then go for Tokyo.
Using the latest beta, it is not clear that the AI does replace all the eliminated ground units.
But anyway, if you have a look at the specifics, you have killed a lot of the good leaders (ironman 3 has plenty though), and those units tend to be low exp, low morale, and low on heavy equipmnet.
So - taking Tokyo:
1. Rotating BB bombardments, 3-4 BBs per TF. Yokosuka -> Tokyo. Lots of AEs etc in Yokosuka. Massive Cargo TFs from SFO dumping millions of supplies in there.
2. 1000 plane 4E raids at 6000 ft on ground strike. B29Bs preferred. Medium bombers/attack bombers at 2000ft. Fighter bombers at 100 ft. This is after you bomb the light industry and refineries to zero. You can either rotate the groups, or just put them all on 50% rest and let them have at it.
3(a). Put every tank unit you have (Soviet included) in there, and shock attack with them only. Everything else bombards. Also put lots of HQs with support squads to repair your broken tanks.
3(b). If those tank units have infantry elements - stockpile those in the device screen, only replace the tanks.
4. When the numbers look right (yes you will have to sit for 40 minutes reading them on the combat animation screen, maybe after a month) switch the infantry to shock attack. If it doesn't work, then the infantry go back to bombard for a couple of weeks before having another crack at it.
; Julia Child
