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Well, it's now the 28th of december. The last 10 days have been nothing but disappointing for the IJA/IJN. First in North China, the Mongol army offensive against Yenen was soundly crushed, and 6 divisions are now on retreat. The lines have stabilized though. In central china, our offensive south of the Changsha railway lines, some 100'000 Japanese troops clash with over 150 000 chinese. Boggled down...

In Malaya, We've trapped 30'000 british troops, cut off from Singapore. But Percival still has 40000 men defending Singapore itself, accoring to our recon. Our offensive in Singapore is boggled down too... In Burma, our army is soon reaching Rangoon, but with no success in Malaya, what good can it do?

In the Phillipines, General McArthur is holding out at Bataan with over 100'000 men. We only got 70'000 men in all of the PI. Boggled down. Thankfully we hold Clark field and Manilla though. And the IJAAF has promised to give air support, while the IJNAF will strange allied supply lines to Bataan. Uncertain success in the PI.

In Borneo, we captured Kuching, Jesselton and Miri on Borneo, but the men won't advance forward (don't know why. One aspect of the game I still haven't figured out. Sometimes my men will advance when I give the order, other times they won't... crap. So, the attack on Borneo has halted.

In the Southeast pacific, our attack on Rabaul failed, and we've taken up defensive positions near Gasmata, awaiting reinforcements. The Kido-Butai was on its way to the Coral Sea to give support to our landings there, but an allied CV-TF struck Eniwetok. We suspect there are at least two CVs in that TF, so the KB has set course north to Eniwetok, hopefully to intercept the allied CVs. The mini-KB has used up all its supplies and fuel and needs replenishment time.

Attacks on DEI have not yet commenced. The only good news from the last 10 days are the confirmed sinking of the USS Enterprise (we knew from before it was heavily damaged. Now it's reported in the NY Times how many men died in that steel coffin) We've also sunk two allied submarine tenders. Unfortunately, the allies have eaten a good chunk out of my AP/AK fleet the last 10 days.

At Imperial General HQ in Tokyo, the naval chief of staff, ADM Nagano and the army chief of staff, GEN Sugiyama both hope for a miracle, since there are hardly any more reinforcements availible.


Losses as of 26th of December 1941:

Allies: over 650 a/c
Japan: some 130ish a/c

Morale is still high with the troops though, since most of them don't realize what a miserable strategic situation Japan is in.



A few questions:

1. If I upload my save file, will somebody have a quick look, to see why my troops aren't marching, or if you know a secret (well, sort of...) on how to get them marching, will you let me know, please... It's bugging the living crap out of me.

2. 6x AKs and 3x APs in under a month in casualties as the Japanese. In addition to 2x DDs and 1x SS. Navy pool of pilots gone... (I don't understand this, as I started out with 100 in the navy pool and 200 in the army pool (I think). I've lost 134 a/c, and yet, my pool of pilots have been reduced by much more than that.

3. Will the allies be able to supply their troops at Bataan in the PI, even though I have complete air and naval supremacy. And if not, will they starve to death? Does the same go for Singapore?

4. What have you normally taken after a month of gametime, playing as the Japanese?


Thanks!

Burma Front 28th of December 1941

Southeast Front 28th of December 1941

Phillippines Front 28th of December 1941

Borneo Front as of 28th of December 1941

Recent intelligence reports

and at last, the allied naval losses:

ORIGINAL: temagic


A few questions:

1. If I upload my save file, will somebody have a quick look, to see why my troops aren't marching, or if you know a secret (well, sort of...) on how to get them marching, will you let me know, please... It's bugging the living crap out of me.

It gets me angry sometimes...

This is probably something you've already checked, but just in case: Have you looked at the units themselves to see how many miles they've moved towards their destination? They will take a while to move on those trails - from 12 to 30 days to move 1 hex.

ahhh... No I haven't really checked. And considering I've played for only 3 weeks gametime, I'll give it a bit more... I'll see the information screen that you talk about, and see if I'll learn something. Thanks!

I just thought that, since I can't see movement, then they aren't moving... I'm probably mistaken though...

There is a bit of a learning curve to this game, to say the least. [:)]

No there isn't.  There is no learning curve at all for this game.
 
There is a learning cliff.
 
(We still haven't heard back yet from the first guys to jump off that cliff, by the way.  But we expect to any day now.)
 
[:D]

What dtravel said.

I haven't jumped off yet, but like most of us I'm clinging at the edge. [;)]

2. 6x AKs and 3x APs in under a month in casualties as the Japanese. In addition to 2x DDs and 1x SS. Navy pool of pilots gone... (I don't understand this, as I started out with 100 in the navy pool and 200 in the army pool (I think). I've lost 134 a/c, and yet, my pool of pilots have been reduced by much more than that.

3. Will the allies be able to supply their troops at Bataan in the PI, even though I have complete air and naval supremacy. And if not, will they starve to death? Does the same go for Singapore?

4. What have you normally taken after a month of gametime, playing as the Japanese?

Hi

First of all: this forums have a special AAR section where all of us (I hope so) post their war reports. If you plan to post your succeses here, please start a tread in the AAR section instead. Please check it out, it can be of a great help also[;)].

2. Ship loses are acceptable for a such period. I'd say they are miserable. Don't worry about it, you'll lose much more in a future. And about pilots pool... well, have you read the Mogami Method's description? I suppose you didn't, because if you did, you'll never complain about drawing pilot's pool... please listen to the one's who are trying to help you.

3. The allies willn't be able to supply troops in Bataan... nor in Singapore all in all. The AI can't manage this, as far as I'm concerned[:)]. They will not die themselves, you'll have to to come and siege them. Be pacient, bombard for a time period (let's say, 3 weeks or month would be just ok) and then attack. With lack of supply there will be no problems to capture them.

4. Nothing serious. Trapped forces in Philippines in Manila (less forts, easier to siege), Davao, Tarakan, Kuching, Brunei, Miri, Hong Kong, Changsha, Rabaul, Canton, Wake, most part of Malaya to Sing. Sieging takes time, and you can't eliminate huge forces without sieging. That's it, just be pacient, don't hurry. And read the posts also[:)].

Alex.

2. 6x AKs and 3x APs in under a month in casualties as the Japanese. In addition to 2x DDs and 1x SS. Navy pool of pilots gone... (I don't understand this, as I started out with 100 in the navy pool and 200 in the army pool (I think). I've lost 134 a/c, and yet, my pool of pilots have been reduced by much more than that.

Many of the IJNAF Nell and Betty units start out with 36 a/c (9 in reserve) and 27 pilots. If you have 'replacements' set to ON, this might be where all your pilots have gone.

You might also visit the WitP Wiki (link in my signature), though it is inclomplete and hasn't been updated for a while - still some valuable information, collected from the manual and many forum entries...