The Power of Inexperience / GreyJoy(A)-Rader(J)

[GreyJoy]

deliberate attack will be ordered for tomorrow.
 
à la guerre! à la battaille!

[jeffk3510]

thats what I was getting at, and then noticed it wasn't showing up in the fleet anymore... on the second day.

[ny59giants]

You will need to look at your leaders and hope that the fix MichaelM did works or you will have to spend more PPs to make changes. If your troops and leaders are OK, then....CHARGE!!!

[Grfin Zeppelin]

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

deliberate attack will be ordered for tomorrow.

à la guerre! à la battaille!

Vive la....uhm ABBDA ?

[Chickenboy]

From a JFB perspective: Ugh. Remarkably light casualties coming ashore at Akita. Remarkably heavy A2A losses for him. I too wonder where the heck his Kamikazes are and why they haven't been enrolled in the fight yet.

Canoerebel is right. He's running out of time to employee EVERYTHING at his disposal.

Anyways, nice turn for you, Grey Joy.

[obvert]

How much is left to unload? Any more tanks or combat units? Maybe some big guns haven't come off the ships yet?

I would bet you'll need a couple of days to get right even though the CD guns weren't anywhere near as bad here. You'll still only probably get in one good one before the reinforcements start coming in.

Your pilots did pretty well, eh?

Just out of curiosity, what do you have on the way to the area from other regions? I know you've got some sneaky reinforcement divisions coming in from India or somewhere. [;)]

[jeffk3510]

GJ- have you landed everything you plan on landing, minus a "floating" reserve?

[GreyJoy]

A part from the fragments of two divisions, everything should be ashore by now (but i don't have the turn yet). If needed i have some more 5,000 AVs with the third waves but they aren't prepped for Aikita...so i'd like to avoid it...
 
And basically both my landings (Hachinoe and Aikita) were succesfull because of the surprise effect...now that the surprise is gone i don't know if it's wise to committ a third wave right now...
 
I'll try to use what i have ashore...the Amaori Corp should be able to resist with a favourable terrain and some air bombings if needed...
 
Tomorrow will try to attack at Aikita...will have 3 more unloading phases before the general attack...if i re-build the Amphib TF in the right way (placing all the APA/AKAs with the slow xAP) i should be able to get everything ashore before the ground combat phase...
 
Usual naval and air bombings will be ordered...
 
Let's just hope my generals are in place and that the distruption isn't too high (but it shouldn't considering how smooth the landings went)...

[GreyJoy]

was wondering why Rader didn't place (as he's used to do) a strong LRCAP over his cruisers....very strange
 
He also said his cruisers weren't supposed to move in that way...they should have lingered out of range for the first day and then arrive at the night of the second day to run avhoc among my (gost) fleet...

[GreyJoy]

As for hachinoe, i have 1 Army HQ, 1 Corp Hq and 1 Command HQ fully prepped for Aikita...Rader has more or less the very same disposition...so it will be close...gotta hurry up

[Miller]

Well regardless of what happens on the ground, you have destroyed I would guess at least 50% of his remaining cruiser strength. Any CA lost for the IJN is a disaster..........looks like you got at least half a dozen this turn!

With regards to the A2A losses, rader is now paying the price for losing most of his top pilots in the India and Solomons campaigns. True he still has lots of the latest airframes, but they are piloted by noobs. Looks like he will have lost almost 1000 a/c that turn for basically nothing. Only a miracle can prevent you from winning this now[&o]

[GreyJoy]

ORIGINAL: Miller

Well regardless of what happens on the ground, you have destroyed I would guess at least 50% of his remaining cruiser strength. Any CA lost for the IJN is a disaster..........looks like you got at least half a dozen this turn!

With regards to the A2A losses, rader is now paying the price for losing most of his top pilots in the India and Solomons campaigns. True he still has lots of the latest airframes, but they are piloted by noobs. Looks like he will have lost almost 1000 a/c that turn for basically nothing. Only a miracle can prevent you from winning this now[&o]

Don't know miller...fact is that Japan is so overcrowded with troops that, as castor troy says, it will be very difficult (to say the least) to break his lines...i'll do my best anyway and i will go till the very end, no matter the cost or the result...

Thanks for the support!

[GreyJoy]

the problem for the next turn will be the fatigue levels of my fighters...they stayed at 100% LRCAP at 5 hexes!...have to find a way to prevent a disaster for the next round...will think about a solution....
 
What would have happened if we landed the second wave at Hachinoe? probably a great naval battle...for sure...but at Hakodate i got a bloody nose with his BBs that were able to penetrate my screen and bomb the base before my SCTF could come into action...Aikita was the right decision...probably i should have committed some more troops for it....just that

[GreyJoy]

That's why i have chosen to land a blocking force at Aomori...as you can see, with my presence at Aomori, if he wants to transfer units from Hachinoe to Aikita he has to move first south and then take the dirt road that crosses north-south the island...which should take him quite some time...while if i left Aomori free he could easily move his units on the main road to Ominato->Aomori>Aikita... now he's forced to committ reinforcements in strat mode from the south...and i may catch them in that mode if they arrive during my attack....

[HansBolter]

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

ORIGINAL: Miller

Well regardless of what happens on the ground, you have destroyed I would guess at least 50% of his remaining cruiser strength. Any CA lost for the IJN is a disaster..........looks like you got at least half a dozen this turn!

With regards to the A2A losses, rader is now paying the price for losing most of his top pilots in the India and Solomons campaigns. True he still has lots of the latest airframes, but they are piloted by noobs. Looks like he will have lost almost 1000 a/c that turn for basically nothing. Only a miracle can prevent you from winning this now[&o]

Don't know miller...fact is that Japan is so overcrowded with troops that, as castor troy says, it will be very difficult (to say the least) to break his lines...i'll do my best anyway and i will go till the very end, no matter the cost or the result...

Thanks for the support!

Do you really have to break his lines?

Haven't you created a mighty anvil of land air and sea forces for him to smash himself upon?

[GreyJoy]

ORIGINAL: HansBolter

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

ORIGINAL: Miller

Well regardless of what happens on the ground, you have destroyed I would guess at least 50% of his remaining cruiser strength. Any CA lost for the IJN is a disaster..........looks like you got at least half a dozen this turn!

With regards to the A2A losses, rader is now paying the price for losing most of his top pilots in the India and Solomons campaigns. True he still has lots of the latest airframes, but they are piloted by noobs. Looks like he will have lost almost 1000 a/c that turn for basically nothing. Only a miracle can prevent you from winning this now[&o]

Don't know miller...fact is that Japan is so overcrowded with troops that, as castor troy says, it will be very difficult (to say the least) to break his lines...i'll do my best anyway and i will go till the very end, no matter the cost or the result...

Thanks for the support!

Do you really have to break his lines?

Haven't you created a mighty anvil of land air and sea forces for him to smash himself upon?

Maybe...but Japan won't surrender untill we have kicked out the Emperor's arse out of his golden palace! In Washington D.C., In London, at Pearl Harbour, in Karachi, in Sydney....everywhere in the western countries peoples are screaming for REVANGE...and, as we know, Generals must listen to their people's needs as they listen to their soldiers...

[:D]

[paullus99]

Once the Combined Fleet is eliminated as a surface force (and didn't Rader lose some of his BBs in the Solomons Campaign?) & GJ has established himself on Honshu proper, he'll be able to leap frog troops around any potential large road-blocks. And getting large bomber bases that much closer to the rest of Rader's factories means an even more intense strategic bombing program.

[GreyJoy]

i can proudly say that with this last rally we've surpassed (sp!?) PZB's thread and we're now following Cpt Mandrake's one in the AAR Hit parade [:'(]

[HansBolter]

I'm with you there. Perhaps I should have put it differently.

Do you really have to break his lines now?

I find allowing the enemy to break himself upon a stout line for a bit while catching my own breath sets him up for an easier breakthru when I'm ready....

may be the opposite is true here though as time may allow him the oppurtunity to reinforce in very great strength...

I'm certainly no late game expert and was offering up the questions as much to learn from the answers as attempting to offer advice [;)]

[GreyJoy]

ORIGINAL: paullus99

Once the Combined Fleet is eliminated as a surface force (and didn't Rader lose some of his BBs in the Solomons Campaign?) & GJ has established himself on Honshu proper, he'll be able to leap frog troops around any potential large road-blocks. And getting large bomber bases that much closer to the rest of Rader's factories means an even more intense strategic bombing program.

Well, Musashi and some more mighty BBs are still in his hands (till now 5 have been sunk)...so the threat is always there! for sure today was a very important day cause without all those CAs Raders ability to win every naval encounter has terribly decreased....but let's not forget that the KB is still out there lurking in the shadows...untouched...and his LBA Air Force is not defeated...weakened for sure, but not defeated!

It really seems like Normandy 1944....