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Played as Allies.

The Japs sent only 1 set of sorties to Pearl and sank nothing.

I located the whole Jap carrier force pretty easily (not spoiling by saying what it looked like).

I took 5/6 of the flight deck of Akagi and 4/6 of the Soryu out

To try to have some fun I sent my TG 8.2 surface force to intercept the carriers. The AI swarmed me with planes and sank the lot.

I got a Marginal Allied Victory...?

Q: So in this scen if the Jap AI doesn't sink ships at Pearl straight off does it give up trying? Also in the scenario selection screen there seems to be no Mission specifics as to what the Japs need to do in score/effort to win.

I feel like crap posting like this but it may help balance the game/tweak the scens for a patch.

I had the same problem playing as the US on the Pearl Harbor scenario. (Well, I didn't bother attacking the Japanese carriers.) Neither time I played did the Japanese get to Midway. They only launched the one strike, and the only real damage they did was damaging Pennsylvannia enough to force her to split off.
 
As the Japanese, I sank all the American Battleships. I launched an initial strike consisting of all my planes, and was able to launch a second strike after refueling and rearming.