Sea Mines -- Toyohara Straits
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2021 12:29 pm
Just finished another grand campaign as Allies. I launched an invasion of the Northern Japanese Islands in early 1944 -- capped Kushiro and Sapporo ealry on and began pushing south onto the main Island of Japan.
I noticed the mined strait south of Toyohara -- hex 84,91 -- cannot be "deactivated" or converted as the Allies can never occupy or put into a ZOC hex 84,91. This is unlike other mined straits that can be converted to your control by occupying both sides of the strait. Examples: Bandar Lampung Straits, Singapore Straits, Surabaya Straits, (etc.) can all be switched to your control when both sides of the straight are occupied. It put a severe cramp into my strategy of invading the Northern island of Japan as I was not able to shift amphibious operations into the Sea of Japan from this area of the map.
I noticed the mined strait south of Toyohara -- hex 84,91 -- cannot be "deactivated" or converted as the Allies can never occupy or put into a ZOC hex 84,91. This is unlike other mined straits that can be converted to your control by occupying both sides of the strait. Examples: Bandar Lampung Straits, Singapore Straits, Surabaya Straits, (etc.) can all be switched to your control when both sides of the straight are occupied. It put a severe cramp into my strategy of invading the Northern island of Japan as I was not able to shift amphibious operations into the Sea of Japan from this area of the map.