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This is the other campaign I am playing, this time as the Japanese against the famous Nemo. We are playing with minimal rules and like the game against Loka we are playing stock Scenario 2 (with stacking limits). This is the first time I play with Scenario 2 as the Japanese, having exlusively taken Scenario 1 in the past. To be frank, I don't like it, the Japanese are way too overpowered in the first year with the additional IJN squadrons etc, so I will likely revert to playing with Scenario 1 in the future when taking Japan.

I guess this shouldn't come as much of a surprise, but this has been a unique and interesting campaign. The current date is February 9, 1942, and lots has happend already. I went with an Australia/Malaya opening, and Nemo responded with a a Fortress Palembang (including the 18th British Division and several independent Indian Brigades) as well as a massive onslaught on the Kuriles/Hokkaido with the US Pacific Fleet and any forces immediately available. The northern thrust was parried and defeated, with the loss of three BBs, several CAs/CLs, and two carriers (CV Enterprise and CV Lexington), as well as damage to CV Saratoga. I also took the oppurtonity to land on Hawaii in a counter thrust. I also decided to bypass Fortress PB for now, instead going for landings on Burma/India/Ceylon. China is also being steamrolled, with Chungking being seized on February 1 and now pressing behind the Chinese in the mountains paths around Kunming. Here is the current score:

The current campaign to take Hawaii, with three divisions landed at Pearl. Johnston Island has been a tougher nut to crack than anticipated as Nemo has reinforced it with the 7th Marine Defense Battalion:

I usually take Chungking around March/April, but this time I took it earlier than usual as Nemo attempted to flee with the Chinese towards Burma:

In India, Nemo went for a forward defense and bottled up some of my forces along the southern coast. I will push forces in other directions to circumvent is forward defense:

Warship losses have been moderate, with all of them listed in the image below (no submarines lost so far). Allied warship losses are significantly higher, including 2 CVs, 5 BBs, some 10 CAs, 18 CLs, and scores of DDs and submarines:

February 10

The first attack on Pearl Harbor goes forth. The results are pretty good. An IJA tank regiment is trashed but forts are knocked down and a quarter of the US AV is disabled.

February 14, 1942

After the third attack, Pearl Harbor has fallen.

Ground combat at Pearl Harbor (180,107)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 43911 troops, 506 guns, 325 vehicles, Assault Value = 1310

Defending force 26232 troops, 380 guns, 588 vehicles, Assault Value = 218

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 915

Allied adjusted defense: 418

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Pearl Harbor !!!

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 1 destroyed

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
809 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 41 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Vehicles lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
19963 casualties reported
Squads: 379 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1872 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 19 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 342 (342 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 436 (436 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 12

Assaulting units:
48th Division
33rd Division
4th Tank Regiment
16th Division
Guards Mixed Brigade
8th Tank Regiment
Maizuru 1st SNLF
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
21st Infantry Regiment
19th Infantry Regiment
27th Infantry Regiment
Seventh USAAF
57th Coastal Artillery Regiment
Pacific Fleet
VII US Fighter Cmnd
Oahu Harbor Defense
VII US Bomber Cmnd
Hawaiian Dept
Pearl Harbor Base Force
7th Marine Def Bn /4

The capture of Hawaii takes the victory ratio north of 6:1 in favor of the Japanese. Now where do I go? Should I invade Russia again? Go for a West Coast adventure? Cross the reinforcement line in Australia? New Zealand?

DesertWolf101 wrote: Thu Aug 29, 2024 9:14 pm The capture of Hawaii takes the victory ratio north of 6:1 in favor of the Japanese. Now where do I go? Should I invade Russia again? Go for a West Coast adventure? Cross the reinforcement line in Australia? New Zealand?

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yes!

As an Allied player, my heart bleeds.

I don't know if I've ever seen a more dominating performance than this one, DW. You've really outdone yourself on this campaign!

Wow, must have been quite a game.


Is is going to be continued, the Allies will get lots of new toys to play with in 1943, then in 1944 the steamroll back begins?

Timotheus wrote: Sun Sep 01, 2024 4:15 am Wow, must have been quite a game.


Is is going to be continued, the Allies will get lots of new toys to play with in 1943, then in 1944 the steamroll back begins?

Should go the distance since we agreed to play beyond AV. The idea is we do a mirror game after, and then compare the two game results to see who is the overall winner.

thanks for answering

this is one game which should have had a proper AAR

Come to my Discord for some behind-the-scenes on this. DesertWolf has his own channel there.

March 1, 1942

The campaign continues, with Japan advancing across the map. The Chinese theater has been concluded except for some mop up operations. I am advancing deep into India, remaining Allied forces in Australia have been pushed south of the emergency reinforcement line, and the Pacific is entirely under the Japanese flag.

The victory ratio rose to 7 to 1 in favor of Japan on February 28. Many more battles and invasions to come.

wish there was a video series or a day by day AAR to follow. Tried to read through the discord, but so hard to follow given you're posting about 2 simultaneous aar's and people comment a lot throughout. Congrats on another epic match

Yes, a day by day AAR with pictures to see how his Japanese colonization is going!

alright desertwolf, that's two of us and that makes a quorum. It is now a MORAL IMPERATIVE that you record videos in a Lodrik style or at least a traditional AAR! You're denying us our late night fix!!