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RE: Empire of the Sun - 5/5/2021 7:01:52 AM

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Well done on the battle of Socotra ! Down to the bottom of the sea go his last two CVs. Wasp, with three torpedoes, HF/HD, is probably doomed.

The fact that he used his CV here mighty betray his intention to concentrate his forces in India, rather than Australia. This feeling is reinforced by the appearance of the Soviet bombers.

Thanks Ambassador. CV Wasp also took another four bomb hits in the afternoon strike and suffered two fuel explosions, so I would be pretty amazed if it survived.

Yes, I am also pretty convinced he is going all in with India. I have been scouring the sea lanes to Australia from both west and east and the amount of maritime traffic there is paltry at best. India on the other hand receives massive convoys.

Just curious-but aren't you bored at some point. I mean you're top-notch, so is Andy, but while Andy inherited a bad hand, you're still not even remotely challenged as of 12/7/42 when you blasted the Wasp.

Isn't it anti-climatic at some level?

Not at all. I was somewhat less motivated when I dominated early as the Allies in my first campaign since the endgame was pretty obvious. In this one though I know I will be facing a tidal wave of forces in the latter years and it is quite exciting for me to position myself as best as possible to see if and for how long I can resist when that happens.

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RE: Empire of the Sun - 5/6/2021 12:56:34 AM

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ORIGINAL: DesertWolf101

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Well done on the battle of Socotra ! Down to the bottom of the sea go his last two CVs. Wasp, with three torpedoes, HF/HD, is probably doomed.

The fact that he used his CV here mighty betray his intention to concentrate his forces in India, rather than Australia. This feeling is reinforced by the appearance of the Soviet bombers.

Thanks Ambassador. CV Wasp also took another four bomb hits in the afternoon strike and suffered two fuel explosions, so I would be pretty amazed if it survived.

Yes, I am also pretty convinced he is going all in with India. I have been scouring the sea lanes to Australia from both west and east and the amount of maritime traffic there is paltry at best. India on the other hand receives massive convoys.

Just curious-but aren't you bored at some point. I mean you're top-notch, so is Andy, but while Andy inherited a bad hand, you're still not even remotely challenged as of 12/7/42 when you blasted the Wasp.

Isn't it anti-climatic at some level?

Not at all. I was somewhat less motivated when I dominated early as the Allies in my first campaign since the endgame was pretty obvious. In this one though I know I will be facing a tidal wave of forces in the latter years and it is quite exciting for me to position myself as best as possible to see if and for how long I can resist when that happens.

Unquestionably, as of March 1943 you still have Calcutta and the Frozen North belongs to you. Every air combat report I have read favors you.

Good job, but I don't see this as being competitive from my perspective as you've won.

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RE: Empire of the Sun - 5/6/2021 6:59:53 PM

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June 16-17, 1943

Japanese submarine I-10 did good work on its patrol around the Marquesas Islands, evading escorts and sinking two transports containing aircraft. One seems to have had a full SBD-3 squadron on it and the second had only a part of an A-36 Mustang squadron (Andy must have divided it into multiple transports). The question left unanswered for me is whether these ships were bringing these squadrons to the area or departing with them to elsewhere.

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RE: Empire of the Sun - 5/7/2021 2:21:51 PM

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June 16-17, 1943

Japanese submarine I-10 did good work on its patrol around the Marquesas Islands, evading escorts and sinking two transports containing aircraft. One seems to have had a full SBD-3 squadron on it and the second had only a part of an A-36 Mustang squadron (Andy must have divided it into multiple transports). The question left unanswered for me is whether these ships were bringing these squadrons to the area or departing with them to elsewhere.

Probably the full Mustang squadron, just not full complement of aircraft.

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RE: Empire of the Sun - 5/9/2021 12:11:35 PM

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June 27, 1943

I haven't been posting much lately due to a busy schedule but also due to a relative lull in the game. The lull however was broken recently with some important action.

Over the last two weeks, the most important development was the finalization of the next chapter of Operation Furnace, the effort to seize Vladivostok. If you recall, my battleship task force had finally eliminated the Vladivostok fortress after consistent and repeated bombardments. Andy for his part moved the vast bulk of his forces in the pocket away from the line of fire of my battleships into Voroshilov where my single attempt at testing his defenses with a bombardment was very roughly dealt with by his massed artillery.

Given the above situation, I decided a while back to stage a risky direct assault on Vladivostok from the sea. I massed a large army in Voroshilov to keep Andy's attention and forces fixated there, but prepared a second smaller army for the seaborne invasion. I figured I had one chance to make it work - land the forces, and then immediately assault before Soviet reinforcements from Voroshilov arrived.

I landed six infantry divisions, one tank division, and several combat engineer regiments on the 26th of June. To ensure that all my forces disembarked in a very short window of time, I amassed a massive invasion force of some 300 transports and escorts. Andy immediately reacted by sending reinforcements from Voroshilov so I ordered a shock attack even though my troops were still pretty fatigued and disrupted from the landing. To make matters worse, the heavy air bombardment that I had prepped did not fly due to adverse weather over Vladivostok. Nevertheless, I had landed enough force, with stellar leaders and excellent support from naval bombardments and added paratrooper landings, that the assault succeeded despite level 9 forts.

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RE: Empire of the Sun - 5/9/2021 12:33:44 PM

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WOW!

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RE: Empire of the Sun - 5/9/2021 12:34:18 PM

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Having taken Vladivostok, I offered Andy an end point for the game and he accepted. I didn't think it was fair to pressure him to continue if he truly felt there was no reasonable path forward left for him.

This has been an immensely exciting and illuminating campaign. I didn't get to go beyond mid-1943 but that's ok, I learned a tremendous amount regardless. Thank you all for reading, for your comments, and for your recommendations. I want to conclude by thanking Andy for being a great adversary.

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RE: Empire of the Sun - 5/9/2021 1:49:00 PM

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Excellently done! BANZAI!

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RE: Empire of the Sun - 5/9/2021 4:16:52 PM

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I have said that given the right opportunity, that the Soviet Union can be neutralized by Japan. But you had a tremendous start before that.

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RE: Empire of the Sun - 5/9/2021 5:23:36 PM

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Ye gods and little fishes! A bold and stunning move to slay the bear. A pity that you two won't continue into uncharted waters; great game.

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RE: Empire of the Sun - 5/9/2021 6:19:33 PM

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Congratulations to Desertwolf on a great game I couldnt get this one back on track. His deep raids were a thing of beauty and he caught me badly 3 times with them

His timing was impeccable and the only reason I have conceded is I cannot see a way back in less than 18 months and thats a long time to play turtle and do basically nothing even then I think its a coin flip and he would ave achieved 3 AV's in a row !!!!

He outplayed his previous opponent and me so well done to him.

One day I will play him from the start when he decides he can face another Japanese game because I know well I am not good enough to play Japan !!!

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RE: Empire of the Sun - 5/10/2021 4:25:04 AM

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An honorable offer made and an honorably accepted.

Great game thanks to you both!

"One day I will play him from the start when he decides he can face another Japanese game because I know well I am not good enough to play Japan !!!" I just laughed out loud when I read this!

Andy Mac, you've been a big part of this game for a long time. I want to thank you for all your efforts and let you know how much us long-time lurkers have enjoyed the product of your labors. It's a great accomplishment.

And I'd love to see a rematch, too!

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RE: Empire of the Sun - 5/10/2021 1:12:59 PM

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Congratulations on a very good game and great win enjoyed your aar very much would be great to see your self and Andy mac in a full scenario from the beginning

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RE: Empire of the Sun - 5/10/2021 1:30:48 PM

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Great game, congratulations to both sides involved!
Very entertaining and venturing paths less trodden. Thank both of you for the enjoyment

Vladivostok daring assault was a suitable final Banzai too

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RE: Empire of the Sun - 5/10/2021 8:54:28 PM

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A very informative and entertaining AAR. Thanks for taking the time to share it. Agree with others that the writing and graphics were "on-point", and made it a fun read.

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RE: Empire of the Sun - 5/11/2021 3:19:16 AM

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Congratulations on your well deserved win! It will be sad to say goodbye to such a unique Japanese AAR but its understandable with the lull in the conflict and the fact that Andy could've lost in the 1944 Counter attack, but the insanity of Allied reinforcements arriving by 1944-1945-1946 would've given your Japan a good run for its Money.

If the game had continued we would've had a "Cold War" with the USN and RN sole purpose being to "contain" the Imperial Japanese Navy from raiding the Convoy Lines up until late 1944.

So this is what is likely to had happened if we stayed

Burma would be slowly pushed by 1943, but by 1945 a British Amphibious Assault against Burma would commence,

Ceylon Invasion 2.0 would be launched in late 1943,

Russia would be bogged down by Japanese Bombers but will push through slowly unless the IJA can contain any flanking mannovers, like a turtle the tanks can never leave the safety of the AA guns,

Alaska and those islands in the north Pacific will be taken by Summer 1944 if KB is distracted, However they could be retaken stopped by Japanese reinforcements.

An Amphibious assault against the Fiji Islands will commence in early 1944 with a possible Carrier Battle and Battleship Duels.

Depending on the results from Fiji the Solomons Islands OR Marshall Islands will be next by late 1944 or mid. Allied Submarines start biting.

However depending on the results of the said Amphibious Assaults could instead be taken against Indonesia (the SRA) (late 1944) in order to shut down the oil of Japan, the Naval Battle from the aftermath could determine the fate of Japan, the SRA would become a bloodbath for Allied Pilots flying against Elite George and Frank Fighters however.
All the Allies need is one functional base with B-29's in the centre of the SRA to bomb all the Oil regions and doom the economy, provided that they can protect the base from Yamato's guns and replace the dieing Fighter pilots.

Well that's the "What If's" delt with, thanks you Desertwolf for the 42 pages of entertainment that this AAR has provided to this community.

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RE: Empire of the Sun - 5/11/2021 3:32:51 PM

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Great Game!!

Thanks to both of you for providing it!!!

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RE: Empire of the Sun - 7/17/2021 7:42:52 PM

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This is an INCREDIBLE accomplishment. Congratulations. I am incredibly impressed.

When reading this, I had to remind myself with your every post that THIS IS SCENARIO 1, where Japan gets historical OOB.

I have also accomplished a win in 1943, and got all India, and got auto victory in scen1 (..... but it was versus computer, so it does not count

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Once again, this is a classic AAR, alongside the Greyjoy's two AAR's on this site.

Highly, highly recommended to all to read this.

Once again, very, very impressive play.

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RE: Empire of the Sun - 7/18/2021 8:59:52 AM

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Thank you kindly! It was a blast of a game. Somewhat bittersweet though since I doubt I will ever do as well as I did in this campaign.

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RE: Empire of the Sun - 7/20/2021 11:52:43 AM

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Congratulations to my new opponent also from my side.

I followed this AAR with great pleasure: URSS is the only big campaign which I've never done as Jap in a Scen01 PBEM and I was very curious of its outcomes.

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