kaiser73
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ORIGINAL: Hirohito Hi All, Lots of people here keep screaming that if PI, DEI, and Malaya aren't taken right away then you might as well just surrender. If you look at the Japanese campaign, it seems to me like it was sloppy. Too many ships, planes, and soldiers sitting around too often. It seems to me that if you planned to have every IJN ship, every plane, and every soldier engaged with the enemy as often as possible it would be possible to speed up the conquest of the areas covered in the original campaign. Several things about the original campaign are puzzling. Why did the phillipines hold out for so long? Why did the japanese take so long taking southern borneo? Why did they wait so long to hit Celebes? Why did they wait so long to hit DEI? Why didn't they move IJN into the indian ocean after the fall of malaya and take burma by sea instead of slogging through the jungle, and why didn't they take the islands in the indian ocean including Ceylon, and why didn't they launch a campaign aimed at the coastal cities in India? If you plan things down to every plane, every ship, every soldier, every supply transport for months in advance, and ensure that all units are engaging the enemy at all times unless they are doing R&R to recover from combat, is it possible to speed up the timetable for the fall of PI, DEI, malaysia, singapore, and burma? And, then turn your sights to bigger game like India or Australia? Hirohito If you use everything you have, and plan carefully to use any unit after they achieve their first goal instead of letting them sitting for a while, i think you can either: 1) Conquer all SRA (malaya, Java, Phi, Borneo, Southern Burma, Timor) by end of February (but no advance on guinea/pacific) or 2) Conquer all SRA (malaya, Java, Borneo, Southern Burma, Timor) except part of philippins (clarck and Manila) but with addition of all south pac islands, all guinea, solomons, down to noumea. by end of february. What you will do after is to be seen though.
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