I have watching a ton of youtube about the Pac and am very surprised at the strategy employed by the Allies. For one thing they fought in the Far Eastern Pac for a good year. Secondly, after the Solomons, they were abler and aimed to go after the ships and planes. Therefore, I am looking to name a strategy that embodies that. Pacific air and naval supremacy–literally hunting enemy air and shipping. And early. Maybe one transport and a couple of guys. What would you call that? Island hopping?
You are referring to documentation about the real Allied strategy in WW2?
I would say that the island-hopping strategy by the US in WW2 does only partly apply to AAA. I would not even bother to develop a strategy in AAA based on that.
Less the grab Solomons, Gilberts, Marshalls, Marianas. More the 800 ships with a ton of sailors and 10000 marines. The strategic objective part is that you are putting so much pressure on the Japanese navy, fighting, losing, fighting, losing, fighting, winning that they cannot do what they usually do, infect the map like a virus. It’s the piece meal approach of Midway versus the “wait until I get a navy big enough to demolish the IJN.”
This is assuming a non Sealion game. This might look like an invasion of Iwo Jima. Collect a navy there. Get some bombers to harass the island and voila it’s the front line! Waves of metal coming at them every turn, with the advantage that you are able to land on the island and lose the carriers. Subs in reserve to take down the cap ships.
Russia can be assisted by the British because pressure is not as great as it normally is?! Could call it the Nimitz. He wanted to go directly to Japan.
One thing I’m wondering about is should you avoid the Gibraltar airbase if you do a SZ110 scramble? I’m thinking if USA isn’t going to be at war by turn 2, almost certainly. You really need the US planes to populate the airbase while the UK planes move to Egypt and/or London. Can you still stack SZ92? Maybe.
You can block SZ92 with only a DD in SZ94 and then only the bomber can reach from the Italians. You still should have 1-2Cruisers, 1DD 1CV up to 2ftr. The main fear is the Luftwaffe coming down and smashing your fleet. If they bought 2 bombers, landed all remaining planes on W Germany and the Italians take Algeria, the stack is unlikely to be good. It may be much better to defend Algeria from the Italian landing. 3uk inf 1french 1AA plus 2ftr can hold off 2inf 1art 1arm 2ftr 1bomb 59% of the time. A little dodgy but the attack isn’t that likely to be attempted. These figures do assume though, that all Med planes can be used except the tac which might have died in SZ96. If a ftr is bid in Scotland, and SZ111 not attacked (or the planes survived), you can still fully load the CV.
Turn 2, planes on Algeria can reach Egypt but not London. So it isn’t as good against a Sea Lion. You could move the CV to SZ110 and put the planes on it, although that does mean probable death for the CV. Might be worth it if it saves London or significantly increases plane losses taking it.
@crockett36 said in Allied Playbook Draft v1.0:
Less the grab Solomons, Gilberts, Marshalls, Marianas. More the 800 ships with a ton of sailors and 10000 marines. The strategic objective part is that you are putting so much pressure on the Japanese navy, fighting, losing, fighting, losing, fighting, winning that they cannot do what they usually do, infect the map like a virus. It’s the piece meal approach of Midway versus the “wait until I get a navy big enough to demolish the IJN.”
This is assuming a non Sealion game. This might look like an invasion of Iwo Jima. Collect a navy there. Get some bombers to harass the island and voila it’s the front line! Waves of metal coming at them every turn, with the advantage that you are able to land on the island and lose the carriers. Subs in reserve to take down the cap ships.
Russia can be assisted by the British because pressure is not as great as it normally is?! Could call it the Nimitz. He wanted to go directly to Japan.
Assuming the Japanese move in predictable ways (into China, SE Asia and the DEI), I like to do a limited island hopping campaign like this:
While I’m doing the above, I also gradually build up a good-sized sub fleet to strangle Japan via convoy disruption…and you can usually accomplish steps 1-3 with about 3 fully loaded transports (plus the necessary surface warships, of course).
Very nonintuitive for me. How does this help Moscow or Eurasia. But I’m having this done to me and it stimes overall Axis income in a big way. In my only Allied game right now I am focusing on building a sizable Indian and Pac fleet so that Japan feels the need to bunch up.
@crockett36 Careful - Japanese code breakers intercepting this communication. If I read that the water distillation plant has broken down at a location code named AF–I’m not falling for it.
lol. great movie. I have been watching a ton of stuff on the Pac lately. Btw, you’re not bunching up.
@JDOW Hey, I haven’t thought about turtling in years. Can you sketch that out a little. I usually fill the front factories with men and the back with fast movers. So I’m assuming you would fill from the front and Moscow? What do you do with the fast movers and figs? Sit tight?
@JDOW also would you mind if I read your input on youtube?
