Captain Sternn
In Bloom
World Domination Tour - update Jan. - June 1936
During this period, no ships or men were lost and no enemy action occurred as at present there are no enemies. It's always like this, you spend the first 18 months building up and waiting for the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937 to trigger finishing the occupation of China. Then you can go to town. I haven't even had any ships out of the barn yet, it's time to get my fleets organized. Ship inventory at present is 8 fleet carriers, 20 heavy cruisers, 2 +/- light cruisers, 1 destroyer, 8 subs, 2 transports and 10 landing craft. It's also time to start ferrying men over to the front in China, pre-positioning for the coming fight. In production I have 2-3 factories to raise Industrial Capacity (a must), 2 subs, several convoy ships (the need for these is ongoing). Needs will always outweigh capacity, you have to choose carefully what to build, and with foresight, much of this shit takes months. The composition of my forces is not historically accurate, I altered that "off camera" taking Japanese military buildup prior to 1936 down a slightly different path.
My plan for defeating America - There is one constant when it comes to America, and that is, As ye fucketh about, so shall ye findeth out. I'm not sure it can be done, but if you open up on them too early, you run out of steam, they catch up and bury you. You wait..and I dunno 'cause I never have but I expect that when I do declare on them I'll be facing more ships, planes and men than I can overcome. All I know is, the first thing I have to do is take Singapore, Oosthaven and Batavia, and Borneo, yielding oil production and refining, gold and rubber. In so doing I will go to war with Great Britain, France, Netherlands, and Australia/ NZ. Very doable but no pushover, you can't handle them and America at the same time, so I'll let America wait. They tend to stay out of the war until attacked directly.
So after Dutch East Indies and surrounding parts, I will leave Australia behind me unmolested and head for Ceylon/Sri Lanka. The Maldives, and Africa's east coast, Mombasa, Durban
Cape Town, leaving enemies operating in my rear areas, but not uncontested. I have to interdict military and shipping movement at the Suez Canal and Cape Town. At that point I will have to take a breath and consolidate a bit before moving on up Africa's west coast to Dakar, and into the Caribbean, hopefully by then I will also be poised to go after...Seattle ? Forces in the Caribbean will seize the Panama Canal, and I will try to go at America through Mexico, or perhaps by snipping America's Dong, Florida, off at the root might get me a toe hold.
To do all this, I gots to hurry. I don't normally leave gomers running around in the rear but no choice here. I will not be joining the Axis until very late in the game if at all. Germany will likely receive no direct help or lend/lease from me, the shit I'm doing is very much to their benefit and if they can't capitalize on it, fuck 'em. Same for Italy. And we'll just have to see. Note, the Axis cannot fulfill their Victory Conditions without me, if Germany holds up I won't be joining but if they fall then yeah maybe but for this to work I need to avoid problems with Russia at least until near the end. If I'm to defeat the USA I'd like to have 5 full years to work with, so I'd need to be staged and pull the trigger come 1943 and that's a real tall order.
Most updates won't be as long as this one, just describing gains and losses, and oncoming production mainly. We may hear from the Emperor at some point ??
Peace, friends. Enjoy it while it lasts, because it's not going to. Japan is hungry for some respect and has only one way to get it.
During this period, no ships or men were lost and no enemy action occurred as at present there are no enemies. It's always like this, you spend the first 18 months building up and waiting for the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937 to trigger finishing the occupation of China. Then you can go to town. I haven't even had any ships out of the barn yet, it's time to get my fleets organized. Ship inventory at present is 8 fleet carriers, 20 heavy cruisers, 2 +/- light cruisers, 1 destroyer, 8 subs, 2 transports and 10 landing craft. It's also time to start ferrying men over to the front in China, pre-positioning for the coming fight. In production I have 2-3 factories to raise Industrial Capacity (a must), 2 subs, several convoy ships (the need for these is ongoing). Needs will always outweigh capacity, you have to choose carefully what to build, and with foresight, much of this shit takes months. The composition of my forces is not historically accurate, I altered that "off camera" taking Japanese military buildup prior to 1936 down a slightly different path.
My plan for defeating America - There is one constant when it comes to America, and that is, As ye fucketh about, so shall ye findeth out. I'm not sure it can be done, but if you open up on them too early, you run out of steam, they catch up and bury you. You wait..and I dunno 'cause I never have but I expect that when I do declare on them I'll be facing more ships, planes and men than I can overcome. All I know is, the first thing I have to do is take Singapore, Oosthaven and Batavia, and Borneo, yielding oil production and refining, gold and rubber. In so doing I will go to war with Great Britain, France, Netherlands, and Australia/ NZ. Very doable but no pushover, you can't handle them and America at the same time, so I'll let America wait. They tend to stay out of the war until attacked directly.
So after Dutch East Indies and surrounding parts, I will leave Australia behind me unmolested and head for Ceylon/Sri Lanka. The Maldives, and Africa's east coast, Mombasa, Durban
Cape Town, leaving enemies operating in my rear areas, but not uncontested. I have to interdict military and shipping movement at the Suez Canal and Cape Town. At that point I will have to take a breath and consolidate a bit before moving on up Africa's west coast to Dakar, and into the Caribbean, hopefully by then I will also be poised to go after...Seattle ? Forces in the Caribbean will seize the Panama Canal, and I will try to go at America through Mexico, or perhaps by snipping America's Dong, Florida, off at the root might get me a toe hold.To do all this, I gots to hurry. I don't normally leave gomers running around in the rear but no choice here. I will not be joining the Axis until very late in the game if at all. Germany will likely receive no direct help or lend/lease from me, the shit I'm doing is very much to their benefit and if they can't capitalize on it, fuck 'em. Same for Italy. And we'll just have to see. Note, the Axis cannot fulfill their Victory Conditions without me, if Germany holds up I won't be joining but if they fall then yeah maybe but for this to work I need to avoid problems with Russia at least until near the end. If I'm to defeat the USA I'd like to have 5 full years to work with, so I'd need to be staged and pull the trigger come 1943 and that's a real tall order.
Most updates won't be as long as this one, just describing gains and losses, and oncoming production mainly. We may hear from the Emperor at some point ??
Peace, friends. Enjoy it while it lasts, because it's not going to. Japan is hungry for some respect and has only one way to get it.
