Rising Sun under ver. 1.03 - Not good

[Mr. Guberman]

Banzai attacks (as designed into CS) are absurd. Japanese "Banzai" attacks worked against the Chinese and gained quite a reputation...but they were just standard assaults, combining the excellent Japanese morale and the decrepit Chinese morale...the Japanese did, invariably, shout "Banzai" as they assaulted. They were in no way the concocted supper assaults as depicted in CS. That is why I am reluctant to add leaders to the Japanese in my scens, for fear of the super Japanese contemplated here.

The Japanese gained their successes by unbelievable tenacity...and suprise of surprises, by infiltration. If the Japanese were to properly be represented in CS, their infantry should move like "light infantry"...as they invariably popped up in the most unexpected places, moving through difficult terrain very quickly.

Other than against the Chinese, where the "Banzai" was coined, Japanese charges were slaughtered (Sumatra, Burma, the South Pacific, everywhere where they faced modern automatic weapons), with no benefit to the Japanese other than reducing the number of mouths to feed on their flimsy supply lines. "Banzai" attacks were almost always performed as a last act of suicide, rather than as a military tactic. Now that can be done in CS, assault as much as you want to, out of ammo and against undisrupted, entrenched enemy and historical "Banzai" charges can be replicated...with the accompanying slaughter. Certainly there is no evidence that the hopped up "Banzai" attack, as we see it here...ever existed. It is malarkey.

Cheers
Curt