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[Sgt_Rock]

Just out curiosity, how are the Japanese civilians handled.  I have read that the Japanese were supposedly forming groups of teen age boys and girls for suicide missions against American forces.  The teen age boys would be mounted on torpedoes for attacks against American ships.  The teen age girls were given a hand grenade and were to attack American infantry men.  Based on what I have read about Japanese preparations, had Operations Olympic and Coronet gone forward, there would not be a Japan today.

This was an early program that they abandoned. Instead they formed civilian groups on a small scale realizing that it would be a useless waste of life. Remember that the "Banzai" attacks were a thing of the past after Saipan (pretty much). At Oki and Iwo they had changed to the "dig in and grind it out" strategy that actually worked better. It cost the Allies more losses for each of those operations.

In the game there are four towns/cities that have groups of armed civilians. They are about 50 men each and have a decent hard value vs. vehicles due to the stick grenade bundles that some of them would have carried.

There were plans to get troops that were bypassed or who escaped being POWs to form as insurgents. I added in about 8 of those units to appear in hilly/mountainous areas about 15 days into the operation.

The Kamikaze forces (planes, suicide subs, etc.) are factored into the amphibious landing casualty values instead of having their own units in order to save on time. While its abstract it works. The transports (large and small) were the targets. I also a Withdraw value for the ships (currently its 5% but I am thinking of reducing it to 3%). This means that during the game some of the ships will be withdrawn. For the campaign scenarios, because of their length, I may have to cut it back to 1%. For the short landing scenarios (2 days - 15 turns) the value will remain at 5%.