Japan 46 Campaign Supply Sources

[Elxaime]

Hi all,

We are looking at these for the upcoming patches. Please feel free to post any other observations.

David

Thanks.  Regarding entering Tokyo Bay, some added thoughts:

- It may be the Allied fleet, and its accompanying air support, are simply too powerful for any combination of Japanese coastal guns or mines to prevent them access to Tokyo Bay.  In 1915, for example, the Allies simply considered using naval power to force the Dardanelles, and some historians believe they almost succeeded.  In that case, maybe it should be easy to remove the mines and operate in the bay;

- If the designers think Allied doctrine, at the least, would mean they would want to clear the coasts on either side of the entrance, then that is another issue.  By 1946, keeping Allied casualties low would have been an even bigger domestic political issue than the year before, and even though stay-behind Japanese coastal guns may not have been as big a threat to Allied armored war vessels, it would have hampered softer vessels using water routes to resupply the troops as they advanced.  Not to mention opportunistic shelling of the invasion beaches.  So that may be a countervailing reason to create a special rule for needing to take the bay entrances;

- one design I found interesting from the Japan 45' game was the modeling of Japanese kamikaze air attacks and suicide ships and other special operations as an attrition factor on the Allied navies.  I have wondered why Allied fleet attrition represented in Japan 45' is missing from Japan 46'.  It might create an interesting dynamic if such attrition (perhaps at a lower percentage chance) is put into the game unless/until the objectives on both sides of the bay entrance are cleared.  This would create a real incentive for the Allies to take those areas (and stop the attrition) and likewise a real reason for the Japanese to hold them.