Slitherine

Tobi72 wrote: ↑Fri May 16, 2025 3:50 am You could also try other tactics. For example, I bomb the flak first with strategic bombers and then I send tactical bombers to them when they are in AT mode, for example.

The “Bloody Sky” mission is probably the most difficult and unpleasant task in this campaign, I admit.

Tobi72 wrote: ↑Fri May 16, 2025 6:21 pm Victory in round 13.
Operation Argument, Runde 13.zip

Tobi72 wrote: ↑Sat May 17, 2025 5:24 am I will certainly think about one or two projects in the future.

Tobi72 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 24, 2025 6:04 pm LVT Amtank
Thanks to bebro for letting me use his graphics for the campaign.
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Iwo Jima (February–March 1945)
Iwo Jima. Bonin Islands. Enemy: US Marine Corps.

26th Tank Regiment (Lieutenant Colonel Nishi) — 11 Type 97 tanks*, 12 Type 95 tanks
Note: *some of them were improved Type 97s

The 26th Tank Regiment was formed from the reconnaissance unit of the 1st Tank Division. Regiment commander Nishi came to the tank forces from the cavalry. He was a renowned horseman and won the equestrian competition at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles. After surveying the island, Nishi concluded that there was no room for tanks to manoeuvre on Iwo Jima, so he ordered the existing tanks to be dug in and used as pillboxes.

The regiment's units took up three defensive positions. The 2nd Company, with its attached artillery platoon, dug in on the western side of the island, the 1st Company, with its attached artillery platoon, dug in on the southern side, and the 3rd Company and the regiment headquarters took up defensive positions on the eastern side of the island and behind the main position.

On 20 February, the day after the landing, the 1st Company engaged in combat with the marines and the Sherman Company supporting them. The company fought until 1 March, when it was completely destroyed. On 25 February, the 3rd Company was sent to the second airfield with orders to defend it from the Americans. Despite fierce resistance, the airfield was captured by the Americans on 27 February.

On the morning of 28 February, the 2nd Company, which had been hiding in caves, suddenly attacked the 21st Marine Regiment. Despite the surprise attack, the Americans repelled it with grenade launchers.

The remnants of the tank regiment were gathered near the village of Maruman in the east of the island and continued fighting as infantry, since all of the regiment's tanks had been lost.

http://tankfront.ru/japan/in-action/tank-battles.html

Tobi72 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 26, 2025 5:59 pm Mission 6 - "Resistance in the North" in progress
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I've added another mission, ‘Night of a Thousand Screams’ so there are now 9 missions in total for the campaign.

Tobi72 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 27, 2025 8:32 am There were no specialised ‘mountain troops’ in the Japanese army in the Western sense, such as the German Gebirgsjäger or Italian Alpini, but there were units that performed similar tasks and operated in mountainous or inaccessible terrain. Japan developed so-called light divisions with reduced equipment and artillery, which were better suited to mobile warfare in mountainous and jungle-like terrain. These were used, for example, in the Burma campaign or on New Guinea.

Tobi72 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 27, 2025 8:42 am There were also some special units of the Japanese army:
Teishin Shudan: commando operations, raids on airfields, ambushes deep in enemy territory
Fukuryu: diving specialists, a kind of commando unit on water
Kempeitai: military secret police

Specialised jungle and guerrilla units: Ambushes, cutting off supplies, attrition - similar to later Vietcong strategies

Tobi72 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 27, 2025 8:58 amDXU.png

Tobi72 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 31, 2025 6:53 pm Next project: ‘The Battle for Irún’ The campaign is set during the Spanish Civil War. The offensive on Irún began on 19 August 1936 under the command of Colonel Alfonso Beorlegui.
The campaign is currently planned with 7 missions.
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