Video Game Thread.

For those who want to buy Battlefleet Gothic, it Will release at the end of March and Will feature Imperium, Chaos, Orks and Elddar as playable factions. No Word about the Tau as of yet but it is possible they Will be in a DLC. The game also looks Beautiful and clearly has a lot of thought put into The mecanics to make everything work properly.

I am looking foward to Fire Emblem Fates releasing in Europe so I can play as Nohr. Who want to support the squaky clean good guys when the bad guys are just so much cooler? They have wyverns for Naga's Sake.

The closest to a Warhammer base building game in the upcoming future is Warhammer: Total War. Although that one seems to have some trouble With publicity.

In which I play Order of Battle: Pacific as the Japanese and Write Down my experiences like in a journal.

December 7, 1941 is a day that shall be celebrated for years to come, for today we have struck decisively against the US navy base on Pearl Harbour and sunk all the battleships anchored there. Despite the resounding success of the operation, I am worried over our inability to destroy the fuel depots on the island, which would have crippled US Navy operations for months.
In the end I can at least console myself with the fact that we managed to destroy nine squadrons worth of fighters with no losses of our own. We are going to need all the aces we can get in the time to come.

Thank the emperor, for we have won a great victory! Attacking with a ferocity signature of our glorious army, we managed to easily break through Allied defensive lines and capture the bridges they were trying to destroy. Continuing to build up our momentum, we continued our attack on Dinalupihan, gaining air supremacy underway. It is there a catastrophe was only narrowly averted as an engineering unit and a heavy weapon battalion were cut off from the rest of the army by a surviving US tank battalion. Only extreme bravery and skill from the rest of our forces managed to save their lives.
Despite resolute resistance from the Americans, in the end they stood no chance against our glorious army.

At Bataan it first became clear just how fast our army had advanced: we broke through defensive lines that should have held for weeks in two days, meeting only disorganized troops as we went on. The Yanks had had no time to fully reinforce their defences, instead trying to use it as a delaying measure while they build up their secondary defensive lines around Mt. Samat. I can easily say this was the hardest battle of the campaign so far, the American and Philippine forces fighting with all their might.
In the end it was all a waste though, with my forces eventually annihilating their pocket of resistance, capturing Mt. Samat and its artillery guns and turning them on their former masters. It was only after we had almost broken through that the Imperial Navy send some assistance: a pair of destroyers, two divisions of marines and a supply ship.
I ended up barely using the destroyers for more than bombarding troop positions while more trusted troops took Corregidor. No point in giving the Navy more opportunities to brag then they needed.

Karel Doorman was a worthy opponent. Despite my carrier and battleship outgunning his fleet by an order of magnitude, he still choose to hold back some of his ships in an ambush for my transports. The trick would have worked to, had it not been for thorough reconnaissance by my floatplanes. It says a lot of the loyalty his men must have had to him that they were willing to commit to this ambush and later, sink the Haguro in revenge for sinking their flagship. I pray that in a different world, we two could have been friends.


I have to give it to the Dutch: they might be oppressors doing nothing but bleed Java dry but they do know how to defend. All the way from Bavaria to the final surrender there were strong points, destroyed bridges and dug in troops as far as the eye could see. And I was forced to bludgeon through all of them. By the time we could finally claim victory I had gained a sort of begrudging respect for these Western soldiers, who kept fighting despite all hope having been lost long ago.

Defeating the US naval forces in the Coral Sea was not that difficult. Finding those ships on the other hand took the better part of two days and lots of patience. And in the end I only managed to sink the USS Yorktown, USS Lexington ran away the moment her air group was defeated. No matter, I will get her next time.

There are only a few times during a war one gets the chance to deliver a crippling blow to the enemy. I have a feeling Midway was one of those times.
Our mighty navy managed to decisively defeat the US navy in battle, sinking four of their carriers with minimal losses of our own. Strangely enough the USS Yorktown was also present in this battle despite that I could swear she was sunk at Coral Sea. No matter, I just sunk her again and this time I had my destroyers drop several on the sinking wreck. That should make sure that ship stays sunk.
I am especially proud of the performance of Kongou and Ashigara. Kongou really is indestructible, taking dozens of shells without flinching while Ashigara was like a hungry wolf, starving for victory as she sunk ship after ship. There Will be plenty of glory to win for both of in the Battles to come.

Tommorow I Will re-take Gualdcanal and it looks like it is going to be another slogfest.

It is kind of like the other Slitherine games like Panzer Corps except in that completing bonus objectives during main missions occasionally has knock-on effects in later missions. For example, sinking all Battleships during the attack on Pearl Harbor means that the US Will have no Battleships availeble for the Battles on Coral Sea and Midway.
It is also very good in getting across the feel of the Battle, like how it feels to advance rapidly or how an attempted organised retreat gradually turns into a chaos where it is every man for himself.

No, the US campaign begins With the attack on Pearl Harbor. As for the units, you get points which you can use to buy and repair units. However, since those points are Limited and most of the time you just end up fighting With what you have.

I don't know if Montana-Class ships are availeble but some of the units the Japanese do get are jet fighters and an upgraded Version of the Type 97.

Operation Downfall is the last mission for the US campaign. By then you Will also have Access to B-29 nuclear bombers, Montana-Class Battleships and a lot of other units which never made it past the prototype stage in real life.