Hey guys
.. This is my first time hosting a Check6 event, so I'm hoping alot of you show up.. It starts at 3pm est but get there a lil early to make sure you have your ride. Looking at the setup below, the Americans might get their tulips kicked, So I might enable the chog for gameplay (haven't decided yet)
Anyone who wants to command a sqdn or overall cmdr, send me a note sometime today at bear1@bigisland.com
Overview:
A desperate Gamble to Protect Japan
Admiral Soemu Toyoda, the commanding officer of Japan’s Combined Fleet, made up his mind on October 18, 1944 to send his three separate naval forces to destroy the two U.S. fleets and an immense invasion convoy heading for Leyte. The decision, he said, was “as difficult as swallowing molten iron” --and for good reason. The admiral’s battle plan, outlined on the map shown below, was designed to neutralize the air superiority of the American Third Fleet, whose 800 carrier-based planes outnumbered all of the Japanese aircraft within range of Leyte Gulf. Toyoda knew that even if the plan was successful, it would probably cost him half of his warships.
But with the security of the home islands at stake, Toyoda’s admirals welcomed the mission. Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita, commanding the main force of battleships and cruisers, felt that the fleet had “the suicide spirit.” Vice Admiral Shoji Nishimura, whose only son had recently been killed in action, was eager to join him in patriotic death. Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa volunteered to sacifice his entire force to lure the Third Fleet away for Leyte Gulf.
As Toyoda’s forces steamed out to do battle, nearly everything went wrong. Radio failures disrupted the admirals’ efforts to coordinate their attacks, and they were betrayed by their inferior radar equipment. Human error exacted an even heavier toll: the veteran commanders, their judgment impaired by exhaustion and mounting losses, made blunders that hastened their downfall. Toyoda himself was responsible for many of the reverses that were suffered by his forces. He tried unwisely to direct the battle from his underground headquarters located in a Tokyo suburb, and hi contributed to the destruction of the Southern Force by permitting its two sections to go into action without a single overall commander.
The far-flung struggle ebbed and flowed for three days, with clashes taking place as much as 500 miles apart. When the battle ended, the Japanese Navy had lost 26 of its 64 participating warships. Never again would it engage the enemy as an integral fighting force.
Terrain- Phillipines
Icons- short
Dar- Sector bars only (I think that is 9)
Fuel- Normal
Unlimited lives
Use the following planes
Japanese - Ki61 and Niki and Ju88 for Japaneese land bases. Zeke for IJN CV's
American - F4UD and F6F and TBM for CV's.
Both- PT boats, M16's.
Bases open will be A4, A5 A7 A8 P34 P36 P38 P40 and all the CV's of course.
10Bears
