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General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: PandE on April 13, 2007, 05:39:11 PM
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I saw a question raised on a TV documentary (see below) the other night. What would the outcome be had the US spotted the Japanese invasion force before the Dec. 7, 1941? The episode simulated the question by gathering historians and navel officers to command in a war room using calculated losses and gains. I thought this was good idea, but under today's computing abilities freaken outrages.
Please let me know if this has been done before, but wouldn't it be cool if this scenario were an HTC special event?
Military Channel Ref:
"Myths of Pearl Harbor:" Japanese sub and planes attack american ships in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941, Documentary.
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Yoshimbo or VF2Yoshi has made a nice map of Pearl Harbor.
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Originally posted by spikes
Yoshimbo or VF2Yoshi has made a nice map of Pearl Harbor.
he should get rid of that bish's air spawn at 10k. a bit annoying when we're having mass ki67 raid and bam. 4x P40s come strafing us.
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I don't know how much of a defense the American forces could have put up if they'd had warning, but it's an interesting question.
The more important question of the battle is, what would have happened if the Japanese hadn't held their third wave of attack? If they had hit the fuel depots, what would the US prospects for war in the Pacific have been?
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I'm with 68hawk.
Sorry but I don't see the US as a big threat at this point. Too busy running around chasing their own tails, worried about sabatage.
What if they'd hit Pearl with what they planned at midway, not just knock it down but capture it? US then does not have a staging point, it has the west coast ports ONLY. Japan takes over the entire pacific, can stage carriers offshore to keep the US bottled up. US can not move anything on the Pacific without Japanese long range Flying Boats & Patrol craft spotting them. So every time the US did try to move offshore they'd be swarmed with Japanese carrier planes.
Biggest things preventing this from happening.
Air & ground forces failing to work together. Army & Navy are wrapped up in a perpetual power and resource struggle.
Not enough trained, experienced pilots. Japan took too much of China/Mongolia and was trapped trying to hang on to it. If they'd hit china hard, smash & grab, then get out and move on to the next target. They'd of had more of everything available for the islands.
Not enough resources, not enough manufacturing capability.
US could have still won by building lots of carriers & planes on the east coast. Then through the Panama Canal and strike HARD at Pearl. But it would have been a lot tougher, taken a lot longer, with many more casualty's.
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Originally posted by spikes
Yoshimbo or VF2Yoshi has made a nice map of Pearl Harbor.
Dux's release will be much better.
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the knights had a 10k air spawn too, idk where it went lol
also about if the japanese had captuared it, i made room for this originally with spawns for lvts at the shores
that map is one of my first (either 2nd or 3rd map i ever made) and is buggy as could be lol
Dux's release will be much better.
where can i get it when it's done?
also hearing that people are actually using my maps is pretty neat, i think i'll set a version 2.0 of my pearl harbor map as one of my future projects