War on the Sea | IJN Centrifugal Offensive | Ep.16 - Time for a Carrier??

Welcome to a new series where we take command of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the East Indies Campaign "Centrifugal Offensive".
The East Indies Campaign Mod found on steam or nexus link below:
www.nexusmods....
About this mod
East Indies Campaign
Is a new Standalone Map and Mod centering around the Dutch East Indies in early 1942
The Mod incorporates a number of new ships and a new map with two campaigns of the Dutch East Indies:
Allied Campaign - The ABDACOM Defensive.
Japanese Campaign - Centrifugal Offensive.
ABOUT THIS GAME
1942: The world is at war
The Japanese Empire expands throughout the Pacific where Allied forces attempt to halt its spread. A desperate struggle for control of the Solomon Islands is now underway.
How will you protect your transports as they deliver troops and supplies in the South Pacific? Will you deploy precious aircraft carriers to provide air cover? Do you screen the area with submarines? Or attempt to lure the enemy navy into a decisive surface engagement?
Major Features:
Real time naval combat
Theatrical external-view game play
Play as Allied Forces or Imperial Japan
Over 50 classes of playable ships
Dynamic campaign
Tactical control of aircraft (not a flight simulator)
Fight fires, counter flood compartments and repair ships
Sink ships using realistic buoyancy physics
Historical missions based on actual naval engagements

[@Autofire-nw5ty]

Hey Taff, with the Zero's you need to manually adjust speed as if they move too fast they won't attack. I just did the same with my playthrough of TTE and it worked like a charm. Also, for the mod authors watching, you must give points for sinking merchants. If you don't limit how many there are then you have to provide some reward for sinking them.

[@advorak8529]

48:00 2 Merchants sunk, nothing else damaged, 1 command point. I think points are being given ...

[@dammitdan1662]

When he sunk the first 2 merchant ships he didn’t receive any cmd points

[@ditzy_neko3362]

Hiryū (飛龍, "Flying Dragon") was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the 1930s. Generally regarded as the only ship of her class, she was built to a modified Sōryū design.[Note 1] Her aircraft supported the Japanese invasion of French Indochina in mid-1940. She took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Wake Island. During the first few months of the Pacific War, the ship supported the conquest of the Dutch East Indies in January 1942. The following month, her aircraft bombed Darwin, Australia; and continued to assist in the Dutch East Indies campaign. In April, Hiryū's aircraft helped sink two British heavy cruisers and several merchant ships during the Indian Ocean Raid.

[@andrewmontgomery5621]

Both Soryu and Hiryu are part of the Sakura Empire in Azur Lane.

[@Rob2000]

I never knew we (the Dutch) had that many planes :)

[@weibrot8324]

I was so happy when i read the title and then you bought a submarine and then after all decided to get a CE/CV which you could have gotten all the time and could have prevented the losses of your CAs and MSs x) In my campaign playthrough i will try to equip all of my invasion convoys with at least CEs so they dont get obliterated by enemy air superiority, love your WotS videos, thank you for creating and uploading :)

[@beefymcskillet5601]

Considering most of this play through has been fought in the air and a every time you get a capital ship it gets beat up within 2-3 episodes a carrier seems perfect to merge into a task force. Also you can get subs later when you’re ships get released.

[@admiralradish]

For some reason the word BENJAMMISIN is hilarious to my ears when spoken with an english accent.

[@blackvulture6818]

Just in case, remember that when the game tells you you have an encounter with the carrier task force, you can still launch CAP

[@ditzy_neko3362]

Free saki when the Light cruiser Jintsu gets to port.

[@mikhailiagacesa3406]

It's Jintsu's fate to be pounded to the waterline, only to drift into port.

[@cpalmer37]

i know nothing about this game other than your gameplay and it’s been exciting for every video. i hope with the added aircraft carrier it helps fend off all of the enemy aircraft and continues for your advancement in this game as i would hate to see it end but thank you for the content and great videos.

[@Russ442100]

I'm so glad you got the carrier .. your problem is enemy Air power you need the carrier to combat that .. sub's combat enemy surface ships which so far you have not really faced ... only half way thru video at the moment so I don't know yet .. this will really help I hope! Loving the series

[@jonathanmarsh8205]

You took my advice thank you you get carrier now you got fight cover so will see what happens next episode

[@nicholasbieniek4461]

I Feel like you should get the Sōryū ("Blue or Green Dragon") which was built in the mid 1930s and commissoned very late 1937, she was assigned to the 2nd carrier division and her air group participated in advances near the Yangtze River and other defensive opperations. Then the Soryu operated against chinese forces in southern chinese shore near Canton, but with no aerial combat. In 1940 Soryu was reported sending multiple aircraft up against french forces in the Indochina, supporting the invasion, actively. Her aircraft partisipated in Pearl Harbor and sunk the Utah, damageing 2 other cruisers and the California. She also attacked wake island after Pearl Harbor, Soryu also helped actively in the invasion of the dutch east indes herself. Her aircraft sunk the Don Isidro and the USS Pecos. She helped in the bombing of Darwin, and majorly helped in the indian Ocean Raid, too, helping sink 2 british heavy crusiers. But then was Sunk at the Battle of Midway as known.

[@nicholasbieniek4461]

(Continueing from earlier) Mainly cause most people always forget about the Soryu, and the Soryu shouldn't be forgotten. Why not let her fight in the Dutch East Indes as she did realistically!

[@nicholasbieniek4461]

Also because you could group up the Hiryu and the Soryu into the group they formally were once you have enough again?

[@nicholasbieniek4461]

Just an idea, though!!

[@retmarut4499]

I would go for the big air field but keep it intact. Yeah, you will take some losses during the invasion but on the other hand you haven't been able to build the destroyed infrastructure back up from the bases you took over until now.

[@arthurcrego8297]

Great series and game loved thus

[@blintzkreig1638]

Fun session today, thank you Taff.

[@crackedcactus]

This game seems to be heavily weighted towards land aircraft. Someone of these raids are so large even multiple carriers couldn’t fend off with their entire air group. It would be better to build 1 level 5 airfield on the front and keep it supplied. In the goals flash card it seems to mention that airfields need supplies/oil to restock downed aircraft. Crippling their merchant fleet while building a level 5 might get the air superiority needed to rule the waves.

[@chrisscott6254]

Well, more of this mod…. But in the hands of a player, with vanilla I can still definitely agree.

[@DanielHammersley]

Great progress! Keep the pressure on 'em!

[@DanielHammersley]

Is ship-a-day Hilfiger, Admiral one type each playing the AI for ABDACOM? Seems so.

[@Robert53area]

So the japanese carriers I meant to sail with the sisters. Hiryu and siryu Shokakou zhukakou. Akagi and kaga.

[@eriklinkogel6399]

The carrier should probably be part of the Invasion force, so you can concentrate all fighters on one spot, especially given, that the Allies throw enormous numbers of planes at you

[@feldweible]

I suggest more DDs but only those that has DP guns! You are relying nearly entirely on short range MGs and Autocannons.

[@feldweible]

This AI in fighter planes has a VERY hard time with targets that are changing altitude. It is best to direct your fighters to the deck and stay out of the range of their defensive MGs until the enemy torpedo planes reach the deck and begin their run. Then you will have a better chance of your fighters surviving long enough to intercept. This can also work to your advantage when defending your own attack planes. Until you are sure that enemy planes cannot intercept your attackers, Pull your birds into a BOX formation and circle hard IN ONE DIRECTION! The AI knows when to shoot so weaving back and forth in front of them is just a way to lost your planes faster. Echelon formation is better for torpedo runs. Right Echelon if your target is headed to your right and vice versa if steaming left. This is for flights of up to 3 torpedo planes. If you have 4 planes make 2 flights of 2.

[@mikefischer8576]

Taff once again that more expensive submarine with less torpedoes has a scout/attack plan it can use to help it

[@user-fl6iz5cu7w]

oh taff none the less we love you the same stay safe man. @7:50

[@jamesfrench7394]

Japanese Pronouncation: Doing Great! Don't forget that 'extra' vowels are broken out as an extra syllable. Like that sub, the Keisen is Ke-i-sen (Ka-'ee'-sen), not Kai-sen. Otherwise, doing well! One a question about game mechanics; as you are chronically short of aircraft. I was wondering, now that you have a carrier, maybe you can replace your airplanes? I wonder if, after your carrier has lost some aircraft, and your heavy cruisers are soon to come out of the shop, you were to send the carrier into the big main port for 'Repair'. This way all ships would be there to sail together when fully fixed. -- Now it might take a few days, and depend on how many aircraft you have lost, but would the game mechanics REPLACE the missing aircraft -- IF you put the Soryu (So-ryu) 'in' for 'Repair'? I'm guessing that the game would see missing aircraft as 'damage' to your carrier. If this worked, it would bring you up to full strength in 'planes? If so, that would be a great way to replenish your aircraft as you get ready to move towards Java! (And if there is a light carrier that is cheap with good aircraft statistics, then you could cycle each carrier back in turn for 'repair' and maintain a steady supply of air-frames to take into the fight!)

[@Boundraries]

Since I am an Indonesian myself, Balikpapan is spelled like Bea-lik-pa'-pahn ( I'm struggling to write this )

[@adamtruong1759]

You should honestly just put Hiryu near the mouth of the Makassar Strait and go "power projection for the win!" Also, it's not recommended to have the carrier in front of the task force 30:40. And working on getting Soryu would solidify your position soundly.

[@adrianbeamish4681]

Was just watching this yet another good video as usual are you able to tighten the ship formation to intensify the aa coverage

[@advorak8529]

43:37 ... That "null" still has the drop tank on ...

[@davidwhitfield6025]

Had to laugh when you were worried about the Zero's range. They have a range of over 2,600 kilometres (1,600 mi) - longest range of a singe prop warplane in WW II - so you should have no worries in the confines of the map. Getting pretty tired, as are obviously you, the amount of airplanes the Allies have at this early stage of the war. When did the US have the time and numbers to sell that many PBYs to the Dutch? And how are the Dutch able to put that many pilots into them let alone afford them? I suspect the Zeros initial poor performance was because they were coming in too fast and at poor angles to get off a burst. They got better when the AI started to have them do longer loops around the PBYs. Lord help you when the Allies really get reinforced many more modern planes as well as submarines. One hopes they have factored in the Mark 14s hopless performance during the first year and a half but don't count on it.

[@ghostfacen745]

Hey Taff, will you be playing the B-17 The Mighty 8th Redux, that's coming Tuesday?

[@PREPERMIKE2012]

I have never heard of the NEXUS download Mod Site, but off putting that I need to make an account to download the file. Can you expand on that site and set my mind at ease a bit? I have had the hardest time loading mods in this game to play a different game mode. I have been able to play the TTE mod, but it seems no matter the order I just do not have the computer savvy to load mods to play the other game modes like the Pacific or the ABDACOM game and its features. One funny thing is when I go to steam to download the Pacific MOD, the Pacific MOD only has options for TTE, OP and ABDACOM, but not the Pacific mod itself and if I load the three mods they provide it takes my game to the TTE game mode only. Bit frustrating for me. Really any advise that may help would be great. I want to play the Pacific MOD having access to the new ships if that is possible. Also may I ask what your GPU is? I am using a X6700X and not very happy with it even though it should do fine. Maybe you can advise about game settings for better visual performance for the game.

[@rakaman27]

This game really needs a better map and AI, not gonna lie.

[@westonlee3936]

I have noticed that there are quite a few troops floating out there. What are your thoughts on dropping off 30000 troops all at once at a Java base?

[@RemusKingOfRome]

Apparently the next patch will fix aircraft .. so. Currently in beta testing.

[@fear_naughtgaming192]

Have Microprose let you have a copy of B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th Redux : Early Access ( release 23rd of January 2024)

[@SternenruferinPatchouli1]

why not using BETA version of strategig Bombing with planes?

[@Loucap_]

if i recall correctly, this mod doesnt support the new betas

[@SternenruferinPatchouli1]

@@Loucap_ not yet

[@user-fx2dt5pg4m]

i cannot express you how disappointed i am with your submarine purchase

[@user-fx2dt5pg4m]

sorry i was too furious that you didnt bought it in first minutes of video

[@pkx_phant0m456]

Subs and CVs are boring, Get Battleships and engage the US Groups, its the easiest and best way of defeating US Shipping. With CVs youll just peck at the US Ships taking maybe 1 or 2 in an engagement, where if you engage with a Single BB and a couple Heavy Cruisers, you can easily knock out the entire group in a single engagement. Subs and Planes are just boring to watch 16 episodes of.

[@colindouglas7769]

OMG! You're a cheery soul, aren't you? Don't watch if you find the series boring! Duh!🙄