War on the Sea | IJN Centrifugal Offensive | Ep.8 - Switching Our Focus

[@devrossik]

Taff, you don't need to send ships from Kuching to get the supplies at Tarakan. You can build those ships at Tarakan directly. That's why that port has a solid colored star instead of a hollow outline. Don't blow those points on a carrier, it will just be sunk by the overwhelming Allied air power. Build a convoy at Tarakan, and sail down to take Balikpapan --- it is weakly defended. Then move down to Banjamasin and Makassar (which you need for victory anyway). Each port you take reduces the strength of the Allied air power that is hitting you so hard. You will need a large build-up in those ports to take your toughest target --- Java.

[@jimmybob6740]

This is definitely what he needs to do now that he’s got a defensive pocket in the west. This AI aircraft replicator goofiness is just awful though.

[@RemusKingOfRome]

Your fleets desperately need air cover .

[@foreverpinkf.7603]

e.g. a fleet carrier.

[@MasterBattle2000]

An aircraft carrier would be good, but I'd be worried about being able to adequately protect it from the great big allied aircraft cloning machine.

[@marcusaureliusantoninusaug2161]

The way the devs developed this game it's more a survival game than a strategy game :)

[@adamsmyth1156]

Nice seeing what would happen had the ABDA actually like....coordinated.

[@danielgyepes1190]

A carrier could be very useful as a mean to defend your fleet, a battleship could bombard shore targets, but it has a lot less AA value.

[@tomblake189]

Expanse and this on the same day? Truly spoiling us!

[@ivepeters]

👍👍

[@VikingTeddy]

This is by far my favorite yt series at the moment. No one brings it to life like you and I enjoy hearing you voice your thoughts..

[@philipgoldsmith8795]

Get 6-8 destroyers with duel purpose guns for better anti air cover , and use them to do a fast run to get your supplies to support your troops , submarines can also carry limited cargo or troops as well ; and remember to put your radar on at the start of an engagement to help accuracy .

[@papasmurfette007]

When sending your convoys, particularly slow cargo ships, you MUST time their runs properly. They need to arrive at dawn, which means a FULL night of darkness as you approach closest to the enemy - thus far less air raids. Also, you really need to get those 5000+ supplies out of Tarakan. I think I suggested before (although I think I said Sandakan which is off map), a fast sea assault (new ships) from Tarakan into Balikpapan (not Banjamasin). A heavy cruiser to reduce the airfield with a light AA cruiser & the existing sub, screening in front of a fast destroyer squadron loaded with some troops. Then more troops and supplies so you can control the Makassar Strait and finish off Borneo. By the way, I think you could invade Dili (Portuguese East Timor) and capture the supplies there, but I'm not sure...

[@mato5758]

Dili is not owned by anyone, so first come-first served. But it would need lots of our troops/supplies to defend, as it`s fairly isolated. And if we place a sub (for sentry duty only!!) slightly north/west of Darwin then we would know of ships sailing out and we can use Dili air power to attack.

[@mato5758]

Handy hint for when you select supply ships for your convoy. Because this campaign favours the allies in air power, you need supply ships that have dual purpose guns, but also to have worthwhile carrying capacity and speed. Shinsu (speed 20, 1200/927 troops or supplies, dual purpose guns) Kamogawa (speed 17, 554/852 troops or supplies, dual purpose guns) Nippon Maru oiler (speed 20, 162 fuel capacity, dual purpose guns) German Michel class (speed 16, 202/206 troops or supplies, 6x guns and 1x AA gun) The Michel, altho it has guns,does not have much carrying capacity. The Terukini has excellent capacity 1324/1936 troops or supplies, but no guns and would rely on other ships. All other supply or oiler ships only have light AA stuff or none at all. The same would apply to military ships...make sure they have dual purpose guns, so every one puts up as much AA as possible. (and remember to re-arm every time in home port...) I browsed all the allied military ships, and to my thinking, they don`t really have that many ships at all in this campaign....probably why there is so much allied air power. As I`ve mentioned in a previous episode...the initial and weekly supply allotment is shit, so it`s a good thing that we can cheat the absolute crap out of this game in many aspects. On a different note....has anyone in any of the 4 campaigns come across the frequent bug, that if the players planes are returning home by their own accord to a base or carrier after dark, then it`s impossible to ever launch from there again? I have wasted untold hrs (100+?? over 3 yrs) in game play by not RTB before dark, and had to abandon and restart the campaign...

[@adamtruong1759]

The way I see it, Japan gets super serious in this campaign once aircraft carriers come into play. Ryujo's 24 Claudes will be invaluable, and a stop gap to all the air attacks. She'll provide stop gap aircover until the dreaded Kido Butai locks down the entire region.

[@blackvulture6818]

I think it may be a better investment to try to send the other pincer arround borneo. To defend against airpower on this scale Zeroes would be needed on numbers only a fleet carrier can carry, the A5Ms are about on par with the Ki-27s you have on the land bases

[@lTralalal]

I can't help but chuckle imagining the RAF pilots screaming "For teh Queen!" or "For Tea and Country" as they kamikaze into the Japaneese ships. :D

[@ade-1772]

Fantastic series as always and I would go with he aircraft carrier and get more planes in the air to defend yourself

[@vandekraats]

Such a tough campaign! Lots of clever ideas posted here. It's regrettable that you must bombard the enemy airfields before you take them. It would be nice to get a significant airfield right away rather than scrounge for supplies and oil to upgrade it. I appreciate you don't have to upgrade airfields to win, but having the extra aircraft would make this a lot easier. In the earlier version of this campaign, you could sail into the neutral port and politely ask for their supplies - that was a nice bit of irony that I think the modder removed.

[@stuartmehlberg808]

Seems like it's been a rough campaign so far... But this may be your most cursed episode yet! 💥🤦‍♂🤕 Especially the 3 downed Enemy Aircraft = 3 Damaged Friendly Ships... & Also, dragging enemy Fighters across the Fleet Flak, only to have them Kamikaze You! 😵 (The entertainment of cruel fate is not lost on me though! 👍) Keep on Fighting the Good Fight though Taff!

[@dirk6001]

A well balanced game

[@NoOne-cw3wf]

how did you get these stickers😂

[@thisherehandleIdospout]

@@NoOne-cw3wf They're YT's special emojis, I think - Just select the face icon right below the text input box where you'd manually select the other emojis from

[@joeancinec]

Always keep air coverage over your convoys.

[@graustreifbrombeerkralle1078]

19:22 bulls-eye from your AA

[@BSWThunder6]

If those Carriers have A6M Zeros that's an upgrade over Oscar's, Nates or A5M Claude. Hosho was old and slow and built in 1922 and had a small complement of obsolete fighters

[@kelleighohara83]

Carrier for sure. You need more air cover, and your bases are not good enough to provide that

[@chrisdaniels3929]

Cruiser has AA artillery to protect the merchants. In comparison the carrier could have a glass jaw?

[@barrysmith7168]

Maybe spawn a fleet from the eastern home island and take the eastern bases with it.

[@foreverpinkf.7603]

Sounds like a good idea.

[@montarakid1943]

I'd go for the carrier. Sure it is vulnerable to air strikes, but it's not like you are going to go brawling with it and place it in the fleet with the transports. And 24 fighters would sure be fun to see what they could do for ya'.

[@lloydbonifide]

"Rubbish!!!" Such language in this episode!! 🤣🤣🤣 Also, I think you could shore bombard the airfield in Banjamasin down to nothing and make that supply run a lot easier!!

[@bobrock80]

awsome, these japanese paper ships...

[@bigmac60]

The carrier is a good choice 👍

[@woofdogmeow2159]

If you can get a carrier with zero fighters yes, If claude fighters no. Go with a cruiser heavy convoy its worked so far. Though admittedly at a painful pace.

[@joestiller4270]

Maybe get few Destroyers to use as anti air and antisub/ship to allow your transport fleet clearer water and skies.

[@anumeon]

AI airpower is way OP in this game isn't it..

[@lucasfan5558]

It's not that the AI ​​is OP, it's that he is placing an extremely slow convoy, without any air cover directly into the area the range of enemy planes force Z showed what happens next.....

[@mato5758]

@@lucasfan5558 ....during daylight hours. He needs to time to arrive and leave the area during the dark.

[@StickTheGlue]

Might it be worth trying to hold the resupply ships close but safe until the time ticks round so they get close to the enemy base and do a quick turn around before they come up again? It seems that lots of problems are being caused by approaching in daylight?

[@emmittstarbird2300]

This is by far my favorite series alongside napoleon total war but man is it also painful to watch, the sheer numbers of planes they can send and the lack of actually being able to shoot them down is baffling, I want to say that a carrier would absolutely solve the problem because when your fighters are running cap on your fleet they really do some damage to enemy attacks but it is worry some because of how hard they would target any carrier you have with about 400 planes it seems, the ships you are running are just barely capable to keep things in check

[@myceliamdragon6887]

love to see a carrier

[@beefymcskillet5601]

12:36 ironic. he’s upset the Allie’s are suiciding into his ships.

[@ditzy_neko3362]

I think your ground troops are cannibal.

[@user-LSE]

Ryujo...Big head CVL

[@richardbrooks7264]

carrier for the cap

[@xavierchen7054]

How do carriers work in this game and how effective are carrier fighters? My instinct says to prioritize the carrier since AA is either ineffective or just okay and you're actions in this campaign reflect what happened during Operation Ten-Go.

[@GuyHoldingABird]

carriers are able to do stuff a normal carrier can do but they can't launch planes during an engagement, they can only launch when you're in the map mode. Not sure about carrier fighters effectiveness in this mod though

[@hubaszocs8449]

Is that possible to acquire the Hiryū in this mode? i would love to see her in this game.

[@michaelkoznarsky7911]

Any chance you might take the opportunity to do something crazy like an Australia landing?!

[@mato5758]

I tried to bombard an enemy home port in a previous campaign, with a convoy with many heavy-gunned ships and nothing happened. I`m not sure about trying to land at Darwin, in this campaign....I might try it as an experiment.

[@oliverhughes610]

I'm really hoping to see an actual naval engagement at some point...

[@mato5758]

...in my comment elsewhere, I browsed allied ships. And they don`t seem to have that many ships at all, compared to previous campaigns, so thats probably why allied air power is so overpowering...to even game out some.

[@stephenmiller195]

My god some amount of aircraft against you, where they all coming from, you need air cover, carrier maybe ?

[@mato5758]

....If you know where to cheat in this game, we can limit the enemy planes and their daily resupply.

[@jaapaap123]

40:40 "february 2014"... ehh? :D

[@thisherehandleIdospout]

6:08 What a load of horse$#!t. Not what you said, Taff, let me be clear! I think you are indeed right. And that... is just stupid. I believe both of those planes are of a similar era design-wise, and your Ki-27s were, to my knowledge, pretty much designed for maximum maneuverability to the detriment of basically EVERYTHING else (speed, armament, armor... you name it). And yet, the *MEDIUM* bomber (Not even a light bomber!) Is out-turning your fighters REPEATEDLY in a SUSTAINED turnfight?!? One or two turns, *MAYBE*, if the bomber in question had a lot of energy built up beforehand, but even just one or two turns or so are going to bleed off a TON of energy, and afterwards the bomber is going to be a sitting duck. So, I'll say it again: BULL$#!t 😑 ANYWAYS, thanks for having the patience to play this game, Taff, so I don't feel compelled to, LOL 😂

[@bradkirkwood4563]

go in at night no air cover for there bases

[@stillcantbesilencedevennow]

Japanese lacking AA ships? I never really thought about it.... Hmmm.. foolish, but inline with what we know about the era. Yamato got the greenlight, dinnit? Imagine if theyd made ACTUALLY balanced vehicles of ANY kind. (Looking at you 'tanks' from the IJA)

[@persallnas5408]

Lol 90 percent of this campaing so far have been u being under air attack.

[@MouldedSalad]

Maybe get the kitchen staff off your AAA guns or give them some training. 😅

[@bbroegger]

Taff is snot nosed so often now, when his voice returns to normal it sounds strange

[@randyvalgardson774]

I noticed that the AI is moronic and incompetent when it controls YOUR forces but the computer's AI is accurate AF and clever AF. And the computer troops ammo is FAR more deadly than yours, you can hit a ship with multiple torpedoes AND bombs and it still is questionable if the ship will sink or not. Whenever YOUR ships get hit with a SINGLE torpedo or bomb it's possible you will go to the bottom. Also, you might want to consider recruiting your next fleet with 1 or 2 merchants and all the destroyers you can afford over at the port with thousands of supply to start taking over the rest of Borneo.

[@lauriea2971]

Need a carrier

[@alhoff4465]

I like how everyone butchers the Japanese names. The 'e' is like the one in the word 'bed'.

[@admiralradish]

Love this series. But Google is shitting on your videos. im running at 14400 and the artifacts in the graphics remind me of the 90s. Please let KZbin know that people are noticing this.

[@admiralradish]

pixels the size of my pnky 20:40

[@conmcgrath7174]

Dear General Custer, ahem sorry meant Taff, you are suffering from CAP deficit almost as much as your poor troops are suffering from zero supplies. Seems like your entire strategy is 'go at'em boys!' Sorry Taff, sort of 'tongue-in-cheek' which means there is a lot of truth there, but I like you! (ardent fan). Here's something I'm wondering, especially with regard to the almost constant air assaults; if you were to plot your sea routes less directly to the obvious target (or home port), might it 'jink' the game AI somewhat? Yes I understand there is aerial reconnaissance, but if you altered course for four hours, reduced speed even, might the AI will send massive airstrikes to the wrong area? Whilst you chug along from the south going 'te he hee'? Worth considering in my humble opinion. 'Sure it'd be a craic anyway!' Seriously, you merit many more subscribers. Respects Dude.

[@DavePayne-v4c]

Anyone else think that by constantly leaving the engagement so that fires dont sink your ships is a bit "gamey"?

[@spurgeonwoods]

I have to say Taff, I'm rooting against you in this one. Just can't bring myself to cheer for WWII-era Japanese victories even if it is just simulated.

[@joshuambodie9410]

bro said feb 2014 insted 1942 lol kinda funny

[@mikeymack6852]

AI airpower is unrealistic. Two thumbs down 👎👎to AI airpower.

[@ijnfleetadmiral]

04:42 - You do know you can control aircraft, right? Because if that was you piloting those Japanese fighters...yikes. You missed several chances to shoot at the bombers. Basically you just wasted two fighters and let the Allies have free shots. Brava. 👏

[@colindouglas7769]

It's as clear as day to see that those Nates are absolutely useless fighters! What the hell are they powered by? A rubber band? A little yellow man pedalling furiously away on an exercise bike? It really is extracting the urine when a medium bomber outpaces and out-manoeuvres a single-engine fighter!

[@tomblake189]

Definitely don't like this campaign they have waaaaay to many aircraft its silly

[@stillcantbesilencedevennow]

Realistic tbh. Lol

[@stillcantbesilencedevennow]

AA DOES seem weak as heck tho. Takes forever to shoot one down.

[@lucasfan5558]

It's not that the AI is OP, it's that he is placing an extremely slow convoy, without any air cover directly into the area the range of enemy planes force Z showed what happens next.....

[@tomblake189]

@@lucasfan5558 he cant lut any aircover up because he doesn't even have 1/2 of their numbers the one time he sid they were shot down by bombers

[@papasmurfette007]

@@stillcantbesilencedevennow Seems out of balance though. The Japanese over-powered the Dutch and local British airforces IRL by about 2 to 1...