Loving watching games played from the Japanese side. Most are from the Allied side and it's kinda boring since you can make mistakes and lose ships and you know production is on your side.
Bit of trivia: That pic of Yamamoto was taken aboard battleship Yamato. The globe beside Yamamoto was a gift he presented to the ship. According to Russell Spurr's book "A Glorious Way to Die" on 7 April 1945 it was seen lying smashed in a corner of the room as the ship was sinking.
My first impression is that this series will be more complex than the previous ones, so in the first episode we already have ambush of submarines, Heavy air strikes, and a sunken CV. I look forward to the next episodes 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Yeah the most important part will definitely be areanging where to drop supplies. We seem to have chosen the location where the US like to send most of their ships as well.
Tip for better protection, I recommend a V formation, best protection AA wise and to spot for submarines. The US should have a sizeable submarine fleet in the Philippines, can't wait to see the series. For yamato fleet I recommend the akizuki DDs for AA defense. Can't wait for the rest of this series.
I havent played this campaign yet, but that sub encounter is why I always start out with mostly ASW patrols in the regular Guadalcanal campaign. The IJN usually run out of submarines with a couple months. And yeah, I dont particularly enjoy using the lighter IJN ships either. The Fletchers have really set my standards for what makes a good destroyer very high. Even with light cruisers, ships like the Clevelands and the Brooklyns really put the IJN to shame with sheer firepower. On that note, even the old US Standard class BBs can put up one hell of a fight. I got ambushed by a CV fleet with just USS Tennessee, USS Cassin, and USS Downes earlier today on my TTE mod campaign. Tennessee got the hell bombed out of her by Vals and raked by 8 inch fire from the cruisers Tone and Maya and all of their escorts throwing 5 inch and 100mm shells at her like it was going out of style. She lost a fire director, got her speed cut in half, and lost her secondary guns on both sides... And still sank ALL of them. USS Tennessee 1v10'd that fleet and won with only minimal assistance from her DD escorts since they kept getting hammered every time they tried to get close. She was a floating wreck by the end of it, but the key word there is 'floating'.
Huh, there goes the Lexington. I like to imagine she was pursuing the Kidō Butai back to port. Once they unlock (so probably soon, once they “return from Pearl Harbor” or whatever) PLEASE Akagi!!! Would only be fitting since she’s in the campaign title picture thing (which is absolutely beautiful by the way, not sure where you found it but it looks great). Also she may or may not be one of my personal favorites. (As for my favorite, Taihō…well, she won’t be around until ‘44!) Looks like the campaign is indeed off to a great start! Excited to see what becomes of Guam and the Shōkaku force. Although I’m sure you’re already several videos ahead, best of luck with whatever objective you may be after! 😁 After all, this is a campaign I’ve been incredibly excited to see. (:
Yeah we got very lucky with that CV kill. I will certainly recreate the Kido Butai. I have already made a purchase towards that in a future video. :) Thank you for the comment on the thumbnail, its a bit of an edit on a stunning wallpaper I found. Don't you worry, Shokaku and her comrades find no shortage of ships to deal with. Very happy you enjoyed the first video. :)
My great uncle Chet Wagner was on Tinain island during WWII. He said, they put big tarps up on the fences around the huge airbase during the loading of the nuclear bombs, But everyone new what was happening. Very surreal days they lived. We are all live simular dramatic times now,unfortunately.
There's so many twin and four engine aircraft out in the greater Pacific. How? Beats me. Reminds me of the time where I saw someone get attacked by F4U Corsairs at the beginning of their campaign, and also the Akagi, too. Japan's starting position is not ideal, but I think surrounding and isolating the Philippines is the move. Truk's going to have to fend for itself mostly but it's the Gibraltar of the Pacific. In a large theater like this, convoys are probably going to reign supreme, lots of them as it takes a while for them to travel from point A to point B. One large push is probably better than multiple small advances. A large theater of operations also brings more fog of war, too.
I think you are right about the strategy there. Although I would make the ammendment to have Truk developed so it has more aircraft to draw upon. As for supplies and merchant convoys, you are definitely right. We'll need to make sure resources are sent out to every operational bases we use really and that isn't going to happen with just one or two merchant convoys.
It is a little underwhelming, if this were the base game it would have been about that, or more. The modders decided to lower the CP income feom sinking ships. I imagine part of the reason was because you can use subs to easily gain ships like this.
That pause when subs ambushes happen is such a cheat from the player. It is one of those things I am looking into blocking from the game code if it is a sub ambush.
I was experimenting. Did you know you can target a submarine, and just tell you destroyer to attack? It will execute its own attack run and depth charging. I was quite successful in the testing.
@@seanmccusker2282 No you don't have to manually do it. But some, like our host prefer to do it themselves. I don't play the game, I really am old and don't have the endurance. But I do like to test things out.
@@seanmccusker2282 But it is a good idea to have a destroyer keeping constant contact with a sub at all times so the one attacking can do more accurate attacks be it the AI attacking or you controlling the DD and doing the depth charge runs!
I really was questiong on getting this game, but this mod seems what I was looking for. There is an issue I noticed already with the mod. It starts December 41, Vichy france already signed over french indo China by 1940 Japanese forces began occupation by 41. Taiwan is listed as the allied Taiwan was Japanese prior to ww2. It was given to them along with other islands as part of there help to defeat Germany in ww1
I would definitely recommend getting the game if you enjoy the period and of course strategy games. As far as the historical accuracy goes for this mod, the creators have stated that they went for alternative history to increase the challenge. You'll find as the Allies, that the Japanese even control Wake Island.
@@theedifiedgamer8350 oh, didn't see that. It definitely makes a bigger challenge not owning Taiwan, since the invasion force for the Philippines launched from there. What japan did historically was a master piece. They hit the american fleet at Peralta harbor, cross the international date line, they began the invasion of the Philippines precisely with when the declaration should have been announced. 3 days later they sink the prince of Wales and repulse off the coast of Singapore, and began the invasion of Singapore. And less than a month later began the invasion of Indonesia. The amount of men and ships and precision over that amount of distances really is a master piece. The equivalent distance would be to go from France to moscow
@@theedifiedgamer8350 sometimes, even when you are right you do what your values tell you to do. Yamamoto was extremely fortunate to made it to the position to even pull off such a feat, for others to study and learn. At the battle of tsushima, he lost 3 of his five fingers to a russian battleship blasting away on its death throw. Under japanese doctrine, one isn't fit to be in the navy if they lose 4.
@@grantxu6381 You are absolutely right about that the trade off is its easier for the ebemy AA to hit the planes then, so its less guaranteed they will drop.
I really want to love this game. I played it to death about a year ago. It’s just that the late game AI is such a massive let down. It can’t handle itself in a prolonged campaign. It’s scripted nature leaves it incapable of adapting to a changing situation.
I understand you there. For me the biggest turn off, is that it sends the heavier fleets as soon as possible with little follow up. Meaning, if you get past the initial challenge, you are set for life.
I prefer the IJN as well. Their ship designs aren't quite as "standard" as the USN's and they do have some massive weaknesses. Definitely makes for a mkre interesting experience.
i tried this mod by myself with loadout for fighters disabled as the modder mentioned to do, but it seems not to work for the AI.. what about your game now, active or not active loadout on fighters?
That's strange. All I can suggest there is make sure your mods are up to date. The tooltip for that mod does say its only for TTE planes as well. I'm running with no payload for fighters and scouts at the moment. I'll have to see what exactly that affects. It was working ok in the previous series.
@@theedifiedgamer8350 Fantastic series and I'm loving it! Not trying to be "that guy" but I'm just a big nerd for warplanes and warships so I have the unending nerve to call out false observations when I see them lol
@@JTelli786 Absolutely understood. I get the same feeling when I see people misidentify IJN ships especially. Great that you are liking the series nonetheless. :)
I hoped to see an more challanging campaign. But I still think using Subs to snipe capital ships is a bit cheeky since its just to easy. I limmited myself to only killing Merchants with subs and damage everything else with a maximum of 2 torpedos per ship. I also wait 10-20 ingame minutes cause I find that "leaving batte" thing a bit boring. DDs often find you and your planes in the beginning should have been killed since there was no way they would have survived with these fighter just behind them
Loving watching games played from the Japanese side. Most are from the Allied side and it's kinda boring since you can make mistakes and lose ships and you know production is on your side.
That's really good to hear! I do agree about the viewer perspective. Just too many US games out there
Bit of trivia: That pic of Yamamoto was taken aboard battleship Yamato. The globe beside Yamamoto was a gift he presented to the ship. According to Russell Spurr's book "A Glorious Way to Die" on 7 April 1945 it was seen lying smashed in a corner of the room as the ship was sinking.
That is quite the interesting bit of trivia. Quite the sad symbolic image.
My first impression is that this series will be more complex than the previous ones, so in the first episode we already have ambush of submarines, Heavy air strikes, and a sunken CV. I look forward to the next episodes 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Yeah the most important part will definitely be areanging where to drop supplies. We seem to have chosen the location where the US like to send most of their ships as well.
Excellent stuff. Those weren’t B25 mitchells in the beginning but B24 Liberators
Yeah that was quite the misidenfication there. The bombs hit all the same though. 😆
@@theedifiedgamer8350 absolutely. Awesome mod, and great clip. Consider me subscribed
A great start! Was looking forward to this one. It will be interesting to see how the Mod developers did things.
Great, great start and good luck my friend! I'll be here for the duration.
Thank you. I really appreciate it. :)
Tip for better protection, I recommend a V formation, best protection AA wise and to spot for submarines. The US should have a sizeable submarine fleet in the Philippines, can't wait to see the series.
For yamato fleet I recommend the akizuki DDs for AA defense.
Can't wait for the rest of this series.
Yeah that's something I am going to try with larger fleets. The Akizuki is one I am waiting for. Its still got quite the time before its available.
I havent played this campaign yet, but that sub encounter is why I always start out with mostly ASW patrols in the regular Guadalcanal campaign. The IJN usually run out of submarines with a couple months.
And yeah, I dont particularly enjoy using the lighter IJN ships either. The Fletchers have really set my standards for what makes a good destroyer very high. Even with light cruisers, ships like the Clevelands and the Brooklyns really put the IJN to shame with sheer firepower.
On that note, even the old US Standard class BBs can put up one hell of a fight. I got ambushed by a CV fleet with just USS Tennessee, USS Cassin, and USS Downes earlier today on my TTE mod campaign. Tennessee got the hell bombed out of her by Vals and raked by 8 inch fire from the cruisers Tone and Maya and all of their escorts throwing 5 inch and 100mm shells at her like it was going out of style. She lost a fire director, got her speed cut in half, and lost her secondary guns on both sides... And still sank ALL of them.
USS Tennessee 1v10'd that fleet and won with only minimal assistance from her DD escorts since they kept getting hammered every time they tried to get close. She was a floating wreck by the end of it, but the key word there is 'floating'.
Huh, there goes the Lexington. I like to imagine she was pursuing the Kidō Butai back to port. Once they unlock (so probably soon, once they “return from Pearl Harbor” or whatever) PLEASE Akagi!!! Would only be fitting since she’s in the campaign title picture thing (which is absolutely beautiful by the way, not sure where you found it but it looks great). Also she may or may not be one of my personal favorites. (As for my favorite, Taihō…well, she won’t be around until ‘44!) Looks like the campaign is indeed off to a great start! Excited to see what becomes of Guam and the Shōkaku force. Although I’m sure you’re already several videos ahead, best of luck with whatever objective you may be after! 😁 After all, this is a campaign I’ve been incredibly excited to see. (:
Yeah we got very lucky with that CV kill. I will certainly recreate the Kido Butai. I have already made a purchase towards that in a future video. :) Thank you for the comment on the thumbnail, its a bit of an edit on a stunning wallpaper I found. Don't you worry, Shokaku and her comrades find no shortage of ships to deal with. Very happy you enjoyed the first video. :)
Good start for the series! Not going to lie, really looking forward to this one.
Brilliant! I can't wait for you to see it.
Man
I could only imagine the hit to moral the US would have been
Dec 7th, Pearl Harbor is hit
Dec 13th, the Lexington is sunk
Would have been a terrifying time for sure. The strategic blow as well would habe been just that much worse.
My great uncle Chet Wagner was on Tinain island during WWII.
He said, they put big tarps up on the fences around the huge airbase during the loading of the nuclear bombs, But everyone new what was happening.
Very surreal days they lived.
We are all live simular dramatic times now,unfortunately.
That is rather surreal. Seems we have all been cursed to live in interesting times.
Nice first major catch there Sir for sure!
Thank you. Got rather lucky with the positioning but I'll take it.
@@theedifiedgamer8350 I hear that any position will do when it comes to a good well, I don't have to say the word! LOL
Ha ha, so long as you get the pleasure you desire.
@@theedifiedgamer8350 Exactly! And you did!
V is a shortcut for attack if you want to speed up the attack orders of your 42 zeros
That's actually a very useful nugget of info there.
That carrier had Enterprise levels of luck!
Great start. This campaign is going to be GOOD! 👍
Hells yeah, this week is only getting better from here.
There's so many twin and four engine aircraft out in the greater Pacific. How? Beats me. Reminds me of the time where I saw someone get attacked by F4U Corsairs at the beginning of their campaign, and also the Akagi, too. Japan's starting position is not ideal, but I think surrounding and isolating the Philippines is the move. Truk's going to have to fend for itself mostly but it's the Gibraltar of the Pacific.
In a large theater like this, convoys are probably going to reign supreme, lots of them as it takes a while for them to travel from point A to point B. One large push is probably better than multiple small advances. A large theater of operations also brings more fog of war, too.
I think you are right about the strategy there. Although I would make the ammendment to have Truk developed so it has more aircraft to draw upon. As for supplies and merchant convoys, you are definitely right. We'll need to make sure resources are sent out to every operational bases we use really and that isn't going to happen with just one or two merchant convoys.
Only SIX command points for blowing a fleet aircraft carrier out of the water?! Seriously, WTF? You should've gotten at least 20 for that!
It is a little underwhelming, if this were the base game it would have been about that, or more. The modders decided to lower the CP income feom sinking ships. I imagine part of the reason was because you can use subs to easily gain ships like this.
Nothing to this day seems to match up to pacific storm...
There you had proper production and research management.
I heard your voice and at that moment you gained a sub mate.
Ha ha thank you. That's too kind of you.
i loves all of this its vary nice you miss named some bombers but that ok
That pause when subs ambushes happen is such a cheat from the player. It is one of those things I am looking into blocking from the game code if it is a sub ambush.
Hey if its there I'm going to use it. 😆
Agreed
Trust a mod to do it better ^^ the whole map Campaing makes sense
Its such a breath of fresh air.
I was experimenting. Did you know you can target a submarine, and just tell you destroyer to attack? It will execute its own attack run and depth charging. I was quite successful in the testing.
wait REALLY? I DONT HAVE TO STRUGGLE TO GET OVER THEM MYSELF?
I did indeed. I just prefer to control my ships manually when possible. :)
@@seanmccusker2282 No you don't have to manually do it. But some, like our host prefer to do it themselves. I don't play the game, I really am old and don't have the endurance. But I do like to test things out.
t h a n k g o o d n e s s
@@seanmccusker2282 But it is a good idea to have a destroyer keeping constant contact with a sub at all times so the one attacking can do more accurate attacks be it the AI attacking or you controlling the DD and doing the depth charge runs!
You are doing a greet job. Keep going.
Thank you. :)
I really was questiong on getting this game, but this mod seems what I was looking for.
There is an issue I noticed already with the mod. It starts December 41, Vichy france already signed over french indo China by 1940 Japanese forces began occupation by 41.
Taiwan is listed as the allied Taiwan was Japanese prior to ww2. It was given to them along with other islands as part of there help to defeat Germany in ww1
I would definitely recommend getting the game if you enjoy the period and of course strategy games. As far as the historical accuracy goes for this mod, the creators have stated that they went for alternative history to increase the challenge. You'll find as the Allies, that the Japanese even control Wake Island.
@@theedifiedgamer8350 oh, didn't see that. It definitely makes a bigger challenge not owning Taiwan, since the invasion force for the Philippines launched from there.
What japan did historically was a master piece.
They hit the american fleet at Peralta harbor, cross the international date line, they began the invasion of the Philippines precisely with when the declaration should have been announced. 3 days later they sink the prince of Wales and repulse off the coast of Singapore, and began the invasion of Singapore. And less than a month later began the invasion of Indonesia. The amount of men and ships and precision over that amount of distances really is a master piece.
The equivalent distance would be to go from France to moscow
Absolutely, the plan was executed really well. Just a shame for them that, as Yamamoto warned, it didn't have longevity.
@@theedifiedgamer8350 sometimes, even when you are right you do what your values tell you to do.
Yamamoto was extremely fortunate to made it to the position to even pull off such a feat, for others to study and learn.
At the battle of tsushima, he lost 3 of his five fingers to a russian battleship blasting away on its death throw. Under japanese doctrine, one isn't fit to be in the navy if they lose 4.
I want to know where you find these pictures for the thumbnails they look like awesome wallpapers
I actually just googled 'IJN Wallpaper' for this one. Then I put a rising sun flag over it.
I love it already.
That's what we like to hear! Very happy ypu like it.
Maybe you should put Torps on the G4Ms, they might get a hit, and the IJN Torps actually work unlike the bombs.
Sussy Susmarines. :/
@@grantxu6381 You are absolutely right about that the trade off is its easier for the ebemy AA to hit the planes then, so its less guaranteed they will drop.
I really want to love this game. I played it to death about a year ago. It’s just that the late game AI is such a massive let down. It can’t handle itself in a prolonged campaign. It’s scripted nature leaves it incapable of adapting to a changing situation.
I understand you there. For me the biggest turn off, is that it sends the heavier fleets as soon as possible with little follow up. Meaning, if you get past the initial challenge, you are set for life.
Shiiiiiiiiiiiiit son Lady Lexington down on the first day 🤣
We don't mess around here. xD
@@theedifiedgamer8350 I was thinking of why no torpedo attack with Betty but then I remembered the American AA and Fighters 🤣
@@noturbusiness1278 Yeah that's it. Torps would be so much more reliable IF you could of course get the planes in to drop them. 😅
Is it just me or does anyone else enjoy playing IJN? I find it more difficult but it may just be my imagination.
I prefer the IJN as well. Their ship designs aren't quite as "standard" as the USN's and they do have some massive weaknesses. Definitely makes for a mkre interesting experience.
Wait when did AI aircraft start changing altitude when fighting? Just started watching this channel so not sure if it was this way previously.
Yeah they have been doing it for as long as I know. However, it is definitely more dynamic after a recent update. Glad to have you on board. :)
@@theedifiedgamer8350 everyone else I saw playing this the planes just fought each other on a linear plain which looked really awkward lol.
@@Mr_Unicorn16 The most recent major update from Killerfish games changed the dynamic's of planes fighting and defending themselves!
@@daveb.4383 Awesome thanks, this game gets better and better
@@Mr_Unicorn16 Agreed
Is there a sound mod with this too?
There is a "Berserk Sound Mod" as part of the TTE pack which changes sound effects. I'm not sure of any others.
@@theedifiedgamer8350 ahh okay, it sounds pretty good
can you do a how to install those mods? does not load for me ingame, it gets stuck in Load Screen everytime i start Rising Sun Campaign
I certainly can. Don't worry, you aren't the first to ask. Its on my list of things to do. :)
This music is litteraly just "The Lick" over and over again.
i tried this mod by myself with loadout for fighters disabled as the modder mentioned to do, but it seems not to work for the AI.. what about your game now, active or not active loadout on fighters?
That's strange. All I can suggest there is make sure your mods are up to date. The tooltip for that mod does say its only for TTE planes as well. I'm running with no payload for fighters and scouts at the moment. I'll have to see what exactly that affects. It was working ok in the previous series.
USS Indianapolis just cant catch a break can it?
Just FYI your Discord server invite link appears to be expired.
Thanks for letting me know. That confirms that I need to add it on the actual upload day rather than whenever I schedule videos.
why do i have the vanilla map even with TTE installed??
If you mean just the style of it, then it will be a choice of sub mods. :)
Hate being the "aktualy" guy but those were Liberators not Mitchells.
Yeah quite a simple mistake there.
@@theedifiedgamer8350 Fantastic series and I'm loving it! Not trying to be "that guy" but I'm just a big nerd for warplanes and warships so I have the unending nerve to call out false observations when I see them lol
@@JTelli786 Absolutely understood. I get the same feeling when I see people misidentify IJN ships especially. Great that you are liking the series nonetheless. :)
Those "mitchels" were b24s
Ah. Thanks for letting me know. :)
I hoped to see an more challanging campaign.
But I still think using Subs to snipe capital ships is a bit cheeky since its just to easy. I limmited myself to only killing Merchants with subs and damage everything else with a maximum of 2 torpedos per ship.
I also wait 10-20 ingame minutes cause I find that "leaving batte" thing a bit boring. DDs often find you and your planes in the beginning should have been killed since there was no way they would have survived with these fighter just behind them
Finding it hard to root for the Japanese.
Aw that's understandable, they aren't for everyone.
How to install the mod? I don't see anything like workshop on the steam page
You can find it here: steamcommunity.com/app/1280780/discussions/3/3449213285565569138/
@@theedifiedgamer8350 thanks