Hokkaido

PacPG: 28.8.1945 - 20.9.1945

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Changes and corrections of map:

Scenario author:
Scenario origin:
Last revision date: 		stanny
7.8.2008
21.3.2009 		  
First release:
Revision released:
4.8.2009 ( Release 01 )
20.11.2009 ( Release 01 Revision 02 )
Completely new scenario - planed but never realized invasion to the Hokkaido island.

Historic overview:

Operation codename: Sho IV
A big part of Soviet plans for a military campaign in the Far East in the past was quite well known and well documented in professional literature, including the Soviet expansionist demands, agreed at the Big Three at Potsdam. But the new documents published by Russian historians in the nineties, shows that in 1945 belonged to the Soviet war aims the island of Hokkaido.

Article on English Wikipedia

Scenario in dates:
April 7, 1942: Bismarck Archipelago - Japanese land on the Admiralty Islands, which they occupy.
February 4, 1945: In the Soviet Union - The Yalta Conference begins. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin and their senior military and political advisors meet to discuss the postwar order and the war with Japan. Yalta is a recently liberated Crimean resort.
Juna 22, 1945: Japan - In the historically first rocket attack from a US Navy submarine, the coastal city of Shari on Hokkaido is bombarded from USS Barb (SS-220) by twelve rockets at night.
July 15, 1945: In Japan - American naval vessels bombard Muroran, the second biggest steel center in Japan, lying in Volcano Bay on the east side of the island of Hokkaido. Three battleships bombarded the Muroran and some 1000 carrier planes bombed the cities of Hakodate, Otaru, Abashiri, Kushiro, Asahigawa and Obihiro, all on Hokkaido.
August 8, 1945: In Moscow - The Soviet Union declares itself to be at war with Japan as of midnight (August 9th), citing the Japanese failure to respond to the Potsdam Declaration. Commissar Molotov says that the USSR has declared war because Japan is the only great power preventing peace. He indicates that it was in the interests of shortening the war and bring peace to the world that the Soviet Union has agreed to the Allied request made at Potsdam to join the war. Furthermore, Molotov states that the Soviets had been asked to mediate by Japan, but that proposal had lost all basis when Japan refused to surrender unconditionally.

Literature sources:
Glantz, David M.: The Soviet strategic offensive in Manchuria, 1945,   Naše vojsko, 2006, Praha
Tesárek, Bohuslav: Japonské tankové síly do roku 1945 (Japanese Armored Forces up to 1945),  HPM No. 5 a 6/1997

Game play matters:

Campaign play:
Final scenario of USSR campaign.

Scenario data:

Map size: 52 x 52 hexes
24 turns, 1 day per turn
Version: PacAGPG 2, Starting side: Allies, Campaign: Russian campaign, Order in campaign: 6.
Allied states:    USSR
Axis states:    Japan
Neutral states:    -
Allies:    attack
Axis:    defend
Experience of Allied purchased units:   
Experience of Axis purchased units:   
Climate region:    Bland
Weather character in region:    Snowing and frozing in winter time. Rainy and clear days during summer time.
Game time costingness of scenario:    34.16 %
(product of units and turns numbers divided by difference between the most long and the most short scenario)
Number of Allied units:
56 units, from them are 27 core units and 29 auxiliary units
13 air units, 5 naval units and 38 ground units
2 of units are loaded to air transport and 33 to naval transport
 Transports Air/Naval:
Allies - Axis

5/50 - 1/2
Number of Axis units:
71 units
7 air units, 6 naval units and 58 ground units
0 of units are loaded to air transport and 0 to naval transport
Initial prestige + every turn donation:
Allies / Axis

750 + 0 / 344 + 72
Max number of Allied units:
61 units, from them are 27 core units and 34 auxiliary units
- on start of scenario is possible to purchase 5 unit
   (0 core + 5 auxiliary)
Max number of Axis units:
72 units
- on start of scenario is possible to purchase 1 units
Transport units:
Allies - air:    ST Lisunov Li-2
Axis - air:    Ki-54 Hickory
Allies - naval:    AF Transport
Axis - naval:    Transport

Victory conditions:

Major victory:      All strategic objectives must be token up to 18. turn
Minor victory:      All strategic objectives must be token up to last turn
Prestige donation for Major victory:      500
Prestige donation for Minor victory:      200

Battle participated units:

   Complete list of all units on map including coordinates, strenght, experience etc.

 List of types participated units
Allied units:

Strelki 1943 (USSR)
Gvardejskaja kavalerija (USSR)
Gvardija (USSR)
Saperi (USSR)
Desantniki (USSR)
ST IS-3 (USSR)
ST IS-2 (USSR)
ST T-34/85 (USSR)
ST BA-6 (USSR)
ST SU-100 (USSR)
ST ISU-152 AT (USSR)
ST ISU-122 (USSR)
ST ISU-152 (USSR)
Katyusha BM-31-12 (USSR)
ST 15.2cm Gun (USSR)
ST Z25mm SPAA (USSR)
ST 7.6cm AD (USSR)
ST La-7 (USSR)
P-63 Kingcobra (USSR)
ST Il-10 (USSR)
ST Tupolev Tu-2 (USSR)
ST Il-4 (USSR)
ST Pe-8 (USSR)
Destroyer (USSR)
ST Truck (USSR)
ST Lisunov Li-2 (USSR)
AF Transport (USSR)
 Axis units:

Giyugun (Militia) (Japan)
Kyoka Hohei 1943 (Infantry HW 1943) (Japan)
Hohei 1943 (Infantry 1943) (Japan)
Konoe Shidan (Imperial Guard) (Japan)
Senpaku Kohei (Engineers - SNLF) (Japan)
Type 3 Chi-Nu (Japan)
Type 98 Ke-Ni (Japan)
Type 90 75mm ATG (Japan)
Type 1 Ho-Ni 3 (Japan)
Type 4 Ho-Ro (Japan)
Type 38 120mm (Japan)
Type 91 105mm (Japan)
Meiji 38 Improved 75mm Field Gun (Japan)
Type 98 Ko-Hi (Japan)
Type 99 88mm (Japan)
Type 14 105mm (Japan)
Type 88 75mm (Japan)
Strong Point (Japan)
Ki-100 Tony II (Japan)
N1K2 George (Shiden) (Japan)
Ki-84 Frank (Hayate) (Japan)
P1Y Frances (Ginga) (Japan)
G4M Betty (Rikko) (Japan)
Submarine (Japan)
Torpedo Boat (Japan)
Destroyer (Japan)
Type 1 Ho-Ha (Japan)
Isuzu Type 94 6-Wheeled Truck (Japan)

The same time period scenarios:

Manchuria 1945 (PacAGPG 2), Hokkaido (PacAGPG 2), Shumshu (PacAGPG 2), Manchuria 1945 (PacPG 1)

Map names list:

Abashiri-wan
Airfield
Akkeshi-wan
Aomori-wan
Asahi-dake
Asashikawa
Benkei-misaki
Erimo-misaki
Esan-misaki
Goyomai-suido
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