Formosa

1946

PacPG: 22.4.1944 - 6.6.1944

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Historic overview:

Operation codename: Causeway (Sho II)
The planned but never performed operation CAUSEWAY, the landing on the island of Formosa (today’s Taiwan).

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Scenario in dates:
November 25, 1943: Over Formosa - Bombers of the US 14th Air Force, based in China, raid the Japanese island for the first time. An estimated 42 Japanese aircraft are destroyed on the ground at Shinchiku airfield.
July 26, 1944: In Honolulu - Roosevelt meets with MacArthur and Nimitz to discuss strategy in the Pacific theater. MacArthur argues for an attack on the Philippines. Nimitz and the naval staff suggest the Philippines can be by-passed and Formosa should be the next major target.
31 July 1944: South China Sea - South of Formosa, US submarines USS Parche (SS-384) and USS Steelhead (SS-280) attack Japanese convoy MI-11 and sink 5 ships for 30,000 tons and other vessels damage. Parche Captain Lawson Ramage will be awarded the Medal of Honor for his daring attack after sailing into the middle of the convoy, the first ever living submariner in the Pacific War (the others have only received it posthumously). His action will be called Ramage´s Rampage.
October 12, 1944: In Formosa - US Task Force 38 (Admiral Mitscher) launches air strikes on Japanese positions.
October 13, 1944: In Formosa - For a second day, US Task Force 38 (Admiral Mitscher) launches air strikes on Japanese positions. Altogether, American aircraft record 2350 sorties and lose 48 aircraft. The Japanese defenders attack with some 190 aircraft. The aircraft carrier USS Franklin (CV-13) is lightly damaged and the heavy cruiser USS Canberra (CA-70) sustains heavy damage in the Japanese counterattacks.
October 14, 1944: In Formosa - One group from US Task Force 38 (Admiral Mitscher) continues to launch air strikes on Japanese positions. The 246 American planes engaged suffer 23 aircraft lost. The light cruiser USS Houston (CL-81) is also crippled in a torpedo attack. Meanwhile, American B-29 Superfortress bombers, operating from bases in China, bomb the island.
January 9, 1945: In Formosa and Okinawa - The fleet carriers of Task Force 38 attack targets on Okinawa and Formosa in conjunction with US Army Air Force B-29 Superfortress bombers from bases in China. This is intended to give cover to the landings on Luzon. Three Japanese escort ships are sunk with seven other cargo ships. At the Takao harbor in Formosa, in the raid on ship Enoura Maru, 400 allied prisoners of war were killed, who survived the sinking of Oryoku Maru in the Philippines on December 15, 1944. And that includes several Czechoslovaks.
April 8, 1945: Formosa (Taiwan) - For the day bad weather prevents attacks on the primary targets north of the Philippines, B-24s and B-25s hit secondary targets on Formosa including Chomosui Airfield in the Pescadores Islands.
August 18, 1945: In the Pacific - Subhas Chandra Bose, the Indian nationalist leader, is fatally injured at age 48. His Japanese plane crashed off of the island of Formosa en route to Tokyo.

Literature sources:
Nepevný, Jindøich, Ing.: Tainan Kokutai,  HPM No. 4/1991

Game play matters:

Campaign play:
This scenario is not part of any campaign, it can be run only as single.

Scenario data:

Map size: 0 x 0 hexes
16 turns, 3 days per turn
Version: PacAGPG 2, Starting side: Allies, Campaign: Single scenario, Order in campaign: 0.
Allied states:    USA, Australia & New Zealand
Axis states:    Japan
Neutral states:    -
Allies:    attack
Axis:    defend
Experience of Allied purchased units:   
Experience of Axis purchased units:   
Climate region:    Oceania, tropics
Weather character in region:    Rain regularly all year round.
Game time costingness of scenario:    16.72 %
(product of units and turns numbers divided by difference between the most long and the most short scenario)
Number of Allied units:
45 units, from them are 24 core units and 21 auxiliary units
9 air units, 8 naval units and 28 ground units
0 of units are loaded to air transport and 16 to naval transport
 Transports Air/Naval:
Allies - Axis

2/16 - 0/0
Number of Axis units:
54 units
3 air units, 0 naval units and 51 ground units
0 of units are loaded to air transport and 0 to naval transport
Initial prestige + every turn donation:
Allies / Axis

500 + 0 / 610 + 55
Max number of Allied units:
45 units, from them are 24 core units and 21 auxiliary units
- on start of scenario is possible to purchase 0 unit
   (0 core + 0 auxiliary)
Max number of Axis units:
55 units
- on start of scenario is possible to purchase 1 units
Transport units:
Allies - air:    C-47 Dakota
Axis - air:    not available
Allies - naval:    LVT-2 Water Buffalo
Axis - naval:    not available

Victory conditions:

This scenario is single, not part of any campaign. Victory is not differentiated in Major and Minor - all strategic objectives must be token up to last turn.

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The same time period scenarios:

New Guinea 44 (PacAGPG 1), Burma 44-45 (PacAGPG 2), Formosa (PacAGPG 2), Hollandia (PacPG 1)

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