Japan '45 Historical Plan/Placement Olympic

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Both sides have good units, with the Japanese having a variety of divisional organizations and various flavours of infantry units.

The US have mostly standardized divisions with tank and engineer battalions attached.

Japanese soft attack values are not great, but their battalions are big, some of their divisions have 4 regiments and many divisions are A or B quality, giving them a nice quality fire modifier of 25% (the modifier bonus of 10% is multiplied by 2.5) for B quality units and 50% for A quality units.

The Japanese also have a large number of tanks, but Japanese medium tanks are light by Western standards. Japanese tank destroyers are pretty good, however.






It's the size and quantity of Japanese battalions in particular that worries me, as US regular infantry battalions only have 579 men and Japanese battalions usually have 740 or 860 men. USMC battalions have 726 men.

Japanese divisional artillery consists of 75mm infantry guns and 75mm guns mostly. Infantry AT assets are very limited, AA units are scarce.






Nearly all US formations are (mostly) B quality. The 1st Cavalry Division is A quality, and the 98th Infantry Division is C quality.

Marine Divisions have 60 LVT(a)4's on paper.