Establishment of the Dark Shogunate

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There would be no announcement of existence, there would be no formal celebrations, rather thee would be a series of moves as the glorious lands of of Nippon were transformed.  Down from the mountains they came, silent killers, across the waves from Korea, to Sakhalin, to the Marianas, to the Ryukyus.  

 

A new order was rising.  Gone were the old guard of Japan, and her sympathizers.  In their place was the new order, a dark order.  The Council of Shinobi now rose, their leader, the Dark Shogun watched silently watching, their members heads of each clan proclaimed Daimyos.  The Emperor would accept this, because he had no choice.  The people would think about rejoicing but then remember Ninjas do not make much noise. 

 

Silently the Dark Shogunate closed off to much of the World, while representatives we invited to send single dozen member delegations to Osaka Castle, to discuss further relations.

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Force Structures:  

 

Shogunate Navy:

 

The Shogunate Navy is structured around three missions:

 

Sea Control is the primary mission and performed by the High Seas Fleet.    Its secondary mission is force projection through the delivery of aircraft and supporting ground invasions.

 

8 Fleet Carriers (Based on Yorktown Class)

9 Battleships (Based on North Carolina Class)

28 Heavy Cruisers (Based on Hipper Class)

22 Light Cruisers (Based on St. Louis Class)

150 Destroyers (Based on Kagero Class)

 

Additionally the SJF maintains a force of 99 submarines for commerce raiding.

 

Air Power plays a significant role in the Shogun forces:

 

2200 B-17 Bombers make up the strategic wing of the air and sea forces supported by a force of 50 F-9s for reconnaissance.

Strategic Lift is supported by 200 Boeing-314s and 500 J-52s to deliver both supplies and large personnel forces to the battlefield.

 

Tactical Air is by far the larger command.

 

The Fighter Corps consists of Spitfires on land, Wildcats on a mix of sea and land, and zeros on a mix of sea and land.  The Fighter Corps constantly drills and rotates.  Top pilots are placed in the Zeros, the fastest and most manuverable, but also the most dangerous to fly.  This ensures that pilots flying the most high performance aircraft have chances to gain experience before they fly in the much more nimble but more costly Zeros.  In doctrine the heavily armored fighters tend to focus on attacking lower and slower aircraft and bombers, as well as supporting missions against fortified locations, while Zero forces emphasize defeating enemy fighter squadrons.  In total there are 1000 Wildcats, 2000 Spitfires, 2000 Zeros.

 

Tactical Air Command also supports the strike forces, centered around bombing unit formations, primarily fleets and ground positions.  These units drill to support fleets and mechanized formations.  the combined force includes 500 D-3As, 500 B-5s, 1000 K-51s, and 600 B-23s.

 

The Force also includes substantial reconnaissance assets for both land and sea including 200 E-14 Ys and 250 Ki-15s.  

 

The Ground Forces are tasked with multiple missions including land and amphibious missions.  The most pressing land concern is the defense of the Japanese Territories.  The Japanese forces are highly mobilized, and equipped to do airborne, mechanized, and amphibious assaults.  In total it supports 1 million infantry, with three divisions, 60% is mechanized infantry.  25% is amphibious mechanized infantry.  The remainder is split between airborne assault infantry and special forces.

 

Japan maintains a force over around 1000 medium tanks (based on Panzer IV) and a 1000 lighter tanks (based on Panzer 38t), forming mobile defensive corps in the Japanese Islands and more importantly for rapid counter attack in Korea.  This is supported by 500 mobile assault guns (based on StuG 3), 1500 Amphibious Landing Vehicles (based on LVT), 1500 Lighter Armored Personnel Carriers (based on Universal Carrier), and 600 armored half tracks (based on Sd. KFZ 251).  This allows the rapid mobility of infantry into heavily contest spaces, and 500 Armored Cars (Schwerer Panzerspähwagen).  On fire support 2400 mobile rocket launchers can provide rapid saturation fire to cover the advance of armored forces (BM-3).  The Infanty also is equipped with over 3000 mortars for easy heavy fire power mobility, and rocket propelled RPGs and recoiless anti-tank rifles, allow for an infantry corps that can maneuver against armored forces and both take the offense as well as bloc outflanking and then destroy armored forces on the defense.  

 

Artillery plays a substantial role with 1500 8.8 cm AA/AT guns, 600 200 mm howitzers, and 600 122 mm howitzers.  The artillery corps is designed to move with the mechanized infantry as part of moving rather than set piece battles.  

 

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Additionally the Shogunate emphasizes intelligence.  Many spies within local fishing communities and the Japanese fishing and merchant fleets patrol the skies and waters around the Shogunate to help gather greater information.  Signals Intelligence is highly emphasized and many Japanese ships around the world help perform this mission.  

Edited September 14, 2014 by Triyun

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NEWS REEL:

 

The Dark Shogunate Advances

 

Rumors of the spread of the Dark Shogunates influence across the region have begun to poor out, even as the regime remains closed lipped.  Cam Ranh Bay, and Manilla Bay in the Phillipines have both reported the appearance of Japanese Soldiers landing.

 

 It is suspected that most of the Southern Parts of Vietnam and most of the Phillipines have soldiers from the Shogunate.

 

We take you now inside the city of Manilla where the flag of the Shogunate now Flies!

 

"Hello sir what is your name?"

 

"I am Joseph Miguel." 

 

"And you're a native of Manilla?"

 

"Yes." 

 

"And what have you heard of this Dark Shogunate?  It is said they've taken the city."

 

"Yes, but they have said virtually nothing.  One day the mayor was here, the next he was replaced, their government says we will in time learn the way.  But they have not told us." 

 

"I see.  There you have it, at this time nobody in Manilla knows what is becoming of their new masters."

 

Saigon.

 

The cities rows of French built homes, now had a new foreigner rolling down the street.  The entrance of the Dark Shogunate had come in the night, many of the cities elite were found dead on the street, while Buddhist Temples would find the goods of their homes delivered.

 

Meanwhile on another part far off, Midway Island, Shogunate troops came ashore from civilian ships.  They would soon be followed by a major construction crew.  The Island would be added to the strategic possessions even with no real population to the Dark Shogunate.  

 

Micronesia too would find landings there.  The natives were shown once again to be of low interest to the Dark Shogunate troops.  The one piece of interest would be during trading, the observation of island warrior ceremonies.  Dark Shogunate troops would be eager to fight with the native young men to prove their mettle.  Interestingly enough, those that actually defeated warriors of the Shogunate would disappear at night..

 

OOC:

 

1/5 Phillipines

1/5 South Vietnam

1/5 Midway Atoll

1/5 Micronesia

Edited September 14, 2014 by Triyun

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With Midway Secure, the stage was set for a forward group to begin the landings in the Hawaiian Achipelago.  This was primarily enabled by offshore moorings of refuelers.  The landings in Honolulu in particular were to mixed reaction.  Natives seemed for the most part civilized.  However a small contingent of natives claiming themselves the 'Hawai'i Sovereign Liberation Front' would protest loudly, claiming that the Japanese Navy was unworthy because they had built fleets of grand dreadnaughts years before any Westerner or Japanese person, and also has probably invented duct tape or something.  On Midway repairs to the islands' air strip were proceeding at a fast pace, soon it could ferry an air lift operation between Hawaii and Japan.

 

In the Phillipines the North was left relatively alone.  However in the South several clashes between islamist fighters and ninjas broke out. The Islamists proved to be fierce jungle fighters, however, ninjas being experts at the Assassin arts had begun executing the leaders of the insurgency with amazing efficiency.

 

In South Vietnam Cam Ranh Bay was the focus of many repairs and building up.  The key to the South, Cam Ranh Bay was known as the largest of the deep water ports for South East Asia, and perhaps all of Asia.  Once Japan had it, it would be ready for its further plans.

 

Micronesia was a suprisingly relaxd atmosphere.  Many of the natives seeing Japanese air planes and giant ships were starting to worship the Shinobi as gods.  A practice which the Shinobi were loath to tolerate but a lack of language skills made it difficult to stop them.

 

OOC:

 

Hawaii 1/5

Phil 2/5

South Vietnam 2/5

Micronesia 2/5

Midway 2/5

Edited September 15, 2014 by Triyun

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[b]Phillipines:[/b]

The insurgency in the South had intensified as the Shogunate troops began launching some of their final offensives into the interior of the Island.  Heavy incindiery bombardment followed by encirclement campaigns by Shogunate forces were coupled with nightly assassinations of key insurgent leaders, there would not be much for the insurgencies to stand on.  Meanwhile in the North the policy of silently replacing leaders had begun.

 

3/5

 

[b]Hawaii:[/b]

Hawaii now had largely been put under the control of the Japanese forces on the islands, extending from the Northern most point south.  The Big Island was becoming home to thousands of Japanese settlers daily.

 

2/5

 

[b]Midway:[/b]

Midway was now a sprawling base of operations for the Japanese Navy and Army.  A large signals intercept station was now being built on the Island to assist with the defense of the Japanese mainland.

 

3/5

[b]Micronesia:[/b]

Micronesia was  moving towards being completely transformed.  Its population of young males was converted into shock troopers loyal to the Shogun, instilled with the warrior spirit and proper education as it was termed.

 

3/5

 

[b]South Vietnam[/b]

The time was now ready.  Cam Ranh Bay was fully operational and ready to launch throughout South East Asia.  Saigon was now running smoothly, supplying the Japanese with the goods it needed to sustain its operations.

 

3/5

 

[b]Straits of Malacca[/b]:

 

The landings in Singapore Malaysia region occurred rather suddenly.  Within hours, Japanese troops were in the City of Singapore Center, Kuala Lampure and had landed on the Island of Java, the Operation would put the Japanese in a commanding position moving in coastal artillery to support and secure their operations in the Straits.

 

1/5

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Philippines:
The Philippines now was becoming increasingly used to shogunate rule.  The states two bureaucracies had now been much more closely integrated.  The islands were increasingly supply depots for the Shogunate's further expeditions.

4/5

Hawaii:
Hawaii would become the furthest flung part of the Shogunate.  New settlers from the Japanese isles would arrive in the Hawaiian Islands, with the population seeming to grow by the day.

4/5

Midway:
Permanent barracks had now been constructed on the island.  Out to sea, artificial barges were being built to service the fleet and do resupply for both sea planes and submarines.

4/5

Micronesia:
In Micronesa a series of naval bases were nearing their completion.  When finished they were too have the ability to host carriers and battleships across the islands rapidly improving the Shogunates ability to project power into the vast south Pacific.

4/5

South Vietnam
Cam Ranh Bay was the largest naval facility outside the Japanese Islands.  The South Vietnamese were becoming increasingly integrated into Japan.  The population was split largely now between nationalists, and pro-Japanese unifiers who wished to see a push to the North as a Bulwark against the historic enemy of Vietnam, China.  As of yet the Japanese rulers seemed very distant and leaving alone.

4/5

Straits of Malacca:

Singapore was a great get.  Japanese would tour the buildings of the now declined British Empire, seeing what had become of them.   Facilities for oil refining were built all around Singapore, as a gateway both to Persian Gulf and Indonesian suppliers in order to feed the Empires growing need for the precious resource.

 

3/5

Edited September 27, 2014 by Triyun