Pearl Harbor Midget Submarine Action, Day of Infamy

Midget Submarine Action in the Pearl Harbor Attack.

This scenario is designed to be played from the Japanese/Red side, or the American/Blue side, but is better to play first the Japanese side.

The Day of Infamy 7 December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor is almost only remembered by the Japanese carrier-based air attack, but a very controversial, analysed and with few results midget submarine attack was in course a few hours earlier, and it was near to denial the surprise to the main Japanese attack. Later midget submarine actions against Sidney, Madagascar and other places were also a failure, and they were as consequence redeployed as last stance coastal defence.

In fact, the first shots and victory in the Pacific War was those of the DD-139 USS Ward (here represented by USS Kane) against one of the Japanese mini-submarines, sinking she.

This scenario is an essay to force the limits of the GE and the DB, and of probably impossible victory for the Red/Japanese player (Some hints: one solution can be to slown down the game to 10 or 30 seconds compression and reset the height to periscope deep each time the submarine surfaces, it's possible to penetrate the port and get again periscope depth in the interior bay).

As Hawaii is not present in the WestPac map, I used the wider Cavite Bay in representation of Pearl Harbor.

Also, I've replaced some few ship classes or configurations with other of similar characteristics.

Enrique Mas, August 2012.

Picture credit: DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE COMMAND

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-forn...apsh-h/ha19.htm

Updated 23 August 2012: modified course of groups AES and AIS to avoid going aground.