Current Update: Sunday, 26 June 2004
     Previous Update: Thursday, 23 June 2004
     Created: Sunday, 16 June 2002

     By Don "Gamera" Chan (crs1219@h_tmail.c_m + ICQ 3522863)

     Note: This FAQ is primarily based on the Windows
     version of Gaika no Gouhou: Air Land Force, not the
     PlayStation 2 version.

1.   Acknowledgements
2.   Nutrition Information
3.   1st Impression
3.1    2nd Impression
3.2    3rd Impression
3.3    PlayStation 2 Version
4.   Strategies
4.1    Kantou region, Kanagawa prefecture
4.2    Kantou region, Metropolitan Tokyo
4.3    Kantou region, Dasaitama prefecture
4.4    Kantou region, Gunma prefecture
4.5    Kantou region, Tochigi prefecture
4.6    Kantou region, Ibaraki prefecture
4.7    Kantou region, Chiba prefecture
4.8    Chuubu region, Shizuoka Liberation Battle
4.9    Chuubu region, Battle of Aichi
4.10   Chuubu region, Battle of Hokuriku
4.11   Kansai region, Battle of Lake Biwa
4.12   Kansai region, Battle of Kansai
4.13   Kansai region, Battle of Hyougo
4.14   Kansai region, Seto Rescue Battle
4.15   Shikoku region, Battle of Shikoku
4.16   Kyuushuu region, Battle of Fukuoka
4.17   Kansai region, Governor Rescue
4.18   Touhoku-Hokkaidou region, Battle of Touhoku
4.19   Touhoku-Hokkaidou region, Hokkaidou Landing (Season
       Finale)
4.31   Chuubu region, Battle of Ishikawa
4.51   Kyuushuu region, Okinawa prefecture
4.52   Touhoku-Hokkaidou region, Hokkaidou
5.   Orders of Battle
5.1    All
5.2    United States Army/Air Force
5.3    United States Navy/Marine Corps
5.4    Russia
5.5    Germany
5.6    United Kingdom
5.7    Japan
6.   Links

"Setsunasa!" (*1)

     Disclaimer: I send the newest version of this file to
only eight Websites:

     Dementi: J'ai envoye la plus recente version de ce
fichier a seulement huit sites webs:

     - http://www.gamefaqs.com/
     - http://vgstrategies.about.com/
     - http://dlh.net/
     - http://www.cheathappens.com/
     - http://www.ggmania.com/
     - http://www.gamenemesis.com/
     - http://www.trob.co.uk/
     - http://faqs.ign.com/

     If you downloaded or read this file at other Websites,
the SysOps of the other Websites probably leeched it from
one of the above Websites.

     Si vous avez telecharge ou lu ce fichier a partir
d'autres sites, les responsables de ces sites l'auront
probablement pompe a partir de l'un des sites ci-dessus.

1.   ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

     Thanks to these sierra hotel persons/organisations:
     - alex of solihull, Arthur, Dazza of U.K., Flanker_man
of pi::, tigercat of ne lincs, and other Netters in the Key
Publishing Ltd Forums; for aircraft nicknames. Key
Publishing Ltd is the publisher of the Air Forces Monthly
magazine.
     - Aoki Norio of Japan, for Q&A and his JASDF fan page.
     - Bakutou, Ibuki Maya, and Shimanda-Lagi of Japan, for
Q&A and their HPs.
     - Hauke Fischer of Germany, for German translation and
Q&A.
     - Jack Power (an AOLer who doesn't s_ck) of Nara,
Japan, for Q&A, Orders of Battle additions, and Daisenryaku
Perfect info (^_^;).
     - Jean-Luc Barbera of France, for the French
translation of the Disclaimer, and the English translation
of the NOIR foreword. (After all, English and French are
the two official languages up here in Canada, the True
North Strong and Free.)

     (Social democracy in action.)

     No thanks to these lima delta persons/organisations:
     - Major H. "Psycho" S., the pilot of the F-16C Block
30 Fighting Falcon of the 170th Fighter Squadron ("Flyin'
Illini"), 183rd Operations Group, 183rd Fighter Wing
("SI"), Illinois Air National Guard (based at Capital
Municipal Airport (KSPI), Springfield, Illinois, USA, and
temporarily deployed as the 170th Expeditionary Fighter
Squadron to Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base ("The Jab", 28?‹56'05"
N, 47?‹47'31" E), southern Kuwait), that attacked, with a
GBU-12 500-pound laser-guided bomb, members of Alpha
Company, 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light
Infantry (3 PPCLI, based at Edmonton Garrison, Alberta,
Canada), Canadian Armed Forces, in the Tarnak Farms Range
training area, five nautical miles south of Kandahar,
Afghanistan, at or about 00:50 on Thursday, 18 April 2002
(local time). (X_X) Four Canadian soldiers were killed in
action, and eight were wounded in action. (;_;)
     http://www.centcom.mil/News/Reports/Tarnak_Farms_Report.htm
     - The SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)
coronavirus.
     - Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his
administration.

     In memory of:
     - The victims of the terrorist attacks in the USA
in the morning on (Tuesday) 11 September 2001. God bless
America.
     - The seven astronauts on the NASA space shuttle USS
Columbia, which was lost in action (Mission STS-107) about
203,000 feet above north-central Texas, USA, at about 9 AM
EST (14:00 GMT, 16 minutes before her scheduled landing at
Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA) on
Saturday, 1 February 2003 (Chinese New Year Day).
     http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/
     - The casualties (Iraqi and non-Iraqi, military and
non-military, hostile and friendly fire) of OIF (Operation
Iraqi Freedom, also known as Operation Telic (Greek
"Purposeful") in the UK), the war in Iraq in March-April
2003. <(T_T)
     - The 70 sailors and officers of the Ming-class (Type
035, variant of Former Soviet Union/Russian Romeo-class)
conventional (diesel-electric) submarine No. 361 (Yuan Zheng
61) of the 12th Brigade/Detachment (No. 359, 360, 361, 362),
North Sea Fleet, People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN or Ren
Min Jie Fang Jun Hai Jun), based at Lu Shun (formerly Port
Arthur), Liao Ning Province, People's Republic of China
(Zhong Hua Ren Min Gong He Guo). Her crew were martyred
during a training exercise east of the Nei Chang Shan
Islands in the Bo Hai Sea, northeast of Yan Tai City and
north of Wei Hai City, Shan Dong Province, People's Republic
of China, before Friday, 2 May 2003 (or about Wednesday, 16
April 2003), local time.
     http://361.netor.com/
     (http://cn.netor.com/m/box200305/m26991.asp?BoardID=26991)
     http://cn.dir.yahoo.com/Government/Military/Navy/No_361_Submarine/
     
http://cn.dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries_and_Regions/Mainland_China/Government/Military/Navy/No_361_Submarine/
     
http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?id=news/shuttle2_news.xml
     http://www.peopledaily.com.cn/GB/junshi/20030523/999074.html
     http://www.phoenixtv.com/home/news/Inland/200305/06/60047.html
     http://www.phoenixtv.com/home/news/review/200305/22/66199.html
     
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030502/ts_afp/china_submarine_030502172313
     
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030502/wl_afp/china_submarine_030502161815
     
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030613/ap_on_re_as/china_submarine_accident_2
     - Pilot I Peter PANG Fu Kwok, 34, and Air Crewman
Officer III Dickson CHAN Man Tik, 31, of the Government
Flying Service (formerly Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force
till 1993), based at the Hong Kong International Airport
("HKG") at Chek Lap Kok, Lantau Island, New Territories,
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic
of China. On Tuesday, 26 August 2003, at about 22:29 local
time (14:30 GMT), their Eurocopter EC155 B1 Dauphin
("Dolphin") medium utility transport helicopter, aircraft
registration B-HRX, departed Chek Lap Kok, for an
aeromedical (air ambulance) mission to Cheung Chau Island,
and flew at 1,250'. At about 22:32, headquarters lost radio
contact with it. On Wednesday, 27 August 2003, at 01:18,
firefighters found its wreck on a hillside about 300 metres
from the Fung Wong Path on Fung Wong Shan near Tung Chung,
Lantau Island.
     (This was the first helicopter crash in GFS history.)
     http://www.info.gov.hk/gfs/
     - Former US President Ronald Wilson Reagan, alias
"The Gipper" and "The Great Communicator". He was 93. He
was born in Tampico, Illinois, USA, on 6 February 1911;
passed away in Los Angeles, California, USA, on Saturday,
5 June 2004; and was buried at the Ronald Reagan
Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California, USA, on
Friday, 11 June 2004. He was the 40th US President, from
20 January 1981 to January 1989, and contributed to end
the Cold War between the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
nations and the Warsaw Pact nations. <(T_T)

     "I know in my heart that man is good. That what is
     right will always eventually triumph. And there's
     purpose and worth to each and every life."

2.   NUTRITION INFORMATION (Introduction)

     Title:    Gaika no Gouhou: Air Land Force
     Genre:    Tactical war game
     Rating:   Zennenrei (CERO)
     Players:  1
     OS:       Japanese Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP,
               PlayStation 2
     Maker:    Koei
     On Sale:  Friday, 31 May 2002 (Japanese Windows);
               Thursday, 28 August 2003 (PlayStation 2)

     The Windows version of this game was previously
scheduled for Friday, 8 March 2002.

     "Le noir, ce mot designe depuis une epoque lointaine
     le nom du destin.
     "Les deux vierges regnent sur la mort.
     "Les mains noires protegent la paix des nouveaux-nes."
     - NOIR (TV: 2001)