Well, if you read some of the books from the Japanese side, or even play the English computer games on it, they did bring along supply trains and refueling taskforces. When i play the Americans I am always trying to find and get them too.

You can cheat if you play and memorize the Japanese side and know where these 3 supply-train taskforces are set for way-points, but that is cheating.

I haven't said they wouldn't need to put feet on the ground to take the island, just that I've never heard a US marine say that air and big gun bombardments support wasn't crucial to American island hopping campaigns either.

To keep comparing Midway with no US air or naval support to Guadalcanal is like me comparing the Japanese invasion of Midway to the Allied invasion of Dieppe. The islands can't even be compared.

As I've said, I have the utmost respect for marines, however, I do also for Rangers and those who landed at Dieppe and those who surrendered on Correigidor.
You just can't/shouldn't compare Guadalcanal(size, geography, land, air or sea) to this Midway scenario.
The Japanese were never unchallenged at Guadalcanal air or sea, nor did they have the air and bombardment power available here.
And yes, they did have supply arrangements to stay around.

Even the English computer simulations written up with the help of our best naval historians, including, I see from opening up the old games, sourcing the US marines themselves, still give the Japanese the island if the US Navy fails.

I would love it if the over-confident arrogant Japanese suffered their own Dieppe here. It may not be as important as the naval victory, but it still would be a great boost to our side and humility lesson for theirs.

I have yet to find any commander or historian on our side who'd claim otherwise, only as long as we were challenging them by sea and air do we get such comments as 'chances of successful invasion unlikely'. Every source I read or watch on documentary series concurs that if the US had lost or not challenged the Midway naval battle, the island would have been lost. If you can show sources and quotes to the contrary, it would only make me happier to think of the enemy suffering the same bloody nose we did at Dieppe.

But I would still have loved it if they did have to call it off a few days later(my longest Midway scenario goes 2 weeks in fact)...even if the Japanese hid the truth from the public like they did the carrier losses in real history, it would be a great rallying cry for the Allied side.