Seeking Opponent to help test historical project

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Can play mirrored.

Here are the changes:

Japanese landing craft are received at a rate of 20 per turn until 3/29/42. This is due to the limit amphibious capacity that the IJN had.

US to Australia convoy route was moved due to it being to easy for the Japanese to interdict and sink mass amounts of merchants with their surface fleet. In turn the US MS starting capacity was reduced and they receive more in phases during 1942

UK to India convoy route was moved due to it being to easy for the Japanese to interdict and sink mass amounts of merchants with their surface fleet. In turn the UK MS starting capacity was reduced and they receive more in phases during 1942

CV stacking limit is set to 4. After the attack on Pearl Harbor the IJN rarely if at all operated all 6 CVs together. This will now allow there to be actual naval battles rather that complete Japanese domination until mid 43 which is more historical. But to reflect their earlier better training the Japanese CV experience and air wing experience were increased by 5%. Over time this will adjust down due to combat and repairs.

New Zealand - The Japanese player may not draw supply to any port if the Allies control Rabaul, Lae, Port Moresby, New Caledonia, Sydney or Brisbane.

Port Moresby, New Caledonia, Fiji and Truk - Each has been made a supply source, given 50% defense bonus and 2 built in AA.

Dutch East Indies - The Japanese IJN stated that they can not provide adequate supply resources for the invasion of Sumatra and Java unless they had full control of Borneo and Singapore.
The Axis may not draw supply in any DEI port unless they control Singapore and all 4 ports in Borneo.
Additionally the Japanese must capture 3 locations for the DEI to surrender. Those locations are Batvia, Surabaya and Palembang.
Once the DEI has surrendered the Japanese must just hold Singapore and a single port on the island of Borneo to keep the DEI ports supplied.

India - The IJN understood that they did not have enough supply ships to support an invasion of India. Their supplies lines were stretched just reaching Rangoon and in Burma. With this the Axis may not draw any port supply from ports in India unless they have surrendered. Calcutta is the sole exception. IF the Japanese are able to capture Calcutta they will receive port supply there so long as they control Rangoon, Singapore and the Dutch East Indies has surrendered.

Chittagong - Burma supply lines were extremely difficult to maintain via land and the port of Chittagong was difficult for either side to access if they did not control both Calcutta and Rangoon. To this extent neither the Allies or the Axis can use Chittagong as a supply source unless they control both Rangoon and Calcutta.

US / Allies Island Hopping - Supplying invasions in the Pacific was difficult. Lines were extremely long and difficult to protect. The US opted a method of island hopping to create supply depots in order to supply further and further from the US West Coast.
In order to maintain the supply lines the Allies would need to capture a port a specific distance from Hawaii and create a supply depot.
Then they would move close to the Japanese mainland and take another island and create a supply depot there. That way they could move supplies via shorter distances.
To accomplish this the Allies must do the following:

US Ring: So long as the Allies hold one port listed below they can supply islands /ports in the Distant Ring.
This includes the ports of Honolulu, Hilo and Lahaina.
Other ports in the ring that can be taken but do not provide supply moving forward Midway and Johnson Isle.
Distant Ring: So long as the Allies hold one port listed below they can supply islands /ports in the Outer Ring.
This includes the ports of Wotje, Kwajalein, Buan, Henderson Field, Ndeni and Espirito Santo.
Other ports in the ring that can be taken but do not provide supply moving forward Namuga, Munda, Nauru, Tarawa, Maloelap and Canton Isle.
Outer Ring: So long as the Allies hold one port listed below they can supply islands / ports in the Middle Ring.
This includes the ports of Truk, Manus, Jayapura, Lae, Kavieng, Rabual and Enewetok.
Other ports in the ring that can be taken but do not provide supply moving forward Wake, Ponape, Wekak, Manando and Makasser.
Middle Ring: So long as the Allies hold one port listed below they can supply islands / ports in the Inner Ring.
This includes the ports of Aparri, Lingayen, Manilla, Davao, Yap, Palau, Guam or Saipan.
Other ports in the ring that can be taken but do not provide supply moving forward Pagan, Baybay, Cebu and Legaspi.
Inner Ring: So long as the Allies hold one port listed below they can supply islands / ports in the Japanese home island and China.
This includes the ports of Taihoku, Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Chichi Jima and Tainan Formosa.
Other ports in the ring that can be taken but do not provide supply moving forward Naha.

Armored units in the game are divisions not corps since no armored corps existed in the Pacific Theater

Mech units have been removed from the game since they were not used in the Pacific Theater

Japan garrison reinforcements - Japan will get free small, 5 strength, island garrison units on the following size 1 port locations once they are Axis controlled and the hex is unoccupied: Dumai, Dili, Makassar, Manando, Wedo, Ambon, Sorong, Nauru, Milne Bay, Munda, and Namuga.

Japanese Island Garrison unit. The Mech unit was replaced by a 5 strength Island Garrison unit. It has a lower attack than the standard infantry and a higher defense. Unit requires double landing craft if used in an amphibious invasion.