ORIGINAL: Froonp
We have 2 places left in our countries list. #252 and #253 are free.
We could create the Territory of New Guinea, containing the northeast part of Papua, with 2 minor ports, Lae and Wewak.
This would render the conquest of the Papua more historical, as the Japanese controlled the northeast, exactly what correspond to the Territory of New Guinea. This would allow the Japanese to do the historical conquest they did of the northern half of Papua.
Edit : We would leave New Ireland, New Britain and the Admiralty Islands alone.
ORIGINAL: Froonp
ORIGINAL: Norman42
Perhaps have New Guinea be one territory and New Britain/New Ireland/Admiralty Isles be another (Call it Bismarck Archipelago perhaps)
That way there is some differentiation of these mandates without the requirement of excessive Japanese forces to capture them.
Japan would need to occupy Rabaul to 'conquest' the NB/NI/AI territory(the crucial conquest for Japan), and Wewak and Lae to 'conquest' the New Guinea Territory. Conquest of the Papua Territory would therefore require the overland attack on Port Moresby, giving Japan the incentive that they had historically to attack southwards across the mountains(the Kokoda Trail failure), or to control the Coral Sea for a naval attack (which they also historically failed in the Battle of the Coral Sea).
This all would allow the realism of the mandates to be felt, while not excessively punishing the Japanese capabilities to take these places.
I think that this is a brilliant idea.
Also, we would go from 4 countries (Admiralty Islands, New Ireland, New Britain, Papua) to 3 (Territory of New Guinea, Papua, Bismarck Archipelago), disminishing the number of countries in the game [:D].
Reference :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismarck_archipelago
OK, so I would like to put this one to the foreground again.
Presently, in this area we have 4 Territories :
- Admiralty Islands
- New Ireland (Where Kavieng -- named location only -- is)
- New Britain (Where Rabaul is)
- Papua (Where Lae, Wewak & Port Moresby are)
The historical situation was that all of them (NE part of Papua only) plus Bougainville were part of the "Territory of New Guinea" Territory.
So, the solutions we came up with to be more historical were :
1)
- Create the "Territory of New Guinea" Territory, containing the northeast part of Papua, with 2 minor ports, Lae and Wewak.
- Leave New Britain, New Ireland, Admiralty Islands and Bougainville as they are now. Bougainville is unsatisfactory, as it is part of New Ireland here.
- Leave Papua as it is now.
2)
- Create the "Territory of New Guinea" Territory, containing the northeast part of Papua, with 2 minor ports, Lae and Wewak.
- Create the "Bismarck Archipelago" Territory that would include New Britain, New Ireland, Admiralty Islands and Bougainville (New Britain, New Ireland, Admiralty Islands would be deleted as independent Territories in the game).
- Leave Papua as it is now.
So, what are the people's opinions about that ?
Mike, as the original WiF FE map designer, any opinion or hint you'd like to share as to why the "Territory of New Guinea" does not appear on the WiF FE maps ? (You can't even imagine the tons of questions I would have to ask you if I dared).
