Is the AI too dumb?

[Platoonist]

Every week or so another Japanese force arrives to invade, but my troops hold them off while the surface action TF destroys the Japanese invasion force. I don't know how many ships I have sunk at this point, but just deleting TF after TF is not fun. There are no significant escorts, no carriers to establish air superiority, just unescorted invasion fleets trying to sneak in.

Yeah, that sums up my experiences with the Japanese AI as well. There is a certain banzai charm to how it keeps making futile assaults over and over, but it definitely has no situational awareness of the need for proper escorts or beachhead protection. A lot of its attacks on Chinese airfields in the face of the AVG have the same charm as well. I also don't have much faith that all the hoopla we keep hearing about AI nowadays will make any difference for this type of game in the near future.