All my planning for IJN (ready for a PBEM once a patch is released) goes from December to April or June but what I will do after the initial expansion (if all goes more or less according to plans) is still a mistery for me. To be precise, I wonder what my strategic goals should be at this stage... "All my planning for IJN (ready for a PBEM once a patch is released) goes from December to April or June but what I will do after the initial expansion (if all goes more or less according to plans) is still a mistery for me. To be precise, I wonder what my strategic goals should be at this stage...
HeHe - that was pretty much the Japanese War Plan.
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Take all you can in the first six months, and then plan to fight to keep it for the rest of the war.
I think you need to identify a mutually defensible ring of bases to super fortify, and look to fighting an interior lines battle.
The problem is you have THREE interior lines to worry about, one very shallow.
1. The Homeland - not much around it to use as the first line.
2. The NEI/Malaya.
3. China.
I too am planning for my first PBEM, and I am not sure what to do after May - but now I figure I have to take all I can and inflict as much damage as possible while the Allies are down.
It's December 17, The PI is down to a stack in Bataan, and Singapore is isolated, a good portion of the British army crushed.
North Borneo is mine. Devoa is mine. The South Borneo port north of the straits near the PI is mine. Ambinia is mine, as well as Port Moresby and Rabaul.
I basically rushed the rear to catch bases to use to attack ships fleeing or delivering in the focal areas of the PI and Malaya.
It is working, but I am pushing my troops very hard.
Rangoon should fall in two days as well. And I have secured three major sites in China along with Hong Kong.
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The hard part is as the Jpanaes, you can't win the war, you can do better though, as you have hindsight and a very unified command.
