ORIGINAL: incbob
For those saying wait, what are you waiting for? What magical allied strategy is going to make the Japanese not be able to take everything I have said they can take? I challenge anyone to come up with an Allied Strategy that keeps the Japanese from taking the entire DEI, the Philippines, and at least half of the Solomon Islands by the end of December. Unless the Japanese player is bad, you are also going to lose the rest of the Solomon Islands, Port Moresby, and probably some South Pacific Islands prior to the end of January.
I totally agree with this.
Why are we waiting for changes that are desperately needed to bring this game into some semblance of reality?
The starting DATA (not moves) for Japan is ahistorical.
The capabilities of Japan's first move or two are also very ahistorical.
So I do not see why we should have to 'wait' for anything for things like this to be fixed. Since it is very easy to find the historical data to make the changes needed.
My theory is that, just like War in the Pacific, not that many people would want to play Japan if the game was set up correctly with the historical data and capabilities that Japan actually had. For the record, I do play Japan in WitP and I do 'go the distance' when I play head to head. My last pbem game lasted till around Feb '45.
But with the way the game is set up now, lots of people want to play Japan as obviously the Japanese leaders in the real war were all idiots since obviously they could had done much better. But if you do the research and the reading involved, you will find out that they did really well with their pre-war planning and the constraints they had to work under. A far cry from what this game shows them to be.
