Does anybody want to share any 1943 Japanese tactics? I know that if you are still fighting and the date ends in /43 you are not going to win
But what strategies do people use to slow up the allied juggernaut? I am playing against a very experienced opponent so I am not looking for miracles in my game but it has got me thinking on how I should have laid out my defence. I found myself in the situation of having too few CVs to halt any invasions cold but enough assets to at least contest the initial landings. But I was undecided as to how to fight. Do you hurl everything at the initial attacks to stop the allies getting a foothold in the New Guinea / Solomons. Or is it best to fight for each base, conserving as much as possible of your land, sea and air assets so that you always have a threat in being if he gets too ambitious? I am not talking about actually winning the game just making the allied players progress as slow and painful as possible. What will cost him most ships and AC and what will delay his capture of Rabaul and my other back bases the longest?
Also I would like to ask about peoples views on where the best place for the allies to attack is. When I was preparing my defence I pretty much wrote off PM as the Japanese. It is just too exposed and so just got a land garisson (and mines of course). I was all set up for my opponent to attack me up the Solomons but of course he went for PM and Gili Gili. Is there any way to prevent this? Any bombardment taskforce is highly exposed to allied CVs (once he has the advantage in this area) and it's easy to throw away your remaining air to sea capabilities with long range strikes on empty transports. With hindsight I wish I had placed a lot more troops in PM as most of them retreated accross the kokoda trail so live to fight another day - unlike the write offs when Gili Gili fell
Perhaps if I had packed out the base he would have attacked in the Solomons instead where the terrain is far more favourable to my surface forces and mines. But quite frankly why would any allied player not go straight for PM?So assuming the Japanese player still has plenty of planes, CVs and surface vessels but does not outnumber the US in any area, how do you make it hard for him? And as the allies how would you go about taking him down?
