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I noticed there is a division on Cebu Island does anyone have advise about what to do with them I want to use them in my fight for the phillipines cause the Japs will just isolate them what is the best area to send them to Luzon or mindanao.

Are you playing CHS? If you are..

There are a lot of little Philippine Steamer transports and a few other smaller (read: expendable) boats laying around, some disbanded in ports, others elsewhere.

My advice is to keep some of these small transports disbanded in various ports aroud the PI for the first week or so to keep them safe from the heavy initial Japanese LBA and the light carriers. Once you feel like you can get away with it, slip them out in one-ship TFs and load up your division. You will probably lose a few, but the majority of your soldiers should make it to Luzon.

I say Luzon because although Mindanao is important, it is not as important as Luzon. If the Japanese encounter strong resistance at Cagayan or Davao they can just pin it down and move on. Manila, Clark, and Bataan are worth too many points to ignore.

It depends on my opponent, but I like leaving them where they are becuase it forces him to bring a decently large army to get rid of them. I often use the air fileds at Cebu and Iolo to harras enemy transports.

However, if you think you opponent will let them rot and you can't make use of them there, they can also be moved to Borneo and used effectively there. I don't favor moving them because there is a good chance that they will go swimming long before they get anywhere of any use, plus it costs a lot of political points to activate them.

I say just leave them there. It cost too many PP to move them.

Contrarian view. Leave them there until the focus of the war moves to Malaya, DEIs etc, then try to get them out in one ship TFs or subs.
Allied subs are pretty useless early on, and at least it lets the folks at home feel like you are trying to "bring the boys back"
Besides, they will rebuild and can be useful garrison units later on.

Historically it was ordered to Mindanao (but only part of it was actually transferred).