How to stack Yunnan?
I counter with a question of my own. Why in the name of all that is holy would you stack Yunnan?
hcp produced a picture of the situation at the critical time of the question. Go back and take a look at it, let it soak in.
Ok
So, UK, China and Russia have thrown in all they got into Yunnan. As some posters have pointed out it is a 99% battle in favor of Japan. Sure, it could go side ways on Japan and they have to lose some air force.
BUT
Russia losses 100% of their troops.
China losses 95% of their troops
UK losses 75% of their troops.
IN A LOSING BATTLE BEFORE IT EVEN STARTED!!!
Why?
Oh, well we have to hold Yunnan to protect Calcutta. Ok, fair enough. Yet, are you not losing all of china to boot? You just threw the entire China army into the defense of holding Calcutta on a losing battle and now China cannot defend it self as a side effect.
IF your only interest was the preservation of China to continue the war you would tell the Indians they are on their own.
Wait
Africacorp said that the foundation of the Allies defense was a 5 pillar defense. Russia, china, Uk, ANZAC and USA. Challenging them on 5 fronts.
In one foul swoop Japan just knocked out 2 of those pillars in some fantasy land Yunnan stack plan of defense. China falls and so does UK Pacific.
If you go back to the thumb nail picture of the situation. China is offering 0, zip, nada resistance to Japan. They have given up the ghost in a desperate hail mary attempt on Yunnan.
This is just bad Allied play.
China needs to contest every single territory. Make Japan risk land units and disperse their air power over all of China. Japan cannot take China with just land power, they need their air force to project force. If you disperse Japans air force across the entire main land to support these attacks, then, UK Pacific does not have to deal with 15+ planes going into India.
China gets two builds with the Burma road. They need to build all ART to give them some offense. Make Japan worry about counter attacks on their small stacks advancing with no air power to support them.
Oh, yes, some back bench guy is yelling about the Calcutta crunch plan of attack from Japan.
So, be it man. There is nothing China can do to stop it. China just needs to worry about themselves and preserve as much of China as they can to stall or stop Japan from marching towards Moscow.
BOTTOM LINE
Contest Yunnan with some China INF but set up a counter attack into Yunnan from China and UK. Japan can ill afford to be losing stacks of ground troops. That is a main point of concern on the mainland for them. Make they worry about that with counter attacks.