@Crazy:
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I can’t even bring myself to read her stuff anymore, gives me a headache :-P
Thou art smited for thy hostile nature towards my, most humble, advise.
@Funcioneta:
Do you build IC at Sin if you buy IC at India in UK2, Jen? I think India needs Sinkiang and vice-versa. I’m interested in it, Jen. Could you link me a game were you used this tactic?
If, after Japan’s first move, if I have decided to go the industrial complex route with America and England, I will purchase the Industrial Complex for China on USA 1 and the Industrial Complex for India on UK 2. This provides Japan with, in my humble opinion, two quandaries to face them on Japan 1.
Obviously I believe that the Indian complex is a higher priority for Japan than the Chinese complex due to the relative ease of Russia to send reinforcements to China. However, not all will believe this. In either event, Japan, in my opinion - humble as it is - cannot afford to take out both industrial complexes, reinforce it’s fleet to stave off the Americans and assist Germany in attacking Russia.
If, by some twist of fate, I should find myself in ownership of two or more of the orange territories on the mainland (Usually Kwangtung and Manchuria since it is my, personal, experience that Japan puts a Complex in Fr. Indo China on round 1 and there-after, cannot afford a second one) then I will most assuredly put a second complex in Sinkiang, maybe even a third in Manchuria or Kwangtung if America owns them. (This allows 7 ground units to be placed, keeping all 3 starting transports busy and building up a reserve of troops if needed.)
As for a link to the Asian strategy, alas, I cannot remember the last time I went this route. In my, most humble, opinion, this is the hardest process of dismantling Japan.
If I may suggest, I would not go this route if Japan did not get clobbered by the defending Chinese. If Japan attacked with 5 or 6 infantry and lost all or all but one of them, it may be viable (since there is now no direct threat to the Sinkiang complex on Japan 2). Otherwise, building the complex on USA 1 may result in the complex falling on Japan 2.