@superbattleshipyamato said in Novel naval base placements?:
@crockett36
True. If you want to reach the Philippines, you can still do by the end of the third turn through the South Pacific. Doesn’t work for Guam, you need the naval base.
if you are not at war, you can’t use the naval base off queensland, so can you get to the philippines by t3 with everything? I wasn’t trying to get the Ps any way. It’s too “on the way” for the Japanese. That’s why I don’t like the S Pac strategy for the US. Japan can fork the Allies in two or three different ways from Mal.
Guam slows them down, takes them backwards, gives Calcutta life while pining a great deal of units. From Guam, the air force can launch onto the mainland and the navy retreat. You can threaten to convoy. You can move north in the noncom to strangle Honshu.