Half the fun of A&A is coming up with different ideas/strategies. Something I’ve been thinking about with Japan seems intriguing and I wanted to get opinions. In fact, I’m sure some variation of this already exists, so maybe somebody can report on how it goes.
With Japan, the DEI is always an early goal because of the 20 IPC’s. But I got thinking, Hawaii and Alaska represent a 19 point swing between territory value and bonuses. I’m in the early stages but I was thinking of something along the lines of this:
J1: 2 factories, place them in Shangtung and Shanghai. Doing the usual China attacks, then I’m moving the whole fleet to SZ6 (with each CV staying loaded, rest of airforce in Kwangsi.
J2: I think I’m waiting for J3 to declare war in this scenario, but I’d have to see what US did. I’m thinking something like 4 inf, 2 art for the factories, 3 transports. If America has a DD blocking the path to Hawaii, or can easily do so on their turn, maybe move a large chunk of the fleet to Caroline, or any spot where you feel you’d have access to Hawaii on J3.
J3: Take Hawaii, Alaska, Philippines, Kwangtung, Indo-China. Keep just enough ships/planes down by Philippines and DEI to keep Anzac and India fleets at bay, but focus on reinforcing Hawaii with a few ships a turn, making it impossible for the US to get past it.
From here on out just keep buying out of those factories on the land, maybe build another in Kwangtung and use those to take out China and eventually India. It’d be a longer play for Japan, but if they can hold America back they’d surely overwhlem AZ, India and China eventually.
Needs work, no doubt, but I like the idea of something different. How can we touch this up?