Japanes IC on J1?

Ukraine is usually a good bet because it limits what can attack Caucasus and takes out a Gerry Fighter.

However, keep in mind, i also advocate hitting W. Russia, Ukraine AND Norway to get TWO German fighters. (And sometimes I go nuts and hit FIC as well to get a Japanese one!)

Yes, you are entirely correct.

If you feel that the Standard NA’s aren’t any good you can use those developed by B. Andersson Game Master…

Japan National Advantages

1. Tokyo Express
The Japanese High Command used destroyer convoys to ferry infantry. Allied forces at Guadalcanal dubbed this the “Tokyo Express”.
Each of your destroyers may act as a transport for one infantry. These destroyers follow the same rules for loading and offloading units as transports do.

2. Kamikaze Attacks (revised)
A terrifying development was the Japanese suicide tactics as a desperate means of slowing the Allied advance. The Japanese used pilots who only knew how to take off and dive into their target with an aircraft full of explosives.
You may convert your fighters to kamikaze – suicide – aircraft to perform kamikaze attacks on any naval target of your chosing, except submarines. Such an aircraft have a range of 2 and may only be launched from Japan or Okinawa. Kamikaze attacks must be declared during combat movement turn and you receives 2 IPC´s from the bank for each converted fighter. A kamikaze attack takes place during the opening fire step of the first cycle of combat and automatically hits the chosen target, but the chosen target may defend first. If a target chosen is an aircraftcarrier with at least one aircraft onboard, the aircraftcarrier defends on a 4 or less. More over, one hit is sufficient to sink a battleship. The defending target may defend against many kamikaze attacks, but may not counterattack any other attacking units. A kamikaze aircraft may not be taken as a casualty, as kamikaze aircrafts are destroyed when they make their attack.

3. Floatplane Fighters (replace Kaiten Torpedoes)
With an empire stretching across thousands of kilometers of the Pacific, the Japanese specialized in good floatplane fighters.
Your fighters may treat islands you control and adjacent sea zones as one. Therefore your fighters can travel in and out from an island or island group you control at no cost of movement. An island or island group is a territory located entirely inside one sea zone.

4. Dreadnoughts (replace Lightning Assaults)
Dreadnoughts or leviathans like Yamato and Musashi were the largest and most powerful battleships the world has ever seen.
Your battleships attack and defend on 5.

5. Fanatic Resistance (replace Dug-In Defenders)
The fanatic willingness to die for the Emperor was a terrifying feature of Japanese fighting men in all theatres.
All your infantry defend on a 3 during the first cycle of combat.

6. Fugo Raid (replace Banzai Attacks)
Japan used balloon bombs, supposed to set fire to and drop antipersonnel bombs randomly on the U.S. There was even a plan to use balloons in order to attack the enemy with plague.
Once during the game you can launch a Fugo Raid to reduce enemy industrial production. A Fugo raid must be launched during your mobilize new units phase and from an antiaircraft gun, which may attack an industrial complex within 4 spaces. There is no defense against this attack. The Fugo Raid causes both an economic and a military setback. The opponent must surrender the territory’s income value in IPC’s to the bank (or as many as the player has), and no units can be built in this territory on your enemy’s next turn.

Bah, I’ve seen 1 inf destroy 9 inf and a tank.  (Guy kept saying “he’ll eventually die!”)

I’ll build two Japanese Industrials on the Mainland in one of two situations:

Most Likely - I expect a Kill Japan First allied strategy.  Either because of National Advantages selected, or because of previous experience with the person or because of how Russia and England developed their turns or all of the above.  In this case, I cannot expect to have transports and surface ships available for moving units from Mainland China to the Asian sea board, so the complexes are worth their weight in gold.

Least Likely - I plan to engage in a Kill America first strategy.  Again, I won’t have transports and surface ships to protect them for long, so I’ll need the complexes eventually.

And the danger is even grater if germany launches a rapid all out attack on Russia, while Japan musters up for the kill.

@General_D.Fox:

Why not just do a crossword instead?  No luck involved there, just yeer brain!!!

“brain”?!

Don’t be usin those four letter words up in heah!

As America, unless I’m in a KJF strat, I’ll let Japan take Hawaii.  It’s not worth diverting 14 IPC minimum to reclaim it. (Transport, 2 Infantry.  Wiser would be to divert more since odds are Japan landed with 2 infantry.)