@wittmann:
But why does Japan have 21 Air? It is too powerful a tool. I think that ruins the game.
Yeah even after OOB Japan still has way to many damn planes. Makes it too easy for them to hold territory in this game.
@wittmann:
also why Japan can get to 70 income and earn more than the US.
I can see what your point to an extent, it would be a bit more historically accurate if America had a somewhat larger IPC income.
As for Japan, if they occupy chunks of China, French Indochina, Malaya and the DEI like they did in the real war then their income should be close to the USA’s. Remember after most of the Japanese advances in 1941-1942, the Japanese held an area of more than 3 million square miles that contained about one fifth of all the population on earth, along with an almost infinite supply of Tin, Oil and other raw materials. If the Japanese were able to thwart U.S. submarines attempting to attack their convoys, these resources might have been put to good use in industrialized Japan. And if the they were able to somehow impress the various Asian peoples into war machine of the “Co-Prosperity Sphere” they could have potentially been the worlds greatest power by far.