Japan - Day to Day report ( 1939 Historic World war )

Sultan Flash wrote:

So, this is my first thread and my first day to day report in here, so I just got Japan in the 1939 historic war map and here is my day to day report -

Day 1-

Army Movement- Moved all of my armies from mainland to Chinese territory and distributed then in a stack of 3-5 each, made around 7 stacks in China and 3 stacks in manchuko. Moved all inceptors from afar and near into Tokyo. Moved all aircraft carriers near Tokyo for incase I needed to use them, I cam do it swiftly.

Diplomacy- I made allied with USA, Germnay, UK and France instantly, found out they all were not much good players. Nationalist china made a coalition with manchukou and soviet union( probably because of my threat ). I didn't joined any coalition.

Research- didn't do any research as much research is already done

Production- produced 8 light tank, 12 motorised infantry, 6 tactical bombers, 2 armored car, 1 artillery and 1 battleship.

War and Invasions- I accidently attacked Macau ( Portugal ) , so just captured it, no other wars and invasions.

Future plans- attack nationalist china at max within 3 days, the attack manchukou if he attacks.

Please do suggest me what should I do next or any more improvements, thanks a lot

you should produce more bomber plane and artillery

if you wait 3 days , nationalist china will be a harder target , it has many factory to produce

light tank + motorized infantry stack is easy to stop if enemy knows what he does

enemy has same doctrine with you , it has more %20 terrain bonus for cities , %15 home defence bonus and his militias or infantries what he produces will have bonus for cities , and they are defensive units

defensive units give more damage than attackers at this scenario

if you try to attack to cities with light tanks probably it wont be good for you

shortly suggestions

kill manchukuo fastly , it is weakest enemy of you , he hasnt many units just a few militias , even you cant kill give damage to provinces , don't allow it to gain power

attack to soviet union , bomb and invade vladivostok and sakhalin island you don't need to march at soviet lands just hold there until invade china , soviet union is very weak at pacific coast

after manchukuo focus to china fastly use ranged units and bombers to bomb cities , and defend your coast cities with ships at china

I suggest mainly infantry + armored car + artillery + anti air + interceptors , tac and attack bombers

you can produce some light tank too but don't spend them at cities

good luck

I'm wrapping up my first game as Nat China so I'm really interested to read this from a Japan perspective.

Some thoughts:

Make sure your ACs and Mot Inf are level 3 or higher because China can spam L3 militia pretty easily. Their starting militia are Level 2 but it's quick research and quick production.

That being said, I wouldn't recommend mot inf due to how strong militia are defending against unarmored, especially when they've got terrain bonuses. Tacs, ACs, and LTs would probably be best (and obv artillery to avoid close combat entirely)

If you can, partner (or pretend to partner) with a country like Xinjiang or Tibet so China can't move all their units to defend against you.

And attack ASAP, as you already know. I'd attack China before Manchukuo because the Chinese economy will close the gap much faster than Manchukuo. Japan made this mistake in my game imo, they waited until Day 3 to attack Manchukuo and I aggressively attacked Japan myself on Day 4.

Taking Macau was actually pretty wise, because China doesn't start with a port city and Macau is the best bet to get one early, assuming they don't want to go to war with UK over Hong Kong. You should be able to maintain naval supremacy easily, just make sure you keep interceptors ready on carriers in case they bring naval bombers (which they should but probably won't)