Remind me to install and activate returnil before lending my PC to anyone below 30!!!
We almost had parity in Aug 1941 before the battle of Saipan etc. The USN was the weakest during Aug-Nov 1941.Well, come to that, they started out with more capitals than us and I fully expected to beat the US somewhere at Wake or Midway during the next chapter.
True, but most of the RN was outdated, while the USA built new ships. I also planned to do sth special with the AI at Wake and Midway, i.e. ensure that they use sensible fleets there, just as I did during their attack on Hawaii... In my tests the results of the battles at Wake/Midway varied greatly even without my intervention. I will elaborate on all this in the epilogue.More capitals didn't turn into a decisive advantage earlier, when all of a sudden the Royal Navy became involved.
After mid-1940 - pretty much, yeah, if we don't include the communists. However, the number of regulars in the Chinese armies was increasing until the end of 1943. Also, about 30% of our brigades were non-frontline ones, i.e. GARs and MPs, while the Chinese had few GARs... and we've never used our full strength against them, as you said yourself. Therefore, in practice they had local numerical superiority most of the time.So we had nearly as many brigade as the Chinese in total, though we never used more than around 75% against them?