To Admiral Yamamoto, why do you think mnt would be useful? they only really have an advantage in mountain/hill and are MUCH more expensive both in leadership, man power and research, this General will not approve mnt.
Specialists missions is encouraged anyway.
I also agree that we need more industry the knowledge that the increased base will give us increases our leadership. As I already said in '36 we wont be able to conquer us to the superpower status in any easy way (and apparently not in anyway).
I'd really like the mechs, the more so if we have MP trouble, the MP situation should improve dramatically once we can get more Chinese peasants to move in the first ranks.
Also TD's should prove useful against the mechanised legions of the colonial powers and communists.
The reason I've not pressed so hard for these yet is our sorry IC state, which leads us the the main quest.
In all scenarios I presume Germany defeats France and that we pressure the weakened French to hand over Indo-China, this will be a puppet and should be maintained as such. With Paris already fallen French defeat shouldn't be that far away.
Scenario I - All out war with with all our neighbours
The sequence of events Mobilization, demand French colonies and Axis should lead us to war, not just with USA but soon with all western powers within months, already the appointment of Konoe Fumimaro makes this a certainty. We jump the Soviets in ~April.
Scenario II - We try to avoid it as long as possible
We don't mobilize, We finish off China and attack the Soviets (for free) in ~April.
Scenario III - We play possum.
No nothing after China.
For the greedy we get 25% more IC (of our base) by mobilizing, which should give us around 30 IC more, but gives the USA 150IC more for half a year earlier.
The risk is that the USA DoWs us earlier than that anyway as we gain 5 threat for each warlord and 10?/15? for the nationalists.
So what do we do?
Specialists missions is encouraged anyway.
I also agree that we need more industry the knowledge that the increased base will give us increases our leadership. As I already said in '36 we wont be able to conquer us to the superpower status in any easy way (and apparently not in anyway).
I'd really like the mechs, the more so if we have MP trouble, the MP situation should improve dramatically once we can get more Chinese peasants to move in the first ranks.
Also TD's should prove useful against the mechanised legions of the colonial powers and communists.
The reason I've not pressed so hard for these yet is our sorry IC state, which leads us the the main quest.
In all scenarios I presume Germany defeats France and that we pressure the weakened French to hand over Indo-China, this will be a puppet and should be maintained as such. With Paris already fallen French defeat shouldn't be that far away.
Scenario I - All out war with with all our neighbours
The sequence of events Mobilization, demand French colonies and Axis should lead us to war, not just with USA but soon with all western powers within months, already the appointment of Konoe Fumimaro makes this a certainty. We jump the Soviets in ~April.
Scenario II - We try to avoid it as long as possible
We don't mobilize, We finish off China and attack the Soviets (for free) in ~April.
Scenario III - We play possum.
No nothing after China.
For the greedy we get 25% more IC (of our base) by mobilizing, which should give us around 30 IC more, but gives the USA 150IC more for half a year earlier.
The risk is that the USA DoWs us earlier than that anyway as we gain 5 threat for each warlord and 10?/15? for the nationalists.
So what do we do?