Imperial Japan on the march

The Nationals have 52 divsions, 33 infantry the rest militia. I've got roughly 30 divisions in theater and it's hard to tell how many my allies have since they keep trading expiditionary forces amongst themselves.

The Guangxi Clique kind of imploded in the 2nd half of 37 and the Yunan retreated into the Himilaya so I had to bail them out and take some risks in order to pull off some small encirclements. I had previously just been steadily advancing along the whole line.



On the January 19th 1938 I managed to complete the liberatation of the Guangxi Clique with the capture of their capital Qinzhou. I've since reached the gates of Chongquing and hope to have taken it by March 4th.

The end war events didn't fit my situation at all since I was allied with the Guangxi Clique and Yunan, at war with the Nationalists and the Xibei San Ma, and at peace with the Sanxi.

So I went back to January 30, 1938 and loaded up as the Sanxi and had them ally with the nationals then loaded back up as Japan. This left me with 20-30 divisions hanging over my head that could concievably cut off over 30 Japanese divisions from the sea. So I stripped a dozen divisions from the line and had the rest commit a fighting retreat an average 250 miles (2-3 provinces) to shorten the line. At the same time I had the three corp in Jehol immediatly attack south and sent the Manchurain Expeditionary HQ down south to reinforce them.



It was scary for the first 3 or 4 weeks, I had to play a bit of shell game with the south central front and at one point Chaing nearly split it right open, but I managed to plug the gap just in time. However once I'd bottled up the northern front and reinforced the South central front by stripping the Home Islands and Taiwan of everything but Garrison divisions along with a brand new corp it was only a matter of time.



It was quite bloody. In the end though I holed up 18 divsions in Taiyuan, divsions which by then were Nationalists, Chiang haven taken control of Shanxi in late March. My first attempt to take the citadel in early May was a bloody repluse, but my attempt on June 12th was a bloody success; and it meant the war was over. Chiang had lost over 20 divisions in the Shanxi campaign and I had two dozen divisions freed for service elsewhere when it ended. On June 22nd the Nationalist capitulated and Chiang dissapered.

I choose to annex the whole thing and then freed Guangi Clique and Yuanan,as puppet states and just allied with Xibei San Ma. (I did it this way because I don't like that Japanese strip next to India in the "Carve China Up" choice). Only Mao remains, but he can't last long.

Nah, they're good little puppets, if it weren't for the Guangxi Clique and Yunan the war would have proably lasted another 18-24 months.I was thinking of going after Siberia once the Soviets are dealing with the Germans (who annexed Austria right on schedule.) The European south asian colonies will fall right into my lap, hopefully without triggiring war with America, but if it does I won't have a war in China sucking up millions of men and countless precious resources.

Looks like I might have an easier go of it with the US then I thought, seems they elected Landon in '36. Also the Germans annexed the Czechs, puppeted the Slovaks and invaded Poland right on schedule.

I crushed Mao by Christmas, though when I annexed them the provinces went to Xibei San Ma. Then I spread about two divisions around North East China in eight or nine armies to supress partisans. I sent a dozen or so divsions to back up the Manchuko/Korean-Soviet frontier and reinforced the home islands. I'd been focusing exclusively on the army so far, but with the end of the war against the Nationalist I switched focus to Navy and the Arforce. I invested in Industry as well and reshuffeled my cabinet. My IC is up to 127. My TC is bad though, I'm running at like 87%, any tips on how to push that down?

lifeless said:

yes build garrisons. why are you building lvl 1 int? why dont you research them and then build the more advanced models

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Just felt like building them I guess. I've played through July 28th 1940.

Germany attacked Poland on schedule and annexed it on October 3rd. Denmark fell on the 18th of April. The Low Countries got steamrolled in mid-May and after having 40 divisions destroyed and the northern half of the country occupied France surrendered on July 11th and I took possession of French Indochina. How thoughtfull of them to leave 4 garrison divisons for me to use.
Norway was annexed the first of July.

The Soviets attacked Finland as usual and took it's historical gains. Lithuanian didn't cave to Soviet pressure either and fought to the death, that took about two weeks.

I've built up the Navy quite a bit and I've got two more Carriers, another Battelship, Heavy Cruiser, and a destroyer flottila comming along. Something like that anyways.

Current state of the world's armed forces




Current state of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

I may have to cancel my invasion of Siberia, the Soviets are doing quite well against the Germans and I don't want to strike unless I'm sure my attack will be the straw that broke the camel's back.

The Germans and co. attacked on the 6th of July, this is the front on November 15th, 1941. Kiev has not yet fallen.


I think I'll just attack the Dutch East Indies instead, my billigerence is quite low so I'm sure the Americans won't intervene.