1.11 -- Buggy, but trying harder.

[MJF]

So you are still friends with Japan. Will you do a sneak attack on Tokyo?

That's the plan, however no atom bomb can get there now, or before I conquer closer provinces.

As I had MCed Japan, I wanted to give Japan AI at least a year to reposition as it likes. Sadly, the repositioning has resulted in a fairly weak position and is exactly the same as it always is - one division on EVERY island province.

I don't take control of Japan.

It actually appears you do - if you have a line from Berlin to your province of Olekminsk in the east. With an air base there you might be able to place newly built V2-2 there. Their range of 2400km will easily reach. Olekminsk to Tokyo is only 1754 km..

Neither Olekminsk:

nor friendly Portugal's Macao:

give me the closeness I need to Nuke Tokyo. Nor does anything else.

However, as stated before, IC bombers are 1950 technology. Tech rushing very hard and including their build time, I doubt you would have them in 1948.

But 1945 Turbojet STR-4 with range of 1300 km should be no problem from a choice of several bases you or your friend Italy have - especially Hangzhou near Shanghai.

This is a consequence of not playing 1.11. The green is not Italy. It is China-Nanjing, which is actually stronger than ROC, but more spread out:

So my overall strategy is:

• wipe Japan and its puppets from the Asian continent (so I don't need to also manage fleets).
• then have a lengthy sub versus IJN CVs campaign meaning I can give that full concentration. My considerable CV fleets might, or might not, engage also. But I really want to get one screen with the subs getting the kudos.
• next start amphibing all the important places in the Pacific.
• Finally invade Japan starting with unloading the full nuclear arsenal on them first - delivered by bombers. My main objective is to have the smallest German MP losses possible as I am thinking that is an important victory condition..

• My plan is to advance from Pearl/Midway, and Noumea/Guadalcanal, much like the USA did in the actual war. Warzecha will command the CTF/Marine effort through the central islands to Tokyo, while Chester Nimitz and his American State CTF & landing troops will command the southern advance (which now must include at least feints against Japan-owned Australia).
• Rommel will command the attack from the North/Olekminsk, taking Vladivostok and Korea, thereby supporting Japanese Mainland attacks.
• From Irkutsk, Guderian will lead the move to Beiping/Shanghai. Manstein will lead the move south, winding towards Chongqing, and then support an Eastward attach. Model will watch the area between the two major Irkutsk attacks. He will be tasked with taking the nasty territory around Nanyang. All these commanders have an HQ unit, and 2 Panther Div's + 3-4 MOT div's
• Kurt Student will oversee various collections of Mountain troops moving through the nasty terrain from Burma to Chongqing, and Hanoi. A smaller force will move towards Singapore, but is insufficient to conquer it alone. Once the Japanese Mainland is in our hands, and the two Chinas are broken, the rest is just details.
• EDIT: Originally I was not going to take Lanzhou, a ROC VP, until Japan & C-N were conquered. I was afraid one of them would annex it, as they have before. I then realized that if I am at war with these other countries as well, then they can not do that!.
• I want the start screen to show only Germany & Italy -- the original cohorts in all this.

Since I can not Nuke Tokyo, I will have 150+ rockets by war's start. That oughta hurt.

It should all come down to how well we do vs the Japanese Navy and the two Chinese Armies -- and, can the Japanese air force hurt my amphibs of Honshu...?

AFAIK, that is not proven. I believe navy in port will destroy if province is nuked, but have yet to test it.

We may see.