Can Nat'l China Defend the Beijing line?

[unmerged(85085)]

Playing as Nat'l China for the first time in arma 1.3.

Is anyone able to hold the Japs off up around Beijing? Last time I played I couldn't but I thought with more experience it would be possible. Unfortunately they are driving me back with megastacks on my megastacks.

Any thoughts? Strategies? My builds are 2x99 '36 inf, 1x99 '36 militia, 1x3 HQ, 2x99 '37 cavalry. I formed the great alliance or whatever that is too.

 

[Porkman]

You don't want to defend the Beijing line. You need to hold Tianjin and Jining, as well as Datong and Taiyuan. When the Japanese puch through at Beijing and Kalgan, wait for them to advance into Baoding and Shijiazhuang. That makes a ready made pocket that you can collapse by attacking from Tianjin and Datong.

 

[unmerged(82381)]

Depends on your version. See the section on the war with Japan.

http://www.paradoxian.org/hoi2wiki/index.php/Nationalist_China_strategy

I've had a couple fairly successful games of ARMA as Nationalist China. Fight defensively for the first few years. Don't try an advance until you have a lot of troops, probably not until 39 at the soonest. Or you have a really good opportunity to pocket a lot of them.

 

[midget_roxx]

I think it's fair to say that it might be impossible to defend the Beijing Line, besides it's not like it's worth much since you got the event to move most of your industry into the Chonquing area. Just make sure to built plenty of MTN's and you should be set

 

[Zzzzz...]

I prefer to hold Jining to prevent Manchukou to form and lose the German general and his land doctrine tech team.