Even with the monstruous penalties to the KMT, winning the war against Japan is not noticably harder

[DominusNovus]

While we're on the topic of naval invasions, what do you guys find is the best way to garrison your coastline as of 1.5? My preference would be two garrison armies, one dedicated to coastal provinces, and the other dedicated to ports, so that each port can have 3-4 divisions. Of course, my pre-1.5 strategy was to just do a series of fallback lines to guard just the ports and their adjacent provinces.

 

[DrBolle]

As of Japan:
I had encircled their capital and starved them to death due to the attrition exploit.
After I had starved China to Obilivion, I capituladed it and peaced all other warlords due to the mechanics with a major and a minor in a faction.

This war is still a meme if someone is willing to play efficiently.


But I can also confirm that the usage of CAS or TACs is absolutley necessary. The defenses are often to high compared to the amount of soft attack a player can throw into a battle.* This is ludicrous how painfully slow the progress can be without sufficient air support...

* I focused China but I was forced to make some progress against the Guangxis and the Shanxis.

 

[Shinkuro Yukinari]

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I don't feel like Japan is a real threat even at the start of the war. And their naval invasions seems to be never successful.

Why is Tibet still around tho?

 

[Goshawk]

Why is Tibet still around tho?

Nationalist China is non-align so you need 50% world tension to justify wargoal. There is indeed a wargoal in the focus tree but it takes a long time to get there.