I've noticed that Japan will often perform very well in Mainland asia, taking India, Burma and China, but they seem to do poorly in taking Indonesia, Malaysia or Australia. Also puppet China in 1946 has around 20 divs if that.
Also on a bit of a tangent, as Italy, it's basically impossible to become any sort of Naval power. Even after i took all of southern france (thus breaking the Vichy event), swizerland (in 1939 no less) and all of africa, it still takes something like over a year to produce one fleet of transports. I decided to simply produce 12 air wings of transports and 20 - 30 divs of paratroopers to take england (it is yet to work
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Also on a bit of a tangent, as Italy, it's basically impossible to become any sort of Naval power. Even after i took all of southern france (thus breaking the Vichy event), swizerland (in 1939 no less) and all of africa, it still takes something like over a year to produce one fleet of transports. I decided to simply produce 12 air wings of transports and 20 - 30 divs of paratroopers to take england (it is yet to work