Support companies for Japan's armies? Yes/no?

[redrum68]

The timing is a bit more delicate in MP. Conquering China is a large source of WT and spiking it too early is very bad for the Axis in the long run. Especially considering that Japan is probably the weakest of the Axis majors.

Totally agree. In MP, managing WT as a team is very important which means Japan attacking China is later but in SP it doesn't really matter much since whichever Axis powers you aren't playing are pretty useless. Hopefully the AI gets to a better place where managing WT in SP matters.

 

[Misaka_Complex]

Totally agree. In MP, managing WT as a team is very important which means Japan attacking China is later but in SP it doesn't really matter much since whichever Axis powers you aren't playing are pretty useless. Hopefully the AI gets to a better place where managing WT in SP matters.

To add to that the Allied powers also doesn't tend to rush the benefits you get from increased WT such as extra factories and so on so there isn't really a need to manage WT in SP.

 

[RisingSun]

The steel shortages are not even the worst of it. Aluminum is. Support equipment uses both.

The only support companies I use for them are engineers and artillery.

Logistics companies were important for Japan prior to v1.3.3. Now aluminum is too precious for such things, IMO. Besides I have never struggled to take China either against the AI or against a human player. You really don't need the logistics.

I agreed, hardly any aluminum in the Pacific Region, I believe should be more laying around in there.

 

[him_15]

Seriously, Aluminium has to be added in Asia.

 

[Admiral Piett]

I like engineers and recon in my infantry as a minimum. I'm SP only though, so the crippling aluminium shortage isn't as big a deal. I tend to go a bit heavier with my support.