I’m Australian and I’d like to see a Kokoda Track campaign added and I think it could add in a new type of fighting, a lot more trees and mud, a lot of machineguns.
And for the map undulation (like hills or cliffs) along with vines and rain. Quite a humid foggy battlefield.
Australian and American VS Japanese (could introduces new types of planes and guns from the Japanese side, just an idea
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Were there any american forces? Because I think that this campaign has a great potential to be a balanced Pacific campaign - with no semi autos and tanks on either side (things that Japanese wouldn’t really have anyways), and with Americans would come the Garand rifle, ruining that balance.
Lets do a campaign in New Guinea campaign! I want to use my Owen gun.
I would also like a late war Japan vs USA in Okinawa, Iwo Jima or Peleliu islands. That would be really cool. We could find different ways to balance it out
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Not a but idea, but I don’t support it much…
Japanese had limited types of infantry weapon. Nevertheless there’s no any tanks for Japanese in the island…
In Japan, New Guinea campaign is not low profile but not popular. Just known as the “hell”. Due to lack of food supply, they even attacked enemy to reduce their total troops.
There is a famous phrase: “Javanese paradise, Burmese hell, New Guinea who can’t go home even if they die”.
If implement jungle warfare in Pacific campaign, perhaps more popular battles like Guadalcanal, Philippine, Burma or Malaya etc seems a bit better than it. In such battles, Japanese have several armored vehicles like Type 95 Ha-Go, Type 97 Chi-Ha, captured M3 Stuart etc. Also, in Malaya (includes Singapore) campaign or Burma campaign there were British commonwealth army which often used bolt-action, and in Philippines there’s late-war US army but Japanese also have sub machine guns and their best armored vehicles that can destroy M4 Sherman tanks.
I mean, as much as this was definitely o e of the hardest campaigns in the WW2 when it comes to conditions, I think that it would be easier to balance than battles against the USA, because of lack of semi autos and vehicles on either side. That’s why I also think that other Japanese battles against the Commonwealth forces would be easier to balance - no semi autos and more comparable vehicles.
Have you actually tried to balance Japanese tanks against British ones? Its almost as difficult as balancing them against American ones. The way I see it, there are only two real options for a pacific campaign without having to deviate too far from history, Okinawa or Burma. Burma saw the use of Armored cars like the Humber Mk IV and Daimler Mk II, which can match the lighter tanks fielded by the Japanese, Stuarts, which could be available to both sides, then the Chi-Ha and Chi-Ha Kai could match the Grant and then something else (Possibly a Valentine?). For Okinawa, as it is technically a Japanese prefecture, the “Jumbo precedent” means things reserved for the defense of the home islands such as the Type 4 Rifle, Ho-I, and Chi-Nu can be added to balance things like Garands, Hellcats and Shermans.
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Fair enough. I don’t know much about Southeast Asia campaign and equipment used there, but I know a thing or two about tanks. So, since the British tank doctrine divided tanks into cruiser tanks - quick and lightly armored, and infantry tanks - slow and heavily armored, and since Japanese tanks lacked firepower, I think the easiest solution would be to avoid infantry tanks.
My main reasoning for the Southeast Asia campaign is that neither Brits nor Japs had semi auto rifles in service. And while giving Armaguerra to Itals in Tunisia and forcing Americans into that campaign only to give a Garand to the Brits somehow didn’t manage to piss off enough players, making a Burma campaing with the Turner SMLE prototype for the Brits and the Type Hei prototype (the one made by Nippon Special Steel) for the Japs just to have semi autos in every campaign definitely would do so.
Yeah, Commonwealth vs Japan infantry equipment is easy to balance, at least for the early levels. Vehicles are going to be a whole other beast though. There were almost no Cruisers in the Pacific, as doctrinally they were supposed to exploit breakthroughs, which would not have been possible in the terrains of the Pacific, and thus only Infantry tanks were deployed. this is an issue as most of the infantry tanks cannot be penetrated by the vast majority of the Japanese tanks. Even the Matilida I would be almost equivalent to the Jumbo in Normandy, as the only thing that can penetrate it is the Chi-Ha Kai, or at least the only thing that actually saw service.
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OK, in that case it’s a problem. That’s why I think that Kokoda Track campaign would be easy to balance, so also easy to implement as the first battle from the Pacific theater - no tanks, no problem.
True, but good luck getting the devs to do that. Also, Stuarts and Ha-Gos were there. Hong Kong is better for armor balance, as only Universal Carriers, Custom built armoured trucks and Type 94 Tankettes were there.
Or Philippines…?
Different to other battlefields, Japanese operated tank division include several tank destroyers which is able to destroy M4 Sherman. They have large 7.5cm, 10cm and 15cm guns (but 10cm tank destroyer sunk in the sea)
Also, Type 2 Ho-I have short-barrel gun with HEAT shell so it is similar to M8 HMC (with ceiling)
Just in case, Type 95 Ha-Go (and Type 97 Chi-ha with 57mm) is significantly inferior to M3 Stuarts. Counter of M3 Stuart was Type 97 Chi-Ha (with 47mm)…
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Philippines could also work in terms of tanks, but then you run into the Garand problem.
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Either way, Japanese semi-auto doesn’t exist on any battlefield, so it is not a battlefield-dependent issue… Even Okinawa, it isn’t different.
(Although in Philippine Japanese garrisons were armed with captured American weapons but people dislike to implement such weapons)
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Yeah, thats true, but the “Jumbo precedent” can be applied to Okinawa, so that the Type 5 Rifle and the tanks reserved for the defense of the home islands can be implemented for balance. IMO, that is what the devs are going to do as its the simplest solution. It may not be the best, but knowing the devs, its the one they will take.
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At least, Jumbo see service in other battlefields but Japanese such things had never used. This difference seems large.
But I agree finally they need to implement prototype weapons
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Chinese front will be alternative solution: in early time both Chinese an Japanese had balanced tanks, and Allied forces also have few semi-automatic rifles.
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Yeah, the Japanese would really need prototype weapons, and the devs stated that “if equipment and weapons existed during the battles reflected in the game’s campaign, they have a chance to appear in the campaign itself”. This means the Type 4 Rifle it can only really be used in Okinawa by the devs standards. China might be balanced, but current day politics makes that a nightmare to deal with.
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I apologize but I can’t understand why naval Type 4 rifle is possible in Okinawa by devs standards… As far as I know such weapons stayed in mainland. I understand. I didn’t know Battle of Okinawa is included Japan Campaign.
As far as I heard, in China movies/dramas of Sino-Japanese war is very popular. Chinese players will want to play heroic Chinese soldiers like movies in the game. I’m not sure about political issue what you talking but the game of fighting against Japanese invaders doesn’t seem to be a problem.
Problem is not with the Chinese population, but with the government and its overreach. I can’t get too much into it, as it might get removed for being off topic or worse, but know the CCP is very trigger-happy with the ban hammer, especially with video games.
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Is this game also available in China? Although fighting as a Chinese soldier against Japanese invaders in a game like this doesn’t seem to be that problematic for them…
If devs need to flirt with them, it’s a good idea to add Eighth Route Army soldiers. Resist of Chinese communist soldiers against Japanese invasion seems to be a kind of country origin myth of PRC/CCP. Also, in Japan, they were known to be formidable and to be a well-established army. so I think it’s okay to add them.
I have have been told it is relatively popular in the mainland, and I know it is popular pretty in Taiwan too. That leaves the devs in a bit of a pickle when it comes to anything involving the Sino-Japanese war.