If England goes for the SZ 30 link up, I’ll hit Pearl with everything I got in the hopes of taking only 1 loss or no losses. (BB damaged, but only one ship sunk.) The idea is to convince the Allies to go away instead of being a pain in my side.
If England takes Borneo/New Guinea then I have to go Pearl Light so I can retake Borneo at least. (Sets me up for Australia as well.)
If England runs away, I usually let them. I hit Pearl light.
In any event, I never let Pearl live. America is more then capable of making enough navy to royally piss me off. England cannot. Even if they manage an IC in Australia, if the Americans are destroyed, I can send a pair of Battleships and some submarines down to finish off the English while leaving the rest of the fleet to sink anything the Americans put in the water.
I guess what I’m saying is the the English fleet is the lesser of two evils. The American fleet is the Greater Satan.