• Sub spam certainly isn’t just buying subs.  Just having an additional 5 subs per round can cause huge headaches for Japan.  They get distributed in easy-to-counterstrike seazones.  Sure, Japan could take them out with five destroyers, but most or all of those destroyers get killed in retaliatory sub+plane strikes during the Allied turns.  Japan will struggle to find factory space to make five ships a turn, unless they are willing to lose yet another destroyer/round to ship block subs that are based in Pearl Harbor.

    If Japan has to spend 40 PUs/round to limit the distributed subs, plus perhaps another 14 PUs/round to retake a Money Island that is captured by an ANZAC raid, that does not leave enough income to press an attack to India or contain the Chinese rebellion that is brewing in the mainland.  I am not saying that the USA sub strat is uber powerful or necessarily the best option, but don’t trivialize the difficulty for Japan to respond.

  • '17 Customizer

    Bomber Harris - exactly…there isn’t enough Japanese IPC to build enough destroyers every turn to counter.  The US simply can out produce.  Even if it is just few turns it bogs Japan down and gives China, India and the ANZACs to build up a little defense or offense.  The US is versatile enough that it can very quickly shift to the Atlantic if necessary.

  • '19 '17 '16

    Where are USA planes hitting SZ19 coming from/landing?

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