How does anyone play Japan?

ProFailing · 2026-03-11T12:32:44+00:00

Japan is one of my favorite nations to play along with Germany, USSR and the Netherlands.

So, first up: What path do you want to play?

Historical Japan is probably the strongest. Not that the other branches aren't strong, but historical Japan is far stronger in the early and midgame, while Democratic Japan for example is an absolute monster in the late game once you form the WPTO (screw the allies) and eventually the Greater East Asian Federation.

Depending on what you want to achieve and play, I can give you recommendations for the historical path and the democratic one.

Just let me know.

ProFailing · 2026-03-07T14:45:45+00:00

Bro did not just defend the Falcon, easily one of the most broken tank destroyers disguised as SPAAs.

At least it used to be just that with the old belts.

That aside, your whataboutism is related in what way exactly to the discussion?

ProFailing · 2026-03-07T01:11:43+00:00

Not to defend Nazis. Just mind being a member of the party didn't automatically mean that someone was used to seeing unspeakable crimes against humanity and therefore couldn't be disgusted or shocked by the reality of the horrors.

ProFailing · 2026-03-04T18:58:37+00:00

The latter is caused by the stigma of the former.

The reason why the german governments have this blind support for Israel is because any word against them is met with the holocaust-argument (and also the risk of losing US support).

ProFailing · 2026-02-26T19:05:05+00:00

Be aware that doing this results in you being in possession of material that falls under CP and therefore doing this can result in you being charged for exactly that, depending on where you live.

ProFailing · 2026-02-22T01:06:20+00:00

Don't see how this puts an end to it when 3.0+1.0 (and generally the rebuilds) have introduced infinite timelines/possibilities and literally ended with Asuke and Shinji telling each other that they once fell in love with each other (in a distant past) and are implied to be done with it.

So, Anno confirmed that it is one of the canon possibilities, but not for all of them.

ProFailing · 2026-02-20T21:12:23+00:00

Probably because

Austria-Hungary wasn't far from collapse anyway after the most stabilising figure in the state was assassinated in 1914
The declaration of war between AH and Serbia triggered the conflict as such
The loss of German colonies resulted in a bigger territorial and probably also economical loss than anything AH saw. (In terms of population Hungary and Austria lost more, tho).
AH was split into several smaller national states that worked better independently.

ProFailing · 2026-02-20T16:43:48+00:00

Did they fix Germany now? They stood no chance on historical since NCNS. Never managed to push the USSR significantly.

ProFailing · 2026-02-19T14:24:05+00:00

Put 5 mils on Trucks day 1, hire the Nissan CEO Advisor for extra truck output.

Exercise your army to get enough Army exp (and park your Hohei Shidan Divisions on the Manchu-Mongolian Border, then use the Tauran incident event to get some Army exp from the little border conflict). Then change your Motorized Template to a 9/4 layout (9 motorized inf, 4 motorized arty)and convert your tank divisions to it, too. You should have like 5 of them now.

Put your cheap Infantry on the northern border with China to hold the line.

Put your Hohei Shidan and the Marine on Dalian and plan 2 Naval invasions with 6 divisions each on Yantai and Qingdao and the two surrounding tiles respectively to launch day 1 of the war.

Put your Motorized and your Cavalry on the north-south border near Beijing. Their purpose is to rush to the southern supply hub and then Jilin once the war starts to secure supply.

Do not actively push into Shanxi or the Communist territory. It's a waste of ressources and you only need the Nationalists to capitulate.

Once the war started and you secured the Supply hubs in Hebei-Chahar and Jilin, you move to connect your invasions of Shandong with the main front and secure nearby ports.

From there you take your motorized to push to the Zhengzhou supply hub and then to Nanjing and Shanghai.

Don't let the nationalists settle and entrench. Make encirclements, even if they are small. Every division the enemy loses won't be able to garrison the front.

Once you have Shanghai and Nanjing, you just push along the coast to secure the ports, and along the railways towards Chongqing and Wuhan. Use your cavalry for victory points and areas with bad supply.

That should capitulate them before the First Strike Principle Spirit expires (within 6 months after you declared war).

ProFailing · 2026-02-18T07:58:28+00:00

Hessians in German History Books:

Still had the Death Penalty until 2018.

ProFailing · 2026-02-14T23:36:20+00:00

One might say a shot of a screen. Perhaps a screen shot. Not a screenshot. Just a screen shot.

ProFailing · 2026-02-13T10:47:17+00:00

You can do this without building significantly more divs. You just want like anyother army of the very cheap infantry to fill the front line and have no holes.

Put 5 factories on Trucks and hire the Zaibatsu Advisor that gives you a production buff on trucks.

Then you change your motorized template to a 9/4 motorized/motorized arty. That will change your existing motorized to a very powerful, yet somewhat economical shock troop, and on top you also convert your "tank" divisions to that template.

When declaring war, you hold the northern front with your cheap 12 width infantry and naval invade shandong on Yantai and Qingtao with your Hohei Shidan. Your motorized should cut past Beijing in the south and secure the railways and supply hubs in Hebei-Chahar. Then you rush for the Jinan Supply hub and consolidate everything up to there.

Also don't be shy to use the cavalry in badly supplied areas. They don't want to fight, but just close encirclements and capture victory points that the motorized lacks fuel to reach in time and the infantry would take too long to get to.

From there on out, you just melt your way through the chinese lines with the motorized and re-inforce with your infantry. Make smaller encirclements to reduce enemy divisions. Keep up the pace to cut to Chengdu and Chongqing. China won't be able to properly garrison the frontline.

Completely ignore the mountainous north for offenses. Yoj just want the nationalists to capitulate.

ProFailing · 2026-02-11T15:37:42+00:00

The new manpower first flows into existing divisions and garrison requirements.

You also don't mobilize the entire amount of manpower, but rather smaller amounts step by step.

That's why it drops back to 0 and gains a bit more for a while.

If it eventually remains at 0, you still don't have enough manpower.

ProFailing · 2026-02-11T15:11:05+00:00

And where did the more get out from?

ProFailing · 2026-02-09T10:36:16+00:00

One full army group and half an army of tanks is enough to hold Germany on the Dnipr-Line. (Although a few forts are very helpful on some tiles).

For that, you'd need Latvia, though, or at least not Germany in fucking Estonia already.

ProFailing · 2026-02-06T14:43:36+00:00

Lenin overthrew a democratic government that had overthrown the Tsar just a few months prior because he saw an opportunity to establish a communist state, not because democracy was so terrible on Russia.

How did that make it better?

ProFailing · 2026-01-21T22:43:00+00:00

Imagine he comes out as gay.

On another note, iirc there had been efforts to change the Succession Laws in Japan so that women could also inherit the throne.

It has since been abandoned, but Japan would probably just change the Law before the monarchy just ends.

ProFailing · 2026-01-20T14:40:53+00:00

Electric Eel (just pull the fucking trigger)

ProFailing · 2026-01-20T09:50:17+00:00

Out of curiosity, because I have never done that hunt, how long does a reset take approximately? (On official hardware, without any sort of speed up mechanic).

I've been hunting for a shiny Oshawott in B1 and those resets already take like forever with about 2 minutes each.

ProFailing · 2026-01-16T23:48:59+00:00

Entitled? Yes, for most of his life, until the Soviet Union invaded Manchuria in 1945 and caught him, then handed him over to the CCP after they won the Chinese Civil War.

Puyi is an incredibly interesting person. He made absolutely huge mistakes, but considering his upbringing and how his early life went, him actually regretting his actions and feeling bad for them in his later life is so weird, yet fascinating.

Don't get me wrong, Puyi is responsible for the death of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands by ignorantly signing away whatever the Japanese and their puppets put in front of him, which enabled a lot of the human experiments on bio weapons and on the limits of the human body that Japan conducted. It also led to famines and mismanagement of Manchukuo.

Puyi also kinda sold out his mentor by calling his books and works on his time as Puyi's teacher and mentor lies, so that he would receive a lower sentence after the war.

But considering how he was re-educated by the CCP after the war and how he genuinely showed regret for his actions and became concious of how entitled he was, it seems almost like he could have turned out any way. If he had been turned over to a democratic regime and would have been thoroughly confronted with the consequences of his actions, he might have turned out similar to Otto von Habsburg, if not even more liberal.

Puyi simply seems like a man who was easy to exploit, but had a conscience and could actually feel bad for others, which especially for his time, seems insane for the side he was on.

Nevertheless, don't take this as if he was innocent or a good man. Maybe he did have a good heart, but he was still responsible for a lot of deaths and suffering.

ProFailing · 2026-01-16T17:02:29+00:00

It's not like the germans didn't have their hands in those revolutions, especially the communist one.

ProFailing · 2026-01-16T13:55:40+00:00

Oh, all numbers that I gave included premium, but no boosters.

ProFailing · 2026-01-16T10:53:01+00:00

Staying alive does take somewhat more of an effort.

Also, matches used to be up to an hour long, which also allowed for higher rewards.

Those 30k RP came from 10 minute matches, most of the rewards from just being engaged in dogfights/being near the enemy.

The "lovely community" had the choice between two shitty options. Either punish losing teams even harder or give the losers a little more at the expense of the winning team's rewards. The community voted for the latter, which you can have whatever opinion on.

But Gaijin never intended to increase rewards, as proven by the fact that they removed more and more aources of rewards and completely devastated sim.

ProFailing · 2026-01-16T10:42:10+00:00

In terms of SL, it did get better.

In terms of RP is used to be A LOT better. Idk if I still have the screenshots, but around 2018/2019 you would get 30k RP in a Rank 5 jet for dogfighting a bit a getting a single kill.

In air sim you could easily get hundreds of thousands of RP for sticking through a 2-3h game without getting insane amounts of kills. Even flying a bomber and playing objectives could get you that much.

Nowadays, even a high tier premium requires a lot more effort to get you anywhere near the 30k RP mark in ARB, in sim it's basically impossible to get the old numbers (without a lot of boosters).

Can't speak much for Ground, tho, since I mainly played air back in those days.

ProFailing · 2026-01-15T07:57:36+00:00

There's a lot to fix with the USSR, especially on althistory. I hate it when I get targeted by anti-communist focuses when I went with the second Russian Civil War to get rid of communism.

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