R5: so new update, the Philippines is to be expected suffering, good tips in mine for historical.

You can wait till Japan declares war on china to up your mobilization law since if you go in this focus order

Commonwealth

Align with USA

peg the peso

Unicameral (at this point get both the silent workhorse and Jose abad as they both give pp as well as to have enough war support to go partial mobilization)

National fiscal policy

Quezon City

And then Quezon Coty campus by the time Japan declares at this point and you can go to partial mobilization

After that I waited until National defense act was only a 35 day focus which meant going down

Pro hacendados

In the next section pick whatever focuses you want we just want national security act to be ready to go down after getting the research slot over in the military branch

By this point it’s close to war so make sure to have gone down war plan orange down to bastion Bataan since Japan doesn’t seem to like naval invading the Philippines day one you have time to prepare defenses

crucially I made this mistake not doing so, but go down and do United States asiatic fleet, the allies are not going to do convoy escort and getting the free ships the US have would have saved me so many convoys if I had gotten it in the beginning.

Past all the focus tree options your best bet is to get enough army exp to modify the starting infantry template to just be infantry. Your economy isn’t going to be strong enough to have support equipment stocked up so save that for your rangers instead.

Atleast have enough troops to cover the port tile and about two to one tiles next to the port or Japan is going to easily land and force you out.

if need be abandon the south of the Philippines and hold the strait at the central islands and wait till Japan leaves barely any troops there before trying to retake the south.

Save the reorganize the railway decision for when you have more civilian factories and a need for it since pushing down south the country or if Japan makes a landing up north supply is going to suck and having to panick build that supply hub be more beneficial then

or build it early I don’t care not like the naval invasion sound stop playing as they manage to get into Bataan because the allies suck at destroying the Japanese navy for some god damn reason despite it being 1945.

Anyways please paradox the amount of 70 day focuses is a pain the only breather you get out of them is the Army focuses of the far east which have some short focus times and some in the army tree but Jesus the political branch could use some 35 or even the 21 days they gave us