Okay great you spent all your munitions on call ins, a IS2 is moving to your location to crush your 37mm AT guns under it's treads.
Oh and your strafe did nothing, because the Katyusha just moved, because it has wheels. And the mortars you tried to kill? They have legs.
Imagine the IL2 strafe ATTACKS(The ones that TRACK,IN OTHER WORDS MOVE ALL YOU WANT,youre still losing that kat) The Japanese could very well have a doctrine that has a recon run and a tracking strafe run and divebomb run,especially since the ostheer SORTA does with CAS
And since the soviets completely lack AA,especially in T4,Japanese planes could literally have a field day on your infantry and light vehicles unless you compensated for this,teched a different path and got an M5 Quad(Which could be buffed and given a powerful AA mode against fragile jap planes),which means no kat. Or you can wait for a Pintle mounted IS2 ISU MG,If you fancy getting raped by well trained,quick,and hell possibly well equipped and motivated japanese infantry including eLeet spawn from building bushido commandos while you stall for a call in
Which means you and your forced into t34s that are infact EXTREMELY vulnerable to my CAMO SUICIDE PUNJI STICK JAPANEESSSSEEEE SUICIDE SQUAD,unless you properly support and screen your tanks.(Tanks arent SHIT without amazing infantry support,see vietnam war with USA tanks,aircraft,and indirect fire vs a now you see me now you dont enemy.
You have to get down and dirty with an enemy like this. simple as that.
If were talking team games...then id imagine a 3 man sprinting inf squad that immobilizes tanks in conjunction with a Jp4+/Pak wall would stop any armor just thrown in. Heavy or not heavy. You're gonna need your infantry if you're fighting the japs and germans. they would be designed that you couldnt just roll them with tanks,or just roll them from your base with kats from safety,especially if I sneak a light tank around into your lines to kill a Kat. If they are designed at all.
Also,if we design a 2003 Iraq campaign,then give the Iraqis plenty infantry that can plant IEDs consisting of 105,152, and 203MM explosives that can take care of most american vehicles, RPGs in every squad,and plenty of AA options as well for USF air superiority.
Ill say it again...we can be imaginative and design a faction to scale with the others, and actually have an interesting,fun game, or we can just JAPANESE R SHIT NO BIG TONKS NO BIG ARTEEE ADD EQUALLY SHITTY ITALIANS AND ANOTHER GERMAN FACTION insteed!