Pacific Front

Afrika Korps.

It could work, but I feel the design choices alone might be too much trouble to balance around. Afrika Korps on the other hand should almost be a layup for Relic considering how much gameplay and design they can borrow from existing German factions while maybe sprinkling some Italian units in there. I'd also like to see Romanian/Hungarian/Bulgarian units represented somehow for the sake of historical accuracy in the Eastern Front, but not sure how they'd fit in a new faction.

IJA wasn't that extreme bad, their downfall at Guadalcanal was ultimately the result of losing the Battle of the Coral Sea and Battle of Midway. Without air superiority it is impossible to keep up with supply line and bring heavy equipment onto the islands. They could only supply their troops at night with fast destroyers and it was very inefficient. Their munition was soaked rendering useless, their heavy artillery cannot be brought onto the island. IJN battleship artillery cannot support at daytime. Medical and food supply was always shortage while the crazy Pacific weather keeps happening. How can you expect they can fight well? They lost at Guadalcanal just like Germany losing in Stalingrad.

Consider their victory in the Battle of Singapore in spite the Commonwealth forces 3:1 outnumbered them, how much casualty of the USMC they inflicted in Iwo Jima and Okinawa, under the condition of total annihilation of IJN. I don't agree IJA was 100% trash.

Assume we are discussing IJA in late-1944 to 1945 and assume they are no hundreds of USN aircraft carriers floating around in the Pacific,

- assume they didn't do full retarded WW1-style banzai blob charge because you are the commander
- they did have real tanks, they saved those for the "final decisive battle" for the home island
- they did have screck-like infantry AT weapon, copied from US zooka and German screck data, ofc
- IJN can bring battleship heavy artillery support and Zero strafing, with or without kamikaze
- assume we were fine with COH1 German "laser-glided" V1 pin-point accuracy, IJN can do the same with their "manned-V1" Ooka
- they actually purchased Panther and Tiger from Germany, assume those reached Japan unscathed

No please no Porygon, we don't need another Quasi German faction.

Just give Japan cheap tanks, I mean really cheap tanks that are designed around charging.

Japan was stuck in a WW1 mentality and their army should reflect that. The infantry should be the focus of this army, large squads with officer units to buff. Perhaps a resistance to suppression.

The idea of "buying" planes that could be re-used for free is probably one of the better ideas.

Afrika Korps isn't going to happen because 1945.

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