Ildabaoth
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Hi, guys, I'm a rookie and english isn't my native language, so please be nice. I'm playing a full campaign with the Allied. As far as I know, keeping the japanese at bay in China isn't an easy task. So I'm doing the following things: - Used most of early PPs to change a lot of bad Chinese commanders. - Moved some air transports and level bombers to Ledo in order to provide some small supply (btw, it is ok if my level bombers don't have the range to provide supply to Chengtu, but an small town (Paoshan)?) - Moved the reserve forces from central China to Changsha, so I have some infantry and artillery with 50 experience available to combat. - Deployed some forces from to periferal positions ahead of Changsha. They engage some japanese troops and when they are getting tired/low on supplies, I send in reinforcements and retire them to the city again. Then rinse and repeat. - Whenever it is possible, I move small forces to important roads so they disrupt the japanese supply lines, but as soon as any Japanese unit is approaching, they take the leave (I don't even wait to see how big is the japanese unit, and the recon planes don't give me the unit size). - Commited some forces to important battles in northern China(more than 50.000 troops engaged sometimes). To do that, I move in some regiments/divisions to do a couple of bombing rounds, and then they are joined by fresh troops, who do a quick shock attack. So far, that have been succesful, but I haven't tried to follow the retiring japanese troops because I don't know what can be lurking behind them. - I have read that a lot of people prefer to do suicide attacks by units with less than 1/3 of their full force, because they are replaced in a few months. But I don't have the guts to send them to a meat grinder, so I rather send them to the rear area. By doing that, am I putting in risk the Chinese campaign? As I've told you, things are going ok so far, but I'm afraid the japanese forces used to the Singapore invasion may be redeployed in China. If they go to Rangoon instead, it's ok for me, because I'm not commited to hold the line there. I'd like to have some feedback and advice from the experts over here. Specially about the deployment of the central China reserve units, the decision to preserve the units with high casualties instead of sacrificing them and the commitement to battles in northern China. Thanks.
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