Hearts of Iron IV

Hearts of Iron IV

Expert AI 5.0
pandorum 3 May, 2020 @ 7:49am
Japanese strategy help
Hi. I am having a hard time beating Chinese as Japan. My settings are Historical focus and 50 percent attirition reduction for AI, the rest is default.

The problem is that Chinese guard their beaches very well and i can not make a landing in the central or southern China. This leads to a bloody attrition war in the North. Two urban regions along the border are another pain in the ass. I cannot deploy huge numbers of divisions either, as supply situation is really bad.

So, how do you win as Japan against China ? I advanced up to Yellow River in two years. And still no breakthrough along the front. Do you have any recommendations to make the life easier for me ?
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Vitoras 4 May, 2020 @ 7:55pm 
build up your naval base at start to maximize the supply and make 20 with 2 art divisions and after that rush the chinese with taking war in china decisions. if you get stuck on frontline make a landing in south china that will make AI spare his troops there and u can push again "just in normal frontline not your landing point" that attiriton reduction is huge for china btw
Vitoras 4 May, 2020 @ 7:55pm 
You need air support too so dont forget to build 2 aiprorts in 2 states next to china
pandorum 8 May, 2020 @ 2:53am 
Ok, i managed to take out China but now struggling with capturing DEI and Philippines. How do you deal with extremely high attritions & combat maluses in jungle provinces ?
oddball 17 May, 2020 @ 7:30pm 
Originally posted by pandorum:
Ok, i managed to take out China but now struggling with capturing DEI and Philippines. How do you deal with extremely high attritions & combat maluses in jungle provinces ?

The only way to win in really bad terrain is air power because it punishes the enemy way worse than you suffer.
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