A Multiplayer Guide for a Historical-Rules Japan - Part 1; Preparation and China
Here, I will be assuming you are fighting a full contingent of Allied and Comintern players. I will also assume that you have a full contingent of cooperative Axis members - IE, they're not going to tell you to go screw yourself if you ask for a license production, etc. This is a complex game, and the best way to divide up the ideas eludes me. I have roughly divided it into sections. Construction, Research, Production, and Army. Each has little details about why I am telling you do do the things I say. The first thing to do is max out your 8-infrastructure provinces with civilian factory construction, and build 4 more civilian factories total in your 7 infrastructure provinces. Start your national focus tree going down towards your industrial effort, which will give you several more civilian factories, and a reduction in consumer goods factories on the way to it. You start with a very low amount of usable factories. It may not look like it from the raw count, but you have so ma...