Pleanty of time to think things through and make a solid plan before starting this one. Best to factor everything in from the word go than get well into the design and realise you have forgotten one key factor!
I agree with Boco that broadening the scale of the game too far would eat into the events space.
AFAIK the projected date for Operation Olympic was 1st November 1945. The Russians had captured Southern Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands by 1st September 1945 so that campaign would not need to be covered. From Sakhalin a Soviet invasion of Hokkaido would be much easier to represent.
The problem is Korea. Had the Japanese not surrendered and the war had continued would the Soviet tank columns have stopped at the 38th parallel? I think it would be highly unlikely. If this was part of the premise then I think it would be acceptable to assume that the USSR had occupied the entire Korean peninsula by November 1945 and could therefore be in possesion of Pusan and in a possition to launch some sort of ad hoc invasion of Kyushu or Honshu!
If you explained all this in the introduction I think it would sound plausable as alternative history.
I dig Agricolas seaweed and suicide squad appraisal. Lots ok Kamikaze (missile) planes and suicide tank killers would fit the bill!
The devinde wind Well it worked for the Japanes once but the Mongols were in a shoddy fleet of Chinese river barges by all accounts. I think the original concept of a US vs Japan battle would be interesting up to a point in the game but the potential for WWIII between all three nations sounds like the stuff of an alternative history epic!
One day I will work out how to write a concise reply
I agree with Boco that broadening the scale of the game too far would eat into the events space.
AFAIK the projected date for Operation Olympic was 1st November 1945. The Russians had captured Southern Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands by 1st September 1945 so that campaign would not need to be covered. From Sakhalin a Soviet invasion of Hokkaido would be much easier to represent.
The problem is Korea. Had the Japanese not surrendered and the war had continued would the Soviet tank columns have stopped at the 38th parallel? I think it would be highly unlikely. If this was part of the premise then I think it would be acceptable to assume that the USSR had occupied the entire Korean peninsula by November 1945 and could therefore be in possesion of Pusan and in a possition to launch some sort of ad hoc invasion of Kyushu or Honshu!
If you explained all this in the introduction I think it would sound plausable as alternative history.
I dig Agricolas seaweed and suicide squad appraisal. Lots ok Kamikaze (missile) planes and suicide tank killers would fit the bill!
The devinde wind Well it worked for the Japanes once but the Mongols were in a shoddy fleet of Chinese river barges by all accounts. I think the original concept of a US vs Japan battle would be interesting up to a point in the game but the potential for WWIII between all three nations sounds like the stuff of an alternative history epic!
One day I will work out how to write a concise reply
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