No i didn’t give Adolf the A- bomb, or flying saucers either. I gave the game realistic potential and not whitewash a treatment of what is clearly possible with what is impossible.
Ah Ok, so a Sino-Russia conflict before 1940 is impossible!
At the end of summer 1939, Japanese goverment thought about war against USSR.
There was some partisan for a north strike (USSR) and others for a south strike.
They choose the south as you know but let the player decide…with let see… rolling dice?
No correction they fought in the summer and japan… lost big time. In my game that already occurred:
“From May to September 1939 Japan and the Soviet Union fought a fierce, large-scale undeclared war on the Mongolian plains that ended with a decisive Soviet victory with two important results: Japan reoriented its strategic emphasis toward the south, leading to war with the United States, Britain, and the Netherlands; and Russia freed itself from the fear of fighting on two fronts, thus vitally affecting the course of the war with Germany.”
"From this incident, the Japanese Army learned that there were serious shortcomings in its armored units as well as in its tactics. Strenuous efforts were made thereafter to remodel equipment and build up tanks and firepower, however, these remained uncompleted by the outbreak of the pacific war in 1942 "
“Even without such an apoplectic outcome, if Japan had not lost so badly, they might well have been tempted for a rematch in 1941, just in time to join Hitler.”
My game provides this possibility.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Khalkhin_Gol
“Although this engagement is little-known in the West, it had profound implications on the conduct of World War II. It may be said to be the first decisive battle of World War II, because it determined that the two principal Axis Powers, Germany and Japan, would never geographically link up their areas of control through Russia. The defeat convinced the Imperial General Staff in Tokyo that the policy of the North Strike Group, favored by the army, which wanted to seize Siberia as far as Lake Baikal for its resources, was untenable. Instead the South Strike Group, favored by the navy, which wanted to seize the resources of Southeast Asia, especially the petroleum and mineral-rich Dutch East Indies, gained the ascendancy, leading directly to the attack on Pearl Harbor two and a half years later in December 1941. The Japanese would never make an offensive movement towards Russia again. In 1941, the two countries signed agreements respecting the borders of Mongolia and Manchukuo[25] and pledging neutrality towards each other.[26] They remained at peace until the Soviet conquest of Manchuria in August 1945, in the final weeks of the war.”
Now since you didn’t find anything to attest to this claim that Japan was fully capable of attacking the Soviets a second time, we can assume these facts stand. Japan was in no position to engage for another attack anytime soon.
Thats why it’s not modeled in the game. History has proof of the non-aggression fact that they signed. I don’t understand why you argue about this, but not the idea that Russia can attack the Germans on R1, or US should be able to attack on US1?
I guess these are even more untenable concepts, but in reality a japanese attack against Russia is even more ridiculous on Sept 39.