To go along with the strengths of the global war; If the US chooses to purchase entirely in  the pacific, Germany has several options.  Our games J1 DOW is pretty much an inevitability, but Pearl is rarely done for the reasons above.  With well coordinated attacks Japan will be making $70 per turn and more every time ($137 is my personal best).

I love to bait that big fleet close enough to my mainland planes by dancing around with the bases to the point of madness.  If we are successful in baiting their large fleet into a winnable fight the pacific can be free of US capital ships.  With all of the money that you have made it is an easy pivot to transport up and go into the weakly defend USA.

I recently tried a play into Pearl while attempting to make a strong hold in the Aleutian Islands.  It was not successful.  We wanted to shuck units from Japan into the Aleutians to make a heavy push into Western US.

The Big problem was we spread out way too much.  The US was able to destroy the Aleutian force (2 fully loaded AC and about 3 smaller ships) we brought from Japan and we came in too light to take out everything in Pearl leaving a single loaded AC just outside of the SZ.  While the main failure of the plan was splitting the navy making it too easy to destroy, I believe any attack on the Hawaiian Fleet  makes the Philippines much harder than it needs to be if it can even be taken at all.  Not to mention the possible loss of ships.

To make a Pearl attack successful and worth while I would recommend coming in with undeniable force and still take out the Philippines  to take away the US bonus.  In my opinion Japan’s Navy is better suited towards putting pressure on the mainland while controlling bases enabling them to quickly return to SZ 6 if needed and quickly capturing the money islands.

Overall I just don’t see what the value of occupying the Hawaiian SZ.  What is next?  The US will likely respond by bolstering the navy in the west giving them near supremacy.  Now you are stuck with two fleets staring at each other and other obligations forgone.

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