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Originally Posted by Skybird
What I would have done as Japanese commander after the strike on Pearl? The movie paints it like the commander wanting to preserve the Japanese fleet for the war that just had been launched by hurting the awakling giant. In principle that was right, and there was not much meaning in going to possess Hawai, strategically, it would have left the Japanese wih too much space and too long supply lines to cover, imo. But i would have stayed a while in the region, trying to find and sink the missing carriers, before heading West again.
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I'd agree with that tactic. There's not a lot of bases in the Pacific, so carriers were the most important thing out there. Losing them would be costly. Perhaps Silent Hunter X will have the option to make it go either way, unless there's already a game out there that does this.