Japan Happy Times 1942- Why Not?

predavolk · 06-30-08, 07:08 PM

This is better suited to SH4, but I don't play that sim (where's the challenge in playing a US sub against the Japanese?). Why didn't Japan try to tie down US naval resources by at least making token efforts against their West coast when Germany was clearly having such a fun time on their East coast? I don't think it would have done much in terms of the war, but it might have given them a little more breathing room if they could've sunk a bunch of shipping and tied up the US West Coast navy.

I understand that Japan didn't generally believe in subs, but the opportunity to use the few subs they had, cheaply, for large effect, seems rather obvious in hindsight.

06-30-08, 07:08 PM	#1
predavolk Weps Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 369 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Japan Happy Times 1942- Why Not? This is better suited to SH4, but I don't play that sim (where's the challenge in playing a US sub against the Japanese?). Why didn't Japan try to tie down US naval resources by at least making token efforts against their West coast when Germany was clearly having such a fun time on their East coast? I don't think it would have done much in terms of the war, but it might have given them a little more breathing room if they could've sunk a bunch of shipping and tied up the US West Coast navy. I understand that Japan didn't generally believe in subs, but the opportunity to use the few subs they had, cheaply, for large effect, seems rather obvious in hindsight.