Army broken?

[Halcion]

Playing as Japan in now in 1921, invaded and conquered China early on. Then took some French holdings below China.

I have the largest fleet I can afford and 200% transports. But fleet strength will not rise above 40% and Army logistics won’t/can’t get above 20%. Had about 7 million poorly supplied soldiers.

New patch drops, 5.6million soldiers go home instantly. Britain declares war and now every single territory BUT the home islands have a garrison of 1-2.5k soldiers. I am now losing all of mainland China to tiny British garrisons in Weihaiwei, Hong Kong and they’re creeping up from Singapore.

I have declared about 20-30 naval invasions against these tiny city garrisons. All have failed. EVERY SINGLE ONE. Routinely with 2-3 times the required tonnage.

I’m about to lose all of China to about 30-40,000 troops because the Army has decided to stay home. What exactly can I do here?

At sea I’m beating the British about 177,000 to 34,000 victory points. Peace Treaty isn’t ever an option.

This situation is beyond aggravating. What can I do aside from just not playing Japan now?

Edited July 26, 2023 by Halcion

[ioulaum]

2-3 times the minimum tonnage probably not enough to even out the odds if you compare the army budget. 

[Halcion]

The Army is officially retarded, I gave up on this campaign because even after the last patch (regained 700,000 troops), all 700,000 went to sitting in mainland Japan while Britain picked off all of my Asian conquests.

Every single time a smallish British force of 20-30,000 troops overran the tiny 2,000 or so man garrisons spread out over THE ENTIRETY of every territory.

I just quit and went back to playing the US. Why bother invading if the Army doesn’t bother defending anything?

Britains Army logistics have NEVER fallen below 100%, despite losing 3/4 of their fleet, fleet power has fallen to 33% and they lose hoards of transports every month.

Edited July 28, 2023 by Halcion