Ghandi Khan
Warlord
- Joined
- Mar 24, 2007
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- 106
On the isolationists, that is debatable. I don't really want to get deep into it, as I'm a little foggy on the facts and don't feel like researching them now. But, I would recommend checking out some of the old polls about public opinion for entering the war before Pearl Harbor. They were pretty weak. Even after Pearl the American people were still generally opposed to warring in Europe. It was Hitler that brought the USA into the war by declaring war. This was 1 of his top blunders of the war too, as there is no telling on how long the US would have waited otherwise.
On the newer map I have seen the US declare war on Japan occasionally. They even manage to capture an island now and then too. I haven't played long enough after this happened to see what else they can do though.
I've never seen the US take a single island from Japan, even in my games where I have started them at war with each other. Not saying it's impossible... just doesn't happen very often.
As for Americans being isolationist... even if many Americans wanted to stay out of the war in Europe, the fact remains that the US government was actively supporting the allies. Germany had been sinking US supply ships and the Americans had been supplying France, the UK and China with weapons, munitions, food... even pilots. Though war had not officially been declared... we were clearly siding with the Allies even prior to 1940.
Without scripted events in the scenario, Japan will almost certainly not declare war on the USA, and it remains extremely unlikely that the US will enter the war at all. I already made an argument before about the canonical Ally and Axis powers of WW2: that being USA/UK/USSR vs. Germany/Italy/Japan.
If you want to play an alternate war where it's SuperFrance/UK vs. Germany/Italy... with an unrelated one-sided war taking place between Japan and China... Russia as a wildcard and the USA as an unimportant bystander... that's fine. If you want to play a game with the canonical Allies vs. the Axis powers... then you have to set it up as I have. Either that or put in scripted events.
I'm not saying my way is necessarily better... but I like it better. I was putting the suggestion out there for others who might want to try fooling around with WorldBuilder and modding the scenario in a similar way. IMO it makes it feel more historically accurate and improves balance.