Talking about WWII Pacific: Is it possible to win Domination as Japan before VP kicks in? I found it too hard! (sid difficulty)
EDIT: The opening is classic:
China Theatre:
Canton units attack Hong Kong;
Use 2 veteran tanks in Indochina to capture Nanning;
Pull artillery from Peking to Nanking, bombard the Hankow-Nanking barricade once. Attack the barricade using Nip Inf from Mukden. (All because that Taiyuan blocks railway between Peking and Kaifeng). If failed, attack with other Manchurian troops. After capture, bombard the tile again (this time by Formosa air force) to remove the barricade.
Use veteran tank in Kaifeng to take Hankow (using Canton and Formosa air force again).
Now use combat engineer from Indochina to kill the Infantry blocking Hankow-Canton railway.
Operation Ichi-go is half-done.
Now load 2 veteran tanks in Indochian to 25th Army. Go to Canton and load the regular one into it. Use Nanking and Kaifeng artilleries, and Peking air force, to bombard Sian.
Attack Sian with Nanking and Kaifeng forces, along with 25th army.
Sian is taken. Operation Ichi-go is done. Now the only blockage is Peking-Kaifeng, which only costs 2/3 movements.
Mop up the rest of Chinese troops near Hankow, Kaifeng and Sian.
Congratulations! You open up Asian Continent Railway network!
Luzon Offensive:
From Formosa, load Elite Marine to DD, Veteran Marine to TP, along with Artillery and Tank and Nip Infantry. Bombard Aparri with CA, attack it with Marine, take it.
Move tank to Manila, removing Radar tower; artillery bombard Manila;
DD go to Manila bay, tank kills flak and Marine kills wounded GI. Manila taken.
Use captured artillery piece to bombard the Filipino tank, and finish it with Nip Inf.
Luzon is secured in one turn.
Burma Campaign:
Use the rest of your Nip Inf to the Jungle near Rangoon. Bombard Rangoon with Bombers and Arties, and take it.
Mindanao, Celebes, Maluku and Western Papua:
From Palau, load CV Ryujo with Zeroes; load Marine and other troops into TP, try to take Davao on Mindanao Island. If failed, use another Marine with other forces on DD.
If successful, you can try to take Ternate on Maluku Island.
Bombard the American fleet headed by CA Houston.
Saipan:
Take Guam, move towards Palau.
Kwajalein
Try to take Wake Island with Marines on DD! If failed, retreat and try to take Tarawa instead, using the rest of troops on TP, with a CA.
South China Sea
Bombard and kill two British BBs you see. Use TP and Marine to capture Sarawak city (Siak). Boats in South China sea move south, towards Sarawak.
Pearl Harbor
Don't attack, just retreat from the position to the west, all Zeroes on Air Superiority.
) Place the Armies on the channel coast and then gift all English towns to that AI. Now just wait until that AI gives you the boot order ("Leave or declare"). If the AI is really annoyed with you, it should come right next turn. Then you answer "Sorry, won't happen again", and your Armies will be kicked out of their territory and will land across the channel in France.
