Minor nations in the game

Because it was 3 weak light cruisers and assorted tugboats and trawlers. No subs, no destroyers no dedicated naval air arm. China was a major land power but her naval defence was provided by europeans

Yes but i mean that they saw action as opposed to some nations in the game that didn't.   The more I hear them discussed the more I want them to get represented lol.

I wanted the Manchuko navy included, it’s flag would be a Japanese MOmo class destroyer of ww1 vintage.

I am keen on minors often forgotten by history.

Would it be okay to expand the focus of the game to include the Second sino Japanese  war which was an important precursor to ww2?

Maybe even include the Spanish BB's lost in the civil war .  While not falling directly under 1939-1945 the importance of these conflicts can't be understated and being on deck 6 and having a wide range of fantasy already included would it really be that bizarre to include units that were involved in conflict only a few years prior?  It's no more fantasy to ask what if they survived then it is to play an Italian axis unit sunk in 1940 as an allied unit in 1945.

I think it would be really neat to see China represented as a nation with their couple cruisers and a small unit or 2 (eventually), this thread rather organically seemed to spur a lot of interest in China which you can clearly see in the voting. 

Mostly taken from Wikipedia


Ning Hai was based on the experimental Japanese cruiser Yūbari, which combined a small size with heavy weaponry, but in an even smaller displacement of only 2,526 t (2,486 long tons). She became the flagship of the ROCN.

As one of the more powerful surface combatants within the small ROCN, following the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ning Hai was a target of the Imperial Japanese Navy since the Battle of Shanghai, but it was not until 23 September, during the Japanese assault on Kiangyin Fortress (which guarded a segment of Yangtze River near Nanking), that Ning Hai came under severe attack by Japanese bombers, sustaining four bomb hits while Ping Hai was hit by eight bombs and sunk. Ning Hai escaped but on 25 September when Yokosuka B3Y1 torpedo bombers scored two direct hits, sinking her in shallow water. These airstrikes were launched from both the aircraft carrier Kaga and airfields around Japanese-occupied Shanghai.

Later was reconstructed as the japanese escort ship ioshima and sunk by a submarine in 1944.

At 2500t flagship. Yubari is 10 points. Making her 7-8 points. Sounds like she was essentially sunk without a fight.

Flipping nations is a non-starter. We can even use german built stukas on the GZ cause they have a romanian roundel.

These are exactly the units that frak with the mechanics. They got no real game value but we try anyway.

No SA vanilla ship id ride with, corner shelf like weeds says as a single chinese slot and walk away, do a p-40b flying tiger if you must do another unit for the chinese theatre

Make her Japanese or nothing.  We have done this in the past with units like a UK ship with a Canadian crew.