

You might think Concentrated plays to China’s strengths, given how technologically backwards it is. This largely comes down to personal preference. So what’s the deal with Concentrated/Dispersed Industry? In this way you can research older technology fairly quickly. However, if you see that bonus on equipment it means you can license it from one of the other warlords. Unfortunately, they have very limited research slots and do not use them optimally, so this generally only applies to early techs that they have a preference for (Infantry/Artillery/Industry and bizarrely some Air Doctrines). Remember you will get up to a +15% technology sharing bonus from the warlords for free. We also don’t want to duplicate our efforts with our allies. We’re going to be playing catch up for a while so an extra research slot as soon as possible isn’t as useful as it sounds. You should get a 15% bonus from the warlords

Concentrated/Dispersed Industry (Second research bonus)ġ0. Grand Battleplan III (Prepared Defense)Ĩ. Improved Machine Tools (This should be your third research slot and one of your research bonuses)ħ. We’re here to get as much PP as possible so we can do some crazy stuff in a bit.ġ & 2: Electronic Mechanical Engineering and Grand Battleplan DoctrineĦ. Expand the Academica Sinica (Research Slot +1)ħ. Unified Industrial Planning (50% Industry Bonuses x2)ĥ. Three Principles of the People (Stability +5%)Ĥ. Military Affairs Commission (Army XP +0.05/day)Ģ. Short-term sacrifices will be made for long-term gain.ġ. The objective is to be in the best position after the war.

The plan here isn’t to win the war as quickly as possible, though it will be won considerably sooner. Now this is far from ‘optimal’ play for defeating Japan.
