Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.

[Imperator Pax]

Japan's well frankly this goes to some of the same problems as in the US just on am uch larger and more deleterious scale especially since for Japan the war started much earlier and there wasn't time to procure better equipment. The Japanese leadership the supply side officers were dealing with a doctrine (and in the Japanese unique case the ramifications of ideology) of a very infantry, bayonet centric notion of aggressive frontal attacks, and this goes less to ww1 though the conclusion drawn from ww1's final years was validating to the IJA staff (the US fresh troops took atrocious losses relatively speaking but won, the German offensive nearly broke the french, the british break throughs were successful... and none of these official accounts placed the credit primarily on artillery, it was in the official histories and understandings the infantry who achieved victory) and that RJW history also placed success as going from the infantry man and the moral rectitude of the IJA and this strangled technocratic development leanings in the IJA beccause they just didn't have the budget or support to procure new artillery

they tried, but the showa financial crisis and then wall street crash followed by the opening of hostilities in north china and then the full outbreak of the second sino japanese war prevented the acquisition/procurement of full scale modern artillery by the IJA the best they received were handfuls of schneiders and some other models which will show up but its ultimately politics

 

[SuperHeavy]

The accuracy of the mobile launchers is not going to be anything to write home about but it would scare the hell out of anyone they can hit. It would be like sky started falling for any mass of infantry caught out in the open.

 

[ATP]

Japan's well frankly this goes to some of the same problems as in the US just on am uch larger and more deleterious scale especially since for Japan the war started much earlier and there wasn't time to procure better equipment. The Japanese leadership the supply side officers were dealing with a doctrine (and in the Japanese unique case the ramifications of ideology) of a very infantry, bayonet centric notion of aggressive frontal attacks, and this goes less to ww1 though the conclusion drawn from ww1's final years was validating to the IJA staff (the US fresh troops took atrocious losses relatively speaking but won, the German offensive nearly broke the french, the british break throughs were successful... and none of these official accounts placed the credit primarily on artillery, it was in the official histories and understandings the infantry who achieved victory) and that RJW history also placed success as going from the infantry man and the moral rectitude of the IJA and this strangled technocratic development leanings in the IJA beccause they just didn't have the budget or support to procure new artillery

they tried, but the showa financial crisis and then wall street crash followed by the opening of hostilities in north china and then the full outbreak of the second sino japanese war prevented the acquisition/procurement of full scale modern artillery by the IJA the best they received were handfuls of schneiders and some other models which will show up but its ultimately politics

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That,and they had relatively big standing army with obsolate artillery arleady.For the same reasons french in OTL do not replaced their WW1 guns,/well,mostly,build some new,but not many/
When both germans and americans practicallt created army from almost notching before WW2.Brits had small standing army,and only country with replaced artillery with big standing army were soviets - but people there were starved almost to death to do so.

And,they were right about not trusting in artillery - WW1 proved that 10 day bombardment do not helped,when 15 minute waking barrage,where artillery fire go before attacking infrantry,let english win in Amiens 1918 battle.