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Today, we want to tell you more about one of the games mechanics - the Dive bombing ability.

On the picture, you can see an SBD-5 dive bomber attacking Kagero class destroyer (usually it is not the brightest idea, as destroyers are far from easy targets for air attacks). SBD-5 (be default) has a Dive bomber skill, which allows it to chose which ship part to attack (expect the Hull and the Engine) or make an ordinary attack (damage is split among various ship parts).

Each attack does minimum damage of 1 to Hull, and the rest of it goes to the chosen ship part. Thus while torpedo bombers can deal more damage to the Hull with torpedoes, Dive bombers can perform precise strikes rendering useless selected ship parts, leaving the enemy ship easy prey for further attacks.

The proper combination and teamwork of different types of units is the key to success and a sign of a truly strategic mind. Only 15 days left before the start of Early Access. Make sure to try it out and give us your thoughts and proposals

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Tone class is the last heavy cruiser design of the Imperial Japanese Navy. While its predecessor Mogami class (also in the game) was limited in design by the London Naval Treaty, Tone class had a much better design with fixed flaws and no limitations. It underwent various upgrades throughout the war.

It is a force to reckon with while playing the USA campaign, and an invaluable asset while playing the Empire of Japan campaign.

Only 20 days left before the start of the Early Access and we look forward to letting you play the game and voice your opinion.

Feel free to add Strategic Mind: The Pacific to your wishlist on Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/991810/Strategic_Mind_The_Pacific/

Last week we gave you a glimpse of the US troops and now it is time for the adversaries - the Empire of Japan.

Unlike the US troops, the Japanese had a very limited number of light and medium tanks and even smaller number of self-propelled units available. So, the bulk of Japanese land troops had towed artillery, anti-air, and anti-tank units.

• Artillery: Type 90 (75 mm), Type 91 (100 mm) and Type 96 (150 mm)
  
• Anti-aircraft gun: Type 88 (75 mm) and Type 99 (88 mm)
  
• Anti-tank gun: Type 1 (47 mm)
  
• Japanese medium tanks: Type 97 Chi-Ha and Type 1 Chi-He

Later on Japanese started producing better tanks, but only in small numbers (due to severe lack of resources) and kept them for the defense of the mainland, so they never saw action.

While playing the Japanese campaign the player will have the opportunity to change that and use some of limited or even experimental models of Japanese tanks and self-propelled units to strengthen his land forces.

Make sure to let us know your thoughts on the subject in the comments below.

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The key feature of the US land forces is better equipment and availability of self-propelled units of all types. This proved to be a solid advantage over arguably less technologically advanced Imperial Japanese Army.

And even though it was not a trivial task to transport and to land mechanized units on tiny islands amidst the Pacific Ocean each of those machines pushed the odds in the US favor.

• Self-propelled anti-aircraft gun: M15 Halftrack
• Self-propelled artillery: M7 “Priest”
• Tank destroyer: M10 “Wolverine”
• Tanks: Light tank M3 Stuart and Medium tank M4A1 Sherman

Make sure to let us know your thoughts on the subject in the comments below.

Feel free to add Strategic Mind: The Pacific to your wishlist on Steam!

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The Second Battle of Guam is one of Strategic Mind: The Pacific game scenarios.

It was the American recapture of the Japanese-held island of Guam captured by the Japanese in the 1941 First Battle of Guam during the Pacific campaign of WWII.

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