Japan '45 Historical Plan/Placement Olympic

[Plain Ian]

Yes these are great maps. Also an insight into the planning of a battle which is really a mini campaign? The US plan sounds pretty inflexible but I guess the Normandy landings were just the same. 

The thing that strikes me is that the game seems to be a WW1 meatgrinder? Break though the enemy trenches to the 'green fields beyond'. Except that is not going to happen in this game. Plus the enemy doesn't give up and only deficiency the Japanese have are low soft attack factors? 

How are Japanese HQ ranges? Maybe if they were shorter then their units would reduce the possibility of disruption recovery?