Fanatical Nations

[Sgt_Rock]

"Also I see in Japan '45 that the Optional Surrender rule is a default optional rule. As I understand it, this means that Broken Japanese that are successfully assaulted will surrender en masse if they cannot retreat. This does not seem very Fanatical. Am I missing something here?"

No, this does NOT happen. As a matter of fact the Japanese die right down to the last man normally. VERY VERY hard to dig out of bunkers too. Its their "ace in the hole" as otherwise the Allies would roll right over them for the most part. Sometimes it seems unrealistic in that if 40 routed Japanese are in the open and are surrounded by six hexes of units each at 500 men well 3000 men should be able to eliminate them in a set of several assaults .... and as you know routed units are hard to kill with fire too.