Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-73.220.89.40-20150318192417/@comment-26574811-20151230022444

Severstal wrote: There is certainly a fair bit of army and navy roping themselves off from each other. However, this is them valuing their own independence and is more an act of bureaucracy maybe mixed with a bit of pride than it is an act of hostility. Uchi-soto (Insider/Outsider) has always been a little stronger in Japan than elsewhere and this is where we are seeing the effect, but that's not the same as hostility. And if you want to point to what may be apocryphal anecdotes, you'll have to look and deal with the times they did manage some cooperation as well.

>Commerce is about satisfying the majority of the market

Commerce is better described as maximizing the market sufficiently satisfied that they'll continue buying your product.

So yes, if it is between A which is 80% and B which is 20% well in the end they'll choose A. However, at least for the moment, even if A is the majority they can be sufficiently placated using German ships, Italian ships, maybe later French ships. They are only somewhat interested in seeing Allied ships. For the moment it is not a deal breaker or even major minus if they don't.

Which leaves their priority towards placating B, who might indeed see it as a deal breaker if Allied ships are inserted. Though it may be only 20%, there's no need to risk losing their business yet. It was not just "valueing their independence", it was a centry-long history of hate.

The history is long, but I'll make it brief: IJN came from Satsuma, an ancient Domain that mostly became Kagoshima Prefecture today, while IJA came from Choushu, another Domain that was some what equal to modern Yamaguchi Prefecture. They had a long and bitter history with each other during the times when Japan was dominated by patriarches. As the patriarch of Satsuma became IJN and Choushu, IJA, the history was not forgotten, even though by then they have already formed an allience.

Remember, in reality, the "20% deal breaker" is the few people that questions KC as whether it's an imperialism propaganda. So for your case, the devs even more should introduce Allied ships.

As for those "Axis purists", they are simply not allowed to exist in post-war Japan, though they do exist in forms of extreme IJN enthusiasts overseas, or deep inside far-right Japanese politician's minds, they are nowhere to be seen in the visible part of Japan.

BTW, far-right politicians and their supporters are enemies of the ACG industry after Mayor Ishihara brough up a new act, which greatly limited the freedom of ACG work in Tokyo. There's zero point on trying to satisfy a group of people who are already hostile to the entire ACG industry, you know.