Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-104.51.53.50-20150415225527/@comment-4125495-20150713141354

Ar-cen-ciel wrote: I guess I'll just leave this here:

Neutral due to little to no engagement on IJN's part afaik.

Uh... no. One very specific incident immediately comes to mind:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_Prince_of_Wales_and_Repulse

The Royal Navy operated multiple ships in the pacific and fought the IJN throughout WW2. This is especially true when you take into account that at the time, the New Zealand and Australian Navies were an extension of the Royal Navy, forced to operate independently because the main British presence was wiped out early on. Hell, World 4 is all set around the Java Sea (the Battle of the Java Sea was intended to wipe out the remaining British warships in the Indian Ocean, but the IJN failed to locate the two British carriers operating in the area, HMS Formidable and HMS Indominatable)

Once the tide turned in Europe, the British had a fairly sizeable fleet in the Pacific. The main British Pacific Fleet in the latter part of WW2 was enormous - four battleships, eleven cruisers, over thirty destroyers, nine escort carriers, four light carriers and six fleet carriers. Multiple other British warships were in the pacific at different points and engaged the IJN as well.