ORIGINAL: koniu
In two days of battles (Lautem and Kopang) i've sunk 6 or 7 modern enemy cruisers, at least 10/15 Fletchers, 5 CVEs (if i'm not mistaken) and put out of action a modern BB (Washington)
It is game. But i try imagine how impact it will have for politicians and public opinion in US if that battle happen in real world. I will say that it will at best end with tornado in Pacific HQ. Bye bye Mr Nimitz.
If i was a politician(president or someone with power) in US i such situation, not publicly but probably quietly i will start thinking about peace offer to Japan. Something that will make happy both sides. Maybe it is strategilcy allied victory but if i was worker, farmer or taxi driver in US i will only see newspaper headlines.
"30 ships lost in in Indian Ocean. 20000 our brave boys die. When that madness will end" (probably more censorship here needed)
Is not this was major goal for Japan in that time. Make allies loses so big that they decide that fighting for China, Philippines is and rest of region is not worth of those huge loses. In that single battle allies probably would lose something like 10-20000 sailors and soldiers and pilots (10-20% of total KIA loses in real war).
But I am not US citizen so what i can know. And this is game.
To be honest I think a cruiser should worth more VPs than 40... how many sailors do die if a CA or CL gets sunk? 40 VPs is like 20 4Es.. I think lives are not well balanced in a VPs optic...but I know the devs have thought a lot about that so I trust them that the system is actually more balanced than what it seems to me