Why no troop movement?
A. Troops are definitely moving, but they are going where the generals want. As naval commander, your role would be limited to following orders issuing orders to transports to move from port to port. It did not really seem like a fun thing for players to have to deal with. Except for the initial landings at Chemulpo (which have already occurred as the campaign begins), Japanese troop movements were generally accomplished on a ship by ship basis (no convoys). That’s why the Russians were able to inflict some fairly painful losses on the Japanese army by intercepting transports at sea not a Japanese warship in sight. Troops convoys are an interesting issue. The belief in the first part of the century was that transports were safer moving individually. This did not really change until the latter half of WWI. Halpern’s “A Naval History of World War I” has quite a bit of detail on the early 20th century arguments about convoys. In some ways, given the benefit of several years of intensive a
