1. Agree with Catacol about Paras and London.
2. I didnt demand to reduce Jap fleet, rather to enlarge US allowable carrier builds.
(But not with land attacks by carriers in mind. Actually its quite hard to kill a jap unit with high AD tech in Tokyo or Seoul by carrier air.
In my game against Clausewitz, I attacked Tokyo by LAND BASED air from Northern Japan.
3. Regarding Japan, In global Gold the Japs had an alternate capital in OSAKA, and only after that was taken too, the capital tranfered to Seoul, so Japan actually had 3 capitals.
Dont know why this feature has been removed in AOD.
It would make taking out Japan surely tougher.
4. About Ashes Fall point on island hopping:
I DONT know any reason why the US should island hop. This is a weakness of the game, I agree.