@axis-dominion Yep, I agree. This one is over as while you can get Hawaii you cant easily get India or Australia and Europe is hosed to the point that I can probably invest fully in Pac with US which will be richer with Western Europe cut off to you.
Im interested in how much different this would be with a G3 but the G4 seems like it lets UK Pac get a little too strong. I dont see what else Axis could have done other than what you tried the first time which while you were unluckier I also had less idea of what to do in Europe.
Fun to play this style of game though so thanks for switching things up so we could try something different.