Crazy game I played on TripleA

[SuperbattleshipYamato]

I gave the Axis, played by the easy AI, a 120 IPC bid and I won as the Allies.

2023-6-26-World-War-II-Global-1940-2nd-Edition Easy AI as Axis 120 IPC bid.tsvg

[Arthur Bomber Harris]

should be able to still win giving 120 IPC bid to EACH of the Axis powers (Germany, Japan, Italy). The AI needs some improvements…

[SuperbattleshipYamato]

@Arthur-Bomber-Harris

Thanks for giving me a tip to try that. Yeah, the AI needs some work.

The AI especially screwed up Japan. They used their entire Japan bid for land units, then just chilled in sea zone 6. I literally had a single destroyer and transport near Formosa and Japan’s 3 carrier fleet didn’t even try to attack.

Obviously the Americans could just easily build up a fleet to take out Japan that way.

Japan didn’t even try to invade the Philippines, or any Pacific island for that matter. Instead they just funnelled troops into the mainland through Korea. While effective, it just couldn’t make up for an abysmal showing in China (Japan let China retake a ton of land when they could’ve easily defended it or at least counterattacked).

Japan’s play, the poorest I’ve ever seen, really doomed the game (not like Germany or Italy had much to brag about).

[SuperbattleshipYamato]

@Arthur-Bomber-Harris

I started that game.

The Axis actually declared war on strict neutrals the first turn. Not a great start by any means.

The Axis were rather predictable. Japan again turtled in sea zone 6 (though they did sortie a little, doing some serious, though repairable, damage), investing all their extra IPCs into useless ground units.

Italy and Germany’s extra ground units are causing some problems, but Rome has been captured and Italy ground down, and the Soviets seem to have held Germany’s large stack at bay long enough to prevent a capture of Moscow (the main vulnerable point of the Allies).

China has pushed Japan out of the Asian mainland, leaving no more Japanese ground units on the mainland.

It’s time for the US to undergo the long, tedious manpower buildup necessary to capture a Tokyo with 50+ ground units.

[SuperbattleshipYamato]

@Arthur-Bomber-Harris

You’re right. I beat the easy AI with a 120 IPC bid per Axis power.

Next I’m going to take on the hard AI as the Axis. Germany and Japan have 720 IPC bids, and Italy has a 480 IPC bid.

To balance it out, the US and the Soviets have a 240 IPC bid, and all other Allied economies (Britain and UK Pacific each get a 120 IPC bid) get 120 IPC bids.

The Axis have a 940 IPC bid advantage however.

To say nothing of the built-in bias to the Axis.

[SuperbattleshipYamato]

@Arthur-Bomber-Harris

I think giving the Axis and 980 IPC bid advantage was a bit too much for me…

https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/40031/an-axis-and-allies-global-1940-triplea-puzzle-if-you-have-a-lot-of-time-or-as-i-like-to-call-it-axis-and-allies-jumbo