Whackamatt, I would like to know when you predict the Japanese will be done with China and India if you attack on J1 as you outline, and the UK buys almost exclusively infantry with just a couple artillery thrown in. Lets say you think you can be celebrating We Love the Emperor Day in Calcutta on turn 6 (I don’t have a number, I’m just throwing it out there). Can the US lock down San Fran, Honolulu and Sydney before then and destroy the IJN at Carolines? Making the Japanese investments in Asia (two ICs + several armor and infantry per turn) may give you a solid hold on Asia but the expense may still put you woefully behind the US and ANZACs. Then there is the final problem. The Japanese player can OWN Asia and it won’t matter if the US and ANZACs can take the home island. I’m not trying to shoot your plan down, I am just trying to see if you have thought this out a bit further. It is easy to look at an early Japanese move and think, “this is over.” But that is the same way it was on December 7th when they hit everything. I think the Allies will still have quite a bit of fight left in them.