What is the typical bid, and what are some good basic strategies?

[Veqryn]

What is the typical bid, and which nation(s) does it go to?

and what are some good basic strategies?

thx,
veqryn

[c64]

Isn’t it all about raising the number of VPs that Japan has to reach ?

[frimmel]

Try reading some of these essays.

http://www.axisandallies.org/taxonomy/term/18

It constitutes ‘the book’ on the original Pacific game.

[a44bigdog]

Veqryn after you have read the essays Frimmel linked to (so of the finest strategy essays on the site in my opinion) check out my thread Australian Push. Kreig says he has never seen it before and I have never lost a game with it.

AAP is not balanced all that well, in that Japan wins most of the games by a wide margin, but it is very fun to play. If nothing else for the challenge of seeing if you can eek one out for the Allies.