@FranceNeedsMorePower said in Need strategic help:
@AndrewAAGamer First off I have a lot of question about your remarks. Why did you say I take these ideas with a gain of salt.
Sigh. Okay, so I was trying to be nice. I didn’t want to come out and say “Hey, most of this is really horrible advice so, don’t listen to it.” Instead, I hoped to subtly let the reader understand that some of this advice is probably not so good and to avoid it without hurting your feelings.
I love the Axis and Allies series, absolutely love these games. And because of that, I feel a sense of duty to give back to the gaming community that has given me so much pleasure over the years and hopefully, by providing good advice, make other people better players so they can win and enjoy the games more; thus increasing the community itself. Therefore, when I see someone giving really questionable or blatantly bad advice I feel it is my duty to protect others who may not have the same understanding of the game as I do so they do not mistakenly take said bad advice. So I spoke out in a way, I had hoped, that would get the message across to them and also to you without sticking a dagger into your eye.
Now, I hope you noticed that I did not respond to all the points you made, because some of them were good advice and some were only questionable advice which I choose to ignore. I only responded to the ones that were outright horrible advice.
Good advice:
When playing as the Allies it’s generally more challenging. Your always reacting to the Axis.
Russia: There is nothing specific about Russia, you cannot do anything to stop the anslut from Germany. Some players will take the guys in the Pacific and march them to Europe. Keep those 18 inf. and 2 AAA. guns in the Pacific wait for Manchuria or Korea to be vulnerable then attack. By lots of infantry to fight against Germany.
Anzac: KEEP TAKING THE DUTCH ISLANDS! also, build up a fleet to attack Japan. To have a good sized fleet it will take you 10 Turns probably. Make sure there is enough land troops in Sydney to protect it.
Questionable advice:
China: China is outgunned but can do a lot. Most players will just focus on defence. China needs defence and offence. Usually if Japan takes Yunnan they will make it out scarce. You can retake it with 8 guys and a fighter vs. some guys and a artillery. Pretty good odds. Your fighter is key keep it and use it for offensive. Build a good stack and go in with the Fighter to attack. If you are able to buy Artillery BUY IT! If you get lucky you may be able to buy 1 or 2 these can be very helpful.
France: Germany will expel you from Europe, what to do? Well first, DONT SCRAMBLE THE FRENCH FIGHTER TO THE 110 SEA ZONE ATTACK. He is much more useful. Fly him down to africa to join the three French guys. Whoa cool! That is 3 guys and a fighter pretty good for the French.
Horrible advice: (Responded to in previous post)
U.S.A.: Your the powerhouse of the Allies. Do not split your power equal to both sides of the board. Pick one and stick with it. I like to go with Europe. for about 4-8 rounds build up a huge fleet in the Atlantic. Make sure you have a lot of guys and transports. Then go to the Morocco Sea Zone and wait. Here you can attack Italy and France, scary! This well get the Axis to build up defences and spread them out. Lastly, team up with the U.K. build a fleet of troops together than strike.
U.K. Europe: In turn 1 and 2 your fleet in the Atlantic will be crushed by the German air force. So you will need a air force to fight back. On turn 1 take Eire. Turn 2 buy a airfield. That’s now three airfields connecting to sea zone 109. That’s a 9 Fighter scramble. Nice! After you have 9 Fighters to scramble build a fleet to help the U.S.A troops. as for Africa clean up the Italian navy in turn one along with some troops if possible. Get Persia as quick as possible then Iraq.
U.K. Pacific: Japan is a beast. You have three main things to do. 1, Build a fleet with the Anzac, 2, steal the Dutch islands from Japan, 3, Help China.
Now, since it appears you want to continue discussing the horrible advice so be it…
If you build up a fleet in the Atlantic, you can easily sail it a round to the Pacific.
If you wait 4-8 Turns before sending the Atlantic Fleet into the Pacific, due to distance considerations, you are looking at not putting in any US resources into the Pacific until at least Turns 6-10. By then Japan would be so powerful any US forces at that point would be too late. Once Japan has eliminated China, taken India, Far East Russia and controlled the Money Islands they are actually collecting MORE money than the US so… game over.
When you said you have never seen this strategy before even if my strategy is good or not does not depend on you saying if you have seen it or not. Also, The 9 Fighter scramble allows for you to build a fleet to hit Pairs. I highly doubt the British will struggle against the Italians.
My fault, I was trying to be nice. I figured if a high ranking player said they have never seen this strategy than that would be a pretty good hint that it was not a good idea. Bluntly, this is a horrible idea. UK Europe starts the game with 5 fighters. I think we can safely assume 6 based on a fighter Bid in Scotland. That means we need to build 3 more fighters PLUS an airbase or basically a Turn and a half of resources just to start building a fleet in 109. I promise you, if the UK does not have any fighters in the Med, nor spend any resources in the Med, until about Turn 5; the British are going to struggle mightily with the Italians as they will own all of North Africa, including Egypt, and a portion of the Middle East.
In addition, Moscow is going to fall quickly and easily if all the UK fighters are sitting in London instead of Moscow. The key for UK is to subdue Italy in no more than 3-4 Turns so the British fighters can make Moscow no later than Turn 6 to stave off the typical German G7 attack.
If, the situation demands, a UK fleet off Great Britain and it cannot be built off Great Britain, due to German pressure, than build it off Canada and then move it to London (109).
You said buying boats is a waste, it is not a waste. As for the Anzac you need boats to shuttle troops to mainland. It depends if the U.S.A joins the Pacific if they do then you should buy boats to join there boats.
I said buying boats for UK Pacific was a waste. I never said anything about ANZAC because you gave good advice regarding ANZAC.
