@sire-fred Caroline is off limits til turn 4 and ql is useful for operations in the far south. That is convenient for the Japanese. They can threaten Calcutta and shield themselves at the same time.
Specific Round-by-Round Buys and Positioning for KJF?
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I think I’m pretty good at executing a KGF…against my friends. But having joined the league, it’s become clear to me that even in BalMod, KJF is essential. Otherwise, even a successful defeat of Barbarossa will be in vain, because Japan will have taken India and be set to take either Honolulu or Sydney, scoring a Pac win.
What are the go-to fleet buys and positioning for a KJF, as executed by league vets?
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a full KJF isn’t that strong a strategy because you then end up with a can’t-stop-Germany problem, but a “slow Japan first” strategy has quite a bit of merit
Doesn’t really require very specific bids, just stack the eastern Russian inf on Burytia with an eye to moving into Manchuria or Korea on R3/4, move their mobile units into southern China along with the air, US buys fleet off west coast (e.g. 3CV, 2CV/2FTR), India/China move to max threat on and eventually stack Yunnan, and ANZAC does whatever it takes to be most annoying.
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I start with a purchase of 3 CVs for the US. You can get planes to fill them up later on. It is nice to stack a bunch of fighters in Midway. If the Japanese are careless, your planes can hit SZ 6 and then land on the carrier group in CZ7. It doesn’t happen often, but is beautiful when you can pull off that raid.
On turn 2, I transition to subs and fighters as the primary way to damage their fleet. You can also convoy raid their economy to bits if you can get a few subs into the appropriate sea locations.
Afterwards, I do mostly subs plus a destroyer. Depending on the Japanese spending and success against China, I transition to the European side.
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