I played another game with India at 5, but I played against myself instead of the AI (first time doing that!).
Russia got absolutely diced in the heavy Ukraine strafe, and so West Russia was abandoned R2 and with no fighter support (Iceland gone G1, no other good routes) Germany rolled over them on turn G5.
Once the fighter route was gone I went heavy tanks in India, hoping to swing out against the Japanese and provide defence for Moscow. I did have 8 UK tanks about to rush in to Moscow for defence (on UK6), but that would have exposed India on J6 AND Japanese tanks were closing in on Moscow as well, so it would have been a 1 or 2 turn delay at most. Japan had the luxury of building a factory in Manchuria for north route tanks and just stacking Yunnan with art and inf (with their fleet in the adjacent SZ) and deadzone Burma, so the UK troop buildup in India couldn’t really pivot out of India as much as I thought. Any foray out of India, and the 5 IPC factory would be gone, so the two armies stayed in the gravitational pull of one another.
I’ve never really done a KJF, but I think that might work a lot better with 5 IPC India. I might read some KJF strategies and try it out. So far, 5 IPC India is a failure, haha.
