Shadow, I’m with you 100% US and UK can have a very respectable fleet put together by round 3. If Germany sends its air force it’s probably a mutual annhilation, which almost always favors the Allies.
@Arthur:
Dark Skies is not intended as a strategy for KGF! If the United States spends all of their money on the first two rounds in the Atlantic, start building ground units as Germany and enjoy the victory in the Pacific. Japan can by earning 45 PUs on J1, 57ish on J2, and around 70 on J3. On J4, they can conquer India leading to ~80 PUs. There is little or nothing that the Allies can do for these first four rounds except pray for lucky dice rolls. Don’t tell me you have some secret play to use the measly forces of India, China, and ANZAC to prevent this scripted attack (read Cow’s guide for J1 attack on Asia and the Philippines).Â
If the US has spent little in the Pacific for the first 2 rounds, they won’t be able to field a significant threat to Japan until turn 7! By that time, Japan should be approaching an income of 90. Not only will they be outproducing the US and ANZAC, but they have shorter supply lines and simpler attack coordination. Perhaps you have been facing bad Japanese players who don’t know how to properly expand.
I don’t want to squirrel the topic, but I’m not a believer in the J1 attack. I’ve seen it in action six times and the record is 1-4-1 (and this was following Cow’s guide step by step by step).
I say all of this in good fun and the spirit of debate:
It’s amazing to me that nobody can come to any conclusion other than “Everyone you play the game with must not know how to play country X.”
Between Ike living up the street, my Jersey and Westchester groups, we’re about 12 players deep with well over one thousand live games played between all of us. We study the boards, utilize strategies posted, play test games (sometimes a couple of us will play three rounds of a strategy, start over, play three again with slight tweaks and then compare differences), have entire war-game weekends (heading to PA next Thurs-Sun where 7-9 of us will have two boards going) and can set the board up from memory. We’re not amateurs.
Maybe you guys don’t play against strong Allied players. It’s at least as likely as my group not knowing how to play the Axis, isn’t it?