Hello, I play pacific 1940 a lot. I have also played global a few times. Pacific 1940 second edition is a great game but I can almost easily win every time if I’m Japan and I attack on the third turn. A new rule was passed around late 2014 to allow the USA to receive a 30 IPC bonus if Japan attacks or declares war on them before turn 4. This seems to balance the game a little but I can still always win with Japan. The strategy for Japan is pretty much the same. Take the money islands, build a minor in French Indo China and Kwangtung and knock out China and India. Post in the Philippines with your huge navy and three fighters that can scramble and those six deadly kamikizes. Let Anzac and USA come to you so you can use the fighters to defend at 4 when the big navy battle happens. Eventually you will be making more than the allies with the money islands NO and the India NO. You should be around the 70-75 mark. Then when the time is right strike at Sydney or Hawaii and hold it and you should win as it will be six victory cities. For the allies, man this can be tuff lol. You better hope Japan attacks you on turn 1 or turn 4 because turn 2 and especially 3 it’s going to be difficult.
1: China: buy men and hit and run and fall back to the north west of China. You will be lucky if the Burma road is open more than two turns. Pull back and make Japan come to you.
2: UK: pull everyone back to India and just buy men!!! Try to bring your navy down to Australia and unite them with Anzac and hopefully later USA. If it looks like India is going to fall then pull your airforce out and send them to Australia to hopefully land on a Anzac or American carrier. If Japan hasn’t declared war early then take as many islands in the south as possible .
3: Anzac: small ships and transports are good. if it looks like Japan is going to invade then pull your forces to south Australia because from there you can hit any territory. Use your small ships to convoy raid or unite with the main USA fleet. Queensland is a great staging area for the allied navy early in the game. Also since there’s a airbase there fighters don’t hurt also since they can scramble.
4:USA: the big boy lol. The problem is when USA is neutral she only makes a freaking 17 ipcs a turn. While Japan is around the 40 mark and Japan has soooooooo many aircraft at its disposal. USA I say aircraft carrier early then mainly subs, destroyers, and a transport every turn with land units. A few rounds into the game get a navy base on the Johnson islands and start combining your fleet with the Anzac fleet and hopefully a small UK fleet. try to take the money islands by sacrificing transports because Japan will have a bigger navy early in the game. When the time is right move to Dutch New Guinea with your fleet and prepare for the big battle. Sometimes it’s better if Japan attacks you and sometimes it’s better if you attsck them. Hopefully you will have a lot of subs at your disposal. If you win the navy battle then Japan is pretty much toast even if they have India and China. Good luck and let me know how the war goes lol. I am playing anniversary edition on Saturday 😜
Better strategy.
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Okay so, as Japan when is better to attack your enemies, turn 1, 2, or 3. I usually go to war with Britain on turn 2 or 3, because I want to get some operations done on China, for attacking the US I usually wait till turn 3 because I do not like putting up with their crap.
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The best move is to attack on turn 1
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The best move is to attack on turn 1
Everyone; what about getting a good push on China?
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@Dylan:
The best move is to attack on turn 1
Everyone; what about getting a good push on China?
At most, Japan can take 4 Chinese tt on the 1st turn. 2 of them are empty, and 1 only has 1 inf defending. There’s more than enough leftover to destroy the Singapore fleet, which cuts the UK off from the DEI, capture the Philippines, capture Hong Kong, and capture Yunnan, all of which deny objectives, and sink the transport off hawaii, preventing an invasion of Korea or Truk.
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@Dylan:
Okay so, as Japan when is better to attack your enemies, turn 1, 2, or 3. I usually go to war with Britain on turn 2 or 3, because I want to get some operations done on China, for attacking the US I usually wait till turn 3 because I do not like putting up with their crap.
you do know if you attack UK/dutch/ANZAC, you automatically are at war with US?
so attack one of the 4, you’re at war with all 4
only exception is if anzac or UK should attack you first
then you can attack dutch/anzac/british without war on US -
pretty sure it’s in the rule book
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If you do a search, Krieghund has clarifed that it is no longer automatic. It does allow the US to declare war on you, on thier own turn.
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If you do a search, Krieghund has clarifed that it is no longer automatic. It does allow the US to declare war on you, on thier own turn.
If the US were allowed to attack (declare war), and the Japanese were already chewing on the British, ANZACers and the Chinese, why in wide wide world of sports wouldn’t the US declare war?!?
Who cares if it’s not automatic? So it’s optional now, it would be insane for the US to not attack! They’re the big dog for the Allies; they need to have their a$$ in the fight ASAP!
If they didn’t attack at the very first opportunity, then you might as well stop playing A&A and go play Ken & Barbie. :-D
My question is when will the errata for this game ever end!?!
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The consequence of this is that if there were an american ship in the path of the Japanese attacking a UK target, they just ignore it.
There have been some games where it is an issue if the Japs attack later than turn 1
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The consequence of this is that if there were an american ship in the path of the Japanese attacking a UK target, they just ignore it.
There have been some games where it is an issue if the Japs attack later than turn 1
The Japanese attack later than turn 1? Why would they do that? :?
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I’m not saying that attacking later is the way to go (I think capturing India on turn 3 is unstoppable and the way to win), just saying that it was the intention.
With a bid, I would likely attack later.
The global game it would probably be an issue as well. I would think the intention was to get rid of blockers.