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@dazedwit
One time I was playing my roommate, who was playing the Axis. At the end of his turn, he had two giant German stacks next to Moscow. If I did nothing but buy and place units with Russia, he would have a 90% win on Moscow on his next turn.
I strafed one of his stacks with a huge stack of infantry and got super lucky dice. Then with UK I did a nearly suicidal run into his barely protected German air force.
On his next turn, he had only a 25% chance on Moscow. The game went on for a long time after that, but his troops never recovered, and his morale was crushed entirely.

@AxisandAlliesGeneral:

then when the time comes that they are bordering Moscow, launch your massive counterattack with infantry, mechs, tanks, and aircraft, destroying them and losing only infantry. Then, once the critical European battle has been won, buy mechs and tanks and retake your territories.

Umm, this is rarely possible.

Although I tend to agree with your point about focusing mostly on the Europe side as USA.

Over a year ago, there was a discussion thread somewhere on this forum (I can’t recall in what section) about GTO’s demise.  As I recall, GTO was supposedly saying that it was shutting down temporarily and that it would return sometime in the following year with a new game that it would be offering in some kind of partnership with Larry Harris rather than WotC.  The details were quite vague, and nothing seems to have come of that initiative…assuming that it was indeed an initiative that had any substance to it, rather than just speculation.

Ty soulfein! ;)

I’ve seen some threads with the question how many units does each country have? So I took my two sets and figured it out, the results are as follows.

–--------------------------------------------------- Allies –--------------------------------------------------

**US

Europe**
Infantry- 20
Artillery- 6
Mechanized Infantry- 6
Tanks- 6
Fighters- 7
Tactical Bombers- 6
Bombers- 6
Sub- 6
Transport- 6
Destroyer- 6
Cruiser- 4
Aircraft Carrier- 4
Battleship- 4

Pacific
Infantry-20
Artillery- 6
Mechanized Infantry- 6
Tanks- 6
Fighters- 8
Tactical Bombers- 6
Bombers- 6
Sub- 6
Transport- 6
Destroyer- 6
Cruiser- 4
Aircraft Carrier- 4
Battleship- 4
–------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
**United Kingdom

Europe**
Infantry- 20
Artillery- 8
Mechanized Infantry- 6
Tanks- 8
Fighters- 8
Tactical Bombers- 6
Bombers- 6
Sub- 6
Transport- 6
Destroyer- 6
Cruiser-4
Aircraft Carrier- 2
Battleship- 4

Pacific
Infantry- 18
Artillery- 6
Mechanized Infantry- 6
Tanks- 8
Fighters- 7
Tactical Bombers- 6
Bombers- 6
Sub-6
Transport- 6
Destroyer- 6
Cruiser- 4
Aircraft Carrier- 2
Battleship- 4
–------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ANZAC

Infantry- 20
Artillery- 6
Mechanized Infantry- 6
Tanks- 8
Fighters- 8
Tactical Bombers- 5
Bombers- 6
Sub- 6
Transport- 5
Destroyer- 6
Cruiser- 4
Aircraft Carrier- 2
Battleship- 4
–------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Russia

Infantry- 40
Artillery- 8
Mechanized Infantry- 8
Tanks-10
Fighters- 8
Tactical Bombers- 9
Bombers- 2
Sub-4
Transport- 4
Destroyer- 4
Cruiser- 2
Aircraft Carrier- 2
Battleship- 2
–--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
France

Infantry- 20
Artillery- 8
Mechanized Infantry- 6
Tanks- 10
Fighters- 8
Tactical Bombers- 6
Bombers- 2
Sub- 4
Transport- 4
Destroyer- 3
Cruiser- 2
Aircraft Carrier- 2
Battleship- 2
–--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
China

Infantry- 30
Artillery- 0
Mechanized Infantry- 0
Tanks- 0
Fighters- 0
Tactical Bombers- 0
Bombers- 0
Sub- 0
Transport- 0
Destroyer- 0
Cruiser- 0
Aircraft Carrier- 0
Battleship- 0

–--------------------------------------------------- Axis –---------------------------------------------------

Japan

Infantry- 40
Artillery- 12
Mechanized Infantry- 6
Tanks- 12
Fighters- 16
Tactical Bombers- 6
Bombers- 8
Sub-12
Transport- 12
Destroyer- 12
Cruiser- 8
Aircraft Carrier- 8
Battleship- 8

–--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Germany

Infantry- 40
Artillery-8
Mechanized Infantry- 9
Tanks- 12
Fighters- 8
Tactical Bombers- 9
Bombers- 4
Sub- 6
Transport- 6
Destroyer- 6
Cruiser- 4
Aircraft Carrier- 2
Battleship- 2

–--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Italy

Infantry- 21
Artillery- 8
Mechanized Infantry- 6
Tanks- 12
Fighters- 8
Tactical Bombers- 6
Bombers- 4
Sub- 6
Transport- 6
Destroyer- 6
Cruiser- 4
Aircraft Carrier- 2
Battleship- 2

Got pretty lucky on dice for China.  They are down to 5 Inf co-defending with 3 UK Inf and 2 UK Tanks on the last hold before an easy march to India.  Plan is to hit India on an amphip assault next turn.  Should be possible if the dice go my way.

I played Japan last weekend. I didn’t have too hard a time, however I tend to play a very anti-US strategy. Therefore I was able to manage them as well as I had been able to in the Pacific game. I even had him spending more on the pacific side. Russia was actually what tended to throw me off because I had to constantly be prepared for a potential invasion until it was my time. Luckily I had set a trap and Russia invaded Korea, allowing me to trap him between my navy and land forces.

If your looking for more specifics then let me know, otherwise that should give you a slight idea as to what to expect.