Wait, Dark Destroyer, we’re talking about Alpha 2, there is no India crush, unless you refer to India crushing Japan.
Further, you don’t have to TAKE Japan, just sink it’s fleet and kick it off the mainland, that’s super easy now after the repeated nerfs to Japan and buffs to the Allies.
Questioneer: Chaning the FIC NO was meant to make it a wasteland. It stops England/Australia/Japan/America from collecting for the territory and, in effect, permanently bumps Japan’s cash flow by 10 IPC a round. However, you can still invade it if you want it for a strategic or tactical reason. In essense, invading or not invading FIC becomes profitable for Japan.
Frank:
No, IPC are not the end all be all of the game. It is the lion’s share, however.
America is not stuck behind two oceans, America only faces Japan with the assistance of Australia, India and China. That’s the problem! America SHOULD be required to spend on both halves of the game, that’s precisely the point of them earning double any other nation!
With CURRENT, American tactics, 40-50 IPC a round is a gift. If the rules were altered to require 35 IPC be spent in the Atlantic, then no, 40-50 IPC would not be enough.
As for the UK split, to be honest, I don’t want EITHER England OR America to drop an entire paycheck on one side of the board, but to be perfectly honest, it is worse having America do it than England. I would say, either both have to split or neither has to split.
Maxo,
Thanks. I agree, Japan does not have an uphill battle, they are facing a shear cliff. The Allies just have way too much money and are way to diversified to be adequately handled by Japan as it stands. I agree, limping along until Round 8 is possible, if you want to see how well Germany can do and see if Germany/Italy can get a VC Win, but as it stands now, Japan is not winning any games, at best, it will sap some strength away. Actually, at best, it prevents American investment into Europe at all.
KNP: Exactly, we want it to be HARD to win. It is better to make it HARD than to make it IMPOSSIBLE and right now, with veteran players of equivalent caliber, it’s impossible for Japan to win without ungodly dice.
Questioneer-2: A Hong Kong NO might work. Perhaps an NO for the Philippines would be better?
Mantle: Japan has some of the DEI, but it never gets them all, not anymore. You have to counter America and that means you don’t have the equipment to get the DEI. Also, remember, you cannot attack DEI that are under control of England/Australia until America enters the war, or you lose the FIC NO….
GHR: Russia easily out produces Germany. Think on it a moment. Russia takes scandinavia (simple process) and prevents a German incursion past S. Ukraine (simple process). Germany now has no objectives and very little land. Russia has Scandinavia and their objectives and, in some games, even have parts of Europe they trade for even more money. I’ve seen at least two games (one against me, one with two other players) where Russia earned in excess of 60 IPC a round for multiple rounds. (In my game I owned London, but that did not help because I lost all that money to CRD.)
Eudemonist: If you expect the worst, you will only be pleasently surprised.
Geist: That’s the whole point of this thread, to convince the powers that be that they’re not done yet! That the axis needs help. No, Germany and Italy don’t need help, they need strategy and normal dice, Japan needs life support, or in the words of Shadowrun “Doc Wagon”.
