Need Help - Operation Pressure Cooker

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Re:  Japan invasion of US

Early on, you concentrate on infrastructure (i.e. transport escorts and transports) for Atlantic.

If Japan drops to Alaska, they’re screwing with their early progress in Asia, so you react then.

Around R3, you can overbuild on infantry a bit and do as follows:

Post a few infantry in West Canada.  Build infantry at East US.  Build tanks at West US.  Keep a couple extra infantry in East Canada.

Now the West Canada infantry stay where they are, say 2-3.  Infantry at East US move to East Canada for Algeria drop.  West US tanks move to East Canada for Algeria drop.  If Japan drops to Alaska, West Canada infantry and West US tanks move to Alaska to reclaim, and use the extra East Canada infantry for the Algeria drop and/or to replace the West Canada infantry.

If Japan moves in in force, that’s great.  They totally screwed their progress in Asia, and you can see the thing coming a mile away, so you can easily prepare for it.

-Re your comments on African strategy it depends on what your opponent does G1.  It isn’t clear from your post whether he/she will hit Egy or leave the units in Libya.  I’m not big on the SAF factory but it could work ok if USA is going Pacific…Allies shouldn’t be in danger of losing it in any case.  You may also want to consider an India factory …unlike SAF its in the middle of the action and will help you weaken Japan, and down the road you can use it to pump tanks into Africa or even assist Russia.

-Hitting Belo and WR is a tried and true opening in Revised, and is no doubt similarly effective in 42.  The drawbacks, compared to WR/UKR, are not killing those German units, and leaving Cauc potentially exposed.  The benefits are having more units in position to deadzone Karelia in the early stages of the game.  While in Revised the hope was that the Russians could blitz Norway in conjunction with this move, here the benefit is potentially trapping whatever units are in Norway by preventing them from combining in Karelia with units from Eastern Europe.

Belo/WR is worth a shot, but I’m not convinced its better then WR/Ukr.

No. Your one movement is the loading onto the transport. Any land unit on a transport can be loaded and offloaded on a single turn but it takes up all their movement.

@skinny1:

@Keredrex:

I made a save game chart for the 1942 version.  a Map and a list to record the units and positions. will post it soon

Can’t wait to see it.

check the link for the save game chart
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=18681.0

@Lithiume3:

Thanks how the bomber rule for the factory

First, if the territory with the factory has an aa gun, it fires one die at each bomber. Roll one die per bomber and if it’s a one, then the bomber is shot down and can’t attack. Then roll one die for each surviving bomber. Add up the rolls and their sum is the amount of damage to the factory. A factory can’t be damaged more than two time’s its territory’s production value.

Make sure you have the “Axis & Allies 1942” map chosen in abattlemap (from the New tab), because the “Axis & Allies Revised” map is exactly the same (with the same pieces starting), except that in Revised z63 DOES touch Western Canada, while in 1942 they have the map fade out into white so that z63 DOES NOT touch Western Canada.  In abattlemap, the 1942 version map shows a white block labeled “Frozen Perry Channel” to show that z63 does not touch.

In different versions of Axis & Allies, they sometimes had the Perry Channel open, in which case z63 touched Western Canada; and sometimes they had the Perry Channel frozen, in which case z63 did not touch Western Canada.  The Revised map/setup and the 1942 map/setup are exactly the same except for this one important detail.

Short version:
1942 = z63 does NOT touch WCan
Revised = z63 DOES touch WCan

focus on taking 1 of 3 routes to connect Germany and Japan
Route 1: take buryatia,sfe,yukut,ENO,etc.
Route 2: take China, Sinkiang, Kazakh, and Caucauses.
Route 3: take india, persia, trans-jordan, possibly egypt, and possibly Caucauses and kazakh