Bombing is back, Baby!

I haven’t tried this (yet), but has anyone thought of stacking USSR’s 2 AA & 18 infantry in Siberia and using it as a place to land American bombers from Midway, Wake or Guam?  What do you think of having a US carrier fleet parked in z5 to provide escorts and protection for those bombers?

Why not have the US fleet in SZ 6 so they can convoy raid Japan and provide bomber escorts?

@knp7765:

Why not have the US fleet in SZ 6 so they can convoy raid Japan and provide bomber escorts?

I generally do at some point.  At the very least, American control of Korea with a naval base prevents Japan from putting any units on transports in SZ 6 (assuming you build a destroyer each round.)  That can be quite worth it depending on how your opponent plays!

Plus I think it would be better to put your US bombers on Korea once you’ve taken it so you don’t have to land them in Soviet territory.  Don’t trust those commies with my bombers.
With UK and Chinese forces pounding Japanese forces on the mainland, ANZAC navy could be convoy raiding any Japanese held islands or perhaps even taking them back from Japan and US bombers SBRing Japan into the stone age, poor Japan isn’t going to be building any destroyers, or transports or much of anything from then on.  Japan will be pretty much in check.
Off to Europe to deal with the Germans.

Iwo Jima, with an airbase, seems to be quite adept at housing my American bombers.  WEG  Guam might be better for sake of where you can hit things, but you can’t SBR Tokyo from Guam even with the Airbase there.  (If you play tech and have LRA then yea you can and in such a case, I would say Guam is the hands down best possible location for American bombers, if they can be defended.)

agree with matlefan. Bombers are overpowered now for america. I wonder if anyone will try sending 2 bombers a turn vs germany with america. As these rules read america can hurt germany enough just by bombing. the problem with america is how far she is from the war. Bombers can be brought from eastern to UK in 1 turn and begin bombing next turn. While tranny’s are less powerful as america now because of how far away america is from the actual battlefield. So the strategy employed with tech in revised of going 100% for heavy bombers with america, can in a sense be reached from the start now… Other countries can’t afford to build bombers, so this only really benefits America and overall the allies. I’d like to see bombing not be +2 and that would make it more fair.

Eh?  How is 12 IPC over priced for the United States?

Transports are 1 jump from Spain.  Might be a better option for you.  Load in SZ 101, land in Spain, and send transports from the Gibraltar Naval Base back to Washington.  It’s the same as in any other game of Axis and Allies…except you have to invade a True Neutral to do it now.

I don’t see how invading a true nuetra could ever be a good idea… The axis would get a ton of free units and free money if US takes spain. I just think bombers are now possibly a viable strategy to winning. In my oppinion this doesn’t make sense because if all these historians are reading the same books as I am doesn’t it say that the allies had a HUGE majority in air power. Multiple thousand bomber raids! These thousand bomber raids didn’t end the war or even hurt Germany as much as non historians might think. A B-17 takes over twice as many materials and 12 times as much man power as a fighter. How then can a bomber be worth 12 and a fighter be worth 10? I am fine with this if bombers don’t get the +2 on bombing runs. 1-2 bombers a turn from America could mean Germany is spending 20-40 dollars a turn repairing its major industries.

The axis wouldnt get very many units at all, really.

One generally hits Spain and Turkey simultaniously and generally at a time when there is no transports or Germans in or near Sweeden.  That means the best chance is for Japan to get Afghanistan and generally, that’s not really a possibility either.

So essentially, Germany attacks Spain America gets a TON of infantry from S. America.  America attacks Spain, Germany gets nothing, but the Allies get a one stop depot of Infantry drop offs from E. USA to Europe.

I don’t know how japan doesn’t get afghanistan. Also Japan would get those 6 troops in mongolia. Everything Else I see what you are saying. Are allies winning by so much in your games that they can afford to give 10 free infantry to Japan at the minimum and 2 extra dollars?