@Cow:
you are able to sink germany with USA the same round London is taken??? Is that because Japan started the war?
Where are you flying from and landing? There are a few places I can think of, but i don’t know… 7 movement max with airfield puts you in range of a few things. May have to call in a few italian fighters to guard the naval for a round.
Yes it’s the same round. Germany takes London, then USSR and Japan go, then USA sinks their fleet and kills off the Luftwaffe by crashing a pile of planes into z110. USSR and USA can declare war as soon as London falls. The idea is not for the USA to necessarily keep a big navy in the Atlantic; they can scamper out to the Pacific and be in Hawaii on USA4.
The need for a landing spot is the crucial element of this move, and so it might be necessary to take and reinforce Ireland. The nice part here is that whatever Germany uses to secure Ireland is diverted from the Sea Lion attack and the transports in z109 will be sitting ducks. Another more exotic option is for USSR to build some transports and take Norway as a landing spot. Another move would be to put some UK planes in Iceland that could land on the empty American carriers that actually move to z104. There are lots of ways to do this.
It guarantees that the German forces moved to UK stay there, unless Germany decides to spend a pile of money and lose almost all of the Luftwaffe defedning the transports.
Either way, sea lion may be the kiss of death for the axis.