yeah it kinda depends on how much stuff you have left after sea lion. as long as i got a tank and a couple bombers i can make a comeback. vs russia.
the funny thing is, i typically lose uk a round after usa is in war. I pretty much bank on japan winning after usa over commits to atlantic.
most of my axis games are won with japan… some people don’t seem to have a pacific playbook at hand.
The problem I see is that there is no way to save Russia without losing the war in the Pacific.
Honestly a nutless monkey can build 2 destroyers a sub every round for pacific with a carrier fighter buy every now n then and a few transports.
then this nutless monkey can send it to hawaii then from hawaii to anzac naval base and from anzac naval base he can take the cash islands away from japan. yes a nutless monkey can do it, but people try to do fancy stuff and it fails hard.
That’s what I do as usa.
ALWAYS BUY 3 NAVAL PIECES A ROUND WHILE NOT AT WAR CONSISTING OF SUBS DD MAYBE A 1 CARRIER SOMEWHERE IN THERE.
the rest goes to atlantic. some players just aren’t buying anything for pacific so they can’t put any pressure on japan to save uk’s a**.
also you don’t really need transport buys. you start with 2 which is good enough. anzacs typically buy 1 tran 1 inf round 1. take java then round 2 celeb and new guinea unless japan went to war already.
What i noticed is the longer japan waits to war, the worse off russia is, but the better off pacific is.