Bring cold beer and ask for help is my advice.
Don’t get too worried.
Beginner turn 1 strats:
Germany:
Wipe out sz 110 and 111 with all air and some subs and the BB as Germ, all land units attack france and yugo. Buy an AC and a dd and sub. Plan to attack Russia G3 and take Novograd rd 4. and move everything towards the front, except the air which stays in W. Germ.
Russia:
Fall back from the front with all units and buy all inf with a few Novo artillery with Russia. Bring the Siberan troops home. Set your air up in Novo but be ready to evacuate it to Moscow. Send your sub out from the north. You goal is to hold Moscow, not battle it out territory by territory. Don’t get trapped in the north. Look to hold in later turns in Bryansk.
Japan:
With Japan, set up a J2 DOW. Buy 3 transports and an art. Put your fleet in sz 36 and some attacking units in the Carolines to scare the USA. Attack Yunnan with the 3 inf 1 art and the bombers from japan and Kiangsu plane and tac. Attack Hunan with 3 inf 1 art and the manchuria planes and tacs and formosa fighter. Fill up your transports and get them to 36 and the formosa one loaded in 20 with a couple naval units to defend it.
On turn 2, attack Malaya, Borneo, Java, with 36 and the Phillppines with your Japan new transports., etc. Make sure to block the USA pearl fleet with a destroyer.
Later build some factories on the mainland and an airbase and navy base in 36 area.
USA:
With USA buy navy in the Pac and a destroyer for the east coast. Start planning to move into sz 54 in force by turn 2 or 3. Evacute phillipines, put fig in Guam and sub and DD in 54. Your goal is to keep Japan from capturing Hawaii or Anzac, therefore they can’t win. By turn 4, get at least 3 carriers on 54 with a swarm of submarines.
In the atlantic, sneak a carrier or two and some transports in later rounds. Grab Brazil when you go to war.
Always pay attention to Japan’s air. They have carriers and islands they can land on and are often able to sink you in the Carolines.
UK:
Get a bid if playing allies. Give it to the UK for a 98 sub. Buy all inf for London rd 1. If Germany doesn’t build transports rd2 you can buy transports for Canada and S. African units rd. 2 to send to Egypt and maybe the Egypt factory if Italy is crippled.
Attack sz 97 (send in the carrier and a fig and bomber from London along with all 98 units and fig and tac) and 96 with the 91 cruiser and Gib fighter. Kill the germ BB in 110 or 111 or subs left behind in 106.
Your goal is to hold London against a German attack rd 3, or if Germany buys ground units to build up Africa and defend the Middle East.
Italy:
Depends on the UK player. Generally kill the french fleet. Take So. France. If 97 fleet lived kill Greece. Very dependent on what the UK does. Take Alexandria only if the German planes are going to land there rd 2. Take Kenya.
If the UK attacks 97 with a bunch of stuff from London, don’t scramble. Have your German partner sink the UK ships later with his planes.
Pay close attention to your national objectives as they are the real way Italy makes money. Come up with plans to clear the med of ships, and to take Gib or the Middle East. Send a tank or two to the eastern front to clear a path for Germany.
Anzac:
Build a transport and inf.
Grab Java rd 1. Grab Dutch New Guinea rd 2 for the National Objective. Later, provide transports and men for the US fleet coming down to 54.
Your goal is to grab Malaya, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Phillpines, or Celebes when Japan leaves them undefended. Rd 3. maybe build a factory in Queensland.
Keep 3 fighters as scramblers in Queensland for defense of the fleet. You goal is to help the USA clear and hold the money islands and annoy Japan until the USA fleet is large enough to attack Japan like rd 4 or 5.
France:
Roll really good. Get the random african infs to Egypt. Maybe later send the fighter to french w africa then Egypt or put on a US carrier for defense. Best plan is to not get stuck playing them, as you can take a pee break instead at the end of the round.
Hope this helps.