@ampdrive They had a lot of money in the pacific, and the combination of Japanese pirates and German bombers held them off for a while
American Strategy (Video Added)
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The problem with KJF is that the Luftwaffe can then be unleashed against Moscow.
Without the Luftwaffe, Moscow will hold…but with the Luftwaffe ( equal to 12 -14 tanks)… chances are poor.
Only way to keep Luftwaffe in W. Germany, is with US+UK TRs in Atlantic… unless there is another way…?
KJF problem is that unless its is done quickly (Japanese player must cooperate) … and with Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe at its doors…Moscow will fall by G6 or G7 at latest… and then the race to Egypt starts…
So 2 questions are:
1) with KJF, realistically, with a good Japanese player… how quickly can Japan be contained to home islands, by which turn?
2) and what US buys would be optimum for that scenario?.. i mean… ( do not even bring the K… in the KJF, because if Japan stacks…it will take a long time) -
Thanks for all the comments everyone, hopefully I can do the American strategy video during this long weekend (Canada’s Queen day).
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Victoria Day
A hockey watching weekend if there ever was
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One last rant to add to every excellent point every1 has already made, the options the USA has seem to boil down to this (very basically, because I don’t want to complicate things anymore at this point):
1). Go GF for the first 2-3 turns and then switch gears to JF. This has good uses and the resulting monstrous Japan is not the end of the world, because the upside is that either Russia will survive, or, if Germany takes it down, the allies will make monstrous gains in Western Europe;
2). Go JF for the first 3 turns max and then switch gears back to Europe. This looks as good (or bad ;-)) as the above GF proposal, but this time Germany will become monstrous instead of Japan;
3). Go 'K’JF. Same as point 2 above, but now continue against Japan for 3 more turns. Allies need to realize that either Moscow or Cairo will be lost to Germany and they will have to fight for control of the other, remaining VC. Looks very dangerous but do-able.
4). KGF is not an option, unless, to a somewhat limited extend, if the allies can see Japan focus a lot on Russia and the Med, after they took India.With all the above strategies, the allies need a perfect tactical execution. Somethig many players fail a lot at, which causes so many allied losses these days. And if playing with dice, they need luck as well.
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The video is up, Just want to thank everyone for their comments and suggestions for this American strategy video in my series. You were all very helpful…. sorry IIIC, did see your last post before I uploaded the video, but you made some good points.
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Hi YG,
thank you VERY much for this strategy video! I really enjoy all of you’re series.
And - whenever you will find the time to do them - I am very curious to see a small tutorial concerning with the two ‘smaller’ major powers, ANZAC and Germany’s little helper Italy. :lol:
Greetings from Germany,
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Thank you YG, that was really helpful. I Know some friends who own Global and if I’m ever USA I now have a good idea what to do.
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Cheers Lars and Frederick, and welcome to axis and allies.org
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@Young:
(…) sorry IIIC, did see your last post before I uploaded the video, but you made some good points.
NP YG. The video is awesome and ‘The Complete Series’ is a great aid for playing the game and for every A&A-fan a must see!
With your help, newer payers will be using veteran strategies much quicker :-D. -
With your help, newer payers will be using veteran strategies much quicker :-D.
That was precisely my goal, thanks buddy.
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Most informative video. Thanks for all your hard work YG. I originally thought the US would be the most fun nation to play. Found that it is most challenging thus the most difficult nation to play IMO. All that money, all the options but one mistake could be fatal for the allies. Very difficult to figure what exactly to do with the US. I believe that they must be responsible for SBR’S on both japan and Germany along with having the fleet to convoy japan. After that is where I have problems. Maybe I’m spending too much on bombers, not enough on troops and transports.
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Having some bombers is fine but I wouldn’t use them to SBR that much, especially against Germany. They have so many factories it doesn’t really impact them that much. Plus it sucks when they get shot down.
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Point well taken Barney. It does suck when they get shot down no doubt. Found you can really strangle Japan with SBR’s especially after taking DEI away from them. Tougher with Germany.
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If the american bombers can get to china they could SBR the japanese factories on the chinese coast that would really hurt japan more than SBR on Tokyo.
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@Frederick:
If the american bombers can get to china they could SBR the japanese factories on the chinese coast that would really hurt japan more than SBR on Tokyo.
That’s a good idea, however, Japan could easily fill those territories with interceptors making American SBRs very risky.
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Is the interceptor rule optional in Global?
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I don’t think so…
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That’s to bad. :-(
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Correct, interceptors and escorts are not an optional rule the way they are in A&A 1942.2
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