Pac win Round 4

What’s the earliest anyone’s ever won a game?  I think I found a viable strat for Japan to win in 4 turns.  I haven’t playtested it; I’m just curious if anyone has tried anything like this.  And it’s not guaranteed of course - else the game would be broken.  It actually requires a somewhat inexperienced America who doesn’t see it coming.  But I dont think it’s a complete Hail Mary.

J1
    Buy 2 transports and also either a bomber, 2 subs, or another transport/art.
    Move 2 loaded carriers to Midway or Wake.
    Otherwise set yourself up for a Sydney crush: everything that can moves to Carolines, including all planes (not on carriers) in range. Everything that can’t moves to Palau.  Your carrier/destroyer originally off Carolines down to New Guinea or Queensland.  (If he attacks that, then scrap this plan and just start clearing out Anzac forces and taking islands.)

J2 Pearl Harbor DOW
    Bring everything except your transports.  2 pairs of planes from the Carolines to land on your carriers while your carrier planes land on Marshalls.  This of course requires that America staged his fleet off Hawaii which an experienced player probably wouldn’t do considering how you set yourself up.  But even an experienced Yankee just might just leave it there as bait hoping to win a war of attrition and expecting to counterattack you A2.  He might not even scramble with this in mind.  But here’s the trick: take only planes as hits.  Kill off the planes headed to the Marshall’s first and replace any extra casualties with planes from the Carolines.  Dont even damage your BB unless his sub hits.  He wont be able to counter attack and you’re in good position to kill off any new fleet off San Fran, or at least set up blockers.
    Clear out Anzac navy with the rest of your fleet and take North or West Australia.

J3
    Take Hawaii.
    Move all available planes to Australia ready to take Sydney.
    Buy whatever you need to take Philippines.

You should still have 2 fighters and a tac left on China to keep them at bay for a turn or two and then to defend Hong Kong.  Don’t worry about Russia; bring all your Manchurian and Korean troops south to defend Shanghai.

It’s an all or nothing strat that doesn’t leave a lot of options if the gamble doesnt pay off.  But it’s the quickest way I can think of to win as either side.

Agreed.  Its absurdly simple to counter by America not staging his fleet off Hawaii or even just working with Anzac to throw a couple blockers off both halves of New Guinea.  And if you dont succeed by round 4, you lose the game.  I wasn’t trying to come up with a foolproof strategy or even one in which high risk is matched by payoff.  I was trying to find out if anyone has tried to win in 4 turns before just for kicks.  And I think this one might work against an America who’s only played one or two games before.  Just to mix things up and try something new.

As for China, take Yunan and Hunan as usual.  Then hold out in Kwangsi for a turn if you can’t retake Yunan J2.  Retreat into Kiangsi on J3  if China/Brits move into Hunan.  From there you should be able to have about 20 troops, an AA gun, and 3 planes ready to defend either Hong Kong or Shanghai as needed (with an extra 4 from Korea on Shanghai).  I’m not worried about China within 4 turns.  If it goes to 5 turns, then yeah, you’re obviously screwed on the mainland.

America should pull back and most people playing them probably would.  But I’ve played Allies who are perfectly content trading units at parity convinced that they have time on their side.  Those inexperienced with carrier hopping might not realize you can bring 4 pairs of planes instead of 2.  These are the people who might leave a fleet off Hawaii as bait in the hope that they can trade off units at parity in a counterattack, rebuilding their fleet later but crippling Japan’s offensive options in the meantime.  It’s not smart, I know, especially since my plan of killing off higher value units prevents their counterattack, but such people do exist and I believe in playing the player, not the game.
  At any rate, I’m not even advocating this strategy.  I guess my real question is what’s the quickest anyone has ever won a game, has anyone ever won it in 4 rounds and what did it look like, and has anyone ever tried anything like what I proposed and how did it turn out?

P.S.  Taamvan, J1 builds should be either 2 subs, a bomber, or a third transport with art - I haven’t put the work in to figure out which would be optimal. America can’t block a bomber of course.  If it blocks the subs, that’s one less dd in the pearl harbor attack - kill it with one sub and a couple planes from Japan (buy a carrier) and move the 2nd one to Hawaii as fodder.
    America stacking Hawaii with planes is a problem, especially since you need those transports down towards sydney as well.  But if instead of attacking any fleet off of California and just sending out blockers, you should be able to take it I think with a couple transports, your planes and your bombardments.  This is assuming he didnt build all planes A1, because this strategy only works if America isnt preparing against it.