US IC on U.K. Owned Norway

Just do not let Japan unhindered, because you will likely lose. Japan will make 55+ income and then it’s impossible to stop it.

Well not having played the Spring 42’ version I’ll base my theory on the original version as the US you go last, which is a good thing, in the respect that you get to react, which is much better then deciding on an action, you can judge where and when your needed and act accordingly, if Britain and Russia have Germany on the ropes concentrate mostly on the Pacific, if the they need help concentrate mostly on the atlantic.

now when Japan takes out my carrier in pearl I’ll build another and stock it with the fighters from the mainland with the california BB and transport as tag alongs, with those 3 and a transport or two more you have some island hoppers to invade the Japanese held islands with.

and if you can get Britain and Russia to kick Japan off the Asian land mass Japan will be done with.

@Mallery29:

E.Europe as the territory, not as a whole

Let me rephrase: Allies control E. Europe, they control the entire Eastern front and deny its income to Germany and secure it to themselves. Let Japan have Africa (and divert units away from Russia).

@Granada:

@special:

Edit: that’s an odd situation, and a lot of American IC’s…

Well, the fact it is an odd situation made me to start this discussion.  :wink:

I have built all these ICs making myself ready for a long fight, and being able to produce units where I really need them. I think I had a good chance to develop a real pressure on FIC/japan, but as we left it I have not really checked.

Well, odd or not, it is indeed a good base to work from. Within reach of many targets, able to build alot fast. And plenty of subs to avoid Axis naval builds.

In this situation (and even more after u took Africa), controlling the seas means winning the game (in the long run)

@Bunnies:

@Granada:

But does not the debate evade an essential question: why would someone send troops to africa, when you need them in Europe?

Gez Gran, you know why!

First, let’s say Allies went Kill Germany First.

Germany-controlled Africa means UK has lousy production - it may not be able to produce 8 units a turn, and what it does produce will mostly be infantry that are lousy on attack.  Added to that is Germany producing 3-4 units extra a turn.  End result is UK attack down, Germany defense up, and Allies have a pain in the a** breaking Europe.

Besides that, US can’t just insta-build transports, it needs a defensive fleet first, or its transports get wasted by German air.  So US does NOT have a fat transport fleet to begin with, so it doesn’t have enough to maintain a East Canada-London/London-Europe chain, nor is Germany probably weak enough for US to start a 1-transport chain between East Canada and Western Europe.  So US drops to Algeria while it builds up extra transports.

So much for the basics.  You drop to Africa because you don’t really have any place else to go with US at first, and you need to stop Germany from overrunning it anyways.

“Advanced” stuff - there are things Germany can do to extend its control over the Atlantic and Africa, which I won’t get into at this time, but maintaining drops to Africa can be the right thing to do in SOME games, at least.  Basically, in KGF, you don’t want Germany controlling Africa, period.

Fair enough. As long as it is meant as a provisonal measure to stop any german influence on africa, it is ok. As long as it should be the major strategy to bring the US troops to the war, it is doomed to fail, i think.

Yes, it does.

Good question.  Re. the problem of fighting USA with 2 facts….at least with 2 facts the Jap fleet has some more flexibility to maneuver with less transports to protect.  On the other hand, 1 fact is probably better against KJF since that way you can build 3 inf/tanks on the mainland, plus air/sea with the rest of your cash.

Against KGF, buying transports and using the Japan factory is more economically efficient, but I’d like at least one factory on the mainland  or tanks to quickly exploit Russia if they are open.

It all depends.  The decision ought to depend on how vulnerable Russia is and what UK did on its turn.

Units of any type are not limited to the available pieces.  Simply use any item that’s agreed upon by all players as a substitute if you run out of a unit.

You probably heard about that strategy in connection with the Classic game (1984).  In those rules, units were limited to the available components.