UK Strategy -"Middle Earth"

This plan doesn’t ignore Japan, that’s a compete foolish move in my opinion. I just build bombers enough to keep Germany annoyed while maintaining a Pacific Fleet. As I said before, I build a 1:1 build against Japan and make sure Hawaii doesn’t get captured.

That is indeed the strategy, and it relies on the allies having pretty bad luck to smash up those stacks without losing 50% of your starting planes.

Germany can replace the planes, but not at the same time as it builds mechs, armor stax
Japan has even more planes, but it needs even more than Germany does because without them, its a paper tiger.

The problem with doing these stub attacks is if you lose more than 50% of your starting air power before turn 5, you will not be able to force your victory cities and strategic objectives.  The consequences are felt several turns later (7,8), when you cant smash stax because you lost your mobile strikeforce.

J3 DOW is a bit non conventional. If that happens, you can be in Norway US4, landing fighters on Finland the same turn. Bombers can be doing unescorted raids on West Germany US4, escorted US5 and also on Germany.

UK can do unescorted raids on West Germany UK1, although it isn’t likely to do so.

Then pray that the allies dont feel like sending bombers on those transports.

@Zhukov44:

There are several good reasons to get an ac instead of a battleship.  The first is that Germany already has fighters to land on the AC.  So with the AC (plus fighters) you get a defense punch of 10, with a count of 4, compared to the bb’s punch of 4 and count of 2.  The second is that you won’t get many bombards out of that battleship unless you are using it in the Baltic.  You might get the one bombard when you attack England, but ultimately that one bombard shot is pretty useless compared to 2 fighters (also 20 ipc) that would participate in every round of the battle.

Another reason is acs extend the range of your fighters.  Unlike ships, fighters can’t be blocked.

Whether you intend to go for London or go for Moscow, there are better ways to spend that 20 ipcs.

Agreed, all good points.

Yes that is my bad, i forgot we were play testing a house rule at the time.

That’s what I figured but wanted to make sure.

Get NSW BACK AS FAST AS POSSIBLE.

Focus your American Fleet in Hawaii IF you can hold there.  Make sure you don’t lose Hawaii or it’s game.

Put your focus into killing Japanese ground units, so that their ability to take your territories is limited.

Don’t let england fall to the Nazi’s,  focus British energies on killing the german navy, and taking norway/finland, and helping the reds hold onto Novisibirsk.  Fight the German units for every square inch of Russia, watch out for Blitzes and Italian can opener style attacks.

Try to kill the Italian navy however possible.  Perhaps with remnant indian fleet.