Leningrad is so close.

On the other hand, if you drop fleet into sea zone six (two carriers, with four fighters from southern carriers on top of them, and maybe a battleship too) , if he does bring in the bombers you can kill a lot of them with your six fighter scramble. It’ll cost a lot, but cheaper than losing the game by conceding the skies to him. You’ll still need to build a lot of replacement planes.

If you go this route, you’ll need to keep that blocker in sea zone 16 to keep his ships from coming in. You’ll want to kill as many planes as you can at once. If you go this way, you definitely have to consolidate your fleet in two turns if he doesn’t hit sea zone 6 on his next turn.

If he goes for Iwo, then your combined fleet can kill his fleet or target his bombers.

No matter what you do, you have to kill most of those bombers. It’s gonna be expensive.

If he’s going for Japan proper with it all, then consolidating your fleet is still necessary because you can’t let him land anything with that bomber stack backing it up. That being said, I would still pump some more ground forces into Japan too.

Have fun.

Marsh

@Panther Thanks for the clarification. With this information Ally players will not be happy!

@calvinhobbesliker:

@simon33:

Hmm, interesting analysis. Germany has to really stretch to pull in the 24 inf too.

If a G1 buy of 3mech 3arm where done, it seems to be negative.

What happens when the more usual move of a I2+G3 DOW is done? If the Germans don’t buy fast movers G1, that is what I expect anyway.

Interesting. I had no idea that 6 tanks could potentially make East Poland not stackable…and if Germany buys mechs/tanks G1 in anticipation to bolster it, that prevents them from buying more ships for Sealion.

This is the build that helped us win our first game at YG’s tournament as the allies, and almost always my build with Russia.

Follow up round two with FULL mechanized.  Your force can hold/delay leningrad unless the germans are heavily organized and determined to take it.  Usually this can buy you an extra round or two depending on what the germans are doing, whilst you evacuate your infantry.

It’s point 1 which matters.

Point 2 - well you still deny the Leningrad NO and potentially gain the Lend Lease NO. You have to lose the Lend Lease NO while giving up the Caucusus and Stalingrad NOs to be on a loser here.

we have talked abut using this rule set before but my opponent is not as familiar with it.

Also enjoy your videos YG

Situational can make it hard.  If I knew I had a fighting chance (say at least a 30% chance of a win, I would stick it out, but if the Japanese wanted to play a waiting game (so planes could be used elsewhere) and build up for the attack, this fight is not going to be much of a fight.  I guess like Russia, it comes down to just how long you can hold out.  So what is considered a victory for the allies?  If India can hold out till Round 9, do you consider that good for the Allies?  I know that goes hand in hand with holding Russia, but for the experts out there, how long can you hold out and still achieve Allied victory?