Axis struggling despite taking both Moscow and Calcutta!


  • Good morning everyone, I’m looking for some helpful advice from a more experienced (or talented) A&A player regarding the following situation.

    I’ve been playing A&A (both online and in-person) for 10 years. Usually when I’m the Axis and successfully take both Moscow and Calcutta, the game is over.

    However, despite taking both of those objectives as the Axis in the following game, my gut instinct tells me I’m still going to lose somehow. I think I’m losing the IPC battle (certainly Japan is way down on USA) and no matter how large an airforce I build up as Germany and Japan, I can’t get into a position to realistically defeat either USA’s or Britain’s massive naval fleets.

    I’ve thought about moving both airforces over to double-attack one fleet, but I’m worried about leaving either Axis country vulnerable to invasion once the airforce has left.

    It’s Britain’s turn next and they will probably retake France and Belgium, as we’ve been ping-ponging those territories for a while now.

    Any advice? Should I start spamming subs everywhere? Or would it better to ignore the large fleets and simply spam infantry all over the mainland?

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  • Consider it a loss and play it out for instructional value.

    “Should I start spamming subs everywhere? Or would it better to ignore the large fleets and simply spam infantry all over the mainland?”

    It’s good to ask specific questions. But it may aid development as a player if you can come up with answers to those yourself. When you do something specifically, what is your opponent’s specific counter? What are the general problems on the board? How could those general problems have been avoided?

    “gut instinct”

    Developing that instinct is good. But being able to explain your reasons is better. There are a number of specific mechanisms that lead to probable Axis loss in this game, assuming your opponent plays optimally.

    (However, we also know the opponent isn’t playing optimally. And how do we know this?)

    (Edit - excellent screenshot by the way, could view the specific numbers of each of the units.)


  • I’m curious, what did you decide to do and what happened?

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