Help me secure an Allied victory?

It will make it tougher.  You should push into Asia hard with Japan to force Russia into a 2-front war.  Try to disallow the Allies shuck-shuck assistance.  Consider a Japanese attack to take the African IC (I assume in South Africa).  If you take SA and the IC, you can gain the IPC’s for Africa for Japan and place that much more pressure on Russia.  Remember you have 3 paths to Moscow.  You can go primarily for one, or you can use a combination.  You get more forces in place quickly, if you don’t try to use all three.  Don’t forget to get the IPC’s for Australia and New Zealand, and remember that you can reach Alaska in one move from EJS.  Most of the time that’s just a thorn in the side for the US, but it can’t be ignored, either.

That’s a pretty jumbled answer, but maybe you can glean something from it.  Good-luck. :-D

Lead with an INF to gain ground, unless you can moev your Japan stacks forward safely.  Otherwise, keep the stacks 1 territory back from he front as you lead with 1 INF into each vacant territory to gain the income.  And if your main stacks are 1 bhind newly captured territory, you can use your FIGs to reinforce your main stack, and keep them in range to use on any isloated Russian units that may be sent to meet you.

Prepare to get forces in bulk to Novo as quickly as possible to threaten Russia’s backside.

You ahve not mentioned any Allied naval forces in the Pacific.  If there are none, start working your BB’s and a TRN toward Africa, if you can do so without risking them.  Float a couple of INF to FIC each turn so that your TRN can get replacement forces after each Africa landing, and use your BB’s and INF to hammer away at Africa territories, maybe even getting that IC (which is not critical, make UK bleed off as many forces to Africa as you can to reduce the pressure on Gemany, and if you have a BOM, try to get it into range for a free SBR against that IC :-)  As I recall, there are NO SBR limits in Classic, so you cn bom that IC for up to 6 IPC’s of damage, eventhough the territory i only worth 1.  And that will make the UK spend money on an AA gun there instead of land units or a FIG, and will allow your Africa landings to advance more quickly.

Don;t risk your you fleet unless the gain is worthwhle (like killing that FIG with a BB shot if it is left where you can hit it with no INF screen).

Just start flooding Asia with forces.

Not sure, it may already be too late (depending on the skill of your allied player), but if you can get lots of INF, backed up by some FIGs and ARM in Asia, and take 2 of the3 territories in the Evenk/Novo/Kazakh perimter, then you stand a chance of distracting Moscow enough to let Germany break out… or of taking Moscow yourself if you can get enough force there.

Do you wish to be ‘babied’ through your game?

Though Maddog tends to be a bit harsh…

Have to agree with him.

You hve been given the broad strategy outline, to get Japan involved in the Russian onsalught, and to take income from the Brits around the Indian Ocean as forces permit.

Time to execute that strat (or another if you desire it), and to let the dice, and your new insight, lead the way…

It is not that we run you off, but that we give you some ideas in reply to your post, and a few hundred more in other threads.

But we are not going to play your game for you.

So you ask, you get some posts in reply (or pointed at a thread that is relevant), and then you are on your own.

The lessons you learn yourself as the lessons that are most valuable.

an update:  You lost a troop in taking burma?? WHO CARES……GET IT!!!

Now, consolidate your victories by getting more troops into Asia.

Keep taking vacant territories with 1 INF to boost your income.

And make sure that you have enough TRN to move all build units to Asia, and that you have enough FIGs and ARM to provide punch for those INF.

One problem is, it can be hard to follow other peoples games since we can’t see the map and stuff, so it is hard to account for everything.

Sometimes the individual battle aren’t really that important to your overall plan.  I look at a few things, Economics, Military (unit count), and Position.

Economics is sort of obvious, you want to collect more IPC than your opponent.

Military Units is fairly obvious as well.  Do you have more units on the board.

Now comes the tricky one, Position.  Since about 90-95% of the games revolve around Germany-Moscow, that is where the focus should be (EE, Kar, Ukr, Cauc).

As Germany since you aren’t going to be able to kill Moscow with-in the first 3-4 rds so you want to preserve your army and give time for Japan to build up.  This is where Afr comes into play for Germany and Asia for Japan.

Yes, Africa is important, but you want to make sure you are not putting more troops there then you are getting IPC in return.

Trypically you won’t be able to keep your German BB and trn alive for more than 2-3 rds anyway.

And with the Aliied IC there, it would be better to try and exploit the Allied focus there by perhaps gaining the advantage in Ukr or Cauc, with the ability to hold them.

Generally I’d advise you to always focus on Russia.  The Allied presence in Afr won’t do much good if the Germans have Kar and Japan has Novo.

Ideally what you would like to do (with Ger), is move from EE to Ukr while Japan positions itself to take and hold Novo.  THEN German attacks Kar (or moves to Cauc) and Japan takes Novo and this puts Russia in the position of only being able to attack 1 army but in the process would lose Moscow to the other.  Or if they just sit back and defend now Ger and Japan can pickup loose IPC’s while building up their armies for the 1-2 punch on Mos.

Don’t get me wrong, this can be very hard to do, but THIS should be your focus, so losing an inf here or there becomes less relevant as you gain a superior positon.

Hope this helps.

This is a game that favors mass build-ups.  Mass is good.  It gives you great defence and protection for your high value pieces.  This is why inf is so important.  Many newbies get turned off by the low rolls they need to hit.  Most veterans know that inf is required to take and effectively hold contested ground.

Thin troop defences are ineffective in holding ground.

Thinly or undefended areas are ripe for mobility tactics and armor.

Veterans often favor parking 4 or more Jpn trns to shuttle inf from Japan proper to mainland Asia.  This is done for a few rounds until Jpn income reaches 40+ which makes a IPC on the mainland useful for arm purchases towards the taking of Russia.

The reason is that the IPC costs $15 and gets you 3 arm worth of reinforcements onto Asia. 
2 transports cost $16 and are only able to transport 2 arm to Asia.

The same IPC can only place 3 inf on to Asia, but
the 2 trns can transport 4 inf.

So Jpn should use trns to reinforce Asia with inf and
IPC’s to build  armor

Shuck-Shuck is all powerful and is way better than KJF for Allied victory.
GBR1 buys a CV + trn.  US1 can move 2 ftrs and possibly a trn to the UK SZ with the US ftrs landing on the GBR CV.

This sets you up to buy trns + inf /arm for a WE invasion. 
If Ger heavily stacks on WE, 2nd ed rules allow GBR to invade Spain for $3.  The US can then reinforce.  Follow-up attack on WE should dislodge the Ger defenders in WE.

Start play with bids and Rus attack 1st turn when the games become too predictable.