@Bruda_Iz:

so whats stopping the US from getting to Berlin by turn 8?  Is it always the same people playing the same countries?

Well, in this game the US spent all its IPCs on the Pacific side for at least 3 turns.  There was a huge navy battle that resulted in almost no navy for US or Japan.  Japan was then slowly getting pushed back by UK/ANZAC/China while US switched all its money to the east coast to retake London with the force I descibed above.
I think its arguable that US is better spent going all out against Germany instead of Japan.  Our group even has one that would like to see US IPCs forced to be split in some way on each coast.

Wak

As per my play with A&A1940 Europe, I feel Axis has it very rough in the Global version.

Our game-
G3 takes London after obliterating Brit navel presence in the first two turns.  I hadnt realized how many planes could get there.
Japan chooses not to go to war with anyone but Russia until J3.
Italians rolled bad in almost every engagement.

I think slow rolling Japan might have been a bad idea.  The money it prevented US from getting seemed more than offset by the easy Dutch/ANZAC National Obj bonus’ the allis got.  And Italians never had much luck, Cairo never fell.
But you’d think taking 35 IPC’s from London and pretty much locking UK out of the game on the western hemisphere should be an easy win.
Germany staled out in Russia after taking Leningrad.  US eventually staged 7 full transports, 2 full Carriers and a Battleship off Gibralter.  Germans 4 Fighters and 4 Tact Fighers guarding London decided to strike first at the fleet and failed.  US takes back London next turn easily.  Axis player concedes at 1:30am in the morning after about 7 turns.
German had held London for about 4 turns.

My opinion stands that Axis have it very hard in this A&A version.

Wak

@GrizzlyMan:

Just curious, but how did you take out Russia so easily? My games always get clogged up after taking Leningrad, with Moscow pumping out enormous stacks of infantry.

I think my success was two part in Russia.
One is that Brits took all its remaining navy to mess with the Italians.  They only attacked my damaged battleship with its air power (and lost).  I then actually bought an Aircraft Carrier and wasnt bothered by a nearby transport for quite some time.
Secondly I won a fluke defensive battle against the Russians.  They had been playing cat and mouse with me so I sent two semi-large forces around each side of the swamp.  Once I had Leningrad the Russians went hard south to try to intercept the Stalingradward force.  They attacked a spot between them with a Fighter and 2 Inf verus my 1 Infantry…and lost!  This allowed all my tanks in Leningrad to join the southern force’s attack on the main Russian army and crush them right outside of Moscow.  After that it was just clean up.

I admit that both events were odd and if anything helped the Axis…yet we still lost.  At least I had fun completely smashing Russia.

Wak

Played a A&A1940 Europe last week.  I crushed Russia completely.  Even had units sitting in Novawhatever so they couldnt get the two free units a turn ( I assumed the units couldnt appear on top of mine).  Everyone thinking Axis had won we looked at the book and realized Axis needed 8 victory cities to win.  This means holding Paris, both Axis capitals, taking all three Russia cities plus one more!
So realistically thats Cairo or maybe London.
My tanks at Moscow needed about 6 turns to plow through the middle east to get to Cairo where there was a Brit factory already.  Since the Italian fleet was long since gone (as usual) it seemed the only way.
That was way more than long enough for US + Brits to hammer the coasts of Europe and take a victory city (being either Paris or Berlin).
The game seems really hard for the Axis.  They have to dominate Russia, win in Africa, AND hold off all major incursions on Europe.
In my game even though I was making close to 80 IPCs I didnt have enough to hold Paris while simutaniously defending Berlin from a massive US/Brit invasion.

Anyone having any luck winning with Axis?  Seems like they cant make any mistakes or have a bigger battle go bad.

CC