I like to buy a tank and mech every turn and send them towards russia.Can open for Germany to take down Russia faster. I usually attack Russia on I3 to set up for G4. Obviously all this depends on what the German player is doing.

Germany still has to take out as much of the UK fleet as possible and should get 2 planes to Italy no matter what. Its worth it to lose Germany’s battleship and some planes to make sure this happens.

Please note that if you’re going sealion keep the battleship and lose more planes.

This sets back the UK for so long (as long as Germany has an air and sub pressure) that Germany has a few rounds to not worry about any landings and can put all knids of pressure on USSR.

I also like to take S France with Germany, it makes it easier to send an inf to egypt right about the time US and UK are starting to cause trouble. It’s a great time to score the extra 5 ipcs.

Italy isn’t Germany but thay have to be Germany jr or ger 2, they must get tanks, mech and a plane into Russia to can open/threaten. It can be deadly!

39… i first played about 20 years ago, then just got back into it about 4 years ago

i tried something like this (it was alpha 2), however i think it would still work. Bear in mind there’s a lot of troll crap to read through.

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=22752.msg767013#msg767013

i live in lancaster, maybe we could figure something out?

My other would also be adding a transport for Japan (maybe at carolines), and perhaps some rouge inf somewhere (one on every island perhaps). I would also move the Italian air to South Italy and/or add an airbase to North Italy.

@Frank:

@keplar:

I tried a similar move to this before, but i was just thinking… What if Japan comes around south america and takes brazil and builds an IC there?!? Could be crazy…

Well in the plan I was thinking of time is of the essence and if the Axis do not sack Washington they pretty much lose the game.  I am not sure a minor in Brazil would hold for Japan very long with the USA having 3 major factory’s a stone toss away.

That may be true. however coupled with Germany and Italy’s presence at Gibralter, they could help with defending the territory.

I’m not saying that Japan should do this, but sometimes it’s fun to think of and maybe try new things to keep the game from becoming too stale (which is the point my gaming group is at unfortunately)

I tried a similar move to this before, but i was just thinking… What if Japan comes around south america and takes brazil and builds an IC there?!? Could be crazy…

the last time i played as japan i did. it wasn’t really by design, however the situation presented itself favorably so i figured why not? even being so far from the homeland, it really wasn’t a concern. i attacked J3 and had 6 transports in range to take the capitol on J4. with the naval bases i was able to relink in the phillipines in almost no time at all. Another axis win!!

I did something similar to this using the alpha 2 set up and rule set:

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=22752.0