Thank you for the advice! I was definitely doing several things wrong, including investing in expensive ships. I was also pushing to Japan with the US navy to try to “punish” them for moving everything south, but couldn’t get there in time before they had enough money to buy defensive units. I was also trying to get the UK into Europe before the money ran out, rather than making a serious push to get the money back first. Looking forward to the next try.

Thank you for the advice! I was definitely doing several things wrong, including investing in expensive ships. I was also pushing to Japan with the US navy to try to “punish” them for moving everything south, but couldn’t get there in time before they had enough money to buy defensive units. I was also trying to get the UK into Europe before the money ran out, rather than making a serious push to get the money back first. Looking forward to the next try.

I just played back-to-back games against my nephews as the Allies in the 1941 Scenario with national objectives. In both games I got rolled, because Japan and Germany used its first turn to focus on breaking the UK economy. Both times Germany took out most UK ships on turn 1 and took Gibraltar to take away a national objective bonus, but still rolled everything else heavy into Russia. In the first Japan turn, it went south and took 11 undefended IPCs from the UK on turn one. The second game they changed it up and took the Phillipines to break a US national objective and 7 IPCs from the UK. In both cases, there was no way to defend the UK income on turn one, and no way to reach Japan in time to stop them taking either India or Australia on turn 2, which further tilts the national objective bonuses. From that point the UK is getting about 25 IPCs per turn, and with all the national bonuses broken, the whole premise of the Allies having the better economy is flipped. The US couldn’t reach Japan before turn 3. By then Japan had as much money as the US and was able to buy to defend it’s capital and Germany was earning almost as much as UK and Russia combined.

I tried a couple different ideas, but ultimately couldn’t see a way to stop an attack that starts with more weapons, gets to move first, and by the end of Round 2 also has more money.