My suggestion is that you never ever build any kind of ship except for transport with japan. Japan should put 100% into taking Asian asap. And with a IC on land to produce inf in and with as many transports as you can buy to transport tanks with, you will have whole asia in turn 3 and after that, Russian can start their judgementday countdown.

1. One IC in southeren Africa by UK in turn one or two
2. One IC on the mainland in asia by Japan in turn 2,3 or 4.

to answer your topic…. no

Germany rocks!! If almost impossible to not attack each turn when you are Germany and I just love being aggresive when I play this game, runner up is Japan.

If you are a total newbie and have never played before and has not recieved any kind of info on the game play, US is easiest to play cause you’ll be able to make alot of misstakes with them, without getting killed :)

But russia is the easiest contry to play if you have some exp of the game.

This start is like basic allied start, nothing amazing with it :)

Well, after doing some mathematics I have also decided that an IC in India is a waste of money.

And IC on mainland for Japan however I found better then just suing transports. It’s better to only move Infs with teh transports and place the tanks on the IC on mainland. This way Japan reach Russian with a greater force.

However, the Axis don’t stand a chance if you do not play with bids, that’s my honest opinion. So from now on I will always play with bids. (and RR offcourse)

But the amount of IPC that Axis should start out with is abit unsure atm. Last time they got 10 IPC, which proved to be kinda to much. It might be that we haven’t played with bids before and that the Allies did some misstakes, so we’ll try it out again with 10m and if it’s still to much I’ll consider an amount of 6.

What’s your exp with bids?

Well, if UK leaves africa to US and UK moves some of his tropps from africa to idia, he should have enough troops to atleast deal a great amount of damage to japan when he attacks india and if it falls, US can retake it for UK if japan doesn’t put lal his forces against the US i china.

I see no point in Japan attacking US at Pearl Harbor. It’s better to retreat the fleet to japan to support the tranports you’'ve got there, plus having the fleet with you if you plan to go against alaska.

Japan should also try to get a IC on mainland for better speed in their attacks.

UK should also try to get a IC in India to keep Japan busy so russia can focus on germany together with US.