This game is played on A&A 2nd edition, no house rules.
R1: Russia moves all their eastern units on Yakut. Russia attacks Ukraine from the caucassus and Karelia using 8 infantry, 3 tanks and 1 fighter, taking it with usually between 3 and 6 infantry left. Russia destroys the baltic fleet with the transport, sub and 1 fighter. Both fighters lands on Karelia, the units from russia moves to Karelia and the 8 units purchased are also on Karelia. Karelia now has 12 infantry and 2 fighters defending it.
G1: Germany has several options here. The canadian transport is always attacked with the fighter from western europe. Germany can try to attack Karelia. The odds are good, but most likely all infantry used in the attack will be killed and only tanks will be left defending, which will be destroyed by the conterattack from the ukraine. . They can try to retake the ukraine, but to do so, they either sacrifice several tanks or take the units from south italy, forgoing the conquest of africa, or use the fighters and forgo destroying the british fleets. The other option is to retreat to germany until the japs get some pressure on the russians and go for Africa… all these scenarios seems like loosing options to me. Anyone has a better option?
Uk: Uk buys 1 carrier, 1 transport and 1 infantry. It performs a strategic bombing of Germany. If Karelia hasn’t been taken, both fighters from england moves to karelia. The transport from india fetch the infantry from persia and brings it to India.
J1: Japan buys 2 transport and 3 infantry. The entire hawain fleet is destroyed. Japan takes China and far east soviet and moves 2 infantry from japan to manchuria and 1 infantry from the phillipine and 1 infantry from berneo celebres to french indonesia.
US1: The american completely ignores the jap fleet in the pacific and buys 3 transport and 4 infantry, moves both fighters on the carrier and puts the bomber on england. The troops left from sinkiang moves in to consolidate india. by this time, the North sea is completely and forever in allies hands. Next turn, they’re going to take finland and India now has 5 infantry and 1 fighter defending it.
Resume: Germany is completely screwed. The move by the russian to consolidate all their eastern units on Yakut means the japs won’t be able to take it until J3, by which time the brits and the americans will have landed troops in finland/Karelia so that the russians can concentrate on defending the eastern front. So it seems after turn 1, the game is over.
R3: Withdrawl all eastern units to novosibrisk and move the tanks (if any are left) to russia. All new infantry units will defend the eastern front as the americans and the uk are taking over defending and bottling germany. Prepare to reconquer some territories weakly defended by jap infantry or make the japanese hesitate 1 more turn before having 10-12 infantry at the doors of russia.
What am I missing? How would you pros counter it :)