Hey, this is my first post (as you all can see).

I’ve been looking through most of the strategies here, and I didn’t find the one I use:

Russia Turn 1:
purchase 3 tanks, 3 infantry (eventually all placed in Karelia)
attack finland, ukraine, east europe and the the jap country under yakutsk

If all goes well, I’ve wiped out most of Germany, leaving me only a few places necessary to bolster. I leave the western country of moscow undefended, maybe landing my planes if they survived. And I’ve allowed the US provinces in China to survive maybe the first round. I then move my Moscow AA into Karelia and the Karelia AA into East Europe (depending on how many troops I have surviving).

Germany Turn 1.
Purchase 6 tanks (2 left over)
Worst case is having lost the East Europe, Ukraine and Norway to russia.
take africa with a sea assault, all air units engage in fighting allied ships, and I try to take back eastern europe (no choice really if russia succeeded in the above), kinda have to with that sitting on your doorstep.

Britain Turn 1.
I don’t see the point of purchasing a carrier, the sea fleet is far too easy pickings for Germany, but if Russia DID wipe the eastern side, then I’ll consider it, but I usually just purchase 2 fighters and two inf.
I’ll usually try to assault the zone next to india, and then send the india transport down to australia. Africa usually is lost by now, with 1 inf in persia, the other in south africa.

Japan Turn 1.
a fighter and 4 inf
i usually have full pacific control after my turn 1 for japan (including wiping out the british transport in australia)

usa turn 1.
pick up the pieces, rebolster the airforce by purchasing 3 fighters, which is what i eventually use to hammer away on the pac fleet. if by chance my transport survived in the atlantic, then sending troops to africa is necessary.

i use all the china forces to take back either india or the southern jap province.

Dice rolls aside, if russia does that much of a devastating attack on the first turn, I USUALLY can have the game won by turn 5 for the allies. If they don’t, it turns into a slug fest between russia and germany, with britain to harass the western europe.

The USA is pretty much rendered useless for quite a few turns until they can beat back the japanese fleet from the air.