Favorite country

[Deathflame]

I like playing with US the most

[bossk]

I must agree completly with Ozone 27. You, my friend, have a firm grasp on what this game is all about.

[Anonymous]

UK is my favorite country right now.  It is fun and challenging to oust Germany from Africa and then cross the Suez into Asia or the Meditteranean into Europe and kick some Axis ass.  America is also fun because you get to decide when and where to drop the hammer.  I usually reteat the remnants of my crushed Pacific fleet to the Atlantic and then funnel troops into Africa, ignoring the Japs in the Pacific because, lets face it, what exactly are they going to do.  I've seen a lot of people have a naval arms race in the Pacific that only serves to drain the resources of both Japan and America.  There can be no decisive naval victory in the Pacific if you stick around.  Germany is fun to try to knock UK out of Africa, and today I played UK and conceded defeat when Germany attacked Great Britain on the first turn and won.  I had tried this in a previous game in which that player was playing, and it worked pretty well then, but this guy was lucky as hell with his dice and won an impossible victory before I was even able to move.  b��t��d.  But it was fun.  I have never played Japan because the guy that I always play with is Japanese and damn proud of it.  Russia I have never wanted to play that badly because they never seem to go anywhere and always end up just cranking out infantry defense and slowly dying.  I have only lost once, and that was playing America with a static Russian ally and a very stupid UK that didn't even make a bid for Africa and just sat there on Britain.  My record is probably due to the level of competition and stategies that I picked up from here.  Before each game, I set goals for myself to achieve victory.  Whether playing US, UK, or Germany, my major goal is to dominate the Atlantic.  If you can do that, your enemies are flat out screwed.    

[TG Moses VI]

Whoa, how did you manage to lose in the first turn?  I mean there's only 1 transport in the Northern Atlantic that probably gets taken out by USSR on the first turn? Plus, who did he/she manage to wipe out the entire UK fleet and land 2 inf against planes, bombers, inf., and tanks?  

[Anonymous]

Landbridging is one of our house rules.  If a transport occupies the only sea zone between two countries, you can ferry as many troops as you want between the two locations.  Russia tried to take out the German transport but rolled horribly and lost their whole fleet with the exception of the transport while scoring absolutely no hits.  The mighty German armada raped UK's pitiful fleet, taking the battleship out with subs so it couldn't fired back.  The rest of it was just incredibly lucky dice on his part and incredibly poor on mine.  

[TG Moses VI]

Well maybe landbriding isn't the best answer.  

[HortenFlyingWing]

My favorite is Japan because I find it the easiest, though I must say, UK and Russia are very fun as well.

The war is either won or lost if Germany takes Africa and then Russia.  As Russia, you get a lot of action, and as long as you can split german offensive forces, the americans and british will be sending wave after wave of men into western Europe by turn two.  

Now Japan is fun, because short term, it is pretty untouchable.  I don't want to sound ignorant, but the truth is if you let the US fleet alone, and you concentrate on east europe, taking india in the first turn, the US can only have a pissing contest.

If they build a fleet to start Island hopping, use your fleet to cripple them, and it would take more than one turn just to reinforce their fleet.  By the time they can even THINK of harming japan, japan will have so many IPCs, japan will be able to outbuild america.

America could not match the ��� fleet in time.  Remember, the alliance is won or lost depending on if russia falls.  after that, it is a free for all, usually japan turning on Germany.  

Japan can buy cheap subs to hold off any American attack in the first 4 turns, and with their aircraft and men, they can take East Asia.

Japan is pretty intact.  It has the advantage of being an island nation, with immense land power.

[TG Moses VI]

I always thought that taking out the American fleet at Pearl Harbor was a must.

[Usul513]

The key for Japan is to do everything cheaply:
cheap transports, infantry, subs
the only expensive things required are fighters and they pay off in the long run.

[Usul513]

The key for Japan is to do everything cheaply:
cheap transports, infantry, subs
the only expensive things required are fighters and they pay off in the long run.

[Usul513]

sorry about the 2x post