If you have played Axis and Allies D-Day before you probably suffered or gloried in an Axis Victory before due to first-time-played-syndrome. I lost horribly the first time I played as the Allies because I didn’t know how to structure my attack around the Fighter advantage. But after 2 or 3 plays the game play started to change; Allied Forces gained dominance of the “Cherbourg” Sector; Air Power was allocated properly; and Blockhouse threats were removed faster then a Grognard breaking out a counter sheet on Christmas Day. Eventually whoever plays the Allies will realize the most effective way to establish a solid attack structure is to reduce your Armor stacks with Fighters before they leave the “safe” reinforcement zones. The few that make it out of this Fighter Cover are mainly a monotony of Armor that survived the strafing and made it to Caen and suffer the adverse casualties usually absorbed by Infantry.