Thats what I thought, but Japan in Pac40 is a special case, Japan has such a staggering abundance of planes that it really only needs the bare minimum of troops.
The case here in global I think is gunna come back and bite him in the ass this time. He is very obviously going for a G4 attack on the soviets, so waiting until turn 3 to build the infantry wont really effect the game that much. Also he can completely rebuild a German surface fleet, which i sunk on UK1. He took all of metroplitan France on G1, and sunk a good portion of the UK fleet, so he didnt really need the reenforcments, there is nothing I can do to threaten him as Germany with the UK on my next turn.
Italy, on the other hand, I can mess with. His fleet is spread out, he’s down one fighter, has a transport sat unprotected on the otherside of Gibraltar, has a tank pretty much stranded and surrounded out in Syria, and he has split his forces in tobruk sending roughly half against Egypt and the other half against tunisa. I’ve got a strike force on the other side of Gib, I have enough offensive strenght to take down Ethopia after I redeployed my tank, fighter, and the inf and arty from Egypt to Sudan which he did nothing with, and im building a second strike force to hit Egypt on turn 3 from south africa. Now with his forces spread out and no reenforcments comming, Italy wont be able to recover for the turn 3 beating its going to take. Sure, he maybe able to rebuild the forces lost, including his fleet, but that will only save him for one round, cause once that money is gone, he’s back down to 10ipc