Unless I am mistaken, you cannot place IC’s except on territories you start with?
I1 I buy a Sub, save 4 IPC
I1 I take S.France, Bulgaria, Tunisia, Kenya
Collect 16 IPC (21 if UK withdraws past the Suez Canal and doesn’t move its cruiser to SZ93 to defend with the French fleet)
I2 I buy a Carrier, save 4 IPC
I2 I take Algeria, Greece, Belgian Congo
I2 I lose Libya, Ethiopia
Collect 18 IPC (Possibly have Med NO at this point, so could be 23)
I3 I buy 2 TacB’s
I3 I take Yugo, French Eq. Africa, Morocco
I3 I lose Belgian Congo, Kenya, Tunisia
Collect 19 IPC (Same story, Med NO is subjective, so I don’t count on it)
I4 I buy 3 Tanks
I3 I turn my units around in Morocco and land whatever surviving units from Yugo in Algeria to take it back from the UK (assuming they took it prior to my turn). I can bring 2 Ftrs, 2 TacB from the Air, possibly the StratB if it survived chasing the fleets out of the Med. Assuming none of the tanks were lost on Europe (3 to start, I can load 2 of them with 1 Inf each on my 2 Trn and dump them there as well). Theres at least a tank in N.Africa that may have survived, so I can bring up to 3 tanks into Algeria, probably 3-4 total Inf. That should be enough to crush whatever units the UK pushed from Egypt/Alexandria across N.Africa. It also stages 3 tanks to blitz across to Libya on I5 and meet up with 2 more tanks being dropped off from my I4 purchase.
Basically I play cat and mouse in Africa until I solidify my territories in Europe and THEN turn on Africa. The UK only really counters this by sending units into Morocco from the UK (which I expect it is prepping for sealion and not doing so) or by committing more sea units to stopping Italy from obtaining the NO in the Med. UK can also send units from India to Africa (to include fighters), but in doing so exposes itself to Japan taking India on Turn3.