• hey everyone,

    I’ve been playing this game for months and I love it. But I am really stumped and frustrated right now. Last 3 games i played as germany, the UK player just bought 2 bombers on UK 1, 2 and 3 and just kept bombing me. the US player also sent his bomber. it was impossible to build up a decent army, i bought a couple tanks and a few inf every turn but could only trade ukraine for a few turns. by turn 5 US had landed in W.E. and had a flow of inf/art coming in through UK.

    japan took russia by turn 7 but US and UK took germany turn 8. after a couple more turns it was clear japan would not be able to free germany and the game was forfeited.

    Any suggestions to beat this strategy?


  • Are you rolling your AA guns prior to him bombing?  If so, this is a tactic the allies used.  However, they should only be able to bomb you with one bomber on UK1.  US1 cannot get to you.  UK2 and US2 could be 3 bombers.  It’s a bitch isn’t it?


  • Are you using the fighter escort rule?


  • @docfav7 Yeah, I roll the aa gun first and i usually hit 1 or 2 bombers but by turn 4 there are a total of 8 possible bombers - US 1 + UK 7 (bought 2 each turn) - so even if I hit 2, there are still 6 bombers.

    @CptnKeener  We dont have the fighter escort rule.

    I was thinking about maybe just getting destroyers in S.E for the first few turns, not being aggressive against russia and just trying to prevent US landing until japan can can get through russia and help defend germany.

    anybody else have any ideas, they’re much appreciated.


  • If the UK is buying 2 bombers a turn, he’s not buying much of anything else.  ;-)  That seems pretty overkill as well since you can only be damaged up to double the IPC (20 for Germany).  You can still build in Southern Europe (Italy) 6 pieces.  Get control of North Africa so he can’t land his bombers there.  Build in Italy.  I hear they make beautiful machinery.


  • To add to that, even while repairing you factory to working order, you should be ahead of Britain economically if he’s buying TWO bombers… you should be able to take Britain easily. And if you just build out of the Southern Europe factory, you’re economy will be FAR advanced. Britain will either have to abandon the bombing strategy or be conquered.


  • Try using the fighter escort rule. It makes the game more fun.


  • Even though britian is not defended at all, it’s impossible to take it because as soon as I set up a navy, he can sink it with 5 or 6 bombers so I haven’t gone that route. Also, he doesn’t always buy 2 bombers a turn, he tries to have a total of 6 bombers between US and UK. then he starts building destroyers/transports to unite with US navy off W.E.

    Generally it’s not a problem turn 1, because he only hits me with 1 bomber if anything, but turn 2, there’s 3 UK bombers and 1 US bomber which take average 14 IPC damage. If germany has 40 IPC, normally I could build 2 tanks and 10 men but instead I have to spend about 6 IPC to fix damage and then I can buy 2 tanks and 8 men.

    turn 3, he can hit me with 4 or 5 UK bombers and 1 US bomber which will usually take me to max damage of 20 IPC. Usually at this point US has a flow of 5inf/5art ready to land so I have to buy as many men as possible to defend. So from turn 4 on, I have to repair much of the damage in order to place men on germany. I’m making about 42 IPC at this point, but if I spend just 12 IPC to repair, I have 30 IPC to buy 10 men a turn which thus far has proved to be not enough to defend germany for more than 3 or 4 turns.

    Is there an option in TripleA to turn on fighter escorts?


  • Update

    we played today and axis won despite the strategic bombing.
    here’s how it went down, from turn 4 on for germany I only bought infantry with a couple art after a few turns. I continued to trade karelia and ukraine for 3 more turns but I mostly stacked men in W.E. and germany. also I kept my fighters in W.E.

    what really made this possible was that japan sent his entire fleet to S.E. (germany kept control of suez long enough), so i didnt need to protect it from invasion. japan also landed 4 fighters in W.E.

    US and UK still took over W.E. by turn 7 and S.E. by turn 9 but germany was too heavily fortified and i was able to trade S.E. until turn 11 when japan took russia. then with the help of japan, we took back S.E. and W.E. and then proceeded to destroy the allied fleet with japan’s fleet and fighters.

    from there it was only a matter of time before UK fell and the US forfeit.

    Victory!
    so I guess it is possible to overcome heavy strategic bombing strategy, but it means playing really boring germany and japan needs to be really aggressive.

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