I was looking for the 100% pacific strategy results thread but it was buried so far I gave up. I figure here is a good place to post my results. Had a game that ended in Axis victory on the Europe board on turn 18.
I drew axis and followed the standard German strategy of limiting losses G1 and building 2 trns 1 cv. Japan built an ic in Shanghai and 2 trns, Italy built 1 art and saved 6. Sealion was executed on G3 after taking scotland on G2, and Germany declared war on Russia G4. Japan declared war on the allies J3 after the fall of London, grabbed the DEI and prepared for the US assault.
US went Midway->Iwo->Korea, built a NB/AB in midway and Iwo and a minor IC in Korea. His fleet continued to chase the Japanese around India into the red sea. Here the US fleet moved south of Africa while the Japanese moved through the Med and joined up with the German fleet off Gibraltar. While US had been beating back Japan Germany had been uber aggressive and made landings in Caribbean and twice in Brazil.(lost both times to horrible dice, damn those jungles!) With the help of the Japanese ships the combined axis fleets captured panama again and fled to the pacific before the new mega combined fleets of the US could stop them.
The game ended with a slow grind in Russia where the axis took every opportunity to kill Russian units they got. At all times there were Italian can openers present and the initial German thrust reached Rostov. Here I swept south with my mobile reserve and met the Italians who were fighting over persia. This combined force was able to hold the region until the Russians moved away to deal with a threat coming from Novgorod, then this army moved north on their heels and took Stalingrad.
In the end the Russian army could not keep up with the insane income Germany was collecting, and by using my italian mobile units in suicide attacks I was able to maintain German superiority in numbers and capture Moscow. Japan was being resuscitated by the axis fleets in the pacific and had reclaimed Korea with trns that it had saved throughout and troops that were holding Japan. Italy had recaptured SAfrica from ANZAC and established dominance of the Indian ocean and a secure hold on Egypt and Sitaly. India had a large army in Perisa, Anzac had a small presence in Wafrica after capturing Brazil from the Germans. Also the US had a massive fleet in the Med and was poised to drop Italy down to 20ipcs.
I think the reason I won the game was because my opponent over bought subs. Each time I would feint with my navy he would build subs, for instance building 3 subs in Brazil as ANZAC when I moved toward Panama. Then when I did the unexpected and kept going West towards Hawaii the Subs were worthless. He also did not do well with China after the expulsion of Japan, but there are differing strategies there. He went big stack where I would have spread out to defend all borders. The best idea of course is to just save ipcs and build if threatened…but we use the paper money and it is finite. Germany may have also been too keen on holding the Atlantic as long as possible, even doing a straffe attack on US production in sz 101 to kill subs. Still those ipcs could have been spent on units in Russia to end that front earlier. Once US is placing all 90 some ipcs in the Atlantic it is too hard for Germany to compete, even if Russia is down to 25 by then. Another mistake I made was not attacking Russia as soon as possible as Japan. I still ended up paying off the 12 ipcs to Russia in order to SBR behind the lines so it was a moot point. And with a 100% pacific strategy there is no motive for Russia to declare war on Japan, the US can handle it.
This was my first encounter as the Axis with a 100% pacific strategy, next game I will be allies and try and execute it, preferably better than my opponent did this game.
