I’m about to have another A&A game and I’m going to be the Axis. My friend says he wants to try to have all the Axis work together on taking American down first. I’m a bit skeptical of this, because 1) this is AMERICA 2) if it fails I’m not sure the Axis could win after that.
He hasn’t told me all of his plan yet, but this is what I know so far:
J1 buy 3 transports
1 art
ncm:
fleet from sz 33 move to sz 49
J2 Japan attacks Hawaii…
planes in sz 49 attack the island, while everything else from sz 6 and 49 attacks the american fleet. Japan has 3 art, 1 arm, 4 inf v. 2 inf, 2 ftrs
J3 attack Panama (drop 1 inf off in SEMexico)
From here, Japan can attack either Western or Eastern US. This is as much as I know of his plans, but I’m guessing that on G1 Germany takes out UK navy, Germany G2 moves down the Gib, and that Germany’s purchases are focused on this. Then Italy and Germany are in range of US 3rd turn, and should still be in range by turn 4 when they try to take Washington.
The only reason I’m considering doing this is because the people I’m playing against aren’t that experienced and very possibly could miss this.
Considering this, I have four questions:
1. The Axis have basically spent 3 turns focused on this strategy, but if this fails, what chance would the Axis have of still winning?
2. If US wasn’t preparing for this (meaning not buying any land units) for the first two turns, wouldn’t they have enough money to only buy units for Washington and still be safe from the best the Axis could throw at them?
3. What could Germany safely contribute to this so that Russia doesn’t trample through and destroy Germany R4?
4. Is there any way this basic idea could work?