@Deutschland_Pwns:
That idea is intriguing, but wouldn’t it be easy for the U.S. cut off your fleet in the Atlantic. Then you’d have to go all the way around Africa or be destroyed.
It depends on what you can afford. Usually I have the two battleships, the AC, and a couple of fighters available (plus trannies and their load), so I’ll keep them massed - but it will depend. The more you send, the more US resources are used to stop you. So, I have this navy distract the US, keeping them out of Africa and Europe, which tends to balance the field, all the while whittling territories from them. Then I try and meet up with the Germans somewhere and hold Africa, or defend the Mediterranean or Atlantic coast.
By that time, I’m deeper into Russia and can afford to drop a ship or two and build another Navy.
If I had the choice, I wouldn’t take the time to move around Africa, I’d fight on. But that’s Japanese strategy…