If UK builds an IC in India AND is buying bombers…
I am going to win.
Add in US buying bombers, and I am CERTAINLY going to win.
UK diverts a MINIMUM of 24 IPCs to India with an IC build and then 3 INF to defend it (and they BETTER have more than that, or I am taking it as Japan in short order, probably the round they drop the first 3 INF divisions there. Then I get a free continental IC as Japan to flow ranks through Persia and into Caucuses and Kazakh…
UK buys the IC and Bomber round 1. That is all of his money. Buys another bomber on UK2, plus the 3 INF and some other stuff (no navy though, no money for it, except maybe an unguarded sub or tranny). US buys a bomber also, meaning fewer Atlantic transports to send land forces to follow up on any Germany weakness.
That translates to Germany having NO THREAT from the west (the UK fleet was sunk on G1, US will be sending trannies to the Atlantic w/o protection unless they want to spend their second full build on a loaded Carrier…)
I am up to a MINIMUM of 4 rounds to trash Russia now, without resistance in the west. Leave an INF in Western, and base my FIGS there (they can still reach Karelia and back same round). Then pour INF first then Tanks at Karelia.
Germany’s first build is un-reduced by SBR’s. Germany’s second build is reduced by only 1 SBR, the original UK bomber. That means I added about 10 INF and 5-7 tanks to my inventory while Russia added 16 INF. Since I had the superior forces to begin with, and since I have no threats anywhere else, I can consolidate ALL of my German forces into Eastern (and Ukraine if I feel like it). AFTER G2, Germany should be getting hit with 3 bombers, 2 in UK2, 1 in US2. Avg loss is 10.5 IPC’s, with a 50% likelyhood of only 7 IPC’s due to AA. In G3, Germany thus builds at approximately 25 IPC’s. That is also the round I take Karelia, and keep it. I may drain the hell out of my other force areas to do so, but with nothing coming at me by sea yet, I have no worries. US is only JUST getting ready to try to come at me with an AC, 2 figs, and 2-3 trannies. Germany sends their AF after that fleet, 4-5 figs and a bomber. 3 hits first wave (no more trannies, and 1 fig gone) I lose 2-3 figs. Press the attack, sink the AC and kill the last fig, I land 1-2 figs and a bomber. US has no naval presence in the Atlantic (except any unguarded trannies built in US3), and UK is trying to build bombers and keep that India IC.
Meanwhile, by J3, Japan has landed forces in Asia, has taken SFE AND Yakut even if stacked. If not stacked, Japan is now in Novo and/or Evenk. Russia is down to 12-15 IPC’s against Germany STILL building above 20, even with the SBR damage and an existing superiority of forces by Germany.
Russia falls in a quick 1-2 or 1-2-3 by Germany and Japan. Japan turns on US, Germany starts building Med navy (out of range of bombers), THEN starts to take Africa to destroy UK economy, then let the invasion begin, after a half dozen or more rounds of build up by Germany and Japan. Once UK is down to building at 8-11IPC’s (after losing Africa, the Middle East, Australia and New Zeland, then Canada, their bomber fleet quickly is whittled away by AA fire and a lack of ability to replace them. Germany’s IPC’s skyrocket with the captrured territories (about 50-60 IPC’s, requiring TEN bombers with NO AA hits AND maximum damage roll to counter… ain’t happening)
The only question in a game that the allies play as you describe is:
Will Germany be able to take UK before Japan gets there via Washington DC.