@ncscswitch:
Bashir,
The reasons to NOT pearl are…
1. For BB support shot on invasion of SFE. Or, if Russia invaded Manchuria, to BB and amphib Manchuria.
2. To invade Australia, and then New Zealand.
3. To move your Capital Ships to the Indian Ocean to support amphib landings in India, Persia, Syria, Africa…
I ahve asked this before, I’ll ask it again…
So WHAT if the US pools their Pacific fleet and comes after Japan. They will probably LOSE when they attack the consolidated Japan fleet. And if they do not, they will lose to the land AF of Japan. Either way, the US is without a Pacific Fleet, and they took themselves out fighting a Japan fleet that was 33% stronger on defense than on offense.
LET the US attack me. After those ships are dead, I can builds trannies unhindered to blast Russia’s backside…
Ok NCS, first of all I would like to point out that I was referring to a RR-game.
- SFE should be defended by only 1 inf. That is if the Russians played well and are stacking their inf at Yakult. So taking SFE would not be a problem. It would be a waste of your BB to use it for that 1 inf that is left there.
2)Invading Australia and New Zealand is out of the question. It is a waste of rescources(BB, AC transport and 2 inf and possibly a fig), because you will only win 3 ipc’s with it. While a single Russian hearland is also worth 3 IPC’s. You can go after Australia or NZ after turn 3-4 because you are moving into the Russian heartlands and you don’t need your fleet for that anymore. Another point is that if you go after Aus and NZ your fleet will be hopelessly out of position. It takes 2 turns before your fleet is back at the borders of Asia.
- You will get those territorias anyway… Africa should be hold by the Germans for at least 2-3 turns so they don’t need you there yet. Syria and Persia are only worth 1 IPC and again it would be a waste of rescources to go after that. India is a different point, but if the UK builds a IC there you can’t take it on the first rounds anyway.
So all your options look inferior to the attack on Pearl IMO. The JFK strat is also inferior to the atlantic strat. So the Pearl Harbor attack is mandatory!
@limitedwhole:
Always go to pearl. Are you really going to let them keep an aircraft carrier which is so vulnerable (the best unit in the game)? Moving to pearl not only rapes their navy, it forces them to build heavily in the Pacific now or risk losing the remainder of their navy and having the western U.S. permanently blackaded by the Japanese navy so that they can no longer build units on the west coast. Always go to pearl. The U.S. HAS to by an A.C. plus two subs or lose the game. You completely determine their first move and prevent them form purchasing transports or a navy in the east to assist in Africa giving Germany the time it needs to get more trrops into Africa. Take the Submarine from Solomon, the A.C. from Caralina along with the plane on it, send a plane from Phillipines, and the Battleship from the Caroline Islands. The U.S. has to build a fleet or be up a creek. When they do retreat out of range. It’s like taking two turns, your and the U.S. turn.
I would not say that you the US has to buy an AC and 2 subs… Why? The Jap fleet is not directly threatning the US. So just build some trannies at the atlantic coast and you are good. If the Japanese want to go after the US they will just throw the game away, because everything they throw at the US means they cannot throw at the Russians… Rusland is the main target for the Axis not the UK or the US period. So anything wasted on those two will weaken the Russian front.