OK… just trying to get the juices flowing…
Have some thoughts in my head for a “Southern Strike” strategy as Japan.
J1 build 3 trannies and 2 INF.
Amphib into Bury, take China. Trash UK fleet and Pearl.
J2. Build more trannies, loaded (at least 1 with ARM and INF, other with ART and INF).
Send 1 ARM/INF loaded tranny south to FIC. Offload for safety and defense. Use other trannies to send INF and ART to Bury and/or Manchuria to support strikes there.
J3. Send another ARM/INF loaded tranny south. Re-load the first 1 and head for Africa (SZ33). Second tranny stops in FIC as before, then on to Middle East or Africa. Keep building/loading trannies with INF and ART for northern and central Asia. When trannies are emptied to Africa, return empty tranny to Japan or FIC for refill.
Once IPC’s increase and build limit approaches, build FIC IC.
The idea behind this strat is to maintain slow but steady pressure in northern and central Asia, picking up a few IPC’s here and there. But with the main Japan push being against Africa (they’ll be arriving about the same time Germany loses their ability to make progress there) and to take soutehrn Asia.
After a few rounds, Japan will have a large number of trannies, as well as land forces in Southern Asia (as well as their INF/ART streams in central and northern Asia) to pose a serious threat to Russia (especially their Caucuses IC) and to have significantly weakened UK’s economy that they should be able to make significant advances on Russia.
Using this, or somethign like it, can Japan either take the Caucuses IC, or weaken Russian defenses to allow Germany to take it, to bring the Axis together in a fairly controlling position in the Middle East BEFORE the US and UK become too critical of a threat for Germany?