i like to play pacific 1940 2nd ed with my friend a lot but he always kicks my ass as the allies. both of us have the same amount of experience in the game having played pacific against each other about 3 times. every time i get bogged down in china due to the massive amounts of Chinese infantry, my navy gets destroyed by Americas in every single operation and and by the time uk gets to china and the anzac starts island hopping, its over. does anyone have any tips or strategy i could try out to help me or maybe a video that could explain how exactly i could try to pull off a victory? thanks :)
Idea for naval strategy
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Never mind. Don’t bother reading ied this yet so I would like to spare the “well you must have versed lousy players for that work comments”. This could work for either japan or the us but probably better for the us. This strategy would work best when your fleet is parked at a naval base and airfield island. You move your fleet to the sea zone and your consists of 3 or 4 submarines a number of carriers and a number of destroyers ( numbers not really important as long as your navy is a pretty comperable to enemy navy). You land all of your aircraft on the island and take advantage of the airfield. Then you position a submarine between your fleet and the enemys fleet to block a destroyer. Imy is at a navy base position two submarines one in each seazone the enemy needs to move through to attack your fleet. Now if the enemy attacks your fleet he won’t be able to bring his destroyers with him to defend against surprise strikes. That gives you 6 or 8 rolls at a one for defense for every round of combat. ( surprise strike and main strike). That will quickly kill most of his surface fleet. Then if he plans on an invasion don’t scramble the fighters and use them for defense (make this known as soon as he says he will amphib assualt). He will then need his fighters for the land combat. That will force him to bring his carriers into your seazone on his noncombat move if he came from a naval base. Save the subs by submerging them if it looks like you are going to lose the sea battle (which I really don’t sea happening). Then because of your two subs that will block him from moving a destroyer into your seazone (in most cases) you can use the subs to kill any thing left on your turn. But if his carriers survive in on of the adjacent seazone with planes(he didn’t attack the island) you send in your subs and planes and either kill all of his aircraft and kill the carrier (a little luck needed) or you damage the carrier and destroy all of the planes since They would have no where to land. Then if the us is using this strat have Anzac finish the carriers off.
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destroyer can decide to ignore submarines as well as the others naval units
:lol:
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Destroyers stop a submarine’s movement.
Submarines do not stop a destroyer’s movement.
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Destroyers stop a submarine’s movement.
Submarines do not stop a destroyer’s movement.
well said. :-)
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