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BB

I always buy 8 inf and 1 arms T1. After that I buy another round of inf and in T3 I buy full arm.

German turn one.
Hit the UK fleet with 3 fight
Hit the US Transport with your sup (WE)
Hit the UK transport (Can) with you Bomber
Hit the UK ship near africa with a fighter

Blitz true Africa and land 2 inf there. If you want to destroy the UK Gibraltar BS, hit it with your BB and maybe with your transport, if the BS hits. (sacrifice your BS, it will be lost anyway)(Your BS must have hit!!!)

Get all your forces in EE. If you have lost one battle against a fighter, keep a fighter, bomber and 2 inf at WE.

Turn two blitz true africa and stack your off. Maybe feint the enemy, but turn two is a regroupe phase.

Hey Ozone27,

Soon your brother finds out how to proper play the allied forces. They can do enormous damage in mid-game following this strat. So I will make a new one for ya. I don’t know with what rules you play, I guess second edition.

(Assume USSR killed the Baltic see fleet and marched into the caucasus)

Turn one Germany.
Buy 8 inf and 1 transport! (yes you have read it well!)

Combat moves
Kill the UK fleet with your fighters and maybe your sub (Make sure you won’t lose more than one fighter in this battle)
Try to kill the sub in the Egypt sea zone with one fighter (It can do horrable damage to your med fleet)
With your bomber kill of the UK transport in the Canada sea zone.
Move your algeria forces one zone down (forgot the name :)
Move your Libian forces also one step down)
*If you have decided that your sub (in the west Europe sea zone) should not fight in the BritishSZ move it to the East-American SZ and try to kill this transport (gives you a full turn more to take over Africa without americans)

Non combat moves
Move 2 fighters to WE and 1 to EE. Land one in Libya and land there also two inf.
Move your bomber to Germany
Move the rest of your forces into EE. (let 2 inf in WE and 1 tank in SE)

place 2 inf on SE and the rest in Germany

(Assume that the allies played smart and placed a Indian fac and the USSR did not attack Manchuria, it is one of the greatest blunders you can make)
Turn 1 Japan
Buy 2 transports and 3 inf. (Idd no Industrial complex! It takes too mcuh time to deploy it well and you don’t have that time, I always buy an IC in turn 3 or 4)

Combat moves
Kill of the Pearl Harbor threat. Move in one Battleship not from Japan, 1 bomber one fighter from Japan (you will land it on the carrier) 1 fighter from the carrier and one sub. (NO TRANSPORTS! You need the transports to get all your inf from the islands to the mainland)

Kill china with overwhelming forces, so you don’t have to worry about an American IC there. Let the USSR for what they are, in the next turn you can go after them.

*Note the Pearl Harbor attack. You maybe lose 2 units there, it is better to sacrifise your battleship there. (Your fighters are more important)

Non Combat moves
Move the solomon transport to the Caroline Island and pick up those two inf (unload in caroline Islands, yu need them to fight in Australia and NZ)
Move the carrier to the Caroline SZ and land your 2 fighters on it.
Move 2 inf from Japan Mainland to Manchuria, Kwantung or Burma.

Germany turn 2
Buy 10 inf (Assuming that the USSR took the Caucasus in T1)

Combat moves
move your Med fleet to Egypt SZ and land 2 inf and 1 tank there (you also have your Naval Bombardement.) Maybe also your fighter and 2 inf if you really want to win with a huge overkill.
With the other tank blitz true Africa (it is maybe better to kill the SA inf unit with your fighter) Assuming that the UK has moved it one up and attack this also with your tank. (It is a gamble, but you can wait a turn and move in 2 tanks, 1 inf and 1 fighter)
SBR the UK (you want them to have as little money as possible to help Japan in their campagne in Asia)

Japan T2
Buy 2 transports and 5 inf.

Combat moves
Take NZ (quiet easy) with your fleet in the Caroline SZ
Land men in far east
(Maybe take Yakult also)
(When enough men availlable take Sinkang)

Non combat moves
Move your inf in from Japan (If you didn’t land in Far East)
regroupe your forces! So you can take out India in the next turn or the turn after the next turn)

I don’t have time to finish it, but move in your men from the islands (they are useless when the USA attacks) Japan can reach Moskou with a greater force (than when you build a fac in T1) in less turns!

The Germans can hold Africa for like 2-3 turns for certain (Almost all of it) so they can build more inf to march in Kar. Germans should build only arms in turn 4.

Note
If you can take out more IPC’s than you lost, DO IT! It maybe disturb your strat of that round, but in the long term war you get the benifits of it!

If there is no russia restricted then the germans have 4 ftrs and a bomber, the bomber and a ftr are commited already, leaves 3 ftrs for the UK fleet. You still have a BB and sub, the brits still have a BB. 3 ftrs alone against a BB and transport scares me. It’s a bit tight, you’d have to use your BB against the Brit BB off Gibralter. It’s a 50/50 chance your plane misses the sub, it retreats and your 2 transports are undefended. Yikes!

Other than that it’s not bad at all, I’d prefer to group all my africa forces in Libya if not attacking, moving the algeria guy to FWA only gets you 1 IPC and he could get smoked easily, and isn’t where he needs to be to crush the brits remaining forces in Africa.

BB

In the conflict between armor and infantry, me experience is that a more balanced force is the best.

the example with 90 ICP you can have 6 armor and 20 inf.
attack 38 in the first round

Round 1:
6 Tanks and 20 Inf versus 21 Inf
Attacker does 6 hits, Defender does 7 hits

Round 2:
6 Tanks and 13 Inf versus 15 Inf
Attacker does 5 hits, Defender does 5 hits

Round 3:
6 Tanks and 8 Inf versus 10 Inf
Attacker does 4 hits, Defender does 3 hits

Round 4:
6 Tanks and 5 Inf versus 6 Inf
Attacker does 4 hits, Defender does 2 hit

Round 5:
6 Tanks and 3 Inf versus 2 Inf
Attacker does 4 hits, Defender does 1 hits

result you end up with 6 tanks and 2 Inf. 8 units worth 36 ICP

I don’t want to defend Karelia (IE) with that force :)

Bashir, I’m not sure I’d build 2 transports on Japan’s second round, unless some of the existing transports are NOT getting 1 load/round into Asia (going for Australia or Africa right away).

My strong point is logistics, I always think of “Transport loads”, some people see 5 Inf, 2 tanks and an AA, I see 5.5 loads and a need to build an infantry or waste 1/2 a transport for 1 round.

The 2 transport, 3 Inf is a great build on R1. If I can, my transport moves are pick up ONE INF from the Phillippines, move the transport to Borneo and pick up that infantry, this is the only time in the game that move is a 'transport freebee" you’re not wasting a transport/turn going for a long voyage to fetch it. Both INF go to FIC. The INF left on Phil, Okinawa and wake islands are also freebies. A transport from Japan fetches 1 and pulls 1 from Japan to Manchuria.

In this way, Japan starts out with 8 Inf, a Tank and an AA (6 loads) that can efficiently be brought to Asia. The idea is to maximize the number of units your transport fleet can get to asia. Your first 2 transports take 2 loads to Asia, you build 1.5 loads and 2 transports. Turn 2 Japan has 5.5 loads and 4 transports, you need 2.5 loads to fill up the transports. Build 1 transport and now you need to build 3.5 loads, 7 Infantry. That’s 29 IPC, so if you can get China and the Soviet FE then you have the said 29.

Now with 5 transports you bring in 30 IPC of Infantry. Soon you’ll be earning more than 30 IPC, perhaps build an extra tank on Japan to give you options in your transport loading but generally try to save 15 IPC, build and IC and free up 2 transports right away to go roaming with the capital ships generating threat points.

BB

The basic stratagy is to get your men of the island and counter an allied factory in India. So you need more transports to get everything done…