Alternate strategy for Japan

Generally speaking allies like to stage from queensland already because it is in range of the dutch islands… although I have noticed some players who stage from hawaii or caroline, but I like that because it is make calcutta super easy.

ANZAC take is rough against pacific heavy usa players and/or if anzac is fighter happy.

Everybody is big on the Calcutta crush although I’ve never seen it successfully pulled off in anyone of my group games.

Like you said it is high risk and high reward. It requires J1 or J2 DOW, because lowering uk pac income is so critical to the success of japan. It also requires an airbase off of kwangsi and sometimes a naval base to blast off and hit india at that critical moment.

you also have to hold shan state or yunnan at some point… so if china stacks up szechwan round 1… you need all your air in kwangsi ready to hit that, because you do not want that to get to yunnan or burma.

Calcutta is not for everybody, it is a gambit, though you can usually get 70-90% odds, what is left is half to a few of all your air units, so

I recommend just getting the money and maintaining your position on the board, even players that plan Calcutta and get everything setup and ready to go end up not pulling the trigger sometimes.

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IF you do J3 DOW and still want to have fun in calcutta. delay your J2 airbase buy, get all transports and men. position fleets right over british islands you wish to grab. J3 DOW. drop airbase and naval on kwangsi.

from there you blast off and hit india. problem is holding yunnan or shan state on that round, which is why I like J2 DOW, I plan for it with the airbase on j2 and the transport j1 buy islands out of the way etc etc…. units coming down etc I prep for it indeed, but I don’t have a binding resolution with myself to do it (basically it is fun and if i got the odds I am going in).

Dawkland, you don’t need to actually take India to make it irrelevant.  If you take Borneo, Malaya, and Hongkong their income is $7 and you could also put a sub or 2 in z39.  Maybe even SBR them.

When you do your Queensland maneuver, don’t land all of your ground forces.  Drop most of them, but hold back an infantry and armor on one of your transports.  That way when he counterattacks Queensland and maybe wipes them out, you can still take Sydney next turn with your air units and the 2 ground units you held back.

^ what he said.

just do J2 DOW you can take pinoy and 3 islands without losing a transport and having them well defended…

do not let china stack szechwan, this is important, because china merging with uk in burma road is really bad.

slang for pilipina. flip. philippines. most people just say flip.

Don’t worry it is not racist, I seen a calling card called call pinoy at a gas station.

Anyway, yeah you could stop the russians, it’s just such a huge investment to deal with something that can retreat. meanwhile allies are banking off the dutch islands. if you wait to DOW on J3, allies make 2.5 times more than you ><. They also block your transports with destroyers if you don’t have them hovering over the spots you want. It is worth it for them too, because for each 4 dolla spot they block you from with a destroyer they get 4 bucks that you are not getting. Also usa at queensland  means you have to send out a blocker or split your fleet up or just part ways with a transport or two.

you just got to find something that works for you. round 2 works for me i deal with the russians with a minor ic.

i keep an airbase in kwangsi. manchuria is a killzone. once he takes that OH IZ ON.

because china stacks up in shensi round 1 (because you kill him in szechwan no prob with all your air and lose 3-5 fighters to kill 10-12 inf and a fighter) so that is where he goes sure you can drop an airbase round 1 but he does get the 2 more inf from suiyuan making fighter casualties like 7 or 8. he could just stack kansu.

anyway point is

usually people pull manchuria and korea westward to deal with the big chinese stack that holes up over there. There is a handfull of ways to do japan effectively, I just think J2 DOW is easier, get the islands out of the way hole india to india while pushin chinese off. i spam 3 inf a round off a minor takes 3 rounds but i get enough to push up there. I don’t really care if usa chucks fighters on korea when i push for manchuria everything is in japan and that stack is dead the turn after to the full might of japan.

this strategy works out great!! thanks for the tipp.

@Cow:

Don’t worry it is not racist, I seen a calling card called call pinoy at a gas station.

Anyway, yeah you could stop the russians, it’s just such a huge investment to deal with something that can retreat. meanwhile allies are banking off the dutch islands. if you wait to DOW on J3, allies make 2.5 times more than you ><. They also block your transports with destroyers if you don’t have them hovering over the spots you want. It is worth it for them too, because for each 4 dolla spot they block you from with a destroyer they get 4 bucks that you are not getting. Also usa at queensland  means you have to send out a blocker or split your fleet up or just part ways with a transport or two.

you just got to find something that works for you. round 2 works for me i deal with the russians with a minor ic.

i keep an airbase in kwangsi. manchuria is a killzone. once he takes that OH IZ ON.

because china stacks up in shensi round 1 (because you kill him in szechwan no prob with all your air and lose 3-5 fighters to kill 10-12 inf and a fighter) so that is where he goes sure you can drop an airbase round 1 but he does get the 2 more inf from suiyuan making fighter casualties like 7 or 8. he could just stack kansu.

anyway point is

usually people pull manchuria and korea westward to deal with the big chinese stack that holes up over there. There is a handfull of ways to do japan effectively, I just think J2 DOW is easier, get the islands out of the way hole india to india while pushin chinese off. i spam 3 inf a round off a minor takes 3 rounds but i get enough to push up there. I don’t really care if usa chucks fighters on korea when i push for manchuria everything is in japan and that stack is dead the turn after to the full might of japan.

You can always let the Russians advance, and then after they have moved through/split up TT units from Japan across to retake territories you lost.  By that time you’ll be able to start reclaiming your lost ground in China with the Aircraft you’ve freed up post India Crush.

Well written Cow.

@Cow:

slang for pilipina. flip. philippines. most people just say flip.

off topic: pinoy is tagalog (main filipino language) for filipino. Pinay is filipina