This is a very good topic! I “always” buy two carriers and a destroyer for east coast US 1. I “almost always” buy 4 bombers round 2 for the US. I figure the carriers you are always gonna need and nice to have for a sudden sea lion. The bombers round two are flexible. I think this is typically true if no J1DOW. I find 5 bombers early on nice to have to hassle Italy. The bombers can also fairly easily join the pacific later on
I usually do what Nippon-koku said for the east. USA will eventually catch up with Japan but 1 CV in the east will get eaten alive by the Luftwaffe. Unless you have UK build one or an AB at Gib they wont be able to guard those transports.
If your scared of Sealion build 9 inf in London with UK. Germany will be lucky to get even a Pyrrhic victory.
If I’m playing Allies myself and doing teh heavy EUS strategy I’ll play UK this way:
R1: 2 fighters, save 8. Move the guys from Scotland to London, possibly move the Gibraltar fighter there as well depending on what I’m doing with Italy (I’ve taken a liking to joining the UK Med fleet with the French ships and making Italy attack me). UK should collect 42 (convoy raid in Canada is possible of course).
R2: (If Sealion is in play) I’ll buy 6 inf, an art and two fighters (truth be told, I welcome a Sealion from Germany).
If the Sealion is not on I’ll buy something like a carrier, one fighter, two DD or two carriers and a fighter if I still have a ship or two left on the board from round 1. I’ll either set up the ships in Canada or in the SZ adjacent to both the London and Scotland AB in order to utilize as much scrambling as possible.
R3: The sea should be safe to build in by now so I’ll get started on transports.
By the end of turn 3 you’re looking at the US force mentioned in a post above and the UK having a couple loaded carriers, tranny’s and a huge air force. On turn 4 you can take your pick of Norway, Normandy, Southern France, etc.
T1: 2 CV, 1 DD, 2 SS
T2: 1 CV, 1 Fig, and either 3 SS 1 DD, or 2 DD 1 TT save 3
Best suggestion so far.
There is no perfect USA1 buy. It always depends on what Axis is doing.
There is no perfect USA1 buy. It always depends on what Axis is doing.
This is such a cop out answer. Of course it depends on what the Axis are doing, but that’s the whole point of the question. Give some typical scenarios and how you would counter them with your USA builds.
That’s exactly it. In order to give a useful opinion on what the USA should build, I have to know what Japan and Germany did and bought. So if you want an opinion, give a scenario.
There are some things USA wants to buy during the first few turns regardless. These are subs, destroyers, acs, fighters, and transports. How many and where depends.
I don’t alter my first round buy at all (obviously there are exceptions to every rule, but most of the time it’s what I listed above).
The 2nd round is far more dependent on what the Axis have done thus far.
I like buying 3 carriers in the Pacific on round 1, and then adding planes for them the next round. After all, planes can catch up later with little risk involved.
Very interesting in how other players approach this. When I am the USA or allies. I always split my buyings in half, and focus US attention in both theaters. Now there are times when the Pacific may require a battleship that the European theater does not, but usually if one gets a transport the other does as well. This works very well for me, and when I am the USA our group knows I usually win the war for the allies. Each their own I guess.
I agree with Zhukov44. A lot depends on what the Axis does.
If the US decides to go JF, I will go with 2 carriers, 1 battleship all placed in SZ 10. What’s more, I have the US fighter in Philippines fly it’s way back to land on the carriers when they are moved to SZ 26. By round 3, the US should have 3 full carriers, 2 battleships and a number of smaller warships along with 3 loaded transports all staged either by Hawaii or Queensland.
If the US decides to go GF, my US buys tend to alternate between bombers and ships.
