Thank you for all your response!
@Arthur:
In a traditional G40 match with no bid and no bizarre dice, I have yet to lose as Axis.
AB Harris: in your experience, how many bids do allies need to draw with the Dark-Skies+J1 strategy? And for those bid games that Allies, will the US focus more on Germany or Japan in the early games?
@ShadowHAwk:
He got bombers so call him out.
round 2 move your 2 carriers +4 air in US turn to gibraltar ( with the standard destroyer + cruisers and 2 transports )
ShadowHAwk: thanks for the advice - it seems your advice is an early-game full-KGF? If yes, how many turns will you have before coming back to J1 Pacific? and what would be the strategic objective to achieve in Europe before that?
To: Ichabod
Gargantua is probably right and the only person here who has the wherewithal to defeat this type of stuff.
Yes, I treasure everyone’s advice in helping me to improve my next Allies games.
The problem for me is that Germany doesn’t spam bombers right away in a well played Dark Skies game. Therefore, I don’t know the best formula for winning as the Allies. I suck at this game, even worse as the Allies.
My last game seems to inform me that, we cannot over-protect Moscow - you see my UK-Russian/ME troops cannot do against strong German stack.
So I am thinking the allies are forced to make two decisions: first is to make Russia and ME “just enough” to defend, so that we can mobilize the largest amount of UK/US units to threaten Europe or East Asia. And this comes the second decision: if you go for Europe, you will soon face crazy Japanese air+navy to take the last VC. Otherwise, you face Germany bombers. I am thinking which strategy will be better.
I’ve noticed that better players than me play slow and methodical to stall on whichever side I’m attacking. It’s annoying because they put themselves in a situation where their income is higher, they can defend, and then increase their TUV to the point that the Allies are just out built. If you let up against Japan because you’re scared that Germany is getting too powerful, still don’t let up. You won’t build enough US stuff in time to make a difference (hence your loaded carriers but not enough transports because you spent so much money on defense).
Yes, I will take your word of not to let up one side of the board.