I lost to Simon 33. Great G40 player; master of the mobile defense.
Round 10, Moscow and India still not permanently captured…but he’s about to get them both within 2 rounds and the middle east is about to be captured on Round 11. I made a fatal mistake of stacking the Caucasus 1 round too early (round 9 I think). My combined Allied force got slaughtered and it was too late to stop his German horde. I really had no need to do that as I think Moscow had a ton of units to defend with for several more rounds. And more allied fighters could have came in support. Even if I had not stacked Caucasus, he was still on track to win the game.
I made my fair share of blunders in our game. My jury is still out for the US getting Iraq (only in a J1 DOW game) is a plausible strategy. This game, the one played against me, and another pbem game I’ve got going are the only 3 games that I’ve seen this strategy. And 2 / 3 of them are me playing allies. I suck at allies worse than the axis side.
Key Takeaways:
1. Need a better allies player than me! (main issue)
2. Send a stack of planes through sub-Sahara Africa to beef up the US factory which is late to the game; and then maybe trickle over 1 or 2 fighters every other turn if you can afford it.
3. Don’t come at Simon across the Atlantic with a fleet that’s not beefed up enough!