The Algeria Snake

On the other hand, if you drop fleet into sea zone six (two carriers, with four fighters from southern carriers on top of them, and maybe a battleship too) , if he does bring in the bombers you can kill a lot of them with your six fighter scramble. It’ll cost a lot, but cheaper than losing the game by conceding the skies to him. You’ll still need to build a lot of replacement planes.

If you go this route, you’ll need to keep that blocker in sea zone 16 to keep his ships from coming in. You’ll want to kill as many planes as you can at once. If you go this way, you definitely have to consolidate your fleet in two turns if he doesn’t hit sea zone 6 on his next turn.

If he goes for Iwo, then your combined fleet can kill his fleet or target his bombers.

No matter what you do, you have to kill most of those bombers. It’s gonna be expensive.

If he’s going for Japan proper with it all, then consolidating your fleet is still necessary because you can’t let him land anything with that bomber stack backing it up. That being said, I would still pump some more ground forces into Japan too.

Have fun.

Marsh

@tmartin the crazy thing is that the game doesn’t feel that much different even with ~40PU bid. The Allies will more easily control the Atlantic, Med, and Africa. China will be more difficult to exterminate. Moscow will survive for a few more turns.

Otherwise the Axis can proceed as normal with India and Moscow eventually falling due to the overwhelming power of Axis air power.

The game changes dramatically at 60 PUs when China becomes so powerful they can drive Japan off of mainland Asia (or least credibly threaten that).

@Panther Thanks for the clarification. With this information Ally players will not be happy!

I usually like to get that money for UK (unless I am suspecting a Sea Lion).

The value of an Anzac presence in Europe would be that they move after Italy but before Germany. But I’m not sure how much that’s actually worth.

I built an Australian IC in French Indo China once when Japan was on the ropes. The thought of an IC in Brazil is at the very least interesting!

@shadowhawk I tried TripleA years ago. I didn’t like not being able to see the whole board at once. I preferred PBEM games where I kept an actual board set up.

Currently my friend has the extra large mat permanently set up in his basement! When we finish a game, we set it back up.
We’ve been playing a full day every second weekend this year, so I’m not really looking to ramp that up.

I appreciate the tip though!

KJF is the most common Allied strat. Japan won’t be able to amass such a huge force.

KJF, hang on in Russia until the Alluss turn the whole world against Germany.

I see Allied wins this way alot, even with Moscow falling.

Once the whole of the Allies are turned against Germany they never get the last victory city.