Or you could just research long range fighters and bombers first turn, and if you get it, then go for it on turn 1. And you will have this ability throughout the game. This will allow you to get all your aircraft in range of the attack.

First I wanted to thank everyone for their contributions on my last post regarding the Brazil IC.

I will be playing the US next game, and plan on aggressively sending troops to africa. I am looking to have roughly 8 transports by turn 4 doing this. I feel this will give me flexibility to invade Europe if need by, and to keep the flow of troops into africa.

My question is how do I slow Japan?

I would like to completely evac the pacific to include my battleship and bring everything to bear on africa and eventually europe. Is it better to use your EUS bomber, fighters in the PAC and your ships off of WUS to destroy the remaining fleet off of pearl harbor?

Also, should my UK partner completely evac India, or should he put up somewhat of a defensive with all 5 available infantry and your fighter?

Once africa is held, I was thinking of building a potential UK IC in egypt to aid in reclaiming India or supporting the caucus region?

Let me know what you guys think.

A major thing I like about the IC in Brazil is that landing in Algeria the traditional way leaves you pretty open to a counter attack with the German Battleship, and all of the german fighters that could be surrounding the med. To me, this is much safer. Unfortunately my game isn’t for a while, so I won’t be able to tell you how it works for a few weeks. Keep the advice coming. I am not an experienced US player, and I really want to get in the fight fast with them.

Do your normal turn 1 landings in Algeria with UK and US forces.  Start moving your panama destroyer over towards brazil, fly fighter from EUS to land in brazil.

Turn 1 purchase 1 IC in brazil
2 Transport in EUS
1 Tank
2 Inf

This way you will have taken algeria, on turn 1
You can send more reenforcements there turn 2 including air, and will have about 3 transports down there to send your turn 2 brazilian purchases over.

I will be playing as the US next game and am thinking about putting an IC in brazil rd 1. I will go africa heavy, and once africa is completely under control…I want to have the UK player put an IC in Egypt. This way we can flood africa with troops for a potential S.Europe landing, or send them towards india and the caucus mtns.

Any comments?

If you buy the map off of the website, does it come laminated?

I brought this up before, but here goes…

I believe that a great way to SJF while going for a KGF strategy would be to have the UK player build an IC in India on turn 1. I know that Russia can ill afford to send a tank and a fighter to India, but I think it would be worth it in order to secure their back door, and slow Japan. If you send absolutely every UK unit you can to reenforce this, and with the help of the USSR units, you should be able to hold it. Has anyone tried this, if so what is your success rate? I know Cmdr Jennifer thinks a S.African IC is better, but I tried that and it seemed to help, but not enough.

I was victorious. The UK’s navy was destroyed very early in the game, and my Japanese counterpart did very well. Moscow was taken!!!

Thanks for the advice bunnies. I agree with  you about focusing on what you CAN do. My plan was to leave the fighters just as you described. The wasp nest analogy was for any turn 2 counter attack against an allied landing in algeria. Great advice though. Thanks.

Crazy Ivan,

Thanks for the advice. My current plan is to go Africa heavy in order to get the IPCs and to either discourage the allies from attempting an African Campaign, or in your words, force them to go all out to get it back. My concern with this was taking my luftwaffe out of the eastern front, and therefore being exposed to a potential joint strike at my largest eastern army from Russia and the Caucus.

A compromise for this was to go heavy in Africa, and leave all my aircraft within striking distance for any landing in Algeria. My next part of the plan was to consolidate my eastern front into a large army located in the Balkans. While this forsakes the Ukraine for a turn, it also keeps your forces from being attacked from Russia and the Caucus jointly. If I have a small army at Karelia, then the Russian army will have to divert some attention north.

Turn 2 would either be me smoking any forces landed in Africa, or flying my planes to the E. Front to lay waste to Ukraine. My big problem is that any pressure left off of Russia really makes taking Moscow that much harder. If Russia is gaining IPCs then I believe Germany is in Trouble.