@Brian-Cannon How do you overcome that initial almost always successful opening Soviet attack?

Started out this season with Axis really well, but have hit a solid wall and probably going to lose a quite a few games in a row. Couple Allied strats I have seen that seem to give me problems. The American and UK ferry to Scandinavia seems to offer a defense against both Germany and Japan, and as Allies get stronger they start to nip at Western Europe. As Germany gets worn down IPC wise with Bomber attacks and losing territory, Russia and other allies can afford to ship units to stem any Japanese aggression. Another one I see quite often and I have a ton of problems with it is when Soviet Union starts and just does a massive attack on West Russia only, Its great not losing Ukraine but you are faced with a death stack on West Russia, and in the following UK turn you can be sure your Med fleet is going to be targeted. It is so terribly easy for Allies to kill Germany in African cutting off a source of income. Allies have a few ways to beat you and I feel Axis has the same old ground slog to Moscow.

@Brian-Cannon Actually I dont think he took out my fleet in Med, I think I would take much of Africa because Germanys income remained in the middle 40s throughout

He started out in KJF. Tough to remember everything right now. not to mention the fact that it was just a crazy game. Round 1 Russian attack didnt go well for him, I responded by strafing West Russia. I believe he bought a a couple tanks in opening buy and in his attack on Ukraine he retreated rather than take the territory, and left me a tank a fighter and an arty. His British fleet took New Guinea and Borneo, and also took out my destroyer and transport in sea zone 61, if I remember right he also took out my battleship and trans in Med. He bought tanks and a bomber for UK. My Japan turn was to take out his British fleet, I didnt go Pearl Harbor, and my buy was an anti KJF buy I believe 2 subs a destroyer, a trans and an inf. As US he bought bombers, moved his fleet to Alaska. Rest of game he was ultra aggressive with Russia in the east, he kept a stack on Caucusus, British were initially contained out of India in their expansion east but, he kept ferrying American bombers and fighters to Yakut, and kept my fleet bottled up in inner sea of Japan, and used his aircraft aggressively to attack an ground presence on any territory in Asia, he sent all his tanks east. He kept up a steady income with Russia and although I was able to stack Karelia and Caucusus he had a sizeable stack in Moscow, any territory trading in W. Russia was wiped out by naked air attacks. He had allied fighters and bombers in Moscow.

@DoManMacgee So how does one counter this strategy. The game consists of trading territories until you build enough mass for an attack. This strategy kind of turns that to hell, one Axis unit holding a territory is vaporized, then the next succeeding allied turn that territory is taken by another ally. Rinse and repeat.

I didnt screen shot everything, I was kind of aghast at the attacks. I thought their would be a heavier price paid using air power without ground units. I can understand when he would attack one unit and their was no loss, but he did much more than that he would attack 3 or 4 units. At one point he sent a number of bombers at I think 2 infantry and a fighter and suffered no loss. Meanwhile I am just concluding a turn where I sent 3 Japanese fighters and two infantry at a lone British infantry unit in Persia only to see fighters miss two straight rounds and the British infantry hit two straight rounds. So it is more than a bit frustrating.

@Brian-Cannon Shocked response by the Devs

@Eqqman I had seriously hoped there would be a difference. The Dev’s seemed to go out of the way to make it sound like something was coming with the constant teases of a big announcement on dice leading up to Season 3. How many times did we hear about the upcoming announcement?

@aardvarkpepper Then why the shocked response when I commented 'annnd still no fix for the dice".

Look at the post by Julius in 1942 online. Season 3 patch notes. The tenor of the response by the Devs seems to say they felt like they had issued a fix.