No. USSR has to be at war with Japan in order for any allies to land in their territories.

The confusion seems to be in you’re holding back naval ships for naval bombardment. The advantage about scrambling planes is that it forces the attacker to commit all their naval ships regardless if they want to or not. That’s why it is sometimes wise to scramble in a losing battle if the enemy is relying on bombardment for victory. The easiest situation would be when Japan invades the Philippine islands. If Japan was so aggressive that all they brought was two infantry with two cruisers as example. I would scramble the fighter in that situation because while I will lose the sea battle, if you choose to invade the island after the battle, you’re doing it without naval support which gives my defending infantry a better chance at winning.

@Panther There is no rule that forbids you for doing something stupid like I declare war on Switzerland and then take no action against the state.

If you’re aircraft flies over the neutral, you just agreed to declare war on that nations and you’re now in play with whatever rule you just activated.

Yeah but again, you cannot have perfect chaos with computer RNG regardless of how complex the program gets. Science even says that the day we have AI that has human intelligence, it still will not have the ability to do RNG since it requires logic where a human can violate logic logically. However for the sake of an Axis and Allies game, most RNG programs will get you buy just fine. I personally would rather use dice throws even if I get ass roles since I find it not using dice violates the spirit of the game.

@djensen Unfortunately at the end of the day, regardless of how cryptic the program is, no computer can properly simulate RNG, you will always find a pattern eventually. Nothing beats the chaos humans bring with dice rolls and even then you can still cheat the dice if you know how to throw.

That’s the worse plan I’ve ever heard. That is so easy for Germany and Italy to counter. Germany and Italy can wall their way to Moscow. Infantry stacking is the only way to go.

Germany normally doesn’t divide their forces with the exception of splitting for Leningrad and Ukraine which USSR can’t hold on to so for example, pull the Soviet force into one stack and then slowly pull back to Moscow and if Germany gets near Moscow, I make sure to spend all my money each turn so he doesn’t get a fat wallet, I spend on artillery to chew up the remaining money if I have more money than a major can produce.

I’ve personally stopped doing the X force in Iraq since I can’t seems to make it work.

Germany has a 100% win over USSR if USSR gets no help. There is no logical reason not to stack infantry until the German Army gets thinned either because they messed up somewhere else in the world or the Allies are creating a second front Germany can’t ignore. Buying Mechs in my experience helps Germany much more unless you can swing money in your favor.