I noticed you can go from Sz101, Hawaii and San Francisco directly to the Sz around Samoa. From there you can get in two turns to the money islands and Philipines (with a naval base built).
This can be a huge surprise for the axis. Imagine US building up a fleet in 101 ready to invade Europe. When Japan declares war they suddenly converge with the pacifix fleet around Samoa and gong from KGF to KJF.
Plus part is your reinforcements don’t go via Hawai where they can be attacked from the carolines so you can Chuck transports and navy.
Down side is UK Pac needs to buy an Naval base.
Not an all winning strategy but one guaranteed surprise .
Plus if you keep building reinforcements in 101 you can always divert to Europe.
Just a brainfart…
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Samoa Surprise
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RE: OOB Allies Strategy and Chances for World Domination
Hey, I’ve been asking myself the same question, why do axis have a huge advantage. My friends and I don’t have that feeling (rather 55-45 for axis). But we never play with victory cities. Our games usually ends with axis victory when:
- Axis take moscow with a huge amount of troops remaining and Allies have no solid ground in Europe and with japan still going wild)
- Axis have a huge advantage in total IPC revenue per round per player (for exemple when germany and italy have a decent revenue and Japan is still controlling money islands).
I think in the long run (10-15 turns) the allied will gain an advantag (if they gain more IPC per round than axis), so i think most people play with victory cities on the short-middle run (7-8 turns).
But yet again, this is my experience (playing for 14 years for 2 games a month) on the board, i don’t play on triple A.
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Idea for UK1
Hello,
I made a video about a strategy built around UK Europe. In the video i discuss the UK1 move and it is an answer to the old question wether or not there is an alternative to Taranto. It’s a bit like the Gibastion move but not entirely.
We play OOB tabletop without bid.
I’m not claiming it to be thé best move and off course it depends on what Germany buys G1, but i might give the Axis (especially italy) something to think about. -
RE: UK Strategies Other Than Middle Earth?
Yes i made a movie about it:
With the UK fleet still alive and with the factory in Egypt i start buying subs to start convoying Italy and combined with bombers to industrial bomb germany.
I do this because US goes in a KJF so except for some subs and bombers no land units are built in the atlantic
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RE: SZ26
@nolimit That is not true. SZ26 is two sea zones away from Western US (SZ26=>SZ12=>SZ10. so ergo it’s forbidden to dock there.
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RE: Allied Playbook - G40 Collection of Essays - Compiled by jacobgeo24 Nov 18-19 2023
@crockett36 no i´m Belgian. Cornwallis was from the time the Patriot was coming out😄.
Well the algerian snake gives the luftwaffe the chance of hitting you with everything they have with a loss of 2 to 3 planes.
I ask the questions which occupy my mind since several years😄.
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Gezocht Axis and Allies spelers
Hallo iedereen,
Zijn hier nog spelers uit Vlaanderen of Nederland die het zien zitten om op regelmatige basis af te spreken voor een gezellige dag een versie te spelen? Het maakt niet uit welke versie. Antwoorden kan naar fredvoets@hotmail.com
Groetjes,
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RE: Axis & Allies .org 2020 Support Drive
@djensen hey! I’m still here. :-)
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RE: UK Strategy -"Middle Earth"
@Argothair You have a point stating the combined allies have twice the amount of cash in the pacific, so making negative trades isn’t that a big deal. But you should non the less pick your fights well because Japan has a lot of capital ships that can take a free hit. Your tactic can be compared to “death by a thousand needles”.
My group has been experimenting with a KJF and KGF etc. This is what we have concluded:
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You cant leave Japan unchecked with the US, sooner or later Japan will take hawai/sydney or go for economic victory and go to africa). When doing a KGF you need to spend like 20% of your means in the pacific (for exemple a few fighters or bombers each turn) just to keep the Japanese navy busy.
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UK: If you send your fighters away from londen UK1 than Sealion can and will happen. Unless th US build its first buy in atlantic (as GHG calls out in his 'london calling"). We usually buy a DD in SZ110 to block Germzny from taking Gibaltar and two fighters on london (or a bomber).
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Taranto or not: if it works perfect. But it’s not the only sollution. We tend to do the Gibastion (hence the DD in SZ110 to block any german ships) or (after destroying the italian transport around malta) retrating with the UK carrier in the red Sea and unit it with the pacific fleet
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Question: what if you buy a carrier witk UK pacific and a BB withUK europe in S-Africa and thus building a UK fleet in the pacific strong enough to keep japan at distance and to threaten the Med?
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RE: Gezocht Axis and Allies spelers
@8d88 you´re not Belgian i assume?
I´ve played almost every version in real life and on Triple A.
Tomorrow we´re playing global 39 version by HBG.
You´re up for a game of global 40 in real life some day?
Latest posts made by Cornwallis
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RE: Sahara express
@MarshmallowofWar the problem is the luftwaffe forces you to buy a lot of naval protection so that demands a lot of money and thus time. Time for thd Jap to expand.
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RE: Germany playbook: overall strategy guide
@Colonel-Mustard how did it turn out for the US sending troops via subsahara?
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RE: Sahara express
@shadowhawk that seems logic but in the recent games germany invests 40 of its 55 average income (when they take leningrad) into land units to slowly march on moscow. The rest they buy a carrier, DD and sub on G1 and a sub and bomber every other turn so there is quite some built up.
It´s feasible to go there but yet again from there on, if you move to norway for exemple your follow-up forces in Gibraltar are vulnerable if you send your protection along with your big tpt fleet.Maybe the Sahara expres can provide some early forces and pressure While you built up your Gibraltar fleet.
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RE: Sahara express
@SuperbattleshipYamato who is talking about 2 units? Often you can´t go to Gibraltar safely until turn 4. This allows you to send fast movers sooner. The accompanying infantry can be united and move to Gibraltar the next turn.
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RE: Sahara express
@taamvan sz91 is not always safe and thus requiers huge naval investments.
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Sahara express
Has anyone ever tried shipping US troops via the West of Africa to the Middle east.
The goal we all want is to have as much US forces helping in the struggle.
If you built up tpt on US 1 in Washington and gather all your fast movers you can dropp them in West Africa on US2. So they can be in Middle east in US5. This off course in case of J1 DOW. -
RE: Iwo Jima
@Colonel-Mustard did you do a lot of strat bombing on Tokyo? I would built carriers and DD and an occasional transport to take an island. Did anzac had the chance of taking some money islands?
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RE: Iwo Jima
@SuperbattleshipYamato no from French indochina they can´t reach it. And coming from the Philippines they need to land on carriers. With a US fleet around Hawaii the Japs don´t leave lone fighters on Carolines. That´s why i chose Iwo Jima bc it´s that one space too far removed when the Jap fleet has just taken the money islands.
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RE: Iwo Jima
@shadowhawk if you get a bunch of US carriers (with Anzac fighters?) there and force Japan to attack you against not overwhelming odds then they need to position themselves more north and you got a battle of attririon around a naar worthless island. This might be in the favor of the allies?
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RE: Allied Playbook - G40 Collection of Essays - Compiled by jacobgeo24 Nov 18-19 2023
@GovZ by the time you get your mass of bombers, Japan already has the islands so isn´t in that a big need of transports.
One central hub like the Philippines with its carriers etc and one tpt is enough to defend.