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  @Argothair said in Reliable 1941 Axis Strategy:

  @cheezhead1252 If you want to go hard after Africa, consider skipping the carrier – instead, build something like 4 inf, 2 art, 1 fighter on G1. Don’t bother attacking the Baltic States at all on G1, and instead use your transport to ferry extra infantry to Norway on non-combat. The overall idea is that after you take Egypt, you can pressure Stalingrad from three sides – the Germans push through Ukraine with tanks, the Italians push through Jordan with infantry, and the Japanese push through India with a few land units and a lot of fighter support.

  There are interesting opportunities for a 1-2-3 knockout blow. E.g., Germans barely take Stalingrad but can’t hold it; this prevents Russia from building there, which limits how many units they can deploy next turn. Russia retakes Stalingrad, barely, but can’t afford to retake it hard because they also have to guard Moscow against German tanks in Ukraine. Japanese take Stalingrad against the weakened Russian defenses, accepting fighter plane losses to get more land units into the territory, and then Italy sends a couple of tanks and a couple of fighters to reinforce – now Russia can’t take back Stalingrad at all, and Japan is producing 2 inf + 2 tnk every turn right next to Moscow. This is basically game over for Allies even if by now the British have taken Norway & Finland and even France.

  I wanted to get your opinion on the Green Skies strategy. Currently, we have been playing without the interceptor rule. My dad recently discovered this strategy and implemented it against me.

  So over the last few days I have uncovered some discussion on here from the good captain as well as his video on it and he says Green Skies breaks the game without interceptors.

  I wanted to pick your brain to see if you agree with this or if you have developed any counters for this or if you just play with interceptors. I realize some errors in my last game so I have much to improve and want to start there before demand the optional rule :P but still wanted to see what your thoughts are!

• 1942 Scenario

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  @TheDesertFox said in Can the Allies win in 1942?:

  @woodstock said in Can the Allies win in 1942?:

  “How long can Russia hold out on it’s own against Germany?”

  Quite a while. In fact, Russia can hold out for so long they’ll have taken Berlin. Yup, I’m being serious when I say that, a proper USSR player can hold out against Germany, and Italy, push them back all the way to Rome and Berlin and win the war all together. What I’m saying may seem WAY too overstretched and I dont blame u for thinking that. But I sure as hell did it in the 42’ setup. And after doing it, it made me see the obvious.

  The Soviets can’t ‘hold out’ until the allies arrive. By turns 7-9 the Soviets will have needed to shift the tides, and be on the offensive towards Berlin, whether the allies have landed or not.

  As much as I’d like to think that America and the British have some huge major important factor in this, they really don’t. The entirety of the war effort all rests on the brains and brawns of the player playing the Soviet Union, granted that’s not to say the U.K and the U.S can’t help a brother out, I’m just saying this so called Soviets hold out until “Round 4, 5 or 6” is pretty baloney. Because the that’s pretty much the time when America and the U.K should be SETTING UP to land in mainland Europe, and they still won’t do it for another good 3-4 turns.

  Something that one of my favorite Axis and Allies youtubers said, GeneralHandGrenade, spoke of the fact that as the allies (America specifically) There is no short cheap way to win the war for the allies, landing on turn 3-4 is WAY too early for either, frankly a properly played game as the allies could genuinly go on till’ round 11 or 12.

  And if any player can’t seem to hold out against the Germans and Italians in the 1942 setup then they’re playing the Soviet Union wrong, and you should probably hand off the role to somebody else, because the player playing the USSR kinda needs to know how to play the game, and play it well.

  (i know this is old, I dont even think you’re gonna see this but I was born in the early 2000’s so I wasn’t around for the forums)

  What do you do with the US? KGF?