Submarines block movement as long as they are not submerged.
Transports defend at 1.
How much do the Axis help each other?
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Honestly, I don’t think Japan can count on having 6 fighters after J1. You have good odds of losing a fighter in FIC to England 1 combat and another good chance of losing 1 in SZ 52. Not saying it’s 100%, but it’s a good chance in both cases.
Other then that, the easiest way to help Germany is to take out Russia.
Second is to send fighters to be anchors for German defensive positions to allow German fighters to move to the front.
Third is invade W. USA heavy and thus remove America from the war.
However, one I didnt see listed was take England’s territories. India, Persia, T-J, Madagascar, Australia and New Zealand alone is 9 IPC. If Germany took Egypt, FEQ, FWA, Kenya, Congo, It. Africa and S. Africa that’s 9 more. 18 out of 30 IPC gone for England. That’s almost enough to effectively make England non-existant.
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The Axis powers have to help one another.
You won’t see the amount of direct reinforcement as you would with, say, an Allied fleet in the Atlantic. But Japan has to do quite a bit.
1. Rob the Allies of IPCs.
2. Pressure Russia. If Japan can secure Novosibirsk in force, Russian forces must retreat from West Russia to Moscow (to defend), allowing Germany in turn to secure a more forward position.
3. Japanese fighters to Ukraine or Caucasus on J3 or J4 can be decisive.
4. Kitchen sink attack using immediate German and Japanese mass tank builds with industrial bombing requires BOTH countries. (It also really requires an over-aggressive Russia on R1)Adapt, adapt, adapt.
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And if you are going Kill Russia First, resist the temptation to invade N. America. :P It’ll hurt you more then America. hehe
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Invading US / West Canada with Japan forces the US to slow down their attack on Africa and Germany.
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Slow, but only for two rounds, and you don’t STOP America.
I would never recommend it in the first 5 rounds of play, not unless you have lost no units with Japan and have moved as far as Japan normally moves in 5 rounds. Even then, I’d still lean towards pressing Russia.
After round 10 when you have Russia pushed back to Moscow and N. Asia and Caucasus is in German hands with a large German army and Novo is in Japanese hands iwth a Large Japanese army, sure. Now you have the resources to get into a pissing for distance contest with North America.
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HAHAHAHA>…pissing for distance? I love it.!
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HAHAHAHA>…pissing for distance? I love it.!
My other favorite is “hosing the deck with testosterone”
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ahaha, also amazing!!! :lol:
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Invasion of West Canada is a disruption move, not an invasion move.
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Invasion of West Canada is a disruption move, not an invasion move.
What if you reeeeaaaaalllyyy want Vancouver?
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Then you better have 8 TRNs as Japan, plus fleet defense capital ships :-D
And it is a LOT easier to do if you have already taken Moscow :mrgreen:
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I’ve honestly NEVER had the axis powers work in conjunction with one another. Other then one being the aggressor and taking preassure off the other.
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I’ve honestly NEVER had the axis powers work in conjunction with one another. Other then one being the aggressor and taking preassure off the other.
Well you might be missing some opportunities there. Especially when Germany pushes deep into Eastern Europe and then Japan covers with fighters (preventing a USSR counter)
My favorite is Japanese planes stationed either in AES or sz34 a/c(s). These can respond to a two pronged allied attack on Germany (Western Europe, Germany, Eastern Europe) to help out.
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I’ve honestly NEVER had the axis powers work in conjunction with one another. Other then one being the aggressor and taking preassure off the other.
Well you might be missing some opportunities there. Especially when Germany pushes deep into Eastern Europe and then Japan covers with fighters (preventing a USSR counter)
My favorite is Japanese planes stationed either in AES or sz34 a/c(s). These can respond to a two pronged allied attack on Germany (Western Europe, Germany, Eastern Europe) to help out.
Perhaps, but I’d rather have those fighters in japanese space to keep russian infantry on russia’s eastern front against japan.
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I don’t think Japanese planes would keep my Russian inf on the eastern front. Unless of course the western front is being supported by the UK and US.
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other (please specify)
rush to africa and take the terrotories for yourself. better in japan’s hand than the allies.
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I don’t think Japanese planes would keep my Russian inf on the eastern front. Unless of course the western front is being supported by the UK and US.
planes alone would not its true. What i meant more generally was that I would want to keep japan strong in asia so that russia HAD to make amends for Japan coming up the backside. it basically maes russia spread itself out as much as possible
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Generally they help eachother quite alot.
Since im the only one here (it seems) that think going after Japan is crusial to victory.
Manly Germany sits back and holds as long as possible, making a attack on West russia/Cauccasus When Japan have amased a lot of forces to make Russia withdraw back to moscow.
They take Cauccasus togheter.
Japan goes after Africa, witch usually is a bit “softer” after the German initial attack.
Japanesse fleet is in atlantic on Round 3-4 half going round southamerica taking Newzeeland and brazil other half goes round Southafrica taking everything as it passes.
Figs can be sent to Europe if Germany are getting whacked.
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wow…so you use Japan as your main battle force huh?
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For me, I have seen great success with Japan acting as the main battle force. Germany can try to stem the tide of reinforcements to Moscow via Karelia/Archangelisk by first stacking in EEU creating a deadzone in KAR, and then moving up the stack to KAR (or WRUS if possible) to deadzone Arch.
With Germany preventing the UK/US reinforcements from arriving, and Japan holding Africa, it is only a matter of time before Japan overwhelms Russia.
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