Hello, I play pacific 1940 a lot. I have also played global a few times. Pacific 1940 second edition is a great game but I can almost easily win every time if I’m Japan and I attack on the third turn. A new rule was passed around late 2014 to allow the USA to receive a 30 IPC bonus if Japan attacks or declares war on them before turn 4. This seems to balance the game a little but I can still always win with Japan. The strategy for Japan is pretty much the same. Take the money islands, build a minor in French Indo China and Kwangtung and knock out China and India. Post in the Philippines with your huge navy and three fighters that can scramble and those six deadly kamikizes. Let Anzac and USA come to you so you can use the fighters to defend at 4 when the big navy battle happens. Eventually you will be making more than the allies with the money islands NO and the India NO. You should be around the 70-75 mark. Then when the time is right strike at Sydney or Hawaii and hold it and you should win as it will be six victory cities. For the allies, man this can be tuff lol. You better hope Japan attacks you on turn 1 or turn 4 because turn 2 and especially 3 it’s going to be difficult.
1: China: buy men and hit and run and fall back to the north west of China. You will be lucky if the Burma road is open more than two turns. Pull back and make Japan come to you.
2: UK: pull everyone back to India and just buy men!!! Try to bring your navy down to Australia and unite them with Anzac and hopefully later USA. If it looks like India is going to fall then pull your airforce out and send them to Australia to hopefully land on a Anzac or American carrier. If Japan hasn’t declared war early then take as many islands in the south as possible .
3: Anzac: small ships and transports are good. if it looks like Japan is going to invade then pull your forces to south Australia because from there you can hit any territory. Use your small ships to convoy raid or unite with the main USA fleet. Queensland is a great staging area for the allied navy early in the game. Also since there’s a airbase there fighters don’t hurt also since they can scramble.
4:USA: the big boy lol. The problem is when USA is neutral she only makes a freaking 17 ipcs a turn. While Japan is around the 40 mark and Japan has soooooooo many aircraft at its disposal. USA I say aircraft carrier early then mainly subs, destroyers, and a transport every turn with land units. A few rounds into the game get a navy base on the Johnson islands and start combining your fleet with the Anzac fleet and hopefully a small UK fleet. try to take the money islands by sacrificing transports because Japan will have a bigger navy early in the game. When the time is right move to Dutch New Guinea with your fleet and prepare for the big battle. Sometimes it’s better if Japan attacks you and sometimes it’s better if you attsck them. Hopefully you will have a lot of subs at your disposal. If you win the navy battle then Japan is pretty much toast even if they have India and China. Good luck and let me know how the war goes lol. I am playing anniversary edition on Saturday 😜
Ouch first game played
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Care to elaborate? Otherwise, this thread looks like a facebook status.
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Sorry was in a hurry. Japan hit china hard with most of his airforce and allies didnt have time to hit before he got regarrisoned. Nobody declared war (mistake perhaps) mixed with great rolls by japan. J4 war was declared. Us wasnt built up enough. Anzac needs to be aggressive quick but i did badly there. I also cant roll for nothing no matter the game. China got owned fully shortly followed by uk. Anzac (me) tried to backdoor them but i didnt move soon enough to be effective. Us tried to help but the force didnt serm enough even with wartime economy.
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I held awhile with infantry in australia but i just cant roll even with pverwhelming forces
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Italy could beat Japan if Japan only rolls sixes. Give it a few more games. Even if it is decided that Japan has an advantage, a couple infantry can change everything.
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Italy could beat Japan if Japan only rolls sixes. Give it a few more games. Even if it is decided that Japan has an advantage, a couple infantry can change everything.
Italy is not in the Pacific game.
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Yes, BD, I was making a point about drawing conclusions about the game after rolling high numbers all game, first game.
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Oh i know that a lot was rolls. But we also made a lot of mistakes.
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This sounds WHOLE lot like my first couple of games. Japan would win by killing China, then storming India with her airforce and holding the DEI with her fleet. The U.S. would kind of hang around Hawaii in an attempt to “threaten” Japan with a couple of transports. Once we realized that the U.S. can crank out A WHOLE FLEET EVERY SINGLE TURN things became easier for the Allies. Scan the forums for the “conveyor belt” strategy. That’s what changed everything for me.
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War wasn’t declared until that late? How did Japan get through the stack of infantry in India? I’m assuming you bought all infantry in India, not aircraft carriers or something silly like that, right?
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War wasn’t declared until that late? How did Japan get through the stack of infantry in India? I’m assuming you bought all infantry in India, not aircraft carriers or something silly like that, right?
Well we played another game today and realized a lot of the problem came down to two things. We didnt know how to use anzac us or uk effectively. And we kept forgetting NOs and lost A LOT of ipcs. That was also only our first game of 1940 and second of aaa total. On todays game allies won. Us fortified hawaii and the phillipines right away. Anzac focused on a navy china defended burma road better and uk played mainly defensive. Japan did good until he left japan mainly unguarded and us swept up.
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play a few more games. Japan should take Phillipenes right away on J1 and the US should not be able to fortify it.
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@Captain:
play a few more games. Japan should take Phillipenes right away on J1 and the US should not be able to fortify it.
If they do that though they also need to take the uk space along the china coast to prevent both us and uk from their NOs.
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