In any AA version I have playex if the less experienced folks are playing the Axis they just dont see the Allied weaknesses.
To this point we are mostly inexperienced at this game. Germany has its hands full in the Atlantic. Japan has time in the Pacific.
Find some ways to win initiative with Japan. Mostly with Japan i find i can split my nave two thirds off Japan one third Malaya and go afyer India wholesale.
What are the Americans going to do? Take the Carolines with Australia and sit there building a navy? They’ll be able to trap your transports in airbase protected Japan and far away Malaya but timed right you will be cranking out ten inf a round in Malaya and four or so from Japan to Korea.
Sealion or the threat of it paralyzes the British for the first three turns. They must build land units in England and I believe Taranto unbalances the math against them.
Italy gets Egypt then heads for India or Stalingrad before the British from South Africa can get there.
The Axis have to stretch the board quickly. I favor earlier attacks. America’s ipcs are far away. India and the UK need every buck they can scrounge. Japan can make much better use of twelve or more DEI dollars than the US gets from their bonus