^ what he said.
Actually just wiping the Brit fleet holding Malaya, Hong Kong and Borneo does starve UK east and neutralizes them so maybe making that the objective is preferable to the Calcutta gamble. One thing that kills me though is if you go after the islands you cant leave transports unguarded which means that you have to split up your fleet to defend them. If you do that the US can eat your navy up a little at a time. One of the things I like about the Sydney Startegy is that it forces the US to attack your fleet down there and whether Japan or the US wins that engagement whoever walks away is gonna be weakened. Having a weakened US fleet far from Tokyo and Mainland Asia is a positive in my book. When I play America my first two rounds of production are all fleet for the pacific I go after the Japanese fleet and have had success doing it. If I see the Japs split their fleet apart I’ll attack no questions asked. I use the Carolines as my staging area as I rarely go for Japan early. And since my friends have seen me do this I’m sure they’ll pick up my tactics. Going for Sydney prevents me from having to split my fleet as well as keeping the US far from Japan. But i could see a more static kind of play with Japan where the objectives are to hold Malaya, Borneo, and Hong Kong while keeping the Jap fleet together and close to mainland Asia. It’s not as aggressive but it’s safe play that may require the US to dedicate turn four or five production to the Pacific side helping your German friends win from there side.
just do J2 DOW you can take pinoy and 3 islands without losing a transport and having them well defended…
do not let china stack szechwan, this is important, because china merging with uk in burma road is really bad.
Don’t mean to sound like a n00b Cow but I’ve seen in may of your posts pinoy. what the hell does pinoy mean lol.
slang for pilipina. flip. philippines. most people just say flip.
Don’t worry it is not racist, I seen a calling card called call pinoy at a gas station.
Anyway, yeah you could stop the russians, it’s just such a huge investment to deal with something that can retreat. meanwhile allies are banking off the dutch islands. if you wait to DOW on J3, allies make 2.5 times more than you ><. They also block your transports with destroyers if you don’t have them hovering over the spots you want. It is worth it for them too, because for each 4 dolla spot they block you from with a destroyer they get 4 bucks that you are not getting. Also usa at queensland means you have to send out a blocker or split your fleet up or just part ways with a transport or two.
you just got to find something that works for you. round 2 works for me i deal with the russians with a minor ic.
i keep an airbase in kwangsi. manchuria is a killzone. once he takes that OH IZ ON.
because china stacks up in shensi round 1 (because you kill him in szechwan no prob with all your air and lose 3-5 fighters to kill 10-12 inf and a fighter) so that is where he goes sure you can drop an airbase round 1 but he does get the 2 more inf from suiyuan making fighter casualties like 7 or 8. he could just stack kansu.
anyway point is
usually people pull manchuria and korea westward to deal with the big chinese stack that holes up over there. There is a handfull of ways to do japan effectively, I just think J2 DOW is easier, get the islands out of the way hole india to india while pushin chinese off. i spam 3 inf a round off a minor takes 3 rounds but i get enough to push up there. I don’t really care if usa chucks fighters on korea when i push for manchuria everything is in japan and that stack is dead the turn after to the full might of japan.
this strategy works out great!! thanks for the tipp.
@Cow:
Don’t worry it is not racist, I seen a calling card called call pinoy at a gas station.
Anyway, yeah you could stop the russians, it’s just such a huge investment to deal with something that can retreat. meanwhile allies are banking off the dutch islands. if you wait to DOW on J3, allies make 2.5 times more than you ><. They also block your transports with destroyers if you don’t have them hovering over the spots you want. It is worth it for them too, because for each 4 dolla spot they block you from with a destroyer they get 4 bucks that you are not getting. Also usa at queensland means you have to send out a blocker or split your fleet up or just part ways with a transport or two.
you just got to find something that works for you. round 2 works for me i deal with the russians with a minor ic.
i keep an airbase in kwangsi. manchuria is a killzone. once he takes that OH IZ ON.
because china stacks up in shensi round 1 (because you kill him in szechwan no prob with all your air and lose 3-5 fighters to kill 10-12 inf and a fighter) so that is where he goes sure you can drop an airbase round 1 but he does get the 2 more inf from suiyuan making fighter casualties like 7 or 8. he could just stack kansu.
anyway point is
usually people pull manchuria and korea westward to deal with the big chinese stack that holes up over there. There is a handfull of ways to do japan effectively, I just think J2 DOW is easier, get the islands out of the way hole india to india while pushin chinese off. i spam 3 inf a round off a minor takes 3 rounds but i get enough to push up there. I don’t really care if usa chucks fighters on korea when i push for manchuria everything is in japan and that stack is dead the turn after to the full might of japan.
You can always let the Russians advance, and then after they have moved through/split up TT units from Japan across to retake territories you lost. By that time you’ll be able to start reclaiming your lost ground in China with the Aircraft you’ve freed up post India Crush.
Well written Cow.
@Cow:
slang for pilipina. flip. philippines. most people just say flip.
off topic: pinoy is tagalog (main filipino language) for filipino. Pinay is filipina :p
