RR and Axis Advantage is a better game than normal for sure. Reverse Axis Advantage isn’t nearly as good. Japan rarely defends with jets and the German subs are good for about the first turn.
The game is still very challenging for the Axis with those two changes. I have about a 75% across the board win ratio that way. 2-hitters would probably bump me up to 80%, a bid of 6 would send me over 90%. Against only top players, I think I would still have above 50% with everything.
As Allies, unless the Axis are given a heavy advantage I generally try non-optimal strats. Part of that is to prevent a last minute tech victory, and part of that is just for fun. You can make a lot of dumb moves even in RR with Axis Advantage and still win most games as Allies.





