Generally pacific builds consists of a 2 to 1 ratio of subs-destroyer. Following turn is 5-6 bombers. This forces Japan to start building fleet instead of troops for India/China crush.
I just had to give som additional thumbs up fo9r this comment :D Buying other combat ships than subs, dds (Or CW + ftrs) is rarely correct. the 2 to 1 ratio shos that sean knows how fodder works and how it is the most important thing in these battles.
The only reason to stop buying the subs is if japan for some reason dont respond with fleetbuilding and only buys planes instead. But then you should win anyways :D
which is why i said that it didn’t work against a too planeheavy japan. on theory, the DDs + other surface ships ofc needs to be enough to stop all the planes of japan + 2 rounds of plane only builds of japan.
What would prevent japan from attacking your fleet of subs-destroyers with air and a few destroyers. With 20+ planes they can whipe out your whole fleet with minimal losses as subs cant even hit the planes.
I normaly go for a carrier heavy fleet followed by subs destroyers for attacking power. Ideally i want my carriers to bait an early attack from japan that i can crush in the counter and get his carriers and BB out of the way so anzac and UKP can clean up the rest.
Master List of New Sculpts for Global 40 2nd Edition
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… has been spoiled here:
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=28244.60
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The Italian Bomber is the Piaggio P.108B.
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Am convinced the Fighter is a Macchi 202 or the 1943 205, unfortunately need to see the cockpit to confirm.
The Tac(hardest to see) must be the SM79. Again need to know if it has a nose engine! -
The Italian tank is either the M13/40 or the later M14/42.
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The official rulebook unit tables for the second edition of both 1940 games, kindly supplied by VanGal, have now been posted in the Pacific 1940 section.
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I do hope they find it in their hearts to at some point update the British Infantry… we’ve been stuck with the lame 8th army sculpt for far too long!!!
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Priest as Mechanized infantry? When they were APC’s it was decidedly an exception from what I can tell.
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Priest as Mechanized infantry? When they were APC’s it was decidedly an exception from what I can tell.
I checked one of my WWII armour reference books at home last night and it mentioned that the Priest – more correctly the Priest Kangaroo – was a design suggested by a Canadian officer to the British Army. He proposed modifying an existing gun carrier into an APC, to give mechanized troops some light armour protection.
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@CWO:
Priest as Mechanized infantry? When they were APC’s it was decidedly an exception from what I can tell.
I checked one of my WWII armour reference books at home last night and it mentioned that the Priest – more correctly the Priest Kangaroo – was a design suggested by a Canadian officer to the British Army. He proposed modifying an existing gun carrier into an APC, to give mechanized troops some light armour protection.
Last year at FMGC the reason for this was unit and request explained in detail by real Veterans. There was even a special diarama set up in the museum there, to discuss several famous battles where this unit/new-tactic was used.
Keep in mind, at the time, there was no such thing as an APC, and that typically infantry simply rode on the outside of the vehicles…
I’ll explain this as basically as I can.
Standard Operating Procedure for German Infantry (SOP) was to allow allied tanks to pass through the defenses, without giving German positions away. THEN to use their machine guns etc on the allied infantry, that came following the tanks.
Tanks seperated from Infantry, and Infantry seperated from tanks, is bad news for the attacker, and the German tactic was to exploit this.
This SOP was observed by Canadian officers. And thus was born the Kangaroo. The tactic being, to send in allied tanks (what looked like tanks) with NO immediate infantry wave. The Kangaroo’s would reach the objective, and the infantry would bail out BEHIND the immediate german line, and secure the objective (Hill, Church, Bridge, etc) Before the battle had even begun. The German positions would then be attacked directly, (as opposed to a rush for the objective) from in front and behind, with no immediate fall back position available. Surrender suddenly became a much more viable solution.
The secret was kept all the way through until the end of the war, and there were many documented debriefs of German soldiers/officers who had NO idea, how the hell allied troops got through their defensive formations, and secured the objective so rapidly…
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The name Kangaroo, was chosen I’m certain, in reference to an adult Kangaroo’s hidden sack with little Kangaroo’s inside!
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That is interesting Garg. Thanks.
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@wittmann:
That is interesting Garg.
Agreed.
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I updated/edited my comment for a better clarity. Glad you guys liked it!
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Cool shit.
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