Bob_A_Mickelson's Complete AAP40 Charts and Aids [1st Ed.]

@wittmann:

AA , Worsham, as Japan starts with a ridiculous 21 Air units.
Not right, in my eyes.

I agree, it’s a swarm of angry hornets.

Howdy!
Japan:  Japan has a lot of potential in this game.  They start off with a massive air force and solid navy.  I usually like to attack turn 3 which allows me to have the transports to hit all my objectives.  Turn two is not bad also and turn one can work but I feel three is the best.  Turn four is to long of a wait and by then India has lots of men defending Calcutta.  Two minor IC on the Asian mainland will put China and India out of business.  I like them on Hong Kong and French Indo China.  Until China and India fall, I get two tanks and a mech for both factories.  I also like to add a aircraft carrier a turn for my remaining fighters and I usually post in the Philippines so I get the six kamikiezes and three fighters can also scramble.  Don’t forget to also have a destroyer next to Hawaii! That way USA doesn’t sneak in and surpise you in Japan! I caught my opponent sleeping one time and took Korea with the USA. Subs and destroyers are also good for cannon fotter when you eventually have the big navy clash with the allies.  You will needs transports also because the allies will try to take some of those money islands back to stop your objectives.  When you have only one more VC to go hit Australia.  Establish a beach head and keep the supply line coming and then strike at Sydney! If you played your cards right your navy should still be stronger than the allies and it should be game over for them.

UK:  UK is limited in this game.  I like to buy men and if I’m lucky a mech or artillery.  If Japan hasnt attacked you early then take the money islands.  If Japan hasn’t attacked by round 3, then declare war and get the NO. A AA is also not a bad buy.  Maybe you will get lucky and shoot a few fighters down during the Calcutta battle.  That itself will benefit the other allies, especially the navy.  Anyways, have fun! This is a great game and I still enjoy playing it by itself

Welcome to the forum, Travelman.
You have understood correctly. You will discover that the U.S. needs that extra income, as 17 is not sufficient to prosecute a proper war, once Japan gets going.

Thank you so much for this update. That thread is one I’ve been following behind the scenes for years. I can’t believe Larry Harris didn’t do more to improve this stand alone game.

@Funcioneta:

It’s a Pacific game, so I’m pretty sure that we can live without one more game where USSR and Japan start the game at war

I say no to this idea: USSR should not be part of AAP40. Larry’s fix is the way to go: giving more power to China, India and ANZAC, and specially deleting a bunch of japanese planes

The question is if that fix is going to pass to the global game

Larry’s setup is better, but still in Japan’s favor. I think kungfujew’s changes are better: They stop the J3 India Crush and really beef up China, which means that japan must use 1 transport J1 to transport troops to China.

There are tons of people for the J1 attack.  However we have played our last 6 games with Japan attacking on the 4th round.  Even though the UK gets extra money from the islands it doesn’t compare to the USA’s bonus money.  last 6 games Japan has taken India in round 5 every time.
  Now we have played multiple games with the J1 attack and are about 50/50 on who wins.

A counter to Kaufstick’s plan?

My group has been working on various things to see if there’s a good counter to the Malayan factory.  We think we’ve come up with a few tactics that seem to work pretty well.  Well enough that the Allies might just have a chance.  Of course, there’s probably some slight tweaking that will wreck this whole thing like the India Crush move, but the American tactics seem to work no matter what is happening on the West side of the board.

1)  Abandon India.  It’s going to go down anyway, right?  Hit Japan where it hurts, land units.  When China retakes Yunnan, Britain can move 1inf from Burma, and land their 4FTR and 1Tac there as well.  Combined with the 4 Chinese Inf reinforcements and whatever was left from taking back Yunnan, and there is a stack of 7-9INF, 4FTR, 1TAC.

The problem for Japan then becomes whether or not to attack the stack.  They will only have 2INF that can attack and all their planes, so if they attack on J2, they will lose a lot of their stacked airforce.  If they ignore it, that stack moves into China and begins to retake it.

When Japan takes India and has a Malayan factory, the stack is well away from them by that point, making it harder to finally stop them.  It’s an ever-growing stack of Chinese infantry defended by UK planes.  And all they need is to hold Kweichow, and US FTRs from Guam can join the fight.

The Chinese/UK stack as akin to a cancerous lump in the Japanese controlled mainland.  Chemo costs planes, but to ignore them may be death as well.  The Chinese stack grows very quickly in the beginning, much faster than any Japanese land units can be put into the interior.

The upside for the Allies is that if Japan does attack on J2, it really slows down their Indian offensive, making them completely dependent on the Malayan factory with little chance of taking India before J5 or J6.  If they let the stack go, they won’t have China under complete control for even longer.

The one flaw I see that we have yet to try is the India crush where Japan loses planes on J1 to put more land units in Yunnan.  If China can’t take it back on C1, then UK can’t reinforce with planes and the strategy is defeated.

America strategy to follow.

What’s worked for America.  It’s more than a cat and mouse game; it’s simple avoidance.  The strategic advantage for Japan is all of the little islands they can land on.  If America moves to Wake Island, than Fighters from Truk can attack them and land on the Marshall Islands.  The list is quite large.  To that end, America needs to take the undefended and monetarily worthless islands if they are to make progress.

On US2, the consolidated Hawaiian fleet moves to Wake, combining with the US1 purchase which can also make it there.  They send a lone transport with a land unit to take the Marshall Islands.  With that simple move, both the Japanese and Truk air forces can’t reach the US fleet.  They’ll lose a transport, but nothing else.  Plus, the land unit-strapped Japanese have no transports to spare, as the J1 buy of 3 TT are all going towards India.

Also on US2, America might purchase a naval base for Wake, threatening more unprotected islands.  The goal is to sacrifice transports to take islands, islands that prevent a concentrated Japanese counter-assault.  By themselves, the Japanese airforces on Japan or Truk aren’t enough to go on the offense against a concentrated US fleet.

The US repeats the process until they reach either the Chinese mainland, or a DEI.  Japan doesn’t have the resources on the first few turns to buy sacrificial transports and land units to retake the islands, so the US sees some gains in the first few turns.  It’s worked well on the first couple of games as the Japanese player hadn’t encountered it before.

To help facilitate, the ANZAC player saves money and may be required to put a naval base on New Guinea, New Britain, or the Solomons.

We’re going to try again, but with the Japanese well-aware of what the US is going to try.

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=16695.0

fixed UK income from 16 to 18 (sorry for the mistake!)

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