Any ideas and plans with alpha setup?

i like to play pacific 1940 2nd ed with my friend a lot but he always kicks my ass as the allies. both of us have the same amount of experience in the game having played pacific against each other about 3 times. every time i get bogged down in china due to the massive amounts of Chinese infantry, my navy gets destroyed by Americas in every single operation and and by the time uk gets to china and the anzac starts island hopping, its over. does anyone have any tips or strategy i could try out to help me or maybe a video that could explain how exactly i could try to pull off a victory? thanks :)

Bummer, I think Jonas got spooked by some spam.

anyone else ever tried playing AAP40 with alpha 3.9 rules?

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@dinosaur:

@Frontovik:

what do you with transport from carolines? also to kwantung area or to japan?
btw, like your strats.

I move the transport on Carolines to Japan J1, and I buy one also on J1.  Both of these move to Carolines on J2 with 1 Infantry and 1 Arty each, along with the subs I buy on J1.  J3 I land 2 trans on Phils, hit Hong Kong from both sides and some air, and look for a place to expand from the Carolines with the troops I have there.  I shuttle troops in from Japan on J3 so I can keep my momentum from the Carolines.  I usually take a DEI island from the Carolines on J3, but I am ready for other opportunities.  Basically, on J3 I want to shut down all the Allied extra income.  One problem is making sure the US is threatened enough not to go after the home island.

I expect to buy a lot of DDs, SSs, Infantry and Arty as Japan while I get the ball rolling.

my plan is to whack out brits of the war, abnd that’s to cut down DEI income and take malay for IC ASAP
so no carolines for me :)

What about using DDs in conjunctiion with SSs?  The subs can soak hits in the early rounds right, for only 6 IPCs instead of 8 IPCs.  I understand the extra #3 attack over a #2 gives the DDs a slight plus for the IPC cost, but i think adding a couple subs could give a small bonus to the final numbers.

The big thing it seems to me with this map, is defending is much easier than attacking.  ACs are extremely defensive in nature and power, and airbases are extremely powerful on the defense.  Combine that with allies can defend together, but not attack together, and the idea would be to make the enemy come to you.  By the end of turn 2, the starting US fleet could be in queensland along with 2 ANZ destroyers and 1 sub.  Then on turn 3 the US can take/liberate Java with ANZ helping to defend, along with all the planes in Western Australia the allies can manage.  Japan can attack that fleet, and expose themselves to a counter, or leave it be to continue stealing japan’s income.  I think that will be the ideal way to go in this game as the US.  Also note, Java is 2 turns away from Japan, and granted 3 away from the US but that is the best spot in my eyes as anywhere else is only 1 turn away from Japan.

If Japan does not attack turn 1, with UK I would take Java and Dutch New Guinea with the UK transports and rally all allied boats into SZ 56 to support the US fleet.

The other thing I wonder, is if a sub heavy ANZAC would be able to harrass japan as the US can block and can opener to clear the way.  Granted with AN’s low income she may have trouble getting enough to be a threat but still an idea.

Attached are 6 PDF screen shots - my setup in pictures.
Luck,
Vince