My Allied Strategy for UK & US

I actually don’t attack the allies until turn 3 or 4 depending on what anzac and UK do. I like your strategy grasshopper I just think capital ships should be bought few and far between. I like 2-3 carriers with US and 2 BB’s at most. All my other buys with US being subs and a couple destroyers and planes. Fodder units are hugely important. This is why a tank rush doesn’t work. You need cheap units to take the hits so your expensive units can keep attacking at later levels.

LOL ya. US is just scary. I hate playing as them and I hate going against them :)

lol that’s funny. Japan was hard the first time I played because you have so much to do, but I now I see almost exactly how to play every round and counter every move. Nothing japan can do if US goes all out, but europe board should be looking pretty nice in that case. What seems to be the problem when you play Japan? I can stall US out with Japan from holding phillipines for at least 9 turns if not longer. By then Russia should have been taken and Germany should be a juggernaught.

@Clyde85:

Grasshopper, I was wondering if you’ve ever heard of/tried the “fortress DIE” strat? In short it has the ANZAC grabbing one of the DEI islands, usually Java (I think), on their first turn and then building an airbase on it on their second turn. The idea, as near as I can tell, is to then have the UK Indian forces land more troops and the US fly airforces there to try and keep the Japanese tied up in the DEI longer and keep them from geting the NO associated with it. Do you think an idea like this would work well with your over all blue print put forward here?

We actually tried this in one game.  I don’t remember all the details but we had mixture of ANZAC and UK airforce on Java with inf and the Air base.The navy was a mix of UK and ANZAC in the seazone with the US in striking distance.  I remember it being taken out fairly easy by the Japanese but what it did accomplish was a heavy distraction for Japan.  They were constantly out of position and were soon taken out.  Could of been the skill of the player and never seeing that before that led to the demise but it was an interesting way to go.

Grasshopper, I totally agree with your American Navy strategy I love to use it as a hunter/killer force seems to work great.  My question for you is how does this strategy pan out for you if Germany has a successful sealion?  My problem with the Pacific navy build is every time i do it sealion is always successful and i have to run and save the UK.  I guess i just have bad luck.

Let me give you my numbers for japan in my current game. UK attacked japan so I was able to keep america out of the war until turn 5. I just purchased for japan round 5. Here is my fleet numbers. I have 20 aircraft so I will keep these out. This is only a tally of my fleet I also have 6 transports. 15 subs, 6 destroyers, 2 cruisers, 2 battleships, and 4 carriers. With your American buys I don’t see you taking and hold the phillipines for a long time.

By turn 5 you will have 40 units comprised of air and see. Japan will have 49. The units you buy in western can’t do much of anything so if we subtract that it is even less units. Still don’t see you taking and holding phillipines for a long time. since if I see a possible take and hold of phillipines coming my 10 subs I buy in sea zone 6 and possibly 2 more in sea zone 19 if I can afford it would mean that I could counter with far more than you can bring because you would have had 2 less buys than me since it is 3 turns from western US to phillipines. While as only 1 from sea zone 6.

I mean by this I didn’t even attack america on turn 4. So they couldn’t actually attack any territory until their turn 5. They did collect 77 at end of turn 4, but since they aren’t able to declare war till after their combat phase 5 turns…

sorry you are correct T4 america attacks.

LOL i’ll shut up now :)

I’m just good at strategy. All the new rules of this game are still a little fuzzy lol.

See, I knew something had to be off. Fair enough of a mistake though, happens to the best of us. I also think that you are under-estimating the power of a defensive India, I dont think 3 ground units a turn for 3 turns will be enough on their own, as I dont know where you’ll be concentrating them before hand to attack India in time.

I really like this Java idea. If the US has a fleet off the coast of Queensland, then as the ANZAC, I really dont see any need to keep my navy there, and I could keep them all off the coast of Java. I think I could get around 6 UK and ANZAC infantry there before turn 3 with 3 ANZAC fighters and an air base there by then as well. if the US could move their destroyer from the Philippines there, and possible land their air force there as well, then so much the better. Japan could probably still take it, but it would take a greater concentration of their fleet and naval air power (as I dont think their land based stuff could reach) and they would suffer heavier losses as well. Then, the US forces off of Queensland could counter attack this weakened fleet and finish it off. I think this could work well with your blueprint Grasshopper