1st F2F game from this forum…..

@Faramir

I’m not an expert, but some thoughts:

I’m surprised how willing your opponent was to do attacks I would consider rather risky, like 2 infantry attacking 1 infantry, or that Egypt attack by the British on turn 3. I’m much more conservative with regards to dice. You should’ve done something with the Italians in East Africa. At the very least, you should’ve consolidated them in Ethiopia. Since the British were set up to kill you on turn 2 anyway, you could’ve at least grabbed Kenya to get 1 extra IPC, or even split between Kenya and British Somaliland to deny the British their national objective. Unless you were deliberately baiting the Soviets, it was probably not a good idea to let 5 infantry in Finland die. The Soviets really screwed up in Bessarbia on turn 3. You expanding the German navy a bit wasn’t a bad idea and you used it well. You should never, ever do what Japan did in Kweichow on turn 4. It’s always a risky bet to send aircraft alone to destroy lower value ground units, but it’s far too dangerous, even for a nation with as many aircraft as Japan, to send 1 aircraft against a single infantry. Not only is there only a 50% of destroying the infantry in one round of combat, there’s a 1/3 chance of losing that 11 IPC unit. If you are to use huge amounts of aircraft Japan to blow up a big ground unit stack, you should bring to bear overwhelming force (2 planes per ground unit is an okay rule of thumb) and a few infantry to soak up hits. Speaking of which, I’d like to know your experiences with Japanese industrial complexes on mainland Asia besides Korea, which seems to have made China harder for Japan than it should’ve been. Nice hit on Gibraltar by the Italians on turn 4, and pretty bad play by the Americans in that regard. Italy’s Egypt attack on turn 6 was pretty poor. You only had about a 35-45% chance of winning.

Overall, I would say that most of your Axis moves were reasonable, with room for improvement.

Personally, I think this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRi3aIsj8P8) gives a great Japanese strategy that’s probably better than what you did.

Germany on the Eastern Front is a bit trickier, especially if the Soviets have a substantial bid. I don’t have as much experience in this department, so I won’t offer any advice here.

I saw it somewhere on line about 2 weeks ago. Try google search. I’ll post link if i come across it again

Ichabod; I mean G40, my point is that the split income and large scale of Global makes 28$ a smaller amount than ever before–-smaller relative to the Axis (70! 60!)  in this version and smaller than the effective and actual income of UK in other versions (30!)

Cow;  Yes, as many as possible.  If you can fuel that.

I just realized I posted this in the wrong board. Can anyone move it to the find players one please?

Here is another way of implementing auto Shipyards that just occurred to me.

At the beginning of each round* roll 1d6. The hit will determine whether the Shipyards technology is activated for all players.

round 1: hits at 1 to activate Shipyards for all nations
round 2: hits at 2
round 3: hits at 3
round 4: hits at 4
round 5: hits at 5
round 6: auto tech Shipyards for all nations

This means that from the first round, and for each round which the game progresses, the odds of Shipyards will increase. Until the 6th round, at which point the Tech is activated automatically for everyone.

Germany starts the game round sequence so they can roll it. Or, depending on how many players you have, you can alternate the roll each round so that someone else gets a chance to try for the hit.

The logic here is that the Naval Race escalates as the war itself escalates, until it crescendos, and everyone gains access to the cheaper naval unit cost structure at the same time.

Axis have the strong early incentive to go naval if shipyards is activated in the first or second round. Every round after the 3rd the cost structure starts to favor Allied builds. Though even then, Axis can exploit late game naval action.

Naval Race rules: an independent and escalating tech roll, which grants Shipyards for All! :-D

In TripleA this is how you use the roll…

At the start of each round:
“Game” tab > “Roll Dice” > roll 1 six sided die (free roll)

If it hits according to rules above, then
“Game tab” > “Enable Edit Mode” > Add Tech Shipyards for All

*note: you could also choose to make this roll at the end of the game round rather than the beginning. This means the roll would usher in the 2nd round, rolling each round thereafter until Shipyards is activated, or until auto-tech Shipyards in the 7th round. It works either way, though I think it would be more fun to roll Shipyards at the beginning of the round rather than the end of the round and this keeps the value of the roll corresponding exactly with the game round G1 at 1, G2 at 2, G3 hits at 3, and so forth. Its a fairly simple way to get cheaper ships into the game for everyone.

For people who play using the Optional Global tech rules, the Shipyards technology is now removed from Breakthrough chart two. If you roll on 3 on the second breakthrough chart, re-roll the die until you hit one of the other technologies.

Thanks, I’ll check those out

Germany, Japan and Italy have to be aggressive. While also taking calculation on when to go to war with certain countries. So if you just sit and build without moving, you’re doomed.

@Clyde85:

China can attack into Kwangtung and Burma, the only 2 non-Chinese tt in the game China can move units into, with the exception of the Flying Tigers, which are not allowed to land in either.

I have seen a growing number of instances where the Japanese player will send its airforce to kill off large stacks of Inf in the hinterlands of China, without land units to take the tt itself. It seems a pretty good idea, as your risk of loss is fairly low, but it seems like such an unfair move  :roll: oh well

Actually, the Tigers CAN land in Burma