XPAD-01 Dairy Qyrn (AXIS) vs Team MountainHIGH

special mooquest for japan. can you go to sz 75 with your carrier dd sub fig tactical? to sink uk’s fleet and stop the ruskie national objective for me… or rush union of south africa if you really want to expand. That is always fun.

It is okay if you can’t. i am doing things fine. I am about to hold novgorod next turn.

yeah I thought you were goading me to do this… then again the only way I could do this move was to have italy win tank vs infantry warfare.

russia just took a japanese territory bordering mongolia… so mongolia cannot side with the allies anymore right?

Japan I am going to run some calcs for you  and run some options by. I need something to happen in the pacific.

actually, you are doing fine. you making it happen, you got enough to hold burma next next round. minor shangtung kiangsu or kwangtung at least, I might drop 2 minors. you need naval buys since you started trading naval with usa

I am thinking… infantry 2 mech for FIC, minor ic, 1 sub, 3 dd, 1 carrier.

You have to kind of accept you will lose dutch islands when you go to take india, which is fine, because he still has to block your naval. so you get some kills in when he does that and he gets to hold an isle for a round till the full might of japan can just focus on it. The main thing is the victory city, because if usa is stuck in the dutch islands, you can easily gambit hawaii and win right there. So there is a limit on what usa can do when you are 1 victory city away from winning.

1 inf 2 mech 3 sub 2 dd, 2 minor ic is also very good for a more counter attack japan setup.

The rest don’t really matter as long as all available ground forces get in burma range you are fine.

with two minors down, it pumps out 6 units next turn. china collects 1 ipc this turn (you kill tsinghai), you pump out 6 units next turn. Giving up a little ground is okay, The VCs are what matter, it is the only way to win. china will be done in time, once india is out of the picture things are 10x simpler. you just build up to sink the allies after that and it turns into a mexican standoff. When you are surrounded it becomes tricky because the allies are coming in from all directions.

I’d kill tsinghai this turn, if you got a dd blocking 55, you could consider sending sz 37 off with an infantry and artillery to sz 75 then you threaten union of south africa. russia NO etc. More importantly it threatens india (though it can be blocked which is fine).

forget i said anything about union. Germany will do what germany does and italy will do what italy does. I am fine. It is an option to consider though, I can’t snipe naval with germany this turn anyway.

you pretty much got india in the bag. next round I might consider a naval base, because if usa goes dutch, you go take hawaii and win, which he knows you can do so it puts him in a bind… he preferably wants to be in caroline islands when india falls, which he says so himself in the global forum, which is a spot most people like to be, but it is a hard spot to hold, especially if he continues to buy atlantic.

In the end he’ll have 60% odds or something like that to kill burma, which is fine because a naval base on FIC allows you to slam india anyway.

For this round I’d use 1 inf to attack burma, because he knows you are just going to stack there anyway.
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Also I am going to fly a couple german bombers to szechwan. I didn’t want to spoil the supplies, but it stops this blocking stuff from happening. so after this round if they want to block they need at least 2 destroyers and prayer.

Another good move is shove 7 infantry to burma. uk pac can ignore it, all in, or attempt to strafe. In the all in scenario you counter attack him in burma and take india no problem. In the ignore it scenario, you can take india and get it over with if you see no other attacks available. If he strafes it successfully you can move in to burma and hold burma garaunteed and India is done after that.

In this japan playstyle you would drop naval base on kwangsi, airbase for FIC to guard xports so you can front your japan fleet in sz 37, which means he can take celebes, but he’ll have to block you in 3 spots. Also if his dd hits, you block him in sz 42, which is better for you.

If you have to choose between sinking usa or full burma stack… sink usa, because india will be that much easier later knowing you have nothing else to worry about.
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you could do the big burma stack as well, which is what your last turn was heading toward and do the earlier buy i mentioned.

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you could play “the income game” and you could go union africa, shuffle men to soviet far east,  and just grow your bank roll like that. USA would be kinda forced to save union first or london.

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you could also do what you are doing, you will get india eventually… I recommend minor factory for kwangtung so you outproduce india by more than 1 unit and allows flexibility between minors to pump naval out as needed.

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All these japan styles are good, there is no right or wrong way. You got options veqryn, I will be gone for the day. :D

if you go income mode, don’t forget to bomb the airbase of india so he can’t attack it very well.

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 Alpha 3, version: 2.8

Game History

Round :4

Purchase Units - Italians
            Italians buy 5 infantry and 2 mech_infantrys; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - Italians
            Giving bonus movement to units
            1 infantry moved from Yugoslavia to Romania
                  Germans take Romania from Russians
            1 artillery moved from Albania to Bulgaria
            1 infantry moved from Yugoslavia to Bulgaria
            1 armour moved from Albania to Bulgaria
            1 infantry moved from Greater Southern Germany to Slovakia Hungary
            1 artillery and 3 infantry moved from Southern Italy to 97 Sea Zone
            1 artillery, 3 infantry and 2 transports moved from 97 Sea Zone to 99 Sea Zone
            1 artillery and 3 infantry moved from 99 Sea Zone to Syria
            1 destroyer moved from 97 Sea Zone to 93 Sea Zone
            1 destroyer moved from 97 Sea Zone to 94 Sea Zone
            1 destroyer moved from 97 Sea Zone to 98 Sea Zone
            1 cruiser and 2 submarines moved from 97 Sea Zone to 98 Sea Zone
            1 armour, 1 artillery, 2 infantry and 1 mech_infantry moved from Libya to Tobruk

Combat - Italians
            Battle in Syria
                Italians attack with 1 artillery and 3 infantry
                Russians defend with 1 mech_infantry
                    Italians roll dice for 1 artillery and 3 infantry in Syria, round 1 :  2/4 hits
                    Russians roll dice for 1 mech_infantry in Syria, round 1 :  0/1 hits
                    1 mech_infantry owned by the Russians lost in Syria
                Italians win, taking Syria from Russians with 1 artillery and 3 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 4
                Casualties for Russians: 1 mech_infantry
                Italians win with 1 artillery and 3 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 4
                Casualties for Russians: 1 mech_infantry
            Battle in Bulgaria
                Italians attack with 1 armour, 1 artillery and 1 infantry
                Russians defend with 1 infantry
                    Italians roll dice for 1 armour, 1 artillery and 1 infantry in Bulgaria, round 1 :  0/3 hits
                    Russians roll dice for 1 infantry in Bulgaria, round 1 :  1/1 hits
                    1 infantry owned by the Italians lost in Bulgaria
                    Italians roll dice for 1 armour and 1 artillery in Bulgaria, round 2 :  0/2 hits
                    Russians roll dice for 1 infantry in Bulgaria, round 2 :  0/1 hits
                    Italians roll dice for 1 armour and 1 artillery in Bulgaria, round 3 :  1/2 hits
                    Russians roll dice for 1 infantry in Bulgaria, round 3 :  0/1 hits
                    1 infantry owned by the Russians lost in Bulgaria
                Italians win, taking Bulgaria from Russians with 1 armour and 1 artillery remaining. Battle score for attacker is 0
                Casualties for Russians: 1 infantry
                Casualties for Italians: 1 infantry
                Italians win with 1 armour and 1 artillery remaining. Battle score for attacker is 0
                Casualties for Russians: 1 infantry
                Casualties for Italians: 1 infantry
            Recording Battle Statistics
            Trigger Italians Conquer London: Setting turns to 1-+ for conditionAttachment_Axis_Capture_London_Switch attached to Germans

Non Combat Move - Italians

Place Units - Italians
            3 infantry placed in Southern Italy
            2 infantry and 2 mech_infantrys placed in Northern Italy

Turn Complete - Italians
            Italians collect 18 PUs; end with 18 PUs total

Territory Summary for Italians :

Alexandria : 1 flag,    Kenya : 1 flag,    Southern France : 1 flag, 1 factory_minor and 1 harbour
    Syria : 1 flag, 1 artillery and 3 infantry
    Slovakia Hungary : 1 armour and 1 infantry
    Western Germany : 1 aaGun
    Romania : 1 infantry
    Tobruk : 1 armour, 1 artillery, 3 infantry and 1 mech_infantry
    Northern Italy : 1 factory_major, 2 infantry and 2 mech_infantrys
    Southern Italy : 3 aaGuns, 1 airfield, 1 artillery, 1 factory_minor, 1 harbour and 5 infantry
    94 Sea Zone : 1 destroyer
    93 Sea Zone : 1 destroyer
    Bulgaria : 1 flag, 1 armour and 1 artillery
    Greece : 1 flag,    99 Sea Zone : 2 transports
    98 Sea Zone : 1 cruiser, 1 destroyer and 2 submarines

Production/PUs Summary :

Germans : 46 / 51
    Russians : 41 / 61
    Japanese : 63 / 69
    Americans : 52 / 72
    Chinese : 2 / 3
    British : 20 / 0
    UK_Pacific : 6 / 6
    Italians : 18 / 18
    ANZAC : 10 / 12
    French : 7 / 0
    Dutch : 0 / 0
    Mongolians : 0 / 0
    Neutral_Axis : 0 / 0
    Neutral_Allies : 0 / 0
    Neutral_True : 18 / 0