DO NOT TAKE OFFENSE, the statements below are 100% for your learning and benefit. And you are doing VERY well for someone with no experience. However.
First order of battle.
Your build isn’t bad, 3 inf, 3 arm, that’s a SOLID build that I would consider.
That said, when you are BRAND NEW, playing a landlocked type of country like Russia, where you may be prone to making mistakes, and learning lessons the hard way, bulking out ALL infantry builds, and playing a mostly defensive game, will make you get ALOT more out of your game, as it will help you buy time/turns to get the US and UK more involved.
Second order of battle,
I’m going to make you pay for your “incursion” into norway, and much more worsely then you’ve originally imagined. You will realize quite shortly, that keeping your equipment, like tanks, and planes SAFE from counter attack, is IMPERATIVE. In this case, they are exposed, and Russia is going to lose BOTH her fighters this turn, and a few of her tanks. This is a PAINFUL thing to learn.
Third,
You have placed what I infamously call MEDIUM stacks across the board, West Russia, Caucusus, Leningrad.
Having several MEDIUM sized stacks, is one of the WORST things you can do in Axis and Allies (the size MEDIUM, is directly proportional to the composition of enemy forces in front of you).
Axis and Allies is about one thing. IPC’s/Value/$/Economics, whatever you want to call it. You make your money, when you end your turn, when you kill more of my stuff that I kill of yours, and when you make your units more effective by placing them in better position (like the chess CHECK concept) where they can do multiple things on a turn.
Here is where medium stacks are a problem… They get exposed to a knife point edge of your opponent, who can then choose the stack with the most value he can destroy, whilst limiting his own losses.
Consider for a moment, the battle of Thermopylae
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae Basically the movie “300”
The premise being, that by using a bottleneck, the spartans were able to proportionally destroy an equal force of ANYTHING that faced them, despite the total force of the enemy, being MUCH larger.
A medium stack, takes that bottle neck away. And now your spartans, are going to face the BULK of my nazi war machine, at the location of my choosing, I’ll even be able to limit where you can counter attack me, and how.
These types of battles get exponentially WORSE in Axis and Allies, and when facing your stack, through subsequent rounds of combat, the medium stack decreases much faster than the large stack, making the victory for the attacker that much more sweet.
Please ask questions, or critique my lessons equally in return. :)
