What bothers me about '41 is that there’s no need for japan to go South and take the Pacific Islands, especially since that had been “fixed” in the preceeding versions of A&A: they’re hardly worth any IPC’s and what’s worse; the axis don’t need the extra IPC’s! Moscow is only a stone’s throw away once you land in Siberia and that way Russia is bound to fall! (Soften them up with either the Japanese or the Germans and then take the territory with the other Axis power, depending on who needs the IPC’s most). (I retreat the Russians from Siberia, since the the territory isn’t worth any IPC’s anyway. Perhaps I should leave them once and make Japan fight for it. At least that way they can’t use their airforce anywhere else if they want to have a sure win (otherwise it’d “only” be 4 infantry and 1 tank against 3 Russian infantry, although I generally use the bomber and sometimes a fighter too).
I really think an extra destroyer off the Eastern US and/or a British one accompanying the carrier and one US infantry in the Northern Chinese territory might go a long way in creating a more balanced game. It also seems to take forever before the Allies can mount any serious landing on the Western and Northern European shores: the luftwaffe is not desperately needed on the Eastern front (enough tanks available and also enough infantry if you build 4 infantry for Germany every turn and because of the enormous size of the territories 'their move of just "1"isn’t any problem either, unlike in AA50 or Europe and global '40 where you need to rebuild and then move your infantry for several turns before they reach the front again. No such problem here.Anyway, my point here is: any UK built transports and/or surfaceships will be wiped out by the Luftwaffe for many consecutive turns. Due to the limited resources the UK can mostly just build either a destroyer so perhaps a transport or two subs. The latter might seem like a better choice, but once you do start building the transports you need to threaten the coast, you’ll get wiped out by the Luftwaffe still.
BTW, I haven’t yet failed to take out the entire British fleet in the Atlantic and North sea with at most the loss of two subs. Last time I even managed to retain the two subs that are normally used to sink the carrier to go on to threaten any US built surface ships.
