The most effective russian players I’ve encountered are the ones that are able to build up a force that is able to threaten a counter on a german stack. If a good german player wants to go for Moscow they are able to get it, however I’ve seen plenty games where the UK/USA are putting enough pressure on the German player for him to stop just in front of Moscow. If the Russian player only has bought inf at this point there is not much of a threat for the German player to keep russia contained and slowly kill it economically. However if there is a stack of paired inf/art the pushback power is a lot bigger and thus Germany can be challenged and Russia may be able to break the German wall.
Specific Round-by-Round Buys and Positioning for KJF?
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I think I’m pretty good at executing a KGF…against my friends. But having joined the league, it’s become clear to me that even in BalMod, KJF is essential. Otherwise, even a successful defeat of Barbarossa will be in vain, because Japan will have taken India and be set to take either Honolulu or Sydney, scoring a Pac win.
What are the go-to fleet buys and positioning for a KJF, as executed by league vets?
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a full KJF isn’t that strong a strategy because you then end up with a can’t-stop-Germany problem, but a “slow Japan first” strategy has quite a bit of merit
Doesn’t really require very specific bids, just stack the eastern Russian inf on Burytia with an eye to moving into Manchuria or Korea on R3/4, move their mobile units into southern China along with the air, US buys fleet off west coast (e.g. 3CV, 2CV/2FTR), India/China move to max threat on and eventually stack Yunnan, and ANZAC does whatever it takes to be most annoying.
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I start with a purchase of 3 CVs for the US. You can get planes to fill them up later on. It is nice to stack a bunch of fighters in Midway. If the Japanese are careless, your planes can hit SZ 6 and then land on the carrier group in CZ7. It doesn’t happen often, but is beautiful when you can pull off that raid.
On turn 2, I transition to subs and fighters as the primary way to damage their fleet. You can also convoy raid their economy to bits if you can get a few subs into the appropriate sea locations.
Afterwards, I do mostly subs plus a destroyer. Depending on the Japanese spending and success against China, I transition to the European side.
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