Well first off, 3 FIGs could not have reached.
Second… I play a bit different thatn a lot of folks (as you keep pointing out). My PACFLT is considered dead at start. So ANY gain they make is worth while. And killing a fair amount of enemy before they die is a GOOD thing.
As for the BOM and 2 TRN comparison…
Having Germany risk that bomber (which admitedly did not pay off THIS game) for just 2 TRN early… More than half the time the bomber would die on that attack… reducing Germany’s AF a nice chunk AND reducing the requirements for screening of TRN’s since Germany would be down to just FIGs with low range.
For each move, there is a counter.
For each strat there is a counter.
And every now and then… screwed up ideas WORK… especially when folks are used to playing a certain way agaisnt certain strats.
Darth (and probably you too AS) are too skilled for that to be immediately fatal.
But unpredictability can in itself be an asset in this game (who would have thought that Russia would funnel a number of divisions to Africa when be crunched east and west?)