For a beginning Player of any Axis and Allies Game you must remember the following:
1. Purchases mean everything. Whether you are Axis or Allied never buy something that you don’t absolutely need (in terms of your planned strategy). Sometimes this means you are purchasing 8 Infantry for Russia turn after turn. But it doesn’t matter anyways if your dead.
2. Teamwork means second everything. Especially for the Allies. If you aren’t working in coordination with your “Allies” then you will go down the tubes every time because you have no "punch behind that fist.
3. Establish the Battlegrounds to your advantage. Learn to use Deadzones (areas where neither you nor your opponent will enter because it will mean a loss), to your advantage, stopping major offensives may be easier by throwing something 2 spaces away from an opponent instead of at him.
Those are probably the 3 most important things to remember… The rest as far as strategies and “troubleshooting” go to th Axis and Allies Forum
GG