KJF strat?

I can’t quite make out the board. Would you take 2 pictures, each one half of the board, so I can get a better view?

Did your group okay getting outside advice for an active game? If not, then I cannot help you as that would be unethical.

@Panther
Thanks!

@PrivateerPuffin

In case the attacking transport survives, it can retreat. Every sea unit participates in the preceeding sea-battle.

@aardvarkpepper I think we’re talking about LH/3.0 setup with the 2-bomber india strat.

It seems I am the only one here who has a different opinion than everybody else  :-D the thing with japan is that if you have good navy positioning, you’re starting navy should be enough to hold off the us for a couple of turns without you having to buy anything. During these precious turns, grab as much money as you can in Asia, and then use this income to have an arms race with the US.

If you start purchasing navy right off the bat, the India will wipe you off off Asia. This doesn’t even take into account russian pressure from the north. So in my opinion, only make navy buys when you have the income to afford it.
(P.S If you dont do pearl harbor, the us can pretty much put pressure on you without buying anything at all, let alone going 100% pacific.

The board is not setup to do KJF well and to make matters worse USA and Japan income are relatively similar so unless you get some lucky dice early, it is pretty sad.

An IC buy for Japan really depends on what the allies do. If they go all out against Japan, then an IC is a waste of resources since you will need all the money you can to build navy. All Japan is trying to do is stall for time in the pacific while Germany is the one that needs to win the war.

I don’t want to say that anything you did was “wrong”, but it seems that you went from a KJF stategy to a “save Russia from Germany” strategy.
If you want to KJF, then attack Japan and try to prevent them from gaining territories that will increase their income.
If you elliminated the Japanese fleet on UK1, then you did good…that’s something I don’t usually risk. In the situation you’ve described I think I would have used the Austalians to take New Guinea instead of reinforcing India. Combine that move with a US1 attack on the Solomons then you may be able to force Japan’s attention away from the mainland.
When I play the allies ,and want to put the hurt on Japan, my main objective for the US is Borneo…so I can build an IC there. And that has to be done as soon as possible to prevent Japan from becoming too strong.
In your future games I suggest you put the pressure on the “money islands” as soon as you can. If you can get those then you’ll cut Japan’s income and if Japan wants them back then’ll they’ll have to divert forces intended for the mainland to contest them.