I like this strat. While I’m not sure I follow it to the tee, I would consider what I do with the Allies very close to this.
I go Alg with UK and US in Rd 2 and 3. If possible UK will hit Nor in Rd 3 instead (depends on G navy situation).
By rd 4 I have US constantly shucking to Alg While UK focuses on the Nor/Kar connection.
The benfits here is the US already has 2 trns in the Atlantic and 4 inf (or 3 inf, 1 arm) per turn is more than enough to keep Afr clean, esp after a heavy landing in Rd 2 and 3.
And this frees up tons of income to go after Japan since your inital setup on US1-3 should provid you enough troops to supply Afr for up to 5-7 rds. You can even buy a third or 4th trn to really threaten SE. And I find this much more efficient then setting up a 3x3 or 4x4 to get US to Nor/Kar and that doesn’t even threaten SE or protect Afr if Japan lands a few token troops.
Once you control the Med and your initial US troops are dwidling down in Ecan from your Afr landings, you can position your US fleet in Sz 14 which really causes some problems for the Axis since you should have a large number of US troops in Egy/Trj and you are one move from having Allied ships in Sz 34.
I’ve found Presia tradeable for several rds with the initial UK/US units in the ME and Asia that you start with, and yep, just as they run out the UK and US have troops in Egy to deter Japan for the rest of the time.
Novo is certainly nice to defend esp if you have a lot of Russian armor to shift between the East and Western fronts. Although you can pull out of Novo as long as the Allies made good gains in Afr and Germany isn’t an offensive threat sitting in Ukr. By this I mean you don’t want both Japan and Germnay to be strong and on your boarders. You can deal with one or the other but both is trouble.
I really like the US Pacific push. As you pointed out Switch, just as Japan wants to put the final units on the board to finish off Moscow, they have to deal with the US. An added bonus to this is, provided you do a good job with the US setup, is that even if Moscow falls to Japan, the US is still a major threat to Tokyo.
(comparing an Atlantic push to a Pacific push)
Once the US sets up it’s shuck in either case, after placement it takes 3 moves to get units form EUS to Kar. (1 ecan, 1 uk, 1 kar)
But it only takes 2 moves to get units to EI from Wus or even 3 to Egy/Trj/Ind area.
The hard part is just setting it up, but once you have it going in the Pac it can really neutralize a lot of what Japan can do, regardless of how close they are to taking Mos.
