Yassa, massa. :oops: That’s one place I’d better not go! Unless
I can get my Irish slave ancestory to count for Reparations. :D

“The wisest conservatism is that of the Hindus. “Immemorial custom
is transcendental law,” says Menu. That is, it was the custom of the
gods before men used it. The fault of our New England custom is that
it is memorial. What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is
the chief of conservatives.”

• Henry David Thoreau, author.
  A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849),
  in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau,
  vol. 1, p. 140, Houghton Mifflin (1906).

Count me as a conservative communist. Did I say that? - Xi

The Partite has ended!

TG, your correct, you slow down your advance east considerably. However, if I’m planning to do this, it will only be if the UK has evacuated India on Uk1. I then build 3 transports in the first turn to make up for the lack of 2 transports.

Usually Japan will take South Africa on J3 - the threat to Brazil forces the US to come back and lose two turns in Europe, so Brazil is not really an option unless the US ignores Japan. I am a HUGE advocate of ignoring Japan as much as possible, but this is one of the only situations where ignoring Japan is probably a bad move - they can really start causing the US some headaches because they will have the rest of the fleet coming around to back up the carrier and transports. The real threat to the Allied game with this end around is the large Japanese navy cruising the Atlantic very early in the game.

As the Allies, you counter this end around by making Japan pay - slow down their mainland offensive enough and you will win. That’s why you don’t want to try this end around if the UK is trenched in India.

On a grand strategy level, the whole purpose of this move is to slow down the US for a few turns at the expense of slowing down Japan for a few turns. So what can you do with the extra time you bought Germany to make it worthwhile? That is the whole ‘balancing act’ you must pull of in order to make this strategy effective. The primary benefit to the Axis boils down to significantly less Allied troops in Karelia in the early part of the game. There are two ways to take advantage of this: use the ‘freed up’ German resources to take Africa more convincingly, or to put extreme pressure on Karelia (or a mixture of both.)

I think one of the reasons this strategy isn’t used more often (besides the popularity of Indian factories) is not because of its ineffectiveness, but because of the level of difficulty in pulling it off. That is kind of contradiction too - if it’s more difficult to implement, then it’s less effective - right? ;)

The best strategy is usually the one that is the simplest and most conservative one. :wink:

Well, thats why I only do this plan if I see no activity in Asian on turn 1.

To counter this? Indian and Sinkang IC…