Japans Priority's

Welcome to the forum, Travelman.
You have understood correctly. You will discover that the U.S. needs that extra income, as 17 is not sufficient to prosecute a proper war, once Japan gets going.

@Krieghund:

Income is collected in the Collect Income phase.  If the US is attacked by Japan on J1, the US will still have 17 IPCs to spend on US1.

Thank you for the quick response.

That is what I thought (how we have been playing), just needed a confirmation. There was a heated debate last night.  :lol:

@Lozmoid:

Hey, does anybody know what the little gold stars underneath our name and rank mean? I ask because I don’t know.  :? Cheers guys.

You get more stars as your posts go up. I used to have a thread that told you when you got them, but it got deleted. I’ll see if I can re-post it and I’ll PM you.

@Incline:

@RJL518:

bad dice rolled by my opponents…

but then again…i did build a factory in the phillipines after i captured it

You’re not allowed to build IC’s on islands…

im sorry…not phillipines…my mind was elsewhere…i meant french indo china…why the neg karma?

I’ll have to agree with Achtung, its a good Idea, but would cost allot and you wouldn’t be able to defend it very well.  I tried to do the same thing by moving all the Brits to Java and built an airbase their and my opponent still took it in one turn!

@Uncle_Joe:

on a related note, I certanly hope the UK is one territory in Europe 1940. So they can scramble to protect it just as japan does

That would mean that Britain could only touch one sea zone (unless they want to make an exception rule) and would almost completely rule out any possibility of a German naval attack or Sea Lion attack.

It would probably make it too easy to build up and invasion force to clobber Germany since the US can just stack up planes in England and they can defend the entire Brit fleet as well.

Not sure I’d like that…

I would have to agree.

Sean

@MaherC:

what if this is the first game someone buys?   They have 4 US battleships and Japan gets 8 in their box?  Come on.   Anzac has 2 flattops and US gets 4? really?  put some more damn plastic in is all I was saying.  for $90 you should get more pieces than you will ever need (Like how china has 4x the infantry than they will ever need)

Yeah you got my vote.
Presuming everybody has previous editions to fall back on is pretty dumb.

One other thing to keep in mind as well, Uk can move DD and Cruiser to SZs 37 & 42 to prevent a J2 capture of Sumatra, along with the deadzoning of Java that makes DEI dangerous to japan all game long.

One other thing I noticed, if Japan controls all of asia and the Philippians, not counting and DEI territories, they only make 2 more income than the US.  With that in mind, I don’t think I would mind sacrificing India to give the allies a stronger hold in DEI with naval buys as UK.