A few things come to mind regarding your early Pacific play. You left the US fighter in Guam. It was surprising how difficult that was to kill so I left it alone. I lost a transport because of that and it helped hold Yunnan as did the 3 ANZAC fighters.
I lost another transport off Malaya because I didn’t want your fleet to take the Caroline Islands. That may have been an error on my part.
You also sacrificed 4 transports to take all the islands on one Turn. At the time I thought that was a mistake but the loss of income for Japan and the gain for the Allies, as it took two Turns to take it all back, made it worthwhile.
The best thing was your use of the UK mechanized infantry to retake Kwantung. That definitely stung. Japan was on the ropes. If you hadn’t switched to going against Europe for that one Turn to get fighters to Moscow they would never have come back.
As for the Italian fleet I wanted to try and keep you out of SZ97 as long as possible to avoid convoy disruption. My experience has been the UK comes with such a big navy they wipe out the Italians anyway plus do convoy disruption if you fight from SZ97. I figured killing a couple of UK ships was worth it as that would delay any move against SZ97 for a bit. Unfortunately, I rolled bad. I had a 63% chance of getting two hits. Killing only one was disappointing. However, I did get that second ship though I had to risk the 50% chance of losing a plane. Luckily you missed too. Plus, I wanted to keep you from taking out Cyprus.
