You can’t do all of that with the setup that I showed you AND have your fleets safe, which as you agree is the most important thing. How could you possible safely take out sz59 AND pearl AND protect your new trannies? With a few semi-bad roles, your fleet at pearl will be sunk on US1 OR your new trannies would be destroyed on UK2 OR your china infantry could be destroyed on R2.

I think your spread too thin and your open to some battles that could easily go very bad for you.

Remember, in sz59 there was the UK DD and AC and the UK fighter was at Bury. Lets also say your Japan sub was gone. Don’t forget that your sz47 fleet is blocked from sz59 by a sz36 UK tranny and the UK bomber is in range.

Bury with the fighter is a risk that my Japan would never take. Even without the fighter, it could go bad unless I had another tranny.

So far I think my two best options are to:

1. Buy 1 IC 1 Fig and do pearl.
2. Skip pearl and buy trannies and take out all UK ships.

I think #2 is the best option. I’m starting to go back to my old belief that buying an AC on J1 is just stupid.

7. If there was an IC in India, would that change what you would do on J1? If so, how?

Well I need help again with J1 :(.

The situation looks something like the following:

6 Russian inf in bury
4 Russian inf in Sink (Perhaps this doesn’t happen.)
1 Russian armor in Yak (Perhaps this doesn’t happen.)
2 Russian fighters in Kaz (Perhaps this doesn’t happen.)
1 UK bomber in Nov/Kaz/Cauc
1 UK Sub in sz45 (Plan on it killing the Japan sub.)
1 UK tranny in sz36
1 UK DD AND AC in sz59
1 UK tranny in sz47
1 UK Fighter either in sz59 OR in bury OR with Pearl fleet (1. Which ever you find worse for Japan, in that case, where would you put it?)

To me this is pretty much the worse shape that Japan could be in. 2. If your goal is to make Japan be in the hardest starting position possible, would you go for borneo with a UK tranny and leave your UK AC in sz36 or would the above be the best thing for UK to do? Any other changes that you can see to make Japan be in the roughest starting position possible?

3. As Japan, what would you do in this situation? I buy 1 AC and 1 tranny and save the rest. I usually hit Pearl hard with all that can make it, probably with tranny to take a hit. I also hit China with all inf AND two fighters to try to have the average of 5 inf left over. The two fighters will land on new AC. I hate going for a tranny with a fighter, but I’d probably go for one tranny with my sixth fighter. 4. Would you go for a tranny with a fighter? My second fleet will probably hit another UK ship, maybe sz47/sz36. The problem is that I can’t hit sz59, unless I don’t go with Pearl or go Pearl light, which neither option I do, so my new fleet and my sz47/sz36 fleet is at risk from 4/5 UK attacking units. 5. Should I not hit pearl? If UK sinks my new fleet on UK2, then Japan will be slowed down even more, perhaps too much to recover.

6. Plan on your Japan sub being killed, but if it survives, would that change your plans much?

It’s my preferred strategy for the US. I mainly do it to make sure Africa is secured and to limit Japan’s growth.

You keep making drops and building up your trannies. Eventually you can enter med with a tranny fleet, meaning you can start making drops anywhere in the med.

I’m glad I never got into AA50. I figured I’d wait a year or two and see what is out there. AA50 isn’t really even for sale anymore.

AA42 will most likely be what people play for the next decade. But just like the original, many will still play AAR for years to come.

You can find good AAR strategies and opponents at GTO, www.gametableonline.com. The site is always improving and should even have a save game option in the next month or so. It already has a facebook version that uses a save game system, http://apps.facebook.com/axisandallies/.

It doesn’t have a full bidding system in place, but it does have preselectable options for bids. It has about 10 at the moment and should have about 50 in a couple weeks at the latest.

:)

I do see what your saying. It was a nice read.

I don’t think it is that much of a paradox. It makes sense.

Don’t forget that a high number of defenders, when it is greater than the enemy force, is an offensive force in itself. Numbers are very important.

Who asked you to remove them? It took me awhile to find them… I figured they would be here, out of all places. I ended up getting mine from another CSub editor/assistant.

You can get them in one of my posts above, in the link.

Yeah, I prefer Bel/WR too.

But when you do hit Ukraine, do you go with two or three armor?