there is the same problem with sealion (keep russia out and invade england)

i can`t see the thing with the warships, as long as you can not put wheels on them and use them as land units ;)
i force the allies to fight on the mainland, where i will a have a huge advantage with 4 factories and the italians

@gargantua
yeah i forgot w.germany, with units there and france you can cover all uk landing spots. You will also need a few planes because uk can still ignore africa and build bombers to cripple your industry.

with south france in german hands, they can try to help in the med.
if italy is kicked out of africa, they can still help to defend the mainland or used as opener on the russian front.

if you want to go totally nuts you can bring half of the japanese fleet to africa and invade south africa or egypt.
btw. is a dow on the europe allies like a dow on the pacific allies?

I often read that people don`t do a attack on Russia the first round, but I think there is no post where someone reports how it went.
So I made a short strategy for G1 and want to know what you think about it before I will test it on my next game:

G1 buy: 3 tanks, 3 mech. Inf (all build in Germany)

Combat:

France:
3 Inf, 2 Art, 3 Tan, 1 Fig from Holland
3 Inf, 1 Art, 2 Mech. Inf., 2 Fig, 2 Tac from W. Germany
2 Tan from S.Germany

Baltic States:
3 Inf, 1 Tan, 1 Tac from Poland
1 Fig from Norway

E. Poland:
2 Inf, 1 Tan, 1 Fig from Hungary

Bessarabia
1 Inf, 1 Tan from Romania
1 Tac from Germany
1 Tac from W.Germany

SZ112:
1 Cru, 1 Bat from 113
1 Sub from 124

SZ 106
1 Sub from 117
1 Sub from 118

SZ 91:
1 Sub from 103
1 Sub from 108

IC Bombardment Ukraine:
1 S.Bomber from Germany

Without bad dice, all battles can be won.

Air units should move as near as possible to the Russian border (2 fighters to s.italy), also most of the land units. 2 Units can be shipped to Finland.
Most off the british navy will stay alive but on the long run there is no great chance to survive against the royal and US navy. So it`s maybe better to put the money in land&air units and let them come.
With 7 units lost and hopefully no more production capability in Ukraine, it can be become very hard for the russians to counter this.

G2 i think the best thing to build will be 10 tanks and many infantry.
Comabt moves will vary from here. Germany should take S.France and Normandy. With S.France Germany can support the italian navy in the med and with a transport also send land units to N.Africa and/or Gibraltar.
On the following turns build at least 1 Inf and 1 Art in Paris, so you can counterattack any landings in Normandy. On the russian border “just” push your way through Leningrad or Stalingrad towards Moscow, whatever you like more.

I haven`t made a strategy for Italy or Japan, because their moves depend on how the Germans do.

Hey everybody
i`m new here and first i want to thank you for lots of inspiration for my strategies!

in my last game as axis, we wanted to kick out america first. i hope you can tell me what you think was good or not so good :)

germany started with typical moves like france and sinking the british navy. most of the luftwaffe was destroyed and the battleship in the canal survived but he lost 3 fighters. i bought an ac, sub and des. the italian navy has been destroyed but also the brits lost all figthers and ships n the Mediterranean except of one. germany bought an ac, sub and a des.
like we hoped, england was afraid of sealion. next turn i bought 9 transports and killed the rest of the british navy. italy moved towards egypt and claimed gibraltar. also i moved all italian ships into the atlantic side of gibraltar.
turn 3 the german navy moved to gibraltar and so they were in strikining position to hit washington. on the mainland i bougt land units and prepared for the russian bear. uk build land units as they excepted sealion.

japan was quite harder to hide their attentions to attack the west coast. they build till turn 3 7 transports and two ac.
the land units attacked china as much as they could. turn 2 the whole fleet gathered at japan and turn 3 they all moved into the seazone next to alaska, so there was no chance to block them.

us mainly build into the pacific but also an ac into the atlantic. turn 3 they build 9 land units because then they knew we were going for them.
the us and the japanese fleet were nearly the same with a little overweight for the japanese. but then something happened what i didnt excepted and i think this was the perfect counter for kaf. he moved the us fleet in turn 3 to seazone 89 instead of defending the west coast. also he moved the atlantic fleet (ac and cruiser i think) into sz 102 to block the germans. the italian fleet wasn`t stong enough to clear the zone so germany had to land in turn 4 in quebec.
japan took the west coast without any problems.
us kicked the german forces out of canada with everything the had and the russian bear attacked german territories with not that much to defend. in the following turns, central us was taken by japan but always an american counterattack took it back.
in fact us was taken out of the game like we wanted, but without the income from washington germany wasnt able to counter the russian forces. in turn 7 or 8 we surrendered because there was no chance of winning the game.

so what do you think about the strategy/game?
if you need any further informations, just ask