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You attack as japan in round 1… well what can I say… come and play with me… You play axis I play the allies… I don’t care if you take calcutta…I will be able to fight back…

none of the allies are in a position where they can save them self, they need to work together as a team… Axis and Allies is a team playergame. If one of the major allies is killed, the rest will surrender, a fez rounds after

@soulfein:

coolrunner pls have faith in searching and look at some older threads, basic strategies has been discussed too much. I personally recommend to check the advices of following plyrs (written in alphabetical order): cow, erwinrommel, gargantua, and soulfein (yep that s me in case u did not notice :p)

I know this old basis strategies, but when I hear someone talking about that he is talking Moscow in G5 or G7, I am thinking what the hell… I seems that the russian player don’t know what to do. The same thing I can say about the rest of the allies. they need to help each other, and when the axis powers attack they get streacth out, and then it is time for the allies to press on…

I had tried a minor industrial complex and a navel base in alaska. The idea is good. But you are vulnerable for a counter attack from japan, and if the complex fall to japan, the U.S must work har to get it back. I know the us get around 70 IPC. but they can’t use 70 IPC at only one teahter, without any costs at the other teather. The americans have to use many ipc on ground troops to kick the japanese out, money they can´t use at their feet. If the allies shall have a change to win america need to splitt its economy…

a good japan player will foced you to protect alaska with a lot of units…

@Cow:

Half of my axis wins were in the pacific with japan.

If I am play japan to win in the pacific and only doing pacific play, then on G7 or G8 russia is dead. Germany just goes strait to moscow. I don’t do much medit play with germany. I do the sea lion feign, I stack up for nov G2, I will take and hold nov g3.

Taking russia is easy. You just count the spaces it takes for infantry/artillery to get to russia, you stop buying them when they don’t make it to russia on G7 or G8. The rest should be mech/armor/bombers.

Global unlike previous versions of axis and allies forces usa to do heavy pacific play. If usa is doing 10 man drops on europe and japan is not winning in the pacific, then something is wrong with your japan player.

Russia can die on G5/G6. it is really easy for japan to buy bombers and bomb japan for germany starting round 3. Russia with 20 IC damage and usa not a war and cannot make it in time to be in russia… good luck have fun holding that. If the game was won or lost on russia, everyone and their mom would use japan to bomb russia.
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You say bad allies players lose russia. I say good axis players win in the pacific if you save it.

If you say it is very easy to win in the pacific as the axis-power, what do the americans and british do. what are they buying. I agree that calcutta is the easist capital to capture, but then you still need one city more to win. Sidney hawaii or San francisco. the british can have around 30 infanteri in calcutta at J3… and this number will still increase if the british player buys correct… ANZAC is easy to defend. it is a long distance between sidney and japan. Tell me what do you opponents buy, anf how do the move around, then it is easier to say something about your strategy. It is the same with avoiding a sealion. The british just buy 10 infanteri every turn. Then they pull back they expensive units in africa. because London must nok fall… Each time Germany buy transports the british buy infanteri, and waiting for the americans to get into the war…

the same question again for russia. what do russia buy, and do they evacuate Leningrad when Germany attack, to protect they 20 infanteri standig there… IF not I understand why russia is falling i every game you play…

@Cow:

Russia is meant to fall. Just like Calcutta is meant to fall.  Sure if it holds that is GG.

Of course sometimes people risk losing UK and then germany goes for that. Taking london is a good move if you got 50% or better odds, as long as japan is being aggressive and smart in his pacific campaign. When you do sea lion yes russia does not fall in those games. Just like when japan takes new south wales… calcutta is greatly delayed.

You said that russia is meant to fall, what units are you buying for Russia, and how are you placing them, when germany attack… I had play serveal Global game, and Germany had never managed to capture moscow. If the US goes for a 100% pacific I belive it is easy to take moscow… even with there super stacks… but if that happened you have bad allied players, or a wrong strategy with the americans… Russia must be played with patiences, and it take over 10 rounds before they are able to move out of moscow, but the need help…

Germany is the main engine
Japan is the auxiliary engine
Italy is a minor auxiliary engine for germany, and a pain for america and UK…

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bombers for america is still expensive… buy inf and art instead… and fleet to secure to oceans

bombers are to expensive… buy inf and art instead… they are better in defence and attack than a single bomber… 2 bombers is 24 ipc. for that you can get 4 inf and 3 art. witch is 7 units and 7 dices instead of 2

If the germans buy 4 transports in their first round it is an other situation. But then it is not very good german player. It is to easy to defend aginst sealion for the british.

the 5 inf are placed in London to defend… Then on the next round I buy 3 tanks for Cario and inf for London…

In Calcutta I buy inf. sometimes i bought a transport here to take the DEI islands. but my opponent had made a smart trick to deal with this, so i don´t do that any more. but you can do that in the first round with UK-p. buy 2 transporters and one inf. Then one of them are going to south africa and the other are going to take DEI… then more them quickly to africa to get them out of sight of the jap fleet.

I know Calcutta will be easy to take. But then it is importent that ANZAC don’t go to aggesiv against the japs. just hold Sidney… The same with the americans. protect Hawaii…

Sidney is more harder to re-capture that Calcutta…
but it all depends on what the japs are doing as well

Hi
the first thing you need to do is to redraw your troops to fewer terriories.
In the first round I normally buy 5 inf and Minor complex for the eur-uk. then i tak one art from alexandria and sail to persia. with means +2. The fleet that survive the german attack is put together in the same seazone proberly 110 or 109. Depends on the situation. then i move the british fleet in the med to the red sea, expet one destroyer, so the italy does not have a free shoot with the cc or bb in case the attack. The army in alexandria is move back to egypt, but i leve 1 inf so Italy can´t blitz fro Libya. The feet at the pacific map is evacuated to east africa…

with the minor IC your are able to stop italy on their way to the middeleast. And with the minor IC i south africa and in Egypt you can use transporters move land units to west india in one turn. And if you later on build a navel base in west india you are going very well. This triangle is very dangerous for the axis. the key to victory is to be able to move your troops better than the axis… And then you can hold italy under 20 ipc.

at the pacific map i buy inf for the defence of calcutta. Beware of the japs… when they attack it hurts, and goes very fast. I do also take the planes from the pacific map and move them to africa. I protect the expensive units. there is not need to make them sitting ducks…

hope i helps you

buy a navel base for hainan. Then you can go everywhere from there. And your fleet from japan can reach India in 2 moves with land units. They can also reach most of australia… Then it is easy to defend because of location…

I ordered the italien units on 30th of November. I had paid for them, but i havn’t seen any of them yet. Yes it is over 8 months ago… But i am looking forward to get them if i ever will. Are there others like me, who ordered these unit but havn’t got them

it does not depend on the value of the units but how many units and the type of units you have, and in which territories they are placed, if you look on whom is going to win the game. So don’t use that form of calculation, it gives you a wrong picture.

I agree with the calculation of the total income. that is a much better indicator for who is up and who is down…

you can allways build a minor industrial complex in a area with the value of 2.

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