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The whole point of getting 10 usa bombers is to quickly get them into Russia, this allows for early aggressive Russia play. I don’t recommend Iraq for Russia, I do it for fun once in awhile. 1 mech for somaliland / possibly ethiopia is all you need for additional income. The Iraq spot is good for another factory to pump out units for uk.

I got 10 bombers into Russia after Japan didn’t dow J2 and I dowed him to merge UK pac and china and russia and anzac into yunnan.

10 bombers plus a bunch of uk fighters from persia. kept Germany from taking Russia. I did the Iraq for Russia and ethiopia and that other spot for russia as well. The bury stack stayed next to korea didnt cross the line because of a manchuria minor ic. My opponent was relatively inexperienced.

Here are some issues. taking gibraltar back is a problem (but then again usa out of the war for so long means you can’t do diddly squat about it anyway.  subs/dds only for pacific is great. hindsight I should get a carrier round 1 and do standard stuff. Only USA 2 if Japan doesn’t DOW is the bombers a great idea (especially if you plan to DOW on Japan to make the merger in yunnan happen).

So yeah. Another thing. J2  the burma stack is vulnerable so you need 3 anzac figs in java so in case burma stack gets body slammed by japan’s massive air you can be solid on India after.  (usa malaya inf to take  island next to java or whatever it is called so your burma stack is as beefy as you can make it).

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The yunnan stack, 50% chance of holding or better is good (hell even 25% is solid if the islands haven’t been taken, because that means he has no ground for islands). Japan being poor means usa’s 3 units a round quickly add up to being a threat so japan can’t split his fleet up. Also USA does have to go queensland to prevent japan from taking ANZAC.

^ I do this often, I prefer as USA, to send help faster with handful of bombers to Russia, since it makes it in time to defend against a big showdown… Sometimes Japan is crazy enough to attack into it because they know those forces are what holds Russia.

I like factory iran, egypt, and iraq if I am not giving it to Russia. (which I still send a mech to ethiopia just cause).  I like it all. :)

Germany can hit syria with 4 bomber 1 fighter 1 tact.

Ichabod has experience against my USA bombers. :)

I am usually the axis and I usually dow J1 barring any kind of crazy Russia play in the Pacific. USA is extremely flexible in terms of buy / strategy. If you are going to make a play with russia that dedicates some units to africa, you better be prepared to make up for it quickly, because if Russia is dead and the UK pacific is dead and Iraq belongs to Russia… that is game over for Egypt and the VC win handedly goes the axis way in Europe.

If you have your navy sitting below burma and malaya… there is no block.  naval base FIC and slam. You can block the blocker you know, UKP has diddly squat to sink Japan’s massive navy.

In fact if you plan on sending Russia to take Ethiopia / iraq… I do recommend 8 bombers flying into Russia to make up for the forces Russia sends down there, that way you hold Russia G5-G7, that way Russia doesn’t fall before it can spend the income it generated from National Objectives down there. This is the most consistent strategy.

Everything that involves boats and oceans typically results in Germany  ignoring it and letting Italy ground troops reclaim / turtle while Germany blasts Russia. With the 2 bomber 1 sub G1 buy meta… You will need at least a stack of 10-12 units on Egypt (Germany has 14 air and can blast it so Italy can take egpyt… also Germany wants to kill UK air because it defends Russia against a G6 all in anyway).

So yeah there you go. if you need usa to have an immediate impact on Europe, bombers are the best. Everything else Germany can ignore / not care about. Germany literally doesn’t care about Norway if it can get Russia and west germany / France is really easy for Germany to take back, Germany can make 10 units, can build air off the minors it took from Russia,  USA needs how many boats to shuffle 10 units a round into west germany? UK can do it with 5 boats, but UK is the only one capable of making a minor in Iran to reinforce Russia so how are you making fighters to defend russia while dropping infantry? Exactly.

USA bombers are tried and true. Played a thousand games, seen it all. If I am sitting down and I don’t want to screw around, I am buying some bombers, 4-12 depending on my mood / what is going down.  I am holding Russia, I am making bank. GG

Don’t believe me? Play against yourself and just buy bombers and a sub + dd here n there for the pacific. Yes even 10 bombers makes taking Russia really difficult.  Bomb nov, bomb ukraine, attack anything that tries to skip past Russia, attack  units built on nov or ukraine. Yeah you can make Russia hold out for a freaking long time.

The hard counter to J4 is nothing but bombers USA. Literally nothing Germany can do when 16 bombers are in Russia before you get to attack and those bombers literally attack into reinforcements. All you got to do is make sure Russia doesn’t all on Germany’s 5th turn. Because USA gets there on USA 5.

That is the best way to deal with the Russia cheese strategy, do the bomber cheese back. You will win 99% of the time as the allies.

So he DOWs J3? or Normandy to pass through gibraltar?

You get more mileage out of bombers than boats and oceans. Think about it, you get 4 transport 8 inf, then you have to protect it so what do you do? Say Germany is light on air and is sending it East anyway. 3 dd carrier 2 fighter. now time for some math.

28 + 18 +16 + 20 = 84. 84 ipc = 7 bombers. Hmm, suddenly 7 bombers seems pretty awesome.  This is the reason you seldom see G1 navy buys anymore, because it just gets blasted.

I have lost finland/norway to Russia with Germany, I ignored them and took Russia G5. It was funny. I got to admit.

^ yeah like getting air into Russia. You can get USA into russia from scotland with bombers. It is a solid method.

There is a reason balanced both sides of the board strategies usually call for spain invade and something to hold russia / take out turkey. It is the crocodile method, back, belly, and mouth.

Here is the problem with Europe first strategies.

Transports.

Transports don’t attack or defend. In order for you take territories you  need ground troops. So that is 7 for a transport and 6-7 ipc to fill that boat. Now in the pacific, you take an island and lose a boat, japan is likely having to do the same thing to respond. So you get a fair trade. Now in Europe once you drop, you got to reload it. ON top of that, your boats have nothing to attack, the best option is to convoy italy out of the game after you make your drops.

So to sum, you basically have to waste tons of money to get barely anything, oooo you get finland and norway oooo look ma 5 ipc. Complete useless. The pacific has right out the gate 15 ipc in just cash island. 2 for phil with 5 no, boom shakalaka the payouts are faster.

Fastest I have won with Japan is turn 6. Round 8 is typical if USA ignores the Pacific.

Usually when I read bright skies I think USA bombers… Maybe that is green skies lol

I won’t tell people who I am until I buy J1