Posts made by critmonster

uk, when they saw the three trans in position for london bought 2 fighters and land units.  us did a very solid 2 tran, cv, 2 tank and placed all in atlantic to “stabilize” europe.  uk2 he hit my fleet and got crushed, i think his purchase was another mix of air/ground. us moved to algeria (bought bombers)then got smacked by my navy. as i said they got me but not until i had bought an additional three rounds.  russia was rockin, but i think his mistake was hitting three territories which divided his stack, my counter got two of them and he was too thin by then, he still held on and even pushed japan back in the initial moscow approach.  they guy did a great job with ussr and his teammates apologized for leaving him alone, but they had little option with the german atlantic navy keeping them away from europe and the jap navy keeping them away from asia.

the last game (i was gemany) the other experienced guy played russia.  he had a nice west russia stack and an eastern stack as well.  i bought cv and trannie to threaten uk, hit gibralter(sp?) and did egypt with bomber, 2 fig and inf/tank (i liked this idea, trapped the dd in med) uk hit with everything! he then merged the dd with indian fleet off madagascar to try and threaten japs before running to atlantic to replace his dead fleet there.as i played footsie with ussr in europe i merged my fleets off france, uk tried to hit me and got hammered then i took out the us atlantic fleet.  they eventually got me but the delay was enough to allow japan to take moscow (barely, newbie nip). i did have some pretty good dice rolls and that might of been the difference i guess but still i owned from the atlantic all the way to the cauc. for three rounds, game over.

greetings, i have been reading the posts and finally decided to register and hopefully not get flamed into submission.
my question is this: how do you stop japan from rolling over the ussr? my group is fairly new to the game, two of us played classic alot and three newbies but no fools.  with aggressive german play in the atlantic and consistent mainland push by japan the games have all been axis victory with japan taking moscow except the one that i played allies and had two newbies.
i have also downloaded triple a and tried a couple variants and the results are the same.
i know the game is supposed to be weighted towards the allies slightly so i/we are missing something. 
after some responses (if any) i could post some of my strats if they are different from the “standard”
thanks