Hello, I’ve read some threads mentioning that you do not need to show opponents the units you’ve bought and even suggested switching the stash completely. Do they mean placing the units near you before your turn and then switching when it becomes your turn? Or are they suggesting switching them when it’s time to place them at the end of your turn?
I just can’t see the first fooling anyone, depending the outcome of the current action anything can change. The second seems (to be according to my reading of the rules) completely against the rules . . . Am I missing something?
US buys units at the beginning of the US turn. the US player might choose to make the untis ready while the japanese player does his turn, but US does not actually buy them before the beginning of the US turn. If you really want to make buying as fast as possible, you can use pen and paper to plan your buy, and place one of each unittype ready in front of you together with a stack of chips. Then, purchasing what you have written down once your turn starts.
I think what they are talking about is to make the US purchase ready before the japanese turn in order to try to trick the japanese player. if US makes a Atlantic purchase ready on US3, and then switch to buying 3 of 4 CVs once it is the US turn, you can see how the japanese player might think he can build a mIC instead for a couple of extra subs. If japan does that, you have “tricked” japan. However, the player playing japan should really know better than relying on what random pieces the US player have placed in front of it.
this second part is what I meant. People seem to present this as some sort of great deception, that and pointing units a certain direction. I just wanted to be sure that you must indeed declare your buys at the beginning of your turn, which is how I play.