Posts made by macphearsome

@77stranger77:

start throwing transports filled with infantry and tanks at France

I usually only threaten France unless it is an easy capture and then work into northern Europe from Norway. Maybe I’m wrong but that’s my playing style. Are you relentlessly pounding the beaches and dying within a cycle or two? Do your opponents typically have a true Atlantic wall keeping the Allies out of France or do they trade it? As someone who doesn’t usually suicide into France, how effective is this for those of you who use that maneuver?

I admit that I’m pounding the beaches.  Otherwise, I’m landing guys in Africa and then dropping into any territories I can from the mediterranean.  In the last game, we were trading Western Europe and I managed to actually hold it for a turn once.

After my eventual resignation, my opponent (appropriately smug) told me that the US has to grab islands in the pacific.

When I play the US, I typically disregard that player’s advice. Unless Japan had a disastrous first turn, losing stuff to the British ships, and either got hammered by or didn’t attack the Hawaiian ships, I don’t go after Japan’s islands. The USA has the advantage to see how the other nation’s first turns went and decide from there which theater to pursue. If all else fails, go be a pain in Germany’s side.

Okay, so I probably should keep the same general idea, but work out the details.  Thanks.

I like throwing around battleships in the pacific like anybody else

I prefer loaded CV’s in the Pacific early on but if you’re trying to kill the IJN, 12 subs will overcome 4 BB’s any day.

Yeah, I actually do prefer carriers myself.  The battleships that I like throwing around are the ones that I start with :).  My favourite pack deal, though, is destroyers and transports guarded by an CV.

Whose responsibility is Japan, anyhow?  I like surprising Japan with a few Russian tricks, but obviously Russia can’t afford those for very long.

Keep surprising Japan with Russia. The Japanese are spread thin at the beginning. I have a friend that played Russia and saved cash when his income wasn’t a multiple of 3 for another infantry. I was allowed to park my Axis troops on the gates of Moscow without threat of counterattack. My Japanese soldiers didn’t even bother to consolidate at Kazakh or Novo, they were spread out and covered all of Russia’s eastern borders.

If you pull the US troops out of Sinkiang and fly your bomber to Yakut first turn(EUS, WCAN, ECAN, 63, 62, Buryatia, Yakut), you can sometimes trade Sinkiang with Japan.

Likely you already know this, but the UK can do a number of things with their Indian and Aussie forces on the very first turn.
Example: Take Borneo and New Guinea, kill the lone transport and Solomon sub, consolidate in Persia with their bomber in range to trade India, and land their fighter either on Hawaii, on the carrier, or Buryatia.

If you held off on Borneo and the counterattack on Egypt, you could attempt to take French Indochina. The odds are somewhat favorable but not guaranteed.

If you held off on New Guinea and moved your transport to 30, you can either reinforce India, or liberate Egypt.

The Allies have a lot of options of things to do against Japan in the early rounds. I usually just play it by ear.

Okay, this was great tactical advice!  Speaking of bombers, I must admit that I often don’t use them very aggressively.  The UK bomber usually sits at england, strategically bombing until it ultimately gets blasted on a 1.  The US bomber, I admit, often gets forgotten entirely, sitting on hawaii or wake island to bare its teeth at the japanese navy.  Sometimes I forget to use them both.  But a bomber in persia?  The thought had never occured to me and I have to seriously consider it.  A bomber in Yakut?  I had to bring up a map and do the counting for both of those moves.

Thanks a lot for your response.  I look forward to my rematch…

Hi guys, I read these forums occasionally and I’m a pretty enthusiastic A&A player, but my strategy needs work.  I recently bought the revised edition and I love it, and I think I need some feedback on my strategy.

I normally prefer to play as the allies, and I like to play a fairly aggressive KGF first strategy.  In the old A&A I would buy mostly infantry as Russia and do a fairly good job of keeping Germany at bay and keeping Japan a few turns behind. While Russia holds the continental fort, the UK and the US work together to secure the atlantic (and Africa) and start throwing transports filled with infantry and tanks at France.  Seemed to work pretty well.  I don’t think I ever lost a game that way, but I don’t play with experts.

In the revised version, I guess I struggle with the Atlantic.  It’s just too big, and the shuck shuck takes a turn longer.  Sometimes I dick around in the meditteranean after securing africa, but I feel like it all just takes a turn too long.  I recently played a game, feeling very confident with my strategy, but I lost because of Germany’s ability to hold off the allies while Japan just spread out.  After my eventual resignation, my opponent (appropriately smug) told me that the US has to grab islands in the pacific.  His econometrics was based on the fact that it’s cheaper for Germany to take Western Europe then for Japan to take back each pacific island.

Is there a fine balance to be struck here?  I like throwing around battleships in the pacific like anybody else, but organizing those transports has always been a little bit too tedious for me.  What do you guys do?  Grab a few islands and then spend money in the atlantic?  Hassle the navy and hope the brits can consolidate their pacific forces?  Normally I like to move those to the meditteranean, but that could be overkill.

Whose responsibility is Japan, anyhow?  I like surprising Japan with a few Russian tricks, but obviously Russia can’t afford those for very long.