Germany will take Caucuses just for the sake of destroying your FTRs. Then you’re in a rough spot because you need to retake Caucuses and most of your INF is 2 Turns away from being anywhere useful.

Some changes:
Land 2 FTRs in Moscow
Move 2 INF from Kazakhstan to Caucuses, at your discretion
You don’t need 8 INF in Yakut either; 6 is good enogh to stall Japan for a turn or two. By then, if Japan really wants to she can amass an army in Bury to quash your army.

I personally am a fan of clearing (if not taking) Ukraine on R-1, but there’s no ironclad rule on that and if you can KO the Norwegian FTR, then that makes up for not killing the Ukrainian FTR. Good luck!

Thanks!  :-D

@77stranger77:

Wow, Moscow on G3. In a game like that, Japan is the least of you problems right?

I’m certainly not a pro, but what did you do as the Soviets? I can’t imagine losing Moscow so soon.

Like I said, tactical blunders. I think I played Russia pretty well, but I didn’t back them up with the UK.

1. I landed my BMB in East Italian Africa alone to reclaim Egypt, where it was subsequently shredded by the German Bomber.

2. I left the UK/US transports unattended in sz 12 where the Luftwaffe sunk them all.

3. I spent most of the UK’s treasure building the sexiest navy with 2 BB’s and a fully loaded AC. It was like I was more concerned with capturing the Baltic than Moscow.

Oh well. Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgement, so live and learn.

Hey, first time posting.

I recently starting playing AAR by e-mail after not playing for several years. So far, I mostly play as the Allies, and I’m not trying to do anything crazy until I can get the tried-and-true strategies to work for me. Hence, I usually go KGF. My question is what to do about Japan?

Before I go on, there’s another thread from a few months ago which digressed into how to pull off the KJF. I want to go for Berlin while at the same time protecting Russia’s back door.

Last game I played, I focused entirely on Germany, meaning all American forces moved east and I hustled my Pacific fleet through panama. This freed Japan up to invade Persia leaving the Soviets to clean up. Moscow fell on G-3. There were a few other tactical blunders I made (bad UK purchases and a very accurate Japanese BMB), but I really believe that I can’t let Japan run willy-nilly through Asia.

Basically, when do the other allies pitch in to take some heat off Moscow? I thought initially that I’d want to build up my US pacific fleet after an initial effort in Europe/Africa, around US-3. Then I realized that the US BB isn’t going to do anything in the atlantic until US-3 at the earliest, so may as well leave it in sz55 until I’m ready to steal islands.

So what do you do in the first 2-3 rounds to distract Japan?