Posts made by trihero

:-D Silly Axis, unguarded transports are for kids? :o

A 10 IPC fighter for 32 IPCs in tran…tasty  :evil:

Curious Mazer, why only total of 4 transports? Since 2 are pretty much permanently away on pirate business, that means you have 4 spots that you can open up from Japan by purchasing 2 tp. That seems a better deal than buying a complex, which would only open up 3 spots. That’s why I assumed you get 6 tps, so you have 4 tps using up the 8 slots on Japan while the other 2 are raiding IPCs.

I think I’d be happy with 6 tps 2 complexes (78 IPCs infrastructure to open up 14 slots, meaning 10 inf 4 arm per round at 50 IPC income) instead of 4 complexes 4 tps (92 IPCs infrastructure open up 16 slots; you could fill that with 15 inf 1 arm at 50 IPC income). In both cases I know 2 of the tps are off raiding, but it seems like too much infrastructure with the 4 complexes and also you’re opening up slots you can’t even fill with offensive gear anymore.

That was the first time I’d ever faced that much navy :S

Jenpack is when she builds 80 IPCs of German navy >_>

Nice swithc!  :? :-o :lol:

I’m facing teh Jen-boat interdiction right now!  :-P

Jenigma Decoded also has a nice ring to it  :wink:

I’ve long since learned that there’s no use discussing with Jen, just play and enjoy the ride >_>

Let us know how it goes! It is the correct risk to take.  :-)

It’s easily worth the risk. 1 fig 1 bom doesn’t matter to much to US as much as 4 tps matters to Japan. Any time you can use units that don’t mean much to you at a better than 50% chance to kill units that mean a lot to your opponent is a good move in the long run. You may be discouraged by killing no tps by some stupid luck, but most of the time you will be very happy you do it. And interestingly enough…the dice sim shows 40-50% chance of the US bom surviving…!!!

Assuming Russia still owns buryatia.
Would you attack that with USA ftr/bmr?

Yes, this could end Japan’s game right there.

According to Frood it’s 50% to knock out all the transports! And if you’re happy with killing 3 or 4 transports, it’s 62%. That’s an awesome way to kick Japan out.

My experience with pushing hard on Russia is that you can’t pull them off of Germany even with the extra transport of gear, so I am content to do the slower but stronger build up.

How about with 2 extra tran of gear? The thresh-hold is very quickly reached where you are able to take Novo/Kaz, and 4 units can tip it in that direction. The instant you reach kaz/novo Russia can no longer ignore you, and 4 units can easily make a turn or two of difference which gets you those IPCs.

You’re not conservative, you hit Ukraine and W. Russia all the time!

No doubt, no doubt.  That is the trade off: slower Japan in R1-R3, but stronger and bigger when they do come.

I still don’t believe the correct answer is to send 2 tran to go island hopping - unless Australia has been reinforced to 4 inf. Sending that extra tran gets you the island one turn earlier, which doesn’t pay for itself. Doesn’t make sense to me, I could be using that money to shuck to Asia.

I also believe that you can island hop later and the difference isn’t large, if there even is one. By concentrating on a shuck to Asia, you can be heavily either in Novo/Evenki/Kaz by J4 or trading there, getting the Russians off of Germany’s back. You make up for the island IPCs by taking Novo/Kaz/Evenki a turn earlier, and I feel this can be the right answer considering Russia is the target.

And my goodness Mazer, 4 complexes with Japan? And 6 transports? That’s an awful lot of infrastructure; you could be significantly behind in actually pressuring Russia except for tons of infantry. You are playing the long game obviously, but if you don’t pressure Russia in a realistic time frame (by having a huge infrastructure and by island hopping with 2 tran instead of one) then Germany is gone before you know it.

Why is Russia 1 excluded? Any player continues to wax and wane between the possible Russia attacks and strategies…

No problem, let me just recap by returning to the first statement that I made, that not even the best players are in complete agreements about so-called “standard” first round moves, there is more thought going in than one thinks.

Yar me too; that’s why I like to throw carrier/dest at the Japanese transport, in order to force them to use only 2 figs in China and hopefully get diced there.

England to me never gets hamstrung by 8 units a round. I struggle very hard to get more than $32 per round against a competent Axis player, because of losing so much territory in the Pacific/Asia. I think it’s silly for the UK to build a complex anywhere, even Norway, because at some point you will dip below $32 and say to yourself, why I do have 11 production spots but am using only 8? Why did I pay for those extra 3 production spots with no units?

America can easily afford to fight for Africa; UK cannot.

@Cmdr:

I have to agree.  IC in Brazil seems less then optimal.

Why not just have two transports bring units from America to Brazil and two more from brazil over for an extra 1 IPC?  Now you are bringing 4 units, not 3.

Of course, a Brazil IC is great for Japan. =)

Thanks, once again my post was completely misread. I did not say I would like to build a Brazil complex. I did not say it was optimal, or even a good idea.

I simply think that it is less silly than a UK complex in UoSA. The UK cannot afford it, it is less safe, it produces less units, and UK has less airforce to have fooling around in Africa.

I have to conclude logically that if you think the Brazil complex sucks, that the UK complex in UoSA sucks even harder.

NOW… if Britain sinks the J Solomons sub and lands on US carrier at Pearl: would you prefer it Light or Heavy ?

Ultra heavy. 4 figs 1 bom 1 btl 1 dest 1 car. Light at that point has simply too much variance, as does the normal heavy. It’s either go all out, or do not go at all. You might lose a fighter more than normal, but that’s nothing surprising since an extra fighter is present on defense.

Lol at Pervavita  :lol:

Back to the original topic, I’m more interested in a Brazil complex than a UoSA complex.

The reasons why are:

1. It brings the Americans very quickly into the African game
2. The Americans have more income to spare
3. Brazil builds more units
4. Brazil is more secure
5. The UK should spent more time focusing on landing in Europe than spending so much income fighting Africa because the UK is very close
6. The American have spare airforce to use in Africa while the UK probably needs it to fend off Navy + land troops

I don’t think I like to build either complexes, but I would at least say that if you consider UoSA complex, you should probably go USA complex  :lol: