Just finished another one.
I targeted Russia this time.
Ge 10 inf, 5 arm, mech, 4 ftr...also 1 sub coming out each turn...
Italy sub, ftr, bomber
Japan 5 inf 2 planes...when production got higher a bomber, the occasional AA gun, and then I switched out of bombers and built more surface ships...
At first w/allies I did not supply LL to Britain, I did to Russia.
I built a ftr per turn for Russia until things were getting desperate.
Allies never really defeated the subs.
Allies didn’t really gain air superiority to the end.
I used the euro-axis air force to protect the italian fleet.
There were a couple of times where the axis could have gone for a win by attacking moscow, stalingrad or defending calcutta, which japan had taken. But i played for a defensive victory. All of these battles would have been iffy, and if I had lost them the axis would have few ground units left.
Japan was never able to defend the outer pacific islands and these were retaken easily.
Japan bypassed the Phillipines.
2 separate japanese invasions of the Aleutians were defeated. The third finally took attu, but the Allies were coming back and so dutch harbor never fell. Midway was taken, but also easily retaken. The japanese took calcutta, but the allies cleared out the med with the major air/sea battle never taking place, and so the allied navies/air force were very large...and the euro axis air force was also intact.
I never made the big attacks in Russia. Japan pulled back and defended Burma, and the inner islands. The chinese who had ben piling up finally attacked.
Germany obtained favarouble attrition isolating moscow each turn or threatenin to and then pulverizing the soviets who counterattacked, gradually lenningrad was pinched out and was capturede. Gemany nearly made it to Baku after turning away from stalingrad, but this thrust was stopped.
Italy surrendered on a 1 after only a coupla turns. The big loss was the 4 italian bombers. Also I messed up and left a space completely garrisoned by the IT and it happened to contain a lot of air units. The russians nutralised the luftwaffe for a turn.
The allies started coming back. They never invaded italy. Most of those units in the med went to india, and then piled up units/transports for d-day. Allies in the Pac were making reasonable progress, although japan’s fleet while outnumbered was still formidable. The stress of providing planes to both europe and asia was getting to the allies. D-day was not launched until Summer of 44, the allies took kharkov and oslo to stay in the game.
Axis went for a win in fall 44, everything on the western front into paris, the allies necer attacked. Allies attacked one pac island, which was already isolated. Germans put 15 strategic moves into Kiev, and so there was no attack. Lenningrad was isolated overland, but still in supply by sea. 3 ge inf and the whole luftwaffe...21 ftrs and 1 bomber into lenningrad. Much of the german armoured forces were in lenningrad.
The german air force in lenningrad turned the tide of that battle. Massive russian artillery and inf were not enough. Ge still had like 7 arm left when the battle ended (like 17 when it started plus pg inf and aa)...the massive firepower of the airforce won it, without that the soviets would have won.
So the allies lost the game.
In the absence of some particular luck, If the axis max produces fighters the allies have a very large problem. Britain is heavily stressed from the subs, and Russia can not really max produce ftrs without it cutting into ground unit production.
So I would say my two suggestions to counter my axis strategy are LL to england from the start. I would build a US ftr pre-war and start a BB for 1 turn, leave the cv n the 2 box. Then when war comes max ll to russia, britain and china...I probably waited a turn too long to attack out w/china. China had 4 pp all that time and was bombng japan for 1 pp. I probably should have attacked earlier.
Russia...could try max building ftrs and see if that helps.
