Axis and Allies Online - Round 1 "Meta"?

[@z000ey]

Watched the meta tutorial even while I know most of the stuff and use it, very well done, covered multi aspects of that first round and pointed out some nice special moments. Nice that the RNG didn't really turn it into a complete mess (a bit on Pearl but hey, happens) as it does in many many games :) Especially with USSR/Germany/UK, too often you see the Russian battles go very lopsided for one of the sides, or UK fleet not getting sunk, or German battleship surviving etc. Still imho the worst that can happen is the Jap transport surviving, cause then on J3 4 transports can really get huge numbers into India and it can hardly be defended. Yeah, it may not prove to be a game winner, but it too often is if Japan gets a clear route into Africa or Khazakh with a free industrial complex right from the get go. Had a game where UK didn't manage to take that transport out and decided to pull out of India already UK2, which gave Axis a free pass to take Moscow J6. Fast and furious when that happens. I feel you could have transported US troops into mid Pacific anyway, since if it is a KJF you might want the UK Australian fleet in support too? A cruiser and a sub would certainly help the US battleship and sub in defense, Jap would have to retire it's naval presence until regroup.

[@cbrownpt]

Sorry I missed your comment earlier. I "wish" we could have low luck for just round 1 and then go to Standard dice! You are right, the Japan Transport living in 61 is one of the worst outcomes. And yes, I could have moved the Transport to Pearl and used that turn to pick the inf up off midway to be a little more efficient. I really wasn't expecting the J Pearl result! Threw my mind away from the planned talk

[@ricochet_hs8348]

Glad I found your videos. Super awesome stuff

[@cbrownpt]

Thanks, I appreciate it and hopefully have some good ones planned still to come

[@effoffho]

Another banger

[@johncantone40]

Very good tutorial. I don't understand how you choose the battle. What do u press to choose which battle goes first?

[@cbrownpt]

You should be able to right click on the battle you want to do first. Any amphibious assaults and strategic bombing raids have to be done before the rest of the battles

[@mikekonrad1338]

Thanks for the video. Is defeating the german battleship on UK1 really worth losing a bomber and Carrier? I like sending a cruiser and fighter to take out japan transport and bring the UK carrier to sz 33 with the transport. The benefit also being the fighter can defend szechuan which means an extra US fighter defending India. Do you think I'm making a mistake? Thanks!

[@cbrownpt]

As you watch my vids you will see that I completely agree with you. And there are a fair number of high level players who agree with us. But, with that said, there are more top players right now that take the battleship out on uk 1

[@mikekonrad1338]

@cbrownpt thanks for the quick reply and for all the videos!

[@kaijiesoo8588]

Not sure if the update changed something, but when I recently had both fighters survive Pearl I just let one crash into the sea and retreated the other onto the carrier. So maybe we don’t have to care whether US submerges the submarine or not, cuz the carrier is never in danger?

[@cbrownpt]

Hmm, that should be a bug. I know over the evolution there has been times people have been able to suicide the one fighter and other times they could not. By the rules, you should have to pull the ac into pearl if both fighters live

[@kaijiesoo8588]

@@cbrownpt my experience is if you move the carrier, you must move it to rescue the fighter, but you can choose to leave the carrier where it is.

[@dzmcgaming4769]

Of course the US gets no hits in Pearl.. LOL

[@fargoretro]

I disagree with the Japan strategy. I've always had better results with a Manchuria factory into 3 tanks a turn for the rest of the game. If you can keep a transport or two in your fleet, you can drop infantry where you need on the Asian coast. The stream of tanks bring a ton of pressure on India, and are flexible enough to really keep Russia in line as well. You can have 3 tanks in Manchuria by the end of j2, which you cannot have with a transport focused j1.

[@cbrownpt]

DM me in Discord if you are on there-easier to discuss. My quick hit here- I like J tanks, but as mid game purchases. They are for timing specific tasks-> moscow and berlin. Your method end of j4 (excluding units already on the board since those are the same) you have 3 tanks in kaza 3 tanks in sink and 3 tanks in manch. My method will have 8 inf/art in kaza, 8 in sink, and 8 in Yunnan and the ic in Manchuria by j3. I don't think that early of tanks add more value than building you total unit stack for taking down moscow.