Axis & Allies Global 1940/UK Strategy-Middle Earth

Combine this strategy with my American strategy and cross your fingers you might be able to beat J1

[samkennyenjoyit]

Watching this video for nostalgia, one of the best U.K. strategies ever

[paulbrown]

We've been using this basic strategy for a few years, and so we did develop a way around it. Turn one begin with a credible German Sealion build as in a carrier and some other warships or planes. If they do not respond just do Sealion and the end result is the same. Make sure you take and hold Southern France with Germany to build German naval forces in the Med. In all likelihood Britain will respond by maxing out defense on the UK, so instead of all the 8 or 9 Sea Lion transports build a strong warship navy with maybe 3-4 transports with the aim to take Gibraltar on turn 3. Meanwhile, you've been making all efforts to clear out the Med with the Luftwaffe and what Italian ships remain, since Britain always wipes the floor with them. You can usually clear the Mediterranean by turn 3, if not 2. By turn 3, you're German fleet is either outside of Gibraltar and you've taken it, or it's inside the Med. because Italy has taken it for you. Either way, this expensive navy will be on the other side of Gibraltar before the Americans attack because the Japanese do not instigate them. The Japanese, however will likely have a good easy game because the Americans tend to overreact to Germany and go all in in the Atlantic. It isn't all overreaction, though, since you're fleet poses a real threat to DC. For that matter, the UK has to continually make sure that you cannot reach London either by building a comparable navy or lots of infantry that will never leave London. Plus, England will barely collect any national objective and will lose lots of money overseas, so building an offensive navy is difficult for them. Since you can reinforce Gibraltar from Southern France, they will likely never take it. Meanwhile, Italy and some German forces are beating the crap out of Africa, getting those rarely achieved missions and making mad money. If Italy has all of its objectives it is pulling in 21 IPCs on top of territorial gains, and Germany will have a land unit in Egypt. Sure, the Americans can land in Morocco, but who cares? That is the slowest route taking the cheapest territory they can take, and you can take their Operation Torch out at your leisure with your German/Italian Mediterranean Juggernaut. Russia will see all this and likely be aggressive, but they don't tend to have the ability to breach German forces even with the German investment in sea units and transported infantry. Not to mention, Italy is actually pulling in real money and can act as home guard both on the French/Danish coast and the southern Russian front. Again, Japan is going buckwild because it usually only has any push back from ANZAC and India, which is paltry. It can gobble up some of the harder to touch American missions if the Americans have really turned their backs on them. The Americans have to constantly buy warships to out do your German fleet, so it is hard for them to get the transport and troops they need to take Gibraltar or do significant harm to the coast. It doesn't work every time, but it usually works, or at least shuts down the Middle East factory strategy. There are ways around it, and I know Japan waiting out to attack is out of vogue, but it seems to work more than not. Food for thought, anyway. I've really enjoyed your videos, by the way! Just found them this winter.

[osiriszoran]

I've watched a few of your A & A vids and i have never played it. I did purchase A & A 42, 40 pacific & Europe though just the other day. Your videos among many other avid A & A players on youtube have created a huge desire to get this to the table with friends. I also enjoy your commentary in these vids!

[Piefke]

Hey General, dropping the idea also here. Thx for your great work. Did you ever thought on combining Siredblood‘s ANZAC-Train strat with your ME? Instead of building the UK factory in Persia take Iraq. Let Persia get conquered with 1ANZAC Inf from egypt and start bolster India or Russia with 2 Nations. Anybody tried this already? Thanks for your ideas on that and keep the good work going! Cheers from Germany ;)

[masterstacker]

I like the Taranto move on turn 1. Never would have thought of bringing that fighter all the way from England..

[iamthatguy]

Thanks for this strategy. I tried it out and it went super well.

[connorsmith]

For Taranto raid, it might be worth keeping a destroyer alive in place of a fighter, just so the Italians can't get a lucky shot with a surprise shot with their sub on and trap your fighters on your carrier and get totally hosed on the counter-attack.

[mcstrikerwarrior]

I don't have g40, but I do want it badly. You just made UK so fun and I want to play them sooo bad. great video/strategy!

[tommaso]

Hi General! Always gorgeous videos, thanks a lot! Although that Tàranto thing (please forget Torònto for a sec.) with aircrafts coming strait away from England, simply doesn't work! When the Brits take off from London you must to count Sea Zone 110 as a first movement (AAE1940IIEdition pag 29). So here is the complete best flight route from England: I Sea Zone 110 > II Normandy & Bordeaux > III Southern France > IV Sea Zone 93 > V Sea Zone 95 > VI Sea Zone 97. We have 6 movements in total, so you are not going to sink our beloved Regia Marina...cheating! Even using the air base bonus +1 movement (very interesting feature btw), Fighters / Tac 4 + 1 mov. and Strat 6 + 1 mov...definitely that's not enough Gentlemen! Please let me know if i'm wrong.

[ignacevangoethem]

Hi GeneralHandGrenade, I used your middle earth strategy successfully in the last game against my friend. I built 2 factories in the Middle East (Persia & Iraq). Afterwards I invaded Turkey with the Russians, opening that route to the British to send in forces in the German territory. At the same the US attacked Spain opening a second front. The game is still going on, but I think Germany will be forced to surrender soon (far before Japan can come to their aid). So thanks for the good tips!

[ludvigmansson]

Really appreciate these videos! Cheers from Sweden :)

[navidhussain]

Quick question GeneralHandGrenade. What do you do when facing a Sealion threat? This strategy sounds wonderful, however it seems obsolete if you can't defend London from the Germans.

[DragonWolf]

We have house rules that state if you fly a plane over a AA gun, they get a shot. I am also one to adjust the rules for a modicum of reality. Fighters from Britian to defend that part of the Med isn't something that should be able to happen by flying over so much enemy territory freely. (Thus the AA rules we use as a deference to that.)

[graysonhorner]

Why don’t you put a complex in Iraq? It’s 1 turn from Egypt and 2 from Calcutta.

[alwetende]

14:20 Just to be sure: it seems to me that you're moving air units into Greece, which at turn one is still a friendly neutral to the Allies. But the rules state that one can only move LAND units into a friendly neutral territory, so I think this is not a legal move. Your air force can only move into this territory one round later, after the territory has become UK controlled, providing you shipped some land units into it. But of course, this is just my humble interpretation of the rules.

[NuecKing]

Oh my gosh 33:10!! Hilarious! Love your vids man.

[irish_potatoes]

Sadly the Mediterranean strategy doesn’t work with my house rules because Italy isn’t at war yet and the UK can’t declare war for 2 turns

[Henasy]

GHG - I'm having a very tough time in TripleA getting this strategy to work. B6-7 i only have around 4 Mech/4 Tank + a good amount of fighters (8-9 or so) even in striking range on Russias southern flank. The Germans/Italians really just pour it on....Russia seems doomed no matter what.

[rasmusharboe]

Why is taking greece on first turn not a better approach?.. the transport from India should be able to get to Persia

[danielevans]

I like the flexibility that creates... I'm surprised you didn't take out the German sub & battleship with that destroyer and whatever fighters were left in uk