Bubble
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Jimmy: A couple of additions from a guy who has played 3 or 4 games as Axis in relatively easy modes. I've actually found it relatively easy to win with a few different approaches. One was to take China almost immediately. This brings in the US, but gets you a pot of resources and a few factories nearby. The other way that worked was to go into the USSR with Japan very early -- there are lots of easily reachable resources in Siberia, and I got almost to the Urals before coming in with Germany. This made it very hard for the USSR to hold of Germany, I think. Then I could turn on China. With both of these approaches (I continued the game after taking the auto-victory) I had a bit of a tough time with the US in the Pacific, i.e., I found myself on the defensive for a few years until I teched up my planes enough to take out their island air bases. But the US wasn't much of a factor in the Atlantic. With Germany, the cliche is taking Poland and then immediately France. I'm always weary of the med as well, and usually try to get Gibraltar (esp if Spain comes on Board) and Egypt. I'm not interested in the Middle East for its resources, since I won't be able to use those until 1944, when resource multipliers increase the factories' output -- I only want to keep WA ships out of the med. By committing a few infantry/tanks to taking Egypt (while they'd just be sitting in Poland anyway, "getting ready" for Barbarossa), I eventually free up anything that would otherwise have to defend Southern Europe. And the AI has never tried to take me out of Egypt (from the Red Sea) if I have 3 militia plus an artillery there. Don't know if that helps....
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