Hi All
Thanks for the replies - the War is still going pretty good for me. I will try and post a screenshot tomorrow of my exploits ...
I attacked and captured Pearl in the Summer of '42 - but I might be able to do it earlier next time ...
I had little Research at all - in fact the only thing I had researched at the time was my Inf attack value to 7 ...
I took out China using mostly ground-pounders (Inf) - I didn't need to use planes much in China and never lost a one - still haven't actually ...
The only S.Resource Area I took by Summer '42 was Northern Phillipines ... of course, I eventually took the rest in the next turn or two ...
Right now, Russia is about done for (I am knocking on Moscow's backdoor - even though Germany took Moscow a few turns ago), and I am holding-off the USA still ... its Summer '44 right now ...
You are right Randal - it really causes the USA to come at Japan much later ... in fact, it took them at least 6 to 7 turns to get back Pearl (I left three Inf and some supply to defend as I pulled my Navy back a space-at-a-time as mentioned ...
As far as Transports - I use one in each sea-zone leading to Pearl, and then four at Pearl for my four Inf ... I only had to build two extra Transports to have enough to do what I did ... and still had enough to hit the Philipines the turn I took Pearl ... by the time I took Pearl, China had been totally taken ...
You have to attack twice though - once to take-out the one USA Artillary unit using two Carrier planes and some Bombardments - and then a second attack with the four Inf units ...
Thanks again for all the posts and kind words - I'll try and post again tomorrow with next update.
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P.S. It looks like Hollywood will have to wait for another game