ORIGINAL: witpqs
Regarding Troll's Tricks:
He might have meant Eniwetok, and you messed him up with Ponope, so he has too few troops prepped.
Remember that the Home Islands are probably empty because the rules prohibit any aggressive action by the allies.
All of those daily bombing runs on Karachi are giving him a huge force of ultra-high experience bombers. When he is ready he will transfer them to the Pacific in hopes of slaughtering your naval forces.
I seriously doubt he was coming to invade Eniwetok...he would have been a foul and troll isn't a foul!
He would have faced a Marine division, 2 RCT fully prepped, 4 Cbt Eng rgts, 3 Marine CD units, 4 AA units (in this mod AA is deadly), 1 Air HQ, 1 U.S. Army HQ and 2 Tank units....and he barely has (imho) 1000 AVs at Truk...maybe 2000...but nothing more!
However Ponape is still another matter...he still has the force to invade and win here. But every day he loses, it's a day where my defences got stronger.
Yes, i know the problem about his super high experienced naval bombers...those betties bombing for 5 months in a row Karachi are surely up to 90 exp...so deadly! I'm starting now to train some of my bombers and fighters...but oonly few of the are actually under training sessions, cause i badly need them everywhere!
Hope, really hope the pace will get a bit better....1 turn every 2 days is really depressing