KGF

[Frank Ritterhoff]

Hi,

after I did not play the game for years I recently restarted, I played euope, pacific and the original, so it was not tough at all.
Now, I know a few strategies for the axis that work more often than not (Rush for India OR Grey Skies by Germany). For the allies I do not see a strategy other than going the very long road of IPC winning. I do not believe in the thorpe thumb, because there is not turn or timelimit in this version and thorpe thumb seems to be a guaranteed fall of moscow within 5 to 6 rounds - even with germany going for grey skies.
As I consider building fighters and putting them to moscow is incredbly boring: Are there any good and comprehensive video guides on aggressive Allied strategies other than the thorpe thumb?

[Juggernaut]

With respect I don’t really understand your terminology. Thorpe thumb doesn’t mean anything to me.

https://youtu.be/FsTcJsVCfKY?si=Ve_pqQ9o9zeXMNbl

Highly recommend this guys beginner series to learn the meta for AAO. You seem to know what’s up, so maybe skip a few until you reach a meta demonstration.

For high aggro meta vs Germany, this is a demo of a plat player wiping out another plat player with meta aggro v germany and good dice

https://youtu.be/EVvXfL0vnMU?si=F9M5L8rd-HcRENg2

The community discord has meta writeups and players for you to ask as well.
https://discord.gg/wKuNCCZGC4

[Althaas]

Originally posted by Juggernaut:

Thorpe thumb doesn’t mean anything to me.

Thorpe thump is a very agressive KJF strategy, with UK1 building bombers and subs in India.

It makes some sense in timed tournament games where you can expect the game to end on turn 5 with winner determined by VP count.

[Juggernaut]

Ahh thank you. High risk KJFs aren’t the greatest, but can be made to work. KGF is much more popular online. More conservative KJF is also popular. No ground in India is extremely risky

[simon_hibbs]

If Germany cleans house in the Atlantic G1 I have tried a US green skies strategy twice and it worked fine. basically you build at least 1 US bomber each turn, strat bomb Berlin into the dust, and make judicious use of massed bombers to pick off stray Japanese units. You still need to build a transport system to Finland, but it can let you you deflate German momentum early enough to buy time to rescue Russia. Also I know it seems madly wasteful, but 6 US bombers sitting in a big Russian stack is a fair bit of extra padding the Germans need to get through.

[Frank Ritterhoff]

Thank you guys. I might check out bombing them krauts to the ground. And I absolutely share the optnion that 6 Bombers are still units to hit... I always loved saving my own bad moves by killing off single inf with 3 Bombers not losin anything - that much I remember. The shuck looks great. Might give it a try as well

[oddball]

Originally posted by Frank Ritterhoff:

Thank you guys. I might check out bombing them krauts to the ground. And I absolutely share the optnion that 6 Bombers are still units to hit... I always loved saving my own bad moves by killing off single inf with 3 Bombers not losin anything - that much I remember. The shuck looks great. Might give it a try as well

That med shuck video is not terribly useful. Germany and Japan both got very poor dice - if you try playing that way against an Axis with good, or even average, dice - you will find it doesn't look quite the same :-)

Clearly the guy playing it knows what he's doing, and he would likely make it work under those circumstances too - but your average Joe is not going to.

[HOCHI MINH]

Rank 1 allies season 1 and 2. I am currently rank 1 in season 11. I haven't played much season 3-10.

Buy bombers with USA. Do a game where you buy mostly bombers with USA. Then you will begin to understand how to KGF. Just do it. It will open up a whole new world after a few games. Do I send bombers and fighters to attack infantry/artillery/tanks near russia? yeah that is what I do when germany is bombed 20 damage or I have 12 bombers, 5-6 go to germany and the rest slam something else. Good times man.