I just played a game of Axis and Allies for the first time. I don't know how realistic the scenarios produced by the game are, but it resulted in a very interesting world (not that any of us are accomplished generals). The European theater started out more or less the same but the Pacific wound up completely different.
Japan took Australia after Pearl Harbor and luckily managed to maintain it after the US fleet was forced into the Atlantic to back up the British. It then took Hawaii and the rest of the Pacific, at which point the Japanese, growing in power, fought off an invasion from Southeast Asia. Desperate, both sides prepared for a huge battle on the Chinese coast. This was eventually won decisively by the Japanese and the Japanese started heading west from China, taking the Caucuses very quickly. The Pacific war was over.
Europe looked a lot like it did IOTL at this point: the Russians had blunted the German advance and were counterattacking, D-Day was being organized, and so forth. The Russians were pressing into German territory. What the Russians didn't expect, however, was the Japanese coming up behind the Soviet troops in Asia and taking over sub-Saharan Africa for good measure. The Japanese steamroll over the Soviets and take Moscow. They then link up with the tattered remnants of the German forces in Europe, which were now on their last legs. Meanwhile, the British Empire has been reduced to the UK itself and there are tons of American troops pouring into France and England.
We called it a night with another major battle about to develop in Western Europe between the Japanese and the Western Allies. The Axis player's idea was to basically take Europe and accept a stalemate with the United States knowing they couldn't beat the US.
What would the postwar world have looked like in this case? Who gets what colonies and land? At this point Japan held basically all of Asia and Africa.
Here's what I think may have happened. Given the length of time we played, the war would have probably gone into 1945 or 1946 at this point. Considering the US itself was never threatened in this scenario, this means the US now has the atomic bomb. If I were the Allies at this point, I'd nuke Japanese forces in Germany (there was no real way to deliver it anywhere else) and convince the Japanese that enough is enough. Japan quits while it's ahead and agrees to terms. We now have a US/Japan Cold War with a Germany-led Europe in ruins.
I'd have imagined that we'd quickly have a MAD scenario in this case where Japan figures out how to make an atomic bomb from the German program, maybe a few years later. Once both sides have nukes everyone is going to get very cautious.
FYI, here is how I would have played a nuke run in Axis and Allies. A nuke requires 100 production points to produce the first one (20 for each one thereafter) and requires a standard bomber. If the bomber scores a hit, roll the die again and eliminate that number of enemy units in addition to the one it would normally have destroyed.
Japan took Australia after Pearl Harbor and luckily managed to maintain it after the US fleet was forced into the Atlantic to back up the British. It then took Hawaii and the rest of the Pacific, at which point the Japanese, growing in power, fought off an invasion from Southeast Asia. Desperate, both sides prepared for a huge battle on the Chinese coast. This was eventually won decisively by the Japanese and the Japanese started heading west from China, taking the Caucuses very quickly. The Pacific war was over.
Europe looked a lot like it did IOTL at this point: the Russians had blunted the German advance and were counterattacking, D-Day was being organized, and so forth. The Russians were pressing into German territory. What the Russians didn't expect, however, was the Japanese coming up behind the Soviet troops in Asia and taking over sub-Saharan Africa for good measure. The Japanese steamroll over the Soviets and take Moscow. They then link up with the tattered remnants of the German forces in Europe, which were now on their last legs. Meanwhile, the British Empire has been reduced to the UK itself and there are tons of American troops pouring into France and England.
We called it a night with another major battle about to develop in Western Europe between the Japanese and the Western Allies. The Axis player's idea was to basically take Europe and accept a stalemate with the United States knowing they couldn't beat the US.
What would the postwar world have looked like in this case? Who gets what colonies and land? At this point Japan held basically all of Asia and Africa.
Here's what I think may have happened. Given the length of time we played, the war would have probably gone into 1945 or 1946 at this point. Considering the US itself was never threatened in this scenario, this means the US now has the atomic bomb. If I were the Allies at this point, I'd nuke Japanese forces in Germany (there was no real way to deliver it anywhere else) and convince the Japanese that enough is enough. Japan quits while it's ahead and agrees to terms. We now have a US/Japan Cold War with a Germany-led Europe in ruins.
I'd have imagined that we'd quickly have a MAD scenario in this case where Japan figures out how to make an atomic bomb from the German program, maybe a few years later. Once both sides have nukes everyone is going to get very cautious.
FYI, here is how I would have played a nuke run in Axis and Allies. A nuke requires 100 production points to produce the first one (20 for each one thereafter) and requires a standard bomber. If the bomber scores a hit, roll the die again and eliminate that number of enemy units in addition to the one it would normally have destroyed.
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