Bombing height

[Mike Abberton]

As long as you make it past the Jan 43 auto-victory, I think it is hard to lose as the Allies. You will eventually have overwhelming firepower, especially in a stock game, but even in CHS.

By 1944, you'll have a bunch of Essex class carriers with Hellcats. You're land-based marine squadrons will be flying Corsairs. Both of these can easily destroy any carrier airstrike the IJN can launch. There was a recent post where the Allied players equivalent of Taffy 58, repulsed a 1,000 plane strike (carrier planes launched from land bases, I believe) without 1 leaker. That may be an extreme example, but zeroes are not much good against anything tougher than a P-40/F4F.

And with all that Base Support, you can buildup 4E/2E to close just about any base you need to in a couple days, even at 15,000'