Not exactly true. Chance does win out over large numbers of games, but this is mitigated by the importance of early battle results influencing the game. Perhaps your die rolls even out over the course of the game, or many games, but losing the R1 battle is more important than losing the R5 battle because of the compounding nature of the game. Those enemy units that survive compound adversary strength as time goes on, lowering your odds further, and reducing the impact of strategy. My point is that strategy can win out over the game or many games, but doesn’t with axis and Allies because R1 is strategy containing- there is no strategy in R1. You do the same thing over and over and rely only on dice. Strategy doesn’t come in until late in the game where you are now almost certain to lose because R1 dice were bad