Why buy a Destroyer OR a Carrier with England?
Ah, that’s my girl! But you have the idea wrong, you shouldn’t stack SZ12, just like U-505 says. The UK can simply drop troops along Karelia’s northern border, free from all Luftwaffe, without purchasing any naval defense. Isn’t that awesome? And here we were talking about buying a dest/car to counter a running Baltic. :roll:
I believe that the best option is to strafe the Unbaltic fleet. It is no more dangerous to strafe the Unbaltic than it is the normal Baltic fleet because the added sub doesn’t add any direct danger to airplanes. It does make it harder to completely triumph there because you have to cut through an extra ship, but I think you do need to do some damage to it before it escapes to the Med. Otherwise it will come out roaring and massively disrupt the US chain.
Total victory has very tepid odds when you’re sending 2 fighters 1 bomber against 3 sub 1 tp 1 dest, but you should be able to nail the 3 subs before you’re on your way out, which detaches a lot of the threat. Or if the subs submerge, you might want to buy an extra carrier with the US and also remember to strafe them with the bomber. When you take out 1/3-1/2 of the Unbaltic fleet, the UK can simply start with a 3 tran build and hide in SZ2 with 1 bb 4 tran 1 sub. 2-3 subs isn’t going to accomplish very much against that, considering it takes more than 2 hits to actually get to a transport.
Leaving the baltic fleet in Sz5, for example, is a better idea, IMHO.
If UK attacks with 2 Fig and 1 Bmb then German have a chance to kill at least one fig, that is also an inreresting gain.
In this way Sub in sz 8 goes to attack Sz13, and so the BB goes to attack the DD in Sz15, followed by the TRN for invading Egypt (if you have also a bid there) or TJ (just to seal the Suez canal).
If the Allies want Africa, they will get it. Even with a bb + tran contesting Africa from the beginning, I somehow do not manage to get very far anyways because of how easily the Allies can reinforce Africa. However, if you make the effort to salvage as much German fleet as possible, it will serve you better as suicide fodder to knock out a round of Allied shipping. Leaving the Baltic navy in SZ5 is just as Jennifer noted in another post - at best annoying, at worst impotent. The UK could even wait a turn to build an extra fighter or two before taking out the static Baltic, but if the Germans actively run it away, it calls for immediate, and IMO risky action.
If the Allies are so passive as to not do anything, the German fleet looks like 3 sub 2 tran 1 bb 1 dest in the Med. That’s an incredible amount of fodder which could completely sabotage both US and UK ability to transport things for 1-2 turns, combined with airforce. The UK should strafe the Unbaltic, which would generally mean still losing 1-2 fighters (same as attacking regular Baltic). So again, I don’t see how sitting in the Baltic produces better results. If you do that, you usually wind up with a total fleet of 1 bb 1 tp and that’s it for the whole game, at the cost of 1-2 UK fighters. The Unbaltic is much scarier! ‘;…;’
