Landing Allied Planes in Russian Territory

[HBG GW Enthusiast]

@vondox On the National Reference Sheet for Great Britain, you will find that GB can only lend-lease after it is at war with a major power. There are many rules in this game that are only found on the National Reference Sheets.

There are two good things about lend-leasing to France, though. The first is that France goes immediately after GB, so there is no chance the IPP’s GB sent can be captured by Germany when France falls. The second is as you were suggesting, GB can essentially purchase and teleport militia for France through lend-lease. Note that GB can send up to half of France’s current income (not counting bonus income) via lend-lease. This incentivizes Germany to use their Blitzkrieg special ability to take out France swiftly. If Germany takes out France the same turn it declares war, GB will never have the opportunity to lend-lease.

[VonDox]

@hbg-gw-enthusiast Hmm… Yep, I went back to the sheet and your right… So, what can be done to help France then?? ( sorry to deviate from the topic at hand ) but what are some strategies that work? If you can’t send lend-lease until France is at war and no troops, it’s really up the French to hold out at least 1 turn I guess. Maybe you get lucky and you can land troops along the western coast if your the brits to prevent encirclement but that’s about it that I can see. Even the 39 set-up doesn’t help the French much… I guess I need to do some more research on this…

[Adalwolf]

@vondox There are some strategies out there that allow for France and UK to declare war first on Germany, therefore allowing allied units to be sent to France before Germany attacks. France most likely will not hold out one turn once Germany attacks pre declaration of war by the allies and if France does hold out, Germany is in trouble.

[Chris_Henry]

@vondox I think the biggest takeaway is that there isn’t a whole lot that the UK can do to help France.

As is pointed out, the UK and France are technically not considered on the same side until they are at war/wartime income. So no, they can’t lend-lease to each other before that point, and can’t move units into each others’ land either.

The only way to help France would be if both reach wartime income and assuming Germany as attacked another nation to that point, which they should have done by then haha.

To me, if it gets to the point where the UK is reinforcing France, Germany has done a bad job opening the game. France should be dealt with before they reach their wartime economy to stop this very thing from happening (plus, the longer you wait, the more France can strengthen itself against an attack).

[TheVeteran]

@chris_henry in my current game as Germany I took Belgium in one turn, the next turn I declared war on France and moved my slow moving force to take Picardy. I threatened the surrounding of Paris (with lightning war) and a direct assault on Paris. The UK landed in Aquitaine and France did not have to divide their troops much between two territories (they were able to focus more units in Paris) this helped their defense in Paris when the next round I didn’t use lightning war and instead attacked Paris. The few extra units didn’t matter as I still had overwhelming force including many arty and I took out the French with ease sending the British back on their transports ! This was accomplished because I used all of Germany’s starting income to build 💯 for units to attack France with (except for upgrading my medium factory to a major). This makes a big deal considering the Stsrtung German economy is 4x that of France!

[Chris_Henry]

@bretters Dang, that’s great that worked for you! Sounds like you had a pretty substantial force to be able to pound Paris pretty well!

[TheVeteran]

@chris_henry
July 36 purchase $20
$1 Romania
1 inf
4 arty
Annex $2 territory
Consolidate in Berlin

Jan 37 $22
$1 Romania
3 arty
1 inf
Upgrade factory to major
Annex $1 territory
Consolidate in Berlin

July 37 $23
$1 Romania
$1 Hungary
$1 Bulgaria
5 arty
Annex $1 Sudetenland
Position troops to West Germany(ready to hit Belgium )

Jan 38 $24
$1 Romania
$1 Hungary
$1 Bulgaria
4 inf
3 militia
1 paratrooper
Attack Belgium

These troops I purchased plus basically everything Germany starts with hit Belgium and then b Picardy and Paris.

The $1 towards Romania /Bulgaria / Hungary are my influence rolls to attempt to align the countries with the diplomacy expansion
The infantry and militia purchased in July 38 are to defend west Germany from British amphibious assault

[insaneHoshi]

@bretters

These troops I purchased plus basically everything Germany starts with hit Belgium and then b Picardy and Paris.

So you take two turns to take paris?

[TheVeteran]

@insanehoshi

This game I did yes

[Adalwolf]

@bretters What about Poland?

[TheVeteran]

@adalwolf

I attacked Poland (and warsaw) in July ‘39, the turn After I attacked Paris