G1 Taking all of France

[shadowhawk]

@SuperbattleshipYamato said in G1 Taking all of France:

@squirecam

In my experience three slots is nowhere enough for Germany to build up a fleet and transports in the Mediterranean to make a difference while not getting destroyed by the British.

And Germany’s IPCs are very busy breaking the Soviets.

Leave Southern France to Italy to boost their income. In case Northern Italy is somehow captured, it’s a very useful backup complex. Germany has enough backup industrial complexes in the rest of France in case of Allied bombings anyway.

While it might not make a difference when the US enters the field it can make a difference before that. Build a carrier + DD + transport round 2 and have the remnants of the italian fleet merge there and italy will be safe and you can actually use it to attack stuff with.
What will the UK do? Attack with 1 bomber against a full carrier?
You can lead with Italy and have gemany just reinforce with the carrier. It gives italy a bit more flexibility in the med for a few turns at least. Could make a difference in getting egypt and by extention the rest of afrika.

[SuperbattleshipYamato]

@shadowhawk

I’ll try that out.

[TheVeteran]

@shadowhawk I don’t see this working but try it if you wish

[SuperbattleshipYamato]

@TheVeteran

We’ll see.

Wanna playtest it?

[TheVeteran]

@SuperbattleshipYamato I don’t particularly enjoy G40 OOB anymore

[SuperbattleshipYamato]

@TheVeteran

Oh well.

[ampdrive]

@SuperbattleshipYamato I think if you try to take all of France G1,you will be too weak somewhere.The best 2 reasons, IMO, to take S.Fra G1 is getting the factory and providing a landing spot for Italian air I1.I almost never get to collect the 3ipcs G1 because I get convoyed by the french navy.
As for Normandy,I sometimes like to leave it french so that USA or UK can’t use the factory later.However,I want to kill the french land units there so they can’t attack holland F1 with help from the fighter in UK.
So a real brave G1 would look:
to normandy 2jnf 1 fig. { land in rome} expect to retreat
to S.france 1 tank 1 mech 1 fig fron slovia
to france all land that can reach + TB from poland

[SuperbattleshipYamato]

@ampdrive

I’ve found taking all of France on the first turn isn’t too risky when playing low luck.

I generally try to use as little aircraft as possible against France (just Slovakia Hungary fighter for Southern France) since they’re usually needed to take down the Allied fleets.

[TheVeteran]

@SuperbattleshipYamato nobody plays low luck so don’t use that as any standard of play please

[SuperbattleshipYamato]

@TheVeteran

Alright then.

[shadowhawk]

@TheVeteran
There are plenty of players that play LowLuck of have some version where they limit luck.

Even without low luck taking all of france isnt that big a stretch, 70-80% combats you should still win you might take a few more losses.

[TheVeteran]

@shadowhawk but then you would need to utilize more aircraft which you couldn’t use against the British navy and you would be more likely to lose more higher valuable units (mechs suck to lose more than infantry for example)