Optional choice.
1st turn UK destroyer buy, would slow germans or make them lose more material to go to sz7.
-Soviet Sub block baltic fleet in sz6
-UK dest block france coast sz9 or what was it’s number
-US transport or Dest block med fleet.
-Rest of US and UK navy sits in sz8
This setup don’t prevent them from linking, but it takes a lot more planes to accomplish the task to unite in g2 to sz7, with good luck you might take 1-2 german planes down. I would trade those any time, or if he uses his subs to take the hits. His fleet in sz7 is a lot smaller in how many hits it can take.
@88:
Ultimately, in my opinion, there’s a trade off for trying to unite Germany’s navy. In my experience, if I saw my opponent doing it, I’d feel pretty good about my chances, as the Allies will win the naval battle 99 out of 100 times.
I would counter it by uniting in SZ8, with no blockers. Just play defense until supremacy was gained. It wouldn’t be long. If Germany moved its united fleet back to the Baltic, it’s trapped, into the Med, it’s trapped as well. In the meantime Africa’s looking pretty beige, which means that the usual Allied effort to retake Africa was unnecessary, freeing up IPCs for shiphunting.
Anyhow- if you guys are using bids let me know, because I’ll take it all back. If an Infantry is placed in Libya, and an Armor in Algeria, then by all means consolidate your BB, Tranny, and sub. If you can unite your navy from there, it’s not a bad move. But without the bid I see it as a killer.
I agree with 88 Millimeter on this, you would almost 8/10 times sacrifice your whole german fleet to allies on turn 3 or 4? And what did that buy you? You don’t fight for africa so easily, you save norway for maybe 1-2 turns without having to counterattack it back.
The Allies would be breathing very hard on your neck from turn 3 or 4 and gaining strength every turn. I don’t see how letting the allies gain free reign on seas would help you, yes you might destroy a lot of material from allies, but because of no africa operation, UK would be still getting 25-27ipc.
This tactic involves so many risks, that is why I wouldn’t try this and strongly flame this tactic 8-), unless I were thinking of giving me option to try operation sea lion. Sitting in Baltic takes a lot of time from UK to destroy you and usually he will sacrifice his whole fleet to destroy you. And this will most likely happen in turn 4-5 and you would still be in med sea with your bb + tranny + if you really want to destroy soviets you would buy maybe 1dst 1tran. You would gain the ipc that you lose from norway in Africa and usually you can take norway back from the allies if you want.
One more thing why I don’t like this tactic. It only buys time for germans and most likely get’s them bottled up more quickly. And from reading ncscswitch post, this only gives little more time for germans to try steamrolling alone the soviets, which is doomed if the soviet player knows how to slow down germany… Japan would twiddle his thumbs while the germans make the decision to lose the game or with luck win the game :-D.
Last weekend we tried with my friends KJF tactic. UK IC in india, USA IC in sinkiang, this totally blocked the Japan expansion and secured the eastern flank for soviets. This is a really powerful option for Allies, but risky in the 2-3 turns when japans try either IC to take control of it.
