I mostly agree with you Nix. Pehaps not specific points of the strat, but with your core concept.
Germany just does not have the funds to go head to head with US and UK navies ($40 to $72). They can bluster, annoy, threaten, but ultimately they will die.
So the trick is to get the maximum threat for the minimum buck. And so far, that seems to be an AC in the Baltic on G1. That plus land based AF, and the Baltic TRN makes UK have to be a bit conservative in their moves for several rounds in order to not open up London to attack (and I have already had a game where UK ignored the Baltic Threat, and Germany took London on G2). So you slow UK down with that build. Then you also put UK and/or US into a position where eventually they will have to kill that fleet. And they are going to lose some ships, probably some TRNs, in the process. More of a slow down to the Allied transit of forces to Europe. And you get that for only $16 IPC spent.
Using the bid to put another SUB in SZ8 to go after the UK fleet sounds like a very interesting idea, because of how much it would further slow down UK, and the US. The US would probably not be able to go to Africa since they are going to need to get ships to UK to get a protected TRN fleet in the water there as soon as possible. Combining the attack on SZ2 with the above AC buy should give Germany 4+ turns of near complete security from Allied landings, and should allow them a good chance to gain some significant income from Africa, build up their land forces in an Atlantic Wall, and shove Russia back hard and pin them in their core territories, awaiting Japan’s arrival for the 1-2 punch to finish them off.
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