Thank you for your input and play tests. Thinking for the money I might just drop troops and planes and start marching lol. If I could just get a few tanks behind Russia or into the middle east it would make for some entertainment.
I think you basically HAVE to sink the Sz91 Cruiser.
It’s not an option, it’s not a potential strike. It’s a MUST.
I’m also toying with the idea of clearing the navy off of Southern France…
For the European axis to have a GOOD game (Which makes life easy) Italy has to be a major player, and HAS to be protected by Germany, with efforts made by German units to secure Italian NO’s.
If this is the case, (and I think it may be) how would you do it? IE: Where would you reposition your ressources? It seems to me you cna only get your two subs down there. 1 sub on each 111 and 110 then?
Probably have to ignore one of the two SZ’s or risk losing aircraft in the process which is counter productive when you trade aircraft for cruisers.
retreating from the med isn’t good. ur basically saying “here ya go dude. do whatever you want.” the biggest thing holding italy back is the time it takes to secure the med. pulling back speeds up the process.
well, italy runnign wild is EASILY made up by the fact that germany made 70+ ipcs worth of transports that will hardly do anything to help him vs russia besides threatening Novgorod.
With US entering the war soon, italy will be beaten, you would just need to conserve your afircan forces and try to slow down or contain italian advances. You dont need to hold egypt, you just need to prevent him from getting too much more. Usually of germany tries to sealion, Japan does not bother you on J2 to prvent US from entering earlier. The extra money you wil collect from controling your stuff in the pacific can be used to make stuff than can reinforce persia. Eventually when germany is going full bore on russia, you can just leave a strong garrison on uk and start wearing italy down and investing your money into africa/persia from the europe side.
i generally just use the russian fleet to keep the german player honest. Was fun one game the german player attacked and destroyed an american fleet but forgot to leave anything in berlin and the russian player captured it.
They will attack each other first round 90% of games if you don’t agree a penalty for the attacker … something like 15 or 20 IPCs. Higher penalty -> later attack
Not sure about that 90% on turn 1, but sooner or later, they certainly will atack!
Yep, the bbs must be killed, you have to let live the UK dds
It’s possible that some players would still attack the italian fleet with the ’ llanito ’ (Gibraltar) fleet, but any survivors would be crushed by the germans, and potentially, even by the italian fleet and planes
