In my opinion the only plausible strategy with the russians is too put your troops on the front lines and defend against the germans for as long as possible. This is because as russia, your goal is to cost the germans lots of money and hold out till americans/british can come to aid you or bring another front to germany. This can be done by building… INFANTRY. Infantry are the best buy in the game. This is because they are bough for a measly buy of 3 IPC. The infantry will be able to cause major damage to him, and less loss to you. This enables the russians to make the fight with the germans a unprofitable fight for them which is able to be done because the germans will have to use mech. infantry in the latter stages of Barbossa. In my opinion this is what little the russians can do. Now the English I have less experience with. In my opinion they should lure a sea lion. Sea Lion can almost be a fatal move for the Axis because it will not give them the VCs they need on a time table with an American attack in mind. So in my opinion this can be done by forgoing infantry on turn one, possible buying one fighter and some ships. than next turn make a buy of all infantry. if he too the bait, he should be able to take you capital next turn. Loosing england I know does not sound like a good strategy, but through the extra turns and lack of infantry the Germans will not be able to make a good attack on Russia. These are my opinions, please tell me yours.
Infantry for Russia is indeed great, but an occasional artillery makes it possible to do small counter attacks. When Moskou is surrounded, taking back 1 or 2 ill-defended territories sometimes can block a more distant wave of German tanks participating in the following attack against moskou. A thing like that can win Russia a turn.
Also, having a few ‘offensive’ units will make the Germans more careful in their attacks.
As for UK, i wouldn’t give GErmany any gifts…
Losing London is not good, and remember, even when USA liberates it later, it takes 1 more turn before UK can buy anything + american fighters can’t land for defence. And Germany most probably still has its transports left, so they can just take it back again and loot the UK one more time, gaining more IPC’s than if it would not have been liberated.
Also the Allies lose alot of time with this (not only Axis) and while London is down, there aren’t any reinforcements in South Africa. Good for Italy!
So basically, for the UK: buy defence first and when it is safe you can start building fleet and air force (and tend to South Africa). All those defending infantry will come in handy later.
but what I’m saying is that germany would use too much IPC taking england and would not have enough forces to take russia. In those extra turns russia will have the forces from moscow and Stalingrad on the front and will be a strong force. I was a little liberal with the strategy though. In my opinion if England can buy enough infantry to make it a 50/50 deal, and get the germans to invest the money into a Sea-Lion, than I would think it would be a gamble that the allies would be more than welcome to take. But I agree you should not give your capital too the germans… even though I recently said too… I= fool.
