Attacking air + destroyer vs subs+surface ships +air

You are, for two reasons.  First, subs fire or submerge before anything else fires, unless there is an enemy destroyer in the battle.  Second, air units can’t hit subs unless there’s a destroyer friendly to the air units in the battle.  So, in the case of only air units attacking only subs, the subs can submerge before the air units fire, but even if they don’t the air units can’t hit them.

Good idea Mellemhend.

lots of sub help stalling an american progress, this for sure. but it is hard to find best positions on the map where you can “hide” yourself from destroyers etc. and counterattack later on.

but it helps.

maybe next time i will spend the french money on mostly subs and bombers. maybe like this: G1 3 subs, 1 bomber, G2 (63 IPCs) 6 subs, 2 bombers. so one can have up to 10 subs and 4 bombers as germany. after that planes and infantry…etc.

any ideas about it?

rock`n roll

@JamesAleman:

When planning attacks do you round up or down the number of hits you will get as the attacker and the number of hits the defender will get?

To keep it simple in my head, I round my attacks down and the defenders up. If I am likely to win that way, then I will do the attack if it is minor.

Simply put, attacking 5 armor is 2 hits, defending it would be 3. So I would not attack 5 armor with 5 armor as it is a coin toss and to be safe I favor the worst case to keep me from making rash attacks.

So what do you do when planning in your head?

Round them as you stated and assume that any BB/CA amphibious bombardment will miss (and enemy ones will hit) and at least 1 AA hit, depending on the number of planes.

@Doomreaperx:

Im so pissed off, i orderd mine from amazon while they said there was only 2 copies left. and I just got an e-mail saying it wont be here till the 15th of september!  :x

that stinks

@Axisgirl:

And if you let Italy eat up Africa…Then Germany looks pretty bleak

Africa will be hard, but if you can get through Egypt and Med you will be able to slowly move on the British, but they have an IC in South Africa. Russia will be bigger so Germany could get a lot more countless territories and France will be a few, so they can build up, but if the US ever gets there they are rich

Nice work!

Now how about a complete listing of WWII air bases?  :wink:

@Emperor_Taiki:

I know what you saying about ports and the overpowerness of air vs naval, but in AAP40 their are a lot of  places for the navies to hide from aircraft, it accauly feals kinda like the real war.

Most of those hiding places include an island AB. There will be islands in the Med, and you have Iceland but Larry already said no Azores. So unless there is an island in the Baltic or a special rule for scrambling near straights hiding places will be limited. Maybe there will be a rule that you can scramble from a capital in the global game.