How many turns til UK liberation?

@dazedwit every group of players has their own tendencies. Sometimes a different unique strategy breaks the box. I’d start by saying 99 percent of the time a Romanian major factory is a poor decision. It doesn’t tangibly accelerate the time line into russia. You can use the russian factories and have 30 dollars of additional troops to capture these. It sounds like your group doesnt do a g1 attack on russia? I found my new favorite barbarossa plan is to strip 3 tanks from paris and hit eastern Poland with 6 tanks and some infantry. I can attack moscow on 5 with fair chances for success I can hold for g6 with overwhelming odds. If the allies sellout and rally 10 plus fighters to moscow it may take a little longer but axis should be doing well elsewhere. If your buddy is building a major factory. Do what works. Bomb him until he figures out his mistake. I like your thinking, just be ready to evolve when your buddy fixes his strategy.

@azpathfinder said in IC in France Liberated by US - Upgrade?:

Can the US upgrade the factory in Normandy to a major IC and keep control of it (until Paris is liberated, at which point it would become a French IC)? Thereby allowing the US to build 10 … or are they restricted to building 3?

Rulebook Europe 1940.2 page 27:
“The industrial complex to be upgraded must be located on an originally controlled (not
captured) territory that you have controlled since the beginning of your turn and that has an IPC value of 3 or higher.”

Normandy Bordeaux - originally controlled by France - has an IPC value of only 2.
So two reasons why US can’t do what you intend.

@azpathfinder said in IC in France Liberated by US - Upgrade?:

Please only provide answers that support my opinion, because the other side (who also reads this forum) is filled with a bunch of cheaters and hooligans.

I can’t figure out which side seems to know the respective rules however.
So - sorry - just in case your opinion was against the rules. :wink:

cc: @SuperbattleshipYamato

@Panzerboy0191
I think there is general agreement German bombers are awesome. They threaten the Allied Atlantic Fleet in the Channel and off Gibraltar, the Allied Med Fleet, Moscow and Egypt. Having said that not sure buying bombers before you have enough ground troops to push Russia back is a good idea.

I have played a succesfull game where Germany was able to take the West Indies and Strategically bomb Eastern USA

Also your Allied opponent was obviously weak. The German Navy should never have control of the Atlantic.

It did change in some of the Alpha+N rulesets but the official rules have been pretty static since 2nd Ed.

@bfreestone2002
Repairs take place during “Phase 1: Purchase & Repair Units”. It does not affect movement of the repaired unit in later combat and noncombat move phases in any way.

@Dark_Destroyer:

I thought you couldn’t blitz through neutrals?

I assume he meant after turkey was claimed.

@JimmyHat:

best counter is an easy Sealion.

Agreed, if you built a Carrier with Germany on round 1, and the UK either buys units in S Africa or builds an IC somewhere, the Germans need to go all in on Sea Lion.  As Germany, launch your attack on London on G3 and you should win with acceptable losses.  Situations like these are what Sea Lion is all about :)

@special:

@Thantonous:

and to go through the straights Turkey has to be controlled.

They don’t need to go through, Greece borders the Black Sea

Thats why I thought of doing the attack.