IMO the German Med fleet is one of the most overrated pieces on the board b/c in reality Germany cannot afford to send any troops from Europe anyway. The game is won or lost in Europe and Africa is merely a sidebar so to that end no great lengths should be taken to protect the German BB. A few exceptions are to send it to the WMed to threaten the Uk1 naval build so as to make them not build or waste a ftr to destroy a bb. However this assumes you have enough air to be able to attack all other units of the Royal Navy which is iffy at best. Another reason to spare the bb is by going to Syria on G1 along with a take of AES f/Libya this helps protect Africa and gives Germany a huge ipc boom going on into the game. However, its very difficult to say if Germany will be able to afford this in Europe without risking EEuro so in general I’d say that the best move is to simply kack the bb against the Med bb and concentrate air in the UkSz while using the transport to landgrab Cauc or whatever.
Germany's First Move
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Germany’s first move should basically consist of this:
Attack Karelia with eight infantry and four tanks (The infantry are from: Finland Norway, three, Eastern Europe, three, and Germany, via Baltic Sea transport, two. The tanks are from: Germany, two, Eastern Europe, one, Finland Norway, one). This is assuming that the Russians have Ukraine.
You should win with roughly four infantry and four tanks.ÂAttack the Syria-Iraq sub with your Mediterranean Battleship and use your Southern European tank along with your infantry and tank from Libya to attack Egypt. You will win with probably two tanks remaining. Move the infantry from Algeria to French West Africa.
Use your fighter from Western Europe and your fighter from Germany to attack the Gibraltar battleship. If one fighter dies, let it be the German one and land the one from Western Europe in Eastern Europe. Attack the Canadian transport with your sub in Western Europe (if it’s still there; if it’s not, leave the transport alone). Attack the UK sea zone (which will probably have a Russian transport in it) with your fighter from Finland Norway and your unused fighter in Eastern Europe, and also your Baltic sub. You will probably wipe both forces out, but if you have a fighter left, land it in Karelia to better defend it against the Russians.
Use your bomber to strategic bomb Russia. Move your two remaining infantry in Germany and your two remaining infantry in Italy into Eastern Europe and also move your Western European tanks in there as well.
Purchase: five infantry, one tank, and one fighter. Place three of the infantry and the fighter in Germany, place the other two infantry and the tank in Southern Europe.
You are now making $35 per turn.
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What do you think is on Karelia when you are attacking it?
In the games i have played, Karelia is NEVER so lightly defended that you can get away with bringing so little to it and still capture it (nevermind have units left over). Maybe look at some recent posts - this argument has just been well detailed. -
On Karelia would be six infantry and a fighter.
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Dear googie,
i do appreciate that you are so eager to post your ideas here.
On the other hand, there is this very old rule, that you should “read only” for a few days when you join a forum.
If you had done that, then you would have come across:
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=5397.0
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=5398.0And even your first move for Japan (which is rude and totally useless) was already answered:
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=5347.0
(by someone who like you totally ignored the rule of reading for a week before the first post)So, feel free to search through the forum, and then decide wether what you have to contribute is worth it.
thanks a lot
PS: only if you play against total morons then you will find 6 INF and 1 Fighter on Karelia after R1
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Sorry about Japan. That was my sister. I wrote a new one that is now posted. I don’t appreciate you calling my ideas “moronic”. They work quite well for me, Axis or Allies.
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There are fools and greater fools.
You should look for some of the threads that actually garner discussion. The threads that are immediately disputed indicate strategic errors by the original poster.
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There are fools and greater fools.
You should look for some of the threads that actually garner discussion. The threads that are immediately disputed indicate strategic errors by the original poster.
Strategic errors, or game rule errors, Such as…
You will probably wipe both forces out, but if you have a fighter left, land it in Karelia to better defend it against the Russians.
You cannot land airplanes in newly taken over territory.
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