Finland In Axis & Allies Stalingrad?

Minor Axis Units – Strategic Use Guide

Note: AI was used only to enhance and correct my wording all ideas are from me.

Utility Roles
Minor Axis infantry are perfect for jobs you don’t want to waste German troops on:

Blockers – delay Soviet advances while your main German force positions for an attack.

Gap fillers – plug holes in your line when you’re thin on units.

Meat shields – soak up hits in battles so your higher-value German units survive longer.

Rule of thumb: let them take the hits, not your Germans.

Extra Artillery
Minor Axis artillery are identical in stats to German artillery.

If you run out of German artillery sculpts, you can buy Minor Axis artillery to keep your combined-arms firepower going.

For Multiplier Preservation
German infantry are the only Axis Infantry that can Multiple in the Stalingrad City board.

If you run out of German infantry sculpts outside the city, you can’t use the Multiplier via purchase.

To prevent this:

When you need more infantry for the wider map and you’re low on German sculpts, buy Minor Axis infantry instead.

This keeps German infantry sculpts in reserve for sending into Stalingrad where they can become Multiplied.

This won’t happen every game, but when it does, it can save you from a late-game sniper shortage.

Final Takeaway

Minor Axis infantry: Don’t buy them unless you’re protecting German infantry sculpts for Force Multiplying. Use the starting ones for blocking, filling, and dying in place of Germans.

Minor Axis artillery: Worth buying if you need more guns or run out of German artillery sculpts.

Treat Minor Axis as expendable auxiliaries—freeing up German units for the real work.

@jim010

Nice.

@Panther thank you very much.
Started reading that yesterday. Hope to finish later today.

@domanmacgee Thanks for your idea, Don.

But such a game (series of games) would be huge. And at the very least you would need new plastic playing pieces for each new era / time period…

@jesse144 I don’t know about Football or whomever “John Boyd” is. Clausewitz is the real genius and to read his book is to profit from real military wisdom. You can believe that.