Posts made by DasReich

I wonder how you can take Gibraltar in G1 without a bid of an extra transport in the Med while you attack Anglo-Egypt with units from SEUR… While you need your only transport to take those units to Anglo-Egypt, you have no transport left to capture Gibraltar. I hope you know that with planes only, you can’t take an empty enemy territory… you need an amphibious assault (with ground units, thus) to make Gibraltar belong to G. So the fastest way to take Gibraltar if you transport troops to Anglo-Egypt, is on G2, right?..

In fact, I just sank the BB, didnt invade on foot because my transport was busy invading anglo-Egypt…

Very strange… Your opponent didn’t do anything about it? lol… well, when i play with my friend, he normally has a stack of GB-planes in Russian territories so he would attack every fleet in the Med who gets near Russian territory…

Yeah, well…The guys I played against are not what you can call veterans. Example: they thought, in order to conduct an amphibious landing, that you had to load your transports on your non combat movement phase and then offload your transports on the next turn… After an hour-long dispute and rulebook reading, I could proceed and go ahead with my invasion…

You CAN load and offload your transports during the combat movement phase RIGHT? I’d like to see the quote from the rulebook.

Interesting topic.

I played a game yesterday, as Germany. On T1 I built a baltic AC and 8 inf. I attacked Anglo-Egypt w 1 tank and 1 inf from SEUR. Destroyed the DD with BB in a single hit. Took planes from the balkans to attack anglo egypt and landed them in Lybia. I attacked Gibraltar BB with atlantic sub, 2 fightrs 1 bomb. Egypt fell on round 1. Africa was wide open cause the brits were also busy defending their “commonwealth” factory in India :-D.

On the next few turns, I was able to assault Caucus with a transport and a shore bombardment without interference from the Indian Navy. Moreover, i could bring reinforcements on the eastern front much faster than on foot with my transport. I landed a single tank in Africa and it gave me an extra 10 ipc’s per turn…

Of course the americans landed in Morocco, but at the expense of their expeditionnary force and a part of their fleet.

With Africa not only you gain IPC’s, but also time, by distracting the Allies at the expense of very few combat forces. A single tank  and two infantry aren’t going to make a huge difference on the eastern front if you play wisely.