Posts made by David '06

@trig You mean 3-6 damaged.

@david-06 I got to go now.

@chris_henry I see that it’s green. Maybe their are like the Partisans that CCP could buy and they basically do what Partisans do except that they can’t recruit. I think the should do guerilla attacks, on a 1 for one round only and they can’t be shot back at. Maybe add in some target selection.

@chris_henry How do you send in proposals? Of Expansions to HGB?

@chris_henry The amount of victory cities would be equal, 5 (Berlin, Rome, Tokyo, Nanking, and most importantly, Moscow.) to 5( the rest), unless Calcutta Falls (to Japan). Yes, I plan to have most of the USSR in a couple turns. For lend- lease, you need ports, which all could be taken within a few turns (air transport to Leningrad), later take Kola via airborne attack (if they hadn’t lend-lease any units there), I will use my armor to take unoccupied zones then later I would go south. The Japanese are crucial to take large land gains and helping Germany with a surrender onto the USSR. It would be a close game, but I think by default the Allies would lose. The Italian would easily grab a french territory near the end of the game and with Wartime Economy cash reserves could defend the Island.

As a side note, it would be really cool if they added some Really Hard VPs as bonuses like Conquering the USA, or Italy takes over Africa, Taking all axis Capitals.

@insanehoshi How would they do so?

@chris_henry OH, I didn’t see that. I think this is a great expansion. The invisible thing is when you click your profile and you have a couple of circles Green-Online, Orange-away, Red-do not disturb, and gray-which is invisible. Gray is also when you’re are offline, basically not on AxisandAllies.org.

@chris_henry said in Is it best for Italy to stay Neutral?: @insanehoshi said in Is it best for Italy to stay Neutral?:

I think a good question to ask before going to war is “Can i take Gibraltar/Suez”

Taking one or both of these is incredibly useful strategically.

Definitely. If you’re playing this wait and see strategy with Italy, I think the best thing you do is see if any opportunity arises to nab either one of those, otherwise I’d definitely say you’re better off sitting neutral for a while longer!

I totally agree with that. I would do both in hopefully one turn, so there will be no allies in the Med, which will force USA to force the strait and lose 1/4 of its navy.

@david-06 Also, why do you do the “invisible” thing.

Sorry if I’m offending you in any way.

@david-06 That’s just me.

@chris_henry I think that the invasion of southern Italy would give too much of an advantage to the Allies. they will only have to invade southern Italy

@chris_henry By 1940 it is basically a fact that they’ll be at war (Britain + France with Germany). The USSR is knocked out early, and major hostilities would end in 4-5 turns and the soviet union would probably end up hiding in the Caucasus mountains for a lot of the game (if they attack they will probably die and the Allies will have to face a larger enemy) and what ever factories that are made in that time could be bombed and basically they will be at a standstill. In Bavaria, They can build 5 infantry costing about 15IPPs. Combine that with the fort and now you have 5 6s, which means that the allies, to match in power will have to spend 30 IPPs (medium armor).

@chris_henry I do remember one game when I played as Italy and the Axis got basically naval supremacy (for 1 turn) after a naval defeat by the Americans and the Italian counter attack destroyed their naval fleet which was supposed to attack Rome and Italy basically took by the end of the game most of africa, but the USSR came and took Iraq.

@chris_henry The Allies don’t really have to do much to defend North Africa (drop in a few militia her and there) and they could just land in Rome and end the war (like @Trig had said). With an experienced Allied Player you can take out Italy with a little planning and a couple turns. Then they would be able to attack Germany from the south (like as said in the Somalian Pirate Strat). The Allies will already have IPPs tied down there and as @insaneHoshi had said, it seems that Italy will be a greater threat if neutral in the ability to attack than if they do attack. While neutral, they could potentially attack many areas, which means that the allies will have to tie down more IPPs or just give up more territories than if they attacked which means that they already attacked one or two areas, Great Britain won’t have to reinforce more areas.

@chris_henry Italy, with their little income, will spend it on capital ships (to the UK try to counter). Germany, in itself won’t have to defend in may areas, since its taking really few western territories=limited western response. The defensive war basically starts once both powers declare war on you, which there is a ~42% chance that at least one of them won’t be able to declare war on you (France most likely). you can drop a fort there later and build infantry and militia, which then if France attacks and fails, they might as well lose alasce-lorraine, then Paris, and this way, Germans will won’t have to concentrate on two fronts, but only defending one front.

@trig I like your thinking, but something to point out that wartime income (the Tech) would just give a massive boost if Italy goes into war( maybe 1944-45), which would easily cover the costs for defending the mainland (forts, miltia, more ships (destroyers, crusiers, stuff to defend you capital ships), and costal guns) I think that at some point Britain might as well give up the naval war which would allow Italy to send stuff to the Germans and Japanese (I mean, why not give a battleship to Japan?). I also think this will give you an easier hand at the Spanish Civil War. Though, I would probably try to Italy and Germany be controlled by the same player (so the Italian plyer wouldn’t be bored out of their mind). I think the best Early Abyssinian strat is to go defensive and send your aircraft there and when your ready, invade. If the Allies are really rubbing in the lend-lease, that is less money they have building up stuff.

I am just wondering is it the best strategy to Italy stay neutral. I am leaning on the neutral side, here’s why:

1. They could get all 4 victory conditions while staying neutral, and it is frankly easier doing so, since if they aren’t going to be attacking any major power, they don’t have to defend their home country, and they could spend more money on helping the nationalists, and they could spend more on tech, especially Wartime economy (more cash=more battleships) and improved construction (fast development of ships or cheap development). For Abyssinia, It might be best to stay defensive, if Abyssinia has lend-lease, or has succeeded on that recruitment roll, though maybe not.

2. They could support the other axis through lend-lease. To me, it seems usually it is the other way around with the offensive Italy, and A good British player would definitely suppress Italian plans to take areas with a few militia.

@chris_henry Defending is better than attacking. The Allies wouldn’t really attack Germany, at least not successfully, because of the defense the Germans will be putting up (which shall compose of infantry militia, and artillery mostly). The Allies won’t have much of a choice when it comes to attacking spots, if they don’t force through the Danish straits, which will take a toll on their navy, and trap it in the Baltic. Now thinking about it, Italy could stay neutral, and lend lease to the Germans and make capital ships for that one victory condition, and that one away from the British. Those numbers are if Japan takes their half of russia and China with the money islands, and Germany takes their half of Russia with the Baltic states and Yugoslavia and thelassy with turkey and I raq alliened

@chris_henry Also, simply put, the Axis at one point will be able to out produce the Allies and simply wait out the war.
Axis non-bonus: 130 IPPs
Allies non-bonus: 128 IPPs

@chris_henry This is where Italy will go into play. If Southern France is taken, then French troops into North Africa is delayed, and since from Northern Italy you can invade the Balkans, The French won’t really expect it. This, paired with the suicidal attacks into Paris, which will weaken France leading to less troops on the front. I think that the cash from the Soviet union will pay off more later on. Also, Germany doesn’t even have to take France and still will fulfill all of its VPs. So, in reality, they could play a defensive war and since the only two entrances will by that time be well defended, and infantry are really cheap, they could wait out the war.