Posts made by Je_Gab_Fan

I actually am a fan of SBR.

In my opinion, it would be a game opening strategy to use your bombers to raid. It is simply that when it will be time to go for the homerun, you will need your bombers dices.
You also have to consider that usuall, rich factions that would consider bombing first (USA,GER) usually don’t have a target on 1 turn sbr (except for London…).
This means you will start carpet bombing at least on turn 2.

I also am somehow convinced that you must not throw in too many bombers in such an operation…
when you have a whole lot of bombers you always seem too loose more thant if you had sent only 1-2…

but bombing a poor faction is the best way to set the way, going in for the kill.

build yourself an IC in France my friend.

consider pruchasing some planes/subs with germans since subs and bombers are now cheaper and can be combined to cripple any landing of allied troops in Europe.

Considering your Europe A&A background I can understand why you would build tanks all the way  :D
you must consider using infantry though. Build a constant stream of infantry to invade russia as they will serve as cannon fodders and you will need them to defend homeland when uk and usa come.
It is better to use 12-15 ipcs each turn to build infantry than spend your entire 50 ipcs one time buying soldiers…
you should also use the italians to support your actions, like attacking caucasus twice on the same turn, retaking france if the allies ever seize it, use your powerful fleet to bombard everywhere you attack with the italians.

with the japs

hell they are so strong… you cant really mess with them. rush india, as you will be able to use the IC built by the UK there to kill the chinese. you can even consider attacking the west usa if  you see an opening.

anyways, you can come up with new strategies according to the situation… the important is that you crush those damn red fools! ( if you seize caucasus early your chance of beating them goes drastically up.)

I do not agree with you on the stated weakness of Italy.

Since they start with a decent fleet, it will take some time for the americans to mess with them and they will be able to take africa while defending france for the germans. Plus they start out of the gate with a fair amount of tanks. I actually think they are not to be underestimated.

Hell you can even combine with germany to launch two attacks on caucasus each turn.
they can get to a decent production if they can control Africa… like 20-25 ipcs.

But I really think that their main strenght is the fleet they can use to control the mediterranean.

You could also set up a trap for allied navies, by sinking the dd and leaving your subs posted there.
If, by any chance, the german player was to be attacked by an english navy that would not dispose of a destroyer, they could trap them by submerging prior to the battle and coming back to attack the fleet on their turn, using planes togheter with the subs.

I don’t exactly remember the initial setup of the game and if uk disposes of a lot of destroyers, but in my opinion, this tactic could work at least once against inexperienced players.

Lynxes, you are so right, bombers are such a tremendous force now that they only cost 12.
with the new system you can seriously cripple an economy with 3 bombers.

And by experience, I think it is important to invest in the pacific as USA if the japanese go for a mitghy naval force. You gotta give them a decoy to go after, and maybe try to get it to China/India to keep the huge japanese navy busy.
It will be actually expensive but might save you from a japanese invasion.

but I disagree though about the Indian IC. I guess it’s important to prevent japan from becoming too strong. with the uk fighter in Africa and the russian tanks they might spare on turn 2-3, you can possibly keep it alive if the japanese player went with some conquests in China.

I think you are right…

in G1, each time the axis player looses an occasion to kill some brithis vessels, they will come back to haunt him, since chances are slim he will ever have the advantage in a future naval encounter.

It’s not about killing Italy THAT much as rendering it useless. Spending all your IPC to repair your factory screws up any of your plans…

that way you can protect africa, prevent Italy from defending Western Europe effectively or replenishing it’s fleet, crippling them for good using 12 us IPCs. Maybe once in a while you will need the use of the 3rd bomber ( UK’s finest) but steadily you can stop them Italians from pissing you off.

This strategy doesnt stop you from doing other stuff… its just an economical countermeasure to make sure germans spend a lot to defend western europe.

depends on what you want to do…

cruisers are great for latter part of the game considering you play on allies side. you will strike the units on the beaches whom cannot defend anymore.

but still I think that you have to mix up units to have a strong navy.

The best german fleet you can have though is a bunch of planes and a nasty pile of subs.

But just like Romulus said cruisers kinda suck, and if you are the Italian dude and you loose yours early on you start crying I guess…

How in the 9 hells could you get Italy to 124?…

I mean… even if you had Africa and you had raped russians, then took india, considering the plundering bonus it would be impossible to get to 124…

guess it must be a typo…

Screwing up Italy is soooo easy…

build yourself a third bomber with the americans and send it towards Europe. With the 2 bombers you now have on England, screw up the Italian economy, you will deal 6-12 dmg to they factory evey turn…

guess what, they wont be able to build new units anymore.
Get 2-3 transports full o GI’s and youre set for a showdown with the Fuhrer.

well if you don’t attack Italy you can still cripple it for 12 bucks!!

here are my 2 cents.

Listen guys,

with the new rules concerning subs and the way their stats are now edited, I would say that they are now more useless than anything.

THey are very weak and can not even be used to block seazones anymore.

I guess the GUARD strategy would work if you used some other types of vessels and if you built an IC in France in the first turn and then save as many units as you can from the allies and merge them in the sea zone in front of France…
I have actually never tried that but if you could do this to counter the allies, you would have to face an unexperimented russian fool to get away with it and still scream ‘’ Nazi victory’’ at the end of the game…

I used to be such a fan of german subs before the 50th edition… as said before in EUROPE they were very strong, you could catch every trade route of the allies in 1 single turn and crush their heads… still.