Posts made by KaLeu

Of the primary commanders of World War I, my vote would go to Marshal Ferdinand Foch of France. While far from perfect, he typically did much better than his contemporaries.

A wonderful effort - thank you very much.

I hate to tell you this, but the name of Mozambique is still missing.

Thank you!  :-)

I’m not much in favor of either Victory condition, but I chose Standard because that would be expected to represent a situation that seems hopeless for the losing side anyway.  But we normally simply play until one side capitulates.

I think it also needs to be mentioned that Algeria and SZ17 are not adjacent.  The map, as printed, suggests that they are.

@Col.Stauffenberg:

We do the opposite. We play 42 on the Revised board. The new one is too small.

The boards are not the same.  There are some differences especially in America.

@Cuyahoga:

So am I seeing this correct…one can travel directly from Central US into either …EUS, WUS, Eastern Canada, Mexico, or Panama

As far as I can see, you can not move from Central US into Mexico.  The lay out of the US territories has changed between Revised and 1942 - in Revised, Central US was on the rightmost pane of the board, now it’s on the leftmost pane.

You may be interested in earlier discussions about the Russian sub strategy on this forum, for instance:
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=16153.0
and:
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=15292.15

Thank you.

This may have been asked before, but on my printed map they seem to border, and in a game we played today, we decided they did.  The border between Algeria and SZ17 seems longer than the border between the UK and SZ3, and that border is real.

@Fleetwood:

You’d better be attacking the UK destroyer in the East Med otherwise the British can hit your reinforced med ships with a destroyer, 2 fighters, and a bomber. Even if you did take out that destroyer, I think I’d still consider the attack as the UK knowing that the Russians can follow up with their sub and two fighters.

Not attacking Egypt is unacceptable so as Germany I would make the Egypt attack and do what I can to capitalize on the Russians being short $6 in units and that they won’t use their fighters on R2. If Germany has fewer units in Africa, in this case probably just an inf and art TOPS at the end of G2, the temptation for the Allies is to send less units into Africa. Japan in a few rounds can really make the Allies pay if they make the mistake of going in too lightly.

You’re right about the possible British attack, but I still don’t much like to attack Egypt if that allows the Russians to sink my Med fleet.  It’s especially the transport I’d like to keep afloat as long as possible, because it allows me to drop 1 tank 1 inf a round into Africa.
So suppose I go a bit further as Germany and buy an AC in the Med on round 1 (and land two planes on it)?  Then on G2, I can march 3 inf 1 art 2 tanks from Lybia into Egypt, and at the same time drop 1 inf 1 tank from SEU.  Germany will be pretty strong in Africa and I don’t see what Britain or Russia can do about it.  If the British send their India fleet into the Med, Germany can sink it.  If they don’t, they’ll have to face Japan.
With the Med in Axis hands, I can put the AC in SZ 13 and threaten the Atlantic from there.

I agree that Egypt needs to be taken, but is it really necessary to capture it on G1 if that means losing the German Med fleet and therefore, not being able to reinforce Africa beyond what’s already there?

I do think that with the Russian Black Sea Sub, the idea of buying a destroyer and not attacking Egypt on G1, is viable.  The main thing I dislike about it is basically that the UK Egypt fighter lives.

On G1, Germany can move 1 tank 1 inf from Southern Europe to Libya.  Now if the UK stacks Egypt and moves the India fleet to the Med, Germany can still take out both.  In that case, as Germany I would also not attack the UK fleet in SZ 2, and use the atlantic sub and a few planes to take out the cruiser in SZ 13.  So I can have plenty of German planes handy to attack either the fleet or Egypt or both on G2.

The India option as mentioned by Incline has me slightly more worried, but it does imply that the UK will split its resources between Asia and Europe.  Spending 15 IPC in India in each turn to make that strategy work can become troublesome once the UK income will start to fall as Germany conquers Africa, so IPC-wise the UK may be forced to choose between either cutting back on India, or not being a factor in the Atlantic.

I haven’t even played the game yet, but I was wondering about this Russian sub strategy anyway.  And:

@russellkid:

My counter to a black sea sub is a simple mediterain destroyer. More often than not, the destroyer wins in combat, espeically on the offensive, so the sub wasnt able to inpact beyond me burning those 8 IPCs.

In that case, what do you do on G1?  I suppose you just leave the battleship and the transport where they are and do not attack Egypt?

You are right, of course.  It is a thing we used to do because it made counting hits easier, but it’s not correct.  Thanks again.

That was actually behind my question, because it was what we used to do, and it causes precisely this problem.

What could happen in my example, would be:
1. Attacking fighter hits
2. Defender moves sub behind casualty line (it can be hit by the fighter because the destoyer is there)
3. Attacking destroyer misses
4. Defending cruiser hits
5. Attacker chooses casualty, and removes the sub
6. Defending sub hits, but……
7. Attacker says: your sub can’t hit my fighter
8. Defender says: no, my cruiser hit your fighter and my sub hit your destroyer
9. Attacker: :evil: Defender: :x Others:  :-o  :| :roll:

Yes, that’s the one I’m thinking about, but indeed, they don’t quite look the same.  But the images on the box are a bit off anyway - Manstein, for instance, is clearly based on this picture:

But the version on the box looks distorted, with his head being rather round.

Not quite sure, but that may be Yamamoto.  He was bald and is mostly shown without a cap, but there’s a picture of him with a cap and it looks somewhat similar to this one.

Thank you!  For the welcome and for the answer.

Hi to everybody on this forum!  Good that it’s here, with so much information.  :-)

I have a bit of an obvious question, but I thought I’d just check to be sure.

Suppose in combat, the attacker has one destroyer and one fighter, and the defender has one cruiser and one sub.  The fighter hits, the destroyer misses, and for the defense, both the cruiser and the sub hit.
Question: can the attacker now claim that the cruiser hit the destroyer and therefore, the fighter is safe because the sub can’t hit it?
I basically think the attacker can not make such a claim, but just to make sure, I thought I’d ask.