Posts made by KGrimB

Hi everyone

So I’m playing a game with a couple of friends and right now UK is really hurting. Every turn Germany is flying over 6 strategic bombers and 4 fighter escorts to bomb London’s major factory. London knew that Germany was going to do this because London had very few planes so he built several AA guns to defend England. When Germany attacked the first time we had to read the rules and learned that none of the AA guns could defend against the attack.

What? Now England is trying to repair and buy 2 fighters a turn, but they are getting killed quickly by the Germans.

How can England get out of this situation? The anti aircraft guns don’t do anything against all the strategic bombers and Germany has enough fighters to sacrifice to the British fighters when they get a hit.

What do you need to do to get out of this situation as England. The American player has been unable to assist. The German player is doing the right thing trying to stop UK from building units to defend from an invasion, but how can England turn the tide on its own?

Thanks for the advice everyone. I will defend Moscow. Do you think going for Finland and Norway is viable?

I have enough troops to take the Baltic states back, but they would die to a counterattack from Warsaw. So right now I think that sending troops away from Leningrad to go fight in Norway would cost me the ability to threaten Baltic states.

@WinterAdler:

You can move forward, when the us and british can land and germany must concentrade their ressource for them.
you get +3 ipc for earch european pro axis or original italian / german territory, this make russia strong at the end.
the best way to attack is south europe (greece, bulgaria, …), because you have a factory in ukraine and the axis cant defend theire your troops.

Ok so for now just hold on with infantry and make small attacks until the allies land.

@Private:

Welcome to the forum KGrimB

Russia’s job is to survive while its allies get themselves in a position to help, by coming north from the Middle East and/or landings in Europe and/or fighter reinforcements to Moscow.

What do you mean by fighter reinforcements? I know you can defend together but can I attack with American planes landing in Russia?

Hi all,

This is my first post on these forums and it is with regards to my first ever game of A&AG40.

Last week I had a friend invite me to their play group for the first time and they taught me the rules and mentioned the importance of infantry units. We then randomly drew countries and I got Russia.

My German opponent declared war immediately and has established a factory in Romania which he has been making tanks from. I spent the first 4 turns building infantry only and have stalled most of his advance such that he controls only 3 of my farthest western original russian territories. I’ve had some success using my fighter plane and tactical bomber to attack with infantry, but I feel like I’m still the defensive player. Italy has gotten out of hand and is threatening India and the Caucuses. America hasn’t made any landings in the West because their ships keep getting sunk by german subs and planes.

I feel like I have a high amount of infantry that I could build more offensive units like artillery and planes, but I’m curious how I can go on the offensive with America currently out of the picture. I think I need to threaten italy, but don’t know if I can spare the troops to attack in the middle east.

Outside of my situation, when you play as Russia how do you start pushing the Germans back?

Thanks,

KGrimB