I’ve had some success in the Med by being aggressive on UK1 - bringing all available naval and air units to bear on the Italian BB group. Usually ends up as a wipeout on both sides with UK saving a fighter or so. Granted the UK fleet is gone too but Italy simply does not have the income to rebuild before the US shows up.
If you can kill the Italian fleet on UK 1, doesn’t that put the French fleet in great position to be useful? They can head to Egypt on F1 and link up with the Madagascar destroyer for a 4 ship flotilla. This will be a major headache to any Italian designs in Africa for a couple of turns–time enough to get the US there. It also kills the Italian med NO and probably kills the Italian Egypt/S France/Greece NO as they cannot reinforce an attack on Egypt. That’s 10IPC (possibly) that can be denied IPC-starved Italy.
@Cmdr:
Uhm, just a thought here, but OOB, I have the Germans kill the SZ 93 fleet on the same round they sack Paris.
I assume this is G1–doesn’t this take away from all of the G1 attacks in Paris and the north Atlantic? How many ftrs do you send to Sz93 and where do you have them land in noncom? We’ve never had this happen as the German and Italian players have always been independent in our games with their own thoughts.