POLL Malta: Naval Base or Air Base or Both or None

[Shakespeare]

How do you feel about MALTA in Europe/Global 1940?

[finnman]

Just an air base, that would let it scramble to hit passing ships.

[The Fire Knight]

I say it should be whatever it was historically. I'm no expert, but I definitely know that Malta was a historical air fortress. Not sure about naval, but whatever they had, I think it should be represented that way.

[Brain Damaged]

Malta had both a naval base and an air base.

[McMan]

I think they should definitely do both if that was the case historically. If they're expanding theaters like North Africa and the Middle East, I think the Mediterranean should be expanded as well. I hope to see an increasing importance of the UK possessions in the Med. Cyprus, Malta, and Gibraltar should all be territories with bases. IMHO, they should be linked to a national objective, seeing as they were all critical UK naval outposts. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Larry said something about having a smaller number of NO's to keep the game from getting too complex, so I suppose this is all wishful thinking for now.

[WILD BILL]

I said both. You can't have a fortress w/o air scramble, the UK/US will need somewhere to protect their  super fleets. They'll also need extra mobility and a place to repair ships besides Gib.

[calvinhobbesliker]

Does malta need an airbase? It's in the middle of the med, which will probably be 3 spaces wide.

[SAS]

Does malta need an airbase? It's in the middle of the med, which will probably be 3 spaces wide.

It needs it for scrambling, that's pretty much a given.

[calvinhobbesliker]

Does malta need an airbase? It's in the middle of the med, which will probably be 3 spaces wide.

It needs it for scrambling, that's pretty much a given.

Sorry, I meant naval base

[SAS]

Does malta need an airbase? It's in the middle of the med, which will probably be 3 spaces wide.

It needs it for scrambling, that's pretty much a given.

Sorry, I meant naval base

Ah, that makes sense.  Perhaps the Med will be wider now also since the Baltic is going from 1 seazone to 3 and the Mediterranean is about twice as big...

[Veqryn]

it should have both, and it should also have a HUGE garrison of non-moveable units (like four or five 0/3/0/6 bunkers)

[Razor]

Med will look like this

[Admiral of the Combined Fleet]

That map looks about right, at least within my own perspective terms.

As for the original topic, I'm hoping both the British will have both a naval and airbase on Malta, and I'm suspecting that they might have at least one fighter there as well.

[Razor]

Malta only need an Airbase. Its 6 freekins islands in the Med, with both air and naval bases on all of them its gonna be freekin crowded, man

[SAS]

Malta only need an Airbase. Its 6 freekins islands in the Med, with both air and naval bases on all of them its gonna be freekin crowded, man

I wasn't aware the other islands were going to be included, or if they were, that they wouldn't really be all that playable; like Iceland or Formosa in AE (though I am aware that Iceland is supposed to have a more playable role in this version).  I doubt "all of them" are going to have air and naval bases.