@Alsch91:
Not quite.
Iraq - 5 IPCs
Persia - 2 IPCs
Ethiopia - 4 IPCs
Somaliland - 3 IPCs
Libya - 4 IPCs
Tobruk - 3 IPCs
That adds up fast and is more than worth the units you send to get it.� It’s also damn near impossible to take back, unlike Scandinavia.
Also, if you send a bunch of guys up to Karelia, Germany will either take a step back to Norway and kill anything you put in Finland, or stack Finland with a bunch of planes.� Either way, with good German play, you won’t be destroying all thsoe infantry.� And who knows how much Germany would have transported into Scandinavia in the turns before this move.
How soon are you expecting to get those last 4 in your list? Surely you don’t expect to get them before Germany arrives at Moscow?
I can see R3 collecting up to 7 IPC and I will give you that those territories are hard to claim for the Axis until Moscow falls.
With a G2 DOW I’d expect to see Germany on my doorstep to make its move on G6 (G2 EPoland, G3 Baltic, G4 Belarus, G5 Smolensk, G6 Moscow - with single units along the way taking connecting territories).
Assuming the Italians are removed from Africa I believe the earliest you can get into Eth/Tob is R5 meaning R6 you can spend it before Germany attacks Moscow, but the funny thing with it is that by the time that happens, you probably only have 2 IC’s to place units at for a total of 13 units.
Now granted you might be able to trade in 2-3 extra tanks instead of Inf on Moscow, but didn’t you just end up replacing the ones you sent into the desert by doing that? Particularly if you sent 2 Arm, 2 Mech 2 Inf to replace from your starting units.
Now if Germany fails in Moscow… thats a different story as those IPC become very valuable - but if you turn Germany at Moscow you’ve basically won Europe anyways. The extra IPC just speeds up the game at this point.
Now if Germany takes a step back to Norway, that is all fine by me. I’ll happily trade my Inf to prevent 6-9 Fodder from arriving at Moscow the same time the Armor/Mech does, especially if its basically even odds. That means I’m digging into the Mech fodder earlier when Moscow is attacked.
As for the Aircraft issue, who’s to say Russia needs to move its whole stack into Finland if Germany backs off? A single Inf moving in nets Moscow 5 IPC to collect. Even if the Inf is lost on the following turn, Russia is +2 for the trade not counting the fact the stack of German Inf is not stepping into my territories and won’t be able to arrive in Moscow the same time the big stack does. Granted Germany can still leave 1 Inf behind, but mission accomplished, all those units are not arriving in time:
Look at it this way: Germany steps back into Norway on G2 puts a successful march timeline of those Inf as following:
G3 Finland, G4 Karelia, G5 Leningrad, G6 Archangel, G7 Smolensk, G8 Moscow
With the bulk of the German army arriving at Moscow on G6, I’ve bought myself either less Inf attacking Moscow or more time for the Allies to harass Germany in France if Germany waits for them to catch up.
In the end, yes there is more money to be made in Africa for Russia. But timing wise, the benefit seems a break-even for Russia to do so.