IMO the German Med fleet is one of the most overrated pieces on the board b/c in reality Germany cannot afford to send any troops from Europe anyway. The game is won or lost in Europe and Africa is merely a sidebar so to that end no great lengths should be taken to protect the German BB. A few exceptions are to send it to the WMed to threaten the Uk1 naval build so as to make them not build or waste a ftr to destroy a bb. However this assumes you have enough air to be able to attack all other units of the Royal Navy which is iffy at best. Another reason to spare the bb is by going to Syria on G1 along with a take of AES f/Libya this helps protect Africa and gives Germany a huge ipc boom going on into the game. However, its very difficult to say if Germany will be able to afford this in Europe without risking EEuro so in general I’d say that the best move is to simply kack the bb against the Med bb and concentrate air in the UkSz while using the transport to landgrab Cauc or whatever.
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Soooo, i have a question, assuming you are playing RR, and they strack in karelia with everything (18inf, 3 tanks, 2fig), what should Germany do? They can take Karelia T1 is they go with everything, but that doesnt seem worth it cause the navies of the UK are left untouched. So, a turn one attack is out. So in terms of land battles in Europe how do you attack? Do you push out to the Causcases? or pull back to E Europe with everything you got? Or string them out along a line, no matter what you do your tanks seem vulnerable to a R2 attack… if you pull the tanks back to Germany then the Inf. in E Europe are toast. I already have agood grasp of how to get all the sea units around me, and how to get into Africa, but i just dont see the best way. I play Russia aggressively so I look for good counter attacking oppourtunites if they present themselves.
thanks in advance
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Here is a recent thread where we covered this topic:
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=696
Also, there is a topic below on G1 w/2-hit battleships - 95% of it applies to 1-hit battleships as well. It has some good ideas for Turn 1 German strategies: