@adaptation:
Sinking German BB TRN is a very solid move if you kept egypt. This pretty much secures Africa which is a major point.
Attacking the Japanese BB,CV,2FTR is NEVER a good move without the egypt fighter and even that isn’t that great
Sending both the australian fleet and indian fleet on the japanese fleet gives this:
2Cruiser,1FTR,1AC,1sub,2trans (12 in attack value) vs 1BB,1AC,2FTR(15 attack value).
While the 2 transport can take some damage, it is still not worth it. With the egypt fighter, its 15 vs 15(in rolling value), but at least you get to absorb two shots with your transports. However you leave egypt empty(and the german fleet intact).
While you can always attempt to take out the egyptian fleet with your cruiser in sz14(south of france) and your UK bomber(fairly risky). Then again, you still have egypt with only 1 infantry(you move the transjordan inf to egypt).
All of this is assuming Germany tried and failed a G1 Egypt attack. If they stacked up for a G2 attack, the whole thing takes a different turn(which i won’t get into here).
Back to the pacific fleet - If Germany gets egypt, most of the time you should try to get it back using your transport and fighter from india. Fighter(from india)+UK bomber+Cruiser in sz14 can take out German fleet.
The rest of the fleet, as boring as it seems, should stack up in sea zone 30(the seazone where the indian and australian fleet can meet, near Antarctica!). From there the play defense and try to drop on Japanese Islands or go towards the med, depends on what Japan does, as well as the US plan.
Hi,
Well, you can’t sink German BB since UK Cruiser on Gibraltar will be dead, most likely attacked by 3 German FTRs. And if Germany goes to Egypt, then UK DD outside Syria is finished too, so basically UK will have 1 Bomber and 1 FTR to attack the German BB with, and that’s not a good idea.
That’s why Russian FTR from Moscow need to go to Egypt on R1, so you don’t need to think of these problems German can cause:)
Yes, UK can gather their fleet on SZ30, I argued for that earlier, however it seems it’s better to kill the E-Indies fleet, because Japan gets totaly crazy if that fleet survives, so it really has to go + a land attack combination by the UK which I mentioned in Russia opening move thread will also work a lot better to put pressure on FIC.
Also there is another option, if you really want to take a valuable island from Japan, then take the one that gives you 4 IPC, which is E-Indies. Trust that your UK Fleet - 2 FTR, Carrier, Submarine, 2 Cruisers will take out Japanese fleet, and then land 4 UK INF to attack 2 Japanese INF. 2 UK INF from India and 2 UK INF from Australia. That would weaken a little bit my land combination attack by 2 UK INF, but, it’s a good alternative.