I was wondering if you think fortifying africa first turn with us is appropriate at the potential loss of their ships. First turn you can obviously put 2 inf/1art/1 armor into algeria. If I coordiante with UK, UK can move their battleship into the area next to algeria ( i believe it is 12) from there I will move my two trannies/destroyer so that is the army that will defend. The only place german aircraft can attack that spot is from Western Europe/Libya. In my experience there is usually only one plane left in western europe so I am looking at an attack force of at the most 2 fighters/bomber/sub/battleship/trannie. This is just one scenario, but it is the worst case scenario I believe I would be looking at. Do you think this tradeoff is worthwhile, or should I just plan on putting initial us forces into algeria us2 after I have reinforced with additional navy bought on turn 1 (aircraft carrier and possibly a destroyer although it would most likely just be another aircraft carrier with 2 fighters). I think this is an important move, I never realized until the other day that it is possible to have troops into africa in one turn. In the games I have played Africa is usually a huge staging point/money pit so I would like to get a fair number of troops in there early on. Opinions please.Â
Edit: Well I see that this was discussed in the open Japan thread. I am wondering if I should just wait until US2 to move troops to Algeria. It would save me 28 IPCS worth of ships (if germany did decide to attack which I am sure they would), but then my troop movement and transportation will be a turn behind. I guess it doesn’t matter since initially I don’t have the funds to buy reinforcements to stock my trannies (other than a few infantry). I don’t know how much it will set me back though. I guess I could try doing one full tranny run on us2. At least I would have my fighters and my ac to back up my fleet. not really sure, i will probably have to figure out my options on paper.