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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is there anyway to take the ukraine and eastern europe first turn?
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Sure, with good dice :-)
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I always liked the strafe of Ukraine and the conquest of Algeria with Russia.
Obviously it has to be a no bid game or a poorly placed bid game for that to work though! hehe
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talking about no bid.
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Lets’ see, I think I used to start my bid at 5 and then stop around 20, to play the Allies. Any takers?
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Gimme 24 and I will play the axis. (no full PE bid)
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LOL, no I am not afraid of real strat… But most players don’t like a PE bid against them of 24…
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This thread cracks me up. :-)
Anyway,
is there anyway to take the ukraine and eastern europe first turn?
In LL it is definitely possible.
But with regular dice, it really isn’t needed. You don’t need to risk anything going terribly wrong for the Allies, let the Axis make the tough decisions.Now if this was a no bid game, it really doesnt matter what the Allies attack as they should win anyway.
But if there was a bid, the likely hood that you could attack both is probably slim to none and just not worth the risk.
If you really really really wanted to attack both, that probably means leaving the G Baltic ships (which can be bad) since you’ll need the fts in EE and/or Ukr.
Depending on your risk tolerance with Russia, it might be better to do the Ukr and Man attacks for Russia.
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True, the Allies can’t do “anything” or make outragegous attacks or make strange buys, but you can get away with a lot of bad habits if there is no bid to worry about.