@Funcioneta:
The 2 USSR fighters in England is annonying … for USSR. It avoids any useful fighting in R1 (cannot hit west russia) and maybe even R2. And lets Caucasus almost undefended in R1 if you do Ucrania attack.
Russia can still attack Wrus with 12 inf, 2 rt, 4 arm. They take it out in one rd with 10 inf, 2 rt, 4 arm remaining.
It would be a bad bad bad idea to attack Ukr with 3 inf, 1 rt, 3 arm only and split the Wrus attack.
Leaving 1-2 inf Cauc on R1 is a nice way to get Germany to over extend early if they fall for the trap.
For your R2 attacks, your fts can still be used in Kar and you have Rt/arm for Belo/Ukr.
I see players constantly throwing away 3 Russian armor in Ukr on R1, so if you save them you are certainly free to use 1 or 2 on R2 if you need them.
@axis_roll:
@DarthMaximus:
I don’t see the loss of the ftrs for a turn or two as that big of a deal. You can still hammer Wrus with everything on R1 while Germany will be struggling in Afr and have no added units to help the push on Mos to show for it.
hmmm… 2 extra inf in karelia G1 is not considered pushing on Moscow?
It’s analogous to Ukraine…
Not really. 8 =/= 6 :-)
Why not just bid 6 then and place the units on Ukr? Or bid the 8, place two inf on Belo or Ukr and have 2 extra in cash? Why waste all 8 on a trn just to get 2 units to Kar during G’s NCM, you could even bid 6 to EE and do that.
Transporting 2 extra inf from Ger or WE to Kar is a whole territory behind direct placement on Belo or Ukr, at least those bids can be used to threaten Wrus/Cauc immediately.
IMO the only reason to bid to Sz 5 is to infact try and scare the UK since it is more cost effective to place the ground units directly in Europe or if you choose to go with a Germany naval strat b/c it is likely you’ll need to buy an AC on G1 for protection anyway, otherwise you’ll lose your bid trn to Allied aircraft in round 2.