@Cow:
you can’t put naval units off soviet far east, because allies don’t start with any naval there.
It was a demonstration…I suppose I shoulda said something like France puts submarine in SZ 72 or some other waste of a bid…
@Cow:
standard play is the strongest as far as round 1 goes.
Not true, as I proved to NCSCSwitch in the days of revised, a non-standard opening can be significantly stronger against a “by-the-book” opponent. If you happen to know your opponent will play a standard game and you know he is mentally incapable of handling a change-up play, opening with the “Russian Triple” as I did could, and did, cost him the game. A more competent player would have done Germany 1 in a much better response to the Russian Triple and punished me for using it, instead, NCSCSwitch sputtered, putted out and eventually conceded the game to me, something up to that point he had not done in any game he had played - to my knowledge - against anyone.
So it is appropriate to use a non-standard open in some cases just as it is appropriate to use the standard open in some cases. After all, if you KNOW you are a better player, why mix things up? You could cost yourself the game. If you practice a myriad of different tactics - some good, some bad - you probably have more experience in handling the nuances of different strategies and may want to use that to your advantage - if you feel your opponent cannot handle it, and you fear you might lose to an equally or stronger player than yourself.
It is a tactic I come up with a lot, Kill America First, Kill Japan First, surprise strike here, surprise strike there. I’d say 90% of my strategies lead to nothing and/or failure, but the 10% that work I store so I can use them in tournaments, when I play in them, I just returned after a few years of not playing in them after all. lol