The UK had a lone commando with air support that cost me the game on Turn 2 just last night!
OK, at the beginning of Germany-2 I had 2I and 1A in Egypt, and a T next to SE. He had hit my battleship on UK1 and landed the Indian Fighter and his Bomber in Syria-Iraq, with 1 lone infantry. He didn’t bring 2I from India to protect them, so I am thinking “sweet - scratch two UK airplanes!”
I didn’t want to take a chance with Africa so I hit Syria with everything - 4I, 1A, and a Fighter from EE. To make a long story short he killed everything but my fighter without losing a thing! Then on his turn he killed my transport and fighter with the troops that shouldn’t have been alive, again without losing a thing.
At the end of UK2 I had no navy and Africa was empty except for that lone UK Commando in Egypt!
Needless to say, I had to buy all infantry with Germany the rest of the game and lost about 6 turns later… after the game I got on the odds calculator - I had a 97% chance of winning that battle, and should have had 2I/1A/1F remaining!
“A clever military leader will succeed in many cases in choosing defensive positions of such an offensive nature from the strategic point of view that the enemy is compelled to attack us in them.” - Moltke
[ This Message was edited by: Ansbach on 2002-06-04 09:51 ]