@rockrobinoff:
we are talking about a whole buys worth of russian troops (less three inf) attacking germany that turn. i would call that massive, and perhaps more important.
Recall I vegged on the defense of West Germany - the result of eight hours of non-stop fast paced gaming.
Had I noticed, I could have simply blocked USA with a cruiser in sz110 or sz104. That’s all I needed. Your “very cool move” was no more than my big blunder. The point is tat attack killed way more than one Russian build - something like half a dozen tanks, half a dozen troops, and a bomber.
I’d counted your stack, and without the assault on W. Germany (which I missed blocking), you were a big dog. If you’d sent more from the beginning, I could have sent more Italians to help, and even left fewer defenders in UK. It’s not so bad if you take back UK. I get to bring my tanks back, so It’s mostly only cost me the ten transports. for this 70 IPCs I collect 45 back and prevent three turns of UK spending (preventing five turns of UK boat building). If this leaves me enough to hold against Russia, maybe it’s a good deal.
Incidentally, If you want to be in Germany on R5, build as follows:
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Turn one, artillery in Leningrad, tanks in Moscow.
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Turn two, artillery in Leningrad, tanks in Moscow
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Turn three, tanks in Leningrad, planes in Moscow.
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Turn two, bombers in Moscow
But do you really want to plan an R5 strike in Berlin before you’ve seen my G2? If I spend my 70 IPCs on ground forces you might wish you’d bought more infantry and artillery I think. This is very interesting though, because an aggressive R1 might just allow you to under defend UK slightly (as you did) and still deter Sea Lion. This might end up being too costly for Russia, though.
@rockrobinoff:
i think it highly likely that a dedicated sea lion is a non starter against a competent russia. japan was still a couple of turns away from knocking on the russian door as well, and played about as speedily as japan can (without attacking UK straight away).
Too early to say. Probably it’s a non start if Russia buys top heavy turn one.
As for Japan, I couldn’t have been much faster doing what I did, but If I made a devoted rush for the Mediterranean I could have been supporting Europe a little sooner. I also think it’s possible to discover a Japanese strategy which lures USA into a fight in the Pacific. This would cast a new light on Sea Lion I think…