I play a more balanced game of 60/40 leaning to teh Atlantic early on and then switching to the Pacific at around turn 6-7. U.S. bombers to the UK to help pound German factories and loaded transports, destroyers and cruisers to Gibraltor. Your there in one move from the East Coast and from there can hit Norway, Normandy, Gibraltor, Morocco, or Italy. If the Italy has taken Gibraltor…take it back and open up the Med. If the UK is strugling in North Africa, Help them out. How does this Contain Germany? The opening of the Med means the usually less protected souther Europe or Balkens are easier to take and advance right at the heart of Germanyand can redirect their efforts to give the Soviets a chance to fight back. Once you get a series of convoys going back and forth between Gibraltor and the East Coast and the Med has been opened, you can hit the Germans in so many places that they will have to expend Soviet bound resources in Western Europe. They can’t fight in every direction. Fighters and bombers from Gibraltor (add an airbase) and London can help defend against dark skies and also activate green skies and we in the midwest know what green skies mean.
Southern France for Germany
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IMO Killing the Bristish fighter in Normandy will help Italy more than Germany taking southern France. Southern France is a place Italy can actually help out with and, Germnay can’t afford to be building things in the Med. anyway. They have both Russia and the U.K. to deal with.
If Germany has southern France then they are in position to help Italy if needed. There is also that bonus for Germany in Egypt. If the axis do not hold Africa then Germany will never be able to deal with U.K. plus the U.S. and Russia.
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IMO Killing the Bristish fighter in Normandy will help Italy more than Germany taking southern France. Southern France is a place Italy can actually help out with and, Germnay can’t afford to be building things in the Med. anyway. They have both Russia and the U.K. to deal with.
I’ve tossed in a few submarines in the Med, if only to keep the Anglo-Americans out.
Realistically, it is the easiest way to get a ground unit to Egypt and I am not a virgin in putting 2 cruisers and a transport in the Med so I can assist in N. Africa. It’s worth 5 IPC for Germany and, coupled with the Med, 10 IPC + TT for Italy. THen there’s the bonuses for the Middle East and, in Barbarossa, that’s a huge boon as well.
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@Cmdr:
IMO Killing the Bristish fighter in Normandy will help Italy more than Germany taking southern France. Southern France is a place Italy can actually help out with and, Germnay can’t afford to be building things in the Med. anyway. They have both Russia and the U.K. to deal with.
I’ve tossed in a few submarines in the Med, if only to keep the Anglo-Americans out.
Realistically, it is the easiest way to get a ground unit to Egypt and I am not a virgin in putting 2 cruisers and a transport in the Med so I can assist in N. Africa. It’s worth 5 IPC for Germany and, coupled with the Med, 10 IPC + TT for Italy. THen there’s the bonuses for the Middle East and, in Barbarossa, that’s a huge boon as well.
Absolutly, great post!
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I am not a virgin
Never before was there such a true statement.
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I am not a virgin
Never before was there such a true statement.
OK Gar, you did it again. You have left no doubt this time. You are definatly a mental case.
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I am not a virgin
Never before was there such a true statement.
OK Gar, you did it again. You have left no doubt this time. You are definatly a mental case.
Wait, you had doubt???
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@Cmdr:
I am not a virgin
Never before was there such a true statement.
OK Gar, you did it again. You have left no doubt this time. You are definatly a mental case.
Wait, you had doubt???
CJ, does Gar remind you of Brain Damaged?
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Drain bamaged?
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@Cmdr:
Drain bamaged?
Yes thats the one!
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I don’t care what you say, oss-ifer, there’s no blood in my alkee-haul system!