Russian Black Sea Fleet

[Guest]

That is why I was asking… if anyone else has ever tried it an had any luck with it. :-P

It is certainly NOT somethign I am about to do… but hey, some folks on here have tried some crazy stuff, and wanted to know if that was something anyone had tried :-)

[Guest]

Of course they could do an AC and a TRN on R1, then just shift there existing land forces for defense… and land 2 FIGs on the AC…

:mrgreen:

[trihero]

I dunno, I like the sound of a Russian battleship….

[Octopus]

Me too.

I think it should be tried in any existing games at the moment.

[trihero]

My friend seriously used to ask whether or not he could place navy in the Caspian sea (adjacet to kazakh/caucasus) because he wanted to put a battleship in there with a transport and bombard things that came by……

Another friend built 2 destroyers in the black sea on R2 the second time we played. He was trying to destroy the med fleet I think but for some reason retreated through the suez canal and it was utterly worthless…

[Guest]

I HAVE placed a BB on the Caspian Sea before…  It was the round Japan was going to fall in a Total Victory Game of Classic.  Did not need any more forces off Manch, so I said what the heck and built it :-)

Never got around to the AC though…the British fleet arrived and amphibed Tokyo :-(

[Axel Allie]

Like always:

I would never try a black sea fleet with experienced players…
Same as all you guys I see.
but what the heck if you’re playing with newbies?
that’s the moment where you can do something crazy and fun as well I guess 8-)

But for me, it would be something like: save about 15 IPC’s from R’s last investment, so Russia has probably at least 40 IPC’s at once…
and then you can buy an AC and a BB in the next round for example.
you can load the AC with your existing figs and buy a few trannies in the following round.

If G still has a lot of figs flying around, it’s probably a lost case, anyway (even with newbies :-P)

[Squash]

I’ve tried! Although it’s probably different than what you’re thinking. GB and I (Russia) tried an experimental strategy. Instead of an early offence, I pulled my troops back to Russia and the Caucasus, and bought nothing but infantry first turn. Obviously Germany moved up but didn’t attack, and fortunately, Egypt was not taken by the Germans. The British moved their Indian fleet up through the suez, and the game went on. Second turn, Russia built 3 transports, making 4 including Britain’s, two infantry loaded into the British transport. Germany tried to take out the British med fleet but got massacred, so it went to GB’s turn. GB moved it’s fleet West to S. Europe. Russian turn came around, transports loaded, moved, and unloaded at S. Europe, 8 infantry attack Rome. They got slaughtered. But the point is I tried it, and the fleet remained, and I moved them up to Britain, allowing them to have the transports to majorly pump troops into Norway, then Western. So the game went well, and in the end I got the transports to work, but it didn’t really help the Eastern Front.

[BobbyChicken]

I’ve done it in a very weird situation in which Russia had 100+ IPCs to burn.  Don’t ask.  Strange things happen on turn 100.

[Axel Allie]

I think I’ll give a try at the strat Squash suggested…
of course: only when I’m playing with a newbie  :lol:
(the day after tomorrow, woohoo)

R buys a lot of infantry first turn (as usual)
and if UK still has a passage to the Med, the Indian ships go that way.
then in R2: I’ll buy 3 trannies…

this means: in G3… Germany would have had an attack of 6 Russians somewhere along the southern border…

but what I was thinking…
(this popped into my head while I was reading the thread, so I didn’t give it any serious thought so far)
If R3 does nothing with his trannies…
and UK3 does an invasion in Western Europe, USA3 reinforces this, and R4 reinforces as well!!!
I think Western Europe would be difficult to take back in G4?
don’t you think?

[Squash]

That’s a plan so cunning you could stick a tail on it and call it a weasel!

[Axel Allie]

@Squash:

That’s a plan so cunning you could stick a tail on it and call it a weasel!

hmm, I don’t know this expression :?
what does it mean?

[Squash]

Means it’s good:)

[Guest]

Just remember… the UK sailing through initially only reach SZ15… the Russians have to build in SZ16…

And there is that pesky BB and TRN running around, maybe even a SUB from the BB battle in SZ13… and then the Luftwaffe…

[Axel Allie]

indeed, I’ll try to wipe out the Med fleet with the complete UK fleet in maybe UK3 or UK4…
rather than having them massacred to the G AF (both R trannies and UK fleet)…
Still, it is a plan that will be executed versus newbies by my hands some day…
:-D

[critmonster]

it is too bad that russia doesn’t at least have SOME option on fleet/naval that isn’t suicide against even marginal german play.  even in classic we never saw it, not even day one

[triforce]

I’ve only seen russa build a fleet when the game was over for all purposes.  Germany had fallen and Japan was about to.  So he put 2 BB in the pac using a IC that Japan built.  I was foolish and went after US with Japan.  Suicide.