36 Days till E-Day

@FranceNeedsMorePower

In theory, yes, if you captured France as Germany with only 1-2 land units remaining, you would collect all France unspent IPC. Then, if France is liberated (by any Allied power) and recaptured by the Axis after France’s next collect income phase, the conquring Axis power would collect any remaining IPC’s from France.

I say in theory, because practically speaking, as the Axis, it would be difficult to plan for this, unless you were willing to both sacrifce air units to ensure a capturable amount of land units remain and assume the Allies would recapture with a likewise “recapturable” amount of land units left in France.

While it may be advisable to retake a capital to prevent the enemy from making it through a production and deployment phase, allowing them to keep the capital until it can be liberated and soundly held may be less detrimental then giving the enemy a chance at a “second collection” depending on the production level of the power being (re)conquered.

Thanks WarDog @Krieghund !

I haven’t been able to post a map picture, but after thinking about it more, additional context of the German army disposition in nearby territories could impact the decision as well, as they would be the next power in theater to move. If France taking Kaz’ would prevent any armored and mechanized forces from Novosibirsk moving through Kaz’ into the Caucasus, it may be woth sacrificing the 1 IPC income to prevent Germany from securing a 5 IPC bonus. Always multiple points of context to consider, which makes for a very rich gameplay.

@Shadowdoom286

This is for Global 1940 but I’m sure at least half of the details here apply to Europe 1940 (lots of options):

https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/assets/uploads/files/1700408602301-allied-playbook-g40-collection-of-essays.pdf

@Shadowdoom286

As the Russian player, continue to stack infantry on Russia and Novgorod. Also, a nice compliment of mobile (ie: tanks and mechanized infantry with movement 2) stationed at Bryansk with your air corp at Novgorod makes a nice counter-attack force that can hit nearly every territory along the Eastern front.

For Germany, by turn 4, that player may have wanted to consider buying more mechanized infantry earlier, and more consistently, as it allows fresh troops to catch up with the asualt eastward, preserving your high value tanks up to the gates of Moscow. It also allows you to capitalize on gaps in soviet defenses to blitz through (tanks + mech inf) in order to unbalance and pose new threats to the Soviets.

Enjoy!

@SuperbattleshipYamato edited

@The-Janus

I’m not an expert, but I do have some thoughts on your thoughts:

I think you’re seriously underrating artillery. While I agree that tanks are the best buy for the US (though not the UK-if you’re doing “Middle Earth”, where you dump a bunch of minor industrial complexes in the Middle East and Egypt and mass produce ground units and march them up to the Soviet Union, they’ll be cash-strapped enough to need artillery, and the Middle East to the Eastern Front isn’t terribly far), as you mentioned, they’re the perfect option for large land powers like Germany and the Soviet Union. Keep in mind that artillery is way more cost-effective than tanks in terms of sheer firepower. 9 infantry and 9 artillery (63 IPCs worth of units) have a 70+% chance of winning against 6 infantry and 6 tanks (63 IPCs worth of units) regardless of whether either side is attacking or defending. Because of this, if America is focusing more on delivering troops to Europe directly via transports (rather than your strategy of moving through North Africa to the Eastern Front), artillery could still be valuable to provide more cost-effective firepower, since Western Europe is so dense that 2-space-movers aren’t very useful. If we’re going directly after Western Europe, I’d rather have 8 infantry, 8 artillery, and 8 transports (112 IPCs) rather than 7 infantry, 7 tanks, and 7 transports (112 IPCs).

Your view of mechanized infantry is mostly correct. I do think Germany isn’t as hard-pressed as you think and can afford them (and they’re an absolute must if you’re preparing a giant assault on Moscow on a specific turn).

Tactical bombers aren’t very useful in Europe because carriers aren’t very useful there.

You’re right about cruisers, and others agree with you (https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/35286/warfare-principles-of-axis-allies-by-andrewaagamer/4?page=1, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_P4GK8o2kE). Some people this was intentional to simulate how they and battleships were obsolete to make the game more realistic.

Yeah, convoys are messed up.

I think that a Baltic fleet for taking on the USSR is useful, but there are far better things for Germany (though a navy built for other purposes, for example Sealion, would be an excellent resource against Leningrad).

How much did you pay for shipping (USA to UK)?