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With bids now getting solidly up into the mid 20s, a lot of things now depend on what kid of starting bid the allies choose. There will be cases where it may make sense to skip either z110 or z111 and go for the z91 cruiser or even the french ships.
Agreed, we don’t play with bids so the suggestion is purely from the rule set posted on these forums without any bids.
We have discussed using bids but nothing has materialized as of yet. It does appear that with a solid player behind the Axis Moscow tends to fall in our games. I have yet to deploy my Allied “Save Moscow” strategy yet except in TripleA against myself.
It typically requires a Persian Minor IC and funneling all UK purchases into FTR that end up flying to Moscow with Russians in full turtle INF purchases until the Germans are 2 rounds from Moscow - then full ART purchases. The odds turn against the Germans with 60+ INF once there are around 20 ART with them on Moscow.
I basically give up on a landing on Europe as the Allies, accept losing India and go 100% KJF with USA until one side breaks. Its actually a rather boring game for the Allies as the UK just buys FTR out of Persia, Russians buy INF and the US simply spends and spends in the Pacific playing Cat and Mouse with Japan’s early gains.