New to Global. HELP

It is best to buy Mechs and can open and support Germany on the East Front. If the opportunity arises, and the U.K. and US player allow it, buy a DD to keep your convoying down. Don’t make it easy for the Allies to deny you income. German Fts often have to park in Rome to scramble to sink Subs.
Playing Italy is about bothering the Allies, forcing them to spend in the Med, when they want to go East, towards the ME.

Thank you! That makes sense. That’ll make a mess for uk to deal with lol.

@SouthsideCH:

@ColonelCarter:

That assumption is wrong. While Germany starts the scenario controlling those territories, they are still original Russian territories, similar to how the Chinese territories controlled by Japan at the start of the games are still original Chinese territories, preventing Japan from building major ICs on anything but Korea.

Then why in the set up instructions does it say put a German control marker on the territory, as well as units? Just a unit on it should be enough. Every time you take an enemy territory do you put a control marker on it? I don’t.

You can play however you want of course. But the rulebook clearly states:

@rulebook:

If you have captured the territory, place your control
marker on the territory and adjust the national production
levels.

While the emblem printed on the map indicates the original controller of the territory
the control marker indicates the the actual controller of the territory - as ColoneCarter pointed out.

There are some rules where the distinction between original and actual controller is of importance.
The 3 IPC bonus for Russia is only one example. The territories you mentioned can never become
“original German, Italian, or pro-Axis neutral territory that the Soviet Union controls”.
When the scenario begins Germany has already captured some original Russian territories.
If Russia takes them back, they will be original Russian territories under Russian control.

So better avoid confusion.
HTH :-)

This is the link for the Facebook page also guys.

https://www.facebook.com/Sarniaaxisandallies

Hitler lost five weeks by having to bail Mussolini out in Greece. Otherwise the Germans would have been to Moscow before bad weather. But there is no guarantee that the Russians would have surrendered even if they lost Moscow. Plans were underway to move the capital further East.

That’s what I thought too, Garg.  Only Cow knows for sure  :lol:

Get NSW BACK AS FAST AS POSSIBLE.

Focus your American Fleet in Hawaii IF you can hold there.  Make sure you don’t lose Hawaii or it’s game.

Put your focus into killing Japanese ground units, so that their ability to take your territories is limited.

Don’t let england fall to the Nazi’s,  focus British energies on killing the german navy, and taking norway/finland, and helping the reds hold onto Novisibirsk.  Fight the German units for every square inch of Russia, watch out for Blitzes and Italian can opener style attacks.

Try to kill the Italian navy however possible.  Perhaps with remnant indian fleet.

Thanks Spartan!  Found it. Very helpful.