@a44bigdog:
Also would you please layout how you are going to purchase a destroyer on G1 and then have 5 transports on G2 to invade England.
Okay, this is a big IF and a definite best case scenario in which UK and USA scramble everything to UK for defense, etc and not interfeir in your plan.
G1
I buy 1 DSTR, 3 TRNS, 1 INF which is 40 IPC (German starting income)
I attack UK Battleship in SZ13 (Gibraltar) with sub, Med. TRNS and Battleship, plus some fighters. (Battleship takes first defensive return hit, and possible 2nd is for the sub).
TRNS 1 survives and is in range of UK on G2.
And so is the Battleship for some shore bombardment aswell btw.
The Destroyer that might attack these two ships in UK1, is no match for my Battleship.
The other 4 are the 1 already in Baltic Sea, plus the 3 I bought.
That is, offcourse, if the UK will not attack the Baltic fleet on their first round with the air. But then you might even consider taking the Destroyers or Subs away as hits. This will not deminish your amphibious strentgh on G2, and might even take out some defense strentgh in the form of the attacking planes.
If UK places his fleet in the way on UK1, you still have quite some force to attack their fleet in G2 (fighters and ships), killing his fleet. Nice odds for G3.
Ow wait….I think I just figured out the benefit of the AC over the Destroyer. If you deploy a AC, you can place 2 fighters from an adjacent territory on it right ? That would make the fleet even more powerful, withstanding any UK attack on UK1.
And thus, you have 5 TRNS available for attack on G2.