MOVED: Re: escort service

Once again, thank you so much! You really helped me a lot there!
Thank you!  :-D :wink:

If your playing a smart player, who does not “Pearl Harbor” with Japan and uses the Navy to take India which is basically Impossible to stop.  Do not buy Industrial complex turn 1.  Wait and see if the Japan player does “Pearl Harbor” or not if he does then you should be safe but i would wait until turn 2 or 3.  Don’t forget about the 2 infantry and transport in Australia they help defend India very well, Also the transport can move Infantry from Africa to India (after Germany has been removed from Africa).  My favorite UK strategy is to fly fighters from India to Russia “Moscow”. Creates a brick wall of infantry and fighters to setup a long game to use the Allied 3 turn advantage to win.  Its hilarious to watch Germany throw tanks and infantry trying to wear down Russia and the 10+ UK fighters and Russian Infantry  just obliterate them.

I think the essential arithmetic on this issue is how one wants to spend their money. For the defender, interceptors will certainly lessen the effects of SBR at the price of depriving these units from the front where they will be missed. This is also true for the escorts. Is it worth losing 1 or 2 fighters to prevent some  damage?  I guess it depends on ones point of view.

As for Craig’s view I’m not sure I buy that AAP/E are more complex than AAR/50 The mechanics of both are essentially the same.
For the same reason I think AAP/E are more in the lineage of AAR/50. When you learn Guadacanal or Bulge you throw the rules for the other games out the window.