In 41 JohnBarbarossa tried to SBR me (Germany) with 3 Heavy bombers of the USA. Unfortunately he got a triple one in his eyes and did zap damage.
Note: A round earlier I also shot down a bomber on a SBR run. :-D
In 41 JohnBarbarossa tried to SBR me (Germany) with 3 Heavy bombers of the USA. Unfortunately he got a triple one in his eyes and did zap damage.
Note: A round earlier I also shot down a bomber on a SBR run. :-D
I hope you play the rules right. Germany can’t be bombed any further than a loss of 20 IPC to repair the damage. But that’s only when you want to produce 10 units. If you only want to produce 8, there is no need to spend more than 18 IPC on repairing damage.
Although it hurts, SBR-ing isn’t as effective as it once was. :wink:
p.s. with tech it gets even better for Germany. :wink:
What the bloody hell were the Russians doing if Germany took and held Karelia on G2/G3? :?
Has anyone tried to take out all the UK ships?
Sz 2 - bb, trn vs. 1 sub, 1 ftr, 1 bom
Sz 9 - dd, trn vs. 1 sub
Sz 12 - dd, ca vs. 2 ftrsYou can still take out the Sz 6 ship and I don’t think this messes up Egy, if you were going to do that and sz 2 anyway. Obviously sz 9 and 12 are a bit dicey but you could really cripple the UK interms of transporting units for a rd or 2. Just wondering if anyone has seen this.
If you open like that in every Axis game I don’t see one getting high up in a ladder. In other words, it’s fun to try but don’t expect consistent good results. SZ9 and SZ 12 are risky, plus I do think this messes up Egypt since you can’t bring the bmb in to Egypt like this.
UK all the way. They can fight in all fronts from the very begining but have not plenty of IPCs to do this. They are a challenge, but I never get bored with them.
Note: no, it’s not China. At least not until they get a full power status and can go out of China :-D
What?? Not China??? :-D
p.s. Russia is the nicest allied country to play since you can really beat up the poor Germans. On the Axis side it’s Japan in this game since you become Godzilla. :wink:
Actually from a tactical point of view those ships are more important. However it’s a moot point, since both the ships and the ftr will die on J1.
You’re right, Japan does go before England, but I don’t see Japan knocking out the fleet off India.
You’re talking about what can be done, vs what most people would do. It would require moving the aircraft carrier to SZ 37 to hit the destroyer with any fighters. If Japan did move their fleet to off Burma then I’d adapt to defending against a KEF strategy and play aggressively with the US to move against Japan. That looks like it would be a ‘take out India’ strategy with Japan which would be successful, but you’d be cash poor focusing on India vs taking territories or sinking the American fleet so there is a tradeoff.
I’ve read a couple of battle reports, but I’ve never seen Japan their fleet to that sea zone. Japan has a lot to do J1, I don’t see it as high priority to take out that fleet.
Another thing, when E1 counterattacks and takes Egypt back, if I1 attacks with everything they have they could take Egypt back, but I don’t think they’d be walking in, they would take heavy casualties… If England moved their bomber to south Africa E1 then they could throw that in to the African battles. Then, with the transport there could be another counterattack E2 using the transport and bomber, but it would depend on how the dice went.
If there is one thing that any decent Japanese player will always do is kill that DD+trn for the coast of India!! All other attacks can be ignored, but that one is a clear must. I would walk away straight from the game if I would be Germany and my axis partner would not attack those ships……
Alair, two errors in your judgement.
It’s not Germany objective to take Egypt on G1. It’s objective is to clear the fighter (killing all units). On Italy 1 you can then walk in and hold Egypt until the allies arrive at Morocco later in the game.
Also on J1 you can’t take India, true, but you seem to forget that Japan moves before UK!!! So you build that IC on UK1, it’s gone by J2 even before you produced one single unit in it. :wink:
I don’t see the value of taking out that CA and DD of the coast of Gibralter. I mean sure the UK can attack the Italian navy but with what?
It would be a DD (2), CA (3) and a bmb (4) against 2 CA’s (3) and 1 2-hit BB (4). That’s very bad odds for the british and you can’t build a decent fleet in a SZ two spaces of SZ 5 (the UK sweet spot for her fleet) because you miss the DD and CA.
Note: I always attack Egypt on G1, just to kill that fighter.
What Indian fighter are you talking about? :wink:
As for Japan / Godzilla. 39 at J2 is quite normal, and you get 15 IPC bonus too since you took either India or Australia (or even both). So Japan does grow back with NO’s. Without NO’s she gets to around 45 - 50 max.
The UK could be hit by one rocket PER TERRITORY each turn. So if they were firing from muliple places you can hit it for up to 16 damage.
I think thats what Kreig said. I’d laugh if the FAQ needs revising too.
You need to read better:
Page 12, Breakthrough Chart 1 - Rockets: The following sentence should be added: “In each turn, only
one AA gun per territory may launch rockets, and each industrial complex can be attacked by only one
rocket launcher.”
With Soviets taking both Finland and Norway (which is quite normal in an KGF) they are at +5. And no Germany won’t be able to trade Russian countries in a KGF game, they simply don’t have enough infantry to do so. Russia will lose some to Japan but with +5 plus maybe even trading Poland/Bulgaria they are pretty damn strong.
As for Japanese - Alaska route I know you think it’s a very strong strategy but to be honest I havent heard anyone on this forum about that except you, let alone somebody really taking and holding Western Canada, let alone Western USA. And considering the long route the Japanse have to go I doubt one can really bog down the USA 100% to the West Coast and not going KGF.
Let’s try KGF, JTDTM as counter: Japan can reach 55-60, Italy 10-15 and Germany 30 (95-100 to axis) vs 25 soviets, 25-30 UK and 38-40 USA (90-95 to allies).
This is not true. In a real KGF Italy is at 10 IPC flat, Germany at 25 and Soviets at 30. This means it’s 90-95 to the axis and 95-100 the allies.
Well, dunno bout india IC
you send like 4 soldiers from Russia (2 kazakh, 2 cauc)
and if japan goes with the 2 full trannys at formosa to india, how are they takin phillipines?
perhaps with 1 inf i armor vs 2 inf, sounds risky
if you loose with japan, US +7
(NO)
You can take the philliies with 1 tranny from Japan + 1 tranny from Caroline. That way you have 3 inf, 1 arm which should do the job.
Also, Russia sending 4 inf to Persia on R1 seems a bit too much, they need all the inf against the Germans.
I can understand the effects of the IC, we used it a lot in the old Classic 3rd edition with the CD, but IMHO Japan is opening very weak if UK can build the IC and hold it on J2.
So I am interested in the Japanese opening moves in those games when the IC was build and held.
I just read another after action report in which UK build an IC in India. I don’t get that. How on earth is it possible to hold onto that IC with a decent Japanese player in those games?
Is Japan only going for the islands on J1 or what? I mean you can easily tunnel in 3 inf 1 rtl to Burma, you kill off the fleet before the Indian coast and with your German buddy whiping Egypt on G1 no reinforcements there either. That leaves you with 5 inf, 1 rtl (2 inf from Borneo or East Indies) and a pack ftrs on J2 to take India.
I am interested to hear how those games went when UK did build an IC in India. We have never encountered it nor saw an opportunity to do so. :wink:
Hurrah, finally we got it on Monday in Holland too. We should have bought it at the local shops, but we pre-ordered in September at coolstuff already. Delivery took two weeks in the end (althought those f****s at Coolstuff said they shipped it at the 17th November, it was in fact done on the 25th).
We paid $ 69.95 + freight around $ 40.00. With the current dollar/euro rate that was about 76 euro. Which is still cheaper than they are priced over here in the shops: 90 - 100 euro’s.
Oh yeah, funny thing all the piececounts were correct apart from the USA we have +1 cruiser and -1 destroyer. :wink:
Cool an IC in Norway, I am sure UK or even better USA will be very happy with that one! :-)
That would be a bit stupid. Why not save the 30 IPC of the 6 tanks and buy them when you can place them. That way at least you remain flexible. :wink:
Hmmm, true, but whenever somebody did it I and my playgroup corrected anyone who was so bold to make that move. :-D