@Texas:
@Tavenier:
Taking Tuscany doesn’t achieve much. You have a chance of losing one unit and after that the Rome garrison is moving to Tuscany anyway. Only time I do those kind of small attacks is to let the opponent move their units the ‘wrong’ way. If that sz bordered Naples, that would have been a good choice, but Tuscany is pointless.
It doesn’t achieve much, but it doesn’t cost much either. It also reduces the amount of spaces between Vienna and Rome by 1.
@Tavenier:
Foring Britain to reinforce Scortland is not worth it. They have troops there anyway and if two German units land there (survivng mines) they are easy meat for the British homeguard.
And building a BB every turn with Germany leaves you around 30. The same (or less) as France. Then there is Russia and Italy.
…and the CPs have Austria and the Ottomans, which both make more than Russia and Italy.
The German navy isn’t for landing in the UK, it for preventing the UK from landing in France. As far as the argument for a German navy, take a look at this. At the start, the respective alliances have the following incomes: CP - 77, Allies - 113.
If the CPs control the sea, you cut off 50 of the Allies IPCs, shifting that to CP - 77, Allies - 63. Now there is a cost by the CPs to maintain the sea advantage and the UK can build in India, but that is too far away from the western front to matter. The CPs have no chance if you don’t prevent the UK and US from landing. I think I have said that a time or two so far.
@Tavenier:
And every strategy Germany comes up with is seen five turns before Paris is reached. So if Germany goes all Russia, everybody sees that before it is too late. Same goes for every other strategy.
No point in going all Russia. Paris/Rome is the easiest victory condition to meet.
Too Lazy to quote properly. Sorry :p
Now your math is extremely off.
The British then will make a navy because the Germans are. The German incom is gone. The British already started with a larger navy and have the French navy so now Germany has less income then France to fight them. This would make the allies very happy. Germany going all naval. You just cancelled half of the Centrals income how are you going to win!!!
Also the British don’t need to send troops to France they can build troops in India.
If Germany builds navy it will be so it can keep its shores safe in the mines not to be a threatening force that can take on the other navys in an offensive role.