@Flying:
Doing this leaves Africa to the Allies doesn’t it? Can a lower income Italy do this? What do you do, stack up tanks and infantry for 4 rounds then attack Russian territories? I can definately see this working though seems like a more risky strategy than going for africa/middle east.
When I say using Germany to let Italy have a crack at Russia I mean the Caucus not the Russian capital.
You can do both. You don’t need many italian tanks to open a hole in a wall of inf that is only 1 or 2 inf.
and, yes Germany can can opener the Caucasus for italy, but we find it’s better to have Germany (or even Japan) to take the caucasus over Italy. They could make better use of the IC with 4 unit capability.