If i remember correctly they were also experimenting with bubonic plague as a biological weapon and nearly made an attack on san fransisco with it but disagreement from the navy prevented it.

hard to argue with the Russian fig.

What about the Med tran. Without a bid this is the key to africa and a good way to retake Ukr threaten cau.

Looks like someone’s been hanging around the making history site  :-D

karelia is good in the early game because it stops the allies from getting a foothold in europe. later when the atlantic shipping is worked out UK and USA can just drop 8-10 suicide units each into your karelia stack and there is nothing for Rus to do but clean up the rest with the arm they’ve been saving up.

caucuses. Japan can’t hit karelia with you (in any normal game anyway  :-D )

And where would the Germans get enough forces to break Russia in 2-3 turns? 1 AC on G1 and that’s only 26 IPCs left for ground purchases.
Meanwhile UK and US build each 1 AC and by UK3 Brits are landing on France/Norway/Algeria, or even before, depending on how G leaves her planes.

it would take more than 3 turns to build up a force capable of withstanding the German air/naval hit + enough men to start trading on the front.

And I didn’t mean Russia would be fully destroyed, merely well on the way.

Make an interesting test scenario. R1 standard Wrus/Ukr attacks. G1 standards + sz 2. then really starting on B1.

If Germany bid a sub in sz 8 and took out the entire British navy (save the canadian tran) in the Atlantic then churning out bombers is probably a better strategy than trying to rebuild your navy to a strength that you can start making landings. Especially if there is a baltic AC as well. There would be an iron cross over Moscow before you could land in Norway  :oops:

As always this all depends on what else is going on on the board.

The ultimate secret ALWAYS move to win an FTF game:

ALWAYS provide all the free alcohol you can to your opponent.

You may take my capital but if I drank all your alcohol I’d say it was an economic victory  :-D

Did you not know that a battleship buy on R1 is the best Russian move in the game. It’s totally broken. Those germans sure will have egg on their faces when you start bombarding Berlin  :-D

Ah bunnies, what a great combination of condescension, humour and informative points in every post.  :-D  +1 karma

A 3 inf Ukr bid does seem much superior. I don’t see any mildly conservative Russian player attacking with 3 extra inf there.  Plus you both raise good points about placing land forces closer to the front and building the extra, highly mobile, fig G1. Plus with 3 inf in Ukr you get an extra fig in a sense since you hardly ever get to keep the Ukrainian fig.

I’ve always thought bidding navy as kind of a waste, with the exception of an extra Jap tran.

thanks for the replies fella’s  :-)