Yeah, my mistake, I meant Baltic cruiser, not BB.

Not sure what you mean by 4 USA DD in turn 1.  The us has almost no fleet in the Atlantic at the start.  And I’m not forgetting about the USA, but in my experience it takes about 4 turns before they can start dropping  significant amts of stuff in Europe, and Russia can sometimes be dead or nearly dead by that point.

Wrt to Egypt , I am surprised to hear that it opens up on g2.  Do you tend to just evacuate and leave it to the Germans?  in my experience if Germany cracks Africa, they become too powerful, and the Brits lose too much income to be effective.

I dunno, it seems like the allies are setup to get absolutely creamed on turn 1, and I found it hard to recover.  I should also mention that Japan took all 3 USA held china territories on j1 with relatively light losses.

I played the first turn of the second edition 1942, and noticed some opening German moves that seem overly strong to me. Anyone see the downside to any of these?

1. Send 4 subs and the battleship to sea zone 7 and kill the British battleship and transport. This one is almost 100% odds. You could probably also get away with diverting 2 subs to zone 10 to take out the Brit destroyer and transport if you sent a couple fighters To sea zone 7. This move alone basically crushes the British Atlantic fleet before they even get to move.

2. Send 2 tanks, 2 infantry and a bomber to Egypt via amphibious move, bringing transport and battleship to zone 17. This kills the Brit destroyer in the process. Odds are 80% or more for this to work. I had 2 ger tanks left afterwards. From here it’s easy to start rolling through Africa.

3. With no British navy to threaten western Europe, begin moving almost all forces east to Russia.

I hope there is a counter to this because it seems overly powerful to me.

Zak