I see strategy stuff about strafing… espcially if Russia can go first. The favorite target is EEU or Ukraine… But how well does this work?

The goal I imagine is to get rid of some armor, but that doesn’t seem to work since they will get rid of infantry first! My problem is that my troops will roll TOO well, and take out the terrirtory when I wanted to just leave one tooop behind… this sucks horribly since next turn I lose ALL my tanks.

So I’m just wondering how often are you able to strafe armor off and still not accidently get sucked into the territory due to your stupid dice rolling so damn good!

I’m thinking about getting the A&A CD to play games on-line. My question is it worth it? And how is it played. Is it like playing War 3, where you can chat, and make your turns right there, or is it delayed where one person does something and then some time later that day or the next day the other person does their move.

Also is the standard play 1-1 or 3-2? (5 players or 2) And finnaly is there really a lot of active play going on right now? Or do I have to hunt for people to play?

Well after reading your posts and looking at the board some more, I think you guys are right. I ended up just buying infantry and putting it on Karellia. The germans I think messed up, becuase they attack Karellia with everythint they could(like 5 tanks infantry and all of their planes) And they didn’t retreat eihter, meaning they lost all their AF and still didn’t take it.

USA landed on T1 to take out the undefended finland. And UK did a nasty D-Dday invasion on T3. Berlin fell on T4.

Whooohooo I won, of course it wasn’t due to my strategic genius, but more so to do with a stubborn german player who didn’t like retreating! :)

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I think it would be neat if Russia had a big navy of battle ships, and use its free shot to weaken german terrotories like the capital. All the forces will be on the front, if they take out your factory then you can use your transports and battle ships to re-take it, if they don’t and just sit there you sail around and hit their capital, sure you lose the attacking forces when they counter but hey you got all that money and Germany didn’t. Any thoughts on this idea? I’m going to be playing my first Axis&Allies game vs. real people today. What to try something nifty.