Allied Playbook - G40 Collection of Essays - Compiled by jacobgeo24 Nov 18-19 2023

[crockett36]

@Cornwallis so many questions? In the video, you did not appear to be English. So why Cornwallis?

Seriously though, I don’t know why I have to garrison Algeria, Algerian snake? German planes land there. There’s an effect to all of that. The loss of a substantial part of the German Air Force. The more likely scenario is a one two with the Italian navy taking the lead. This inadvertently saves Egypt.

As I said I will be giving it a try, minus 106.

[crockett36]

@Arthur-Bomber-Harris said in Allied Playbook - G40 Collection of Essays - Compiled by jacobgeo24 Nov 18-19 2023:

@Cornwallis without an Allied bid, I view Gibastion as too risky. Something goes wrong and Egypt will fall. Game over.

I also think a factory in Egypt on UK1 would trigger Sealion assuming average dice rolls on first turn. If the money isn’t being spent in London, the Axis needs to punish the bold/foolish decision.

I wonder if you have a WAG as to how often things go wrong. Could you elaborate? If you mean dice rolls, could we consider this like Paris for the Germans? Every time that happens, everyone seems fine with a restart! No harm, no foul.

What bid items would entice you to do Gibastion? I consider it analogous to Malaya for the Japanese! A nice forking move. But I am open to change. And operation ricochet is all about surviving to turn 5.

[Arthur Bomber Harris]

@crockett36 at the very least, I like having a Scottish fighter to keep one of the UK fleets alive. An extra art in Africa goes a long way to destroying the Italians in the horn. Finally, an extra UK Sub or two is invaluable in cleaning up the sea zones on UK1. Hence 20-26 PU bid spent for UK sets the up well for doing Gibastion.

[crockett36]

I think the oob side of this site ought to reset zero to the bid of the previous year’s tournament champion. Who’s with me?

[Cornwallis]

@crockett36 no i´m Belgian. Cornwallis was from the time the Patriot was coming out😄.
Well the algerian snake gives the luftwaffe the chance of hitting you with everything they have with a loss of 2 to 3 planes.
I ask the questions which occupy my mind since several years😄.
And i´m glad to see you like to try New tactics.

[SuperbattleshipYamato]

@crockett36

Please elaborate. I’m a bit confused (I’m clueless about tournaments).

[jacobgeo24]

I have a question that pertains to the 20 Russian Units in the East, if someone would care to answer or help me figure this out. @AndrewAAGamer declared in one of the articles in the PDF I made that the best option was to keep all of the units in the east, and I agree, but what I am having trouble with is understanding how to position them, like should I stack all in Amur(which I have seen fail) or pull some back to Buryatia.

I was hoping someone could recommend how to position these troops on R1 and what to do with them from then on as I plan for them to stay in the east

Also side note should they receive some support in terms of tanks, artillery, or planes/bombers from Moscow, or should I leave them with what they have.

Thanks!

[crockett36]

I’ll take a crack and have my betters correct it.

The 20 Russia units are a live front. They pin a certain amount of units in the north. So the objective is to keep them alive long enough that the air planes will be out of position ie needed in the south or the east. Then they surge forward and capture Korea or Manchuria. So stepping back one territory is a simple move to complicate Japan’s ambitions. How did I do, teachers?

[crockett36]

So the league runs throughout the year. There is a bracketed playoff. There is no mandatory requirements for participation except agreement on terms. (low luck, bid, etc) I say we change that and say that a fifty bid is the starting place for all games that want to qualify for the oob bracketed tournament at the end of the year. Now from there the players can go up or down on the bid.

Next level would be taking the Champions’ bid and applying that as zero. Therefore, you could have a negative bid or a bid for the Axis.

[AndrewAAGamer]

@crockett36 said in Allied Playbook - G40 Collection of Essays - Compiled by jacobgeo24 Nov 18-19 2023:

I’ll take a crack and have my betters correct it.

The 20 Russia units are a live front. They pin a certain amount of units in the north. So the objective is to keep them alive long enough that the air planes will be out of position ie needed in the south or the east. Then they surge forward and capture Korea or Manchuria. So stepping back one territory is a simple move to complicate Japan’s ambitions. How did I do, teachers?

Correct @crockett36 . On R1 any units staying in the Far East need to move to Buryatia so the Japanese can’t wipe them out. Then once the Japanese move too many units away, especially air, you can move back into Amur. The idea is to pin Japanese ground troops in Manchuria or Korea to weaken the Jap push against China. If Japan gets sloppy you can either reinforce a US landing in Korea or push into Manchuria breaking the back of Japan. Normally no further troops would be sent to assist as Russia is doing all she can to save Moscow from the German hordes.

[SuperbattleshipYamato]

@crockett36

Thank you!

[SuperbattleshipYamato]

@AndrewAAGamer

Agreed. Out of curiosity, thoughts on attacking Manchuria?

[crockett36]

@SuperbattleshipYamato I think he’s already answered it. When the timing is right, if ever.

[jacobgeo24]

@AndrewAAGamer Ah thank you so much, this is really helpful!

[jacobgeo24]

I have done more research on Allied Strategy by reading, watching videos, ect. and I have seen some differentiation when it comes to managing Russia. Some play an aggressive, counterattacking Russia, such as GHG said in his Russia Strategy Video, while others like to preserve units and tactically retreat to bring the Germans farther away from their capitol in the direction of Moscow. Should we build more aggressive and push north to Norway or let the US and UK do that? What is the best role of Russia as a member of the game? This differs from person to person the way I have seen it done.

I would like to know from whoever is reading this, what if your preferred Russia Strat, to be aggressive, neutral, or conservative when it comes to playing, and what is a good general purpose buy for Russia for different German openings, such as G1 Barbarossa, Sealion, or an anticipated G3 or I2 attack.

I know some it’s all infantry, all tanks, a mix of inf and art, tactical bomber, I want to know what you all think.

[AndrewAAGamer]

Yeah, I have seen/read some of the advice to be more aggressive. That doesn’t work against a solid player. All the top players build infantry, lots of it.

Until you know Germany is going for Sealion or building a fleet to contest the Atlantic Russia should build either 12 infantry, save 1 (12, 12, 13) conservative, OR 11 infantry + 1 artillery moderate, OR 7 infantry, 4 artillery aggressive.

This is the most aggressive you should be till you know if Germany is coming after Moscow heavy or not.

[crockett36]

Obviously, I concur with Andrew. I would say that the position of those units depends on the Germans. If they drop a navy first turn or build all air to counter Gibastion, that must be punished. If the Russian player is turtling while England is suffering or even being booted out of the game, the German is playing you for a fool and turtling back to Moscow is just waiting to die.

In a recent BBR game I made E Poland radioactive by pushing everything to the front. In very rare cases, I (not a championship player) would replace the artillery with mechs placed in Ukraine and Nov and planes in Moscow. This is very rare. The German player was doing what I call adventuring in the Atlantic and the N Africa.

[SuperbattleshipYamato]

@crockett36

Sorry, didn’t notice that. 👍

[SuperbattleshipYamato]

@AndrewAAGamer

Thank you for the advice! I didn’t really know what were the best opening buys for the Soviets.

[jacobgeo24]

@AndrewAAGamer Thank you for the advice, I got an G40 tournament on the 8th and my friend is taking command of USSR so I want to get him the best advice on what to open on, he has never successfully taken control of Russia in a game before, he has lost Moscow all times he has been Russia, and he is confident he can hold this time and I know this advice will help! Thank you and thank you @crockett36