Thanks for the quick clarification!
I guess we just had a lot of lucky rolling for these attacks in our first game. I don’t think we ever lost a plane, which made me question whether this was allowed. But I can see that the probabillity makes it a risky strategy in the long term.
POLL Malta: Naval Base or Air Base or Both or None
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I think they should definitely do both if that was the case historically. If they’re expanding theaters like North Africa and the Middle East, I think the Mediterranean should be expanded as well. I hope to see an increasing importance of the UK possessions in the Med. Cyprus, Malta, and Gibraltar should all be territories with bases. IMHO, they should be linked to a national objective, seeing as they were all critical UK naval outposts. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think Larry said something about having a smaller number of NO’s to keep the game from getting too complex, so I suppose this is all wishful thinking for now. :cry:
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I said both. You can’t have a fortress w/o air scramble, the UK/US will need somewhere to protect their super fleets. They’ll also need extra mobility and a place to repair ships besides Gib.
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Does malta need an airbase? It’s in the middle of the med, which will probably be 3 spaces wide.
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Does malta need an airbase? It’s in the middle of the med, which will probably be 3 spaces wide.
It needs it for scrambling, that’s pretty much a given.
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@SAS:
Does malta need an airbase? It’s in the middle of the med, which will probably be 3 spaces wide.
It needs it for scrambling, that’s pretty much a given.
Sorry, I meant naval base
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@SAS:
Does malta need an airbase? It’s in the middle of the med, which will probably be 3 spaces wide.
It needs it for scrambling, that’s pretty much a given.
Sorry, I meant naval base
Ah, that makes sense. Perhaps the Med will be wider now also since the Baltic is going from 1 seazone to 3 and the Mediterranean is about twice as big…
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it should have both, and it should also have a HUGE garrison of non-moveable units (like four or five 0/3/0/6 bunkers)
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Med will look like this
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That map looks about right, at least within my own perspective terms.
As for the original topic, I’m hoping both the British will have both a naval and airbase on Malta, and I’m suspecting that they might have at least one fighter there as well.
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Malta only need an Airbase. Its 6 freekins islands in the Med, with both air and naval bases on all of them its gonna be freekin crowded, man
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Malta only need an Airbase. Its 6 freekins islands in the Med, with both air and naval bases on all of them its gonna be freekin crowded, man
I wasn’t aware the other islands were going to be included, or if they were, that they wouldn’t really be all that playable; like Iceland or Formosa in AE (though I am aware that Iceland is supposed to have a more playable role in this version). I doubt “all of them” are going to have air and naval bases.
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Malta only need an Airbase. Its 6 freekins islands in the Med, with both air and naval bases on all of them its gonna be freekin crowded, man
I can see your point, and I do sympathize. However, I still envision Malta having a naval base setup, and only for the quick ferrying of British troops in and out of the Mediterranean. If not, I guess that just means the players must make a ‘dedicated push’ as Larry said early.
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Malta only need an Airbase. Its 6 freekins islands in the Med, with both air and naval bases on all of them its gonna be freekin crowded, man
I can see your point, and I do sympathize. However, I still envision Malta having a naval base setup, and only for the quick ferrying of British troops in and out of the Mediterranean. If not, I guess that just means the players must make a ‘dedicated push’ as Larry said early.
If the Med is 5 or less spaces wide, a NB on Malta would allow ships near Malta to exit the Med on either side(If they control the appropriate passageway).
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Malta only need an Airbase. Its 6 freekins islands in the Med, with both air and naval bases on all of them its gonna be freekin crowded, man
I can see your point, and I do sympathize. However, I still envision Malta having a naval base setup, and only for the quick ferrying of British troops in and out of the Mediterranean. If not, I guess that just means the players must make a ‘dedicated push’ as Larry said early.
If the Med is 5 or less spaces wide, a NB on Malta would allow ships near Malta to exit the Med on either side(If they control the appropriate passageway).
Do you necessarily see this as a problem?
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Malta only need an Airbase. Its 6 freekins islands in the Med, with both air and naval bases on all of them its gonna be freekin crowded, man
I can see your point, and I do sympathize. However, I still envision Malta having a naval base setup, and only for the quick ferrying of British troops in and out of the Mediterranean. If not, I guess that just means the players must make a ‘dedicated push’ as Larry said early.
If the Med is 5 or less spaces wide, a NB on Malta would allow ships near Malta to exit the Med on either side(If they control the appropriate passageway).
Do you necessarily see this as a problem?
I don’t know; I guess it’s just weird for me to see british ships able to move from Malta to the Red Sea
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I can understand that, it is a bit of an oddity, but it would give the Allies a strategic advantage to get units into that area, whether it be Malta, or the Mediterranean in general.
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