I agree with the shield and sword statement. It is my experience that Germany on its first turn should buy a transport for Italy and all men. Regroup your tanks and all your infantry into Eastern Europe and plan to take Karelia on turn 3 if possible. Turn 2 can work but can be costly. Germany should buy mostly all men on turn two and three as well and move them into Eastern Europr so as to overwhelm Russia and get ahead of their infantry total. Once Germany has more infantry than Russia attack Karelia with men and tanks only, save your planes. From Italy send two full transports every turn into Egypt and Trans Jordan until you secure the Suez and subsiquently Africa. Meanwhile Japan hits China, and India and then all out Russia, while still maintaining suppremacy in the Pacific by staying one step ahead of the US and as someone else mentioned take out as many US and UK ships as possible while not over commiting your fleet and only losing the cheap expendable replaceable pieces. An IC is a good idea if you are sure you can hold it: Manchuria is good to go after Russia, but can be reinforced by Japan transports anyway, FIC is safer but India is the best of both if you can capture and hold it, because it is two squares “a tank blitz” away from Caucauscus and Trans-Jordan and you can move fleet through the Suez if needed and assist Germany in conquering Africa as required. Not to mention taking precious money away from the UK. Japan would then purchase three tanks every round for India (or FIC) and keep that up until Russia falls. From India or FIC you can also launch a strike on Australia and New Zealand to further hurt UK. If UK buys an IC on India, Japan MUST capture it at all costs or UK will get the upper hand and its game over. If Germany and Japan hit fast and hard as a unit first at UK to bankrupt and “stall” them and get the valuable money they need and at US to “stall” them, then maintain that stall on both of them and go all out Russia so as to hit Moscow on the 5th or 6th turn from both sides, the Axis will have an IPC victory easily or if using victory cities (AA50 and new) or complete victory rules they will be on their way to world domination. :-)
Germany Strategy concept…
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Ultimately, the game decides the outcome.
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true yes,
the actually strategy always asserts itself.
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ive about decided germany cant really do much against a well coordinated allied attack, unless they get lucky in some early key battles like taking anglo-egypt on g1 with enough forces left to repel the british counter attack on b1
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Well there are some neat tricks and stuff you can try with Japan to help out Germany. Have you ever tried floating your Japanese airforce over to Egypt? That’s a swift kick in the shins if the Allies aren’t well-equipped to dislodge you. You can also drop stuff into Africa a turn after you drop stuff into Indochina with transports.
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I allways considered it a good thing, that the allies abandon India and geos to egypt, makes it a quicker journey for Japan to moscow…
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i agree nix, giving japan india on j1, instead of j3 (my usual sacking schedule) puts them in position to pressure russia on j3-4. plus the whole spirit of the victory city concept
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@ncscswitch:
If you want to play conservative as Germany… just turtle up from the get-go and wait for Japan… IF they can get to Moscow in time with Russia having lots of money and German offesnive against them…
You have to take risks.
The object is to make your moves smartly… and when in doubt, go HEAVY, so that you win easilly with few troops lost and your opponent takes maximum losses on the counter.
Well, I’d actually like to play somewhat aggressively as Germany, so doing the slow withdrawl doesn’t really make me happy. AT the same time, though, I also don’t want my one and only huge stack completely wiped out and be forced to retreat to regroup. Unless of course I go the northern route and attempt to get to Moscow that way instead of going south, which would probably be a really slow grind.
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I may be wrong but if Germany turtles up wouldn’t Russia be able to just turn and crush the Japanese offensive?
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But that turtle can open up… in MASSIVE force… in ANY direction.
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I always think that massive battles are a better way of going for statistics…
if you have a one on one encounter…
1 armor versus 1 infantry let’s say…
the armor can be sacked in just one roll…if you have 20 armor attacking versus 20 infantry…
(I know, it’s a waste of IPC’s as attacker ;-))
then more likely the outcome will be victory for the attacking army.the more dice are involved, the better you can depend on statistics…
so, I prefer massive armies :-P
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@ncscswitch:
But that turtle can open up… in MASSIVE force… in ANY direction.
You seem very frightened of the turtle after octo pummeled you with it. While it’s true that it can open up, it is three rounds before russia has to worry if germany is turtling in berlin.
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Ah, but it is not just a German strat. Have seen it used to phenomenal effect as Russia too (pushed japan all the way back to the coast…)
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Well I’m not sure EXACTLY what a turtle strategy is with Germany, but in my mind, you would keep a small buffer zone with Eastern Europe, and Balkans? So maybe your two turns away from Russia. But I think if Germany’s “turtle” was in Germany and three turns away from Russia than you could still turn most of you attention towards Japan. I mean if Germany turned his massive forces on you by that time you could have 24+inf in Russia just off of builds. Also you would be retreating your remaining infantry from the Eastern front and the Asian Front. So you could have a sizable force in Russia by the time Germany reaches it. I’m thinking maybe 40 inf? :-o If you push Japan significantly back, that could buy you 4 more rounds until Japan is at Russia again. Lets say it take Japan 5 rounds to reach Russia. 5+4, thats 9 rounds already. I think usually Germany is out by G9.
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you don’t have until G9.
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Huh… good response. Well you just pwnzord me… I think I’m gonna :cry: now…
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bamboozled :-(
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Hoodwinked (I hope this isn’t spam)…
Yay it’s way before that I doubt you could push Japan back to the ocean. Maybe G6-G7?
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As early as R4-5, depending on the rate of pull back by Russia, and how fast and thin Japan chases the retreating troops.
How do I know this? Darth did it to ME in a Classic game a couple of months ago…
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German Naval Strategy
1. The baltic fleet is a bigger pain the ass if it is left in the baltic. Moving it out in the atlanic leaves it vunerable to Britsh counter-attack. It provides a far bigger PIA for the UK player to think about if it left where it is.
2. An ac on turn 1? The war is decided on the eastern front. For 16 IPC’s you can put 4INF and 1ART on the board. Those 4INF will protect what is left of your tank forces. Farting around in the north atlanic is a secondary conflict. GER should not spend any money in this theater. UK does not pose a serious landing threat until turn 3 or 4 at which time you can counter with land based forces.
Flush
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fllush:
you are brave for your first post :-o
octo will back you in that line of thought though and he is an axis specialist after all :-)
i strongly support an AC for germany round 1 it gives you fighter flexibility and protects both berlin and eastern europe from uk landings as well as making normandy unattractive (for a while) also, the fun of making the “boy’s from brazil” a reality is sure fun :wink:
if you add another trannie g2 you are sending inf and art to karelia the round after buying as well as making uk keep more at home than they would like
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