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You have had balanced games when the allies didn’t attack the true neutrals? How did you get a foothold in Europe for your shuck?
Take Denmark with the US and send English transport with BB and CA support through the Danish straits to attack Berlin directly. If Berlin is too heavily defended go for Poland instead to stop the flow of reinforcements to the East. that usually gives the Russians enough breathing space. Incredibly gamey, admittedly and I don’t like the fact of being able to land directly into Germany (was impossible for various reasons in the actual war), but it certainly works most of the time…
That is very gamey and the problem is vs a good opponent that will never happen, so if you can’t go there, then where do you go? That is the problem I had for the longest time till COW pointed out attacking the true neutrals. The reason this is so good is because you now get and American shuck going on the mainland. America makes nearly as much as Germany, and with Germany having the try to take Egypt too, after Moscow falls, he is really in a bind.
The reason I think this map favors Axis is because of how easily Germany rolls over Moscow. Playing against myself I attack T8 and take it with something like 20 tanks and 30 mech left.
First of all, if the British build a factory Egypt should never fall, at least not before the US gets a chance to become so powerful as to seriously threaten Germany.
Secondly, even if invading Berlin isn’t going to happen, as I said then you can try Poland instead and disrupt Axis communications to the East.
Thirdly, even the threat is usually enough to make a more experienced player leave lots of units to defend key areas such as Denmark, Norway, Western Germany, (Eastern) Germany/Berlin and Poland. They’ll never be able to defend them all well enough and they’ll miss those units on the Eastern front. It may also mean that France is left virtually undefended, which should also help the Allied cause.
Finally, it’s absolutely incredibly gamey and I wish there’d be an official rule requiring possession of Western Germany (the ports of Kiel, Lübeck and Hamburg) in oder to be allowed to launch an amphibious assault against Berlin. This would be much more historically accurate. having said that, it’s already an improvement over earlier editions that at least possession of Denmark is required!
