Why russia makes so little ipcs

@dustpan8761 said in Question on IPC Middle East in Europe edition:

When playing axis and allies Europe do the allies get any IPCs per turn for the Middle East?

They do not. The printed value on the territories apply only when/if Germany captures them in which case the Allies must decide who pays Germany that number of IPCs. The relevant rule is on page 19/20 of the Europe rulebook.

Specifically, the “note” on page 20 reads, “The loss of Middle Eastern countries does not lower the Allied players’ income on the chart.”

The Middle East is strictly a liability to the Allies in this game.

In my experience, Russia has not won without additional Air Force.

I’m playing a game right now where all nations are restricted to territory value for build limit…Russia can only build five units per round to Germany’s ten.

I’ve sent Russia the British Bomber, built a fighter, and recieved three fighters and I’m about to convert two more…

…I’m still alive! I still have Lenningrad!

I’m gonna die!  :lol:

…but I’m still alive and it’s almost round five!

is proud  :-P

brilliant strategy

Setup charts for all games using them are also available in this thread:

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It depends on the outcome of the firswt battle. As a German player, I try to capture Vborg and Leningrad in the first turn to take away lending area for fighters from England. Fighters are better to give to the Russians since they are cheaper, and they help defend agaisnt industrial bombing. If I play as an ally, I send all the initial fighter force to Russia, both British and American. I don’t donate the bombers, as they can help in Operation Torch, and industrial bombing.

germany is in a wierd position. germany in A&AE starts off in a pickle like it does in the origanal. they have a big military, plenty of territory, but a small amount of ipc to start. however they dont have the stamina to last a grudge mach. that is why you need a good basic strategy the first few rounds, and evolve it as the game goes on. you need to conquer the sea and maintain good preassure in the USSR. you need to build 2-3 destroyers each turn for about 5 or so turns. then you need to bominate the sea. by taking and keeping the convoy routs, as well as destroying the allied navy. after turn 4-5 build a few transports, and inft. send them to the middle east. by doing this you get much needed ipc. on top of that you can continue to transport small amounts of troops over there. this opens up a small defeansive force that can march slowly to moscow. however make sure there are a few tanks with it. if you take this force and combine it with your main force in the west it will devosate the USSR, without the other allies to support her. and once you take the USSR, you obviously have a good lead. but you need to pump out a few ships during this process. if you loose the sea the allies can land troops in the european continent.

Interesting idea. Something to try out.

a great way to use tanks is to place them in belorussia guarded by a bunch of troops, artilery, fighters bombers, and a aa gun. that way if i decide to become offensive i can have them attack and place along the borders of baltic states, east poland, and western ukraine. or if u see them building up forces on one side u can strengthen that area since bessarabia is worthless i suggest leting germany gain control of it so i don’t have to waste troops to defend it. and if germany takes either baltic states, east poland, and western ukraine i can use the stack defense to regain it with artilery and troops. if they decide to use bombers and or fighters to attack me i will have the aa gun to lessen the force and troops to take the hits until they retreat or are eliminated.incase the germanys get cocky and try to take you like they did the french go around. in this case load up transports with troops, ship them to drop them off in leningrad. this should stand up long enough for the americans and brits to break through the atlantic and land troops on france to pull away troops from the eastern front. P.S. Russia should work on building land forces and america and the brits can send figheters and bombers to assist in the halt and waste of german forces and resources. as long as u stay lucky in rolling this should hould up until the americanos and brits to land in france.
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