Malta and scrambling to defend the sea zone

If Japan goes J-1 … DOW on W.Allies… be very careful with the baiting part…
  Unless UK and US are played very accurately, should SeaLion be even moderately successful… If Gib bombed successfully and German Navy survives US3 and UK3 counterattacks…
and Japan takes Calcutta on J-3… things go downhill pretty quick for Allies…

That is a lot of resource being diverted from ground troops. The war with Russia is won on land.

By the time you have bought a major IC, an AB, a bunch of destroyers and some TTs, you have spent 80-90 ipcs? That is a lot of ground units lost.

Plus those TTs and destroyers are stuck in the Black Sea and redundant in a few turns time - unless you attack the strict neutrals.

I’ve scrambled them at all time and been successful in destroying the German force.  last time he went after my fleet and used the remaining in France.  I was able to destroy all 6, me losing a fighter and damaged battleship.

@wwestpro:

@Zhukov44:

I’m unclear whether a successful Sea Lion (G1-G3) changes the political situation.

Does the fall of London bring USA and/or USSR into the war or do they still have to wait till USA3/R4?

pretty sure OOB rules are No, they wait like normal in the instance of an attack.�  But Alpha 3 states this:

“If the United States has war declared on it by an Axis power, an Axis power captures London or any territory in North America, or Japan makes an unprovoked declaration of war on the UK or ANZAC, the United States may declare war on any or all Axis powers.”

Um….you’re quoting Global rules. (1st hint tipping you off should have been the mention of Japan & ANZAC…no Japan or ANZAC in Europe 1940)

So to answer the OP question. No, it does not bring USA into the war when London falls. OOB rules are pretty clear on that one (See page 19 -21)

He’s talking about putting a navy in Sz110 that can fight off the Germans handidly.

You can’t get to Sz109 from Sz112 unless you go through Sz119 or Sz110, so if they are both blocked you are SOL and can’t land units in London.

Maybe instead of posting in every thread all the time, you should just post in threads after you read them thoroughly.

And No, you can’t fly a fighter from West Germany to Sz119 to Northern Italy.

Sz112, Sz111, Sz119, Sz111, Sz112, West Germany, Northern Italy. That’s 7 Movement points, last I checked Italy doesn’t start with a bomber, and you can’t build one on I1, do fighters fly 7 in the games you play?

Get off the drugs dog! :P

if the brits have a ship in sz 119, (the one left of Scotland) by T2 you can plug the canal at 112 T3 and hold up sea lion til T4 giving the US time to counter

there’s always seems to be an exception to the rule

so i think this may be the case

@xzorn:

Having a fleet, planes and a few trannies in the Baltic lets you threaten Britain and Russia, while defending your Scandinavian holdings. Brits will have to be wary of an attack and waste precious resources in anticipation. And if he does, simply use the fleet, airforce and trannies on other things.

So just the threat of Sea Lion is good enough.