Developing a British Navy

@mrsoccerchessman:

Do you try for developments?  If so, which ones?  Please give your reason for “yes” or “no”.

I usually try for developments at times.  I usually try for LRA for USA because it’s much easier to take Japan’s sea vessels from a far away distance.  I usually don’t try for any other development.  But developments are the last thing I think about when I’m contemplating what to spend my money on.

There is a big difference in the rules set you use, as LHTR removes ‘instant’ tech.  They are deferred to the end of your turn, so no rolling for Long Range for Germany on round1 and try for the UK capital.

Even in LHTR, rockets are still very powerful for both Germany and the allies (UK and US).  It’s hard (over time) to beat bombers that can not be shot down.

@cyan:

if you have excess money to buy navy with russia i’d rather spend it on fighters and then use the one sub as sort of a fodder pieace. that way once your navy objective has been covered you can switch to land easily and i think fighters are great.

Actually, if you needed fodder pieces for Russia, I’d go with Transports.  Then you can shoot down planes. :P

AC UK1 is standard for me, maybe UK2 but even if Germany don’t buy ftrs the UK fleet can be easily sunk.

oo imma published author.

Please remember to correct the article as rjclayton mentioned.

thx.

Offhand I’d say I’d just try to knock out the Russian navy straight away with your BB + tran + 4 fighters + bomber. Clearing those Russian fighters, combined with no Russian land purchase, puts Russia in defense mode on the following turns. Of course you are giving up Africa very quickly and the UK will have an extra BB to play with in the med and stuff, which makes a German naval purchase hard to justify, but you’ve shocked the Russians out of their key units to trade territories.

The main reason you could do that is because you took London on G2, so he couldn’t possibly increase his naval force (not to mention he lost a fighter off his carrier). Plus, the US didn’t really put any effort into co-guarding the UK fleet because he is trying to go after Japan first.

You made an excellent choice in this circumstance and it is a good example of what I think the German navy was designed for, but in normal circumstances the costs would have been greater and the benefits less if the US/UK had united in SZ8 and built some navy together (and not lose the capital  :lol:)

Me and a couple of friends were playing and we used rules like this, but just to shake things up a little we remembered the industrial technology tech from original aa and made it worth like 45 or something, nobody went for it but at least the tech was still there…

@UKcommander:

I see your point. However, do the infantry still cost three and are you only allowed one infantry in a territory per turn? I guess the commonwealth’s just don’t interest me that much if that’s it, unless it’s India with an I.C., then I can see where you’re coming from :wink:.

Yes the infantry still cost three IPC’s, but I think this infantry should be in addition to any units mobilized by an industrial complex. Thus it means that you can mobilize one additional infantry unit than what the restriction says; one cannot mobilize more units than the income value of the territory.

This rule would definitely bring some favor to UK, as you said in combination with an IC in India, it would be awesome to capture for the Japanese player!
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