Black Sea Assault

It’s an interesting idea. I like the “Finland stack” wrinkle, and would consider a sbr on Leningrad to press the North even more.

Obviously, that’s a lot of IPCs your spending in the Black Sea. I think any strategy involving that has to be coupled with a neutral crush of Turkey, Sweden, and Spain at some point so you can get that Navy into the Med.

Maybe an airbase in Romania or elsewhere would be a better defense of those transports (if you’re playing ALPHA +.1)?

@Dessert_Fox:

Regardless a German fleet in the med is a good idea.

Why???

The Italians should control the med you should lokk to control the baltic and the atlantic and if Germany attempts to play a part in all three they will just end up spreading themselves to thin and will lose in all three arenas. Of course Italy will lose all their navy UK1 but they will rebuild or turn into the hole puncher (a strategy I plan on exploring more to come) and so the Germans don’t need a med fleet

Better to spend into a fleet off West Germany, even if you plan to do back door Russia.

You feign sealion, say with a 3 trn 1 dst build. Keeps U.K. honest or you take london.

Then G2, swing around the north, and land in Nenenstia and you can blitz the entire back door of Russia/China, and open up a whole new front behind Russian lines, as you kick in the front door on the east - their west, with the rest of your ground forces.

It forces them to abandon Novogord,  to Garrisson the Russian Capital,  and come up with a solution to deal with the tanks you just landed in their back door, gobbling up their IPC’s for free.  Should Italy be in any sort of decent position,  you may get pressure from the south through caucasus, or through the bessarabia/ukraine Corridor.  Even if it’s just a token ground force.

Hopefully at the same time, the Russians leave their stack back east, (even if they don’t it’s not a big deal)  perhaps the Japs can hit them there too J1.  Regardless, if that’s the German plan, it certainly doesnt hurt Japan to do exactly that.  and bring pressue all around.  Russia won’t make ground regardless,  as you blitz up to their stack for free - taking IPC’s,  if their stack comes towards you, just have the japs following behind and taking the IPC’s,  it’s a big switch, at 1 IPC a territory, it’s a 2 change, -1 for them + 1 for you,  and they never get it back.

Russia only has enough equipment to fight so many battles at once…  Put Axis ground units everywhere, And use German air power and pressure to keep the allies at bay,  2 AB in Normandy Holland, with a consistent purchase of 1 dst, means you can defend the seazone effectively,  you could also use the same strategy in denmark/wgr,  Nothing says HELLO like 6 scrambling fighters.  Or better, if you stack Norway, and put the AB in Norway + Denmark, you could scramble 9 fighters into Sz112,  provided you leave or build a surface ship there,  the allies can more or less write off ever entering the baltic.  And your defense of greater Germany is Solid.

Don’t ever forget - you don’t have to go through the baltic to reach Novogord, there are better oppurtunities elsewhere :D

For the Nenetsia strat, look up the thread, “The Key to (killing) Russia’s heart is in Nenetsia.”

I’m surprised there isn’t more love for a G1 Barbarossa coupled with IC’s in the Ukraines or Rostov. Keep them on their heels from the very beginning, and build a massive trailing force that arrives just in time to defend the ICs (G3). I’ve never tried it, for all I know it’s a terrible idea, but it seems like a good plan for the long haul against the Russians.

@Jercules:

I’m surprised there isn’t more love for a G1 Barbarossa coupled with IC’s in the Ukraines or Rostov. Keep them on their heels from the very beginning, and build a massive trailing force that arrives just in time to defend the ICs (G3). I’ve never tried it, for all I know it’s a terrible idea, but it seems like a good plan for the long haul against the Russians.

This is because the British start building in capetown and you don’t have enough air to kill the RN which at the start is your major threat.

My foolproof plan to beat Russia:
-a huge stack in Finland
-a huge stack in Poland
-a huge stack in Romania
-tons of planes

And to hold off the western allies:
-huge stacks in several places like Germany, seazones etc…

:-D