Recommended number of planes sent to help Russia

I noticed it was your first post after I answered:
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You could stop this one of 2 ways:

1. With the $12 you get at the beginning, buy a transport and put it in the Danish Sea and buy artillery with the remaining $4 and put it in Germany (or possibly Finland). If Russia does not put any additional infantry in Leningrad with the Allies’ $12, attack Leningrad on your first turn by transporting 2 infantry and 2 artillery and maybe 1 or 2 fighters (Russia only has 2 infantry to begin with. You should also attack from Poland to Baltic States and Finland to Vyborg. This way you not only take Leningrad but you encircle it and are prepared to counterattack if Russia takes it back. This also prevents the Allies from being able to land fighters in Russia from UK (all 3 of those spaces are exactly 4 zones from UK - everything else is out of reach).

2. Buy a transport with the initial $12 and keep $4. Buy a Battleship & Aircraft Carrier with your remaining money an place them with your 2 transports in the Baltic Sea. (You could combine this with the above strategy as well if you don’t by the artillery). Assuming that you have knocked out all of the UK’s navy surrounding the UK mainland, UK can only attack your navy with their bomber and 2 - fighters on their first turn. That would be gamble for them, considering your battleship can take 2 hits and defends at a 4, the carrier defends at a 3 and the 2 tranports can be used as fodder. Assuming your carrier survives, land 2 fighters on it next round (and add more navy if you’d like) and you have a decent-strength navy in the area for UK and US to have to unseat. Having a strong navy here also gives you the flexibility to invade UK depending on the circumstances.

Interesting idea. Something to try out.

ok here it is (i’ve memorized it… seriously)
germany: 4 infatry 2 tanks 2 artillery 1 IC 1 AA 2 fighters 1 bomber
france: 4 infantry 2 tanks 1 fighter 1 artillery
eastern france : 4 infantry
holland: 3 infantry 2 tanks
poland: 6 men 1 artillery 2 tanks 1 fighter
norway:4 men 1 fighter
finland:3 men
checoslovakia: 1 man 1 artleery
austria: 1 man 1 artillery
denmark:1 man
northern italy: 2 men 2 tanks 1 artillery 1 AA 1 IC i figher
southern italy:2 men
hungary: 3 men 1 artillery 1 tank
yugoslavia:2 men
greece: 2men 1 artillery
bulgaria:2 men
crete:1 man
rumania: 3 men 1 tank
tunisia:1 man 1 artillery 1 tank
morrocoo:1 man
danish sea:2 subs 1 transport
barents sea :1 sub
denmark striaght: 1 sub
bay of biscay:2 subs
south atlantci:1 sub
azores sea ;1 SUB
halifax sea:1 sub
midatlantic:1 sub
tyrennian sea :1 Battleship 1 destoyer 1 transport

there you go (srry for not reponding sooner) hope you fun in your gaming experience!

i just played a game that took 15 turns (i finally got moscow)
i think it was 73 inf 24 rtl 39 arm attacking 86 infantry 16 rtl and 22 ftrs
obviously the allies sent in fighters! Had they sent a few more he certainly could have, instead he build a large ineffective fleet, i would have lost (i took moscow with 19 arm))

if you figure that germany has 2x the production of russia, but i’m considering the strategy where the allies mainly build fighters, and send them all to moscow russia bids armor with the bid so they can get finland and norway asap, then infantry so if leningrad falls, the allies can land in norway instead) The usa can build 3 fighters a turn, the uk 2, this is the same as 10 infantry, or 30 ipc’s. At this rate, you can almost say it’s russia against germany, russia get’s 54 ipc’s a turn, germany get’s 40. remember russia has finland and norway. Of course it is even harder for germany since moscow is 4 turns away. All russia has to do is hold out, eventually with 30-40 fighters, they can kill the german stack… or if they have enough to hold a few turns, the allies can build their fleet, or whatever, the allies are cashing out extremely high.

you can build a few bombers as allies, and leave leningrad and stalingrad open (germany takes, sbr it!) If germany sends into ME, russia just get’s stronger (i personally thing sending there is a waste of troops). Usa and uk have to build subs and stuff the first turn or so to get the convoys though. Not really sure, but it might work. I’ll try it my next game.

The loss of the US convoys is not that terrible, together they are only worth ten (25% of US total income)
The game is not unbalanced if the allies are coordinated and work together.

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.
Peace and happy hunting