German Starting IPC Count Wrong

My friend and I were discussing Argothair’s strategy. He says that if he could easily counter a giant W. Russia stack by attacking Karelia and Caucasus at the same time. Especially Caucasus, attacking with everything in range. Would a good counter-strategy be the Russian Ukraine opener? I’m talking about attacking Ukraine, but not taking it on the first turn.

If you ever decide to try anything like this let me know what you think ….

@drsnidely:

Hi everyone. I’m just curious what everyone uses to track your IPC since the newer editions no longer have paper money. My group has always just written it down but I never liked that. It feels like math, and I’m always forgetting to carry over the 1 or 2 IPC i didn’t spend.  Recently my girlfriend got me a set of poker chips. We tried using them in our last game and it worked great. Really easy to keep track, and I like having something tangible instead of just numbers on a piece of paper.  Plus it was quite satisfying when the Russian player handed me a stack of chips after Moscow fell.  :evil:

Just curious if anyone ever tried this and what your thoughts were.

Still have my first A&A game from 1986, so we simply use the money from that version.  We also use the white/red chips as well.  We use the grey/green/red for industrial complex damage.  That way there is enough to go around and it doesn’t get confused with each other.

And the transport never ends up on a territory.  Just in the seazone adjacent to the territory you’re dumping units into.

well yea perhaps

Don’t forget the political situation at the time is totally screwed up to… Turkey did, in the end declare war, on Germany, Italy did too and declared war on Japan, Russia and Japan agreed not to attack each other till 1946, Japan recruited troops from Allied control India.

@WILD:

Ok then 2 subs in 1942SE going after the Americans is lame then. So spiting the subs (keeping one in sz9, and the other goes to sz8), and removing one US tpt would be one solution.

What was lame was the way the USA let Germany trash our shipping right after we entered the war. I think letting 2 German subs come over and sink 1 US DD and 2 US APs for 0-1 sub is historically about right on.

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