Allied Playbook - G40 Collection of Essays - Compiled by jacobgeo24 Nov 18-19 2023

@jacobgeo24 You are welcome. Thanks for your efforts.

@crockett36
I´ve tried the gibastion before but then italy gets a good chance of taking the NO in the middle east (landing 2 tpt in syria). Or even egypt on I2.
Plus you can´t unite the UK fleet with the Pac fleet.
My goal is to built and hold a minor in egypt UK1.
The gibastion is vulnerable too bc you need to stack Algeria to prevent italy from taking it.
In my plan you need the UK fightrrs on Alexandria to pair up with the Italian troops in Tobruk plus their airforce. If you land them at Malta they get a fair chance of destroying alexandria.

@Cornwallis without an Allied bid, I view Gibastion as too risky. Something goes wrong and Egypt will fall. Game over.

I also think a factory in Egypt on UK1 would trigger Sealion assuming average dice rolls on first turn. If the money isn’t being spent in London, the Axis needs to punish the bold/foolish decision.

@Arthur-Bomber-Harris i´m not a fan either. Watch my video here above.
Not doing taranto keeps 2 extra fighters on London. A buy of 5 inf there (plus the minor) is even strenger than the 6ind and fighter standard by.
The opening is not as aggresive as taranto but consolidates the forces for a strike on UK2 or 3.

@Cornwallis so many questions? In the video, you did not appear to be English. So why Cornwallis?

Seriously though, I don’t know why I have to garrison Algeria, Algerian snake? German planes land there. There’s an effect to all of that. The loss of a substantial part of the German Air Force. The more likely scenario is a one two with the Italian navy taking the lead. This inadvertently saves Egypt.

As I said I will be giving it a try, minus 106.

@Arthur-Bomber-Harris said in Allied Playbook - G40 Collection of Essays - Compiled by jacobgeo24 Nov 18-19 2023:

@Cornwallis without an Allied bid, I view Gibastion as too risky. Something goes wrong and Egypt will fall. Game over.

I also think a factory in Egypt on UK1 would trigger Sealion assuming average dice rolls on first turn. If the money isn’t being spent in London, the Axis needs to punish the bold/foolish decision.

I wonder if you have a WAG as to how often things go wrong. Could you elaborate? If you mean dice rolls, could we consider this like Paris for the Germans? Every time that happens, everyone seems fine with a restart! No harm, no foul.

What bid items would entice you to do Gibastion? I consider it analogous to Malaya for the Japanese! A nice forking move. But I am open to change. And operation ricochet is all about surviving to turn 5.

@crockett36 at the very least, I like having a Scottish fighter to keep one of the UK fleets alive. An extra art in Africa goes a long way to destroying the Italians in the horn. Finally, an extra UK Sub or two is invaluable in cleaning up the sea zones on UK1. Hence 20-26 PU bid spent for UK sets the up well for doing Gibastion.

I think the oob side of this site ought to reset zero to the bid of the previous year’s tournament champion. Who’s with me?

@crockett36 no i´m Belgian. Cornwallis was from the time the Patriot was coming out😄.
Well the algerian snake gives the luftwaffe the chance of hitting you with everything they have with a loss of 2 to 3 planes.
I ask the questions which occupy my mind since several years😄.
And i´m glad to see you like to try New tactics.

@crockett36

Please elaborate. I’m a bit confused (I’m clueless about tournaments).

I’ll take a crack and have my betters correct it.

The 20 Russia units are a live front. They pin a certain amount of units in the north. So the objective is to keep them alive long enough that the air planes will be out of position ie needed in the south or the east. Then they surge forward and capture Korea or Manchuria. So stepping back one territory is a simple move to complicate Japan’s ambitions. How did I do, teachers?

So the league runs throughout the year. There is a bracketed playoff. There is no mandatory requirements for participation except agreement on terms. (low luck, bid, etc) I say we change that and say that a fifty bid is the starting place for all games that want to qualify for the oob bracketed tournament at the end of the year. Now from there the players can go up or down on the bid.

Next level would be taking the Champions’ bid and applying that as zero. Therefore, you could have a negative bid or a bid for the Axis.

@crockett36 said in Allied Playbook - G40 Collection of Essays - Compiled by jacobgeo24 Nov 18-19 2023:

I’ll take a crack and have my betters correct it.

The 20 Russia units are a live front. They pin a certain amount of units in the north. So the objective is to keep them alive long enough that the air planes will be out of position ie needed in the south or the east. Then they surge forward and capture Korea or Manchuria. So stepping back one territory is a simple move to complicate Japan’s ambitions. How did I do, teachers?

Correct @crockett36 . On R1 any units staying in the Far East need to move to Buryatia so the Japanese can’t wipe them out. Then once the Japanese move too many units away, especially air, you can move back into Amur. The idea is to pin Japanese ground troops in Manchuria or Korea to weaken the Jap push against China. If Japan gets sloppy you can either reinforce a US landing in Korea or push into Manchuria breaking the back of Japan. Normally no further troops would be sent to assist as Russia is doing all she can to save Moscow from the German hordes.

@crockett36

Thank you!

@AndrewAAGamer

Agreed. Out of curiosity, thoughts on attacking Manchuria?

@SuperbattleshipYamato I think he’s already answered it. When the timing is right, if ever.

Yeah, I have seen/read some of the advice to be more aggressive. That doesn’t work against a solid player. All the top players build infantry, lots of it.

Until you know Germany is going for Sealion or building a fleet to contest the Atlantic Russia should build either 12 infantry, save 1 (12, 12, 13) conservative, OR 11 infantry + 1 artillery moderate, OR 7 infantry, 4 artillery aggressive.

This is the most aggressive you should be till you know if Germany is coming after Moscow heavy or not.