No one collects the income until someone controls it. Normally if the ping pong move is used, Italy will then attack it.
How to best threaten German Baltic fleet?
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I think he’s referring to the Allied side, not the Axis side.
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You don’t have to sink the German fleet, just force them to shelter behind Denmark for safety.
If they actually have a fleet large enough to stand toe to toe with the Allied Atlantic fleet, the Allies have won concur it means Moscow won’t fall for a very long time. Having multiple German carriers is a guaranteed L for the Axis.
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@Arthur-Bomber-Harris said in How to best threaten German Baltic fleet?:
You don’t have to sink the German fleet, just force them to shelter behind Denmark for safety.
If they actually have a fleet large enough to stand toe to toe with the Allied Atlantic fleet, the Allies have won concur it means Moscow won’t fall for a very long time. Having multiple German carriers is a guaranteed L for the Axis.
That fleet does allow it to keep trading norway so sinking the fleet is not required but it does help.
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It’s only a problem if you’re attacking Norway, like if you’re focusing on the Mediterranean or Japan.
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@SuperbattleshipYamato and Norway is nearly impossible to capture and hold against a skilled Axis player who leaves a big stack in Finland and can support the counterattack with the German Air Force. The Allies to do a KGF strategy and the Axis needs to be focusing on capturing Moscow for the Norway landing to succeed.
Otherwise Normandy, S France, and Greece are much easier beachheads.
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@Arthur-Bomber-Harris
If the units are in finland they are not near moscow.
If the airforce is used against finland its not used against russia.Having that fleet there allows the germans to just move units from W-ger to norway to trade and to use those finland troops to attack moscow. They are a lot closer.
But even if you have a big stack in finland and no navy whats stopping me from dropping 2-4 inf and 1-2 AA guns in norway? Either your big stack moves in and its gone next round. Or you airforce is used and risks losing a plane or 2. Its not like the AA in London is doing anything anyway.,
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@shadowhawk you are talking about 2 or 3 loaded transports with 20-30 PUs of value. Germany takes it back losing a plane and a couple ground units. Maybe doesn’t even lose the plane.
Better off trading units in Normandy where you can adequately protect those transports instead of a suicide mission. The Allies can come out ahead in the exchanges.
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It depends on the size of your fleet, the 3 fighter scamble isnt always that big a difference.
Attacking norway + denmark also requires him to trade both or lose the NO as well.Also it gives you a staging ground for going to leninggrad which causes him to lose even more NO income. He can ignore Normandy as you cant do much from that location, its only 2 ipcs not a big deal.
Norway is 8ipcs lost.So its not 20-30pu its more like 6-12pu, as the AA guns from london are basically free.