Thanks for the quick clarification!
I guess we just had a lot of lucky rolling for these attacks in our first game. I don’t think we ever lost a plane, which made me question whether this was allowed. But I can see that the probabillity makes it a risky strategy in the long term.
Locations of Air and Naval Bases
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To clarify my views on factories and placement:
I have infantry placement completely separate from mechanical units.
Therefore, Finland (or the Axis player controlling Finland), though it has no major industry, can place infantry every turn up to it’s IPC value; i.e. (on my maps) 1 per turn. Similarly infantry can be placed in such countries as Romania, Hungary etc to represent their considerable infantry presence in the Axis armies, even though they, too, had no significant war industries.
Sweden did have a significant arms industry (it is currently the Worlds 10th biggest arms exporter), which justifies a minor factory, regardless of it’s neutrality. It should also have a reasonable defence force if anyone decides to attack it, including artillery and a fighter.
However, since my rules do not allow the use of a captured factory, the first side to attack Sweden automatically forfeits the right to use the factory there.
In other words, the Swedish factory can only be used by SWEDES, and only when liberated from the aggressor and as part of the liberating alliance.
The factory is, therefore, a disincentive to attack the country, which should in consequence remain historically neutral throughout. Which may suggest it’s a waste of time putting it there; but I say if the Swedish arms industry did exist in reality it should exist in the game.
Perhaps a player might, in certain circumstances, go ahead and invade Sweden anyway IF there are rules which allow the Swedes to join the war on the other side as a result of diplomatic overtures.
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I would put a naval into “western” France - Germany used this as a staging point for subs end based some cruisers (includung the Scharnhorst/Gneisenau) for some time there.
I think it should be a built, optional base (illustrating the upgraded concrete pens) not a pre-built. If not, Germany will have no chance for long-term harassment with their uboats. Unfortunately, and fortunately if you’re the allies, this will likely become the number one naval base bombed throughout the game…
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Important naval bases in Europe 1940:
UK
Scapa Flow
Plymouth
Sothampton (more civil)
Gibraltar
Alexandria
Dakar
Malta (small)France
Toulon
Brest
Dunkirque
Saint Nazaire (subs)
Casablanca
Mers-El-Kebir (Oran)
Beirut (small)Italy
Taranto
Brindisi
Trieste
Genoa
Naples
Messina
Tripoli
TobrukGermany
Kiel
Willemshaven
DanzigUSSR
Leningrad
Murmansk
Sevastopol
OdessaUSA
Hampton Roads, Norfolk Virginia
New York
BostonOther (Neutrals)
Antwerpen
Rotterdam
Gothenburg
Oslo (fjord)
Narvik (fjord)
Lisabon
Cadiz
Barcelona
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Nice research Canaris, welcome to the forum.
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Important naval bases in Europe 1940:
UK
Scapa Flow
Plymouth
Sothampton (more civil)
Gibraltar
Alexandria
Dakar
Malta (small)I’d think the list incomplete if Halifax wasn’t added.
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I agree it was a huge center for for Canadian convoys headed to Britian
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Nice work gentlemen!
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So is this the complete list?
Important naval bases in Europe 1940:
UK
Scapa Flow
Plymouth
Sothampton (more civil)
Gibraltar
Alexandria
Dakar
Malta (small)
HalifaxFrance
Toulon
Brest
Dunkirque
Saint Nazaire (subs)
Casablanca
Mers-El-Kebir (Oran)
Beirut (small)Italy
Taranto
Brindisi
Trieste
Genoa
Naples
Messina
Tripoli
TobrukGermany
Kiel
Willemshaven
DanzigUSSR
Leningrad
Murmansk
Sevastopol
OdessaUSA
Hampton Roads, Norfolk Virginia
New York
BostonOther (Neutrals)
Antwerpen
Rotterdam
Gothenburg
Oslo (fjord)
Narvik (fjord)
Lisabon
Cadiz
Barcelona
Pireus -
Of course Halifax shoul be in there. Forgot about that. And Leningrads naval base should be named Kronstadt.
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@Brain:
Lisabon
It’s Lisbon, not Lisabon (I live there)
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Nice work!
Now how about a complete listing of WWII air bases? :wink: