oh right! SZ 93 is in the way and spain is neutral

Italy strat bomb the air base at gib in I1, German planes kill the British fleet in G2

It’s because a move to Egypt’s seazone just paints a big target there. Yes the British face a long shot on the defensive at Malta, but now the Italians have to move troops into either Tripoli or Tobruk with their transports or take the danger of having their transports be unguarded, and those troops to Italian africa are not used to take down Greece, Jordan or Syria from the Egypt seazone, or Gibraltar. Also the Italians will have to choose between taking down the French fleet or the British, and if the Italians roll bad enough, you could see if the french fleet can kill it, or soften it up. The French units are dead in the water otherwise, but can hamper the Italian expansion a lot. Why not an airbase? I feel Britain usually has better buys available; lots of infs in turn 1 to deter Sea Lion, an extra transport in south africa, a destroyer near britain or canada to try to clear sealanes. You can sacrifice some units as the allies if you can get a definitive advantage; Limiting or severly delaying Italian influence in Africa, rebuilding the atlantic fleet for the inevitable return to the continent: You can also start that in canada!.

I disagree with taranto on a different level: positioning and denial of objectives. It’s worth a lot more for the british to keep a larger fleet alive in the med than to kill the battleship of the Italians. And if you get all the good defensive units together at Malta seazone, the Italians have to split up their fleet if they wish to clear it. Now if you can make sure you keep some air units around, the transports will sink too.

A good plan. But as a matter of principle, and an in-joke with friends when playing, we say “go big or go home”. Spread out over too many targets and fail all of them.

That’s what I do with friends when playing face to face. I won’t take nonsense from a gamedesigner that doesn’t know how to come up with a consistent ruleset. Houserules rule!

That’s some very sound advice, JDOW.

low luck is not my game.

edit: changed opinion to more reasonable.

I have played in the past with a houserule allowing bombers (1942 revised) to transport 1 infantry as paratroopers. If the bomber is shot down with AA, the para dies too. I guess you could modify this to allow strategic bombers in 1940 global to work the same way?

You may not mix Chinese resources (units) with that of other nations.