Has anyone bought an AC and Transport in caucus on R1 and landed your fighters on the AC? If Germany doesn’t attack this you can trade balkans as well as the other territory. Also, if germany does attack they most certanly will lose aircraft and will be unable to go for egypt or the British Battleship. Has anyone tried this crazy build?

Okay Thank you everyone for responses. I guess it comes down to a better way to spend resources.

What is the general consensus on a German Eastern Europe IC on turn 1? In theory it sounds great. You build 3 inf there every turn while the rest of your cash goes to tanks in berlin. This also makes trading territory with russia easier giving you men to the front asap. The main problem stated by many is that the UK might land men there and take it end game. I personally find this to not be a big deal. Even if they grab it berlin can simply counter hard/soft. If anything it acts as a tool to draw the brits into a position to die as opposed to them stacking away from you in karelia. And if we are assuming Germany has been reduced to a defensive posture you keep EE stacked with your tanks as a mobile defense to counter any paris/rome landings. Where am I going wrong here?

I use GTO. I used it a few times last night and I gotta be honest, it was underwhelming. UK got it on turn 2 but with my bomber being shot down on its first strat run it really didn’t make a difference. I did however see a UK use it against me the other day with success. They somehow managed to move aa everywhere like algeria + caucus causing 12+ damage a turn with 2 US bombers doing their own thing.

I had an Australian IC before but it proved worthless. You spend all your 2 purchases there on inf to make sure japan doesn’t crash fighters with bombardments and take it. If you take borneo, new guinea,  and kill japans lone sub/trans it could prove really good however.

Unless your going for an IC India strategy, I highly suggest teching for Rockets until you get them with UK, buying 3 dice a round. Now most would advise against this considering the safer and more reliable approach is to simply build ships to threaten German mainland. I have a thread going on specifically debating this. Move your india aa gun towards caucus regardless of whether you got the tech to anticipate it, allowing you to bomb both berlin and rome, and that’s not even counting any bombers you might have.

Well its obvious that a tech is a risk. Should it pay off however germany can be strat bombed without the risk of being shot down and can be supported by the US’s own bombing methods. I think getting it sooner then later would prove helpful in damaging Germany’s money prior to their move on russia. And the UK, unlike some, doesn’t have to worry about a real threat to london 70% of the time, meaning they can take the IPC loss easier then others should you not get the tech.

Is teching for rockets with UK an effective strategy? With the UK bomber and 1 or 2 from the US it seems like a worthwhile investment. However, like all techs, not getting it ends up being a waste of money. So how many rolls would you buy on UK1? I was thinking 3-4.