Posts made by Desert Fox

By all means, if you think it’s worth doing than do it. I just don’t happen to think it is, but hey go ahead and play with it and see what it gets you.

Germany

Maybe it’s just me, but in every single game I’ve played, Karelia is never taken by the Germans. Why? They never have the infantry to match Russia. They know they can take but not hold Karelia. And if you do it right, it’s my opinion that an IPC in India can work, even if the Japanese take it after you build it, you can usually take it back. I’ve built it as early as B1 and seen my Japanese opponent send all he had at it only to lose it to an American counter attack, and I’m not talking about 2 inf. and 1 fighter attacking whatever the japanese have left there. Unless the German player is hyper aggressive and gets lucky on some rolls, you can have 3 infantry and 1 fighter in there as britain at the end of your round 1 turn. Your transport makes sure that a fighter has to be diverted in order to bring over the 2 infantry from the phillipines, so Japan attacks 3 inf. and 1 fght with 4 inf., 1 fght and 1 bomber, I’m sure it might not even be that much (-1 fighter). Usually Japan is left with 1 infantry there, sometimes they don’t win at all, and if you move the British fighters into Moscow they are within range to help out as well. If they fail to take it, then the r2 attack into Manchuria will go well, and if they took out china like my opponent usually does, Japan is usually pretty weak there, if not then India is all that much stronger. Arbitrarily dismissing an India IPC is probably not a good idea, it still takes a lot of resources for Japan to get at it, and like I said Karelia isn’t usually in any danger from German attack. I don’t know that’s the way it’s always worked for me in my games, although I’m relatively new to online gaming I play all the time here with my friends.

Not necessarily, normally Britain doesn’t have an existing transport when I play, but sure I guess there are some variations for taking out the english navy. I’m of the opinion that a skilled Japanese player can do what Germany needs it to do fast enough with regular rolls. Normally, the English and American navies just can’t build up fast enough to save Russia.

The transport is dead before it even gets there, unless you’re playing against a moron.

It’s far wiser to wait for Japan, Germany doesn’t have enough infantry in the beginning to take Russia, and can’t match 8 infantry a turn until it has secured Africa. Once Japan cuts into Russia’s income and Germany can outproduce it, then you attack.