@General-Hicks I have only seen France’s capital survive Germany’s attack a handful of times. On one occasion I was the French player and I decided to move the fighter from London and all of my units in Southern France to Paris. In addition, the United Kingdom flew in two fighters. Unfortunately, this was unsuccessful because the Italian player threw every unit they could at France and took it, albeit with substantial casualties. Based on my experience, I would only recommend placing fighters in France’s capital if the French still have a healthy number of ground units present. There would have to be at least 3-4 for me to even consider it.

@WindowWasher I do this every single time that I play Germany and it has never failed me. I typically leave both Holland and Normandy completely open and instead heavily fortify Western Germany, Denmark and France with Italian and Germany units. This allows the allies to secure a few extra IPC’s, but at the cost of poor positioning in the long run.

@ShadowHAwk Those units are essential to defend your capital, as well as France’s capital. There is no way around having a substantial defensive force if you want to win the game as the axis. Ideally all of those units could attack Moscow, but that is literally not an option. Germany can lose its capital turn 4 if you don’t have enough units to defend, and Paris can be lost to the allies turn 5 if you aren’t deploying enough units to prevent that.

@ShadowHAwk
Those units would have to be defending anyway though? This strategy simply baits the allies into attacking a position you can better defend from with a lower risk of a naval invasion in northeastern Europe or Southern Europe where the axis is more vulnerable. Obviously you would prefer to have these units fighting elsewhere but that is not a realistic option, so I’m not sure that I understand your point.

@ShadowHAwk

Those units could land in Norway either way, so leaving Normandy open does not change that. Southern France would be protected by Italy since they can easily position several ground units in both France and Southern France with German support.

You also do not have to completely retake Normandy as the Axis once the Allies have landed. All you need to do is attack with a substantial force to continuously grind down their units then retreat before you start to take higher losses. Also, as the Axis player I would gladly trade one for one with the Allies in Normandy and France since the axis can easily replace those units while the Allies cannot.

@WindowWasher I do this every single time that I play Germany and it has never failed me. I typically leave both Holland and Normandy completely open and instead heavily fortify Western Germany, Denmark and France with Italian and Germany units. This allows the allies to secure a few extra IPC’s, but at the cost of poor positioning in the long run.

@WindowWasher survive for as long as possible and try to capture as much income as you can before declaring war on turn 3. Allow your Italy and Germany players to run wild on the Europe side of the board while you hold out and force the allies to either:

1. Continue to commit their resources and units to finishing you off
   Or 2. Realize that KJF is not a very effective strategy and try to overcompensate on the Europe board by shifting their purchases that direction when it is already too late.

@General-Hicks I have only seen France’s capital survive Germany’s attack a handful of times. On one occasion I was the French player and I decided to move the fighter from London and all of my units in Southern France to Paris. In addition, the United Kingdom flew in two fighters. Unfortunately, this was unsuccessful because the Italian player threw every unit they could at France and took it, albeit with substantial casualties. Based on my experience, I would only recommend placing fighters in France’s capital if the French still have a healthy number of ground units present. There would have to be at least 3-4 for me to even consider it.

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