wild_Willie2
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Joined: 10/8/2004 From: Arnhem (holland) yes a bridge to far... Status: offline
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You are NOT going to prep for the USA ???. Then: YOU WILL FAIL. Your troops are going to fight strong, fully supplied and extremely well dug in forces in a CITY HEX (most likely they WILL be prepped), without prepping, you will simply dont have a chance of rooting them out fast enough to take the USA. If you want to take the USA you must do it quickly. US troops are NOT weak, badly led and supplied chinese troops, which you can steamroll out of their city hexes. I hope you KNOW about the rule that will IMMEDIATELY provide the USA with ALL the troops it would get within 180 days once you cross a certain border ?. You must realise that you will take significant troop/shipping losses once your aproach to the US coast is detected and airstrikes by B25-B26's and B17's/24's at 3000 feet come pouring in? Even if you manage to cover all your ships with the KB's uber CAP, you will slowly take zero attrition to the point that there simply will no longer be enough of them to provide effective cover. The nearest supply base where you can pick up new ones is what? johnston island ? Once your carriers have depleted their zero's, the invasion fleet will be bombed to pieces offshore. To provide aircover you must take an airbase quickly enough for you to provide CAP for the fleet. Problem, how to GET planes to that location?. If you ship them in, it will take forever for them to assemble, and the allies will bomb your AF to bits befor you even repair a single fighter. if you use a CV to transport them, it will give you even LESS aircover in the initial aproach and landing. Your only chance will be to surprise the US with the KB and destroy a lot of planes on the ground befor they can attack your invasion fleet. Downside to this approach is that the KB will be almost out of fuel once you get there, so you will have to take a long supply train with you to refuell the KB (more ships equalls more chance of being detected) The more chance you have of being detected, the smaller the chance for you to pull of a complete surprise. If the remaining US CV's are near the west coast once you arrive and they knock out even 1-2 of your CV's then it's definitely game over... You would have my deepest respect if you could pull this one off, but I think it will just provide us with 3-4 weeks of (highly exiting) AAR based on the MAD principle.. Good luck.
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