Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: rjh1971

Creating units and leaving them empty to form a defensive line

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ORIGINAL: british exil

On larger maps building a unit with 1 horse then using it as a recon unit.

This was considered as very gamey, as in some scenarios a creating a unit didn't have any cost, so in effect you could recon and conquer cities with only a few horses quite fast.

But I never encountered any players using this tactic, neither would I employ such a tactic even playing against the AI.

Mat

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ORIGINAL: ernieschwitz

Neutral sea hex blocking.
It´s one of the most annoying things you can do when not at war, and you can´t declare war.

What you do is this. Move a sea unit to some point that needs to be passed in order for ships to move past that area. For instance, the area between norway and denmark, could be blocked by putting sea units (subs for instance, or even cargoships) from the coast of denmark, to the coast of norway. No enemy (no vessels at all in fact but yours) can cross this line.

I´ve seen and used this tactic in 1933 for instance, and it would be possible to use in alot of other scenarios.

EDIT: How i responded.

Well, the game was with Tweber among others. We discussed it briefly, and I decided to keep on using it, because he was using it too. I was playing Soviet union and blocking the entrance to the northern baltic by putting a line of subs out there. He responded by putting a thin line of destroyers out there blocking my movement further south and he also blocked part of the black sea by doing the same.

In the end, it was more his problem than mine. You have to understand tho that in 1933, Germany can´t be attacked until they have done an act of aggression. So by putting up a wall of submarines, I was being provocative, ... and he responded by using the same tactics.

I think that the game should be fixed so that at least subs can pass through hexes with enemy ships in them, not stacking with them, but just moving past them.

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o. I was playing Soviet union and blocking the entrance to the northern baltic by putting a line of subs out there. He responded by putting a thin line of destroyers out there blocking my movement further south and he also blocked part of the black sea by doing the same.

In the end, it was more his problem than mine. You have to understand tho that in 1933, Germany can´t be attacked until they have don