Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: brian brian

Going back to set-up etc. ...

Once the Germans temporarily lost their only tanks on the western front, the Dutch could have defended on the resource hex, allowing the BEF to land in the Dutch ports subsequently. This only works when that hex can't be dis-organized by Ground Strike and then over-run.

re: Defending the French Alps - if the French put a 3-3 in the hex north of Nice, the Italians can get as high as perhaps a +7.5 against a single unit there, using Balbo, 5-4 MOT, 3-3 ART, and most of their planes, depending on their unit draws of course. Maybe better with an admittedly lucky Ground Strike. But if the Italians crack that line, their REServe units start the ooze process and the southern front becomes an ever growing distraction for the French, particularly if a few 4 movement point German INF arrive and the Germans are active in the Benelux countries in 1939.

A better French defense is to put the MTN unit in that hex (the most valuable one for the Italians to take), and any other INF in Nice with the Syrian INF reinforcing Nice (the easiest hex for Italy to attack, using Shore Bombardment) on the first impulse. That pretty much shuts down any Italian design on the Alps. Attacking out of Turin into the NW Alps hex is not worth much for the Italians as they then still have to crack a 2nd mountain hex later, from only one hex. A 3-3 INF can hold that hex.

Deploying the Italian lift in Albania would tip some scales for many CW players to launch war on Italy. Their odds of success in a Port Strike go up in a minor port, and it would be challenging for the Italians to ever get a dis-organized TRS back out of Albania later.

The normal place the CW deploys the at-start Indian INF is in Calcutta as the usual risk of war with Japan is low, but the chance of Ghandi embarrassing the Raj via an uprising in Calcutta is there. Digging a PART out of that hex can be a challenge if it has any combat factors. (best put 0 factor PART in woods or jungle hexes, btw)

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ORIGINAL: AllenK

I agree with Brian Brian. Well done for running a different and interesting Japanese strategy.

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ORIGINAL: AllenK
As an aside, I appreciate your comments about other commitments making playing against an opponent difficult but you do seem to be able to post pretty often and are often online at similar times to either Mayhemizer or myself (or Orm and Warspite1). Have you considered playing by email in the way we have done? The great thing is, it can be as fast or slow as you like and/or time permits. I'd sure be happy to throw down the gauntlet.