Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Orm

Can not the Western Allies use the route through the Mediterranean and Turkey to reach USSR with the BPs instead of Archangelsk?

To me it looks like at least a couple of BPs could be send this route.

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ORIGINAL: Centuur

I think the Nationalist Chinese needs some planes or artillery. I would suggest to start building them (lend lease planes from the US have some pretty nice ones available for them by now).

Generally speaking, the Wallies (not China) should operate somewhat more aggressive on land in the Pacific. You outbuild the enemy, so you can affort losses.

So: attack the Japanese Bridgehead in Siam with the CW next impulse. If you got enough units available, you can affort the loss of three of your own.

Also, I believe I would have made the attack on Manilla by the US. In N/D turns are short and your units are sitting around doing nothing. The loss of a Japanese land unit will mean that they have to transport another one back into Manilla. And that's getting more and more difficult for them. The US can affort the loss of three land units, if they position them wisely for the attack...

Thing is: you have to start bleeding the Japanese, to give the Chinese more room for actions too. Now, the nationalists cannot do anything, because the Japanese still haven't retreated enough units for the defense of the motherland.

The decision to don't make a lot of low odds attack by the Soviet Union is a wise one. The USSR knows it gets another impulse, so an organised army is better than a disorganised one.

Now, about ground strikes. If you ground strike a unit in woods, your effectiveness is halved. If you do it during rain of snow, you are again halved. So a nice big TB-3 (a very expensive but very usefull plane), which you are risking in air-to-air battle too, suddenly has a 10% chance of disorganising the enemy... Also, you are using precious oil and your FTR did fly to defend the plane. This plane isn't a cheap one at all and has tremendous possibilities for reorganisation of a disorganised unit and a very long range. You don't want to lose such an aircraft on a crappy attack. Also: think about rebuilding those TB-3's still in the force pool. They can bomb Ploesti out of Sevastopol. Or bomb the red print factories under German control in the USSR. Or transport a newly build PARA or a MTN from Sevastopol into a partisan controlled Kursk or Kiev (if you build the Kiev MIL, you might even be able to build up an army in such a place). The possibilities for use of the TB-3's are so very good, don't fritter them away...

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ORIGINAL: rkr1958

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ORIGINAL: Orm

Can not the Western Allies use the route through the Mediterranean and Turkey to reach USSR with the BPs instead of Archangelsk?

To me it looks like at least a couple of BPs could be send this route.

Good point.

Does it matter if rail from Georgia and the Caucuses is cut to the rest of the country? If the Soviets can keep this rail open, which they achieved last impulse, this may be a non-issue either way.