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What are your strategies in Egypt ? - 1/29/2020 7:31:02 PM

boudi

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In PBEM it's, from my opinion, very hard, if not impossible, to defend Egypt against axis forces, especially german tanks. By exemple they can kill the single UK army unit in a single turn.

What's your strategies for defending Egypt ?

Thanks.

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RE: What are your strategies in Egypt ? - 1/29/2020 7:38:50 PM

jesperpehrson

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Interested in this as well. Reading from the forum it seems like Egypt should be easy to defend.
From what I understand you either disrupt the transportation of DAK by reducing or blocking the ports or you build an early engineer to build some fortifications.

More experienced players than I can probably answer with more certainty.

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RE: What are your strategies in Egypt ? - 1/29/2020 7:55:31 PM

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You could save a bit of time and expense by sending the French engineers over. Let's face it, France is unlikely to last against a competent assault, and the fortification that they can build in France can easily be bypassed anyhow, but in Egypt, the could well construct two hexes of forts, enough to cover the gap between the Qatarra depression and the sea.

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RE: What are your strategies in Egypt ? - 1/29/2020 8:45:08 PM

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Step 1: don't let german U-boats enter the Mediterranean
-if you want to play it safe, buy an engineer
-buy a strategic bomber sometime after core research

Step 2: make a choke at the depression in W Egypt

Step 3: deny the use of the N African ports as long as possible without losing too many capital ships
-expect a paratrooper landing in Tunisia.
-do not lose battleships
-do not lose carriers

Step 3A: when/if germans land: use strategic bombers and battleships to lower the supply of towns leading up to Egypt. Get entrenched. Counterattack against low supply units. If you cant destroy a land unit in a turn, try damaging enemy HQs or destroying enemy bombers with your carriers, fighters, and bombers

Step 3B: before germans land/if germans never come: use your strategic bombers to reduce italian supply, then go on the offensive. Try to get a second HQ there around the time you get to Tobruk. Push far enough so your strategic bomber can hit the port at Tripoli.

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RE: What are your strategies in Egypt ? - 1/29/2020 8:53:40 PM

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Partially following Hamburger's steps, I was able to take all of North Africa my last game. This was rather unfortunate for Russia, but leaving that aside, Egypt went swimmingly.

Key thing for me was the naval blockade. I managed to wipe out some FSJ corps in France, so I was confident no Sealion was coming and sent more or less the full British fleet into the Med. The royal navy took a beating, but with no supply and no ability to transport more troops, the Italians went down fairly easily, especially once the British Armoured arrived.

Not sure if it helped or hindered, but I also sent the British Expeditionary force on *gasp* an expedition, taking Morocco and Tunisia. The timing was off so I didn't quite pull a pincer on Libya, but with that all of North Africa was in allied hands.

Of course I managed to completely bungle east Africa in the process, but that's another story.

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RE: What are your strategies in Egypt ? - 1/30/2020 2:20:32 AM

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I will generally try to take Tobruk from the Italians in summer or fall of 1940. If you elect not to have India join the war in 1939, you get the BAI in Egypt. This gives you two armies on the spot. That plus support units and the strategic bomber (plus some blockading by the RN) will give you a far shot at taking Tobruk and possibly Benghazi before the DAK can intervene. And Tobruk can slow the Germans down quite a bit, just as it did IRL.

On the other hand, if the Germns take France quickly and send air and tanks to Libya in summer of 1940, it's VERY hard to stop them.

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RE: What are your strategies in Egypt ? - 1/30/2020 7:14:20 PM

boudi

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Thanks for your answers.

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RE: What are your strategies in Egypt ? - 2/1/2020 10:51:02 AM

Helsingor

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Boudi,
I meant to add that I feel a bit sheepish offering you advice, given the state of our game, but I blame it all on my infatuation with a sea lion!

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RE: What are your strategies in Egypt ? - 2/1/2020 12:38:33 PM

boudi

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Helsingor

Boudi,
I meant to add that I feel a bit sheepish offering you advice, given the state of our game, but I blame it all on my infatuation with a sea lion!

You was near a brillant victory.

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RE: What are your strategies in Egypt ? - 2/3/2020 2:43:13 AM

Helsingor

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Ah yes, high tide in Scotland. I remember it well.

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