Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: cfulbright

Here is my personal advice for you. I know the tutorial says that you should naval move the corps HQ's and follow-up divisions off the invasion beaches, but I believe this is bad advice. If you park them off the invasion beaches, they're subject to naval interdiction and attrition. It's better to naval load them but move them to Pantelleria, Valletta, Tunis, and Bizerte, then move them to the invasion beaches in turn 2. That means you incur the movement costs of naval loading and most of the sailing, but avoid the exposure.

I ran five tests of the second wave units safe in those ports, and five where they were off the invasion beaches. The average Allied losses after the German turn were as follows:

In-Port
Men 29,975
Guns 73
AFV 9

At-Sea
Men 32,429
Guns 109
AFV 19

This was without loading the 2nd US Armored Division or the two army HQ's with their assigned support units, which would have led to even higher losses at-sea. As you can see, the Guns and AFV are most vulnerable.

Cary