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kcole4080 -> RE: Italy First (11/10/2007 7:11:48 PM)
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I tried it in my most recent game.
1) I took Belgium & Luxembourg to keep the French busy.
2) Placed a reasonable garrison in the East.
3) Yes, you do really have to wait until sizable reinforcements are mobilized in 1915, so deploy these plus air points and artillery to the Italian Front as soon as possible with three well stocked HQ's.
4) Attempt to encircle as many Italian corps as you can, the take the northern cities before the Brits & French can intervene effectively.
Obviously you must purchase plenty of trenches to keep the French & Russians from pushing your troops around and losses on what you want to be static fronts down.
Also, deploying the 'B' class reinforcements to replace the 'A' class corps, then using the 'A' troops for the assault on Italy is more effective, along with any spare 'A' class A-H corps you have (if Serbia has surrendered already) to hold your gains.
OR:
Wait until Italy joins the ET, then let them advance with a few corps, probably in two separate advances, THEN cut them off and take the cities.
They are fairly easy to knock out if you concentrate on the Italian forces & cities, but waiting will delay the effective counterstrike, unless you are ready & waiting for them (and who has two or three armies hanging around without better things to do?).
The mountains and the plain beyond are a good place to cut off some incautious French troops also.
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