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Ur_Vile_WEdge -> RE: CV Bern (9/13/2015 4:00:01 PM)
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Well, at least in my playgroup:
-Italy usually enters the war the first chance she gets. All that lovely lend-lease from Germany can't happen until Italy's active.
Some players will try to declare war on only the CW (or only the French) but a lot of them will DoW both at once to avoid double dipping on entry.
At the very start of the game, Italy's surprisingly weak. They've only got one nav, a single LND 3 which might or might not be effective on the water, and their fighters all have awful ranges. They've only got 2 battleships, and even those are pretty lame, with 5 defense values. A single, slow, low factor carrier like the Bearn can project a surprising amount of force in the Med, or, if you're more chicken, can give a search bonus against the Kriegsmarine, or sit in the North Atlantic and give cover to that convoy weakness. It's got uses.
And honestly, when you do intern it, the Bearn's #1 job is usually to be a bomb sponge at Pearl Harbor. If worse comes to worst and the Bearn gets sunk, you put the Ranger and the Wasp together there instead. The question you should ask yourself is this:
Which helps me more? The Bearn active in the first few turns of the game before France falls, or the increased possibility that one of my 5 moving pre-war carriers lives once the U.S. enters the war?
And I don't mean to imply that one or the other answer is right; but that's the strategic calculation you're really making.
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