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Centuur -> RE: Warspite1 Keep Out! (10/1/2016 11:17:56 PM)
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The build strategy does not reflect a close the Med. In such a strategy, all PARA's and MAR available to the Axis should be build ASAP (that means the Italian air lift should be build too). If you lose one of those units, rebuild them immediately. It's no use to build a lot of ARM or MECH, since the terrain in Spain is mostly mountains, in which you can better use good INF instead. Also, Italy should try to start building another TRS.
Sure, the USSR is lurking on the border. But with a close the Med, you always go for a Sitzkrieg, at least until 1942 comes around, at what moment Germany should decide what the possibities are, regarding the Soviets and to take into account the fact if they could close the Med or not by that time (and probably decide to a Sitzkrieg for as long as you can, except when you can enter Iraq in force).
The build strategy somehow looks if the German player doesn't want to decide what it wants to do first. That's giving the CW the possibility to make a good defense of Gibraltar. Consider: you can attack Gibraltar with a PARA, MAR, two ART, the 1st INF, the Berlin MIL and a 2 factor division, supported by all Stuka's and three HQ's in reorganisation range if you have a good building strategy. If you use an offensive with those units present, that will give you far better possibilities of taking the hex, as compared to the units you've got now. Even with 1D10 (which really favours the defender), things are better if you've got the right units.
And there's another thing to consider. I believe that the Axis are using far to many combined actions. It's far better to use an air action in the first impulse (ground strike Gibraltar with all you've got) and reorganise all planes and in the next impulse attack the rock, with all planes again available for ground support.
How to proceed in the current situation? That's difficult, with no PARA or MAR. Those units could have given you about 20 extra attack factors in an attack using an offensive chit. That's where the problem really lies. In the current situation, there is only one thing you must do. And that is to attack the Rock each impulse with good weather and hope for the die to produce the best result possible. That will cost you units, but you haven't got a choice. If you wait for better odds, you won't get them, since the CW will always put the big BB's at sea for defensive shore bombardment. And if they lose one, who cares at the admiralty in London. They've got enough of those to lose.
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