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« on: November 20, 2012, 05:42:11 AM »
You can't rely on an incompetent opponent to pave your way to victory. Playing vs the best is the only way to devise a winning strategy. All other wins are hollow victories IMO. I have the honor of playing Scott, known as WASP in the Axis and Allies world. I will tell you Russia just can't cut it. But to keep the damage to a minimum one must do the following...
1 Keep the Black Sea! You cannot allow Turkey to join the Axis. We play the double trigger rule, so Greece falling is not enough to lose Turkey. UK must do their part and the Russians need to keep their garrison on the Turkish Border. Keeps the Crimea in supply which is critcal to number 2....
2 Hold The Crimea! If Germany wants it, they will take it. But make em pay for it!
3 don't waste money on aircraft until late in the game. Preserve what air you do have in order to defend your factories from un-escorted bombing attacks.
4 you don't need 20 AA guns. in territories you have 4-5 forts it will do him no good to straeff you. Your AA guns belong with the mobile part of your army. That means the one that is constantly falling back, haha.
5 you will need armor units late in the game to take back territory lost in the fastest manor possible. It will likely be late 1943 or 1944 until you can seize the innitiative. So start piling them up and protect them. Stuka straeffs are your biggest enemy. ATG's can be purchased to protect you from armored attacks.
6 you want the whermacht to attack you! If Germany succeeds at pushing you to the Urals without a fight, you are in trouble. When he begins his withdraw in late 1943 or 1944 he'll have huge amounts of troops to defend his objectives. Tactically the terrain favors the Germans substantially. I try to leave my army in harms way with a little less than 50/50 odds just to try and whittle him down. The more mechanized components you can eliminate the better!
7 don't get cut off! those paratroopers are his best weapon. They can hurt you in so many ways! I've even had Scott use them to straeff an army in the rear, then hit me again on the mech phase! ugh!
8 finally, the more aircraft the western allies can draw away from the Eastern front the better. There are many ways to do that. Psycological warfare- Its the game within the game.