Hitler is not available for comments, but his trusted second, DeathMachine, is here to comment for the Axis side.
Turn 1: I find out the hard way what the offensive-only re-rolls means. I lost 4 armor and a pzgr to a measly polish force in warsaw. Everyone needs to be very careful about mech moves now. Which is interesting since we have double mech move summers, which we have yet to try out at this time.
Italy declares war. I hope to use the extra production to thwart my enemies in the med. This means that Britain can conquer north africa quickly. But since we see that a viable strategy is to forget about north africa and go fortress italy, I leave the choice up to the allies to show me where I am to place my resources. It also should be easy to send a dummy force to north africa at some point to get upgraded rommel.
Turn 2: Disaster in Norway! Britain easily pushes my fleet back behind the denmark straits and zocs the sea zones around norway. My troops are out of supply with not much hope to come back in supply. Meanwhile Britain itself is almost devoid of troops, some going to norway and to the mainland. John realizes an important thing here. Who cares about defending britain when I can't get my fleet past his all powerful one. The 4 troops in norway make it impossible for me to take it over, especially while out of supply. This is the kind of aggressive tactic that will allow the allies to win. The british fleet shouldn't be hiding out at scapa flow. Bring those carriers in for air support and chase the germans back behind denmark.
France attacks into germany from alsace-lorraine. This really messes up my finances for the next turn. His troops die, but they are french so who cares. John is throwing every last frog against me since he knows they will all die very soon.
Turn 3: Repositioning my air towards denmark. Lesson learned, still won't be enough to protect my fleet enough to get out of the strait but will have to try next turn anyway. I have no choice.
Failed attack into the mountains on the french italian border. Just bad rolls. oh well. I take 2 french territories and put alsace lorraine out of supply. I am in a position to take two open territories next turn, but I am expecting a heavy counterattack by john, most likely with every french troop still in play, even the out of supply ones. I am expecting huge losses on my side to deal with next turn.
Note about initiative. I took initiative on this turn and the last turn. I haven't been able to bomb britain due to having initiative. My preference is just to give up initiative every time, even if I have pressing business. The ability to move your planes last outweighs being pinned I believe.
