I never do as I want the medium and tactical bombers first. These destroy units which is the main goal of the Axis. So for me tanks, medium bombers, tactical bombers, fighters, HQ's, Mech units and corps are priority.

<t> The only reason I don't like using a para is because that unit will be stuck there for a few turn as Malta slowly gets supply and rebuild. Then you have still have to transport a unit there to hold it as that Para will be needed elsewhere. But yes a para can capture it once the enemy AA unit is ...

<t> I don't like to blockade Malta unless I want a big naval battle. You can coax the AI into sending out their entire Med fleet if you leave 1-2 ships touching Malta. Then if you get clear weather the next turn hit them with all your bombers. Of course this does delay the capture of Malta by a turn ...

My original post had nothing to do with grand tactics, naval combat or strategic surprises. It was all about MPP and production timelines. And that IMO has little to do if you are playing against AI or Human.

After entrenchment is gone each medium bomber can do 1-2 damage and the tac's can do 2-3 damage. The most the AA can repair to is 8. You have 4 medium and 3 tac's on the second round of attacks. I don't have any problems totally destroying it on the second round of combat.

Yes. If this is against the AI then you can do it on the turn you take Paris. Rebuild the bombers. I found that 3 German Med + 1 Italian Med + 3 German TAC are enough to destroy the AA unit there in 2 turns. Sometimes it can happen in one turn but the entrenchment usually prevents this.

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I doubt somebody being able to guarantee a victory in June 40 against a capable opponent by starting in May, and DoWing Belgium has its downsides as well.

Never claimed this was a player vs. player game.

<r> Well gambler or madman there are some historical documents. Japan sent a telegraph to Hitler on December 8th asking him to declare war on USA. Hitler had already decided to attack US ships protecting the convoys. This much is fact and part of the historical documents.<br/>
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I also attack them ASAP. But that is 100% dependent on weather. You are not guaranteed decent weather till the May 6th turn. Besides it only takes one turn to get the three low countries. Even if you have to wait till May 6th France will still easily fall before end of June 1940.

The HQ has a short build time so it can actually wait till 12/30/1939 turn and still arrive on 3/29/1940.

For partisans I've never had an issue. Garrisons followed by cavalry troops, followed by minor corps that aren't upgraded do it for me. You end up with way more than HQ's can supply so it's not an issue. I seldom have a partisan unit ever appear against me.

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I'm not trolling your entire argument lacks any logic at all. How do you ague it makes sense that the game allows the Axis to push US & USSR military spending (research & troop purchases if you like) to <B><s>[b]</s>ZERO<e>[/b]</e></B>. Then ...

I'm on version 1.15 and still see the +200 for a kill. I can't recall if this happens on a bomber kill as those are actually rare. However, I have 2 TAC's that are level 12 in a current game so somehow they got the XP.

<t> Yea using a unit to amphib attack makes even better sense. You can do that on turn three by using the garrison unit and 1-2 bombers coming back from Poland. This nets you the MPP 1-2 turns sooner and saves you a couple MPP for the Para. The only downside is you have 50 fewer MPP on T2 to play ...

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I see. You don't want to debate facts. You prefer just to troll.

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Americans despised Hitler and the Nazi's. Americans were isolationists because of WW1 where people like my Grandfather returned from combat and described the horrors. If you would like to go on and think the Nazi's could ...

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Imho this seems extremely "max early Mpp" oriented, to the point that it causes problems down the road.<br/>
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Para gives you 50mpps but there is no emergency to have him that early, it will cost more to refit him and if you let him ...

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It's not like they would have Hitler doing radio ads. It's giving money to various groups that would want to stay out of the war. I thought that would have been pretty obvious.
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<t> I don't really have many answers but instead I've decided to see what others will do. I've gone through a list of average MPP's available, options to spend it on and a few other things. Where I think its a good strategy I'll mention that otherwise I list out the options.<br/>
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