Italy, who still is not at war with France, has managed (for now) to tie up a number of French units that could be used against Germany.

Moderator: Shannon V. OKeets
F/B w/2 TAC. Land units. Corps. 8-6 arm, 7-5 arm, HQ-A, 6-6 mech. Divisions. 2-5 mot, 1-5 mot, 2-6 A/T.ORIGINAL: Courtenay
Out of curiosity, how many organized tactical bombing factors are within range of the Netherlands resource center, and how many ground factors could attack the Dutch if they hole up in the capital? With no BEF at sea, now looks like a good time to attack the Netherlands. You need the ground strike factors, though, or the Dutch set up their unit on the resource hex and bring everything to a halt. If you have the ground strike factors and an mechanized unit you can flip such a unit, put it out of supply, and overrun it.
I have to say your opponent is making a LOT of mistakes. Malta, the Chinese oil, not putting escorts in the North Atlantic....
Also, I have a division on the coast with 3 6-mover naval units in a Baltic port that could reach the 3-box of the North Sea. Even though the 2 tac factors would only give me a 36% chance of flipping the Dutch unit if placed on the resource hex, there is the chance of invading The Hague with the SS div supported overland by three ground units.ORIGINAL: rkr1958
F/B w/2 TAC. Land units. Corps. 8-6 arm, 7-5 arm, HQ-A, 6-6 mech. Divisions. 2-5 mot, 1-5 mot, 2-6 A/T.ORIGINAL: Courtenay
Out of curiosity, how many organized tactical bombing factors are within range of the Netherlands resource center, and how many ground factors could attack the Dutch if they hole up in the capital? With no BEF at sea, now looks like a good time to attack the Netherlands. You need the ground strike factors, though, or the Dutch set up their unit on the resource hex and bring everything to a halt. If you have the ground strike factors and an mechanized unit you can flip such a unit, put it out of supply, and overrun it.
I have to say your opponent is making a LOT of mistakes. Malta, the Chinese oil, not putting escorts in the North Atlantic....
The 6-6 mech and 7-5 armor are in range to cut supply. Of course, I only need 1. If he sets up on the resource then I have the units that can reach both Rotterdam and The Hague after the overrun. No concern there. If not, then I could get > +18.5 on The Hague if I don't worry about Rotterdam (i.e., forgo the combine w/invasion + land attack on Rotterdam in lieu of an all out land attack on The Hague).ORIGINAL: Courtenay
You need an undisrupted corps that can reach the hex northwest of the resource hex. Is there one under the AA gun, the FTR, the engineer, or your stack of naval units? If not, you can't put the resource center out of supply. The 6-4 on the east edge of your picture could get there in two impulses.
My initial reaction was to think that a 3/4 chance was not the way to go. However, it is not the case that it is 3/4 chance now versus a 100% chance later; if the CW maintains a reaction force, it is a 75% chance now versus a 40% chance later, plus whatever the odds are of composer making the same mistake.
So first, can you cut the resource center out of supply? If not, don't do it! Also, how many attack factors of undisrupted units are in range for an attack on Amsterdam? If there aren't enough to get a good attack on Amsterdam, then don't do it.
If you can, it is up to you. Do you feel lucky?
Also, you haven't set up for the invasion of Denmark. Your opponent has made another mistake; he should have taken a free swipe at your convoys in the Baltic in the surprise impulse. So you might want to take a land, so as to get more units in position for both the Netherlands and Denmark.
The Italians used 0.65 in Cologne from Germany's reorg and their 1 saved oil in Rome. Note that in the Italian screen that "Include oil from cooperating major powers" is checked.ORIGINAL: Courtenay
I am confused. If the Italians expended 1.6 oil, why didn't they have to spend two oil points? I don't understand what MWiF did on the Italian oil screen.