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has anyone ever tried a late gib by having morocco, blowing an offensive and landing directly on top of Gib with support?

I've never tried it in an actual game, I've looked at it. It's tough though, really tough. By the time you have anything like this set up, any CW player worth his salt will have 2 white print units, both fairly strong, sitting in the Rock. To knock them out, you're going to need to knock them out of supply and flip them,, which requires enomous air resources to pull off.


Then the brits start doing annoying things like running past you into the Western Med to snipe at your own supply lines, or sent out transports to reorg the guys you flip, or just try to stay in supply by having a bunch of carriers escort the Queens in a high box where it's hard to get at them. It's doable, but it's really tough to pull off.

By "late", I assume prior to US entry? So...late '41 by the latest? You have to dominate both sea zones with air, the western med with naval as well. Then you need to dominate the airspace over Gib itself. The CW player will already have Gib well defended if Germans are occupying Mor. The CW player probably has Portugal to fly air out of as well. If playing a competent CW player, forget about it. Its even tough in 1940. The sure way to get Gib is invading Spain after France falls. In our group here in south Florida, one of our players seems to get it all the time with repeated invasion attempts at low odds (1940).