by TuckerCase on Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:07 pm
I'm against moving into greenland in force, I'd rather just capture it turn after turn and pull out. For one this takes care of my card needs if I can't do it elsewhere. My main concern though is not to turn the North America/Europe border in to a real hard fight. In other words I want to preserve my forces in that region, and not have to supply that area with a large percentage of my armies each turn. Light blue needs to get me out of greenland for their continent bonus, so they will try to take it. If I moved 7 armies into greenland they might become more desperate, and make more desperate attacks. For instance if they know they need the continent bonus to be a threat in the game they might attack my 8 armies in greenland with 6-10 of their armies. That's a close fight, but they might do it being desperate. Now if I just put 1 army in greenland, they'd take it and I wouldn't lose as much. Then they would be faced with a battle of say 10-8 from greenland to iceland. They're no longer desperate, they might not risk it. I can deal with that next turn.
Green IS a threat. The thing with having australia is that they aren't really involved in any border wars. They could sit, and pretty much not be attacked. So they have freedom to hit whoever they choose. They'll probably hit either me, or red to deny us continent bonuses.
Red I might end up slow playing. Only attacking if I need to in order to deny them africa for a turn. Yellow might attack red for south america. I'll see if I can play them off each other.
Anyone else have input?