I have been playing around with the game for about two months now and while I can fairly consistanly beat the Allied AI, I know that would change when I play a real player.
That being said, I was wondering what all the learned player out their are doing with Italy. My general strategy is to attempt a "breakout" of the Italian navy through Gibralter.
What follows is a run down, I was hoping to get some counters and suggestions to this strategy.
1) Poland, Denmark, LC, France - by April 1940
2) Vichy, Sweden, Nov 1940
This positions the Italian Navy in Algiers, with a few armies and an Italian HQ. My general focus is to invade Spain amph. via Barcelona with the italians, join with a few german troops from vichy, then portugal, move italian armies to southern France. While the iberian front is settled, the Italian fleet ruduces the port at gibralter to rubble and passes through to park itself off the atlantic coast of US. When the US enters, the Italian fleet is waiting for him, all MPP from italy is used for subs to put into atlantic via gibralter.
The italian fleet is crushed of course, but this draws the British fleet to the middle of the atlantic, the losses encurred at this point make the game simple. SeaLion comences by early 42' or I build a huge army with germany producing about 568mpp before barbarossa.
The AI falls for this every time, I even invade the US a few times with three italian armies and an HQ.
What would the real players do to counter...
Regards
PooBah