What to do next in the Murmansk Front?

[yop73]

Some plans have been formed and I need your vote on which one I should take. Please choose and if you have a better one, just post it.

[Henrik]

I demand a banana option!

Seriously though, let's try it out

[yop73]

The last one is supposed to be the banana option.

[greeny]

Unleash the dogs of war!
(paid for by your generous Comrades at the Economic Ministary of the Soviet Union)

[belisariu]

Invade Finland, if you capture Helshinky, all Russia have +1 happy citizen, and take Hammerfest too, we need the convoys.

[Xin Yu]

Helsinky: Probably too late since Helsinky may have produced coastal fortress. At the beginning of the war it has no coastal defense so 4 vet cruisers can take out all defenders.

Hammerfest: not a strategic target. It is better just fortify units on tough terrian and let the enemy waste their units attacking them.

[conmcb25]

The Hammefest Atack of course!

It was my idea after all......

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Xin Yu sighting +1

I prefer the idea of drawing the U-boats out with a bomber stack, next spring.

I'm concerned that Hammerfest may not fall so easily to 3 RG units. I'm not sure we have the time or the firepower to capture the city so easily. Others might know that the city is lightly defended from previous games, but I have no such knowledge, so it seems like a longshot.

[conmcb25]

Lets just say my spies tell me it is usually lightly defended.

This has been dicussed at lenght in the Murmansk thread.

The benefits greatly outweight the costs.

This could pay big dividends in getting our convoys to Soviet soil safely.

Although we should also do what the old guy suggested

[PinkyGen]

Three Red Guards, even at 50/50 chance of taking the city, should be attempted. Those convoys will give many rubles to the war effort, and later good defensive armored infantry will take the same root.

That said, it seems as though the bomber/cruiser stack would be based out of the UK. No reason we cannot do this simulteneaously if people believe it is not a cheat.

[conmcb25]

Originally posted by greeny
Unleash the dogs of war!
(paid for by your generous Comrades at the Economic Ministary of the Soviet Union)

This is what I like an Economics Minister who wants to KILL KILL KILL!

[conmcb25]

Originally posted by yop73
The last one is supposed to be the banana option.

What? There is no banana, this is heresy! Im getting Comrade Alsahafsky and Comrade Michealovitch to check out this thread immediately!

[Colwyn]

Attack comrades

Many of you have been guilty of retreat, retreat & panic mongering, now winter is the time to redeam yourselves. It will be a poor commander indeed that doesn't take back/create a city or two.

There are medals to be won!

[Shaka Naldur]

if we are just going to use 3 red guards let´s go and try it out, there will be more benefits...

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

I'll go along with the rest of the recommendations, since there is so much support for the attack.

But remember comrades... the people will not look kindly on a general whose winter offesnive lasts into the spring, leaving good Soviet soldiers exposed to the Stukas.