Great Britain 1939 introduction

[joegrundman]

Great Britain is one of the key early players. You are also responsible for France, unless you ask the USA team to take over. There are many restrictions on anglo-french cooperation that can make an effective defense of france extremely difficult.

One option here is to research Anglo-French Cooperation as a way of easing these restrictions. Another strategic early game option is whether or not to mine Norway's coastal waters in the hope of disrupting axis iron ore shipments (-5 BRPs to the axis total), at the cost of reducing US-axis tensions and causing the annoyance of Norway.

Britain also needs to focus on maintaing a full supply of Oil, forces and BRPs from across the seas. If the Commonwealth is to help, the Atlantic must stay open. Luckily the Royal Navy, if no longer the only big dog around, is still a big dog nonetheless.

Britain starts the game with a research result for strategic bombers - maybe like the historical British government, you will throw research in the development and production of ever more and more powerful bombers.

For these are the facts..Britain is probably not going to take the fight to Germany directly unless France does not capitulate. Therefore your early decisions are going to be strategic rather than tactical, a matter of picking your fights carefully and avoiding getting caught in a situation where you expend your forces fruitlessly.

So decisions regarding research and diplomacy are at this stage some of the most effective ways you can stop the Germans.

Diplomatic Points

Britain has 3 DPs
France has 2 DPs
US has 1 DP.

Unless you and the US decide to pool your DPs and RPs, then you will only have British and French points to use. Nonetheles I will be treating them as one pool, so how one of you allocates their points will affect the limits on the others allocations.

Britain may assign no more than 2 DPs per target (and only 1 DP to the US-Axis tension table). I advise you look through the diplomatic tables to help make up your mind

Research Points

Britain has 6 RPs
France has 3 RPs
TOTAL 9 RPS.

In 1939 RPs may ONLY be spent on Research projects and NOT Production projects.

A list of research projects are here:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...5&postcount=18

Also look through the research tables for more details

REMEMBER: These allocations are secret so PM your decisions to me. Each Research Project must have a codename to be used publicly. The details of the project will remain secret until the effects of the research has become obvious to everyone (although spy rings can reveal certain information). Coming up with codenames is a good opportunity to add some personality to the game, so be creative

[joegrundman]

Pre-existing Scientific research

The western allies begin the game with:

5 (+3) Air Range
+9 Breakthrough for Strategic Bombers (the shortest range strategic bombers may be built by the western allies)
4 (+2) ASW
7 (+5) Radar