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Perfect General II

In the case of the Neutral Supremo scenario, victory is achieved if
all the players quickly attack and hold a few neutral countries,
given that reinforcements are obtained according to the occupation of
cities.  If you therefore fail to expand both geographically and
hence in production terms, you will soon lose the game.

To take advantage of the productive centers of neutral cities, they
must be taken in whatever way possible, lest an opponent beats you to
it.  Obviously then, the whole neutral nation must be conquered prior
to the end of the first turn, and your forces must be deployed in a
way that minimizes the enemy's access to these cities.

It should be noted that reaction forces are limited to inside the
border of the neutral nation involved, but are active inside the
cities.  However, reinforcements may be placed any friendly city
despite not being able to be used in subsequent turns.

Clear and present danger

The Red player will most likely take a belligerent position, perhaps
invading two to three neutral countries in the beginning turn.  Red's
best course of action is to attack the two neutral countries on the
far right to ensure the integrity of his southeastern and eastern
borders.  After that he can forward to attack the Blue player's
central forces to the north.

Not having the forces to invade the two neutral countries near his
borders, Blue will most likely invade the one with two production
cities.

In either case, though, the commander of the reaction forces must try
to deny the Blue player's intention for one turn at the minimum.

Moreover, both players should entertain the idea of taking the
closest enemy held production city so as to hamper the opponents
attempt to send reinforcements.

Red's ninety purchase points are quickly used on some necessary
expenditures, such as infantry to guard his cities and light tanks to
maintain his western border.  Most of the remanding purchase points
will probably be spent on inexpensive but quick units like machine
gun equipped armored cars.

Note that invading the neutral country in the southeast would be
rewarded with thirty reaction force purchase points, while the
northeastern one gives only twenty.  What is more, it is necessary
for the Blue player to defend two cities in northeaster country but
only one in the southeastern.

Depth perception

Ideally, Blue should attempt to secure these neutral cities while
simultaneously intimidating Red. Blue can either plan to buy some of
the better fighting vehicles and gamble on being able to destroy all
of the Red's players invasion units, or utilize a force composed
entirely of infantry and attempt Red's access to the cities by this
method.  Red, will however, most likely have three
machine-gun-equipped armored cars that is more than adequate to make
short work of Blue's infantry.

Blue's problem is to find a way to defend against the large array of
options available to the Red player.

The Blue player can deploy an outer layer of infantry to attempt to
cushion the initial blows of the armored cars mounted with machine
guns and while at the same time use an inner circle of bazooka teams
outside the city in the event of a Blue breakthrough.  Finally, blue
can purchase a light tank, place it where it cannot be damaged, and
use it to threaten Mine LaMotte or even take back Crane.

In the case of the northeastern neutral country, one should ask
whether Montier might be simply abandoned, and instead concentrate on
securing Reynolds with a skeleton force.  By this strategy you will
ensure that Red tags two light tanks for an assault on Reynolds or
one of his machine gun toting armored cars.

So as to make the enemy pay for the acquisition of a neutral city
with one of his own, buy a armored car with machine guns to again
endanger Mine LaMotte.