Slitherine

Is there any effect if major cities/capitals are not garrisoned in GS 1.06?

Yeah,

Massina_nz will sneak a unit into Rome and you will be sorry

Or Truls will sneak units into Washington and New York and you will be sorry

Be wary of not garrisoning ports. Because your opponent can sneak units into them without you seeing them do it. The cities themselves do not provide visibility. Also partisans can appear in cities in most occupied countries.

Be also wary of garrisoning ports with GARs late in the game, as they are easy victims to Allied Naval and Air power, and can be easily dislodged.

I had thought there was something about lost/reduced production.

Blathergut wrote:I had thought there was something about lost/reduced production.

No nothing like that AFAIK. One trick as the Axis is to place Air units on key cities or resource hexes. Because air units can only be attacked once then those hexes can only be bombed once a turn.

However you can effectively attack a FTR unit twice in a turn if it is not on sentry mode (keystroke 's' to make a unit go on sentry mode). First you attack an enemy unit which is in range of the enemy FTR unit, it will interdict that attack and fight a combat, then you attack it directly at it's base hex with another air unit.

There's lots of layers to the onion.

gchristie wrote:Yeah,

Massina_nz will sneak a unit into Rome and you will be sorry

hahaha!

LAME strategy!

Partisans can spawn in resource hexes so if you don't garrison occupied ones you might end up with a partisan in a city. Then it has supply and can be repaired. So I try to garrison cities with production so I don't end up with a harder partisan battle than I need to.