Which countries navy lost standing after the team decks?

I think Italy has been left in the dust. They had a big advantage over the UK in 1940 by having Sparviero and Picchiatelli while the UK had no fighters. Up until 1943 they had the sub advantage by the availability of Ambra and Leonardo da Vinci (their whole submarine line) from 1940 onward while Truculent is 1943. And if you’re playing Italy in 1943 you are already giving up far more than you are gaining. Both of those advantages are gone with multiple fighter options and sub options now in the Royal Navy.

What did Italy gain in the trade off? Espero is excellent. Their super fighters are welcome but fall short in weird ways, like the Veltro’s missing Advanced Fighter. MAS MTB is the best torpedo boat. Colonna makes the top tier of battleships available to the Regia Marina. They got a nice line of submarines and there are some gimmicks that are fun to play in RAMB and Lupo. Alcione makes Sparviero even better and Teulada is the ship that the top tier cruiser in the navy deserved to be.

All told, the team mission has been kind to the RM but what they gained isn’t as good as what they lost.

I mostly agree except for the aforementioned holes. The UK was well set up for faction vs. faction as Wizards printed the game. The holes were with fighters, late war aircraft, and the one-dimensionality of having just one sub to play. And of course the late war aircraft thing is easily remedied by playing the rulebook rule that they can base US planes.

Benefits from the team sets otherwise include better AA, top shelf fleet carriers, and Lancaster (if only for the meta).

On the other end of the spectrum France (and of course others) did quite well pretty much their full wish list ; good sub, 6 hull, modern carrier, better air units then what they had, variety of good BB's/cruisers/destroyers for more options.

Mmn hit it on the head

forumini.boards.net/thread/2157/destroyer-card-set

This has a bunch of destroyer classes we missed.

Espero, Axum, elite folgore, cantz 1007, Z511 and Trieste are my favourite team decks italian units.