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April 1941 USA 30% USSR 33% Oslo is retaken and liberated! The rest soon to follow. Some bombing raids done on the UK. Subs ping- Here is the folly of Brit high command without the Norway adventure- USSR should be hovering at 70 or 80+% now. Achtung panzer!

March 1941 norway invasion force reinforced. Defender to 3 should fall next rd. Subs ping convoys. USSR 31% USA 31% All quiet everywhere else.

ice saves our marauding sub for the moment. USA 30% USSR 28% Our subs raid the other lanes UK lose 47mpps. Reinforcements arriving in Norway. Bulgaria joins axis. Snow prevent air sorties. All else is quiet. Where is the UK navy?

yah yah sub still escapes with 5 destroyers hunting after getting pinged down to 5 strength everywhere else is quiet. We got stalled in Norway.

i meant hungary

5 destroyers pounce on my Atlantic sub - but he still escapes. Snow in Norway delays us. Mideast convoys pinged. Bulgaria and Romania joins-he-he.

The fuerher ordered operation Norway farfanugen and an attempt is made to liberate Norway. Subs still pinging -50-70 mpps are sunk every rd.

yah,yah,yah he converts Iraq but he will pay dearly for his adventures. Spain at 83%. Some bombing raids done on the UK. Subs ping his convoys. Can the brits actually get away harvesting like crazy like this?

sept 40 dirty limeys continue thier mideast pillage by dowing iraq. Some mideast navy exchanges. USA 30%, USSR 27% Subs ping Atlantic and mideat convoys

Upps-bubu got a transport sunk - in return he loses a battleship and cruiser task force. Further exchanges in the med.

Italian action in med one uk battleship group down -Italy takes some point losses. Some bombing raids on UK. Sub raids the Atlantic.

He takes out syria - had negative diplo effect again. Battle of Britain starts and he loses a fighter group. We do the shuffle, do the hustle, ya-da, ya-da

Now we shuffle and do the hustle. Spain is at 75%. We get ready for a possible UK amphib.

June 30, 1940 Paris falls -4 French armies and a HQ killed in the process. Sweden takes a diplo hit for allies now at 50%axis. Raiding sub bumped by French cruiser -no loss.

June 1940 Shucks-got my panzer demolished and Paris still holds on-barely. This darn mud! Dat iz okee. Wee will wipe our booten in Paris soon. We take out an army and corps.

Enough of the Froggies leaping around the front -weather is clear and we dispatched his army and tank group. Paratroopers and corps ping Gamelin HQ in Paris. Paris should fall by next rd. Did cost us dearly with a panzer group being reduced to 4 strength. Italy bombs French mine- German sub raids and hides. Brits will be in for a nasty surprise-he-he. Achtung panzer!

this is called the swiss cheese maneuver

April 40 (I meant) -German forces refit as muddy weather is still not conducive for offensive operations. Froggie ship ping our luftwaffe.

March 39 - weather still winter but skies were clear- it took all of our attention to pound on Brusells it fell. Let's zee what the Frenchies have in store for us. Finally Mussolini did a steal on Marsielles and the Toulon port. I had to cut of his tomato supply for his spaghetti sauce to get him to act.

Denmark falls- we are getting into position. Brits regretting the Norway raid. Mussolini only still has enough to eat more spaghetti in Rome.

well, well. I zee that the allies got frisky and took Norway. Bringing negative reaction from sweden, the us, finland and Italy joining us. Dowed Denmark and took out the defender but missed occupation by one move. Muddy weather. This is always a very risky gambit but makes it more interesting to play with.

Froggie battleship group pings a corps in the Denmark connector. Maybe hoping to draw out the German navy and airforce. French troops still doing the hula shuffle on the front. I offered to give them Frenchies 1 cent for their pay toilet - no reply. Germans quietly build up.

No way Jose! Poles fold in rd 3. Froggies scampering around the Maginot line - looks like he is going to do the fodder defense or they are looking for the nearest pay toilet. We had to clean up after some Pole stragglers. Shoot! Rain came in grounding aircraft.

Warsaw falls in rd 2 as expected and the remaining Polish forces counter-attacked. Herr Fuerher ordered a rapid redeployment as the Frenchies crept up to form a solid defensive line. Mussolini is still eating a lotta spaghetti in Rome.

I play as the axis for the first game and then vice-versa. House rule for US ships not to sortie before war entry. FOW, undo off, weather on. The Axis war machine hits the feeble Polish forces full force and a Panzergrupfen hits the outskirts of Warsaw. More units coming to dine on Warsaw in the next round. Pomorze, Lodz armies, and Poznan corps cut off - Krakow and Kutno corps destroyed. Western elements race to fill the Seigfried line.