Colin I Posted March 16, 2007 Author Share Posted March 16, 2007 Think taking Sweden has to be worth it - the gain in MPP, position over Germany and loss of convoy to Axis are all good. What happens next will be decisive. Russians continue to pray for Winter...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arado234 Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 We have just observed the last sortie of the german navy(tirpitz).She takes a battleship out with one shot and awaits her fate.The mud has come to mother russia.The advance has slowed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin I Posted March 17, 2007 Author Share Posted March 17, 2007 Final German battleship indeed sunk but it took a big effort. Harrassment of German paratrooper spotted on Baltic coast. Weather getting worse, less action apart from this as we head towards end of 1941. US still a way from commiting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin I Posted March 17, 2007 Author Share Posted March 17, 2007 Axis are going into North Africa in a serious way with Sicily a major staging point.. Colonial troops brace and UK long range bombers interdict Tobruk harbour. Italians start to engage with Free French at El Alemain. Russian antitank weaponry tests look good - next year the Panzers won't have it so easy. Pathetic bombardment by RN of German coastline - German shore batteries exert a price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin I Posted March 18, 2007 Author Share Posted March 18, 2007 Axis overrun El Alemain and bombard Alexandria and Malta. Russians launch winter offensive - now at least trading armour units with the Germans. US panics at Axis advance and finally wakes up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arado234 Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Dam americans.We have seized alexandrea.The rest should go.1942 will be a major battle.The italian navy being untouched should(i hope)be able to take some ships with her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arado234 Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Dam americans.We have seized alexandrea.The rest should go.1942 will be a major battle.The italian navy being untouched should(i hope)be able to take some ships with her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin I Posted March 18, 2007 Author Share Posted March 18, 2007 By mid 1942 the game has broken down into a series of isolated skimishes across the board but Russia is now quiet. Axis are clearly going to take Egypt in a couple of turns. Italian fleet redeploys but suffers harrasment from long range bombers based on Malta. The British and Americans have a free hand and significant resources and its an open question where they will strike next. Apparently as a practice run the British invade Eire though this irritates Franco. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin I Posted March 19, 2007 Author Share Posted March 19, 2007 That Franco is really cranky Allied Diplomats calm him down after Eire, but then he gets upset about something trivial like American troops storming ashore in Portugal. More mood swings than the Fuhrer, the guy is a Yo-Yo!!! Meanwhile Axis have almost taken Egypt (the Colonial HQ baled out just in time, the writing was on the wall) and both sides are squaring up for the big fight in Russia. And the British bomber tries to hit the Italian sub but its in a sub pen in North Africa now so I doubt I hurt it much. Italian Navy sensibly dispersed when it realized a bomber with LR at Malta is essentially an AWACS and can see EVERYTHING around there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arado234 Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 The russian front starts to boil again.The americans are worse than the germans.Portugal,they were just minding their own business and wham.We WILL come to francos aid.These americans will be wiped out should they proceed with their aggresive ways.That plane on malta may not be seeing much in the near future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin I Posted March 20, 2007 Author Share Posted March 20, 2007 Maybe not in the future, but it CAN see Axis forces massing on Vichy Algerian border right now. Probably Vichy North Africa has as little to worry about as Spain Just as well the Americans are coming - Russians are taking losses and Egypt is now in German hands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin I Posted March 21, 2007 Author Share Posted March 21, 2007 Malta continues to get pounded. Americans test their shiny new naval guns on Italians in North Africa with some success. A lot less happens elsewhere than you might expect (North Africa, Iberia, Russia all docile). Have a suspician Germans are up to something....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arado234 Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 The americans can keep on trying out their shiny new guns in the med.If they do they will all RUST on the bottom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arado234 Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 Well i warned him, 1 ami crusier is now rusting on the bottom(guns not so shiny).One battleship limps home.The massive attack on russia has begun,starting with a massive luftwaffe attack.1 commie H.Q.(didnt notice who)and many russian units destroyed.We await his response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin I Posted March 22, 2007 Author Share Posted March 22, 2007 Russians counterattack with heavy armour - we will lose over the next few turns but take a lot of German tanks down. He invades Vichy north Africa as expected - and will take it next turn. Allied fleet assaults Italian Navy - several enemy battleships sunk or hurt. This one we will come out on top and combined with survival of the Malta bomber expect to dominate the Med. Spain assaulted by Allies, American ground troops supported by RAF and USAF take Madrid. British amphib. corpos and paras seal off the country to prevent German assistance - just as well as the Spanish didn't surrender. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin P. Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Good AAR, and good ideas too - take Nordic countries and Spain. Waiting to see how it plays out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arado234 Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 The krauts launch a second devistating attack in russia.Wiping out 1 plane and MANY more russians.In spain those evil allies first try to appease spain with hollow promises,and then attack them.They hang on for 1 turn but the allies blocked any attempt for us to liberate them.It will get interesting when he starts to move in france. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin I Posted March 23, 2007 Author Share Posted March 23, 2007 Spain indeed surrenders. Allies assault and sink last Italian battleship in harbour. Malta has held - I think this is important in the context of dominating the Med (there is a LR4 UK bomber there that just bombred a German transport near Tobruk - its reach is frightening). Russians getting slaughtered by Axis air and armour combination. Its another year they pray for mud and snow. But in the West the Allies gather strength. The game is very much a product of Arado's strategy - his focus is very strongly Russia with the obvious outcome - Russians are reeling but Western Allies have been allowed to get away with a lot (never had such good tech as UK - they didn't have to spend much replacing losses). Broadly, North Africa and a lot of russia is Axis but Iberia and Sweden/Norway are Allied. Axis have very numerous airforce. Allies have superb long range air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arado234 Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Im hoping my tech.will catch up to his.I think he must have smuggled out an enigma machine afterall.We have a plan to deal with the western imperialist warmongers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin I Posted March 25, 2007 Author Share Posted March 25, 2007 Allies are fairly quiet but bomb to death a German tank in North Africa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arado234 Posted March 25, 2007 Share Posted March 25, 2007 After the beating we laid on the russians,the mud has come again to save them.Those longrange fly boys he has had to come at the expensive of something,What it is i dont know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin I Posted March 26, 2007 Author Share Posted March 26, 2007 Allies invade Vichy North Africa and start to project force across the Med. by bombarding and bombing ports. Sadly, a German HQ made it back to mainland leaving Italians to deal with the deteriorating situation. Its a bit embarassing, but this is the first country Allies have liberated (Eire, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, Spain were all DoWed by Allies!). It makes you wonder who the good guys are There is a Naval battle with the last two Italian cruisers off Tunis - losses on both sides. And finally, battered Malta welcomes its first Allied ship - a British carrier with those fancy new long range fighters. It must be admitted, docks might not be the right term for it reaching Malta, as there isn't a lot left of the harbour. In Russia Snow - thank God, but Germans show L4 armour - Tigers in the Snow. Its mercifully quiet there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arado234 Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 Dont worry it will heatup again.SUPPLY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin I Posted March 27, 2007 Author Share Posted March 27, 2007 British paras sieze Sardinian port and Western Allies extend further into Med. bombarding Sicily and sinking the final Italian ship. Russian partisans prove harder to wipe out in the Snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arado234 Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Russian partisans not so tough now.The weather starts to clear.Lets see if his allied para.try droping where i can get at them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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