Liam vs Terif, the Rematch

[Liam]

Mirror 1:

Axis - Liam Terif - Allies

1939 typical opener, fall Danes-Benelux-Poland

Following aggressive French defense where I lost some valuable strength points off expensive units! Seems their leadership was remodeled and DeGaulle lead the Armored Calvary Suicide Charge into enemy lines to fight bravely and destroy as many Axis as possible!

Still the French fell and then onward to Sweden-North Africa. The British posed a great threat along the Western Coastlines, halting up in pockets there forcing the Axis timetable, and stripping Egypt to do this... But it didn't matter, the Luftwaffe needed the experience.... and in Norway by Winter of '40 all was quiet on the Western Front... As the mud dried in '41 Spain was assualted and taken with haste, as were several other Minors... Leaving only Greece, Iraq, Ireland and Iran Neutral... USA being pre-emptively DOWed caused the USSR to enter the War!!!! Along with this the USSR entered the MiddleEast to save it from German domination, a mis-sight on my behalf... Though with a Italian Bomber hammering Iraqi Supply nothing would come through to the Western Desert until '42

Now where things get interesting:

With Barbarossa kinda of dull and boring on the Eastern Front, the Western Allies want to prove just how potent they are, they send a cool Million troops to invade Normandy, capture it and breakout... Threatening to retake Spain-Portugal-Switzerland-Vichy, Benelux onward to Berlin... Axis strike back, with no Tigers but with a lot of Corps & Armies killing these Western Hordes, but foolishly leaving our trenches too soon, not obeying the good ole WW1 saga... Now we're open to the Allied Blitzkrieg, as the West is not contested in the Air it is completely dominated by the Allies!!! And there many aircraft... Half a Dozen units have died on each side so far in France and less on the Eastern Front where Stalin tediously stares German invaders in the Face unsure if a Treaty may be achieved! Germans retreat from TransJordan-Syria to Egypt where the Russian Airforce sinks Italian Fleets guarding the straits... Apparently Stalin dislikes Il Duce a Great deal...

In the North, German Have frontline positions down the Eastern Front, attempting to take Leningrad, to no avail... just a bloody back and forth action, though it looks as if those defenders are now starving and will soon give up, perhaps in a few more months !

As for the rest the Russians stand poised to breakout but WHERE? God Forbid, dreadful

As for the War at sea, this is most Interesting, after Trondheim was liberated, Allies decided to level it so it could never be used to build valuable Tanks, and this works! The British Navy Blockades the Port for all eternity(Ahistorical I thought the Germans won that battle!) However the Axis manage to get a few punches in on the Allied fleet, sinking couple Battleships and Cruisers...

[Terif]

Yep, this game Allies launched a full scale D-day already in Spring 1942 – made possible by the aggressive Axis approach (conquering Sweden in 1940 as well as Spain/Vichy France before Barbarossa leads to very strong Allies much earlier than with a historical approach, which is the disadvantage of this strategy for Axis).

And so Allies landed in Normandy with several million soldiers, destroying 5 german fortifications from Bordeaux till Paris in the process. 3 allied HQs together with 19 combat units got stationed around the liberated Brest-Bordeaux area with Spain cut off while UK air from England covered the landing. When strong german forces operated to Paris-Essen-Bordeaux, they entrenched and built a deep defense system to be ready for the enemy assault.

In May 1942 the largest battle in history on french soil started...Germany seems to be looking for the decisive battle in the west as it is ahead there in ground tech (IW 3, AT2 vs USA IW1, AT1) and moves its main forces out of the protecting mountains in southern France and fortifications east of Paris to attack the allied forces on the entire frontline from the british channel till the spanish border...due to the prepared allied defense positions Allies have many damaged units, but the only total loss is the UK BEF army. German paratroopers jump behind the frontline towards allied air around Brest.

The allied reaction is swift and deadly – Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt already had prepared for this scenario with Axis operating west to counter the invasion. So they now launched their combined strike to crush the evil axis empire with a massive multifront-offensive: Russian forces open the hostilities on 3 fronts: Paratroopers jump into Egypt after airstrikes prepared the battlefield, followed by heavy tanks lead by Zhukov...simultaneously Valutin and his task force leaves the fortification line at Kharkov, destroying the german defender of Kiev and moving towards Odessa to cut it off....in the northern part the main strike with 2 task forces and the bulk of the russian tanks around Konev and Voroshilov is directed towards cutting off the german forces around Leningrad – breaking its siege and relieving Leningrad in the process - and reaching their airbases with german LR 2, Jets 2 fighters south of it. British and american forces join the battle...tens of thousands of aircrafts darken the sky when their offensive starts rolling...

June 14, 1942: Clash of the titans...in the open fields and roads of France the german vehicles just moving to the front are perfect targets for allied bombers, airfleets and carriers...after the slaughter allied ground forces round up the survivors for transfer into PoW camps....on this single day Germany lost 5 armies and 3 corps, all its Paratroopers cut off behind enemy lines, the core of the german Wehrmacht annihilated or cut off and its offensive capabilities destroyed....London, Moskow and Washington united in the celebration, declaring it the new liberation day that initiated the end of the war .

[Liam]

( "I feel like the Matrix "Mr. Anderson, do you hear that? That is the sound of inevitability!"

Hidden in his bunker the Chancellor of the once Mighty Reich overviews the Devastation of the most recent Allied Offensives... Massive Allied Air & Land Forces have been used on Three Fronts primarily to squeeze the Axis like a Grape... This is highly effective as the Russians have kept Massive Armored Formations in Reserve, Zhukov has his Mighty JumpBoys upgraded and capable of Seizing Egypt. Not only the British Army and Airforce has built up since their early expenditures beyond any Axis realization.

We attempt to counterattack and retreat, in the North with Russia the situation is temporarily patched, in Egypt Suicidal German Units buy time... as for France, an all out retreat and Paris will fall on the following turn. This is the beginning of the end, no force ratio the Axis possess now can turn the tide they're outnumbered 3 to 1... we strive on, to the LAST MAN!

[Terif]

July 1942:

Allied battle order disintegrates and soldiers from all allied nations leave position... disobeying any orders...spreading out to collect souvenirs for their families at home and look for anything valuable to loot...droping every caution...the race for the best plunder has begun...

American marauders enter Spain while bombers level Madrid...Paris is liberated and plundered as well as the french mine.

Russian forces in the south rush west, entering Romania and approaching Poland while in the north they have to pause for reinforcing after desperate german airstrikes at everything that moves...

In the desert Alexandria is liberated, an italian battleshipgroup sunk by bombers, 3 russian armies compete in the race to plunder the treasures of Cairo...and block themselves in a trafic jam at Suez canal since neither of them wants the other one to reach and plunder Cairo first .

[Liam]

1942: I load up the end results of Terif's last turn, he crushes through France, I had a chance with him there if I hadn't come out of my trenches and run for the closest Mountains to regroup and attack in Strength. The East was a complete Nightmare no goals achieved... The MiddleEast sucking too many Axis resources for too little gain and too much of a stalemate... Terif bid his time and attacked once I split up my forces and was foolish enough to try him!

[Terif]

War is over - unconditional Axis surrender in July 1942.

Massive Normandy D-day in cooperation of all allied nations and simultaneous attack from every side proved successful .

In Russia the war was extremely unbloody, main theatre was West and the french battlefield where millions of soldiers died or went into PoW camps - in June 1940 before the allied offensive Russia had only lost one single corps (at Leningrad) during the entire war...only increasing to 6 lost units (including 2 partisans) in the turn of the enemy surrender - russian mothers are proud of their sons and welcome them happily back home .