Turn 69 - Axis launch Operation Zitadelle, US Navy makes a move, Red Army attacks Tehran!
In the Soviet Union the Axis launch Operation Zitadelle. The idea is to make some major encirclements of Soviet units and to take some more Key cities:
The conquest of Kursk was made possible after the 8 step Soviet FTR tried to intercept a German TAC. Luftwaffe inflicted 4 steps on it. Afterwards a German FTR attacked the airbase and the Fallschirmjäger finished it off. Soviet airforce took heavy losses this turn and I hope it will move away. With some luck I will be able to encircle more units next turn.
In the Middle East the Soviets attack the Italian fully entrenched INF in Tehran. It only takes 2 steps of damage and I can bring it back to 10 steps.
I also attack an US INF near Basra, but it survives with 2 steps. The badly damaged ARM is brought back to 6 steps. Reinforcements are coming from the MED.
In the Atlantic a massive US Sub attack damages a German BB (down to 3 steps):
The BB flees to Las Palmas and I hope it will survive in the port. My STR makes a sortie and an US SUB takes heavy losses.
The US navy also makes a sortie from their ports:
At the end of my turn 5 minor Axis INF (2 Bulgarian, 1 Hungarian, 2 Romanian) are finally freed as reinforcements. This is a new in GS 2.0. The axis player does only get all of the minor Axis INF if he attacks Greece and Yugoslavia. Otherwise he gets them later in the war in 1943:
This will greatly help me in my defense against partisans.
