Crazyg vs Massina(No Massina please)

[Crazygunner1]

It is evident that he means to defend Libya anyway, first german fighter has arrived.


Activated my RAF fighter this turn to intercept the bomber roaming over London. I am still confused why there is no action on Massinas part. He is not hurrying and Holland, Denmark is still in the game, does that mean Spain is in danger? Well i have some forces to send anyway....

[Crazygunner1]

Just preparing defense on all fronts, whatever the Axis is throwing at me i whould give them a tough fight.

[Crazygunner1]

Heavy prescence in the MED my short offense is over, setting up defensive lines at alexandria

[Crazygunner1]

I am not sure what he will do, the obvious is africa, but transports outside Greece concerns me....

[Crazygunner1]

Going for Malta, increasing supply in the MED, he must be serious about africa then. The problem is that i can´t really do anything about it....




I was hoping that subs where some place else, he probably won´t be able to stop me but he knows now that britain is weaker and that reainforcements are heading towards MED

[Crazygunner1]

Malta really fell quickly, together with italian advance in africa, ther is no question that Egypt is the target....Hope my reinforcements will arrive in time to have and impact.

[Crazygunner1]

The sub trap outside Portugal i managed to avoid, BB took heavy damage though, it will survive...and continue to MED

I haven´t located his sub yet, it is probably protecting the italian DD outside Tobruk, doesn´t matter cause i am not attacking....

[Crazygunner1]

RAF is taking high casualties against the more experienced Luftwaffe, aircontrol will make all the difference in this area. Almost all my PPs are going to resupplying RAF. A couple of well needed convoys arrived in Britain this turn.

This is typical me, an opportunity arrives and a can never resist to attack. The real battle of MED has begun...I think this was to my favor, Luftwaffe is getting damage and out of position, German tank can still cause major havoc. Also i see now when i attacked the German bomber, german fighter flew interception, that was 1to1result, i forgot to metion that. Subs are protecting CV pretty good...

[Crazygunner1]

The Russian science is 2 on general focus industry and 2 on air focus on fighter. I plan to max science as soon as Russia enters the war. For now my plan is to recruit 3 leaders to cover the front, build a couple of tanks to impose fear into the German lines so they don´t advance to fast. But the order of 41 will be retreat to a good defensive line. If there is small german support in Finland i will try and knock out the Finns, that is a couple of easy PPs lost for the germans. That will probably be the only offensive operations in the east in 41. Also commiting the russian airforce in finland will give them much needed experience.

As it looks i am not to far behind in fighter science wich means in general fewer losses for russians forces. I can spend more on tanks, planes. That will give me wider options, for operational and tactical planning. First line of defense will be along the river Pskov, Vitebsk, Gomel and Kiev. I will try and retreat as slowly as possible but out of reach of the germans but close enough so i will be able to counter attack if he overextends. This way i will make his advance slower and full of perils if not carefull. I doubt that Massina will give me any good oppotunities to counter attack, he is much to organized for that, but once again aim here is to make his advance slow....If all goes well i will be strong enought to fight for russian survival in 1942....

If you guys have any imputs on tactics please feal free to share, also any tips on Massina is nice.

Crazyg

[Crazygunner1]

This turn it was all about cathing up to the retreating enemy. If he regroups behind Tobruk i still have to be carefull, cause Luftwaffe bombers are really powerfull and can cause major destruction to the RN.




Russains purchase 3 leaders, 3 INF and 6 Tanks this turn. It is a formidable force and the reason to why i purchased tanks is that i want the Axis to feel that it is dangerous to enter Russia. I am probably not going to use them much in 41 excpet maybe in Finland. Massina has had some time to prepare for Barbarossa so his troops are probably already in place. As soon as Russia enters the war i will max out science and buy an occasional INF to cover the line.

[Crazygunner1]

[Crazygunner1]

[Crazygunner1]

Seems that Axis are determined to defend Libya, no indication of retreating so far





By putting PPs on fighter science early i narrow the Germans biggest advantage the Luftwaffe in the east. Looks like i now can keep eaqual phase towards German fighter science....In this game Germans should´t have that much PP income due to earlier setbacks, wich means that she will have trouble replacing Luftwaffe losses. If all goes well i think Axis will have a tough 1942 on all fronts especially in the east.

[Crazygunner1]

So far it´s hard to see what plans Massina has in the east. Army group south is somewhat stronger than north but not by much. Also he doesn´t appear to be in a hurry, his forces are well put together and slowly moving forward. Finland well defended so far with 3 INF corps.

For a while there i thought that Massina was racing towards Leningrad with the seaborne invasion of Tallin and German INF moving from Finland. But it doesn´t seem to be the target.

I can´t really see that Massina is eager to make contact with the Russians yet, he can start something but won´t have time to finish it before the winter and by the looks of it, he doesn´t have enough INF in place yet to support the line further east. Also from what i have learned he seem to be very defensive in his nature and don´t overextend the front. So any further operations in the east i deem highly unlikely. I am actually wondering if he will even capture Kiev before the winter....

All this considering i think i should stick to my origional plan, defend here and keep contact with Axis forces, counter attack when severe winter hits, cause as much trouble as possible so he won´t have the initiative by summer 42.

[Crazygunner1]

[Crazygunner1]

Well it´s quite easy to say what Massina should do or not, but when you are sitting on the other side things are not always so clear....and hopefully he has not discovered my heavy tank prescence.

[Crazygunner1]

It is quite a hard geografical situation for the Axis where Massina is now, there are no cities really in good positions to have as a strong hold for possible counterattacks except Kiev. Also he has got a lot of Axis troops still just on the border of Russia doing partisan duty so he can´t have that much units in FoW. I wonder if he ever saw that i had such a powerfull tank prescence behind the river. Ofcourse ther is a romanian fighter there, but he probably moved it after all the other units were moved. After this turn, he will have felt that the tanks were there....ha ha ha

Good results, Von Kluge is away for 13 turns and 2 german tanks destroyed so far. Von Kluge will be back in time for Germanies next summer offensive in 42. I hope it is more defensive though , Now attack on Kiev will comense

Coordinated attack on Tobruk in the Med together with Russian counter-attack, initial attack showing progress. Maybe i shouldn´t celebrate to much, cause it seems that Massina has left these units to be sacrificed. Well well, it´s the most fun i have had in a while.

Plans for this area would be the obvious, to knock out italy of the war. I am not that big fan of doing that, if italy falls yes, germany loose it´s allied, but they do get a boost in PP and the italian terrain is murder to get past. If you land there you get stuck. Maybe i should indicate landings in italy just to force the Germans to have a prescence there and then open up a third front in France.

[supermax]

Hey Man,

Well, by the look of things you have already won the war, with germany not having given a solid blow to Russia...

Looking at those stills , i wonder why he hasnt pushed far into Russia. Now it is too late for anything for him to win. So in the long run, you win thats a sure bet.

From your troops positionning, you seem to be already well organized in the MEd and yes, you should go and pressure Italy. For once it will drain german ressources for the defense of Italy, and beside, its very early in the game so what baeter your forces have to do?

You should try to land in Sicily as soon as possible and make a play for Taranto or other spots.

Vichy France could also be an option, especially if you go for the overwhelming strategy that i also like to use,that is land in as many spots as possible with allies and make the german send forces everywhere to defend, thus depleting their offensive capabilities in Russia where the game is played.

[Crazygunner1]

Hey Man,

Well, by the look of things you have already won the war, with germany not having given a solid blow to Russia...

Looking at those stills , i wonder why he hasnt pushed far into Russia. Now it is too late for anything for him to win. So in the long run, you win thats a sure bet.

From your troops positionning, you seem to be already well organized in the MEd and yes, you should go and pressure Italy. For once it will drain german ressources for the defense of Italy, and beside, its very early in the game so what baeter your forces have to do?

You should try to land in Sicily as soon as possible and make a play for Taranto or other spots.

Vichy France could also be an option, especially if you go for the overwhelming strategy that i also like to use,that is land in as many spots as possible with allies and make the german send forces everywhere to defend, thus depleting their offensive capabilities in Russia where the game is played.

Yeah i was thinking to bypass Italy and go for vichy instead. In a couple of turn i will decide.

Thanks for your input Max

[Crazygunner1]

End of my turn, as i see it he can cause a lot of damage to my troops and right now i don´t have that much to setup against Massina if he smashes my tanks and a couple of Mechs.