Plaid vs Morris №3

[Plaid]

This turn allies used their air units offencively again, heavily harassing luftwaffe fighter force. I spent all my income to
repair this fighter to reasonable strength.



Also allies, pretty surprised by early fall of Brusseles (aswell, as me), start to retreat, instead of holding the line.
We destroy 2 french garrisons by tanks, without any air support, while luftwaffe refits.



Our positions are still quite safe, no counterattacks expected.

In Atlantic allied DD shows, so we rebase subs.

[Plaid]

Allies retreat from Maginot line this turn, we will try to exploit it.

Luftwaffe was repaired last turn and had good effectiveness, but keep performing bad against lower effectiveness RAF
units with manpower penalty. 2:2 was the best, what I got this turn. 4th fighter finally deployed. Will it help, or will
it only increase my repair bills?



Anyway, we destroyed some more garrisons and heavily damaged others. One day Morris will run out of garrisons and place
good units into place, where I will be able to destroy them. I really don't want to cross this rivers and expose my units
to allied mech counterattack, but I might be forced to do so, if progress will be as slow, as it is now.



Also 1st naval lab finally purchased this turn.

[Plaid]

Well, air casualties keep to increase. My fresh built fighter suffered 4 step loss in 1 intercept. Never seen RAF taking so much
damage in 1 turn, we are really unlucky about this.



Anyway allied southern flank is quite ruined and Morris probably will retreat next turn.



Italy joined axis at the end of my turn.

Looks like I will need full italian support to deal with allies before bad weather this time. Thats OK, they still have nothing
other to do.

[Cybvep]

Your FTRvsFTR results are disappointing. I think that it's the most noticeable effect of the lack of the Blitzkrieg penalty.

[Plaid]

Hm, I see right parts of pictures are cut. I will look into it and try to fix.

[Plaid]

Again I started my turn with costly fighter repairs. Allies use their airforce offencively, attacking my infantry units
simple to harass them and still white-effectiveness luftwaffe have no advantage over this battered fighters, some of
them even have manpower penalty. Looks like it is a whole point of this Dyle plan - without morale drop fightring this
allied airforce is ... problematic.



Anyway sort of breakthrough achieved near Lorrein. Destroyed french and british corps there, aswell as some garrisons.
Units positioned in quite safe pattern, this good british mechs cant counterattack anything because of ZoCs and patch of
forest terrain. I am not sure, will Morris counterattack, or retreat again.
Italians also arrive, we can use spare air units.



In the MED french navy attacks italian ground units and iflict some damage. We also spot 2 more garrison transports.


Images should be fine now, lets see.

[Plaid]

No, looks like my screens keep being cut from the right regardless of resizing and changing hosting.
No itead why it happens, in older times everything was OK.
Advice is wellcome!

[afk_nero]

If there are those transports in he med then there may be an opportunity for Spanish activation. Potential to send out exploratory garrisons to Casablanca and French African positions.

Won't cost much if you lose a cheap garrison seeing if Casablanca is free.

[Morris]

If there are those transports in he med then there may be an opportunity for Spanish activation. Potential to send out exploratory garrisons to Casablanca and French African positions.

Won't cost much if you lose a cheap garrison seeing if Casablanca is free.

After Italy join the war ,All NA cities have GARs on it .

[Cybvep]

Yes, but you probably transported some of them to France.

[Plaid]

Well, Morris have entire RN in Atlantic near French shores. I am also pretty sure, that he have subs, which monitors Wilhelmshaven and Denmark straits.
No way transport sneaks, so I didn't attempt it at all.

[Morris]

Yes, but you probably transported some of them to France.

I transport two of them back to France , the rest have no enough time to go back since France was coming to the last minutes .

[Morris]

Well, Morris have entire RN in Atlantic near French shores. I am also pretty sure, that he have subs, which monitors Wilhelmshaven and Denmark straits.
No way transport sneaks, so I didn't attempt it at all.

Your choice was quite wise .It saved at least 8pp & one GAR .

[Plaid]

I am always "wise", as long as this word means declining of risky strategies.

[Plaid]

Great turn overall - allies retreat from Lorrein area, but can't organize any new defencive line.
As a result we completely wiped out southern flank of french defences and now threat Paris directly, despite all this BEF
deployed near Lille. We still have no armour or mech units exposed to counterattack, by the way.



Even better, luftwaffe finally started to score well-deserved good rolls against allied airforce, which is quite in bad shape
right now.

I had chance to destroy fighter, or even 2 on the ground, but it would lead to almost certain loss of panzer korps, so
this operation was rejected. This british fighters are so damaged, that they probably will cause more problems to Morris,
then to me.



Italians also succed, capturing Nice from 5 step french garrison. Another garrison transport destroyed at port,
but can't do anything with garrisons in Marseilies - I am afraid they will make it to Paris area.



Its interesting to see how Morris uses his BEF now. Will he launch all-out attack against my regular infantry units,
or will he try to escape for England. Both are actually fine with me.

[Plaid]

BEF flees from positions near Lille, leaving city empty.
I don't feel like we should chase them, let em go. I am rather happy, that they didn't counterattack us.





Allied airforce also gone, while we surrounded Paris. City going to fall next turn.

New convoy (35 PP) spotted and attacked.

[Plaid]

France finally surrenders on this late august turn.



Overall campaign was good - we didn't lose any units and only high casualties were air.



Now my plan is to DoW Yugoslavia right after this Vienna Award event, which I got at the end of the turn.

In winter we might will go for Greece - looks like Morris abandons MED anyway, so allies will not interfere, like they usually do.

Also convoy from previous turn finished off. Time to look for another one.

[GogTheMild]

After your demolition job on the French I assume that you didn't/won't accept Vichy?

[Plaid]

I accepted armistice! Morris saved entire french navy. He already harass me a lot, I don't want to provide him with free units for this purpose.
I rejected armistice only couple of times and it never ended good, by the way.

[Cybvep]

That's not so bad. High air losses, but besides that, everything else looks acceptable. You should be able to conquer Yugoslavia in 1940, but I wouldn't go for Norway, as Morris will probably attack it the moment you start Barbarossa.