Slitherine

Wolfpacks are forming to close in on the RN

Tonnage is beginning to mount up to the Allies, economy is hard pressed and material are not reaching brittain.

Before my turn

Raging battles in the atlantic, i didn´t expect this.

Hopefully i will be able to hold the tank out of supply....then i can advance furhter into egypt

Preparations for Barbarossa is under way, build up....doesn´t look promising

Seems i am winning but i am taking losses that could have been avoided. Just afraid that those units would have come in handy later in the game vs Russians or americans coming to free middle east.

Good to still have a BB in the atlantic, some extra punch

Brittish tank freed for the last time...

So far i haven´t seen any research results exept for fighter progress, wonder what he is aiming for.

Berfore my turn

Graf Spee now involved in sinking of 3 brittish BB and 1 CV, talk of results....she is a legend

Another wall of defense, this should go quickly though....
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The french GAR from Syria is in Egypt, means that i can land behind him with inf to reach Irak quicker....much needed.

Not much happening in France, continue to bomb London, steady on 0-1 PPs. In the atlantic some small action, convoy hunting.

Progress somewhat slow, it is coming clear that i won´t be able to capture Persia before i declare war on Russia

The usual on all other fronts, convoy huntin, bombing London

Atlast defense breaking up, little or no resistance left...

As soon as the italian units are out of Syria, i will capture Paris. To deal with this Mech in Paris i will send in tacs

Things are in progress, moving forward

Bombers in place, next turn attack on Paris will start. Probably take one turn...

Kriegsmarine is moving out again on patrol after repairs and upgrades

Looking forward to those days with no worries about oil....

One more turn and i can take Paris without any units moving back to force pool

Convoy battles are still strong, most of my subs are damaged and need a break

Paris taken and France surrenders, London bombed and kept down on low PP....

Attacks on RN BB failed, but i thinkg there won´t be much to counterattack, so she won´t sink. Maybe damaged. Not much happening elsewhere. Preparations for Barbarossa almost done. Would have liked to take Irak and Persia before declaring war, think that will be hard though...

Rommel is pushing forward with his mechanized, tank africa korps toward Irak, leaving the infantry behind to clean up surounded brittish forces

With his level of success in africa, Rommel has struck fear into the hearts of the allies. With his fearless leadership and courage he has gained the trust of Adolf Hitler who assignes him only the newest materials in terms of tanks and planes.

Some of the new Panzer Mark IV tanks have arrived to help the puch towards Irak and Persia

Germanies pride has been sunk after and impressive record. Involved in the sinking of 4 RN BB, 1 CV1 1DD.

Pushing on, irak will be captured berfore the declaring war on Russia, think Persia is difficult.

Graf Spee last action, she was germanies last surface ship. Now all the production is focused on the Army and Luftwaffe.

This was a nice, partisan spawned in irak, so i attaked it forcing the RAF fighter fly a sortie, loosing a couple of steps then i moved in to finish it off.

Against his advisors, Adolf Hitler launches "Operation Barbarossa", the great gamble in the east. Not having enough materials he explains that it is more important to strike with surprize and destroy large part of the Russian army before the year ends. During the campaign, Fritz Todt promizes that the german army and Luftwaffe strenght will be doubbled at the beginning of 42.

Pretty satisfied to have musterred up this army. Not to bad i would say for having a large campaign in africa

Most of the industry is located in the southern part of Russia, so that is where i will focus my attack on.

RAF fighter destroyed, stopping to upgrade with my tank

The Allies really should evacuate those RAF fighters to Russia instead of dying in a hopeless defence of Iraq - I am sure the Red Air Force could do with the assistance!

I expect him to pretty soon, up until now he couldn´t since Russia was not in the war. Now he can rail the persian GAR to defend Basra also. Delaying the fall on Irak.

Brittish fighters in Russia loose some of their effectivness also since they will only have something like supply lvl 3 and without a leader close. Well it is better than destroyed anyway...

Crazyg

Progress in Russia. I am surprized that Thommo didn´t use the Dnepr defense line. In the north i will advance toward the river, probably won´t cross it since i don´t have the strenght to support a wider front. Also there isn´t much to gain of value exept Leningrad and Moscow and those targets are well out of reach anyway. What i hope to accomplish is to secure the southern part, lot´s of nice factories and PPs.
I chose to take the oilfields first before forcing irak to surrender. Thommo is probably sending Russian reinforcements already into Persia. But it will take him a few turns to get there due to harsh terrain.

So far Thommo has been quite with the Russians, looks like now the Russians are going after Finland. I can´t really do anything to support my Allied friend, they are on their own.
I hope to take Kiev and Rostov before the winter sets in. Together with Sevastapol it is 15PPs lost for the Russians....that is the best i can hope for this year.
Oilfields captured, the lvl is rising rapidly. I am building almost only new Mech troops for the Russian front to support the line in winter.

Not much happening in the atlantic, convoys attacked. RN pretty quite for now...

I have maybe 3 more fair weather turns to secure my objectives in the south. Looks i have hit the defense line, you can see an INF with a leader on. Well exposed if i want to attack it.

Quite on all other fronts, still pumping out mech infantry for the Russian front. It is so nice not to worrie about the oil as Axis player.

Looking good, next turn i should be able to launch an attack agianst the forward INF with the leader attached to it. Will be nice plus to injure a leader before winter sets. Seems i will reach my targets without that much fuzz. I will setup a defense line here for the winter.

Quite on all other fronts. I Persia i see a small force of INF and Mech inf moving down, don´t know if he is just securing Persia and the Land Route 15 PPs worth for the Russians or he will attempt to attack Irak and open a front. Don´t think the Russians themselves will be any problem but together with US forces...it might be hard to keep Irak.

Attack on Basra should start next turn.
Did some vital upgrades to tanks and other units. Also brought in some reinforcements.
Thommo is moving around GAR to cut supply, that could take a while....
RN taking shape again, that is good to see that PPs are being spent on building BB instead of troops or bombers that can attack Germany.

Detailed planns of operations in the EastGerman flak guns active on road to Kharkov.Russian T34 tank knocked out, germany has discovered that Russian tanks are superior to germanies and orders developments of new tanks. Hitlers anounces that new tanks will be avaliable for summer campaing in 42.