Slitherine

Belgrade scenario:

Got a Decesive victory I think it was on turn 14 or 15. Difficulty level Colonel. I did play PG a lot but not Pz Corps yet so I wouldn't classify me as an expert or hard core player. Not a begginer either since I play many other wargames.
Nice scenario, I liked the fact that when the path seemed clear new yugoslavian forces appeared, specially those cavalry units near Belgrade. I did miss a Brucken pioneer unit. I got one antitank unit destroyed when it was loaded on its transport, dangerous to drive to deep in unexplored enemy territory.
There were air combats during most of the scenario but enemy aircraft are still no match for the LW

Metaxas Line:

I bought the Brucken pioneer I missed in my core army and reinforced all my units with elite reinforces to their maximum level of experience. PP were down 550 from aproximately 2000.
My main line of advance is going to be through the left flank, north of Serrai and west of the lake I'm encountering my first problems to cross the rivers as the hexes behind are fortified and my units are vulnerable if they try to cross the river, hopefully the tank armour will help.

Start of turn 2
The enemy decided to counter attack and launched airstrikes with 3 air units. Again my units on transports got hit, need better field data before moving them forward.
My tank unit got hit hard and was forced to retreat being left only with 5 points of strength.

Counterattack fenced off, LW figther wiped 2/3 of the enemy aircraft. Werchmatch keeps pushing forward.

Hey, what program do you use to draw these lines for your screenshots?

Turn 3

Bulgarian infantry in Nikiforos was destroyed while defending the city, but it reamins in Axis hands. First tank counterattack we lost 6 strength point to five of the enemy. LW can't be called to support pz div and crush the enemy tanks due to bad weather, time to land and refuel, me109 were not upgraded and they have a low action range.
End of T3 situation:

Turn 4

And infantry unit destroyed in an enemy counterattack The AI is not doing so bad, I should be more careful.
Still trying to clear the fortified line north of Serrai at the end of the turn there still units pocketed.
Polikastro objective city taken.

deducter wrote:Hey, what program do you use to draw these lines for your screenshots?

Paint.NET it's free: http://www.getpaint.net/

Turn 7

So far I have lost two infantry units and a recon one in the scenario. I find AI challenging, true it's the first time I play this campaign but I don't find it bad at all, and I'm playing at Colonel level.
Here's the situation at the begining of the turn:



Don't know what's wrong with imageshack it doesn't allow me to log in.

Anybody knows of a similar page to imageshack?

Imageshack really irritates me lately.
I switch to this website:

http://imgur.com/

End of turn 8

German troops are entering Thessalonika. The Greek AA surrender due to no retreat path available. I hope the Brittish don'w show up on my right flank of the map in force or we could get into some serious problems.
If all goes according to plan objective could be taken in two or three more turns.
Airforce was landed to reload ammo and fuel since bad weather conditions did not allow to fly sorties.



Edit: wrong image

Kerensky wrote:Imageshack really irritates me lately.
I switch to this website:

http://imgur.com/

Thanks I'll give it a look, I was using dropbox public folder meanwhile.

End of turn 10: all objectives taken Decisive victory achieved.
Now on to Crete, I have saved both paths Crete airborne and Crete Naval, so I can go back and try them both.

Kerensky wrote:Imageshack really irritates me lately.
I switch to this website:

http://imgur.com/

Many thanks I have registered and will place it in my favourites. I'll use it from now on. Last image loaded there.

RJH, I love how you are including the map-style graphics with your AAR. Nice work!

I can't wait to see this nice AAR style for Streets of Moscow.

Thanks for your support guys. If I had more time I would do screenshots more detailed and if I had better knowledge of programs like photoshop.

I wish I could get to Moscow streets...

After Metaxas Line I had to decide wether to take Crete by airborne assault or an amphibious one. I decided to go airborne and now I might be regreting it.
Here's a screenie of the first turn:



The first turn wasn't so bad, but on the second turn my artillery units got hit real hard in fact I have lost my 15cm Hw, that and the fact that I'm very low on PP is my making my life miserable in this island
On the third turn I landed the rest of my units and that was somewhat a relief.
Enemy air units were shot down but the RN is pounding my units and decimating them, it has a fix for my arty

Here's the situation in the middle of turn 4:



I'm confident enough Souda will not be a problem, another matter would be taking Heraklion and its nearby airport

Well I achieved a DV but at a high cost, iirc another arty was lost and an infantry. Unless I use some extra PP cheating no way I can start Barbarossa with any chances of succeding.
So time to start the campaign all over again with version 2 of DLC3.

I noticed some other guys imported their core army from the 39 and 40 campaigns, I think that may give you some adavantage, but I just purchased the previous DLC just before given access to DLC 41, no time for them yet.