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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/25/2010 2:12:39 AM   
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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/25/2010 3:14:13 AM   
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There was no sea battle in the Western Atlantic with the RN which did give us the green light to DoW the US and land in New York with our tank corps. The attack on the US must have been a surprise to the US as the three Eastern US cities were undefended. The Germans were no less surprised to roll simply in.

The lack of defense was done most likely for economic reasons (i.e. save upkeep) and would have been very smart play in all other circumstances. But we were confident that we could have taken the US also against a typical "light" defense - even though not in a single turn of course.

While this is all very positive news for the Axis, the fact remains that the RN continues to rule the Atlantic. The Kriegsmarine did for this reason withdraw immediately after the landing. The US is now exposed to a later UK counterattack. Can the British reclaim the US as a crown colony for a second time?

(Player note: A very unfortunate and understandable lapsus may cost the Western Allies the game early. Since ToW is essentially a "beer and pretzel" game I don't want to discuss the historic realism here. The landing of German troops on US soil can probably be prevented within the framework of the game system - of course only if it is expected. If one looks at ToW as a game only then the more pathways to success exist for both sides, the more interesting the game becomes.)




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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/25/2010 3:31:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		April 16, 1940 : The German commander did his homework, and the Allied commander did not. In past versions of RtV and ToW an attack upon the USA was very difficult, perhaps impossible. I had not gamed this out with the newer version. To say that I was ill when my opponent sprang this on me does not quite capture that drop one feels. The US Navy never ventured out of port, and it is not as large even if it had sortied.

Chocolino chose not to address issues of realism, so I will not either, but I will say I (belatedly) gamed this against the AI and it is a game killer if used. The AI loses the US as early as October 1939, and the Axis is on a roll from then on.

The Soviets, sick about the German coup, soldier on in Persia.






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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/25/2010 4:29:14 AM   
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The US and Yugoslavia surrender and Persia is living through the last few weeks of independence.

With some production boost from the US territories, we plan new campaigns. The Italians will continue to be responsible for the Mediterranean theater while the Germans must face their arch enemy in the East.




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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/25/2010 4:32:48 AM   
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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/25/2010 4:51:45 AM   
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We did not plan for a USSR campaign this summer. Now events make it necessary and spring is upon us already. We are late with our preparations.




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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/25/2010 4:59:48 AM   
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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/25/2010 5:10:36 AM   
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The German attack on the USSR gets off sluggishly.

(With apologies, you will notice in the Minsk area that visibility is set to three hexes instead of two - caused by a ToW reinstall without readjusting the default setting accidentally)




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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/25/2010 5:20:20 AM   
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We have records again for the may 16, 1940 period.


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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/25/2010 5:25:09 AM   
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The titanic struggle for the East starts to unfold.




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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/25/2010 5:33:40 AM   
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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/25/2010 5:10:30 PM   
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We are rather carefully probing east in Belarus while still building up further strength at the East Front. Isfahan holds on for one more week and first Italian units probe north towards Tunis.




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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/25/2010 5:40:59 PM   
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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/25/2010 6:33:19 PM   
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Even though the Italians are weak and slow, they can make progress against the economically broken French - but it will take a while. Will the British extend a hand and counterattack in the Eastern Desert where Italians are holding with very weak units only?

In Russia our progress is limited by available action points and slow infantry moving up to fill in the extending flanks. In the meanwhile the Russians produce more low level units that they throw in our way to slow us down. When will the tanks be back from Persia?




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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/25/2010 9:20:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		Perhaps the fall of the USA to the Axis powers should trigger an automatic DoW by Spain - in revenge for 1898 and the loss of their Empire?

A lot of action in a very short time.

Thank you gentlemen for a very interesting game and excellent reportage!

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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/25/2010 10:44:37 PM   
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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/26/2010 12:31:26 AM   
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Progress in the Baltic states is fast but we make hardly any geographic gains in the USSR despite destroying many defending units. New defenders pop up every turn.






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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/26/2010 1:51:47 AM   
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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/26/2010 9:28:37 PM   
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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/26/2010 10:55:17 PM   
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The Italians reach Casablanca and can now focus on Gabes, Sfax and Tunis.

At the East Front, Minsk finally falls and opens the path to Smolensk. We want to get as close to Moscow as we can before the winter slows us down.




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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/27/2010 1:04:38 AM   
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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/28/2010 2:36:38 AM   
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The German front line is still very sparsely populated and that prevents us from penetrating deeper into Russia. However, the German units are considerably stronger than their Soviet counterparts.




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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/28/2010 5:55:26 AM   
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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/29/2010 2:35:39 AM   
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With fresh supplies from Minsk, German tanks head east towards Smolensk and Velikiye Luki. The Irish acquire membership in the Western Allies while the Latvians will soon be tightly integrated into the German lands.




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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/29/2010 2:55:27 AM   
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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/29/2010 11:50:01 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Chocolino

The Irish acquire membership in the Western Allies


Now that Ireland has joined the fray, it would seem the scales are tipping against the Axis.

Will we soon see the Irish come to the rescue of their American cousins in the great city of New York?



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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/29/2010 8:54:20 PM   
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The Germans in NY try to consume the recently surging Guinness supply in the US. The supplies surely rise in preparation of a large scale Irish landing.

The Germans in the East have to do with potato schnapps which may account for their slow progress.




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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/30/2010 1:29:15 AM   
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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/30/2010 2:15:35 AM   
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The summer is already half over and we are only some very few hexes closer to Smolensk than four weeks earlier. Once we are stuck in winter weather it will only get worse.




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RE: Memoires of two Staff Officers (PBEM) - 4/30/2010 3:47:07 AM   
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