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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/22/2014 6:49:02 AM   
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Status: offline 		My last post was about the FF landing on Sardinia to clear the island of Germans and curious to know whether or not there were any
Axis units on the island I took a look around and sure enough found some Germans, or at least they are Axis units. And there's a
squadron of planes near a port. I could land some arty there and maybe get a plane or two. Worth a try.




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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/22/2014 7:01:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		I found an arty unit that just happened to be sitting in a port so I nabbed it for the arty raid on Sardinia. It took all the unit had to just get
to the port so any attacking I'm going to do will have to be the last thing for the turn. I'm sure it's going to eat up all the rounds of the
turn however many there are 'cause it's MP's are zero now. It just occurs to me that the arty unit is going to need a security detail to
protect the arty from any and all Germans on the island. And that red dot on the mini-map means there's at least one.




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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/22/2014 7:11:00 AM   
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Status: offline 		OK. There was a lot of units toward the west end of Sicily fighting Axis units and now that all the Axis unit on Sicily are gone everybody
is headed for Messina to get off the island. And now in T20 there's starting to be quite the traffic jam. I'm going to have to start using
the priority method to determine who gets to use the port next. AT guns can wait, AA units can wait. Right now I need the recon units
and the INF dudes to do their thing. Chrome can go in the fourth wave.

EDIT: You know it just occured to me that I might ought to have sent the Free French to Taranto instead of Sardinia. D'oh. Live and
learn.




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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/22/2014 7:20:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		Here's what the supply situation looks like. It's going to go up however because there was a German roadblock that is now gone so the
next time the supply levels will be calculated they will reflect that the roadblock is gone by increasing, probably remarkably. I'm hoping.




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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/22/2014 7:25:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		Here's the result of that arty raid on the German airfield. I got some bombers. Hu Ya !




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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/22/2014 7:42:19 AM   
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Status: offline 		I thought I'd do one of those arty raids at Taranto. I'm not sure how many arty units are sitting at ports ready to move but I'm guessing
not many. I hope I can find at least one. Those German planes aren't going to be there next turn unless I attack them now.




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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/22/2014 7:57:12 AM   
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Status: offline 		Here's the tip of the spear on the West side. My recon is sufficiently high to spot some German Armour units, obviously one formation
and there's probably some more Germans that don't show yet. I might ought to allow the recon let the main body catch up so they can
act as backup for the recon units. Otherwise they might get hurt.




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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/22/2014 8:47:46 AM   
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Status: offline 		Here's what Taranto looks like now. I moved a bunch of units in including arty. I have to wait until about 70% of the turn is used up
before I can fire the arty but I'm hoping that's possible to fire the arty before the turn ends.

EDIT: It was possible and I evaporated all three Axis squadrons.




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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/22/2014 12:48:25 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here's what T23 looks like now. I'm pressing north on the east side and I'm waiting for backup on the west side.




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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/22/2014 4:03:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here's a close up of the situation on the East side. I've surrounded one unit and I'm working on developing the battlefield on the
other one.




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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/22/2014 4:11:27 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here's the situation on the West side. I'm sneaking up on that grouping of German units and I'm going to try to form a rudimentary
front line somewhere nearby and see if I can't surround them.




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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/22/2014 4:36:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		I've formed a battery park to hold all the tubes. I'm pretty sure I brought enough. Now to "space them out" by putting some of them on
'T' and some of them rest. Say half and half.......so that at least I'll always have some arty to fire.




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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/22/2014 4:40:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		C'mon Elmer !! That's the worse defense ever !

Well, its probably my fault, I should have some different objectives in there I guess.




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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/22/2014 4:56:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		Go ahead and put your objectives in there and I'll do a restart w/ the new version.

EDIT: Steve and I exchanged some email and it turns out that there's not a whole lot that can be done
to make Elmer spread out his attackers / defenders. You can give Elmer objectives and he figures out
where everybody goes. D'oh. So no restart is needed for this game.

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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/22/2014 5:01:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		Lemme show you what I have cooking on the front burner. I have designs on that German grouping and want to
defeat them w/o a great loss of life so I thought I'd cut off their supply. I busted a bridge north of the group and there's a recon unit
making it's way through the mountains to try to cut all the roads leading into that valley so the supply won't flow any more. It takes a
little longer but it might save some lives. If I tried to bulldoze my way through that group of Germans I would probably lose half my force.




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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/22/2014 6:20:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		I've been developing the battlefield on the West Coast and I think I may have cut off supply to them and I've started a surround on them
and so far it's looking good. I'm attacking the bottlenecks on the east coast and will be moving again shortly. And I've started a rail
from Taranto to Foggia.




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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/22/2014 6:25:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here's the situation on the East side now. I'm conducting operations to reduce the roadblocks to get the advance moving again.




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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/22/2014 6:32:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here's a view of an element of the 1st Canadian Division doing some house-to-house work in St Vito. It's slow going and every once in
a while a sniper puts another man down.




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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/22/2014 6:52:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		I stopped the Axis turn and was going to grab a screenshot that shows how dropping that bridge and cutting off the supply on that road
didn't stop the supply to that German group because of the supply point at Paestum. Either that or dropping the bridge didn't do what
I thought it was going to do. I guess it's the new supply rules that dropped bridges affect. Or effect. Whichever it's supposed to be.




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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/22/2014 6:59:20 PM   
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Status: offline 		It's October 2, 1943 and I'm falling behind schedule. The real life version of this had the Allies higher up on the boot than I am so far.
I think. I'm resting up a couple of divisions so I can make some landings at Napoli and Salerno. Or is it Salerno first THEN Napoli.




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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/22/2014 8:35:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		I dropped most of the 82nd Airborne Division on the road to Foggia trapping some Germans and cutting off their supply. Now we're
making some progress.




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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/22/2014 9:02:47 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here's the West side in T26. I'm trying to sneak some units past the Germans and then press further north. I'm going to need another
division at least to make a serious thrust north. I've got the 8th Indian Division on Sicily that I can sail up here. They wouldn't mind being
the tip of the spear for a while.




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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/23/2014 2:37:12 AM   
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Status: offline 		I thought I'd try some landings near Salerno. To open up the front a little bit. I've got about two dozen units waiting at ports for a trip
to the beaches in a second wave so there's ample units to go around.




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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/23/2014 2:40:33 AM   
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Status: offline 		I may have bit off more than I can chew w/ these landings near Anzio. I'm hoping these guys can hold on for one full turn until I can get
some more help to them.




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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/23/2014 4:31:28 AM   
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Status: offline 		Here's the front lines in T30. The Anzio landing is in trouble. They are surrounded and outnumbered. The line is collapsing. I need to
sail some more troops up there but I'm thinking there's not much available for transport. The East side is moving again. Foggia is the
next step for them. The East front is dynamic and constantly changing. The Salerno landing didn't get Salerno and they are hurting
for supplies.




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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/23/2014 4:42:13 AM   
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Status: offline 		Here's Anzio now. I'm down to my last reserve unit. One unit in reserve. That's not going to last long. I need to find some troops to
move in here to put boots on the ground.




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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/23/2014 4:44:18 AM   
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Status: offline 		Here's Salerno looking south. This section of the front lines is iffy also.




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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/23/2014 2:22:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		My toehold near Rome may be in serious trouble. We may have a broken arrow here soon. I don't have any troops to send them
either. I definately bit off more than I can chew here.




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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/23/2014 2:34:12 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here's the East side now. I'm getting close to Foggia. As soon as Foggia is captured, it's my understanding that the Italian Air Force
surrenders and goes away and I'll be left fighting the Germans only.




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RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised - 1/23/2014 2:46:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here's Salerno looking south. The Germans are proving hard to make them back up. I'm inching them back slowly, too slowly, and
eventually will be in mop up mode.




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