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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/1/2014 12:06:59 AM

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Turn 10. 9/24/1940. Rain (Dry). The British counterattack in London and destroy the 11th infantry and badly damage the 2nd. This is bitter fighting; but I will continue to press hard without consideration to losses as I need to clear London and move onto my remaining objectives.

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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/1/2014 12:07:43 AM

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Fierce fighting for London continues with the Wehrmacht making good progress. And, Leading almost fall stubbornly holding at 1-step.

A new unit, the 30th Grenadier, was commissioned this turn and immediately sent to the thick of things south of London.

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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/1/2014 12:12:59 AM

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Turn 11. 9/25/1940. Rain (Muddy). Blasted weather! No matter, London is almost mine. Time is running short with only 8 turns left (for a marginal victory). Recon elements push onwards to Oxford. I do hope the weather clears next turn so the Luftwaffe can get back into the war.

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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/1/2014 12:13:28 AM

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Turn 12. 9/26/1940. Clear (Dry). London falls leaving 4 more objective cities (Oxford, Ipswich, Southampton and (off map) Bristol). Though I�m happy with the capture of London, the fact is that I only have 7 more turns left to complete the operation. And, I lost another core unit this turn, the 27th Pz IVD.

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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/1/2014 12:14:27 AM

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Turn 13. September 27, 1940. Clear (Dry). Time is running out! It�s now a mad rush to capture the remaining 4 objective cities.

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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/1/2014 12:14:56 AM

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Ipswich is left to capture in this sector.

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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/1/2014 12:15:27 AM

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Another RAF air unit is downed. I�m not sure what�s left but it can�t be much.

Oxford, Bristol and Southampton left here.

Another new unit, the 34th Grenadier commissioned and moved directly to the action.

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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/1/2014 12:46:24 AM

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Turn 14. 9/28/1940. Cloudy (Dry). Last turn for a decisive victory and I�m no where near achieving that. I have 5 turns to pull out a marginal victory.

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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/1/2014 12:46:56 AM

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Turn 15. 9/29/1940. Cloudy (Dry). I just may pull this off! Oxford and Southampton are captured. Ipswitch is occupied by not with a unit that can capture it. So, it will be captured next turn. Effectively, the only remaining objective is Bristol and I have 4 turns to get that city.

Also, two more unit citations this turn.

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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/1/2014 12:47:33 AM

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The 2 remaining objectives.

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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/1/2014 12:48:04 AM

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Turn 16. 9/30/1940. Clear (Dry).

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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/1/2014 12:48:29 AM

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The last objective, Bristol should be mine next turn!

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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/1/2014 12:48:58 AM

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Turn 17. 10/1/1940. Rain (Dry). As expected, Bristol falls this turn. Now all I have to do is to hold onto it (and all other objective cities I hold), which I don�t think will be that difficult. The only city I failed to take in my area of responsibility was Lyme Regis.

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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/1/2014 12:49:25 AM

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The Brits make an gallant try to retake Bristol by counterattacking from Lyme Regis. The come up way short; but do manage to inflict a few more step losses on the final turn of this campaign. Looks like England will be suing for peace. Or will they?

Well this game breaks my string of decisive victories and my streak of preserving my core units. I lost 5 in this campaign compared to 1 total in the other four combined.

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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/1/2014 12:49:51 AM

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Operation Sea Lion TOE at end of operation.

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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/1/2014 12:50:17 AM

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Unit losses, kills, step losses and kill for Sea Lion is given on the left and the summary to date (9/1/39 � 10/1/40) is provided on the right.

Though this was only a marginal victory the fact that I captured southern England including London, Portsmouth and Southampton, and the Kriegsmarines sunk 6 capital ships and the Luftwaffe swept the skies of the RAF would historically go down as one, if not the, greatest victory in land, air and sea warfare. The fact that it took me 17-days versus 14-days I don't think would amount to a hill of beans to the historians.

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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/1/2014 12:50:39 AM

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The statistics of my active (i.e., non-destroyed) core units is summarized in this chart.

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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/1/2014 1:09:52 AM

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WHAT?! REALLY!? Let�s see I hold London, Dover, Southampton, Bristol, Oxford and Ipswich. The KM has gained control over the English Channel and the RN is nowhere to be found. And, the Luftwaffe has swept the skies of the RAF and can fly at will and unopposed anywhere over southern England. A madman must be charge of the Germany armed forces to order me and my command to abandon our current, and hard fought, positions, pull us back to German and deploy us to only he knows where.

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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/1/2014 11:43:53 PM

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It looks to me like your core units suffer because you have not upgraded them enough.

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Your AAR is inspirational and have made me begun a new campaign game.

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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/2/2014 2:47:25 PM

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It looks to me like your core units suffer because you have not upgraded them enough.

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Your AAR is inspirational and have made me begun a new campaign game.

That's high praise coming from a player of your caliber.

With respect to upgrading my units, I agree. My dilemma during deployment is do I want to fill an open core slot with a new unit or use those prestige points to upgrade an existing unit. I think I'm learning that it's better to upgrade existing units and have less than your full allotment of core units than to skip upgrading in favor or more units. Like all such choice there's a balance there, which I need to find.

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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/2/2014 3:03:20 PM

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It looks to me like your core units suffer because you have not upgraded them enough.

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Your AAR is inspirational and have made me begun a new campaign game.

That's high praise coming from a player of your caliber.

With respect to upgrading my units, I agree. My dilemma during deployment is do I want to fill an open core slot with a new unit or use those prestige points to upgrade an existing unit. I think I'm learning that it's better to upgrade existing units and have less than your full allotment of core units than to skip upgrading in favor or more units. Like all such choice there's a balance there, which I need to find.

Last time I played I did it the way that you do. Now I begun to upgrading as much as possible during set up. Then I buy new core units during the battle as reinforcements. That seem to save me points and I get new fresh units to continue my offence.

Remember that it is cheaper to upgrade to units in the same 'chain'.

Keep up the good work.

Edit: I would rate myself as a rookie when it comes to Panzer Corps.

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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/2/2014 7:28:38 PM

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Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of Soviet Russia, is ordered for June 22, 1941.

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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/2/2014 7:29:15 PM

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The invasion will initially be conducted by three axis army groups (North, Center and South).

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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/2/2014 7:29:39 PM

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My command is Army Group Center and I have been given 23-days to capture Brest, Volkovvsk, Baranovichi, Vila, Minsk, Polotsk, Mogileu, Vitebsk and Smolensk. If I can accomplish this in 14 days (i.e., 2 weeks), I�ve been assured high praise, advancements and fame for my command (and myself).

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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/2/2014 7:30:07 PM

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I�m loaned (attached) 6 units (high lightened in yellow) and can deploy 28 units. I have 26 active and 5 inactive (i.e., previously destroyed and not yet reconstituted) core units. I�m allocated 2044 prestige points and have a lot of work to do and decisions to make during this deployment phase.

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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/2/2014 10:14:25 PM

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This is how I spent my 2044 prestige points during the deployment phase:
- Upgraded the 1st and 6th Panzers (1B and IIC) tanks to Panzer IVFs
- Reconstituted the 49th JU 87R TAC
- Upgraded the 9th and 10th Wehrmacht to Grenadiers
- Reconstituted the 36th Ground Artillery Unit
- Upgraded the 8th 10.5cm Ground Artillery Unit to 15cm
- Upgraded the 5th Bf 109E to Bf 109F fighters
- Upgraded the 16th JU87B TAC to 87R Dive Bombers
- Reconstituted the 27th Panzers (IVD)
- Reinforced as many units as possible above 10-steps (Note, all units needing reinforcements were reinforced using replacements up to 10-steps.)

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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/2/2014 10:15:02 PM

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My forces and deployed and are awaiting for the initiation of hostilities at 3:15 a.m. on Sunday, June 22, 1941. I�m told from the highest level is that all we need to do is to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come falling down.

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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/5/2014 12:23:58 AM

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Turn 1. June 22, 1941. Sunday 3:15 a.m. My forces push forward and encounter greater forces than I expected from the Soviets. I�m curious as to what they have to put in the air. Four Luftwaffe fighter units are ready to take on any of the Red Air Force that dares to show itself.

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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/5/2014 12:24:48 AM

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Turn 2. June 24, 1941. Clear (Dry). Well, the Red Air Force did show up in strength. The attached 20th Recon was destroyed in a counterattack with heavy air support. And near Brest, the 49th TAC (just reconstituted from its loss on turn 1 last campaign) was reduced to 3-steps. It�s gaining a reputation as an unlucky unit.

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RE: Fall Weiss AAR (Colonel) vs AI - 2/5/2014 12:25:35 AM

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I decided to protect my vulnerable bombers (16th TAC, 49th TAC and 35th Strat) by flying them back to base. My four fighters (5th, 15th, 47th and 48th) and the 4th BF 110c manage to down 1 Red air unit (7th MiG). Otherwise, progress is slow!