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RE: Revanchism in Europe (PBEM gwgardner vs Chocolino) - 4/19/2020 6:20:54 PM

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The Axis lost Turin but clings desperately to the eastern and western portions of upper Italy which control access to France and Austria/Germany.

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RE: Revanchism in Europe (PBEM gwgardner vs Chocolino) - 4/19/2020 6:25:32 PM

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The Allies have overrun southern Yugoslavia. Belgrade and Sofia are still in Axis hands - for the time being. In northern Yugoslavia there are still some few stronger defenders trying to protect the approaches to Austria.

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RE: Revanchism in Europe (PBEM gwgardner vs Chocolino) - 4/19/2020 6:28:35 PM

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A hotch-potch group of defenders consisting of Hungarians, Germans and Romanians try to delay the Russians from subjugating Bukarest.

Further north the remnants of AGS retreat towards the Polish border

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RE: Revanchism in Europe (PBEM gwgardner vs Chocolino) - 4/19/2020 6:33:05 PM

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The northern portion of the East Front has reached K�nigsberg and with it Eastern Prussia. The Germans have now to defend home territory.

The East Front has shortened considerably in the process and we were able to siphon off units to other threatened sectors.

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RE: Revanchism in Europe (PBEM gwgardner vs Chocolino) - 4/19/2020 10:31:25 PM

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Its close to summer '44 and Overlord has been finally executed by the Allies - albeit in the Bretagne which seems much easier in this game than in the Normandy.

The Allies would have been able to break through from Italy by itself. But with this new front they will overwhelm our defenses that much faster. We are now glad about our falling back in the East since we need the units thus freed up.

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RE: Revanchism in Europe (PBEM gwgardner vs Chocolino) - 4/19/2020 10:36:57 PM

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The Axis abandons the defense of the Italian-French border and withdraws into central France before we get cut off by the forces in the Bretagne moving east. We leave just some road blocks behind in key harbors and roads.

The Americans in the meanwhile push hard towards Austria despite the difficult terrain. We also loose Venice this turn.

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RE: Revanchism in Europe (PBEM gwgardner vs Chocolino) - 4/19/2020 10:41:58 PM

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The Balkan front is now a thin screen of units reaching from Trieste to southern Hungary. Luckily the Allies don't have the strongest forces here either.

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RE: Revanchism in Europe (PBEM gwgardner vs Chocolino) - 4/19/2020 10:45:23 PM

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The Soviet Romania front is approaching the Romanian oil fields. We have plenty of oil left and unfortunately only few units to use it. So that in itself will not be a problem. But the Reich is shrinking rapidly now.

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RE: Revanchism in Europe (PBEM gwgardner vs Chocolino) - 4/19/2020 10:49:26 PM

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In the Ukraine more German units are in danger of being surrounded. The heavy rain causes them to be very immobile. The collapse of AGS continues.

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RE: Revanchism in Europe (PBEM gwgardner vs Chocolino) - 4/19/2020 10:53:22 PM

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The only portion of our forces that are not completely compromised are in the East Prussia and Poland. Here the Axis continues to fall back in order to generate units needed elsewhere.

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RE: Revanchism in Europe (PBEM gwgardner vs Chocolino) - 4/20/2020 8:06:05 PM

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We build a rather weak new line along the Seine to prevent the Allies to just waltz from the Bretagne right into Paris. Southern France is left to its own devices - just some garrison units remain in and around Marseilles. But the British are not quick in persueing us there.

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RE: Revanchism in Europe (PBEM gwgardner vs Chocolino) - 4/20/2020 8:10:07 PM

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The Allies take Trieste and Zagreb - and more importantly link up their units in Yugoslavia with those in Italy. At least they did not move north much ....

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RE: Revanchism in Europe (PBEM gwgardner vs Chocolino) - 4/20/2020 8:15:09 PM

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Belgrade, Sofia and Bukarest are still in Axis hands - this let's our information ministry claim undisputed Axis control in these countries. Local field commanders know better ....

We used the Black Sea port garrisons of Romania and Bulgaria elsewhere now - no point any more in guarding against a Soviet invasion - the Russians are already there.

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RE: Revanchism in Europe (PBEM gwgardner vs Chocolino) - 4/20/2020 8:22:16 PM

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In the Ukraine the retreating Germans desperately refuse to be encircled and can barely keep a small gap open through which truck based supply reaches the endangered units.

While we have been frugal with truck supply earlier in the game we find ourselves now with a surplus. In hindsight it would have been better to spend it during our time in the offensive.

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RE: Revanchism in Europe (PBEM gwgardner vs Chocolino) - 4/21/2020 2:58:48 AM

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The Allies expand out of their beach head in the Bretagne and close in on our Seine line. In southern France the Allies busy themselves with investing Marseilles which is still in Axis hands. There are surprisingly few British troops moving into France from Italy. Where are they?

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RE: Revanchism in Europe (PBEM gwgardner vs Chocolino) - 4/21/2020 3:03:28 AM

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The Allied units in the Austrian - Hungarian front don't look that formidable. But this is deceiving - they have a huge amount of air power available (located just south of the screenshot in Italy mainly) and can break any Axis resistance at will.

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RE: Revanchism in Europe (PBEM gwgardner vs Chocolino) - 4/21/2020 3:10:52 AM

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The Soviets help themselves to Romanian oil and the German defenders have already departed in direction Budapest blocking this railway for the Russians. Belgrade is the first of the southern minor capitals that falls under the Allied yoke.

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RE: Revanchism in Europe (PBEM gwgardner vs Chocolino) - 4/21/2020 3:17:44 AM

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The Russians did almost cut off K�nigsberg this week. Most units in the pocket escaped to the west. The unit stranded in the city itself can either defend or ship out next turn.

The German units at the East Front look healthy - but it appears that the Russians can break our lines now with Schwerpunkt tactics. A very disconcerting situation. We are definitely now in the very final lap of this game.

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RE: Revanchism in Europe (PBEM gwgardner vs Chocolino) - 4/22/2020 1:51:39 AM

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The Allies are eager to finish the war and add more pressure. With support from paratroopers they land in Belgium and Holland - quite Market-Garden style. They overrun the division sized port garrisons easily and this throws the already collapsing Axis defense efforts into total disarray.

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RE: Revanchism in Europe (PBEM gwgardner vs Chocolino) - 4/22/2020 1:55:28 AM

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The fresh landings in the Netherlands make our Seine defense line obsolete and we decide to pull everything back to the Belgian border. Except for some Hungarian road blocks in Paris and Le Havre this means letting the Allies run wild in France.

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RE: Revanchism in Europe (PBEM gwgardner vs Chocolino) - 4/22/2020 2:04:09 AM

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With Bukarest, Romania has fallen. Some German stragglers try to make it back to Hungary. But chances are that they will be caught up in a flood of red units that also poor into Hungary from the east. Key junctions in Hungary are already controlled by advanced Russian units.

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RE: Revanchism in Europe (PBEM gwgardner vs Chocolino) - 4/23/2020 12:20:28 AM

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The German East Front looks almost orderly. The aim is holding out for as long as they can. But we know that the German lines are not unimpregnable.

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RE: Revanchism in Europe (PBEM gwgardner vs Chocolino) - 4/23/2020 12:25:21 AM

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If the Allies have an internal competition on who is first in Berlin then the western Allies are a very close second at this time. But the Axis west front has gaping holes in the north and especially in the south where a single division is assigned the whole Vosges front. Luckily the Allies are not quite there yet to challenge it.

We have a strong tank corps near Luxembourg - but that won't be enough to re-enact a Battle of the Bulge this time around.

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RE: Revanchism in Europe (PBEM gwgardner vs Chocolino) - 4/23/2020 12:31:40 AM

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The Allies have by now made their way across most of the Austrian Alps and Canadian units are at the gates of an undefended Vienna. Here at the Danube they meet the Russians. Budapest and Sofia still have an Axis garrison - they were bypassed for now.

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RE: Revanchism in Europe (PBEM gwgardner vs Chocolino) - 4/24/2020 1:50:35 AM

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Budapest and Sofia have been taken by the Allies. The good and bad news is that all of the Axis remaining territory fits now on a just two screen shots (given the upload size limit).

The British have crossed the Rhine river and taken Cologne. A new Allied landing in Brunsb�ttel (close to the Danish border) has been met with a scratch Axis defense combat team and the Americans approach Munich.

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RE: Revanchism in Europe (PBEM gwgardner vs Chocolino) - 4/24/2020 1:54:15 AM

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The Canadians have already occupied Vienna. All goes now very rapidly.

The Soviets breached our lines again and the remaining Axis forces fall back onto Berlin in a concentric fashion as best as they can manage.

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RE: Revanchism in Europe (PBEM gwgardner vs Chocolino) - 4/25/2020 1:50:44 AM

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There are very few German units remaining that fight outside of Germany proper. Just a few stragglers in Poland, some cut-off and lost units in the Carpathian mountains and our intrepid division holding all of the Vosges front by itself in south-eastern France. Essen and the Ruhr is lost as well as Munich while the Soviets marched into undefended Breslau.

However, in one of the last remaining German attacks in the war all Allied units in Denmark were destroyed and thrown back into the sea. The units of the successful German combat team were immediately redistributed to other sectors.

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RE: Revanchism in Europe (PBEM gwgardner vs Chocolino) - 4/25/2020 1:59:29 AM

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It is getting crowded in Germany. The Soviets are at the river Oder, the German division in the Vosges unsurprisingly turned out to be insufficient to hold the Allies back and in Nuremberg even HQ units have to do defensive duty.

A very forward American unit got caught and surrounded in Hannover. But I am sure the Allies will try to free their comrades again.

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RE: Revanchism in Europe (PBEM gwgardner vs Chocolino) - 4/26/2020 11:57:34 PM

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The noose was tightened further.

9-22-44

The last pictures (below) that German war correspondents could take from the conflict. Afterwards all order broke down.

10-6-44

The Allies were 2 hexes from Berlin - only some fanatics defended Berlin

10-20-44

The Axis was vanquished.

I would like to congratulate my opponent to his well deserved victory and thank him for the great game and his always present fair play. I am sure this was not the last game we have played together but it is the last game of WP for the moment.