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Chocolino -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (4/26/2009 3:43:36 PM)
Using this list I come to the following as of 9-1-45: Axis: 47 COMINT: 36 W. Allies: 19 Neutral: 4 London and its 10 VP will of course go to the Western Allies soon and swing the count significantly. The Axis has the best chance on the remaining Neutral's though. But a year is a long time and this is counting chicken before they are hatched unfortunately.

Chocolino -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (4/26/2009 5:37:11 PM)
September 16th, 1945 We take another VP at Tabuk and plan to transfer the rest of the Italians from Saudia Arabia to the defense of Europe. Southampton in southern England is still holding on. We assemble a small battle force to take Switzerland for both the VPs and the PPs. [image]local://upfiles/31316/503A88701BCF404F8C9722775B29346F.jpg[/image]

Chocolino -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (4/26/2009 8:32:30 PM)
October 1st, 1945 Saudia Arabia surrenders to the Axis forces, and the Swiss campaign has started. They forfeit their neutral status by involving themselves in dubious financial transactions with American funds. The Western Allies are already in south London and look across the Thames at the Victoria Embankment. The USSR withdraws a hex and clears its front line of a notorious trouble spot that has cost them many corps already. [image]local://upfiles/31316/9B39445A75F542C1BD84A06CCEFA3E29.jpg[/image]

gwgardner -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (4/26/2009 10:30:21 PM)
I think if either one of you would pull your armor out of the front lines, concentrate it all with air support, you could break that front open.

Chocolino -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (4/26/2009 11:26:43 PM)
I think the USSR has all armor concentrated near Kaunas. At least there are no other ones visible elsewhere for a while. I expect the USSR to get to L5 in armor at one point and then make more headway. It may be possible already now but I cannot speak for the plans of the USSR commander of course. For my part, I use my armor only behind the front to punish possible breakthroughs or plug holes. I am happy with the situation as is and there are not many target VPs nearby (Kaunas being one of course). I could open the front a few times but did not want to venture any deeper. I don't have enough mobile forces left to create a encirclement of sufficient size. If it is just one or two Russian units, the USSR just strat-moves out. If I do a part circle, with concentrated effort, the USSR air force can annihilate the unit anchoring the breakthrough and all other units behind enemy lines will be lost. I also need to preserve my units and minimize losses. Even now, I can barely replace what I loose per turn. Almost all goes into air replacements. I am close to abandon my air force since it is ineffective at L2 against L3 Russian air attacks. (Yes, we cut some corners in research earlier. But even if I had L3 technology, I wouldn't have the PP for the actual upgrades.)

Chocolino -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (4/26/2009 11:29:06 PM)
October 16th, 1945 London and Zurich fall. (That is a bad exchange for the Axis) [image]local://upfiles/31316/FA9B836E138D49E79C0F37A47C83E25E.jpg[/image]

Chocolino -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (4/26/2009 11:34:05 PM)
November 1st, 1945 The US makes rapid progress in England and Axis units move in on Lausanne. Nothing new elsewhere. [image]local://upfiles/31316/A7218D60E2FE4EC992AAD48DDDA630AB.jpg[/image]

Chocolino -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (4/27/2009 1:19:07 AM)
December 1st, 1945 For the Axis a tough year ends. Axis units in England are offering very little resistance and that will mean that the US forces there are soon available for other operations. The good news is that Germany has secured 20 units of factory capacity in Switzerland. We defend the channel coast better than was previously necessary since the French cities there - after the fall of southern England - are now in range of Allied air strikes and possibly also paratroopers. The East Front sees the usual attrition battles. [image]local://upfiles/31316/4F426612D9AE48C486F849C2E7AC4CE6.jpg[/image]

Chocolino -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (4/27/2009 1:51:21 AM)
January 1st, 1946 The international community is shocked and outraged. The US nukes Brest, a city of their former French allies. The French civil population will suffer the consequences of this cruel and selfish act. German news media immediately counter with the announcement of Wunderwaffen (but most employees of the German research labs wonder exactly where and what they are supposed to be). The worst side effect of the nuclear strike is not the local destruction but a partial breakdown of the Axis economy since social unrest breaks out. Of the German workforce, 20% stay at home while in Allied countries it is still 10%. The government is doing everything to calm protests down but it is expected that the effects wear off only slowly. How long can Germany survive at around 80% of its usual production? [image]local://upfiles/31316/AD4A7A560DE74BE191346C82CF588CA9.jpg[/image]

Chocolino -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (4/28/2009 2:11:45 AM)
February 1st, 1946 The social unrest in Germany has decreased by only half a percent in a month. We have hoped for at least a full percent recovery. This will hurt us more in production than we have expected. Interestingly the nuclear strike had less of an effect on Italy - they are at 88%. The Axis is crumbling, especially since the Russians have introduced their new L5 armor models. We are starting to scavenge slowly stronger German units from the front in Bulgaria and Eastern Yugoslavia and transfer them north for the defense of Berlin while replacing them with lesser Italian units down south. In Scotland, Glasgow is holding for one more turn. [image]local://upfiles/31316/DCEC6BD9E9DD4DD6BE9E75448CC815DD.jpg[/image]

Chocolino -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (4/28/2009 2:46:14 AM)
February 16th, 1946 We can seal of the American beachhead in the Bretagne but it looks very bleak everywhere else. [image]local://upfiles/31316/631D3257B20C4D17B7DFC5463E5FB56E.jpg[/image]

Chocolino -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (4/29/2009 1:45:07 AM)
March 1st, 1946 The Axis is still holding in Scotland and the Bretagne. We need to make a tactical retreat at the northern East Front to plug all holes. German recruits are becoming very scarce. Soon we need to prioritize our theaters and give up areas in favor of others. [image]local://upfiles/31316/E6C5425A901B403AB5B5DE1DD6536FD7.jpg[/image]

Chocolino -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (4/29/2009 2:03:34 AM)
March 16th, 1946 The Russians break through in the East, threaten Koenigsberg and encircle some German Inf. corps. Only Aberdeen remains as a lonely German colony in Scotland. In France, we cannot beat back the US this time even though they are not as strong as the Russians. They are well supplied and have a huge air force with them. We try to contain them for as long as possible and do the occasional needle sting. [image]local://upfiles/31316/98F1AAFF44A048C9880DE71A1B2E9D7D.jpg[/image]

Chocolino -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (4/29/2009 2:40:55 AM)
April 1st, 1946 Aberdeen is still German but the US makes inroads on Nantes. The Russian gets into staging position for Koenigsberg and the mass of L5 armor looks scary. Our social unrest situation and with it the German economy is a mess. This makes the nuclear strike much more powerful than just clearing one hex. [image]local://upfiles/31316/BE5F732F44F84DF198BD1018D295928E.jpg[/image]

Chocolino -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (4/29/2009 3:19:36 AM)
April 16th, 1946 Aberdeen, our last city on the British Isles falls as well as Nantes in France. Koenigsberg is shielded by a line of three strong German L4 tank corps and the USSR has not leashed out at the city yet. The southern portion of the East Front is immobile and we slowly replace stronger German units for weaker Axis minors. [image]local://upfiles/31316/C284171640AE438F82CE29FDADDA797F.jpg[/image]

Chocolino -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (4/30/2009 12:05:34 AM)
May 1st, 1946 We hold in the west but suffer a Soviet break through south of our strongly defended front around Koenigsberg. We try to scrap together some units elsewhere to patch things up again. We still have to survive a long summer campaigning season. Our air force is still at level 2 (we consciously never invested a dime and now pay for it) and is almost useless against the L3 Russian and American fliers that are also more numerous. We cannot replace aircraft losses any more and withdraw the units to the interior for better times or to be scrapped (the latter being more likely). [image]local://upfiles/31316/D7AFEF264D7142258DFBC80DE42F3635.jpg[/image]

Chocolino -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (4/30/2009 12:28:30 AM)
May 9st, 1946 Our combined tank strength points diminish from around 100 to about 30 in one turn. The US destroys one completely and we manage to do the rest ourselves by conducting an ill advised (since without air support) attack on a Soviet tank unit. [image]local://upfiles/31316/5398DE383ED946EFACFD8E219A3FD617.jpg[/image]

gwgardner -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (4/30/2009 12:35:12 AM)
Impressive Bulgarian army in reserve.

Chocolino -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (4/30/2009 1:10:47 AM)
Yes, but they are hardly useful for anything but look good on the planning map. I didn't know about your F1 trick for the most part of the game and never transferred PPs out of the inland minors such as Bulgaria, Hungaria and Slovakia to Germany - and later I didn't bother any more. But I did not conduct research for these minors either. So they produced a lot of L1 Inf corps. Probably a mistake.

Chocolino -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (4/30/2009 1:25:46 AM)
May 16th, 1946 Still containing the Americans in France but in the East we have to move westward. Warsaw is threatened since weakly defended and worth a VP. Koenigsberg is also in trouble. [image]local://upfiles/31316/1FF3D724FAB24DA4B8BF2858B6FCFC0E.jpg[/image]

gwgardner -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (4/30/2009 1:46:09 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Chocolino Yes, but they are hardly useful for anything but look good on the planning map. I didn't know about your F1 trick for the most part of the game and never transferred PPs out of the inland minors such as Bulgaria, Hungaria and Slovakia to Germany - and later I didn't bother any more. But I did not conduct research for these minors either. So they produced a lot of L1 Inf corps. Probably a mistake. Well they can keep the Russkies from exploiting breakthroughs at least, if held behind the front line.

Chocolino -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (4/30/2009 1:49:14 AM)
May 24th, 1946 The East Front is in motion - in the wrong direction of course. The end of the war seems near but is still twelve moves away. Much can happen. The war weariness of the Soviets and Western Allies is our only hope. Otherwise we'd be doomed completely. [image]local://upfiles/31316/B6A0B028FFEE400B94E36828DE48FEF4.jpg[/image]

Chocolino -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (4/30/2009 2:05:01 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: gwgardner quote: ORIGINAL: Chocolino Yes, but they are hardly useful for anything but look good on the planning map. I didn't know about your F1 trick for the most part of the game and never transferred PPs out of the inland minors such as Bulgaria, Hungaria and Slovakia to Germany - and later I didn't bother any more. But I did not conduct research for these minors either. So they produced a lot of L1 Inf corps. Probably a mistake. Well they can keep the Russkies from exploiting breakthroughs at least, if held behind the front line. Agree, they take at least away on action point to be destroyed and then some more because of ZOC if you want to move through a gap in a line of them. But suddenly the second screen is the front line and they are all eaten up for breakfast. If all those units X 50PP were invested in German units, they'd be probably more useful.

Chocolino -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (4/30/2009 2:14:27 AM)
June 1st, 1946 The US blows a large gap into our line after encircling the northern portion of our West Front. In the East we focus on the defense of Danzig and Warsaw. It is a race against time now. [image]local://upfiles/31316/F4CB06B92E094CA8AA65BF696BA1567D.jpg[/image]

Chocolino -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (4/30/2009 2:29:59 AM)
June 9th, 1946 Collapse in the West and hanging on in the East. At least we don't have to worry about new landings in the Med since Gibraltar is still in our hands. It is well defended. [image]local://upfiles/31316/A8469BD68FF04FBCAC98BE71740D0E7D.jpg[/image]

Chocolino -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (4/30/2009 2:43:04 AM)
June 16th, 1946 The German government tried to shield its population from the demoralizing news for as long as possible. But it seeped out eventually anyhow. Germans in Koenigsberg are under the jock of the Soviets. The first German city has fallen. In the West the collapse in central and southern France continues and we try to stop the US deluge at the Seine. [image]local://upfiles/31316/18A8089563464DC59AEE06F325978CD1.jpg[/image]

Chocolino -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (4/30/2009 2:59:43 AM)
June 24th, 1946 We relinquish most of France and hold on to the direct route into Germany. We will also try to hang on to Paris for as long as possible. We plan to defend Switzerland since it is ideal defense territory. The East Front has moved another 250km - 300km westwards and the Soviets are much too close to Danzig for comfort. Between Warsaw and Poznan, they manage already to establishg a beachhead at teh western side of our much touted Vistula defense line. [image]local://upfiles/31316/BBCAD8A744E14FCF8357E56674A7B2A6.jpg[/image]

Chocolino -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (4/30/2009 3:36:57 AM)
July 1st, 1946 We try to contain the constant Soviet breakthroughs in the East somehow. In France, the US has now filled the void we left in France and approached our new boundaries. Spanish troops shift from their coastal defense positions to the Pyrenees Mountains to slow down the fast advancing US troops once they reach that far south. Italian troops occupy Lausanne and Zurich. [image]local://upfiles/31316/C6865DEE97174A5F94ED98F2D6B090E5.jpg[/image]

Chocolino -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (4/30/2009 11:05:16 PM)
July 9th, 1946 Clutching on to the remaining VPs in Europe. Paris and its 5 VPs play a pivotal role in the outcome of the war especially since we expect to loose some VPs in the East as well in the next turns. [image]local://upfiles/31316/5FC2AC238EB547169AAD637DFF5F24C4.jpg[/image]

Chocolino -> RE: Crossroads: Axis Perspective (5/1/2009 12:25:02 AM)
July 16th, 1946 Still holding in west and east. But the VP in Warsaw is doomed. The defenders will not last long enough. No threats in the Med. We were (and still are) worried that the USSR will attempt a late strike at Istanbul to enter the defenseless Middle East and N. Africa. We had to transfer the few troops that were holding key targets there to Europe already. [image]local://upfiles/31316/7854D7CBC05C45CA9B6B4F7819FA29DF.jpg[/image]

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