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DQ2004 -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (12/17/2013 11:56:25 PM)

In the second round of air battles the Bf-110's fail to defend against the multitude of Allied aircraft.
The convoys are also quickly sent to the bottom. The Kriegsmarine will not be able to reinforce England, much less keep them in supply. The German fleet flees back to Brest.

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DQ2004 -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (12/17/2013 11:57:58 PM)

In the Red Sea the Italians finally have some air cover, although it can only get to the #2 box. Apologies again for the poor quality screenshots.

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DQ2004 -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (12/17/2013 11:59:39 PM)

The Italians again get surprise on the RN - the German Navy wishes that some of this luck would head their way.
Naturally the Italians choose a surface combat

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DQ2004 -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (12/18/2013 12:01:43 AM)

While the carriers flee, the Malaya shields them from the large Italian squadron. The outcome is inevitable, but HMS Malaya's heroic stand will not be forgotten.

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DQ2004 -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (12/18/2013 12:03:13 AM)

In Central Russia, the Soviets abandon their lines and head back to the next river defence line, and the Ural mountains.

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DQ2004 -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (12/18/2013 12:04:24 AM)

In Portsmouth, the British Army destroys the first of the out of supply units, re-taking Portsmouth

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DQ2004 -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (12/18/2013 12:06:04 AM)

OKH agrees that at the moment, an invasion of England is impossible in the face of Allied naval superiority. The 1st Infantry Corps is evacuated by the BV-222 wing.

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DQ2004 -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (12/18/2013 12:08:02 AM)

In Russia, the surrounded Russians corps near Penza are finally destroyed. Guderian attacks towards Perm, one of only four original Soviet factory cities left (the others are Tashkent, Smolensk and Novosibirsk). All must be taken to conquer the USSR.

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DQ2004 -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (12/18/2013 12:09:24 AM)

In Northern China, the Communists have moved forward, somewhat hastily it turns out. Terauchi punishes them, and counterattacks.

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DQ2004 -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (12/18/2013 12:10:50 AM)

Near Leningrad, Manstein proves the value of divisions. They take the losses after a bloody assault on the forces in the swamp.

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DQ2004 -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (12/18/2013 12:12:01 AM)

Rommel shows when it is useful to convert shatter results into a retreat. Shattered units will reappear as reinforcements next turn. Units forced to retreat that cannot, are destroyed instead.

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DQ2004 -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (12/18/2013 12:12:59 AM)

Guderian destroys a motorized army near Perm.

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DQ2004 -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (12/18/2013 12:14:28 AM)

The Russians counterattack. And again have dreadful luck, achieving nothing but the destruction of one of their own units, and risking five other armies.

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DQ2004 -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (12/18/2013 12:15:45 AM)

Near Leningrad, the swamps are finally cleared, but not for free.

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DQ2004 -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (12/18/2013 12:17:26 AM)

The turn ends.
Somewhere during that turn I forgot to mention that Vichy France was collapsed, and of course Yugoslavia was aligned by Germany. Many of the French ships were scuttled in Toulon harbour.
Here are the destroyed units for the May/Jun 1942 turn.

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DQ2004 -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (12/18/2013 12:18:58 AM)

Here are some of the reinforcements due to arrive in Jul/Aug 1942

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DQ2004 -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (12/18/2013 12:19:52 AM)

Here is global control at the start of Jul/Aug 1942

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DQ2004 -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (12/18/2013 12:21:49 AM)

Here are the ships sunk up to this point. I have whited out those that were scrapped at the beginning.
As I mentioned before, I scrap destroyed warships, rather than add them back to the force pools.

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Majorball68 -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (12/18/2013 1:46:45 AM)

Love your dum counterattacks in Russia. Attacking for the purpose of what? Dis organizing your own armies? Even if you win an attack you got nothing to exploit the possible victory. Better to keep your troops organized and use defensive terrain. Anyway its your AAR[:)]



yvesp -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (12/18/2013 8:15:14 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: DQ2004

Rommel shows when it is useful to convert shatter results into a retreat. Shattered units will reappear as reinforcements next turn. Units forced to retreat that cannot, are destroyed instead.


If the result includes an ‘S’ (shatter) or a ‘B’ (breakthrough), put each
surviving defending land unit on the production circle if it could have
retreated. These units will arrive as reinforcements next turn. Destroy
any units that could not have retreated.



Neilster -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (12/18/2013 11:17:50 AM)

Rather than using Paint, there are several good freeware graphics packages that are good. I happen to like paint.NET

http://www.getpaint.net/

It's excellent for processing photos and other images too.

Cheers, Neilster



DQ2004 -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (1/9/2014 7:55:36 AM)

Apologies for the long delay. Christmas and New Year and work have intervened massively in my time available both to play and to post screenshots. So I'll try to catch up, I've been playing the game rather than posting, so there's a bit of a backlog, and I may forget stuff that happened, so I'm sorry if some things don't make much sense.

So where were we? The beginning of Jul/Aug 1942.
The last Russian attack was indeed a pretty dumb attack. Fortunately for them the turn ended AND the Allies got the initiative. Naturally, the Soviets headed for the hills

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DQ2004 -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (1/9/2014 7:57:14 AM)

The Western Allies put to sea in their first impulse, and in their first impulse the Japanese and Italians also sent their fleets into the various sea zones. Disturbingly for the Allies, the Japanese had arrived in the Arabian Sea.

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DQ2004 -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (1/9/2014 7:58:57 AM)

The result was not inevitable, but once the Japanese had found their enemy, the outcome was obvious

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DQ2004 -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (1/9/2014 8:00:29 AM)

In the Red Sea, the British Swordfish torpedo bombers got one last kick in before they had to flee the area

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DQ2004 -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (1/9/2014 8:01:43 AM)

In the Bay of Bengal, the Brewster Buffaloes valiantly attempted to defend the Commonwealth supply lines, but failed.

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DQ2004 -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (1/9/2014 8:03:22 AM)

Two large fleets lined up in the Solomons sea area, but failed to find one another.

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DQ2004 -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (1/9/2014 8:04:36 AM)

Despite being somewhat outnumbered, the Condor bombers surprised the Royal Navy in the Bay of Biscay.

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DQ2004 -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (1/9/2014 8:07:45 AM)

On this occasion I chose to try to hit the battleship first instead of the convoys...
...with just a 20% chance the HMS Rodney was somewhat unlucky

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DQ2004 -> RE: DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt" (1/9/2014 8:09:11 AM)

The RAF was not much luckier in attempting to strike back in the next impulse, but they did destroy the defending BF-110C's

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