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larryfulkerson -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/20/2014 11:59:23 AM)

T49's strategic situation. Progress is being made on the connection operation but there's more to go yet. The East side is moving
again. I've started a rail from Anzio to Rome......it's about 4 hexes long so far. Last turn I saw a bunch of Germans moving to the north
from the Rome area. I don't know where they were going but as far as I'm concerned they left the scene of the crime.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/20/2014 12:02:58 PM)

And as to the connection operation.........here's the gap that needs to be bridged yet. I'm not sure I brought enough troops to do the job.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/20/2014 12:07:02 PM)

The Foggia area hasn't changed much. Nobody has the supply to move or attack. The rail is being built in this direction but it's not there
yet.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/20/2014 12:15:56 PM)

Here's what Rome looks like now. Most of the Germans that were pressuring me have driven off to the north for some reason. So I'm
getting reorganized and sorting units out.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/20/2014 1:07:02 PM)

OK. There's a group of five German units that are between the Rome area LOC and the Salerno area LOC and I can't connect the
two areas unless and until I get rid of those German units. I'm going to probably have to bring in some more troops to do that.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/20/2014 1:18:49 PM)

I don't remember ever seeing a unit that had 0% supply before. But here's one. I move it and it goes to 1% supply. Strange.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/20/2014 2:12:10 PM)

Here's the situation in T51. The East side is moving again. The West side is almost linked together and we're pressing north and east
and it's looking pretty good so far.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/20/2014 3:06:22 PM)

Here's the Napoli area in T53. I'm reducing the roadblock so that the separate areas will be connected properly. I've got a rail line all the
way from Reggio to Salerno and from Anzio to Rome and I'm hoping that eventually I can get the two rails connected. I'll dedicate one of
the engineers to work on it. He'll be there for the rest of the game probably.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/20/2014 6:11:44 PM)

Here's Rome in T53. I'm in mop up mode and I've got the Free French lined up at the edge of the forest heading east clearing hexes as
they go. It's a huge forested area that needs to be cleared but it's slow and tedious and has to be done. I was thinking of clearing the
roads and letting it go at that but thought better of it.

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Petey -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/20/2014 10:30:55 PM)

Wow, Rome at turn 53.

I'm out of pocket for a few days. Will post a picture when I capture Naples.



larryfulkerson -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/20/2014 10:33:33 PM)

This is the T55 front lines. I'm moving in two directions on the Germans in the middle. I suspect that they are the remnants of the
Gustav Line and I'm in a massive mop up operation in the middle. The West side is zooming north and the East side is clearing the
road as they zoom north. So far the rail from Anzio is already past Rome and headed North.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/20/2014 10:34:50 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Petey
Wow, Rome at turn 53.

I'm out of pocket for a few days. Will post a picture when I capture Naples.

Sounds good. I await the posting of your picture kind sir.



larryfulkerson -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/20/2014 11:41:41 PM)

Here's the minor war going on in T56 in the middle. I'm slowly gaining the upper hand. It's slow going because of the lack of supply.
I would build a rail to these folks but the war will be over before the rail gets close. I guess we're in no hurry.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/21/2014 12:56:25 AM)

Here's the front lines in T57. I'm at the end of my rope on the West side. Not enough units to protect the recon units so I'm staying put
until I can get some more boots on the ground. Five or six turns ago I thought there weren't enough units in the middle and started
moving them there and now it's starting to look absolutely crowded. So I'm going to start sending units to Rome and then NW along the
coast.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/21/2014 1:16:15 AM)

Here's how the air war is going in T58. I don't know what happened to the Axis air force. It's retreated to the far north I guess. Either
that or I shot them down and I didn't see enough fur balls for that to have happened. There were about three instances where I caused
an Axis squadron to evaporate from my arty strikes but I'm pretty sure that the Axis has more than just those three squadrons. That's
why it's a mystery. The enemy INT strikes are much less and I hardly ever see any Axis planes listed in the equipment of the attacker
or defender in combat(s).


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larryfulkerson -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/21/2014 1:24:38 AM)

This is a view from T58 of the epic struggle in the middle. I've finally cut them off from supply and so it's just a matter of time before they
all surrender. Or get killed. There's a giant POW camp in Texas somewhere that will hold all these guys and more.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/21/2014 2:41:38 AM)

I have run into only rearguards in the walk to the north on the West side. I'm comfortable running operations there with a skelaton staff
and very few troops too. I really need two more divisions to lurk here as a reserve if I'm going to try something like this. As it is I have
no reserve and that's dangerous.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/21/2014 2:45:23 AM)

The front lines in T59:

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/21/2014 7:19:12 AM)

Here's the T60 front lines. See the difference from last turn? Two of the enemy units moved 1 hex from one picture to the next.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/21/2014 7:22:08 AM)

A little off topic but: I tried to load FITE2 just now and got an error message that said I was using
the wrong equipment file even though everything is perfectly right ( file names, etc. ) and to top it off
after you click that message away the program tries to load the scenario and gets into a seeming
loop or something and goes unresponsive. I gave it two full minutes and nothing gives. I had to use
task manager to kill it. Anybody else have something happen like that?



larryfulkerson -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/21/2014 8:36:30 AM)

Here's the East side in T61. I'm running into a lot of these rearguards and it's not trivial to run them over.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/21/2014 8:42:52 AM)

Here's the West side in T61. There's not much in the way of Germans so far. I keep running into singletons and couples. Never a
gaggle. So far.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/21/2014 8:57:57 AM)

Here's the front lines in T62. The mop up operation in the middle is in the stage where there's a lot of troops that are unemployed and
can be sent to the NW to join the crawl to the north up the coast. The biggest hangup is the supply level and the RR engineers can't
work any harder. The rest of this game will probably be boring in comparison w/ what's happened so far because there will be no more
invasions, and no more paratroops dropped anywhere. It's still playable however.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/21/2014 9:05:59 AM)

Here's a close up of the action in the middle. As you can see there's only remnants left. I haven't dispatched these guys until now
because I have to "save up" supply for the attack. And it's the weakest attacking unit that everybody is waiting on. Usually every other
second turn is adequate. The units receive about 3 pounds of supply every turn. Or 3 tons of supply. Or 3 points of supply.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/21/2014 9:53:21 AM)

Here's the priority rails leading out of Rome. I've got Anzio connected to Rome and then there's three branches and the one leading
to the east is headed to the East side and the one leading NW is following the coastal road and the one going north is going north and
that's all I need from it at this time. I'm not sure if I'll continue that one or not. Let me review the supply levels after about 20 turns have
passed and evaluate the need(s) of the separate rail system again.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/21/2014 10:04:13 AM)

Here's the front lines in T63. The lines in the middle are units on the road headed NW. I'm almost done w/ mop up in the middle and
other than that there's only several separate action sites active. Everybody else is headed north. I'm moving the engineers that were
working on the rail on the Taranto to Foggia route to the Rome headed east route to get some supply to the East side more quickly.
The Taranto to Foggia route is a bit further than the one from Rome and besides the one from Rome is the only one that continues
north along the East edge coastal road. It's a no-brainer.

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Petey -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/21/2014 4:38:51 PM)

How important is it to clear Sardinia, Corsica and Elba?




larryfulkerson -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/21/2014 4:44:35 PM)

I guess Steve would be the guy who knows but my suspescion is that we can ignore those places completely. On the other
hand I've found and killed a Axis units on at least one of those islands ( I don't remember which Sardinia or Corsica ).



sPzAbt653 -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/21/2014 5:29:36 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: Petey

How important is it to clear Sardinia, Corsica and Elba?




From the briefing:

Essentially, the Allies win by occupying most of Italy, Brenner Pass, and the islands of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica at the end of the game.

I don't know how important the islands are, but there are some victory points there. Elba I kind of added in myself, and its not important, just historical. Also, the airbases on the islands come in handy at times.



larryfulkerson -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/21/2014 8:46:02 PM)

Here's the T64 front lines. I've got that group that was fighting in the middle streaming to Rome. After a little rest they should be good to
thrust back into the battle. So I guess the rest of this game will be the Allies finding German strongpoints and reducing them as we
crawl northward.

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