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keith63 -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/3/2017 4:16:36 PM)

Here is a shot of the North. Doing a bit better up here.

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keith63 -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/3/2017 4:19:00 PM)

Here is the Leningrad area and the pesky Finns.

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professorhex -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/5/2017 8:43:07 PM)

AXIS #3 SEPT/OCT 1941

Axis lost the initiative despite a re roll.

Little to report as the Allies remain on the defensive.

Germany land, Italy and Japan combined.

An Italian sub patrols Cape Verde, but doesn't search. The Japanese move troops by sea.

Italian fighters take to the skies above the Eastern Med. (This shot after Italy's land moves; a supply unit completes its long march from the Horn of Africa towards Balbo's HQ in Egypt, trailed by the parched, exhausted 11th Infantry Division.)





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professorhex -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/5/2017 8:45:39 PM)

Residents of Chengtu receive a visit from the Japanese Nells. This unit has inflicted significant economic damage on China during the first two years of war.

The Emperor sends blossoms and awards. Why have we not built more, he demands.



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professorhex -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/5/2017 8:48:40 PM)

Air combat as the Luftwaffe send a Stuka to ground strike Zhukov's HQ. The intercepting, and obsolete, Soviet fighters are shot down. But both this and another German ground strike, by Dorniers against the isolated Red Army column in the Nikolaev pocket, completely miss.



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professorhex -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/5/2017 8:51:26 PM)

In compensation, Japanese artillery gets lucky against isolated Chinese Nationalists with questionable loyalty to the Kuomintang. They have been helping the communists for many months. Now, not-so-useful idiots. As Lenin might say.



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professorhex -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/5/2017 8:53:52 PM)

Terauchi's Army Group prevail in the ensuing attack, and at last occupy the heights above Sian. Or some of them.



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professorhex -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/5/2017 8:55:27 PM)

Antipartisan operation in Normandy is smoothly executed.

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professorhex -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/5/2017 9:00:22 PM)

18 was maybe wasted there but the Germans roll well in a crucial, slightly risky, blitz against Zhukov's HQ (and an expensive Engineer Division) as the Battle for Kiev and the wider Ukraine develops. The Germans have deployed most of their best units, and their largest army, to this southern front in the east.

This is where the available resources are. The breadbasket of Russia.



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professorhex -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/5/2017 9:01:56 PM)

The Baltic area has been quiet, as it rains. The Germans occupy Latvia.



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professorhex -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/5/2017 9:04:36 PM)

But perhaps the conquest of her homeland has had the desired salutary effect on the wailing Hungarian woman at the Berghof?

The weather improves as the impulse ends. The Germans rebase a fighter and a Stuka to their spearhead in Ukraine.



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professorhex -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/5/2017 9:05:41 PM)

Ukraine, end of Axis #3 Sept/Oct 1941.

The South Dobruja question perhaps slowed down Barbarossa (I wanted Spain and Gibraltar but didn't get the weather) but free use of the Rumanian Army is an advantage now. Units aren't great, but neither are the Bulgarian and Hungarian units we have foregone. They can all roam in the former territories of USSR, mopping up those partisans.



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professorhex -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/6/2017 6:24:39 PM)

AXIS #6 SEPT/OCT 41

More backpedalling from the Allies.

Germany and Japan land, Italy combined.

The RN fleet in E Med is in a low box, an opportunity to reinforce North Africa. The Italians send out their fleet, and three bombers.

Neither side searches, a Mot Div and the Roma Militia are delivered safely to Bardia.

Elsewhere, a lone Italian sub found nothing in Cape Verde, and a Japanese bomber hit nothing important in a raid on Kweiyang.



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professorhex -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/6/2017 6:26:39 PM)

German and Rumanian planes ground strike the Nikolayev pocket. The Romanians hit the Soviet Mechanised Corps.



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professorhex -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/6/2017 6:28:42 PM)

Air combat in northern Latvia as the Reds intercept Luftwaffe ground support for a blitz into Estonia.

The bombers both get through, the fighters survive. The Finns want to dog fight but the Reds abort.



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professorhex -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/6/2017 6:30:47 PM)

In the first of three German blitzes in the East, Guderian's armoured and mechanised units break through into Latvia and Lake Peipus.



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professorhex -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/6/2017 6:32:19 PM)

Rommel gets a breakthrough result SE of Kiev, just, but can't get his armour across the Dneiper organised.

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professorhex -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/6/2017 6:34:20 PM)

The Reds in the Nikolayev pocket resist bravely. The Germans lose a mot div and the Rumanians are tied down mopping up the area for some time. But the Soviet units are both destroyed as they cannot retreat.



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professorhex -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/6/2017 6:35:41 PM)

Terauchi needed a better roll to take Sian in a hopeful assault. Had it worked, lots of isolated communists.

But the weather stays fine at the end of the impulse, roll 1.



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professorhex -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/6/2017 10:30:11 PM)

AXIS #8 SEPT/OCT 1941

There is a sea battle in the E Med as the RN rolls 2, 8. Only one round. CL Taranto and HMS Coventry are sunk as the Allies opt for surface combat. The Italians abort an empty TRS to safety and the damaged BB Giulio Cesare.

On land, the Allies are in retreat on almost every front. Kiev, Kweilin, and Alxandria are vacated.

Three land actions.

Alexandria is hailed as a great victory in Italy. They were prepared to fight for it, but lack the advance strength just yet to press on across the Nile delta.

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professorhex -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/6/2017 10:32:48 PM)

First of the German blitzes is in the Dneiper bend. Manstein later reorganises the Germans as the Reds retreat across the river.



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professorhex -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/6/2017 10:33:55 PM)

In the north, Koniev's HQ is destroyed, along with a used I16.



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professorhex -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/6/2017 10:34:57 PM)

Rundstedt breaks through across the Dneiper in north Ukraine.



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professorhex -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/6/2017 10:36:37 PM)

Rommel has let armoured units loose across the Dneiper in the south.



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professorhex -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/6/2017 10:38:34 PM)

In South China, Japanese militias attack the Nationalists' southern flank.



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professorhex -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/6/2017 10:39:29 PM)

The route to Leningrad is open.



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professorhex -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/6/2017 10:40:42 PM)

Looks good for the Germans in Ukraine.

Turn continues on a 6, and the fine weather on a 2.



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professorhex -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/7/2017 10:14:56 AM)

Turn ends on a 3 as all but the USSR pass.

Destroyed Pool Sept/Oct 1941



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professorhex -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/7/2017 10:15:40 AM)

New Units eot Sept/Oct 1941



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rkr1958 -> RE: New AAR Keith Vs Ian (4/8/2017 6:19:06 PM)

Entertaining AAR! Most impressive progress by the axis. While I do admire what the axis is accomplishing, I can certainly empathize with the allied player as I'm getting a similar beat down at the hands of Pat in our AAR. [:(]



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