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The Land -> RE: The NEW Official Strategic Command War in Europe ELO Tournament (2/23/2021 8:04:02 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Scottydawg
Game over Scottydawg (Axis) vs The Land (Allies); Axis concede February, 1946...this was a seven month slugfest (my 6th PBEM game started last July) in which a great deal was learned. Thank you Land for playing an excellent game!
Indeed - an epic game and thank you to Scottydawg for putting up with my very slow play rate!
This is roughly how it went:
Scotty went all-in on Russia, without even accepting the Afrika Corps decision (I believe). He left Greece to the Italians for a while, and I was able to hold up them up there for some time as well as inflicting very heavy losses on the Italian fleet in 1941. By early 1942 the British were firmly lodged in Sicily.
By early '43 I was very optimistic, as Moscow was under siege but had not fallen, while Stalingrad wasn't even threatened. However the Eastern Front then turned into a disaster area for me thanks to bombing out HQs, which in Eastern Russia causes whole sections of the front to lose supply and be wiped out.
In the Med with no Italian fleet I was able to start rolling amphibious invasions. The first one was a blunder with an attempted landing in Vichy France doing nothing except bring Vichy into the war. However I was more successful in the Adriatic and was able to force Italy's surrender with a corps and a special forces taking undefended Venice and doing an end run across Northern Italy. The surrender of Italian forces meant I was able to lodge Patton and the American Army in Albania and the British in Greece during summer 43.
In 1944 the Germans kept advancing on Kuybyshev, while the British and Americans focused on Southern Europe. I pulled off a parachute assault into southern Serbia and Romania which disintegrated the German front here - within 3-4 turns I took Von Rundstedt's HQ and destroyed most of his army group and took the capitals of Bulgaria and Romania, also bringing Turkey into the war. This finally stopped the German advance in the East and from here on it was a general offensive on all fronts.
It took until 1945 for the Allies to land in Western Europe, with a massive tank battle in eastern Holland being the last gasp of the German Army...
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