GrumpyMel
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November 22nd, 1940 The weather holds fair. A good break for us as it means less production devoted to supplies to feed our forces and more on producing combat units for our offensive against Russia in the Spring. Already we have sufficient forces stationed at the border to cow Russia until we are ready to attack. However I am carefull not to go over the 1500 power point limit that will wake them before Feb. I want the Soviets to have as little preperation as possible. I have saved sufficient Political Points to purchase Armor II tech this turn. This will proove invaluable in upgrading my mechanized forces for the coming campaign. The West remains relatively quiet save for some futile defensive moves in Greece and sinking one of my U-boats in the Atlantic. I am doing a reasonable amount of damage to his supplies despite the scant forces I have commited there. Most of my submarines are in the Med. now, blockading Greece. I have quite a reasonable naval presence there now. Still no air activity from the West. I must confess, this has me a bit perplexed. I would have thought my opponent would have attempted some deep bombing raids to damage my production capacity but so far nothing since I turned back his raid on Amsterdam. This has allowed me to produce at full capacity and to nearly complete my Flak net. It is possible my opponent fears my fighter defences and is waiting until they are involved in Russia to unleash his bombers. It may also be that he hasn't invested in a bomber fleet and is going some other route, although so far he has offered no clue as to what that might be. However, I can't assume that to be the case, and it's only prudent for me to continue building my air defence grid. I haven't needed to devote excessive resources to it so far, and at the very least I'll have some protection for my major production centers. Needless to say, I await the Spring and Summer with interest. I can't imagine he'll let them pass without doing something to try to dilute a bit of pressure from Russia, the question is what? If it's not an air campaign... will he try an early invasion? I'll have to be prepared for the possibility at least. 41 should be an interesting year. Meanwhile, back to the present. My forces in Greece continue to disect the Greek Army. The enemy has made no attempt to reinforce or withdraw his Greek forces. Instead he moved them to block the route to Athens as best he could. Without support, this effort was futile, however as 5th and 6th Army tore through the blocking forces with the aid of air, artillery and naval gunfire. The Regia Marina offered a particularly effective bombardment of one position, moving through the Corinth straights which I had just captured. Nothing stands between me and Athens now and the Greek HQ stationed there is entirely insufficient to defend it . Pictured are my operations in Greece.
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