Thanks for all your kind comments and for reading along - it was a long game (started back in December) - but very enjoyable.

<r> 9-8-44<br/>
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The noose was tightened further.<br/>
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9-22-44<br/>
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The last pictures (below) that German war correspondents could take from the conflict. Afterwards all order broke down.<br/>
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10-6-44<br/>
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The Allies were 2 hexes from Berlin - only some ...

<r> 8-25-44<br/>
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It is getting crowded in Germany. The Soviets are at the river Oder, the German division in the Vosges unsurprisingly turned out to be insufficient to hold the Allies back and in Nuremberg even HQ units have to do defensive duty.<br/>
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A very forward American unit got ...

<r> 8-11-44<br/>
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There are very few German units remaining that fight outside of Germany proper. Just a few stragglers in Poland, some cut-off and lost units in the Carpathian mountains and our intrepid division holding all of the Vosges front by itself in south-eastern France. Essen and the ...

<r> 7-28-44<br/>
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The Canadians have already occupied Vienna. All goes now very rapidly.<br/>
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The Soviets breached our lines again and the remaining Axis forces fall back onto Berlin in a concentric fashion as best as they can manage.<br/>
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<r> 7-28-44<br/>
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Budapest and Sofia have been taken by the Allies. The good and bad news is that all of the Axis remaining territory fits now on a just two screen shots (given the upload size limit).<br/>
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The British have crossed the Rhine river and taken Cologne. A new Allied ...

<r> 7-14-44<br/>
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The Allies have by now made their way across most of the Austrian Alps and Canadian units are at the gates of an undefended Vienna. Here at the Danube they meet the Russians. Budapest and Sofia still have an Axis garrison - they were bypassed for now.<br/>
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<r> 7-14-44<br/>
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If the Allies have an internal competition on who is first in Berlin then the western Allies are a very close second at this time. But the Axis west front has gaping holes in the north and especially in the south where a single division is assigned the whole Vosges front ...

<r> 7-14-44<br/>
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The German East Front looks almost orderly. The aim is holding out for as long as they can. But we know that the German lines are not unimpregnable.<br/>
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<r> 6-30-44<br/>
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With Bukarest, Romania has fallen. Some German stragglers try to make it back to Hungary. But chances are that they will be caught up in a flood of red units that also poor into Hungary from the east. Key junctions in Hungary are already controlled by advanced Russian units ...

<r> 6-30-44<br/>
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The fresh landings in the Netherlands make our Seine defense line obsolete and we decide to pull everything back to the Belgian border. Except for some Hungarian road blocks in Paris and Le Havre this means letting the Allies run wild in France.<br/>
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<r> 6-30-44<br/>
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The Allies are eager to finish the war and add more pressure. With support from paratroopers they land in Belgium and Holland - quite Market-Garden style. They overrun the division sized port garrisons easily and this throws the already collapsing Axis defense efforts into ...

<r> 6-16-44<br/>
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The Russians did almost cut off Königsberg this week. Most units in the pocket escaped to the west. The unit stranded in the city itself can either defend or ship out next turn.<br/>
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The German units at the East Front look healthy - but it appears that the Russians ...

<r> 6-16-44<br/>
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The Soviets help themselves to Romanian oil and the German defenders have already departed in direction Budapest blocking this railway for the Russians. Belgrade is the first of the southern minor capitals that falls under the Allied yoke.<br/>
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<r> 6-16-44<br/>
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The Allied units in the Austrian - Hungarian front don't look that formidable. But this is deceiving - they have a huge amount of air power available (located just south of the screenshot in Italy mainly) and can break any Axis resistance at will.<br/>
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<r> 6-16-44<br/>
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The Allies expand out of their beach head in the Bretagne and close in on our Seine line. In southern France the Allies busy themselves with investing Marseilles which is still in Axis hands. There are surprisingly few British troops moving into France from Italy. Where are ...

<r> 6-2-44<br/>
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In the Ukraine the retreating Germans desperately refuse to be encircled and can barely keep a small gap open through which truck based supply reaches the endangered units.<br/>
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While we have been frugal with truck supply earlier in the game we find ourselves now with ...

<r> 6-2-44<br/>
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Belgrade, Sofia and Bukarest are still in Axis hands - this let's our information ministry claim undisputed Axis control in these countries. Local field commanders know better ....<br/>
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We used the Black Sea port garrisons of Romania and Bulgaria elsewhere now - no ...

<r> 6-2-44<br/>
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The Allies take Trieste and Zagreb - and more importantly link up their units in Yugoslavia with those in Italy. At least they did not move north much ....<br/>
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<r> 6-2-44<br/>
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We build a rather weak new line along the Seine to prevent the Allies to just waltz from the Bretagne right into Paris. Southern France is left to its own devices - just some garrison units remain in and around Marseilles. But the British are not quick in persueing us there ...