One attack on one hex of Sicily but nothing came of it. Weather made it an act of futility for Allies so stopped after one round. Below is picture of ground movement.

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Next week (November 13, 1943) Europe will be under heavy rain and Mediterranean will be rain ...

this will be short due to weather.

Total air losses are: 199 Axis and 360 Allies. Luftwaffe advantage of 161.

Below is picture of sea and ground around Sicily. Takeaway is that Luftwaffe achieved little despite Allies resting all Mediterranean aircraft. Heavy rain neutralizes so much in air ...

November 6, 1943
Victory points: Turn 28, game 258
Amphibious losses: 78
Weather: (Europe, rain) (Mediterranean, Heavy rain)

Axis air phase losses: 105 Luftwaffe and 79 Allies

Weather makes all missions useless in Mediterranean. Allies will conduct strategic bombing missions over Europe.

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German Rail flak is unique with administrative points. As long as you have one unused administrative point, all rail flak can be shipped anywhere for no cost.

All flak for Axis and Allies in reserve pool, (meaning unassigned) can be attached to any unit for no administrative point. In the same pool ...

Air transport addendum. Forgot to mention an important detail in the previous post over air transport logistics. The following I do out of habit so forgot to include this.

As Allies and as Germany I usually do not have any administration points left after each turn so use up air transport logistics ...

I wonder if this has happened to anyone else playing a multiplayer game:

I was processing turn 18 last night while also adding pictures for AAR and then doing the written portion of AAR. This game is live in a sense, because AAR is being made during turn or shorty after. Hence, careful not to ...

Every turn Germany and Allies are using air transport logistics. That means, supplies for front units. Much can be brought in if an airbase is near and if not, a temporary base is set up. The second way is limited and never shows on map. For game purpose, never really existed. I will stop mentioning ...

One hex had been abandoned by Axis so of course Allies took it.

There were two hexes along northern coast of Sicily that were attacked. Ground assault aircraft was involved along with reserve units. Units in other hexes switched in to fight too. I did not use naval bombardment this round.

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Total losses: Axis 292, Allies 422.
Luftwaffe + 130.

Following is Allied naval bubble. Still good despite rain.
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Next three pictures are of southern Italy from Allied reconnaissance. Order is from south (Sicily) to north.

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I had a typo when writing about the upcoming invasion of southern Italy. I put Sicily instead but have since corrected it. Oops. a final quick thought on this. This invasion will be a duplicate of the Sicilian invasion that starts the campaign. What I mean by that is, I have six Task Forces that are ...

October 30, 1943
Victory Points: Turn 27, Game 230.
Amphibious loss total: 75
Weather: Europe Rain, Mediterranean Rain.
Axis air phase losses: 145 Luftwaffe, 49 Allies

I have adopted the format above, think it makes turns easy to follow.

Weather in game must have delayed reports of Axis turn ...

Topic of air superiority vs unassigned:

Unassigned interceptors work well for Germany in interdicting strategic bombing missions. An advantage with unassigned is that aircraft will attack enemy aircraft nearby in any direction, so not restrained with a specific area, as is the case with air ...

Metalist is good in defense line tactics but also excels in surprise, strong, retaliatory, attacks. Look at the how Axis fight to stay on Sicily despite substantial risk. Allies landed on Italy to cause surrender. Mission success but French regiment was immediately destroyed. A few weeks later two ...

The 1 British Airborne Division will need to get reconstituted. This happens often. New slogan for Allied air assault (If you have the will, we have an opening). Metalist loves to eliminate them. Ha.

Germany can also launch airborne so it is wise for Allies to keep a garrison unit on rear ports and ...

Losses for both phases are: Axis 321 and Allies 405. A victory of 84 for Luftwaffe. The rain has reduced what each side can accomplish in the air. Naval control is reduced for both sides so did not show it. It is near parity with a slight edge for Allies. The biggest surprise was that Allied ground ...

October 23, 1943:

Victory point for turn are 15 and game is 203.
Amphibious loss accumulation is 73.
Weather over Europe is rain so air missions will resume. Rain over Mediterranean so air missions will continue.

Axis air phase losses are 159 for Luftwaffe and 75 for Allies.
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I have not said much about the use of ground attack and ground support usage in Metalist and Kent challenge. I suppose I should clarify each. Hope I am not reversing these two. Ha.

Ground attack: This mission is attacking enemy ground units, air bases, and logistic sites. This happens on friendly ...

Final results for air were 248 losses for Axis and 181 for Allies. Numbers are high considering no missions flew over Europe. first picture shows German garrison of Mainland Italy.

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I will first show picture of Sicilian combat and then talk about it.

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October 16, 1943:
Heavy rain in Europe so continued with rest. After each turn I am now placing single mission air on rest, thanks to Metalist finding this benefit. Mediterranean is clear so missions are fine.

Amphibious losses are 68.
Victory points for week are 33 and game total 188.
Axis air ...

I was going to clarify some aspects of a ferry crossing in WitW but after a test I see it would be meaningless. Simply put, nothing matters!

To begin with, there is a difference between port and ferry. Hexes have one, the other, or both. Bombing a port does not affect a ferry and bombing a ferry ...