<r> France isn't a total disaster zone for Germany, especially when you consider the lack of Allied engineers in this theatre... but they have stripped Germany bare to do this, and I guess to an extent the Eastern Front.<br/> <br/> <IMG src="https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/upfiles/10259/F2520FD80...

<r> Which they are trying a bit in Bulgaria. Yugoslavia is a mess. The partisans in Greece was holding off the Italians somewhat (who felt compelled to retreat slightly given the possibilities of amphibious invasion behind them to capture Albania).<br/> <br/> But Gort is disorged and there are very ...

<r> Italy is set to become a backwater with those Germans dug in so tight on the Alps. ONly carpet bombing will shift that I think and the US bomber force has taken too many casualties for that.<br/> <br/> It's possible a surprise attack on Vichy would work. I wonder if there's anything the Axis can...

<r> Less dramatic in China, but the Chinese are the ones pushing / running out of steam, I think Japan can manage a counterattack though later in the turn, so they will try when the ARM is up.<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <IMG src="https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/upfiles/10259/3D38AFFA592D45B6B067B83A0...

<r> Looks like an O-chit well spent to me - there's basically not much of a front around Kursk at all... the pain isn't over yet either given the German units cut off by ZOC.<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <IMG src="https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/upfiles/10259/D9FFD0D57D87483F89E82F8390934DB7.jpg"><s>[i...

Elsewhere, the Americans march a div into Lae unopposed, which means another port/airfield. A P51D moves to Iwo Jima, a bit risky given the tenuousness of supply, but the supply is tenuous for Japan now too. The Marianas has quite a lot of US LBA covering it, so they gotta push.

<r> Real Bagration vibes this turn... <br/> <br/> The Germans need to go all the way back to the Dnieper I think.<br/> <br/> <IMG src="https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/upfiles/10259/92F1907D455B46F58116B0808BB0D6C4.jpg"><s>[img]</s><URL url="https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/upfiles/10259/92F1907...

<r> The Germans cut off by Cherbourg almost put up a good fight. It's not a guaranteed win anyway. But the US rolls well enough to smash them, so a few more German units go into the bag.<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <IMG src="https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/upfiles/10259/38378EEE94AA4A299D27886DE35B426...

<r> The US don't do that well near Paris. This is again because of air support, combined with a bad roll (but without the air support even the bad roll would've been better results). The cream of the German air force is in France, they should probably be sending it to the eastern front in truth give...

<r> Then is just a mighty mass of ground combat... which the Allies win almost everywhere. The Eastern Front is torn to pieces. There's even movement in Greece.<br/> <br/> Unfortunately my screenshots got scrubbed! The Allies rolled pretty well, everything above a 10, but most of their attacks were ...

<r> So, Allies go, everybody takes a land action.<br/> <br/> The Russians wanna smash through that thin line while the opportunity presents itself, so blow an O-chit, their last one, on Zhukov, who is centre-north, just SW of Moscow.<br/> <br/> The air action is busy, Chiang doesn't dare the Franks,...

<r> Meanwhile in China, the Japanese get their Franks and their ARM onto Chinese territory. As the Franks will completely dominate Chiang's lend lease I think that will help a lot even though the ground units are a bit one sided now in China's favour. And China has no counter to the ARM either.<br/>...

<r> Just generally an exceptionally thin front line in the east... Pskov is better, in fact German armour is building, but not enough to risk another attack this impulse I think.<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <IMG src="https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/upfiles/10259/67F99FC7D63446ACA60CB21B13765155.jpg"><...

<r> France being shored up...<br/> <br/> <IMG src="https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/upfiles/10259/683E6C71CBAA444AB1F6E1E29BBF5B1E.jpg"><s>[img]</s><URL url="https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/upfiles/10259/683E6C71CBAA444AB1F6E1E29BBF5B1E.jpg"><LINK_TEXT text="https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/u...

<r> Other games came into my life, specifically friends nagging me to play Overwatch, so there's been none of this for a while.<br/> <br/> But the intent was always to finish and I have some spare moments now, so here we go.<br/> <br/> Axis impulse #3, Jul/Aug 44.<br/> <br/> Germany takes a land, Ja...

<t> And finally all the US aircraft move up. The medium bombers in Italy, mostly unused, all relocate to France. Places like Trieste and the Alps seem a bit hard, to put it mildly, to get over. Better to push in France.<br/> <br/> And in the Pacific there's a general moving forward of air units the ...

<r> In the end the Allies do manage to push forward a bit. But are disrupted a bit. Kwajalein's guys don't matter as there's only one attack per naval turn after all, but France isn't going to instantly collapse it seems.<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <IMG src="https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/upfiles/10...

<r> There's a fairly brutal air battle over Occupied France as the US armour pushes eastwards and runs into crack German panzer troops... and an equally crack Luftwaffe, there's some fight being up alright.<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <IMG src="https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/upfiles/10259/E88D6D5DFE4...

<r> And a LOT of groudn attacks and air to air combat.<br/> <br/> These are just the bombers that got through and hit.<br/> <br/> The only results from the tactical bombing in the air were aborts, so it was quite bloodless in the air.<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <IMG src="https://www.matrixgames.com/foru...

<t> Some strategic bombing, Berlin, Prague, Nuremberg, Lille. Lille and Nuremberg are defended, the raid on Lille is escorted as well though. Matters nothing, lucky rolls mean two dead bombers. While the Allies roll a 2 on both strategic bombing rolls and achieve nothing as per usual. The survivors ...