The PO charging forward with zero regards for possible envelopments is a constant in almost every scenario I have played. Big enemy units plow through the first line, gets bogged down and encircle, then destroyed.

How is the Finnish front?

Looks like the Axis is done, aside from not getting their objectives back it seems their entire line is quite shaky now.

I'm not gonna believe a novelist over an historian with access to the British Intelligence's debriefing of the scientist employed by the Nazis to develop their chemical weapons.

That Turn36 counterattack around Benghazi was a baffling decision: the Axis could have just held ground and forced you to a longer and more costly battle instead of sallying forth from prepared position just to be encircled and destroyed easily...

About the recent breakthrough in the dunes, are you ...

Interesting conclusion on the two-phased attack.

Gas weren't effective enough to justify investing a lot in them, especially with WW2 lacking the prolonged static stalemates that made gas viable as a weapon. The Germans threw everything they had against the Soviets and Allies as the war went on, if gas was seen as effective they would have ...

Always good stuff.

As soon as the UK decided to not give up in 1940 and the Soviets decided not to give up in 1941, Germany had lost its only hopes. They couldn't invade the UK in any way whatsoever, they hit the Soviets at their lowest and still didn't win so they had no hope to win after that.

All every other ...

I walked away for a bit - currently on turn 14. Scrapping the barrel to find a formation(s) to defend Rzhev. I think I can paste together enough of the 4A and 10A as they rebuild from scratch, and I have the 52A assembling just to the east. But they are all three skeletons right now.

The ...

That's a very favorable loss exchange for the Warsaw Pact. What's your plan? Will you swing the 3rd Shock Army north to encircle the NATO units at Bremen or will you drive straight for Dortmund? Maybe pushing the 20th Guards Army through the breach?

Any update? I'm on turn 12 as the Soviets - end of July '41. I break my turns into 2 steps; Disembark/move reinforcements/move rear areas, then the front line actions. Almost always with a day or two between steps.

Here's the front;
Early August 41.jpg

Here's the crisis;
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How ...

Keeping that extended defensive line east of Tobruk was a strange choice: he should have shortened and deepened the line closer to the city when you started pounding the western side.

The loss of the fleet has no doubt thrown a big wrench into the siege, but I'm still pretty impressed by the Italian resistance. Bardia too: cut off and with no supplies, they are holding off a very powerful force.

I love the commentary on the AAR, they reveal so much about the scenario and the commanders' thinking.

Man, those defenders aren't giving up easily at all.

There is a lot of still cut off italian units east of Tobruk, are they being supplied from some minor port?

Hey there StuccoFresco dude. I decided to produce a python tool for us to use to change the colors of our units by producing a new *.COL file for any scenario desired and hence now I've got too much on my plate to continue this contest. So this AAR will stop here. Sorry if you wanted more. I'm ...

It's still T4 round 1 and this is what it looks like just before I execute the first combat phase. The 15th PzGren Div has broken through my lines and threatens Gela . I've put together a ramshackle group of troops to stop him from going any further and I anticipate a major problem getting rid of ...

Interesting conclusions!

It's definitely hopeless for Turkey as long as their navy is essentially cannon fodder for Greek submarines. The absolute freedom of movement over sea prevents Turkey from reinforcing Cyprus and allows Greece to redeploy all its garrisons to the front as well as giving it the possibility of hitting ...