Defending Greater Germania 1942 - Includes combined WitW and WitE2 AARs

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Eastern Front
Situation Report Jan 14th 1943 Turn 9
Army Group B / Don

Soviet forces begin the push through the undefended areas of the line, Italian and Romanian troops are overwhelmed, however The Hungarian Army holds firm,I have rushed anything I could there to plug the gap but there are just to many of the enemy to stop.
More Red Army troops are moving up to the line, I have nothing left, The Italian Army is withdrawing more men each week, the Romanian Divisions are virtually shadows of the former selves.

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A breakthrough by Soviet Armour is contained by shattered Romanian Cav units while a German Division moves to block any other infiltrators,while this is happening 6th Armee falls back covered by 4th Pz Armee, Red Army troops have more or less reached the right flank so I now will be attacked on 3 sides adding to the already critical problems both Armee's are facing.despite the bad weather the open ground is ideal for Soviet mobile forces to punch through and move behind my forces,cant really put a static defence, the enemy has way to many troops.

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Eastern Front
Situation Report Jan 14th 1943 Turn 9
Army Group A

1st Pz Armee position is no better than 6th Armee as the troops redeploy back towards The Kuban River, reports are received that advance spearheads are at the outskirts of Petrovskoe.
The Red Army launches a number of attacks but they are held by determined resistance, but the enemies sheer wait of numbers will eventually be to much.

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On the Black Sea front 17th Armee continues taking ground including important airfields disrupting enemy activity, still i have made a decision to redeploy a number of the troops North to cover the Northern flank of 1st Pz Armee.
I deem this to be a high priority if I am to keep 1st Pz a functioning fighting force.

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Eastern Front
Situation Report Jan 14th Turn 9
Stats Report

Enemy Ground losses continue to mount as now nearly 3 quarters of a million Soviet men at arms become POW's, AFV losses are not as high this week, while we ourselves lost quite a huge amount of field artillery pieces.Our manpower losses this week are quite high, while we did mange to keep our own AFV losses below 100.

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The war in the sky rages and while the enemy again suffered greater numbers we can match there pace of replacement aircraft.

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Truck repairs are still to high and manpower replacements still don't seem to be able to match our losses in the field.

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The Red Army is still hovering around the 6 million mark with over 100 thousand artillery and over 8000 AFV, not a good picture to look at.

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Eastern Front
Situation Report Jan 14th 1943 Turn 9
Stats Report

Our supply situation is not dire at this time despite the Stalingrad crisis and the bad shape Army Group Centre is in. Even 1st Pz Armee's supply situation is quite good, a good sign.

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The weather is not abating with blizzards still across most of Northern Russia.

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North Africa
Situation Report Jan 19th 1943 Turn 11
Libya

Stalemate In Libya as Montgomery's armour again fails to breach The El Agheila Line, The New Zealanders also remain trapped with supplies dwindling and no support from the rest of 8th Army.
Apart from air strikes The Allies are unwilling or unable to move forces to relieve there comrades, with every week that goes by it seems more and more likely the encircled unit will eventually surrender.

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Southern Tunisia

Here to it seems that enemy has given up hope of extricating the French Division from there mountain prison, The Allies seem in disarray with no idea what to do.

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Northern Tunisia

Axis superior battle tactics and numbers once again prove to strong and The Allies fall back to Thala leaving another 2 French brigades to almost defeat and capture.
What looked like a quick and easy victory for The enemy at the beginning of the Campaign now appears to be on the brink of disaster as the enemy grows weaker and we grow stronger with every victory gained.

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North Africa
Situation Report Jan 19th 1943 Turn 11
Stats And Battles

What few attacks the Allies launched were easily thrown back with the enemy suffering more losses.

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Allied air power still is a threat as they keep hitting our units and lines of communications.

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Our supply from the European mainland are still solid thanks to the good work from our Air Forces.

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Eastern Front
Situation Report Jan 21st Turn 10
AG North

Another attack on the Leningrad defences pushes the defenders back and we take more ground,elsewhere along 18th Armee's front line we took ground but it was not all one as The Soviets launched a series of attacks including in and around Leningrad hoping to push my troops back, our troops were able to absorb these and hold the ground.

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South of Novgorod fighting intensifies for the battle to control The Valdai Hills, a number of Soviet units are destroyed and the pocket is almost sealed, if successful this could be a huge blow and relieve the pressure on the troops fighting in The Rzhev Salient.

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Eastern Front
Situation Report Jan 21st 1943 Turn 10
AG Centre The Rzhev Salient

This week the enemy launched even a bigger wave of attacks forcing some units back, spearheading these attacks where Guards Inf and Mech Corps with regular Tanks Corps supporting the assault on our lines.

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South of The Rzhev Battle The Soviets launched an even bigger offensive aimed at destroying 2nd Armee, a counterattack by 1st SS Pz Korps partially blunts the attack and pockets a Tank Corp in the process.Still we suffered heavy losses to achieve the encirclement. Orel for the moment seems safe, but this could change.

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Eastern Front
Situation Report Jan 21st 1943 Turn 10
Army Group B / Don

In Southern Russia the Italian line has virtually crumbled with gaps everywhere, I have thrown together what I can to slow them down, most of Italian units will simply route again but there is really nothing I can do other than retreat.

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Another wave of attacks against 6th Armee it falls back, The Romanians managed to destroy the trapped unit, some good news I guess, but its short lived as the right flank of the Armee is now threatened by both regular and Guards Corp units.This situation is now critical as I have had to once again break down units to cover line.

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Eastern Front
Situation Report Jan 21st 1943 Turn 10
Army Group A

17th Armee troops begin to arrive to cover the Northern flank as 1st Pz Armee makes a steady withdrawal back to the Kuban River,we manage to keep one step ahead of the enemy for now.

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On the Black Sea things are more or less quiet still have manage to keep several enemy units cut off but cant isolate them yet, will be calling in the Luftwaffe which will hopefully do the job for us.

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Eastern Front
Situation Report Jan 21st 1943 Turn 10
Stats Reports

This week despite being under heavy attack the enemy suffered greater than we did both in the air and on the ground.

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Supply is starting to bite, hopefully it improves soon.

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Manpower remains a headache still.

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Eastern Front
Situation Report Jan 21st 1943 Turn 10
AG Centre The Rzhev Salient

This week the enemy launched even a bigger wave of attacks forcing some units back, spearheading these attacks where Guards Inf and Mech Corps with regular Tanks Corps supporting the assault on our lines.

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South of The Rzhev Battle The Soviets launched an even bigger offensive aimed at destroying 2nd Armee, a counterattack by 1st SS Pz Korps partially blunts the attack and pockets a Tank Corp in the process.Still we suffered heavy losses to achieve the encirclement. Orel for the moment seems safe, but this could change.

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Eastern Front
Situation Report Jan 21st 1943 Turn 10
AG Centre The Rzhev Salient

This week the enemy launched even a bigger wave of attacks forcing some units back, spearheading these attacks where Guards Inf and Mech Corps with regular Tanks Corps supporting the assault on our lines.

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South of The Rzhev Battle The Soviets launched an even bigger offensive aimed at destroying 2nd Armee, a counterattack by 1st SS Pz Korps partially blunts the attack and pockets a Tank Corp in the process.Still we suffered heavy losses to achieve the encirclement. Orel for the moment seems safe, but this could change.

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You can always trust the SS

Well that may be true but still may not be enough to save the situation.

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North Africa
Situation Report Jan 26th 1943 Turn 12
Libya

As expected the 2nd NZ Division is forced to surrender with nearly 13,000 men taken prisoners of war, with things already going bad, this new disaster is catastrophic to a already demoralised enemy.
8th Army continues to launch repeated attacks against our fortified positions only to be repulsed time and time again, there armour failing to cause any real damage and taking more themselves.There Tanks being smashed by deadly 88 anti tank guns entrenched along the defence line at Marsa brega.

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The destruction of the NZ division

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German 88's blunt the British Armoured Assault

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The victorious Ital XX Mot Corps Commander Gen G. de Stenfanis accepts Gen Freybergs and the 2nd NZ division's surrender.

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North Africa
Situation Report Jan 26th 1943 Turn 12
Southern Tunisia

Snow falls over the country making life difficult for both sides, The French Inf see a opening and attempt to breakout to the South across The Tebessa Mountain range with the hope of trying to force a way through the Italian sector of the line.
Its slow going trying to move across mountains with very little food and water, low morale and most of all sapped of energy under these inhospitable conditions.

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North Africa
Situation Report Jan 26th 1943 Turn 12
Northern Tunisia

Though the action is quiet in the South of the country in the North The French mount an offensive to try to relieve there trapped comrades alone as US and British armoured units fail to offer any kind of support resulting in a even bigger disaster as first The French 3rd Brigade FF Moroccan Inf division then 1st Brigade FF Algerian Division both from the XIX FF Corps are assaulted by 5th Pz Armee and forced to surrender.
After completing the destruction of these 2 enemy units 5th Pz moves quickly to encircle 2 more unsupported FF Inf Brigades that advanced to far forward with out help.

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British and French launch belated counterattacks which are easily contained.

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North Africa
Situation Report Jan 26th 1943 Turn 12
Air War Tunisia and The Mediterranean

Once again this week the Allied Air Forces continue with there sustained attacks against my line of communications this week particularly The Allies launched massive carpet bombing raids on my rail lines, the damage so bad my rail repair units were unable repair badly needed lines to transport supplies to the front lines, this also causes the problem that with rail lines destroyed at major rail depots I cannot establish forward supply bases.
All supplies must be trucked in from rear area supply depots.

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Despite this huge setback the air war is not all one sided as reports come in that air units operating from the European mainland and from Tunisia itself dealt another huge blow to The Allies.

In a Air / Sea battle in the Western Mediterranean off the coast of Algeria Axis Air units destroyed an entire Allied troop convoy, reports say 2 US CC's of a Armoured brigade and an entire US Infantry division were lost from the destruction of the Convoy.

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Italian Air units ordered out to destroy a Allied troop convoy.

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North Africa
Situation Reports Jan 26th 1943 Turn 12
Stats Report

I'm presenting 2 ground losses sheets one from the Axis Turn and the second from The Allied turn, while in the Axis the enemy suffered huge losses they also suffered badly from futile counterattacks against my dug in forces.

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Axis Sheet

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Allied Sheet

The Air war remains the same in Tunisia I have chosen not to contest the air over the land and focus on Naval patrols which are paying dividends.

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looking at the production screen it looks irrelevant for North Africa, if I am getting anything in the way of equipment and weapons its just a trickle as most of it will be going to the Western Front, as mentioned by me in a early post there is no industry of any kind here, captured equipment cannot be used, there are manpower centres which may giving me some replacements I guess that is something at least, though it would be nice to use some of those captured Sherman's and Lee's against the enemy.

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North Africa
Situation Report Jan 26th 1943 Turn 12
Weather / Supply Stats

With the weather bad like this, it gives us the advantage against The Allies superior numbers, with my troops entrenched in rough / mountain positions it makes it hard for the enemy to make effective attacks.

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It also plays a negative effect on long supplies thanks to not having functioning rail lines and no forward supply depots supplies have to be trucked in with trucks I desperately need for my units themselves.

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First things first, last night came down with something so I'm under the weather big time but I want to get a turn out, the AAR is against the AI so its going to be predictable so I try to make it interesting and entertaining as best I can.

Today however the descriptions will be real brief if at all. Anyway enough of me complaining.

Eastern Front
Situation Report Jan 28th 1943 Turn 11
AG North

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