Cantona2 V Freeboy in: Fite for DOMINATION

[freeboy]

The reds fall back, the first turns pass... the air retreating to a eastern place of safety. Small stand of men, overwhelmed yet valient, and they the first!
The first to die?
NO the first to stand!
The first brave souls who mark, "FITE FOR DOMINATION!"

this game played on standard non modified Fite rules

[cantona2]

Dortmund Dortmund Dortumnd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Panzers vorwarts Los, fur Fuhrer, Volk und Vaterland Sieg Sieg Sieg!!!!

A hush settles over the Eastern frontier of the Greater German Reich. Hundreds of nachtrichten personnel receive the code word from the Oberkommando der Heer. These are then passed onto the relevant commands. All over the newly created Eastern Front artillery soldiers ram sleek, brass shells into the breeches of their guns, panzer soldaten check their machines for the last time, landser grasp their trusty Gewher 98k and check their handgrenades. All over the scattered airfields in Poland and in East Prussia Luftwaffe crews board their aircraft, whether sleek ME 109's or unweildly Dornier 17's, or gull winged Junkers 87 or twin engined BF 110's. In the port of Konigsberg, the WWI vintage battleship Schlewsig Holstein breaks its moorings and disappears into the gathering haze that greets the dawn of the 22nd June 1941 in the Baltic Sea.

They all have one thing in common, they all face East. The Fuhrer had said it, it was in the East where the Reich would find its destiny. Three million Axis soldiers greeted the dawn with a grimace. As the first salvos of the artillery where heard it was as the Fuhrer has said, "the world would hold its breath". An audible collective gasp could be heard along the length of the front. A gasp that was immediately followed by the almighty din of thousands of guns, the cry of the sons of Krupp delivering fiery death to the Russian foe. To this hellish din the slight buzzing of propeller engines filled the sky above the heads of the assembled Wehrmacht Divisions. Thousands of Luftwaffe aircraft flew into the rising sun. Their targets the airfields of the Red Airforce, their mission to cripple the Red Airforce on the ground before they could challenge in the sky.

On the Unter der Linden in Belrin it was 4am. The last prostitues were looking for one last customer, usually U Boat men wanting one last carnal taste before they answered the call of Davy Jones. A Kripo sqaud was closing a forensic scene around a body discoverd in the Tiergarten and the local milkmen were starting their local rounds. The War was a good thing, Greater Germany was victorious, only Great Britain resisted the Reich, in the burning sands of Africa and the cold, deep dark waters of the Atlantic. The USSR was an ally and the Axis powers ruled from the Channel to the River Bug. Life was good, despite the odd bomb the RAF dropped from the starry night sky.

This reality was broken in the morining when the radio broke the news of the invasion of Soviet Russia. This time there were no fanfares on the streets or crys of jublilation. Many a World War One veteran, proudly displaying the Frontkampfer Ehrenkruez on their chests, shook their heads in dismay. A war on two fronts!! Germany had already lost one, was this another one?

In the foward positions on the River Bug the panzermanner of the 18th Panzer Divsion in their amphibious panzers did not believe this. They emerged on the eastern bank and quickly drove into the corn fields of Eastern Poland, bypassing the fortress city of Brest-Litvosk, where the 45th Infantry Division was already assaulting the Soviet positions. The die of fate had been cast, where it would lie would be determined at the conclusion of this titanic of campaigns

There was indeed a Fire in the East!

[freeboy]

Ist Detached bridging Eng Northern Front...

We ran from day one, constantly away from the enemy. The men said little, but the Major and I daily let them know we are doing our duty.

Our duty. We hide, moving at dusk and dawn or duringthe night from fear of enemy air power. Our planes? Either destroyed on the ground in the first few hours or withdrawn to the East out of reach. This much is clear.. soon our troops will be fighting for Russian Soil! Twelve minor bridges we blew in the last four days. Last week the big three near Digaplois. As we move in the last days we have seen troops digging in, prepairing hasty anti tank ditches and minefields. This is the first time in the two weeks since the enemy crossed into occupied Poland that we have seen troops prepairing for battle.