Winter 1941:
Germany:
Indeed nasty surprise. I should have send 1 ART in Yugoslavia just in case but then there is still Albania to defend which would have in a lesser way still bring the relief Russia needed.
Not to diminish the merit of Anthony of a great move I believe this is the great weakness of AWD that it's so easy for the British to gather strong land forces and invade Europe once Barbarossa is on. Historically this is a non-sense as till 1942 the British was painfully fighting Rommel in the Desert whose strength was 2 Panzers Division and some support. Also the Tyrhenian Sea was heavily mined rendering such large invasion very dangerous. At last Yugoslavia as no infrastructure decent enough to supply such a number of troops. There is a reason why it was Operation Torch first, Sicily after, then Italy and Normandy only when the invasion forces were large enough. I think the game should have the landing rules revised as being cost 5 per unit to invade times 2 for Tanks then times the number of sea zones crossed. Meaning 1 INF to land at 3 sea zones distance would cost 15 invasion points. At last the transport points of the fleet should be reduced proportionaly. If 15 on 20 pts of invasion are used then 75% of the transport capacity of those transports is used at the same time. It would render distant invasion harder without impeding short one too much and push the need to have a large transport fleet for the Allied. Now this might give some unbalance for Russia to be attended in a different way. More manpower on first turns of the invasion?
Anyway Germany regroup in Kharkov and sending reinforcements in Rumania, Hungary and Austria.
Italy will surely surrender but the Para did land behing Gorki destroying a factory in the process.
