War for Oil

The development team behind the award-winning games Decisive Campaigns: From Warsaw To Paris and Advanced Tactics is back with a new and improved game engine that focuses on the decisive year and theater of World War II! Decisive Campaigns: Case Blue simulates the German drive to Stalingrad and into the Caucasus of the summer of 1942, as well as its May preludes (2nd Kharkov offensive, Operation Trappenjagd) and also the Soviet winter counter-offensive (Operation Uranus) that ended with the encirclement of 6th Army in Stalingrad and the destruction of the axis minor armies. With many improvements including the PBEM++ system, this is a release to watch for wargamers!

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War for Oil

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Something interesting from the book War for Oil: The Nazi Quest for an Oil Empire by Dietrich Eichholtz.

Two days before the important and well known oil meeting of July 10, 1942, chaired by Goring, Krauch’s office presented figures on Soviet oil production that “can be cited on the basis of the latest validated intelligence.” According to these statistics, Baku had produced 23 million tons (in 1941; doubtless increasable to 27 million tons), the Groznyy region four million, and the Maykop fields (in 1940) 3.4 million tons. At Maykop, however, most of the derricks had been demolished after the German invasion of 1941 and no oil was being recovered. For the new Ural-Volga oil-producing region, the authors of the memorandum projected an output of 7 million tons for 1942 and for the oil fields in the Emba region (north of the Caspian Sea) a million tons.
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