Decline & Fall AAR v2

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So is the raid on Nice.

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In Italy, the raid on Kesselring misses - the bombers did so badly that the forests weren't even a factor in the defence.

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However, the strike on the German ARM corps in the mountains, despite being marginal, succeeds.

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Astonishingly, I forgot to take a screen capture of the ground strike on Rome.

It's worth nothing, because it was such an important strike, that it succeeded brilliantly, disorganizing all the defending German units.

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On to the ground strikes made by the Allies in preparation for Overlord.

The Allies miss the armoured corps in the Rhineland.

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They also miss the beefy infantry corps in Rouen.

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Annoyingly, they miss the long-range bomber and anti-tank gun in Vichy. The forest was crucial in keeping the anti-tank gun from being hit.

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Even more annoyingly, they miss Rundstedt - disorganizing Rundstedt would have left the German defence completely crippled.

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The Allies do hit the PARA corps in Rotterdam.

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They also hit the infantry corps in Brest, which will be great for the follow-up attacks after the invasion.

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Best of all, the Allies completely disorganize the hex near La Rochelle, leaving an SS MECH corps and the best short-range bomber unit in the entire game spinning their wheels.

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More to come to round out the impulse later.

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Land Movement, Debarkation, Invasion

As noted in a previous post, only the US performed rail movement, sending an engineer division from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast.

As far as land movement & related activities goes, here is the Red Army manoeuvre in Finland, which will force a response by the Finns (the Siberian infantry unit has cut overland supply off) - or perhaps even better, force the Germans to call a combined impulse to move out convoys.

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In the central sector, the Red Army takes Pskov and sets up to attack the infantry stack near Vitebsk.

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The Red Army shuffles a bit in the south, and especially in Bessarabia, where it encircles Chisinau.

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The Communists shuffle forward to take Chengchow, and shift their mobile forces northward to threaten the resources (and stay away from Japanese air power).

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The Nationalist Chinese finish putting units in place to assault Nanchang.

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The British Army moves out of India and into Burma, intent on re-opening a resource lending pipeline to China and beginning the slow process of reaching and liberating Singapore.

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The US moves its forces already on New Britain towards Rabaul...

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... and sends in the Marines. (This is being presented a little bit out of sequence: invasions occur after all normal land moves are done.)