Cohen vs Enrico - AAR nr.4 (Solitaire from 2# Impulse - Jul Aug 1943)

[AlbertN]

In your game I think the Allies should continue to operate historically. Use USA production to generate local air superiority in the north and invade Denmark. (Don't drag Sweden into this but even if you did this would likely only make the Axis stronger at this point). Just use Denmark as a base for strategic bombing of deep German targets as probably neither side would be able to break through the Schleswig-Holstein bottleneck. Though it will be difficult for the Allies to even reach that border, that close to Axis reinforcement cities.

Simultaneously I would try and return to Europe via the NW Africa front and threaten the Axis oil holdings in the Middle East via securing the Indian Ocean, if you still can. Maximizing production at every Allied factory hex will be critical.

Their goal in Sweden possibly is to seize some extra resources and a factory as OIL is getting pretty harsh in consumption.

I'll note down Denmark as future possibility - though a coup of hand at Copenhagen with Paras could be attempted too. But Germans have got 2 units there now.

[Subotei]

Thanks for posting the strat map. That answers a lot of questions.

[Centuur]

ORIGINAL: Cohen

In your game I think the Allies should continue to operate historically. Use USA production to generate local air superiority in the north and invade Denmark. (Don't drag Sweden into this but even if you did this would likely only make the Axis stronger at this point). Just use Denmark as a base for strategic bombing of deep German targets as probably neither side would be able to break through the Schleswig-Holstein bottleneck. Though it will be difficult for the Allies to even reach that border, that close to Axis reinforcement cities.

Simultaneously I would try and return to Europe via the NW Africa front and threaten the Axis oil holdings in the Middle East via securing the Indian Ocean, if you still can. Maximizing production at every Allied factory hex will be critical.

Their goal in Sweden possibly is to seize some extra resources and a factory as OIL is getting pretty harsh in consumption.

I'll note down Denmark as future possibility - though a coup of hand at Copenhagen with Paras could be attempted too. But Germans have got 2 units there now.

Sweden isn't a walk over at all. It has a fairly strong army available. I would leave them alone...

[AlbertN]

End of Sept / Oct 1943

After an amount of evaluation - the Allies will try to get the Sweden resources off Axis.
Ultimately at the moment they've the problem to protect their shipping lanes from the Axis swarm of NAV bombers; and that pratically makes an invasion of Marocco not very suitable as most of their airbases giving in to Cape St. Vincent would come from Spanish Marocco.

It would be also a logistic overstretch to ship units down there when they're already in UK and Norway.
Secondary aim is to dilute the German forces over a larger front for later - but the Soviet looming collapse would not really help. In the moment all the German forces from Russia can pour into the West the W.Allies probably would go pretty much nowhere.

In the while the combined airforces of the W.Allies managed to bomb Bruxxel factory into bits.

A German submarine raid was foiled, and it ended with 4 submarines sunk and many damaged. Much more losses for Germany than for the W.Allies on the field (that included 2 CLs) but if we add up the BPs lost due to CPs aborted or destroyed - the math evens out.

The W.Allies decide that first they need naval supremacy in order to move - and conquest Japan.