Defending Spain from the Allies

[alexvand]

And there's Italy. Impossible to invade Italy. This last turn was finally the turn where the Allies may have tipped the scales in the air war in the sea around Italy. The axis have only 2 NAV left. Still have enough FTR to challenge in the sea zone, but without much NAV left they can't do much damage any more. The Italians are still sailing 4 BBs and providing plenty of offensive and defensive shore bombardment.

In addition to the massive numbers of BBs, CVs, Trans, and Amphibs that have gone to the bottom, the Italians have added at least 3 Mech, 1 Mar, and 3 or 4 other Inf class corp in land battles in Sicily. The Allies have a toehold but it has been costly. Build Point losses have been at least 5 times what the Italians have lost in a series of invasions and counter attacks.

Italy is so strong it may need to send corp out of Italy to save Germany. Or at least have all the German corp that were pre-positioned for the fall of Italy may need to leave.

[alexvand]

And I forgot one final point.

The Allies forced a re-roll and got to go first. A Double-Move!

Followed by a perfect Weather roll. Fine in every weather zone.

CW is taking Super-combined
US is taking Super-combined
Russia Land with an O-chit. (Although considering a Super-combined instead given that the Germans have next to no air to contest with. The Russians could send it a lot of ground strikes, but it would mostly be FTRs flying as bombers with low tac factors, since the Russians have built very little TAC, too busy building FTRs to contest the Germans air superiority.)